Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

"I came to play with you, meow. Come out quickly, meow."

Monroe, the orc researcher, paused at the bone cane in his hand and looked very dissatisfied, "Louder, your voice is so small, do you still want to attract Detel?"

"I'm so exhausted, meow!" Xianglan glared at the old scholar angrily, "I've been shouting for more than half an hour, meow, and my throat is dumb! How can I keep meowing loudly!"

Monroe choked and felt that what Xianglan said was not unreasonable. "Or you can change the way. The other parts can be kept quiet. It's okay to talk to yourself. Just say 'meow' louder. This should save more effort."

"But if you can't understand the words clearly, can Deter understand it?" Urshula expressed doubts.

"Detel doesn't understand the common language of the Old World, but the emotions contained in the 'meow' sound are common, so in the end, the most important thing is actually the 'meow' sound." The orc researcher stroked his beard explained.

Hayata and Oshula pursed their lips and grimaced, but Aziz didn't hold back and laughed.

Xianglan looked like she had seen a ghost and shouted angrily: "Then you still keep calling me "meow" for such a long time?!"

The old scholar said slowly: "That's to make it easier for you to bring in your emotions. Otherwise, why don't you just say 'meow' with the emotion of 'I'm here to play with you, come out quickly'?"

Pandan took a deep breath.

"Meow--!!!"

"This emotion is wrong. You are obviously swearing." The orc researcher shook his head and corrected seriously, "It should be more affectionate and more expectant."

"." Xianglan was furious and wanted to beat up this little old man who was not taller than herself, but in the end she could only think about it.

After Hayata comforted her a few words, the slightly sad cat meowing echoed in the forest again.

Some time passed, and just as everyone was thinking about whether they should try another method, Monroe suddenly looked at a bush.

When the hunters saw this, they also stopped.

"It's finally here, meow!" Xianglan, whose voice was hoarse, cursed, "My throat is about to burst, meow!"

Hayata handed Pandan a bottle of recovery medicine mixed with honey as a drink, while Monroe turned to the bush and made strange movements.

He raised the bone staff flat, lowered it slowly, and then took a few steps back.

After a brief silence, a brown figure emerged from the bushes.

This is the first time Hayata and the others have seen the Deter tribe.

This orc-like creature is 70-80% similar to Ellu, probably because it lives in the wild. It has a slightly thin body and a thick ring of fluff around its neck.

The tail is much longer than Elmelaru, and the shape of the ear pinna is also longer and pointed, with fluff at the end.

Aziz rubbed his chin.

He was sure that this Deter was not the one he saw yesterday, and the coat color was different.

Monroe exchanged a few words with the Deter in a language that no one else could understand.

Then he turned around and explained to the hunters: "They are a family of insect cages that live in the area of ​​the giant tree. I have been in contact with them many times and I am quite familiar with them."

After Munro said this, Hayata and the others discovered that the bone staff in the old scholar's hand was exactly the same as the one in Detel's hand.

Maybe it was a gift given to him by the insect cage clan.

"I asked it about what happened yesterday, but it couldn't tell clearly. The Deter that came to you shouldn't be a member of their tribe."

Urshula couldn't help but ask: "Then why did it come here?"

"It told me that it heard a very miserable cry, so it ran over to see what was going on."

"You're talking nonsense, meow! You're not miserable, meow!"

Everyone: "."

Such a result would inevitably make everyone a little disappointed, but at this moment, the Deter pulled Monroe's arm and said something.

Monroe nodded suddenly and replied a few words in Deter's language.

Detel finally nodded.

Xianglan, who was listening in from the side, was surprised to find that it seemed to be able to understand a little bit.

The orc researcher who had finished the exchange began to translate, "It told me that the one who came to you should be an outsider, Deter, from the tribe west of the ancient tree forest.

They had some contact with each other, and they said that Deter looked scared and told them to run faster.

I asked it if it could lead us to the outsider, and it agreed. "

The hunters looked at each other, finally making progress.

At the suggestion of the old scholar, everyone took some dry food, dried meat, candies and other foods and gave them to the Deter as gifts.

For the orcs in the wild, food is always hard currency.

Detel from the insect cage clan looked very happy and started to lead the way while jumping up and down.

In the forest, it is not easy to keep up with a Deter. If the Deter had not stopped and waited for them from time to time, it might have lost track of them.

Just like that, the group of people trekked in the jungle for a while, and finally saw the figure of the outsider Detel in the hole made of entangled roots at the bottom of a big tree.

"That's it!" Aziz waved his hand towards the Deter, "Do you remember?"

The outsider, who huddled up in a ball in the damp tree hole and looked very depressed, was stunned for a moment, then jumped up and happily circled around Aziz's feet.

Monroe first thanked Detel seriously for helping to lead the way, and after giving him some food, he watched the latter leave happily.

Then, this experienced orc scholar came to the outsider and asked about the situation.

Hayata and others couldn't help but sigh.

Mr. Monroe's research does not seem to be of direct help to the investigation team, but in fact, as one of the few people who can communicate with the indigenous intelligent creatures of the New World, how could it not be helpful?

While the two were communicating, Hayata also quietly observed the outsider in front of him.

Different from Deter, the insect cage clan who led the way before, the fur color of the one in front of me is light brown, with many black stripes and spots on its body. (cihua)

Should it be a female? The face is quite cute.

No, that's not the point.

This Deter is very thin and has dull hair. It has obviously suffered a lot recently.

As a native of the ancient tree forest, it should be relatively easy for an adult individual with no obvious disabilities to obtain food. It looks like this, most likely because it has no intention of foraging for some reason.

Sure enough, what happened?

As the exchange continued, Monroe's face became darker and darker. He stuffed the outsider with a sausage, urged it to eat, then turned around and said to the hunters:

"It's called fish roe, and it comes from the Yuzu tribe in the western part of the forest."

Aziz smiled and stuffed another piece of dried fish into the fish named Deter, "I feel like this will be a tribe that we have a lot of fate with!"

Hayata gave Aziz a slightly warning look. Aziz clasped his hands to apologize, closed his mouth and asked Mr. Monroe to continue.

"I have heard of this tribe, but have never come into contact with it. It is said that they live in the western part of the forest near the coast, more than two hundred kilometers away from here, and they mainly make a living by fishing.

But according to the fish roe, their home was destroyed not long ago.

The tribe's garrison was flattened, and the tribesmen suffered heavy casualties, but they didn't even see the attacker's face clearly, only saying that there was a bloody mouth that could swallow everything.

The elders of the tribe said that there were 'very powerful orcs' living here in the ancient giant tree, which should be us, so they sent some young tribesmen out to ask for help.

My idea is that I need to rush there as soon as possible to understand the situation. What do you think? "

"Of course I want to go!" Aziz looked very angry, as if he had some sympathy for the Fish Basket tribe who were also "fishermen".

Urshula shrugged, "With Pterosaurus, it only takes three or four hours at most to cover more than two hundred kilometers."

"Then let's go." Hayata said with a smile: "Isn't that what our special investigation team does."