Monster Hunter:Hunter's Notes

Chapter 624 Distant Claw Marks

Author: It’s a puffer fish

Walking among the undulating hills and ravines of Yiqun Mountain, Gordon's scalp felt a little numb.

During my stay in Ryūryūin, I did a lot of tasks of investigating various ruins or escorting archaeological teams to excavate ruins. I also visited countless hunting grounds with ruins.

Latio volcano, ancient village ruins, ruins plain, underground caves

But the density of ruins here is the highest.

Even in the ruins plain named "Relics", various ruins can only be seen everywhere, dotted on the plain.

The Yiqun Ridge can basically be regarded as a whole, a group of super giant ruins. It may be an ancient city or some facilities or something, and it looks like it is covered by the dust and vegetation of time.

Wherever you stand and dig down a few meters, you can always see bricks.

This greatly increases the difficulty of investigation.

All the hunters on the Longshi ship were dispatched, and there were less than thirty people in total including the archaeologists who were traveling with them. How long would it take to explore an area of ​​nearly a hundred square kilometers?

"Don't worry too much."

Ms. Duda, who was traveling with Gordon and Ancil, was not a nerdy scholar who did not understand the world. She saw Gordon's worries.

"Yiqunling is too big. Of course we can't investigate them all."

Along the way up the mountain and down the valley, Ms. Duda was much more agile than the hunters imagined. She explained while nimbly climbing over a broken wall:

“Actually, in the era before Longliyuan became independent from the Scribes Team, several archaeological surveys were conducted on Yiqunling.

However, the altitude of Yiqun Ridge is too high. Even if you don't consider climbing the peak, it is very difficult to send people up.

In addition, this relic is not valuable enough, and it is difficult to discover any meaningful relics or technologies. There is a lack of profits and sponsorship, so it will be gradually stopped."

This statement made Gordon couldn't help but recall the ruins of the ancient village.

"What counts as valuable?" Anhil, who was responsible for guarding the rear, asked casually.

"It's hard to say. It's a relatively vague concept. You know the so-called 'Ancient Era'. At that time, the level of development of human civilization was far beyond the current level. There were too many technologies that modern people can't understand at all. Well, such as Gogo The epitaph sword behind you.

There are not many relics from the ancient era that are of great excavation significance. The scattered relics of Latio volcano are counted as one, the Sky Corridor in the Sea of ​​Trees is counted as one, the Sky Mountain is counted as one, and the Pyramid of Shuiwulin is from a later period. I can barely count, right. , and the one that Lingfeng just discovered in the past two years.

The archaeological value of these ancient ruins is very high, such as the inexhaustible protective stones of Latio volcano, the alchemy and aviation technology extracted from the Sky Mountain ruins, the records of the history of dragon creatures in the Corridor of the Sky, etc. .

Of course, it’s not absolute. For example, the biggest gains from the Shuiwulin Pyramid are only murals and stone carvings, which are more ‘artistic’.”

Ms. Duda came to a high point, pulled out the telescope and looked into the distance, and then continued:

"As for the so-called 'worthless' relics, some of them are not old enough, only hundreds to thousands of years old. The civilization that created these relics has the same origin as ours, and the technology is also the same. There are not many that can be extracted in reverse, such as ancient The ruins of the village.

Although some of them also originated from the ancient era, they may be residential areas. For example, in the Yiqun Ridge where we are currently, apart from the architectural ruins themselves, there are not many valuable things found.

According to the sponsor - it's just a bunch of useless bricks.

Although archaeologists like us are very interested in relics, it is difficult to promote large-scale archaeological activities without funding."

Gordon shrugged. If he were a sponsor, he wouldn't be too happy to pay for these old bricks under his feet.

Ms. Duda, who had confirmed the location, put away the telescope and said with a smile: "However, among these so-called 'worthless' ruins, some interesting things often appear due to incomplete investigations."

"For example, the market city of Ge Mantis?"

Ancil chuckled and continued, earning a blank look from Ms. Duda.

"All in all, the excavations at Yiqunling are not of high value, at least in the eyes of the sponsors, but archaeologists at that time also marked some more key locations.

Our mission is to investigate those key locations. You guys are top hunters, so our group is assigned to a more dangerous area."

"How dangerous will it be?" Anhir asked.

"Not sure." Ms. Duda replied: "There are many peach-haired beasts around here, but it is said that a Dino Tyrannosaurus has also appeared."

". Then you really need to cheer up."

"Wait a moment."

Gordon, who was leading the way, suddenly raised his hand, Duda immediately stopped, and Ancier also deployed his heavy crossbow to guard him.

Gordon came to a corner of a masonry pillar, and there was a huge claw mark on it.

After using his palm to roughly estimate the size and depth of the claw marks, and then looking at the surrounding environment a few times, Gordon's expression became strange.

Anhil escorted Duda to his side, glanced at the claw marks, and frowned.

"What's wrong? What kind of monster's scratches are these?" Duda asked in a low voice, with a hint of nervousness in his tone.

Ancier whispered to Gordon: "Unlike the flying dragon species, the flying dragon species should not leave scratches at such a high position?"

"Well, sometimes the fire dragon will rise up in the air and scratch its claws, but the shape of the fire dragon's claw marks is not like this."

"Beast dragon species? Teeth beast species?"

"I also thought of the Dino Tyrannosaurus and the Peach-Hair Beast King. The Dino-Tyrannosaurus could catch it here when it jumped up, but it would probably break the pillar along with it, while the Peach-Hair Beast King's claw marks would not be so deep.

Do you think it's more like, um, a tooth dragon?"

"You mean Thunder Wolf Dragon?" Ancier looked even more surprised, "Can Thunder Wolf Dragon come here?"

"That's why I find it strange, but don't you think the claw marks are similar in shape?"

"Indeed."

Anhil pinched his chin. During the time they were in Jieyun Village, they hunted a lot of Thunder Wolf Dragons, and they were very familiar with the shape of the Thunder Wolf Dragon's claw marks.

Pig Chop sniffed around and said, "It smells like urine, and the smell is very similar to that of a cat. It could really be a thunder wolf dragon cat, and it could be a mark of its territory."

Gordon stared at the claw marks and muttered to himself: "The guild said that the Thunder Wolf Dragons were spreading in all directions, but they didn't expect it to spread so far.

Can that thing cross the sea?

In a few years, I’m afraid we won’t be able to see their footprints even in the New World?”

An Xil thought for a while and said: "There may have been people who migrated away from their original place of residence. Isn't there already someone near Yanhuo Village?

It’s just that the number is very small, and they went to some deep mountains and old forests, so no one discovered it. It’s probably after the chaos in Lingfeng that the ethnic group really spread.”

"Too."

Noticing that Ms. Duda could not hide her nervousness, Gordon smiled and comforted, "It's okay, it may be a five-star dangerous monster. Even if we encounter it, it won't be difficult for the two of us to deal with it.

Just in case, Ms. Duda, you'd better ride on the back of Gale, that monster is very fast, but the tooth hound can guarantee your safety."

"All right."

Ms. Duda carefully climbed up Lifeng's back, and Lifeng turned around and licked her. Although the saliva was a bit disgusting, the tension in her heart also dissipated a lot.

"Pork chop gale, pay attention to distinguish the smell, Ancier is alert to the rear and the air, we will complete the investigation as soon as possible."

(End of chapter)