Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

The airship slowly descended into the clouds.

The sea of ​​trees, as vast as a real ocean but with dark green waves, appeared in the sight of the hunters.

The recent continuous rainfall has filled the exaggeratedly lush vegetation in the sea of ​​trees with water, and even formed a thick white mist similar to clouds. Taking a deep breath, it feels like drinking water.

The heavily armed hunters gathered on the deck, waiting for the empty boat to land.

Gail scratched his wet black wavy hair, looked at the tiny water droplets on his bare skin, and said distressedly:

"It's too humid, the humidity is comparable to the wetlands in the rainy season, right? I knew I should get a waterproof cloak, or bring a bottle of skin oil or something."

It wasn't that she suddenly became fond of taking care of her skin, but that it was not a good thing to expose a large area of ​​skin for a long time in an environment that was more like a rainforest than a dense forest.

Mosquitoes and leeches will come to your door, and once a breach occurs on the skin, skin diseases such as eczema and ulceration will follow.

Putting on the priest-style visor, Anshir, who only had his eyes exposed, gave Gail a sideways glance, walked to Gale, who had changed his job as a beast of burden, rummaged around, and took out a bottle of ointment and threw it to her.

Gail caught it subconsciously, uncorked the bottle and sniffed it, and said in shock, "It's really skin oil? Why did you even prepare this?"

Anshir didn't bother to answer the question.

No matter how this guy is helping himself, Gail swallowed back his vomit, muttered "thank you", poured out the ointment and wiped it.

After a while, her exposed large skin became oily, and with her already messy mix-and-match outfit, she looked unspeakably weird.

But being a typical pragmatist, she doesn't care.

This kind of medicinal ointment extracted from the sebum of Draperiosaurus is very effective in preventing mosquito bites, treating skin diseases and burns, etc. At least these days, there is no need to worry about rainforest disease.

Gail corked the bottle tightly and handed back the remaining half of the bottle of dipping oil.

An Xier shook his hand in disgust, "You keep it, I brought more than one bottle."

"..."

"I saw the ancient pagoda!" Fengying who was standing at the bow suddenly called out.

Everyone looked together.

Through the thick water mist covering the sea of ​​trees, one can vaguely see the cylindrical giant with a diameter of nearly 100 meters and a height of more than 200 meters thousands of meters away.

Hilda glanced over there and shook her head, "That's not an ancient tower, it's a withered giant tree with only part of its trunk left."

"...Ah?" Fengying opened her mouth wide, "You said it was a tree?"

"Huhu, yes." Hilda smiled and said, "I was surprised when I first learned about it, and I don't know what it looked like when it flourished, but it was at least a thousand years ago. Amazing, right?"

"Is that always an ancient tower?" Gordon put down his binoculars, pointed in another direction, and said half-jokingly, "Don't tell me that's also a tree?"

In the direction of the airship, an ancient giant tower deep into the clouds stands there. Although the tower body is broken, the whole is still as stable as a mountain, like a giant pillar supporting the sky.

"That's it." Hilda picked up the horned bow and said with a smile, "I hope the monster we need to face lives at the bottom of the tower instead of the top. I can't climb so high, old aunt."

"Didn't you pay back the time you ambush Tianhuilong?"

"Shut up! Don't say such an unlucky thing!" Hilda glared at Gordon, and then raised her voice to the pilot of the airboat: "Find a place to land, put us down and wait for us at the camp, if after five days and nights Still no news from us, return to the guild headquarters for help."

The pilot who belonged to the guild nodded, and manipulated the airship to lower the altitude. After a lot of work, he found an open space in the forest that was barely suitable for the airship to descend.

Even so, the continuous fog and rain, the net-like vines entangled in the trunks and crowns, and various vegetation on the ground made it difficult for the airship to land completely.

They had no choice but to hover in mid-air more than ten meters above the ground, and let the hunters search for the landing place.

It's just suffering from Gale and Amber, as tooth hounds, they have suffered too much that shouldn't be theirs

After landing, Nanaxi was the first to jump on Huber's back.

The pig-chop pandan could understand the urgency and anxiety in its heart, and didn't hesitate. The advance rescue and reconnaissance team composed of three cats and one dog set off immediately.

With the speed and agility of the tooth hounds, they should be able to reach the ruins of the ancient tower within an hour. As long as Jean is still alive, they will definitely find him quickly and start rescue and medical treatment as soon as possible.

