That Was When the Hunters Were About to Enter Hunting Mode

All the newlyweds wore awkward but polite smiles.

It's usable, but it's unreliable and doesn't work for long; it malfunctions about eight out of ten times.

However, this is a normal transition period for newcomers.

How long has their contract been so bizarre?

If you can control it within two days to a week, you're considered very talented.

There are also many people who can't control their condition even after a month or several months.

It depends on how bizarre and difficult the contract is, as well as the talent and willpower of the Contract Anomalist.

Ji Wu: "I don't mean to blame you, but your inability to summon the supernatural in time is extremely dangerous on the battlefield. A stray bullet or a shell could take your lives."

"Headquarters sent you here simply to broaden your horizons. Losing one or two newcomers in such a trivial skirmish would be a completely unnecessary loss."

Du Jiashi raised his hand. "I can hide in the back and shoot from the shadows!"

He'd been wanting to try out his sniper rifle for a long time, and he'd even contacted security to learn how to snipe people.

Ji Wu glanced at the group, "You'll probably be going to the flanks to clear out any deserters who slipped through. With Xu Zhou, Jiang Tianzong, and Xi Jing with you, the danger shouldn't be too great."

"Great!" Du Jiashi and Yang Yu gave each other a high five.

Xu Rou, holding her umbrella, glanced at the children over there. "Are you sure it's okay? The battlefield isn't a place for playing around."

If things go wrong, someone could really die.

Even Contract Anomalist, but a novice Contract Anomalist who can't even control the supernatural, could lose their life in the blink of an eye when faced with modern weapons like bullets and cannonballs.

There is also the constant death on the battlefield, the cruelty of war.

Can these children, who grew up in peacetime, really accept this?

Ji Wu: "Therefore, we need to broaden their horizons. After becoming Contract Anomalist, they will inevitably encounter even more terrifying and unreasonable supernatural beings."

"With experienced veterans leading the charge, this opportunity to witness the cruelty and bloodshed of war from the rear makes even a one percent risk insignificant."

"In the future, when they encounter even more dangerous situations, they will have a chance to survive because of their current predicament. Then, the organization's painstaking training will not have been in vain."

Xu Rou: "Wow, that's really thoughtful."

Ji Wu frowned, feeling that Xu Rou's words sounded sarcastic. He glanced at the Rakshasa Umbrella in her hand, its cold White Bone seemingly shrouded in a layer of icy White Mist, constantly radiating a bone-chilling cold.

He nodded knowingly. Oh, another one who's been affected. He understood.

"Before you can control the supernatural, it's best to avoid contact with it, as it can affect your emotions."

Xu Rou touched the umbrella, a strange emotion welling up inside her, though she couldn't tell if it originated from her or from this particular source.

Yin Nu grabbed her hand with some concern.

The object she touched was icy cold, to the point that it stung her fingers. "Sister Xu."

Xu Rou snapped out of her daze, "I'm fine."

She knew she couldn't hate anyone; the person she could hate was already dead.

Her hatred lost its anchor and could only fill her body in a daze, constantly swelling and colliding, as if searching for an outlet to pour out.

Is this her emotion?

Such extreme hatred.

Xu Rou put away the Rakshasa Umbrella. Her hands were now as cold as corpses, pale and stiff.

After the Rakshasa Umbrella disappeared, the warmth in her hands slowly returned, and the surging hatred gradually subsided a little.

Ji Wu was quite pleased to see that she was able to get rid of the strange influence in time, knowing that some Contract Anomalist, in order to achieve a high degree of compatibility, or because they themselves were too deeply influenced.

They are unwilling to break free from it at all; no, or rather, they believe they are not affected at all, and that it is merely a release of their true nature.

It is the release of the ego and the true self.

It's about rediscovering who you are.

Some Contract Anomalist have said that they only felt truly alive after becoming Contract Anomalist.

"Gather up, gather up!"

The security guards shoved the group of spies.

The spies were pale and numb, letting them do as they pleased. Under the training of the security guards, they had learned what it meant to be powerless.

They were dressed in combat gear and herded onto the transport vehicle with a tragic sense of impending death.

Zhang Lin looked at the group of people. "Are they going too?"

Ji Wu: "Yeah, I heard they were spies captured by the branch. Anyway, they're no use being kept around, so let's send them to clean up the battlefield."

As for being cannon fodder? With those dozen or so small bodies, they wouldn't even be enough to fill the enemy's teeth.

If we actually threw them onto the battlefield, they'd all be down in less than a minute, and the enemy would think our Anomaly Containment Association take in any kind of trash. We can't afford to have something so shameful happen.

"They're gone."

"It's time to leave."

Everyone was fully prepared and ready to go.

This time is different from the last; this time, it's for real.

Sitting in the car, Du Jiashi cleaned his sniper rifle and asked, "If we declare war prematurely, won't the other side take the opportunity to escape?"

As Ji Wu drove behind the main force, he replied, "Of course we're confident we can bring back all those who escaped, one by one."

"Hiss, even those who escaped are being caught?"

"Certainly."

"Then why didn't you make your move from the beginning? They were all together then, weren't they? Wouldn't it have been easier and more decisive to make your move then?"

"Oh, declaring war before attacking is basically just giving the other side a heads-up. In the international arena of your Blue Star, it's considered humanitarian, reminding them to prepare for the evacuation of their citizens."

"And the Anomaly Containment Association ' is probably just a way of saying that we are not an uncivilized and barbaric organization."

Ji Wu voiced his guess, but he wasn't entirely sure if it was true, since these were decisions made by the higher-ups at the Anomaly Containment Association and had nothing to do with him, a mere Supervisor.

The Bai Zuo sat quietly in the car.

At first glance, he appeared quiet, but through the car window, one could vaguely see his eyes reflected in the glass, his pupils bulging excitedly into a straight line.

That's a very dangerous sign that the hunter is about to enter hunting mode.

Yang Yu, who was sitting to the side, glanced at it casually and was so frightened that he sat up straight instantly, shifted a few times, and dared not move closer to Bai Zuo.

He felt the hairs on his body stand on end; it was his body sensing something extremely dangerous, constantly warning him not to approach, not to get close, and not to make eye contact.

Otherwise, he would be targeted by hunters.

The Weird Eye trembled incessantly, then silently moved to the right, demonstrating its unwillingness to approach.

If it could move, it probably would have grown legs by now and run as far away from the Bai Zuo as possible.