Monster Hunter: This fire dragon has special characteristics

"Nutrition!!"

For creatures other than ancient dragons, the importance of nutrition is even greater than that of life energy.

For monsters that cannot use life energy, life energy is more like a catalyst than a necessity. Nutrition is the most important thing for ordinary monsters in their life development.

This is why the Coral Plateau, although not rich in resources, can sustain the survival of the Wind Drifting Dragon Group, and even the Sakura Fire Dragon prefers to live there, because the food there is more nutritious.

Fire dragons are oviparous species, and the hatching of cubs in eggs cannot be like viviparous creatures, where the mother can replenish nutrition and energy at any time.

Luo Yun guessed that it is very likely that under the influence of symbiosis, the current ancient tree fire dragon group is still in the process of mutation, which has led to the nutrition that the eggs laid by female fire dragons can provide is still at the level of ordinary female fire dragons in the past.

But the cubs in the eggs, due to malnutrition, are either lucky, like these successfully hatched cubs, and become a "premature baby", relying on the strong physique brought by the mutated genes to force through the weak period of premature babies.

Or they could only suffocate silently in the egg due to lack of nutrition.

This inference is very unscientific, but in the world of Monster Hunter, it seems to make sense.

In short, if you want to know whether your speculation is correct, you only need to go to the upper and lower layers of the ancient tree tomorrow to see the cubs of the fire dragon couples, and then find a dead egg to know.

As long as there are corpses of fire dragon cubs that failed to hatch successfully, it means that Luo Yun’s speculation is very likely to be true.

In any case, at least one possibility has been thought of, and Luo Yun’s heart is also much more relaxed.

With Yaji and I snuggling together, the night passed quickly.

The next day, Luo Yun checked it according to the plan and found another rule, that is, in a fire dragon family, the gap between the strength of the male and female fire dragons is too large, and the hatching success rate of the eggs is lower.

Because according to the current symbiotic characteristics, this is an energy pyramid. The stronger the strength, the higher the position in the pyramid, and the closer to Luo Yun, so the faster the mutation speed.

According to the mutation of the ancient tree fire dragon group, there is even a genetic gap between the strong and the weak.

Under Luo Yun's order, a confirmed dead egg was soon brought over by Maomao.

As Maomao cracked the shell of the dead egg, the body of a fire dragon cub that had been dead for a long time and had not yet formed came into view, and there was only a small amount of egg liquid left beside it.

Let Maomao send this dead egg back and let it play its surplus value.

"It's really ridiculous, this kind of thing"

After a night, Luo Yun felt that his guess was a bit ridiculous, but he didn't expect that now it looked more and more like a correct inference.

At this moment, Luo Yun even hoped that it was because of life energy.

At least if it was because of insufficient life energy, he could just migrate with the ancient tree fire dragon group. With the current strength of the fire dragon group, they must have a place in the dragon crystal land, right?

Even if the price is a bit high and it is not cost-effective, at worst, we can stay in the volcanic area not far from the Dragon Crystal Land instead of going to the Dragon Crystal Land. The life energy there is also not bad.

But the nutrition is a problem.

The food of the fire dragon group is not bad, and the fire dragons are not malnourished. It is just because the mutation has not been completed.

From the root, even if the fire dragons choose to leave the ancient tree fire dragon group and eliminate them from this symbiosis, they cannot save the current situation.

So now there are only two choices.

Either wait for the mutation to end completely and the genes in the body to stabilize before reproducing.

Or do something with the eggs!

As long as the nutrition of the eggs is supplemented, the fire dragon cubs inside can naturally hatch successfully.

As for how to do this, Luo Yun has no idea.

But, Luo Yun's failure does not mean that others do not!

"It's time to issue some tasks!"

As the overlord of the ancient tree forest, he directly promoted the cooperation between the cats of the ancient tree fire dragon clan and the investigation team, and indirectly made the fire dragon group and the investigation team become the fire dragon king of the same camp. He would be an important NPC in the game.

For so long, he has only issued tasks to the head of the group. It's really a waste of the investigation points that the cats have worked hard to earn.

It is said that the Deter task board in the Star Base has been covered with dust for a long time!

"Also, you can try to issue non-combat orders to the fire dragons, but I don't know if it will work."

The orders issued before were basically related to combat. The only non-combat order was the previous rules about the vitality cat meal.

And now, Luo Yun plans to let the fire dragon take the cats and send a few dying fire dragon eggs to the Star Base to let the scholars there help study. I don't know if the fire dragons below will obey the order.

Soon, Luo Yun repeated the situation to a follower cat through the pig bone, and summoned some fire dragons to issue a transportation order.

After learning that this trip was just to send the cats over, two male fire dragons immediately refused.

This was within Luo Yun's expectations, but fortunately, there was another male fire dragon that also showed resistance but did not refuse, so this task, which was different from the previous ones, fell on the head of this male fire dragon.

After watching the male fire dragon carrying the basket that had been upgraded many times and became very suitable for the fire dragon's grip, Luo Yun returned to his nest.

The speculation about Luo Yun soon spread among the cats.

After knowing that the existing fire dragon cubs were all "premature babies", the cats responsible for taking care of the cubs were even more maternal. In addition to various meat pastes, the daily food even added nutritious ingredients such as mandrake and blue mushrooms.

Occasionally, they would share some of their cat food with the cubs.

With such nutritious feeding, these congenitally deficient cubs soon swelled up again like inflated balloons.

In less than half a month, they could shake their big heads, chase after cats, and try to bite their tails.

In such an atmosphere, the members of the Deter Resource Collection Team finally returned to the ancient tree.

"Where did you get these threads and metals?"

Using a small saw to cut open the 'waste metal' brought back by Detel, the muscular craftsman conducted a level test on these things and found that although they were severely corroded, they still retained sufficient strength.

The craftsmanship involved was something he had never seen before.