I became a member of the ancient gods

Chapter 4 Benchmarks of Humanity

If the rules and regulations are strictly followed and a team is registered under the Discovery Association, all members must hold a hunter's license certified by the association.

However, "recruiting foreign aid" is actually tacitly allowed in the industry. It is feasible to pay for mercenaries from security companies yourself, or to use supplies to hire wilderness hunters and scattered mercenaries who do not have sanctuary status. As long as the other party is not wanted by the coalition government.

After much consideration, Lin finally negotiated a price with the female mercenary after briefly testing her skills, and then spent a lot of the team's savings to prepare the best equipment, ready to give it a try for the future.

They raided the lair, and the performance of the female mercenaries was beyond Lin Zhong's expectations. Their cover work was even better than that of his long-term partner Xu Zhongyi.

After a fierce battle, Lin finally succeeded in trapping the apostles with his own abyssal relics. The entire team poured all their firepower into them and annihilated the apostles.

When the detector confirmed that the apostle was dead, the whole team couldn't help but cheer. After this fierce battle, they did not reduce their numbers and no one was seriously injured. It can be said to be the best result.Take the apostle's body back and hand it over, and they will all gain fame and fortune.

Then they began to clean up the work. Lin Zhong inspected the apostle's body and prepared to take out the apostle's core. It was at this time that the betrayal suddenly occurred.

When he opened his eyes again, he had already been stuffed into the insect egg-like thing.

"...That's basically what it's all about."

Lin finally explained to the apostle in front of him what happened when he led his team in and was shot at by his teammates.

The woman held her hands and remained silent the whole time, and her brows did not loosen until Lin finally finished speaking.

A strange silence enveloped the two of them. After a while, the apostle finally spoke: "So, why did you come to my house? When have I ever offended you?"

Lin Zhong was speechless for a moment. He expected that the other party would have some questions, but he never thought that this kind of question would be the first one to ask.

The monsters that appear in the abyss prey on humans everywhere, and they, the abyss hunters, enter the abyss to hunt these monsters. This is the norm in today's world.

Now an apostle suddenly opened his mouth to communicate with him abnormally and tortured him on a moral level. For a moment, he couldn't think of any logical refutation.

After a while, he could only answer: "This is our job."

"What job?" the woman asked.

"We are..." Lin finally hesitated at this point, and finally chose to tell the truth, "Abyss Hunters."

"Abyss Hunter..." The woman suddenly narrowed her eyes, her expression seemed to be touched.

Lin finally became nervous again. He had heard of some cases. Some apostles could understand that there were experts in the human camp who were responsible for hunting abyssal creatures.Out of hostility to humans, they will deliberately operate in contaminated areas, lay traps and hunt the exploration teams of hunters.

This apostle seemed to know the concept of an abyss hunter, and it was unknown whether his hostility towards him would deepen due to this.

But he couldn't come up with a more suitable lie, not to mention that lying was basically useless. Since the apostle knew about the existence of the abyss hunters, he should naturally know that he would go deep into this deep pollution area, and nine out of ten humans would be the ones who specialize in attacking this lair. Abyss Hunter.

"I have met people like you several times. So your 'job' is to kill those things that are out and about, and then take the bodies back and eat them?" the apostle confirmed to Lin Zhong.

"We won't eat that stuff. Everything else is correct." Lin Zhong quickly corrected him.

Abyssal creatures are inedible to humans. All experimental cases show that no matter how the abyssal creatures are cooked and processed, eating them will trigger severe immune reactions. The reason is still unclear.

"Then what are you hunting for?" asked the apostle.

"Using materials from prey to make things and conduct experiments... various uses." Lin Zhi made the simplest summary.

"Then there is almost no difference in what we do. Why do you always attack me without any reason, and even kill me at my home?" The apostle suddenly began to question again.

Lin finally choked again.

It took him a while to realize a problem——

This apostle...or the woman in front of him seems to think that he is different from other abyss creatures.

No, she is indeed different from those abyss creatures!
Lin finally woke up with a start.

Not only does she have a fairly human appearance, but she also doesn't seem to have any natural hostility towards humans - her dissatisfaction with Lin Zhong and others is also because they attacked her lair first, and she even took the initiative to communicate with Lin Zhong …

These are all behavior patterns that have never appeared in the abyss creatures observed so far.

Could it be that she is not an abyssal creature at all?

Lin Zhong preconceived that the other party was an apostle, and it was also because the detector made such a judgment, and then the woman claimed to live here.

But in fact, he himself, who had been transplanted with strange organs, actually had the reaction of an abyssal creature, but because he was wearing protective clothing, the protective clothing identified him as an infected person.

Could it be that this woman is actually a human who has been transplanted with organs from abyssal creatures, just like those cult followers who are trying to share the power of the ancient gods?

With his own actual case, Lin Zhong would naturally not doubt that the so-called cult ritual could be successful.If a woman has the technology to transform him, it is normal for her to be like this herself.

After hesitating again and again, Lin finally asked carefully: "Let me take the liberty to ask, are you... human?"

The woman looked at him expressionlessly, seemed to think about it, and finally answered: "What do you think? In your eyes, am I the same as you, or am I more like those creatures outside?"

Why are you asking me back?Lin Zhong couldn't help but feel a little confused.

He and the woman stared at each other, gradually reading some seriousness in each other's eyes.

This is not a rhetorical question, she is asking this question seriously.

Doesn’t she even know what her background is?
"Well." Lin Zhi thought for a while, "To be honest, I think you look more like a human. But those things on your back are indeed something that humans can't grow. Ordinary people can't look like you if they get shot in the head. Nothing happens at all. So, I can’t say for sure.”

This is his real thought.

Women are indeed close to human beings in many ways. Not only are they highly close to humans in appearance, but they can also feel human emotions in their demeanor, words and deeds.

But those six tentacles, as well as the scene of the woman shooting herself in the head and recovering on the spot, reminded Lin Zhong all the time that the other person and himself were not at least the same size of creatures.

The woman fell silent again.

After a long time, she seemed to have made some kind of decision.

"You, come with me."

She naturally stretched out a tentacle and wrapped it around Lin Zhong's wrist, trying to pull Lin Zhong out of the stone room.

Lin Zhong's eyes widened and he immediately retracted his hands.

"What?" The woman frowned.

"It's okay to go with you, but if you can, please don't pester me with this..." Lin Zhong smiled bitterly and raised his hands in front of his chest to discuss with the other party.

When he touched the tentacle before, the warm, wet and slippery touch transmitted by the touch sensor gave him goosebumps.

Sensing Lin Zhong's distaste for her tentacles, the woman snorted softly from her nose, turned and walked towards the passage outside the stone room, and said angrily: "Then come here quickly!"

(End of this chapter)