The gentle sunlight shone brightly on the golden fields, intermittently revealing farmers harvesting ripe crops.
Along the road that wound through the fields, a bus filled with passengers moved slowly.
In this stretch of road, many farmers dried their grain by the roadside, and sometimes herds of cattle and sheep would cross, making it dangerous to drive too fast.
Jiao Xinlei leaned against the car window, gazing at the scenery outside, her eyes slightly unfocused. It was only at such times that she could more easily perceive beautiful things.
After a long probation period, she had become more proficient in using her abilities and was finally recognized by Lin Zheyuan, becoming a formal demon hunter.
This time, she was assigned to go to the neighboring Songtao City to handle a case involving a peculiar parasite. Those infected invariably died within twenty-four hours.
The tricky part was that before the infected person died, all methods failed to identify where the parasite was located within the body.
Therefore, Jiao Xinlei, who could see their impending deaths, became the best demon hunter to solve this case.
The captain of the demon hunter team in Songtao City had thus borrowed Jiao Xinlei from Lin Zheyuan to deal with the parasite.
Additionally, Jiao Xinlei had requested leave from Lin Zheyuan. She planned to spend a few days in Songtao City after resolving the case, and Lin Zheyuan had agreed.
For her, who could see when ordinary people’s lives would end at any time, this period had accumulated a great deal of stress, so it was necessary to relax.
Songtao City had recently opened a scenic town called Fairytale Town. It had received many positive reviews from nearby cities. Jiao Xinlei had always wanted to visit, but never had the chance. This time, she could finally experience it.
So far, the trip had been quite pleasant. The farmers working outside had colors of hope above their heads, and inside the bus, there was mostly laughter and joy.
In fact, she could now control whether or not she looked at the colors above people's heads, but she always couldn't help but want to see.
"Hey, Tao Wen, is that Fairytale Town really that fun?" a tall young man asked the shorter one beside him.
"Da Zhuang, trust me. We finally have a few days off. Why stay cooped up in Furonghe City? Of all the nearby attractions, only Fairytale Town is left for us to explore."
The short young man, Tao Wen, patted his chest and guaranteed to Li Da Zhuang. Li Da Zhuang had always liked going out, but for some reason, he had recently developed a fear of going out. However, he couldn't refuse his good friend, so he reluctantly came along.
Tao Wen became more and more excited, "I heard there's even a Sweet Castle in the town where tourists can use special weapons to shoot candy for simulated battles."
Hearing their idle chatter, Jiao Xinlei realized that these two also wanted to visit Fairytale Town and decided to strike up a conversation. But before doing so, Jiao Xinlei habitually activated her ability and glanced at them.
After looking, she immediately stopped herself from wanting to talk to them. If they weren't on the bus, she would have wanted to stay far away from them.
The color above the head of the boy named Tao Wen was as thick as dark clouds. Although not fatal, the next few days probably wouldn't be very lucky for him.
As for the young man named Li Da Zhuang, the color above his head was as dark as ink. However, at the center of this ink-like color, there was a glimmer of brilliance. This indicated that he would face a life-or-death crisis in the coming days, but might be able to turn the danger into safety.
Most importantly, even if ordinary people were about to die, the color above their heads would only be a small patch of black. But the area covered by the gloomy colors on these two was too vast.
According to Jiao Xinlei's observation, Tao Wen's head might be covered like dark clouds because he was too close to Li Da Zhuang. Li Da Zhuang seemed to be under the influence of misfortune, and the things he encountered would definitely not be simple.
Therefore, she wanted to stay far away from these two to avoid picking up anything bad.
"This is their destiny, it has nothing to do with me. I just need to ensure I don't get involved with them."
With that, Jiao Xinlei closed her eyes to rest. After arriving in Songtao City, she still had many things to do.
However, she didn't know that by boarding the same bus as these two youths, her destiny for the next period had already become intertwined with theirs…
The next morning, after washing her face, brushing her teeth, and changing clothes, Wen Wen went to the barbershop at the Association Center to get a stylish haircut.
The barber at the Hunter's Guild headquarters was once a prominent figure in the Washington hairdressing circle, known as Teacher Tony. As he cut hair, his understanding of hair deepened, and he eventually awakened the ability to control hair, making it impossible for him to live a normal life, so he worked at the Association headquarters.
Well… there were many talents like him in the Hunter Association. Lesser talents were kept in various branches, while top talents all came to the headquarters.
After tidying himself up neatly, Wen Wen went to the Association headquarters to become a Ranger.
As he passed by Ji Wei Lou, Wen Wen paused for a moment before finally walking past. He never lacked the ability to resist temptation.
When Wen Wen arrived, most of the fifty-six people who had passed the assessment were already present.
Unlike becoming a demon hunter, the process of becoming a Ranger was much more complicated because Rangers had much higher authority than ordinary demon hunters.
All the information about Rangers was classified as top secret. Even senior officials of the Association had to go through certain procedures to investigate the information of an individual Ranger.
Because of this, there were many things that needed to be verified and validated, unlike when becoming a demon hunter, where one only needed to sign a contract of service.
During the cumbersome process, Wen Wen received his Ranger uniform. The style was nice and offered some defensive capabilities, but Wen Wen glanced at it a few times before throwing it aside.
This thing was at most slightly better than an ordinary bulletproof vest, and couldn't compare to his own containment specialist uniform.
In fact, there were almost no Rangers who obediently wore uniforms. Some, like Gu Panxi, were even more excessive, changing their outfits daily.
Therefore, the Ranger uniforms were not particularly exquisite. Why waste materials on something that many people didn't wear?
The purpose of issuing uniforms was for taking ID photos. Ranger IDs had astonishing power in the Federation, so a random photo couldn't be used as an ID photo.
When needed, the ID could be used to request cooperation from most departments in the locality, including demon hunter teams. Additionally, the ID allowed passage through controlled areas.
Rangers were only responsible to the headquarters and executed the tasks assigned by the headquarters. All cases they handled were assessed to be at least disaster-level. Rangers had no obligation to assist with cases below the disaster level.
In addition, Rangers received a thirty percent discount when purchasing items on the Hunter website, and many resources and information that were previously inaccessible were opened to Rangers.
However, Rangers were not allowed to use these discounts and information to profit by selling Association resources.