Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

After leaving the camp, Gordon and his party braved the high temperature and walked along the markings on the map for more than an hour before finally arriving at the ruins marked with a red circle.

"So, where are the ruins?" Looking at the huge lava lake in front of him and the lakeside covered by layers of solidified magma, Anshir asked in despair: "Your ruins distribution map, really Is it reliable?"

Gordon checked the map and the surrounding terrain over and over again, and muttered, "It should be here? Alva wouldn't just make a fake book to fool me, would he?"

Anshir, who felt that the effect of the medicine he had taken before had been exhausted, drank another bottle of cold drink, and his brain, which had been overheated, regained its composure.

"If it is the collection of Wang Li's Paleontology Scholars Team, the content should still be reliable, but you have also seen that the lava flows here, and the terrain may change dramatically in just a few years."

Saying that, Anshir stomped his feet, pointed to the wavy ground under his feet and said, "Maybe, that ruin is right under our feet."

After staring at the ground formed by the solidified lava, Gordon suddenly took out the pickaxe and hit the ground hard.

"clang!"

The iron pick was bounced away, and the force of the rebound almost caused Gordon to lean over. After quickly adjusting his center of gravity, he looked at the position where the iron pick was struck just now.

Only a shallow pit the size of an orange was smashed

Glanced at Anshir.

Even if they knew that the ruins were buried underground by magma, if they wanted to lift up all the lava rocks on the surface with the strength of the two of them and one cat, it would be a major project with a unit of years.

numb.

"Could it be that meow!" Zhu Chop, who wanted to help, ran around and came back, pointing to two small rocky mountains, or stone piles, which were inconspicuous in the distance.

"Let me see."

Gordon ran over in a hurry, and after a few glances, he excitedly said to Anshir and the others who also came over: "The terrain here is quite flat, and it's better to dig from here than to have no purpose. The ground is chaotically digging strong."

Anshir also agreed with this judgment, consciously set up the crystal rifle, and began to guard the surroundings, while Gordon took out the pickaxe again, chanted and smashed up the stone pile.

Tried the pork chop with claws too.

"Kah, meow!!"

The cat, which can easily dig holes in the dirt, scratched the volcanic rocks, but could do nothing but leave a white mark. It used too much force, and almost broke its claws, causing it to bounce around in pain.

Gordon, who had already knocked down some gravel, couldn't laugh or cry, "Pig Chop, just help me check and screen the knocked-out rocks, maybe there is something mixed in them."

"Okay Meow"

The two and one cat worked together, and more than half an hour passed.

Except for this small pile of rubble at his feet, Gordon didn't dig anything. On the contrary, Anshir solved a lava beast that was attracted by the knocking sound.

This small monster that looks like a seahorse and a lizard can swim in lava like a fish in water, and its resistance to high temperatures has reached an unreasonable level.

Fortunately, their skins are not hard. Anshir only used the most common lv1 bullets, and shot them to death in the lava lake.

"Look at this meow, Gordon!"

Just as Gordon gradually lost his patience, Pig Chop suddenly yelled.

Gordon immediately stopped what he was doing, and leaned over, "Why, did you dig the guard stone?"

"It's not meow." Pig Chop wiped the flakes of stone in his paw vigorously, and said, "I don't think this stone is a natural mineral rock meow!"

Gordon took it and took a closer look, then rubbed the pork chop's head excitedly.

Although this thing is not a protective stone or any other valuable minerals, there are obvious artificial traces on it-it seems to be a severely weathered pottery fragment.

In other words, under the two stone piles that are not much higher than a person, there may indeed be relics. Maybe these are the two roofs that were almost buried by magma?

Gordon, who had a head, suddenly dug harder.

Anshir also came over. He temporarily handed over the task of vigilance to Pig Chop, while he studied the piece of pottery himself.

Gordon asked while waving the pickaxe: "How, do you see any tricks? I think it looks like tiles. There must be relics underneath!"

"It should indeed be something artificially fired. I can't tell the year. I may have to ask those scholars to get the answer." Anshir also became interested. He put away the crystal cannon, rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'm coming too. dig!"

With the addition of Anshir, the efficiency of excavation immediately improved a lot.

But Gordon guessed wrong. The two stone piles were not roofs. After digging out the outer layer of lava rocks, there were no architectural remains below what he expected.

This is a nearly solid lump of stone, more than 99% of which is magma after cooling and solidification, and the remaining very small part is metal minerals and some things that look messy.

Anshir speculated that the ruins should be buried deeper underground, but sometimes the contents of the ruins would be brought to the surface by flowing lava, and after condensation, this kind of stone pile would be formed.

Although it is not the remains itself, it is also a good excavation point.

"Aha! Good luck!" Anshir happily picked up a piece of decayed metal half the size of a fist, and shook it in front of Gordon.

"This is the protective stone?"

"Well, take this thing back to the village and give it to the craftsmen for appraisal. After polishing, it will become a usable protective stone."

Gordon looked enviously at the metal block in Anshir's hand, "What is the attribute of this protective stone?"

Anshir shook his head, "I don't know, we won't know until the craftsmen appraise it. Let's dig some more, go back and appraise it and give it to whoever can use it, and sell the rest or exchange it with other hunters. As long as you have patience, you can always get what you want.”

"Okay!" Gordon shook his slightly sore arms, and his whole body seemed to be refreshed.

The excavation work continued until the cold drinks were exhausted. After most of the day, half of the huge stone pile had been dug away, and Gordon and Anshir had reaped a lot.

In addition to the four original protective stones, they also acquired a large number of earth crystals, minerals such as larkite, burning stone carbon, and more advanced pyroxene stones and spirit crane stones.

Several small monsters attracted by the movement of excavation during the period, such as lava beasts, ground beetles, red velociraptors, etc., were quickly and neatly dealt with by pig chops without Gordon and the others taking action.

On the way back to the camp, Gordon, who was carrying a huge and heavy package, couldn't help sighing, "Ah, this feeling of returning with a full load, even the fatigue has disappeared!"

Anshir, who hadn't done much physical work, moved his sore shoulders and retorted: "That's an illusion! You'll know the taste of sore muscles tomorrow!"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Gordon was full of confidence in his muscular endurance, "We will continue to dig tomorrow! We won't go back to the village until we level those two rock piles!"

Anshir looked helplessly at the huge package behind Gordon, "I have no objection to this. After all, it is not easy to find a good mine. The question is, can you bring back so much ore?"

Ps. Here is a reminder for readers who may have forgotten.

(mh3) The amulet before identification is divided into "mysterious amulet, light amulet, ancient amulet, and weathered amulet". I don't want to make it too complicated.

Low-level hunters can only dig out low-level protection stones, and high-level hunters can dig out high-level protection stones. This is a matter of course in the game, but it is too unreasonable in the real world, so digging out good or bad protection stones here depends entirely on luck, collectively referred to as protection stones. .