Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

[As reminded by readers, the previous chapter has been modified because Gordon's Black Flame King suit has the [large] effect of invalidating wind pressure. It is really unreasonable not to use it, so Gordon uses the Black Flame King instead. The wind protection stone is made of Used by Hayata.

Since several paragraphs have been modified, the paragraph comments in the corresponding paragraphs will show that they have been deleted, don’t worry haha ​​orz]

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"Get out!" Ted yelled.

The cave camp is low and narrow, making it difficult for the hunters to fully deploy it. What's more, the cave is about to collapse, and continuing to hide in it will just lead to death.

Three people and one strange-faced tribe rushed out of the cave and returned to the surface.

They looked back.

Two Broken Dragons, one big and one small, were wandering thirty or forty meters away.

Among them, the larger one, about seventeen or eight meters in length, was hammering and bombarding the ground with its well-developed hammer-shaped forelimbs.

Its fist is like a howitzer shell. Not only is it incredibly powerful, it will also cause violent explosions the moment it comes into contact with the ground.

These explosions do not come from the Broken Dragon itself, but from a certain slime mold that lives in symbiosis with the Broken Dragon.

These slime molds live in the gaps between the obsidian carapace of the dragon. The slime molds are most densely distributed on the forearms and the malle-shaped front horns.

Wrapped in the slime mold, the tips of the Broken Dragon's forearms and horns were covered with a layer of conspicuous fluorescent green. The different-colored arm mallets and large horns were their most obvious signs.

"Rumble--!" Another loud noise that shook the earth exploded along with the explosion.

Before a hunter successfully hunted the first Broken Dragon and scholars conducted anatomical research on the body, people's research on this monster was very limited.

Because Shatter Dragon often licks its arm before attacking, previous research believed that the substance that caused the explosion when Shatter Dragon attacked was its saliva or some kind of secretion.

It was not until post-mortem studies that people realized that the explosion that accompanied Shatterosaurus' attack had nothing to do with Shatterosaurus itself.

It was actually the slime molds that caused the explosion.

The relationship between slime mold and Broken Dragon is not one-sided "parasitism", but "symbiosis".

The Broken Dragon provides protection and a place for the slime mold to live, and while traveling around, it spreads the slime mold everywhere to help it reproduce.

Slime mold has become the most powerful weapon of Shattering Dragon due to its explosive power that is far superior to ordinary gunpowder.

It was also with the help of these slime molds that the Broken Dragon, which was also a large beast dragon species and whose ecological niche was supposed to be similar to monsters such as the Boomerosaurus and the Barbarian Jaw Dragon, was forcibly elevated to a big level.

The guild's danger rating for Shattered Dragon is six stars, second only to the top ecological experts under ancient dragons such as Terror Tyrannosaurus, Golden Lion, and Explosive Scale Dragon.

After being on full alert for a few seconds, the hunters were surprised to find that Broken Dragon's target was not them, or in other words, it didn't care about the hunters at all.

He just kept pounding the ground, as if he was going to collapse the cave in one breath.

Seeing this, the hunters carefully backed away and kept a safe distance, but did not leave directly.

After all, the investigation target of their mission is right in front of them.

"What do you think it is doing?" Oshula asked in a low voice, but the sight of the light crossbow in his hand was always locked on the two broken dragons.

"How do I know this?"

"Does it want to occupy this burrow to make a nest?" Maka suggested a possibility, "The entrance and exit are too small for it to get in, so it plans to open an opening to come out by itself."

"It's possible, the other Broken Dragon next to it is only six or seven meters long, and its scales haven't all faded off. Is it still a cub, looking for a suitable nest for the safety of the cub?" Orshula guessed.

"I think it's just boxing practice in the middle of the night."

"Kaka!" Babaka of the Strange-Faced Clan sighed.

I always feel that these guys whose brains are almost replaced by alcohol are not very smart.

What are these random guesses?

We have long said that we will find a compiler partner for these guys to make up for their intellectual deficiencies, even if the whole team shares one brain and one compiler.

But how could ordinary people get along with these drunkards? None of the young scholars who could become editors were alcoholics.

This alone cuts off the possibility of alcoholics finding a regular editor partner.

