Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

After the dragon-human girl left, the hunters discussed.

It was past noon at this time, and it might be too late to start hunting directly, and everyone was physically exhausted on the road before.

But if you don't do anything and rest until tomorrow, it seems like a waste of time.

In the end, Julius made a decision to eat at the camp, rest for an hour, and then set off for reconnaissance activities, familiarize himself with the surrounding terrain, and prepare for the official hunting tomorrow.

It was said to be resting, but no one really lay down and rested.

Gordon repeatedly checked the Explosive Knife Kai, which had not been used for a long time. He had been maintaining and oiling this sword, and it was in good condition. The claws popped out and retracted smoothly and flexibly.

Julius was also checking his twin swords, which was almost instinctive for a swordsman.

Unlike the water-attribute "sacred saber" carried by Huohan last time, this time he chose a thunder-attribute weapon that was the most threatening to the beetle and relatively less harmful to the heavy beetle.

The pair of swords are called "Execution Saws". They are very rare in shape. They are powered by the built-in electric bag. Press the mechanism, and the blades composed of chain saws will rotate at high speed, cutting the opponent with amazing power.

It's just a man's romance. (?)

Nadia focused on checking the ammunition. She carried a lot of flame bombs. This kind of ammunition was a perfect match for her fire dragon light crossbow "Dragon Cannon". It was very useful no matter whether it was aimed at carnivorous beetles or heavy beetles.

Pig Chop is also checking its bombs and props. It looks like a bunch of grapes with miniature bombs hanging on its body-this guy has gone farther and farther on the road of Bombcat.

"All ready?" Julius looked at his companions.

Gordon retracted the claws of the explosive knife, carried it behind his back, and pulled off the visor at the same time.

Nadia also carried the light crossbow slung across her shoulders, and made a "ready" gesture.

"You can go anytime, meow!"

"Let's go then."

The road to Sky Mountain is really difficult.

In many cases, there is even no road, and they need to climb vines or even rocks, straight up and down, but they are gradually getting used to it.

The hunter team of three people and one cat started from the camp, and explored circles and circles, recording the terrain information they had confirmed bit by bit on the map that was so simple that it was almost useless.

During this period, they carefully avoided the "forbidden place" repeatedly emphasized by the girls of the Dragon Race.

I have to say that the child's ability to provoke people's curiosity is really top-notch. When passing by from a distance, everyone secretly glanced in that direction from the corner of their eyes.

It's a pity that they didn't see anything except a large pile of messy boulders and ruins.

Climbing up a short peak along the vines, Zhu Chop suddenly stopped.

It twitched its nose left and right, then looked in one direction, "There's a strange smell over there meow!"

Julius gave the order without hesitation, and the pork chop led the way, let's go and have a look.

With a clear target point, the group speeded up a lot, and after a few minutes, they came to a skeleton.

There was a weird smell of fermentation in the nearby air, not exactly the smell of rotting animal corpses, but also a strange sour smell, similar to the kind of wine that has gone bad.

"It's the skeleton of a spirit deer." Gordon said in a low voice.

Julius nodded to confirm, "Well, the soft tissue has almost completely disappeared, and even the bones have melted for a little bit, which is obviously not the result of natural decay."

Nadia broke off a branch from a nearby bush, and picked up a bit of semi-liquid pus and blood hanging on the skeleton, "Those guys like to use corrosive liquid to dissolve their prey, and then suck the juice."

"It's them."

Julius was very sure: "Only the beetle and the shadow spider of the horned species have similar habits, and the latter will not appear in Sky Mountain."

"This corpse is quite fresh, and that carabiner should be nearby." Gordon said suddenly.

"How do you know that?" Nadia asked puzzled.

It's not that she doubts Gordon's judgment, but she is really curious about how such a severely fermented corpse with only half of the bones left can tell whether it is fresh or not.

Gordon squatted down, pointing to some blades of grass under the bones covered in corrosive liquid.

"The leaves of these grasses are all rotten, but they are still turning green near the roots. Even if these corrosive liquids are not so effective in decomposing living plants, they will not remain so after a long time of soaking."

"That makes sense." Nadia nodded knowingly.

Julius also approved of Gordon's judgment, "Get ready for battle, it would be great if you can meet a single beetle."

Although according to the original plan, the hunt will officially start tomorrow, but he will not be rigid enough to let go of the prey that is close in front of him.

"Meow!"

The pork chop suddenly ran about ten meters in one direction, and Gordon and the others hurriedly followed.

On a low shrub growing between rock crevices, Pig Chop found a few drops of thick blood, which should have dripped when the beetle left.

"Well done, pork chop."

Even Julius couldn't help but praise the pork chop.

Carr beetles are good at flying and cannot be tracked by footprints. The trace found by pig chops can help them roughly confirm the direction in which carr beetles left.

"Walk."

Three people and one cat explored forward quickly and lightly.

A few minutes later, Nadia, who was protected by Julius and Gordon in the middle of the queue, suddenly stopped and raised her fist to signal a timeout.

The three squatted down almost at the same time, reducing the probability of being discovered.

Nadia put her two fingers together, tapped the corner of her eyes, and then pointed in a direction.

Julius and Gordon looked in that direction.

On a rock wall about 30 to 40 meters ahead, a huge beetle with the height of three or four people was lying there, folded its wings, and seemed to be resting.

Julius gave Nadia a look.

The latter immediately understood what he meant, set up the dragon cannon, pressed a colored bomb into the barrel, and pulled the trigger.

"boom!"

The strong-smelling dye exploded on the back of the beetle.

To deal with such flying monsters, mark them with dye balls or dye bullets before the battle, which can effectively improve the pursuit efficiency.

Without anyone giving orders, Gordon and Julius charged simultaneously.

Nadia also put on the flame bomb and started firing continuously.

The beetle that was awakened by the dye bomb immediately shook its wings and flew up. When it turned around, the flame bomb had already struck, exploding balls of flames in its abdomen.

It let out a high-pitched chirp and seemed angry.

But the hunters paid no heed.

In front of two five-star and one four-star hunters, two-star dangerous monsters, just be angry if you are angry.

Gordon, who had a heavy sword and heavy armor, had only run two-thirds of the way, and Julius had already rushed in front of the beetle.

He clashed his swords, let out a soft drink, and directly entered the state of ghost-humanization, and his already swift speed was further improved.

The weapon mechanism was activated, and amidst the harsh "buzzing" sound, the saw chain of the execution saw began to rotate at high speed.

As Julius swung his swords dazzlingly, criss-crossing knife marks appeared on the body of the beetle, and the green blood flew.