Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

Walking among the undulating hills and valleys of the Remains, Gordon's scalp felt a little numb.

During the period of staying in Longli Academy, I have done a lot of tasks to investigate various ruins, or escort the archaeological team to excavate the ruins, and I have visited many hunting grounds with ruins.

Latio Volcano, Ancient Village Ruins, Ruins Plain, Underground Caves

But this side has the highest density of ruins.

Even in the ruins plain named after "relics", various ruins can only be seen everywhere, dotted on the plain.

The Relics Ridge can basically be regarded as a whole, a group of super giant relics, which may be ancient cities or certain facilities, after being covered by the dust and vegetation of time.

No matter where you stand, you can always find bricks if you dig a few meters down.

This greatly increases the difficulty of investigation.

All the hunters on the Dragon Sense Ship were mobilized, and together with the accompanying archaeologists, there were less than 30 people in total. How long would it take to explore an area of ​​nearly 100 square kilometers?

"Don't worry too much."

Ms. Duda, who was walking with Gordon and Anshir, was not the kind of nerdy scholar who was unsophisticated, and she saw Gordon's worries.

"The Remains Ridge is too big, of course it is impossible for us to investigate all of them by pulling a net."

On the way up the mountain and down the valley, Ms. Duda was much more agile than the hunters had imagined. She nimbly climbed over a remnant wall and explained:

"Actually, in the era before the Longli Academy became independent from the scholar team, archaeological investigations on Yiqun Ridge had already been carried out several times.

It's just that the altitude of Yiqun Ridge is too high, even if you don't consider climbing the peak, it is very difficult to send people up.

In addition, this relic is not valuable enough, it is difficult to unearth any meaningful relics or technology, less benefits, and lack of sponsorship, so it will gradually stop. "

This statement reminded Gordon of the ruins of the ancient village.

"What counts as valuable?" Anshir, who was in charge of guarding the rear, asked casually.

"It's hard to say. It's a relatively vague concept. You know the so-called 'Ancient Era'. At that time, the development level of human civilization far exceeded the current level. There were too many technologies that modern people can't understand at all. Well, for example, Ge Mount the epitaph sword behind you.

There are not many remains of the ancient era that have significant excavation significance. The scattered remains of Latio Volcano count as one, the Sky Corridor of the Sea of ​​Trees counts as one, and the Sky Mountain counts as one. , and the one that Lingfeng just discovered in the past two years.

The archaeological value of these ancient relics is very high, such as the inexhaustible protective stone of Latio Volcano, the alchemy and aviation technology extracted by people in the ruins of Sky Mountain, the records of the history of dragon creatures in the corridor of the sky, etc. .

Of course, it is not absolute. For example, the biggest harvest of the Shuimeilin Pyramid is only murals and stone carvings, and it is more "artistic". "

Ms. Du Da came to a high point, pulled out the binoculars and looked into the distance, and then continued:

"As for the so-called 'worthless' relics, some of them are not old enough. They are only hundreds to thousands of years old. The civilization that created these relics is from the same origin as us, and the technology is also in the same line. There are not many that can be reversed. For example, ancient Village ruins.

Although some also originated from the ancient era, they may be residential areas or the like. For example, the Relics Ridge where we are currently located, except for the architectural relics themselves, there are not many valuable things to be found.

According to the sponsor - it's just a bunch of useless broken bricks.

Although archaeologists like us are very interested in relics, large-scale archaeological activities are difficult to advance without funding. "

Gordon shrugged. If he was a sponsor, he would not be too happy to pay for these old bricks under his feet.

After confirming the location, Ms. Du Da put away the binoculars and said with a smile: "However, in these so-called 'worthless' ruins, there are often some interesting things that appear because of incomplete investigations."

"Such as Ge Mantis' Ruins City?"

Anshir answered with a chuckle, in exchange for Ms. Duda's eyes.

"All in all, the excavation value of the Relics Ridge is not high, well, at least in the eyes of the sponsors, but the archaeologists at that time also marked some of the more critical sites.

Our task is to investigate those key locations. You two are high-rank hunters, so our group is assigned to a more dangerous area. "

"How dangerous is it?" Anshir asked.

"Not sure." Ms. Duda replied: "There are a lot of peach-haired beasts around here, but it is said that there have been dinotyrannosaurus."

"... Then you really have to pull yourself together."

"Wait a moment."

Gordon, who was walking ahead to open the way, suddenly raised his hand, Duda stopped immediately, and Anshir also deployed a heavy crossbow to guard the guards.

Gordon came to a corner of a masonry column, on which there was a huge claw mark.

Using the palm of his hand to roughly estimate the size and depth of the claw marks, and then taking a few glances at the surrounding environment, Gordon's expression became strange.

Anshir escorted Du Da to his side, glanced at the claw marks, and frowned.

"What's the matter? What kind of monster's scratches are these?" Duda asked in a low voice, and there was a trace of nervousness in his tone.

Anshir whispered to Gordon: "It's not like the flying dragon, the flying dragon shouldn't leave scratches in such a high position?"

"Well, the fire dragon sometimes gets up in the air and scratches its claws, but the shape of the fire dragon's claw marks is not like this."

"Beast dragon species? Tooth beast species?"

"I also thought of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Peach Haired Beast King. The Tyrannosaurus Rex could catch it here when it jumped up, but it would probably be kicked off with the pillar, and the Peach Hair Beast King's claw marks would not be so deep.

Don't you think it's more like, um, a toothed dragon? "

"You mean Thunder Wolf Dragon?" Anshir looked even more surprised, "Can Thunder Wolf Dragon come here?"

"That's why I find it strange, but don't you think the shape of the claw marks is very similar?"

"Indeed."

An Xier pinched his chin. During the time in Jieyun Village, they hunted a lot of Thunder Wolf Dragons, and they were very familiar with the shape of the Thunder Wolf Dragon's claw marks.

The pork chop sniffed around, "It smells like urine, meow, and it smells like a meow. It might really be Thunder Wolf Dragon Meow, maybe it's a marker for its territory."

Gordon stared at the claw marks, and said to himself: "The guild said that the thunder wolf dragon group spread everywhere, but I didn't expect it to spread so far.

Can that thing cross the sea?

In a few years, maybe even the New World will see their footprints? "

An Xier thought for a while, and said: "There may have been people who migrated away from their original place of residence a long time ago, didn't they already exist near Yanhuo Village?

It's just that the number is very small, and they went to some deep mountains and old forests, so no one discovered that the ethnic group really spread after the wave of chaos in Lingfeng. "

"Too."

Noticing Ms. Duda's nervousness, Gordon smiled and comforted, "It's okay, it may be a five-star dangerous monster, even if we encounter it, it will not be difficult for the two of us to deal with it.

Just in case, Ms. Duda, you'd better ride on Galeback, that monster is fast, but the toothhound will keep you safe. "

"All right."

Ms. Duda climbed up Gaefeng's back carefully, and Gaefeng turned around and licked her. Although the saliva was a little disgusting, the tension in her heart was relieved a lot.

"Pork Chop Gale, pay attention to distinguishing the smell, Anshir is alert to the rear and the air, we will complete the investigation as soon as possible."