Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

The safe return of the pork chop finally relieved Gordon and the others who had been worrying about it for a long time.

When the former reported on the situation of the underground cave, Gordon specially called Ms. Duda over.

Exploring unknown areas is what the scholars of Longli Academy are most concerned about. They dream of discovering some new ruins.

But after carefully listening to the pork chop's report, Ms. Du Da frowned.

"According to the description, the cave under the ruins does not look like a man-made ruin, but more like a naturally formed hollow landform.

Little pork chop, have you found any traces of artificial artifacts? "

"There is meow!"

Piggy pulled the picture it drew, "In these areas, many remnants of man-made objects have been found below, including building fragments of masonry structures and large metal components."

Speaking of this, Zhu Chou thought for a while, and added, "The area where these man-made objects are distributed coincides with the area where those golden beetles appear.

I don't know if there is any connection between the two. "

Ms. Du Da nodded slowly, "If that's the case, it may be that the ancient craftsmen carried out some construction around this naturally formed cave."

After Ms. Duda finished speaking, Gordon also spoke.

He paid more attention to those golden beetle monsters than the ruins.

"Pig Chop, do those golden beetles communicate with each other?"

"Meow?"

"Let me put it more directly. Do you think there is sociality among these monsters, living in groups like Athlon? Or are they fighting alone, or even competing with each other?"

Pig Chop scratched his beard, "I'm not sure about meow, it should be a gregarious meow? But it's not necessarily meow, those beetles are not too close together meow."

"I hope they don't live in groups, otherwise, once a battle breaks out, there will be a lot of trouble." Anshir whispered.

Speaking of the unknown golden beetle, Ms. Duda also seemed quite concerned.

Although the main direction of her research is archeology, as a scholar of Longli Academy, she also has a very in-depth understanding of the types of monsters and their evolution.

"Judging from the sketch that Anshir gave me before, this suspected beetle-like creature has a very primitive body structure, and it is likely to be some kind of extinct or ancient species that has never been discovered.

If you have the opportunity, I hope you can bring back some specimens. The old guys in the paleontological research department should be crazy, and the head researcher will not be stingy with rewards. "

If you say so, we will not be sleepy.

Gordon and Anshir exchanged glances, ready to find the one who had the chance, at least bring back a leg.

After the report was over, Gordon asked the pork chop to go to rest early, and he discussed with Anshir and Ms. Duda until late at night, and determined the exploration process of the underground cave.

He had a hunch that some surprises were waiting for them in the underground cave.

In the pitch-black cave that is invisible to human beings, a spark lights up.

"Bah."

Gordon scratched the flint and lit the wick of the kerosene lamp, and the orange-red flame drove out the darkness within tens of meters.

"Whew~."

Gordon whistled, "This underground cave is really, higher and more spacious than I thought."

Anshir also lit a kerosene lamp, but instead of holding it himself, he hung it on Gale, using it as a moving light source.

Looking around by the light of the fire, Gordon quickly came to a conclusion, "It's a naturally formed cave, yes, building a fortress on this unstable landform, I don't know if the ancients did it on purpose or accidentally. .”

Anshir ignored Gordon's emotion, he is a very efficient person, "Pig chop leads the way, let's go to the place where you said you found the remains of man-made objects first."

"Good meow!"

A group of people moved in a compact formation.

Different from the cautiousness when exploring alone before, this time with the companions by my side, the pork chop led the way very quickly.

It didn't take long for them to come to the cave area where man-made objects and golden beetles lived in the pig's mouth, and the exploration operation officially started.

In the vicinity, there are all kinds of messy building fragments, and there are indeed a lot of metal structures, but no trace of the golden beetle was found.

Gordon guessed that it might be because of time.

It was afternoon to night when Pig Chop explored the ruins yesterday, but now it is morning, those golden beetles may have gone to other places.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for hunters.

Although they did come with the idea of ​​"taking some biological specimens back", it's best before leaving the underground cave.

Otherwise, the movement of the battle is likely to attract other beetles, affecting subsequent exploration.

What is this thing, like a wheel made of steel? It's almost twenty meters in diameter, so big!

What is this again? A bronze statue?

Why are there still cannons? !

The more Gordon investigated, the more he found it strange that these metal structures had nothing to do with each other, and they were all very heavy, so they shouldn't appear together.

Is it possible that this underground cave is a dumping ground for ancient people to discard metal scraps? Or a smelter that recycles metal or something?

"Gordon, come and have a look."

Gordon, who was looking around the large-caliber artillery, heard Anshir's call and walked over quickly.

"Look at these." Anshir pointed to a large piece of building debris in front of him.

This building block, which was the size of a two-story house, was built of grayish-yellow bricks. Gordon frowned, feeling a little déjà vu.

"Could it be."

"Well, it should be part of the city wall of the ruins of the ancient village. The bricks are of the same size and degree of weathering." An Xier touched the fragments of the city wall and said.

Gordon squatted down, inspected the section of the fragments of the lower city wall, and focused on confirming the condition of the ground below the fragments of the lower city wall.

The expression gradually became serious, "The section is relatively new. Judging from the traces on the ground, it should have just landed here not long ago, if I guessed correctly."

"Yes, it should be a part of the ancient city wall that was eaten by the giant mechanical beast before." Anshir continued.

After that, he tilted his head towards Gordon again, "Look at this again."

Anshir led Gordon to another piece of building debris that was much smaller in size, and Gordon frowned even tighter.

Unlike the grayish-yellow bricks that can be seen everywhere in the ruins of the ancient village, this piece of building fragments is made of blue stone bricks, which obviously came from elsewhere.

"This kind of blue-gray stone can't be seen in the desert area, but it is more common in the Shulet area in the northern part of the mainland, all the way to the East Doruma area." Anshir added beside him:

"Not to mention the others, just this piece of debris weighs at least several tons. It is not easy to transport, and no one will make great efforts to transport these worthless building debris."

"It should be the giant mechanical beast. It has the habit of destroying the city wall and devouring it. Maybe it spit it out here after it gnawed it from other places."

"What an incomprehensible habit."

"yes."

"Wow!"

Gordon and Anshir were discussing when they suddenly heard Gale's barking.

The big dog ran over, grabbed the corner of Anshir's armor, and dragged him to a huge stone pillar lying on the ground.

It patted the stone pillar with its paws, sticking out its tongue, as if asking for credit.

Gordon watched intently.

By the light of the oil lamp, he found that there were some bright golden threads stuck to the position where the strong wind beat.