Demi-human Girls Completion Manual
Chapter 216 - 93. The Chosen One (7000+)_2

Chapter 216: 93. The Chosen One (7000+)_2

Fisher didn’t plan to send him off, and only after he had explained it once more to Lady Martha did he carry Lingna back to his own room.

He placed her on the sofa and, while wiping her tears with a handkerchief nearby, Fisher asked,

"What’s wrong, Lingna?"

At this question, her already dabbed eyes began to overflow with even more tears, unstoppable, and instead of wiping them away, she looked at Fisher and said in a choked voice,

"Sniff... Lots of humans, I don’t know why, lots of them searching by the river, they said... they will beat us and take us back for money, because we are Ocean Subhumans... Dad tried to let me and mom go first, and they caught him... We wanted to contact Lord Royal, but mom got hurt, and it’s too far for me to go to where the Lord Royal lives..."

"That’s why I came looking for you, I heard people talking about your name, and I walked a long way to get here..."

She covered her face and kept shedding tears, and Fisher frowned upon hearing this.

Exchange for money?

If that’s the case, those looking for them must be human Bounty Hunters, a bunch of mercenaries who make their living by taking jobs from the black market or other places. As long as they’re paid, they’ll do anything, and many of them are even fugitives or freshly released from prison, most likely desperate outlaws.

Incidentally, the group that had been squatting outside in the wild, waiting behind the "Sikorima" for its droppings, also belonged to these people. But compared to most, they were relatively benign; the majority of Bounty Hunters were scum, ready to exchange heads demanded in their orders for bounties with their guns at the ready.

Someone in the black market had issued a high-price reward for Ocean Subhumans, which must have stirred up so many Bounty Hunters near the Coco River.

But now was not the time to ponder. Fisher glanced at the dimming sky outside, then stood up, picked up the Handcane and Fluid Sword beside him, and said to Lingna,

"I understand, take me to your mother first, and I’ll assess the situation before going to rescue your father."

Lingna nodded, her lips pressed tightly as she clenched Fisher’s sleeve with a lost expression, placing all her hopes on him.

...

...

Because the Coco River is the shallowest and closest to the Ocean, many complex pipes are constructed underneath the ground beside it. These pipes, some connected to the sewers, some serving no purpose at all, are mostly contradictory results of planning from different periods.

As night became clearer, many people in the sewers held lanterns, meticulously searching every part of the pipes, as if hidden counting endless Gold.

No wonder, the black market had recently opened a big job, stirring up the nest of Bounty Hunters all at once.

Previously, a lucky one brought back information about Ocean Subhumans near the Coco River and earned twenty thousand euros, and then the buyer placed another order, saying bringing back an Ocean Subhuman would fetch one hundred and fifty thousand euros. So practically all the Bounty Hunters in Saint Nali were digging for treasure near the Coco River for money.

A common demi-human on the slave market is worth several thousand euros at most, but now capturing one could fetch one hundred and fifty thousand, which is the price of several from the Dragon-man Species.

Moreover, the group of Ocean Subhumans was not as hard to catch as the Dragon-man Species. A team with good luck already captured a subhuman that looked like a lobster, and it was said that two more had escaped, with the remaining Bounty Hunters vying for the three hundred thousand euros.

"Mac, keep an eye on the bottom, they couldn’t have gone far, and there’s a child with them..."

"Bullshit, it’s been hours, who knows how deep in the pipes they’ve hidden, any deeper, and we’d have to go towards Snake Head Street, and that’s full of Hunters searching, we won’t even get a sip of soup."

Four fully armed Hunters, holding blades and guns, maneuvered through the sewers with lamps, whispering to one another while stepping forward.

Hearing the voice of the Hunter named Mac from behind, the lead boss chuckled and took off the mask that protected his face from the stench,

"Hey, that’s why I’m the boss and you guys aren’t. Didn’t I shoot one of those escaping subhumans earlier? Unlike the others, what I shot wasn’t real gunpowder, but marking powder that leaves a Trace..."

"That escaping subhuman had a hard shell, and I knew those fools’ guns couldn’t take her down, so I played the long game, knowing where she’d go to heal, and isn’t that three hundred thousand ours?"

He chuckled wickedly, tossing a small stone in his hand that soon levitated and emitted an eerie phosphorescent light sweeping the nearby pipe walls.

In the next moment, something astonishing happened—the pipe walls gradually revealed Dian Dian deep purple Traces that stretched towards the end of the pipe.

"Otherwise, why do you think I led you guys running this way, really think I’m stupid? It’s because I’ve been following the Trace, learn something, brothers."

"Oh my God, Mother Goddess Bless, you’re simply the smartest Bounty Hunter in the world!"

"Boss, I love you."

The Hunters behind him looked at the Traces spreading deeper into the pipe wall and couldn’t help but marvel.

The boss smirked slightly, put on the mask, and instructed his men to keep their voices down, because according to the Traces, the last two subhumans were nearby.