Monster Hunter: I can hear the monsters' thoughts

Chapter 447 The Peach-Fur Beast King (It is not recommended to read this chapter while eating)
Thanks to Lin Lin's help, the guild obtained a lot of information about the Black Eclipse Dragon in advance, and the original storyline's top team's disastrous first encounter with the Black Eclipse Dragon did not happen.

Although they were initially very uncomfortable with the weakness caused by the Mad Dragon virus, they managed to escape from the Black Devouring Dragon and, after a short rest, prepared to launch a decisive battle against it.

As the elite team prepared to set off again, Lin Lin and his companions finally discovered a clue on their journey to find the Heavy Beetle.

"Found it! Look here, meow!"

Nia's talent in exploration is truly unparalleled. She was the first to discover a very inconspicuous trace, which attracted Lin Lin and the others to gather around.

Walking to the patch of soil that was mostly covered with dead leaves, I squatted down and carefully rubbed it between my fingers. It didn't clump together; it crumbled easily when rubbed, and it was very dry.

If you brush aside the area covered by fallen leaves, the soil there is noticeably more damp.

"That's right, it's the mark of digging, but it's not very fresh, it was left at least two or three days ago. However, there are many monsters that can dig, so we can't be sure it's the Heavy Beetle. Let's search around again and see if we can find any other traces."

They had now officially entered the primeval forest. Before them were towering, winding tree trunks that connected the ground to a platform formed by intertwined vines. From this vantage point, they could clearly see the rough rock walls of the surrounding mountains, and a massive, cracked skeleton embedded in the rock face, only half of which was visible. Saying it was embedded might not be entirely accurate, as there was a high probability that the skeleton was much older than the rock that encased it.

"Boss, come quick, come look at this cat!"

Suddenly, a call came from above. Lin Lin looked up and realized that the date had climbed up to the platform woven from vines above him.

"What's wrong? Did you find other clues?"

Lin Lin glanced at the vines hanging from the platform, but instead of climbing them, he released the flying insects and leaped onto the platform.

However, what he saw was not the expected traces of heavy beetles, but a large patch of messy brownish-red graffiti.

The graffiti was quite messy, with various symbols of unclear meaning intertwined. Lin Lin looked at it for a long time and could only make out a cat paw print. However, at least one thing was certain: it was the mark left by a group of wild Palicoes living in the primeval forest.

Of course, it could also be the Melaluru tribe, but it's definitely not the Fetamen, whose graffiti style is much wilder than this.

Lin Lin turned to look at Yezao, who nodded confidently and pointed to a low cave below the graffiti:
"Boss, there's a wild Felyne tribe here, meow!"

"Hmm? You can understand these symbols?"

The date scratched its head sheepishly:

"I can only make out the general idea, meow. Many symbols are ambiguous and there are quite a few differences in the details, meow. However, some of them are the same as the characters we usually use, meow. So we can confirm that this is a wild Felu tribe, meow."

"Should we go check it out, meow? As local residents, they're definitely better informed than us. Maybe they have news about the Heavy Beetle and the Black Erosion Dragon, meow?"

Lin Lin thought Yezao's words made a lot of sense, so he squatted down to look at the low cave, measured it, and felt that he could squeeze through. So he turned around and greeted Yezi.

"Roar?"

Jumpy flapped its wings and came over, trying to squeeze its head into the hole, but Lin Lin pushed it away, his face full of black lines.
"You can't squeeze in anyway, and even if you did, you'd probably scare all the cats here so they'd obediently wait outside for me to come out."

Jump Jump tentatively tried to squeeze its head into the hole again, but found that it couldn't fit. It had no choice but to give up, put its two wing claws in front of it, and lay down with its head on them.

Lin Lin shook his head helplessly, turned around and crawled into the cave with Yezao. As for Tiaotiao, he was quite at ease with Yezi staying outside to look after him.

The cave entrance was narrow and low, and it took Lin Lin some effort to squeeze in. However, only the exit was difficult; after a few more steps, it became much more spacious. Seemingly startled by the sound of Lin Lin's movements, several gecko-like creatures on the dim rock wall left behind a cloud of glowing smoke, while their true forms took the opportunity to disappear in a flash.

With the faint light of the fluorescent smoke, Lin Lin could see the brownish-red graffiti on the rock face that was identical to the rocks outside, as well as very obvious chisel marks.

This passage inside the rocky mountain was actually excavated!

