Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

"Young man! I accept your challenge!"

As if there was some kind of resonance in their thinking, the head of the group and Feng Ying got into a wrestling stance.

What's even more unbelievable is that the leader actually took the initiative to attack. Two thick arms like old tree roots put on Feng Ying's shoulders and arms, and suddenly exerted force. It seemed that he wanted to directly press Feng Ying down. Get down.

But Feng Ying lowered her focus, stabilized her waist and legs, and actually gritted her teeth and held on.

After being in a stalemate like this for two seconds, she suddenly relaxed and leaned over, trying to hug the leader's legs.

"Ouch!" The leader laughed as he understood her intention.

Feng Ying thought very clearly that she must be the one who suffered the loss in the head-on battle. Only by finding an opportunity to hug the leg of the group leader, could she take advantage of her short "advantage" and overthrow the group leader.

But she forgot that the big group was far superior to her not only in height and weight, but also in arm length.

Before he could hug him, he was picked up by the captain with a wave of his hand, and he was hit hard on the ground with a blow on his back. He almost lost his breath.

"Poof!"

Feng Ying lay on the ground, looking suspicious of life.

Gordon on the side felt like covering his face, and couldn't figure out how many holes this kid had in his head.

It is true that Feng Ying has an arm with strange strength that is inconsistent with her body size, but when it comes to absolute strength, it is still one or two levels lower than a "monster" like the Grand Leader.

If the two of them were to arm-wrestle or something, they could more or less maintain a stalemate for a while without losing too badly. But why do you want to compete with this old man who looks like a golden lion?

Are you one-third his weight? ! Are you as smart as this seventy-year-old guy?

Anxier also rubbed his forehead, and couldn't help but feel happy in his heart. Fortunately, the other party was the leader of the group, and this heroic old man would not mind if the young man came up and challenged him to wrestle.

Sure enough, the leader bared his teeth and stretched out his hand to pull Feng Ying to help her stand up. Although in comparison with her body shape, she looked more like a rabbit being picked up by a gorilla.

Feng Ying, who recognized the difference, giggled and had a simple and honest look, which made people subconsciously think that she was the latter between "rebellious" and "straight-minded".

Gordon waved his hand and slapped Feng Ying on the back of her head, but the head of the group opened his palm and rubbed the top of her head. A rare look of kindness appeared on his face full of flesh.

Having been single all his life, he suddenly felt that it would be nice to have such a granddaughter who liked to compete with him.

Ai Bo, who saw Feng Ying deflated and munching on a large piece of barbecue, ran over quickly and wanted to say a few words of apology on Feng Ying's behalf.

However, when the head of the group glanced at her face and the barbecue in her hand that she had never put down, he was also startled.

"Are you a descendant of 'Pistachio'?"

"Huh?" Ai Bo, who was about to speak, was also stunned. She knew that this was her grandfather's nickname when he was young.

"Sure enough, hahaha, he is exactly the same as that guy!" The leader laughed loudly with nostalgia on his face.

"Ahem, Grand Commander, let's get back to the topic first." Seeing that the topic was getting more and more distorted, Anhil cleared his throat, "What are the important discoveries you mentioned before?"

"Okay, let's talk about the competition and reminiscing about old times later." The leader flashed his white teeth at the two girls, and then turned back to Gordon and the others, "To put it simply, that's it."

As he spoke, he picked up an animal skin bag at his feet, opened the tie bag, and poured the contents onto the ground.

It was a piece of ore that exuded a unique metallic luster, but its texture was more like crystalline minerals such as obsidian. Under the sunlight, it reflected colorful hazy light.

"Is this?" Gordon frowned. He confirmed that he had never seen such ore before, but it felt inexplicably familiar.

"Did you find it deep in the northern mountains?" Ancier picked up a fist-sized piece of ore and looked at it for a while, "This luster.

Could it be the kind of crystal that 'grows' from rock formations and underground? "

Gordon recalled something, "You said it was the kind of thing used by the Strange Face Tribe to feed the Rock Thief Dragon? It's quite similar, but the size is also much different.

