Monster Hunter: I can hear the monsters' thoughts

Chapter 460 The Insect Glaive Kid's Insect Hunter Daddy
Lin Lin cleaned up the battlefield, collected all the scattered ancient dragon materials, and then bid farewell to Qilin Lingrui before finding Ye Zi and Tiao Tiao.

"So, this is because the meal was too nutritious, and the body fell into a deep sleep to digest the energy?"

Listening to Ye Zi and the two cats recount the story, Lin Lin understood what had happened and then fell silent as he looked at Tiao Tiao, who was fast asleep.

Tsk, if that Celestial Dragon hadn't molted first, Jumpy might have already evolved into a Celestial Dragon...

"Then let's wait here for a while. If we can't molt, the dormancy period should be very short."

Lin Lin shook his head helplessly and immediately got busy setting up camp with Ye Zi and Ye Zi Nia Lu.

Since they estimated they wouldn't be staying long and didn't have high requirements for the campsite, they simply set up a sheltered space to rest, which was enough.

Ye Zi hammered in the last rivet, stretched, glanced at Lin Lin who was also busy beside her, and winked.

There seems to be something pinned to Lin Lin's waist. That gleaming silver horn looks just like the one on that Qilin.
Could it be that……

Did Lin Lin not go out to make friends as Yezao guessed, but instead set his sights on Qilin's thunder horn?
Yoko's expression became slightly strange. After all, if they encountered a Golden Lion transformed into a berserk dragon, they could kill it directly. The guild would not only not think that this broke the rules, but would also praise them for their contribution to maintaining the ecosystem.

But if someone were to attack a Qilin without any reason... not only would they be put on the guild knights' assassination list, but they would also likely face a severe reprimand and heavy punishment.

Should we think of a way to help Brother Lin Lin keep the news a secret?

Lin Lin turned around, just about to discuss what to eat later, but he sensed something was off about Ye Zi's expression.

Lin Lin looked suspicious:

"I have a feeling you're thinking about something unreliable."

Yoko swallowed hard.
"Don't worry, Brother Lin Lin, I won't betray you! I'll say that the Qilin horn was broken off by the Heavenly Returning Dragon!"

Lin Lin: ? ? ?
What on earth is going on in your little head?

He reached out and removed the thousand-bladed dragon headband from Yoko's head, then pressed it against Yoko's head and rubbed it vigorously, making her long, smooth black hair a mess.

"Woo..."

Meeting Ye Zi's pitiful gaze, Lin Lin sighed, took out the sharp Qilin horn, and generously showed it to Ye Zi.

“This horn was already broken by the Golden Lion, so Lingrui just gave it to me.”

He paused, then added, "We didn't fight."

"Oh……"

Ye Zi nodded as if she understood, but then quickly grasped the key point and asked warily, "Ling Rui? Who's that? It sounds like a girl's name?"

Lin Lin was quite frank and open about this:

"That's the name I gave that Qilin. It's a female Qilin, and it's only recently come of age, so it's not wrong to call it a girl."

Ye Zi immediately felt relieved, and her previous panic vanished:

"So this is ah……"

"Actually, after my unremitting efforts, I have convinced it to come with us. However, its horn regeneration will take time, and it doesn't want to see the primeval forest in chaos, so it needs to stay and clear out the monsters infected with the Mad Dragon Disease. It can't come with us immediately."

Yoko: ? ! !
What does this mean? Does it mean that a powerful ancient dragon that controls heavenly lightning will soon join our team?
As expected of Brother Lin Lin! He easily accomplished what we couldn't!

At this moment, the red rhinoceros beetle, which had been quietly perched on Yoko's arm, suddenly seemed to sense something, flapped its wings twice, and took flight.

"Xiao Jia?"

Under the watchful eyes of the two people and two cats, Xiao Jia flew around in mid-air once and finally landed on Lin Lin's lower back, its paws pawing at Lin Lin's prop bag, as if trying to crawl inside.

"Wait a minute, don't make things worse!"

Ye Zi was exasperated. She forcefully reached out and plucked Xiao Jia off Lin Lin, leaving Xiao Jia's six legs helplessly flailing in mid-air.

"Fizz!"

Xiao Jia was still unwilling to give up, and kept neighing, its target aimed directly at Lin Lin's prop bag.

"Alright, Yoko, put it down. I can tell it really wants something from my tool bag."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Jia, whose little head had a huge single horn, immediately nodded up and down, indicating his agreement.

Ye Zi looked at the large rhinoceros beetle in her hand with suspicion. "This guy usually likes to eat fruit puree and insect bait. Brother Lin, did you just collect some insect bait on the side?"

"That's not true."

As Lin Lin spoke, he took off the prop bag hanging from his waist and began taking out the items one by one:

"We've collected quite a few materials. Let's take them one by one and see what it really wants."

Then Ye Zi saw Lin Lin take out a large handful of silvery-white mane, a large piece of silvery-white dragon skin with irregular edges and black stripes, and bottles of dark red blood—all of these were materials that Lin Lin had collected while treating Ling Rui.