Even if it wasn't a completely new excavation, simply widening an existing narrow fissure to its current extent would be a considerable amount of work for a Palico of that size. It's hard to imagine how a group of cats, averaging just over a meter tall, managed to wield crude bone pickaxes to painstakingly dig out a tunnel more than two meters high.

Lin Lin glanced at his surroundings briefly before starting to walk forward.

The passage, excavated inside the rocky mountain, is long and narrow, with a complex and interconnected structure. It was Yezao who guided Lin Lin deeper into the mountain by identifying the graffiti on the rock walls.

As they walked, a faint light appeared ahead, a stark contrast to the bright sunlight and the fluorescent glow in the cave. Lin Lin knew that after about ten minutes, they had finally found their destination. At that moment, a sentence involuntarily came to Lin Lin's mind:

"At first it was extremely narrow, barely wide enough for one person to pass through. After walking several dozen steps, it suddenly opened up into a bright and spacious place. The land was flat and wide, with well-arranged houses, fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees, and bamboo groves."

Of course, strictly speaking, what was presented to Lin Lin was quite different from that statement, but the overall feeling it gave was not much different.

The Elf's lair is not located in any fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees, or bamboo groves. The environment here is secluded, and the sunlight filters through the trees, creating a gentle atmosphere.

Here grows a large number of enormous mushrooms. Their special spores rise slowly with the warm air currents, and under the soft light, they look like swarms of flying lightning insects. The utensils, food, and miscellaneous items made by wild Palicoes are placed in small piles on top of these giant mushrooms. It seems that each giant mushroom is the home of a wild Palico.

However, just as Lin Lin was about to approach and greet the local Palicoes, he discovered that this peaceful and tranquil habitat had been greeted by an uninvited guest—a monster with pink fur, limbs like an ape, and a head like a hippopotamus.

The Peach-haired Beast King.

This mushroom-loving fellow, perhaps drawn by the fragrant aroma of the abundant mushrooms growing here, somehow wandered into the Felynes' home, completely ignoring the weak Felynes' resistance. He sat on the ground in the very center and began to devour the freshest, newly grown mushrooms. Lin Lin blinked, momentarily stunned.

He found the scene vaguely familiar.

However, he quickly banished that inexplicable sense of familiarity from his mind. Without a doubt, this was the moment when the Felyne clan needed help the most. Lin Lin grabbed the Wirebug and charged towards the Peach-furred Beast King.

At the same time, Lin Lin also noticed that among the group of wild Ailu who were lying in disarray, a calico cat that seemed to have enough energy could not contain its anger at the Peach Fur Beast King for destroying its home. It grabbed its rough bone cat pickaxe and charged forward, wanting to teach this intruder a lesson it would never forget.

Although this Ailu was slower than Lin Lin who was moving via the Wirebug, it was closer to the Peach-haired Beast King and started earlier than Lin Lin. So when it rushed behind the Peach-haired Beast King, Lin Lin also descended from the sky, and the two attacked the Peach-haired Beast King almost simultaneously.

The next moment, the seemingly carefree and arrogant Peach-haired Beast King, who treated a group of wild Ailus as if they were invisible, suddenly stuck out its rear end.

Upon seeing this, Lin Lin's pupils contracted sharply, and he instinctively reached out to release the flying insects behind him to pull himself away in an emergency.

Unfortunately, he had only just crossed more than twenty meters with the help of the two flying insects to reach the Peach-haired Beast King. Both flying insects were temporarily fatigued and had not yet recovered enough strength to support Lin Lin's weight.

Lin Lin could only watch in despair as a thick, brownish-yellow gas rushed towards him, almost completely engulfing him.
—Along with Lin Lin, the three-flowered Elu that had charged up with him was also enveloped in gas. However, Lin Lin was wearing heavy armor and had a shield axe on his back. Under the impact of the gas wave, he was only slightly knocked back, while the three-flowered Elu was directly blasted away by the powerful impact. It bounced on the ground like a ping-pong ball and finally crashed into a huge, bouncy mushroom.

"vomit--"

Despite holding his breath immediately and being protected by his full-body heavy armor, Lin Lin could still feel a strong stench creeping into his trachea through his nostrils.

The stench was so disgusting, it was as if an old septic tank had exploded due to excessive pressure, mixed with the fermentation of rat carcasses soaked in sewers and stuffed into the bloated bladder of a whale carcass for forty-nine days. Maggots wriggled in the soft, white, rotting flesh, and thick, sticky corpse oil oozed out under the continuous high temperature of forty degrees Celsius. The putrid smell was mixed with a hint of sweet and fishy.