"rumble--!"

Under the continuous hammering and blasting of Broken Dragon, the cracks in the one or two meters thick rock layer continued to expand, and eventually completely shattered and collapsed.

Broken Dragon swung his mallet and roared to the sky.

Then, it couldn't wait to put its head and even its entire upper body into the collapsed cave.

The cub was screaming at the side. It also wanted to get closer to the cave, but was swung away by the tail of the adult Broken Dragon, who didn't know whether it was the father or the mother. It fell to the ground and couldn't get up for a while.

Maka looked at her two companions and said, "Something's not right. I'll take a closer look while you cover me."

After saying that, she put on her invisibility clothes and rushed towards the direction of the collapsed cave.

"good."

Oshula loaded the crossbow, and Ted moved forward to a position where he could charge for support at any time.

Maka approached cautiously. Of course, she would not run directly to Broken Dragon, which would only anger the grumpy Broken Dragon.

She took a circuitous route to the side and rear of the blind spot, then used a bug stick to pole vault and flip to the top of a huge rock, using the height of the terrain to observe the behavior of Broken Dragon.

Broken Dragon crawled back and forth in the collapsed cave, or "pit", constantly rubbing its head and arms against the inner wall of the cave.

Maka was confused. She took out a portable telescope, hoping to see it more clearly.

With the continuous rubbing, Broken Dragon's head and arms were stained with some conspicuous bright yellow.

This color was very familiar to Maka and the others, and she exclaimed in a low voice, "Ah, it's those glowing moss!"

Wait, moss, glow. That guy’s target is not the moss, but the slime mold hidden in the moss? ! "

After achieving its goal, Broken Dragon retreated from the pit. Maka also took this opportunity to jump off the rock and quickly returned to his companions.

"Well, what is that guy doing?" Oshula asked, but his eyes never left the target.

"It's rubbing against the glowing moss on the cave wall. Doesn't Broken Dragon have a symbiotic relationship with slime mold? There should be a lot of slime mold hidden in those moss.

It's just that the colors on the two sides are a little different. The one on Broken Dragon's body is green, and the one on the moss in the cave is yellow. Look at the yellow ones on its head and hands, it's just been rubbed on. "

"It might want to change its appearance." Ted turned his head with a grin and joked.

Broken Dragon shook his body as he exited the collapsed basement.

The cub that had just gotten up immediately came over and rubbed against its mother.

The green slime mold on the adult Broken Dragon, together with the little yellow slime mold that was just picked up, fell onto the little Broken Dragon.

This is how a Shatterling hatchling acquires slime mold.

"So, what these two Broken Dragons have been looking for are these slime molds? That doesn't affect us at all."

Ted said and made a gesture to his companions, "Let's retreat for the time being and track and observe them from a distance for two days. If there is no problem, we will go back."

Of course, Oshula and Maka had no objections. As for the question of "why we need to obtain new slime molds?", let the scholars have a headache.

At this moment, Broken Dragon stuck out his tongue, licked the new slime mold on his arms, and didn't forget to turn back and lick the cub twice.

The saliva of Broken Dragon is rich in nutrients, which not only promotes the rapid reproduction and growth of slime mold, but also activates it.

This is also why Shatter Dragon licks its arm hammer before attacking.

However, the next second, something unexpected happened.

The new yellow slime mold, the original green slime mold, and certain components in the saliva of the broken dragon were mixed together, triggering a series of violent reactions of unknown reasons.

Those yellow slime molds grew at an astounding speed, quickly replacing the original green slime molds, and began to emit a red light that symbolized high fever.

As if it couldn't bear the high temperature, the cub let out bursts of painful screams.

"Back off!"

The hunters who realized the danger could no longer care about anything else and evacuated at full speed.

The next second, a series of violent explosions enveloped the two broken dragons, one large and one small. The tragic howls and explosions filled the originally silent molten mountain canyon.

A full ten seconds passed before the continuously flashing flames stopped. When the smoke dissipated, the Broken Dragon cub had turned into a shapeless, broken and charred corpse.

As for the adult Shattered Dragon, its obsidian armor was also shattered layer by layer, and it fell to the ground dying.