Yan Luo was sent back to that luxurious apartment, and as soon as he entered, still wearing his exoskeleton and without taking a shower, he fell asleep standing up.
Fortunately, the exoskeleton he wore was designed from the outset to allow a Hunter to operate in the Abyss, providing a good night’s sleep even when standing.
Yan Luo did not know that while he was asleep, people on the outside had already dug up all the information about him from birth to the present.
In modern society, the most valuable thing is information, and the least valuable thing is also information.
The confidentiality level of Yan Luo was not high, at the same level as an ordinary Hunter, just half a level above the general public. Therefore, if someone wanted to dig up his information, it could be done quite easily.
One after another, people claiming to be Yan Luo’s friends posted his information online, and his past experiences undoubtedly added a new Chapter to his legendary story.
Yan Luo was the child of a Hunter couple, and that couple died in the Crimson Abyss during a demon tide when he was ten years old, marking him as the child of martyrs.
After his parents’ death, Yan Luo often expressed his desire to eradicate all Abysses in public places such as schools, gyms, and nursing homes.
From the age of fourteen, he prepared for this goal, frequently volunteering at nursing homes and seeking hunting tips for the Abyss from retired Hunters there.
At sixteen, shortly after his birthday, he ventured into the wilderness, honing his fighting and tracking skills by hunting mutated creatures, while saving money to buy weapons and equipment.
After graduating high school, Yan Luo did not choose to attend university. Even after testing showed he couldn’t undergo an Engraving, he still embarked into the Abyss and became a Hunter.
Before participating in the Hunter skill competition, he independently hunted two fatal-level Demons and once commanded a hunt against a fatal-level Demon, with countless Dangerous-level Demons having perished by his hand.
Yan Luo was just an ordinary person, without any Engraving nor other Hunters’ magical abilities, he relied entirely on his equipment, intellect, and his terrifying memory for hunting Demons.
Now, nearly all of Yan Luo’s fans knew he remembered information about 98% of Demons in the Crimson Abyss, and even the remaining 2% were not completely unknown to him.
Yan Luo didn’t know as much about Demons in other Abysses, but he recognized most of them.
— He is practically a legend!
For the general public, Yan Luo’s existence exceeded the limits of their imagination.
They simply couldn’t imagine how Yan Luo, like them just an ordinary person, could memorize so much information about Demons while possessing an iron will and iron body.
People online calculated that even wearing an exoskeleton, Yan Luo shouldn’t have been able to sprint nearly a thousand kilometers in twenty-six hours.
The human body can’t sustain such prolonged running, and Yan Luo not only ran; he also jumped and swam, actions that greatly consumed his stamina.
Twenty-six hours of sprinting would make the whole body suffer wear and tear, with unbearable pain from joint movement starting from the twelfth hour, and by the twentieth hour, the body would be almost scrapped.
But Yan Luo ran for twenty-six hours as a mere mortal and in the end killed a city-breaking level mutated creature, something beyond what an ordinary person could achieve — unless modified with cybernetics.
The issue was, Yan Luo’s entire past had been uncovered, and there was no indication of him undergoing any cybernetic modifications; he was all original up to becoming a Hunter.
If he was a natural human with no cybernetic alterations, then how did he manage to sprint for twenty-six hours?
Many were puzzled and could only conclude that Yan Luo possessed an iron will, enduring severe wear and running and fighting on.
Yan Luo slept for almost twelve hours while people debated intensely online for the same duration.
When Yan Luo woke up, he found his private messages were flooded with notifications.
Numerous companies and corporations sent him sponsorship invitations, which Yan Luo almost entirely wiped with one click. Except for a few large companies that paid a ’protection fee,’ whose messages couldn’t be deleted in bulk; he deleted them individually.
The private message system became much cleaner, but still, many had sent messages to Yan Luo.
His high school, middle school, and elementary school classmates all sent him messages, as did his neighbors and community grid workers in Lingquan City.
Additionally, strangers somehow obtained Yan Luo’s personal account contact information.
Hunter teams worldwide extended invitations to Yan Luo, hoping he would join them.
Everything indicated that Yan Luo’s fame had skyrocketed.
Yan Luo ignored most of the private messages and opened a few from people he knew.
Guo Xu and Wang Lingyu both messaged him, telling him they watched his live broadcast. Although they couldn’t watch the whole thing, they saw it when Yan Luo hunted the city-breaking level mutated creature.
Seeing messages from the two of them, the corners of Yan Luo’s mouth slightly curled up.
Soon after, Yan Luo opened the message from Sasa.
[Your performance was too outstanding, which might expose your secrets.]
Seeing the message, Yan Luo’s smile instantly faded.
Yes, he ran for twenty-six hours without even a minor motion distortion or being caught by the giant wild bull, clearly indicating his unusual physique.
If possible, Yan Luo didn’t want to do this, but the city-breaking level mutated creature had locked on to him, and unless he forfeited the competition, it would keep chasing him.
With a city-breaking level mutated creature focused on him, Yan Luo couldn’t accumulate enough points.
He required a whole day to earn 500 points, and even then he might not win this match.
The sponsors of the Hunter skill competition played dirty tricks, throwing a city-breaking level mutated creature into the arena. If this giant beast couldn’t stop him from winning, who knew what other schemes they might resort to?
To win the match, Yan Luo had to find a way to hunt the giant wild bull.
Yan Luo knew that killing the giant wild bull might reveal his secrets.
However, the Hunter’s Guild had already achieved its aim; if he didn’t secure first place, they wouldn’t give him that set of Grade A exoskeletons.
Perhaps the Hunter’s Guild knew from the start that the competition’s sponsors would pull dirty tricks, and they never intended to pay him his reward.
If Yan Luo did nothing, it would mean he helped the Hunter’s Guild against the sponsors for free, without gaining anything himself.
So he chose to hunt the giant wild bull.
Yan Luo edited a message for Sasa: [You need to prepare a contingency plan.]
If his secret was uncovered, Sasa wouldn’t be able to research him anymore. In a sense, he and Sasa now shared a common interest, albeit a peculiar one.
[This matter should be discussed upon your return.]
Yan Luo didn’t expect Sasa to reply so promptly.
Sasa must have an idea, but without his cooperation, couldn’t complete it.
Upon receiving this response, Yan Luo relaxed considerably, walking to the equipment room still in his exoskeleton, entering the exoskeleton cleaning chamber, shedding it, and finally heading to the bathroom for a shower.
Coming out of the sea, Yan Luo hadn’t cleaned himself for over ten hours; if not for his enhanced physique, he certainly would have fallen ill.
Yan Luo showered, had a meal, and then messaged the production team to inform them he was awake.
Winning the Hunter skill competition came with prize money. The first-place prize and the bonus for setting historical records should add up to a million, and participating in the post-match interview should earn him some extra on top of that.
Although Yan Luo wasn’t short on money now, there was no reason not to take it.