"yue——"

Lin Lin almost couldn't hold it in and nearly vomited into his helmet, but he managed to control the spasms in his stomach thanks to his strong willpower.

Compared to this smell, the hand-rubbed fertilizer jade and the strong fishy stench in the lairs of wild monsters that I had experienced before were nothing at all.

The Peach-haired Beast King turned its head and looked at the heavily armored figure behind it, whose body was vaguely covered with a layer of yellowish-brown excrement. Its eyes narrowed slightly, and a mocking roar came out from its hippopotamus-like mouth.

It stretched out a paw and reached behind its rear end. Judging from this action, it was clearly planning to have a "snow" fight.

"Hang in there, boss! I have a deodorizing gem here!"

I'll fucking kill you!!!

Lin Lin didn't wait for Yezao to throw the deodorizing jade over. After suppressing the urge to vomit with his supreme willpower, his pupils dilated slightly, and dense blackish-purple blood vessels appeared in his eyes. His face, hidden by his helmet, turned red due to the rapid flow of blood.

At this moment, his metabolic rate reached its highest point ever. Even the stubborn Mad Dragon virus that had been lingering in his body was instantly refined by his immune system, returning the portion of life energy that had been entrenched and devoured in Lin Lin's body for a long time. This made the "qi" flowing in Lin Lin's body stronger than ever before, and even the muscles in his body became as tough as a rock under the effect of this "qi".

Peach-haired Beast King: Challenger Triggered
The Peach-haired Beast King vaguely sensed something was wrong, but couldn't quite put his finger on where that vague sense of danger came from, so he slowed down his actions as he prepared to throw the excrement.

In that brief moment of hesitation from the Peach-haired Beast King, Lin Lin stomped his foot and charged towards it.

The distance between the two was not far to begin with, and when Lin Lin charged at this moment, the Peach-haired Beast King did not even have time to react before Lin Lin had already rushed in front of it.

Lin Lin didn't reach for the shield and axe on his back. Instead, he pushed off the ground with both legs and used one of the Peach-haired Beast King's front paws for leverage, leaping into the air in front of the Peach-haired Beast King. As the beast's bewildered expression gradually turned into panic, he threw a punch.

"Oh!"

Compared to the head of the Peach-haired Beast King, Lin Lin's fist was only the size of one of its fangs. But the moment his fist made contact with its head, the Peach-haired Beast King was as if it had been hit by a heavy hammer. Its entire body was lifted off the ground in an instant, and then it fell to the other side. Along with the spurting blood, a thick, grayish-white fang was also seen.

With one punch, the Peach-haired Beast King was knocked to the ground, seeing stars and feeling dizzy. He seemed completely dazed and forgot how to move, even struggling to get up.

But the Peach-haired Beast King was stunned. Lin Lin was still at ProMax level of rage. One punch was not enough to vent his anger. Lin Lin jumped onto the Peach-haired Beast King and looked down at the Peach-haired Beast King's eyes, which had been punched into cross-eyed eyes. Without the slightest hesitation, he punched down again.

This time, Lin Lin attacked with both hands, delivering a series of heavy punches to the head of the Peach-haired Beast King. His wild, unrestrained punches were like a golden lion possessing him, causing blood to splatter and teeth to fly off the Peach-haired Beast King's head and face.

Seemingly awakened by the intense pain, the Peach-haired Beast King finally reacted. In a panic, it stretched out its claws, grabbed Lin Lin who was riding on its back, and flung him away while his fist was raised.

Then, without even glancing at the figure that had been flung away, it struggled to its feet and tried to get away from that terrifying creature.

Therefore, it did not see that the figure released a flying insect the moment it was flung away, which pulled its body back down, and because of the Peach-haired Beast King's movement of getting up, it landed right in front of the long tail covered with pink fur that was as flexible as an arm.

Without a second thought, Lin Lin reached out and grabbed the long tail, then used his legs to push off, sinking almost half of his feet into the ground to stabilize himself.

Immediately afterwards, the core tightened, and the body exploded with all its might. It began to spin, actually pulling the tail and lifting the Peach-haired Beast King's tens of tons of body off the ground. It swung around like a giant windmill in the air, with the sound of wind breaking incessant.

"Die to me!!!"

Under the centrifugal force, the Peach-haired Beast King was unable to resist at all. It could only endure the tearing pain at the base of its tail, and after being swung around several times, it crashed heavily onto the rocks not far away.

(End of this chapter)