Monster Hunter:Hunter's Notes

Chapter 375 Let’s reconstruct the attack

After resting and making a series of preparations, this improvised reconnaissance team set out in the middle of the night.

They rode a light Marutori carriage and arrived at the ruins of the attacked village before dawn.

I found a random place to park the Marutori car.

Looking at Marutori's blank eyes, Gordon felt heavy - he had a hunch that he might not be able to take these two Marutori cars back.

Since the hunt for the Thunder Wolf Dragon began, the Marutori cart has become a consumable, and the Marutori pulling the cart often doubles as a "bait".

Who knows that Thunder Wolf Dragon's favorite food is Marutori?

Leave these unimportant things behind.

More than a day has passed since they last came here. The corpse's decomposition has become more serious, and the air is filled with a pungent stench.

Looking at the tragic scene in front of him, Julius's usually stern face became even colder.

"Nearly a hundred casualties" as a word sounds completely different from seeing it with one's own eyes.

Even Nadia, who was usually gentle and cheerful, couldn't help but clenched her fists.

Gordon patted Julius hard on the back shoulder and continued walking forward, "Let's get started."

"Well, Nadia, height alert."

"Understood, Hayata, help me keep an eye on my back."

"OK."

Gordon and Julius walked into the ruins of the village and carefully observed and analyzed the various traces around them.

Some of them Gordon had already observed when he came here last time, but after all, he was in a hurry before and there were always many things he missed.

The two of them wandered among the ruins for nearly half an hour.

"This should be the place where the hunters stationed in the village fought."

"Why"

Julius sighed softly and bowed to the two blackened and mangled corpses.

They fought desperately to the last moment, but unfortunately the absolute gap in strength cannot be made up by willpower alone.

"They have a clear division of labor."

Gordon said softly: "Only one of them fought with the hunters. The other Thunder Wolf Dragons went to attack the villagers. One hunter tried to stop them, but failed."

"Can you confirm the specific number of Thunder Wolf Dragons?" Julius asked.

Gordon thought for a while and shook his head slightly, "It's difficult, the footprints are too messy."

"You don't need an absolutely precise answer, just tell me your opinion. Intuition is sometimes more important than evidence." Julius looked at Gordon and said.

Gordon tapped his forehead with his knuckles, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "After overall observation, my judgment is that there are three to four heads.

One of them fights the hunters, and one or two attack the villagers separately. I prefer two in this part, otherwise there should be more villagers who can escape and survive.

In addition to the above, there is another special one.”

"special?"

"Well, come here and take a look."

Gordon took Julius to the main road in the village, "Look at these paw prints, are they bigger than the previous ones?"

"Yes, obviously, this one should be bigger." Julius confirmed after visual inspection.

"I didn't notice this set of footprints when I came here last time, because these are the only traces left by that 'special' guy."

Julius frowned, "The only trace? These are obviously the tracks left by slow walking. Do you mean this one didn't participate in the siege and killing of the villagers?"

"That's what I think."

Gordon nodded and pointed to a house not far away, "Did you see that urn?

Hayata told me that the little girl who was frightened and speechless was found by Pandan in that jar.

At that time, Ted was comparing 'kings' and 'lords', and the little girl suddenly said, 'The lord who came first was blue, and the king who came later was gold.' This was the only sentence she ever said.

.

I just thought she might have seen something while hiding in the jar."

"later"

Julius's eyes narrowed slightly. His focus was not on 'gold' or 'king', but on the most inconspicuous attributive.

"You noticed it too, right?" Gordon knelt down and stroked those extraordinarily huge paw prints.

“The village chief’s lady also asked the survivors for us, and they only mentioned such things as ‘giant blue wolf’, ‘blue monster using thunder and lightning’ and ‘super-large wolves everywhere’.

Only the girl mentioned the word "gold". Let's temporarily ignore the possibility of "illusion" and "misunderstanding".

The villagers who successfully escaped didn't see it, but the girl who had been hiding in the jar did. This shows."

"The golden guy only appeared after the attack." Julius continued.

"Let's use the existing discoveries as a skeleton to fill in the guesswork and try to reconstruct what happened at that time."

Gordon stood up, "At night, two or three, well, let's call it three, three Thunder Wolf Dragons attacked the village.

One of them was stopped by two hunters, and the other two attacked the villagers separately. The villagers fled in all directions. After the two hunters died in the battle, the three thunder wolf dragons continued to surround and kill the villagers, and few managed to escape.

After the attack, the golden guy showed up and led the three thunder wolf dragons away. This scene was seen by the girl hiding in the urn, and this is how the saying "first come, later" came into being."

"It should be pretty much the same."

Julius took a deep breath and added: "Leader monsters such as the Blue Speed ​​Dragon King also let their subordinates hunt for them, and then reappeared afterwards to enjoy the harvest.

Whether it is out of caution or disdain, it is not too strange that the leader of the Thunder Wolf Dragon tribe did not directly participate in the massacre of the village."

Gordon smiled bitterly and said: "I hope it is because of the 'strong man's self-esteem' or something like that. If it is because of caution, the difficulty of dealing with that guy will go up a few steps."

"quack--"

Two crows sounded, and Julius immediately became alert, "It's Nadia's alarm, there's something going on."

Hayata ran over quickly, but made no sound.

She came to the two of them and reported: "Senior Nadia discovered that a Thunder Wolf appeared about three hundred meters to the west and was heading here."

"Confirm one end?"

"Only one found at the moment."

There are only two options at this time, fight or retreat.

Gordon looked at Julius, and the two made the same judgment.

"hidden?"

"Um."

Julius nodded, "You two find a place to hide first."

After that, he quickly ran away alone.

Gordon and Hayata found a place to hide in the ruins of a collapsed house.

They were not worried about being discovered. There were human corpses everywhere, and the sulfur masked the smell. It would not be easy for the Thunder Wolf to find out through its nose that there were two living people hiding here.

Julius quickly ran to the place where the Marutori train was parked outside the ruins of the village.

He wanted to further reduce the probability of Thunder Wolf Dragon discovering them.

The two swords were unsheathed, and in the blink of an eye they cut off the reins of the two cart-pulling birds, and then lightly slashed each of them with the sword.

The frightened Marutori screamed "quack" and flew into the woods.

Julius breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and quickly sneaked back into the ruins to hide.

The cries of these two Maru Birds and the smell of blood should be enough to attract the attention of the Thunder Wolf Dragon.

(I'm a bit busy at work, so I won't have time tonight.

Pill——Bird——! (I vomited it for you)

(End of chapter)