The hunters also set off quickly. Due to the severely restricted sightlines in the dense forest, they formed a relatively compact triangular formation.

Gordon and Fengying took turns to lead the way, with Hayata in the rear, and the three shooters were protected by them in the center of the triangle formation to avoid sudden attacks from monsters lurking in the shadows of the trees, and to facilitate mutual support at any time.

The Fenglong area where Batu Batum Sea of ​​Trees is located is isolated overseas. For Gordon and others, and even the entire guild, it is a nearly brand new hunting ground.

The distribution, population, and quantity of various monsters are unknown. Even the camp was newly established not long ago. It is impossible to predict when and where monsters may be encountered.

When I was on the airship, I heard Hilda say that there are still scattered indigenous villages in this amazingly vast sea of ​​trees.

They are almost completely decoupled from mainstream society, but they are not "primitives".

These tree sea residents have mastered many special biotechnology and alchemy techniques that the mainstream society cannot understand, and even developed their own "hunter-like" fighters.

This made Gordon and others quite curious.

Of course, it's just curiosity. The technology and life of the residents of the Sea of ​​Trees has nothing to do with the purpose of the hunters' trip, so they naturally won't make extra troubles.

In search of the footprints and pathfinding information left by the pork chop amber, the hunters went all the way.

The overgrown vegetation among the sea of ​​trees and the unpleasant rain and fog made this section of the road more difficult than expected.

It took more than three or four hours before the hunters passed through the tree sea area, which was less than 10,000 meters away in a straight line, and arrived near the ancient pagoda ruins.

The thick, soft, and spongy humus soil gradually became flat and hard. Traces of man-made objects such as bricks and stones began to appear, and the vegetation became sparser and sparser.

Bypassing the last big tree, the hunters rushed out of the vast sea of ​​trees.

The white moonlight shone on them, and when they looked up at the full moon that seemed to be hanging on the side of the ancient pagoda, they suddenly realized.

The rain has stopped.

However, the mist covering the ruins has no intention of dissipating. It still reflects the moonlight like a veil, reflecting everything hazy.

Gordon, who was in charge of opening the road, slowed down, and the whole team gradually stopped.

He planned to let everyone rest on the spot for ten minutes, eat and rest for a while, and then go deep into the ruins and enter the ancient tower to start exploring.

At this moment, a vague but sharp sense of danger surfaced in his heart.

"It's not right!" He turned around abruptly and reminded his companions loudly, but this seemed a little redundant.

He wasn't the only one who sensed the danger. Before he could make a sound, the three sharp-sensing shooters had already deployed their weapons.

Hayata, who was at the back of the team, also suddenly turned around and drew his sword out of its sheath. With the strength of his body rotation, Ye Dao [Moon Shadow] cut down obliquely with his cassock, and collided with some invisible sharp blade , issued a piercing clank.

"Clang!"

A blue shadow emerged from the mist under the moonlight, and the missed attack made it scream angrily.

"Gah—!"

"Is this delivered by yourself?"

Gordon was about to pull out his big sword, but Hilda raised his hand to stop him, "This is our prey, and there are six of them, don't you think it's too unlucky?"

Gordon grinned, "Okay, then I'll leave this place to you, Anshir, Fengying, let's go!"

In Yue Xunlong's deterrent roar.

Hayata poured down a bottle of ghost potion and swung his blade upwards. Hilda put down her black veil mask, and her breath became erratic. Gail pulled the trigger with a strange smile, and hurriedly The astonishing roar of the ballista resounded through the night sky.

"Tut chug chug chug!"

Ps.

The so-called aborigines living in the dense forest in this chapter actually refer to MH's early abolition case, which has not appeared in the main story, so please don't take it seriously.

But to be honest, some unconstrained settings are really interesting. If you are interested, you can also write two or three chapters to enrich the worldview 0v0

In fact, it can be seen from the setting book that the worldview established in the early days of the series is more primitive, and the technology is more biased towards biological applications. For example, the front end of the hollow fruit is cut off with a knife, and the gunpowder and warhead are loaded into the crossbow. It's a paralysis trap.

Since 4, we have leaned towards the era of the industrial revolution, various steam machines, large airships

MHR is a bit of a return to "biotechnology", but it seems that the direction is not the same? Mysterious hunting creature emmmmm