Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

The fixed rope was loosened, and the steam-driven engine began to turn.

The large airship slowly rose into the air with a slight "click" sound from the friction between the wooden hull and the cable.

The crew and scholars were responsible for driving, navigation, and route recording. Gordon, who had nothing to do for the time being, wandered around the ship aimlessly.

Putting aside the construction year, this is an absolutely new ship in terms of the time of use.

The hull structure is very similar to the large sea ship used by the investigation team, or to put it more directly, it is exactly the same.

Gordon seriously suspected that this large airship itself was also modified from the sea ship of that year.

Come to think of it, with the manpower and material resources of the investigation team at that time, to build such a large airship from scratch, even if it was just the hull part, nothing else would be done.

Coming to the bow deck, Gordon saw the leader of the third phase holding an unknown instrument that kept turning, probably measuring the wind speed, and Alva who was following her and was responsible for recording data.

Noticing Gordon's arrival, the leader of the Third Regiment temporarily put down his work and said in a leisurely tone: "What's the matter, Mr. Gordon?"

"Madam, the leader." Gordon greeted her in the polite way she was used to. "I just had nothing to do, so I just took a walk."

"I see, what do you think of this ship?"

Gordon asked her so many questions. He was a hunter, not a craftsman or engineer, so what could he think?

"It's pretty good?" Gordon said something that was not a compliment, "The space is quite large and it's quite stable."

The leader of the third phase group chuckled, "As expected of Mr. Gordon, he has high standards. Many people were shocked when they saw this ship actually fly."

Alva, who was standing by, recorded the data and said with a smile, "After all, Gordon and his team have been in the Dragon Calendar Institute, and they also rode the Dragon Knowledge Ship to chase the 'Silver Winged Evil Star'."

The leader of the third phase group nodded in understanding, and said with some nostalgia, "I heard from the guy in the Dragon Calendar Institute a few years ago about the idea of ​​building an 'Air Research Institute'. I didn't expect that he would really build it."

Gordon was a little unsure about who the leader of the third phase group was referring to. Who could tell how many years the "early years" of the Dragon People were?

Could it be that chief researcher?

The plan for the Dragon Knowledge Ship seemed to have been proposed by several scholars headed by him. They seemed to be of the same generation as the leader of the third phase group and the leader of the research class, and they were all scholars of the Dragon People.

Isn't there some love-hate relationship involved?

"I feel like you're thinking about something very rude." The leader of the third group stared at Gordon and said faintly.

"Well, you're worrying too much. How long will it take us to reach that so-called origin island?" Gordon laughed dryly and changed the subject.

Alva continued: "Three or four days if everything goes well, but it's hard to say if things don't go well."

"So long?!"

The large airship has a steam-driven power mechanism, which is faster than ordinary small and medium-sized airships. Three or four days is enough to cross the old continent from south to north.

Alva shrugged, "After all, we have to search along the arc of the spiral vein. It is not so easy to find an isolated island in the vast ocean. It may take a long way to go around.

Moreover, we are almost completely flying over the sea all the way. It is easy to get lost and miss the target. We need to fly at a lower altitude from time to time and calibrate the course repeatedly. The speed will not be too fast.

This is thanks to the previous series of investigations. The location of the "origin island" has been roughly locked.

Otherwise, based on the few words left by the expedition team at that time, it is afraid that it will not be found in a few decades."

"Well," Gordon folded his arms.

For him, this kind of sailing experience with great uncertainty is relatively fresh.

According to Alva, it is possible to go to the open sea for a long circle and find nothing.

"I hope this journey can be longer." The leader of the third group held his pipe and smiled: "The process of exploring the unknown is the most interesting."

Gordon smiled slightly reluctantly.

In his imagination, the most ideal situation is to reach the origin island in a straight line in two days, solve the problem in another day, and return in the last two days.

Now he is told that he may not be able to find the place even in five days

"Is there a way to fly faster?" Gordon asked tentatively.

"No." Alva refused very bluntly, "We are looking for it, not rushing."

Five days passed in a flash.

The situation described by Alva "if it goes well" did not happen.

The airship searched back and forth on the expected route, and the lookouts patrolled the sea day and night, trying to find the "origin island".

Yesterday, they found a lush island.

The excited hunters landed on the island excitedly, their swords had been polished and the crossbows were loaded.

However, after several hours of searching, the largest creature they found on the island was a mushroom pig.

Feng Ying almost chopped the mushroom pig in anger, but it was Ai Bo who stopped it in time, saving the innocent "island owner".

Bow.

Feng Ying was sitting cross-legged on the railing of the bow in a very dangerous posture.

The wind on the sea was strong, and she was swaying in a meditative posture, and she might fall at any time, but this was the way she found to relieve her boredom.

In a beautiful name, this was a special training to exercise concentration and balance.

At this moment, a figure quietly approached from behind her.

When he was less than one meter behind her, the figure jumped up and shouted in her ear.

"Meow-!!!"

Feng Ying, who was almost asleep, was so frightened that she lost her balance and flipped over the bow of the boat.

Fortunately, her reaction speed was fast enough. Before she fell a few meters, she released the flying insect and jumped back to the deck.

He glared fiercely at the culprit, who as expected was Pandan.

"Not bad, meow, the reaction is very fast, meow." Xianglan nodded seriously.

Feng Ying was furious, "You are looking for death, aren't you?!"

"What are you afraid of, meow? Aren't you tied with a safety rope, meow?" Xianglan licked her paws and glanced at the rope tied around Feng Ying's waist.

Hayata was worried about her dangerous behavior, so she tied it for her, and the other end was tied to the railing.

Although, is this the reason why you cheated me? !

Ah, I understand, Pandan was retaliating against herself for teasing her with pork chops and fish roe.

Feng Ying stopped talking nonsense and suddenly jumped up, grabbing Xiang Lan before she could escape.

Xianglan was shocked and tried to struggle to resist, but unfortunately its claws scratched Feng Ying's armor as if it was an itch, and she almost broke her carefully maintained claws.

Feng Ying smiled evilly, took off the safety rope from her waist, tied up Pandan tightly, and then threw her from the bow of the boat.

Xianglan, who was hung on the bow of the boat, screamed in horror for a while, then realized that the rope was strong enough and she was actually safe.

So he jumped up and down, and began to scold Feng Ying who stuck her head out of the side of the boat to watch the show.

The quarrel between one person and one cat was quite big, and it didn't take long before Gordon and the others, who were also having nothing to do, were attracted over.

Gordon came to the bow of the ship and looked down, with a strange look on his face, "Are you guys playing some kind of pirate game? Whoever loses gets hung up on the bow? How about we hang out together for a while?"

Hayata was even more helpless, pulling on the rope and preparing to pull Pandan up.

Pandan's shout suddenly came from below.

"I saw meow! I saw meow! It's an isolated island! The shape of that island is so weird, meow! We're here, meow!"