Those things look like gravel, with particles the size of beans, etc.”

Gordon knelt down and looked at the small pile of crystallized ore. The small ones were as big as fists, and the large ones were as thick as arms. Judging from the fracture marks, it was obvious that they had been knocked down.

In other words, the volume of the crystal itself may be larger, much larger.

"That's the one, found in the core area of ​​the northern mountainous area, in large quantities." The leader crossed his arms, "I have been to that area a few years ago, and I can indeed see some crystals precipitated from the underground rock formations.

But now they have grown into mountains. In just a few years, the changes have been astonishing. Even the terrain has changed. "

"Grow into a mountain?"

"Yes." The grand leader nodded heavily, "The crystalline pillars hundreds of meters high are like crystal clusters magnified countless times. They grow everywhere, and the basalt mountains and peaks are crushed to pieces."

Gordon and Ancil looked at each other. The leader would naturally not joke around, but this kind of growth rate, let alone minerals, would not allow living creatures to grow like this.

Alvar pulled down the microscope above his head, picked up some debris, and observed carefully, "Unlike mineral clusters, naturally formed metal minerals do not have such high purity, and should be the crystallization of some kind of energy.

This phenomenon of rapid crystallization growth is easier to explain. It is not impossible for such a situation to occur when massive energy is gathered and the energy density suddenly increases. "

"Is it possible that it is related to Gu Long?" Gordon asked.

Alva raised his head. The look of a microscope on his face was slightly funny, but his expression was extremely serious, "It's not 'possible', but 'certain'.

In nature, crystallization occurs in energy-rich environments, but mostly in closed environments such as underground caves, and the scale is not too large.

The grand leader said that ‘even the mountain peaks were crushed’, which obviously did not fit that situation.

I can't even imagine how much energy it would take to produce a crystal of this scale. It's as if the energy of the entire continent was concentrated in one place. "

"It seems that there is no need to discuss which areas need to be focused on reconnaissance." Gordon took out a map and spread it out.

The grand leader stretched out his fingers as thick as carrots and drew a circle near the center of the map, "Probably in this area, the number of crystals is particularly large."

"Such a large area?!" Gordon was stunned.

Although it is only less than the size of a palm on the map, in reality it is probably hundreds of square kilometers.

Considering that the terrain in the northern mountainous area is complex and the underground spaces are staggered, the overall area may even double.

Noticing the surprise on the faces of Gordon and others, the Grand Leader shrugged.

"I'm not just pointing fingers. When you get there, you will know that the ecological environment is different from the surrounding areas, and the biological density is much higher.

Large monsters appear frequently, especially mineral-eating monsters such as the Rock Thief Dragon, the Explosive Scale Dragon, and the Explosive Hammer Dragon, and there are even traces of the Steel Dragon.

Considering that the northern part of the mainland is an area where ancient dragons frequently appear, the commander also gave that mountainous area a new name, 'Land of Dragon Crystals'. "

"The place where dragons are crystallized?" Gordon wrote it down silently, thinking that the Commander-in-Chief was quite good at naming names.

If you look at the Old World, there are dense forests, hills, volcanoes, deserts, and swamps all over again, and then the names of each region are used as prefixes.

Looking at the New World, the land of dragon crystals, the ancient tree forest, the wasteland of large ant mounds, and the coral platform sounds impressive.

"With the twenty or thirty of us, it will take at least several weeks to explore this area." Alva's expression was slightly complicated, with worries, expectations and excitement at the same time.

“This is without considering unexpected situations such as monster attacks, and it is only a preliminary investigation and map drawing.

To truly understand it in depth, the resources and time invested are required.”

"No, you missed the point." Gordon interrupted, "What we need to do now is not to understand the entire Dragon Crystal Land, but to find out the source of this series of riots."

December book club activity, the results of the first hunting memories are out~

The winners were three book friends: "I changed my name card again so I don't have to hehehe", "Second Two Two Two", and "Haruhi Who Sold a Suzumiya", croak croak croak

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