Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

"Phew, I've been walking all day, and I'm finally here."

Gordon let down the heavy pack from his shoulders and took a breath.

This is a closed cave camp. It is not big, but it is very safe. As long as the entrance and exit are blocked with snowdrifts, it is not afraid of a snowstorm.

The only drawback is that the lighting is poor. If you don’t light a bonfire at night, you may not be able to see anything, but Gordon is already very satisfied.

In the tens of kilograms of packages, there are only two things-a large amount of food and a large amount of hot drinks.

These two things seem to have nothing to do with hunting directly, but in a snow-capped mountain with poor resources and an extremely cold climate, the only consequence of being cut off from food and hot drinks is freezing to death in a short period of time.

Gordon didn't want to have to think about replenishing supplies in the middle of the hunt.

"A week's worth of food and hot drinks should be enough, but why do you always feel a little unsafe?" Gordon muttered after storing most of the supplies in the storage box in the camp.

"Maybe it was infected by Anshir."

"Makes sense."

"However, we still need to make some preparations. I just checked the firewood in the camp, and it is barely enough for two or three days."

"That needs to be added."

Gordon glanced at the sky outside the cave camp, "Didn't we pass a valley on the way here? The side is not completely covered by snow, so cutting a small tree and dragging it back should be enough."

"Over there, I saw footprints of snow deer below meow!" Zhu Chop's eyes sparkled.

"Footprints of Snowy Deer"

"Very fresh footprints meow!"

"Then let's go!"

After two or three hours, it was dark.

One person and one cat dragged a small tree blown down by the snowstorm and a large pile of snow venison back to the camp.

After spending a lot of time chopping young trees into firewood and roasting all the snow venison meat, they ate a lot of stuff.

The rest of the roast was allowed to cool naturally and then also stored in storage bins.

Looking at the full chest, Gordon sighed with satisfaction, "It's comfortable now, and I can start hunting with peace of mind tomorrow."

"Hi~, you were indeed infected by Anshir, meow."

The first day of hunting officially started, not going well.

The blizzard of the previous two days covered all traces of creatures, and among the few fresh footprints encountered, there were no giant beasts.

Gordon felt that he should not miss or admit his mistake for the huge footprint that was said to be more than two meters in diameter.

The next day, same.

On the third day, Gordon set off early in the morning with the pork chops, wasting another half a day, and still got nothing.

So far it’s nothing, Gordon is very optimistic, for various reasons, the situation of temporarily not being able to find prey is also very common in hunting, right?

Then something uncommon happens.

The sharp-eyed pork chops found a hot air balloon hovering in the clouds, so they immediately used the metal reflective part of the armor to send out a signal, asking the hot air balloon to help find the target's location.

The scholars on the observation hot air balloon responded to their request.

"The Snow Lion King. Five kilometers to the northwest. The strange dragon is ten kilometers to the north. Huh?" Gordon, who was reading the light signal carefully, was full of question marks.

As usual, the light signal was repeated three times, and Gordon confirmed it three times.

Read that right.

Gordon didn't believe in evil, and sent a light signal to the hot air balloon again.

"Gam To? (Giant Beast)"

After a while, the observation hot air balloon responded.

"Nothing found"

Gordon and the pork chop looked at each other.

Judging from the style, the observation hot air balloon should belong to the Gulong Observation Bureau, and even if the observers on it are not great scholars, they will definitely not be novice idiots with bad eyesight.

Besides, a thing as big as a giant beast should be very conspicuous in the sky, can it be missed?

If it is not overlooked, there are no giant beasts in the nearby mountains? A trip for nothing?

How about teasing us? ! !

At this time, the observation hot air balloon had slowly drifted into the clouds and disappeared. Gordon and the others just wanted to find each other to confirm again, but there was nothing they could do.

"Unbelievable meow."

Pig Chop looked at the direction where the hot air balloon disappeared, and muttered to himself, "I lost the transshipment gold coin, and Hayata is not around, how can Gordon be so black?"

The corner of Gordon's mouth twitched violently.

His face was indeed dark at this time, but he didn't attribute all the problems to luck.

Both the ordinary illustrated book and the internal research materials of the Longli Institute show that the giant beast has a strong sense of territory and its territory is very fixed.

Without natural enemies, it is almost impossible for them to leave their territory unless food is so scarce that they cannot survive.

This possibility cannot be said to be completely non-existent. After all, the reason for this task entrustment is that the giant beast trampled on the village and ate up the wood for building the house.

But he and Zhu Chop had cut trees in a valley two days ago? Although it is not a large snow forest, the basic food should still be guaranteed.

Wait, valley?

Pig Chop looked left and right at the silent Gordon, and shook his little paw, "Meow? You got hit meow? I'm just joking meow."

Gordon found a rock exposed to the snow, sat down, and took out the map.

After looking left and right, he quickly overlapped the surrounding mountains with the pattern on the map, and confirmed his position.

The pork chop also came over curiously.

"We are here now." Gordon looked up at the sky, "The observation hot air balloon just now was probably at this position and altitude."

Gordon asked Pig Chop to hold the map, stood up by himself, and looked down.

The flattened map turned into rolling mountains and deep valleys in his mind, and soon he had some guesses.

"From the position of observing the hot air balloon, this valley, and the back slope of this ridge to the foot of the mountain, should not be visible."

Gordon marked two areas on the map with his fingers, "We will focus on scouting these two places. If there are giant beasts in the nearby mountains, only these two places can avoid the sight of the hot air balloon."

"It makes sense meow."

Zhu Chop thought about it, "Isn't this valley the place we visited two days ago?"

"Um."

Gordon nodded, "The valley isn't that big. If we weren't blind at the time, we should have noticed it to some extent. Therefore, the probability of the back slope of this mountain here is higher, so we should give priority to scouting here.

If there is no one here, go to the valley before, if there is no one in the valley, you can only choose to retreat. "

"Good meow."

The hunter and Ailu cheered up. Instead of wandering aimlessly, they now have at least two targets to focus on.

It took Gordon and the pork chop more than two hours to climb over the mountains and ridges, and finally came to the back of the towering ridge.

The steep ridge is like a barrier, blocking most of the wind and snow, and a small basin stretches out from the foot of the mountain to the distance.

"Oh shit."

On the ridge, overlooking the dense cedar and spruce in the basin, Gordon raised his eyebrows.

The giant beast mainly eats wood, so this place is like a cafeteria.

Looking up at the orange-red sky full of sunset glow, Piggy scratched his ears, "If the giant meow is really in this basin, it should be clearly visible from the hot air balloon meow?"

"That's right, it may be because of the mountain blocking, there are some blind spots." Gordon held up the portable binoculars and inspected the foot of the mountain.

At this time, a large herd of mammoths stepped into his field of vision.

"Huh? With a white head?"