Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

Hayata and Xianglan rode on Amber and came to a charred ruin.

After the long burning of dragon flames, the bricks and stones that were still solid after hundreds of years of erosion have become loose and cracked.

Touching it with your hand, there seems to be a trace of residual warmth.

Hayata stood up silently.

"It's all the smell of moss and rotten wood burned by the flames, meow, I can't smell anything else, meow."

Xianglan came over with a worried look on her face and pulled her fingertips, "Are you okay, meow?"

Hayata forced a smile with difficulty and rubbed Xianglan's head, "I'm fine."

"Woof! Woof!" Amber suddenly roared loudly.

The startled Hayata and Xianglan walked over quickly, only to see Amber drilling in front of a collapsed ruin, constantly digging something.

Hayata's heart was beating wildly, and she hurried over to help dig together.

After a long time of digging, a man, a cat and a dog finally moved away a pile of broken bricks and stones, revealing a deep hole with a diameter of about half a meter.

Hayata let go of the stone in his hand, and his face was full of disappointment.

Obviously, this hole could not fit an adult man.

But Xianglan made some new discoveries.

It leaned in and sniffed hard, "Meow? A familiar smell meow.

It smells like iron and wood arborvitae. I always feel like I have smelled such a smell somewhere meow."

Hayata patted his face and forced himself to cheer up. "It looks like a hole dug by Elu.

Maybe it was a member of the hunting cat team who was exploring the way? It could also be a wild Elu who followed the reconnaissance team into the ancient city."

"Meow!" Xianglan's ears twitched, "I remembered meow, it's the smell of bones and flint meow!

They should have drilled into the ground from here and escaped meow! Maybe they will leave some clues. I will go down and take a look meow!"

As she said that, Xianglan dived into the hole.

Hayata was in a state of uncertainty, and continued to walk around, with Amber accompanying her.

Ten minutes later, Xianglan jumped out of another hidden exit hundreds of meters away from the cave entrance, "They are still alive meow!

They must have been hiding underground for a long time, and only came out after the dragon flames were extinguished meow!

There are footprints here meow, should we follow them meow?"

"Let's go and have a look, if we can find them, maybe we can know something." Hayata rode on Amber, grabbed Xianglan, and followed the traces and smells on the ground all the way.

After dozens of minutes of high-speed running, they came from the core area of ​​the ruins of the Shulet King City all the way to the outer area near the edge.

Here, they found another piece of charred ruins and a lot of traces of fighting.

Comparing it with the previous description of Lieyan, Hayata knew that this was the place where the reconnaissance team was attacked by the black dragon.

When she came here, her mood gradually calmed down.

If that illusory hope was shattered, she hoped to at least collect the remains for her master and the other two hunters, and not let the victims be exposed in the wild.

Soon, they found the first remains.

The spear and shield melted in the high temperature and merged with the armor on his body, but he still stood, maintaining the posture of the last moment of his life.

Hayata silently bowed to the highly carbonized remains, carefully laid him flat on the side of the road, and prepared to move him later.

Searched the nearby area carefully.

Amber found another broken shield axe, which should be the weapon of the shield axe user in the reconnaissance team.

But they failed to find the body of the shield axe user.

This is not necessarily bad news. After all, there is another possibility besides the black dragon being hungry.

"Meow!" Xianglan suddenly screamed.

Hayata hurried over and found that the former was holding a silver-white sword that was broken in half.

Of course, she recognized that this was the flying dragon sword [Silver] that belonged to Amos.

However, her attention was not on the broken knife at all.

Hayata stared at the road covered with burnt ash, with a series of cat paw prints and a long drag mark leading to the end of the road.

Under the night, above the sea of ​​clouds.

A huge fleet of airships sailed with the wind.

On the flagship "The Third Princess", the general, professor, captain of the investigation team, and captains of various ships were gathered together for a meeting.

On the table, there was a huge map of the old continent.

It was densely packed with track coordinates that laymen could not understand.

"The speed of the black dragon is higher than that of the fleet, but thanks to the help of Fukumoto Rabbit, we have not completely lost its trace."

The general put his hands on the table and said: "At present, it can be confirmed that the black dragon is flying in the direction of the south. What do you think?"

"Are you sure it is due south? Not southeast or southwest?" The investigation captain frowned, "Go southwest along the coast and you can reach Melchita City.

If you go southeast, you will be close to the inland sea and there are many coastal cities. The nearest one is Metabetat City.

What is due south? Alkris area? Metabet Wet Forest (Old Forest)?"

"Its next goal may not be to attack the city, but to find a place to heal." The professor said: "The damage caused by the dragon-killing cannon is not light.

Even with the self-healing ability of the ancient dragon species, it will take at least a few days of rest before it can heal initially."

"This is good news!"

A tall captain with an open chest, who gave people a rough and generous feeling, took a pipe.

"Hiss--Hu, let's just follow it, don't give it a chance to rest and heal, when its condition gets worse, force it to fight!"

"How can it be so easy to catch up." Another captain looked worried, "Isn't it said that the intelligence of the ancient dragon species is not inferior to that of humans?

It won't be easily caught up by us, it should be trying to use its speed advantage to play 'pull' with us."

"This is what we are worried about, so we must turn the passive into the active, adjust the route, and intercept in advance."

The general's finger drew a big circle on the map, "The inland sea line, and Wadley The coast of the Old Sea (Old Sea) is the most densely populated and prosperous core area of ​​the Old Continent.

There are many large cities such as Metabetat, Giovadreo, East Doruma, and Rexara.

It is also the area most likely to be attacked by the black dragon according to scholars.

We must intercept the black dragon before it invades this area.

My idea is that we rush here in advance and deploy defenses in the eastern area of ​​the suspected wet forest, so that we can block the black dragon's way to the inland sea. "

The captains nodded and supported the general's judgment.

But the captain of the investigation team proposed another possibility, "But what if the black dragon did not go east to the inland sea after crossing the wet forest, but continued to go south to the desert area?"

The general folded his arms and nodded, "Your concern is reasonable, I have also considered this.

But from the current situation, if we blindly chase after the black dragon, it may be thrown away by it after a long time using the speed difference.

We cannot perfectly predict the black dragon's thoughts, so we can only choose the route with the highest interception success rate."

The professor also said on the side: "All observation airships and hot air balloons of the Ancient Dragon Observation Bureau have been launched and are on guard day and night.

If the black dragon shows signs of crossing the dense forest and continuing to go south, it will be witnessed in the ruins plain. We will then find a way to track it and should be able to intercept it in the desert area.

As for the South China Sea further south, it should not be too close there, which is the territory of "others." "

The captain of the investigation team nodded lightly.

As the general and others said, this position can be used for attack or defense, which is the safest way.

Ps.

This is also not an official map, but the information in all aspects is reliable, and it is a map compiled from official information. There is only one official large map, which is from the 2g era and is very blurry.