Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

In the next two days, Gordon and Alva got along very happily.

The only thing that bothers him is that, except for the working hours of recording data, Alva is almost always behind him.

Gordon knew that it wasn't because of any strange reasons such as his own special personality charm, it was just that Alva was jealous of the monster materials he carried with him at all times.

Although most of the materials have been handed over to the caravan along with spare equipment such as explosive knives and refined ore sets, and asked them to send them to the target Naguli Village, Gordon still carries some relatively precious monster materials with him.

For example, the flame bag of the big strange bird, the stomach stone of the sleeping bird and so on.

Cheap materials such as iron ore, keel, and big wild boar's skin, it's okay to lose a few pieces, but he will feel distressed for a long time if he loses any of these "high-end goods", and he can only feel at ease if he keeps them with him.

However, in the face of Alva's repeated begging, Gordon still softened his heart and lent him these materials for research.

In fact, the research is nothing more than repeated observation with a high-power magnifying glass, and there is no need to worry about the damage to the material itself, but this already made Alva happy as if it was a festival.

For a student scholar like him, there are too few opportunities to personally touch monster materials.

"Huh, it's really hot."

Climbing onto the deck, Gordon came to the bow of the boat with his bare upper body. He let the slightly cold and moist air in the clouds take away the excess heat. Take a breath.

After getting rid of Alva's "entanglement", he became free again, so he took the initiative to take over the job of adding fuel to the fuel tank without being idle.

The steam boilers that power the propellers are located at the bottom of the pods and are fueled by a special ore mined from volcanic terrain - burning rock carbon.

Burning stone carbon is not much different from ordinary coal in appearance, but the effect when used as fuel is very different. Whether it is temperature, energy density, or combustion persistence, burning stone carbon is far superior to the latter.

However, the mineral veins of coal-burning coal are scattered, and the collection points are mostly located in volcanic areas where dangerous monsters frequently appear, so the output is very low and the price is quite high, so it cannot be used for daily heating.

However, the exceptionally good combustion performance of burning stone carbon makes it have a good market in forging, mechanical fuel, alchemy and other industries, and the supply exceeds demand.

The temperature in the boiler room is naturally high.

The heat wave in the cabin made him feel his skin and blood were boiling, but after finishing the work, he still gritted his teeth and persisted in front of the hot boiler for more than half an hour.

It is said that the temperature in the volcanic area is comparable to that of the boiler room, and the temperature in the core area is even higher. Gordon wants to adapt to the high temperature in advance through this method.

This method is actually a bit stupid. For high-temperature environments such as volcanic deserts, there is a special alchemy potion called "cold drink", or an alchemical drink that can be used to help hunters resist high temperatures.

But Gordon still enjoyed it.

The professor is always very busy. He is holding a long binoculars about his height, observing the surroundings non-stop, while Alva is writing and drawing on a tabletop-sized map, using a kind of Complicated text that Gordon couldn't understand.

In order to facilitate the professor's observation, Lao Hei deliberately lowered the flying altitude of the airship.

At such a height, the clouds are very thin, and with the help of a long telescope, even small creatures such as spirit deer on the ground can be identified.

After resting for a while, Gordon took out the book and read it by himself.

This scene may have shocked the jaws of his group of friends, but Gordon unexpectedly found that he liked the feeling of filling his brain with words and useful information.

——"Latio Volcano Archaeological Documentary"

This manuscript book was borrowed by Alva, and it belongs to the internal reading materials of the scrivener team. In fact, doing so violated the regulations a bit, but the professor and Old Hei both turned a blind eye and pretended not to see it.

He may not be able to use most of the knowledge in the book about the ancient civilizations buried under the solidified volcanic rocks of Latio Volcano, but he tried his best to remember the distribution map of the ruins in his mind.

If you have the opportunity to mine according to this picture, the probability of digging the guard stone will be higher, right?

"Hmm, there seems to be a hunter asking for help?" The professor holding the binoculars at the side suddenly called out, pulling Gordon's gaze away from the ruins distribution map.

"Where is there?!" Gordon reached out and grabbed another pair of binoculars on the shelf, and searched around. After all, he was both a hunter, so he seemed very concerned.

"The small lake at three o'clock, on the pebble beach on the southwest side of the lake."

The professor's quick and accurate location description allowed Gordon to quickly find the target location.

Those were two hunters traveling together, waving their hands vigorously at the airship they were on, as if they were still shouting something.

"Should they think we are observing a hot air balloon?" Old Hei in the driver's seat seems to be very experienced in such situations, "I hope we can help observe the whereabouts of the target monster."

Gordon looked at the professor expectantly, the old man was the decision maker.

The professor didn't say much, but jumped directly onto the ship's side, held up the binoculars and searched around. Gordon and Alva helped the search, and at the same time, they had to be careful not to blow the small professor down by the wind in the air.

After all, he has a lot of experience, and after just half a minute, the professor discovered a creature suspected to be the hunter's target in the dense forest - a tail hammer dragon.

Using the nearby trees as a reference, it is estimated that it is a big guy with a length of more than 20 meters from head to tail and a pair of horns on top of its head.

"It's Doble Belk (Tail Hammer Dragon)! It belongs to the beast dragon type monster, and it feeds on tree branches, leaves and rotten wood.

Although it is a herbivorous monster, its rough, thick moss-covered skin and thick fat make it extremely defensive, making it extremely difficult to kill.

Tail hammer dragons are very irritable, and will actively attack small monsters and humans that come into their sight, and their threat level is no lower than that of flying dragons! Alva excitedly recited the knowledge he had acquired from books.

Gordon's focus was different. The frame of the telescope in his hand moved back and forth between the bull-like horn and the huge tail mallet, thinking about what he should do when he faced this thing. .

The professor has already started to pull the reflector hanging on the side, and started to feed back information to the two hunters.

"Tail hammer dragon, 20 degrees east by south, 3.5 kilometers away."

The two hunters who got the expected answer excitedly waved their arms again to express their gratitude to the airship that was gradually going away, and then they went into the dark forest and started their hunting.

All the people on the airship can do at this time is to wish them good luck.

The encounter with the hunters was just a small episode during the air travel, and they quickly returned to their respective posts.

Gordon, who had nothing to do again, held the pork chop that came to the deck for ventilation, and asked Alva for a piece of parchment, planning to trace the distribution map of the ruins in the book.

Time passed slowly, until a drop of rain fell on the tip of his pen.