Then the two noticed that when Lin Lin took out the bottles of blood, Xiao Jia's movements became noticeably more urgent.

Yoko blinked: "This is..."

"The ancient dragon blood of the Qilin."

Lin Lin also stared at Xiao Jia with a strange expression. How could this rhinoceros beetle with its bright shell be so eager for the blood of an ancient dragon?

The two looked at each other for a moment, and Ye Zi was the first to guess:

"If we're talking about ancient dragon blood, then it's only from the battle at Spirit Peak last time, right? Back then, Xiao Jia helped me collect the essence and stung the Lanlong a few times."

"And after that, I discovered that when Xiao Jia attacked with me, it would sometimes be imbued with some water-attribute energy..."

"Could it be that drinking the ancient dragon blood of Lanlong caused some unknown changes in his body?"

Lin Lin was also decisive:

"Would you like to know if you try it?"

He unscrewed a small bottle of Qilin blood and held it to Xiao Jia's lips.

Ye Zi released it at the right time, and Xiao Jia couldn't wait to bury its head in the glass bottle and drink happily. Lin Lin could feel that the guy's abdomen was slightly swollen.

After drinking almost half a bottle of ancient dragon blood in one gulp, Xiao Jia released the bottle, staggered a couple of steps, then retracted its six limbs and curled up in place, motionless.

Yoko was a little flustered. Could she have gotten something wrong from drinking?

Lin Lin, who was constantly monitoring Xiao Jia's condition, quickly spoke up to comfort him:

"It's nothing, just like Jumpy, it needs a period of rest to digest the excessive energy it ingested in a short time." Yezi looked at the red beetle that had been fighting alongside her for so long, noticing the occasional crackling of electricity on its body, and still felt a little uneasy.
"I hope so..."

……

The next day.

It's just dawn.

While immersed in a sweet dream, Jump felt a slight itch all over its body. Although the feeling was very faint and lasted only for a moment like a hallucination, it still unconsciously scratched its head with its wing claws.

"woke up?"

Lin Lin patted Tiao Tiao's head. This guy was scratching himself rather recklessly. Didn't he know how strong his claws were? He had scratched white marks all over the scales.

"Roar?"

Jump Jump was still a little sleepy and looked drowsy.

"Now that we're awake, let's get moving and head to Xinard Village as soon as possible."

"Once we take down that guy and you complete your transformation, you can sleep in as much as you want without worrying about anything else."

Reminded by Lin Lin's words, Tiaotiao's mind immediately flashed back to the white-gold body that shone brightly in the black wind, and the frustration of being forcibly suppressed in a head-on confrontation.

"Roar!"

It perked up almost immediately, raised its head and let out a loud roar, then fiercely got up.

Are kings and nobles born with a special destiny? If the dragon can sit on that throne, why can't I?
kill!

As Jumpy roared, the red rhinoceros beetle, which had been lying quietly on the ground in the makeshift camp nearby, seemed to be startled. Its body suddenly trembled, and then a bright arc of electricity shot out from its body, striking the windproof canvas and cleaving a small hole in it.

"Buzz!"

The electric current released some of the excess energy within its body, and Xiao Jia seemed to wake up as well, its wings vibrating rapidly and emitting a low-pitched buzzing sound.

"Xiao Jia, how are you? Are you alright?"

Yoko was a little nervous, looking the red rhinoceros beetle up and down.

"Buzz!"

Xiao Jia continued to respond with a buzzing sound. Ye Zi didn't know if it was just her imagination, but after the battle at Lingfeng, Xiao Jia seemed to have become much smarter than before and could understand most commands. Now, after drinking half a bottle of ancient dragon blood, Xiao Jia seemed to have become even more intelligent.

Seemingly to prove itself, or perhaps to show off its newly acquired power to its master, Xiao Jia flapped its wings and hovered in mid-air, aiming at a flat rock not far away, before flying over in a flash.

"choke!"

Like the sound of metal clashing, a pit-like dent appeared on the hard stone slab, and a large area of ​​the dent became damp.

The little car paused briefly in mid-air, its crimson horns undamaged, before swooping down again and crashing into the same dent in the stone slab.

"Click"

Silvery-white electricity instantly erupted from Xiao Jia's body. When it came into contact with the wet stone slab, it immediately exploded into dazzling sparks. The flat stone slab actually developed large cracks under this attack.

Yoko's mouth was practically agape in an "O" shape:

"Si Guoyi!"

The combat power of an Insect Glaive user is mainly divided into two parts: the combat power of the hunter himself and the Kinsect he uses as a support.

Before today, Yoko's battles almost entirely relied on her own strength to fight monsters. Koga mainly served as a functional support, absorbing essence to strengthen Yoko, helping to transport items, triggering traps and mechanisms that Yoko couldn't reach, and firing signal flares to call for help when Yoko was on the verge of collapse...

After all, with such a small insect, the physical damage from its collisions and bites is hardly enough to effectively kill a large monster.

However, after drinking the blood of two ancient dragons in succession, Xiao Jia simultaneously gained the ability to control water and lightning energy. Although the strength was vastly different from that of the original ancient dragons, just as Xiao Jia had just done, by combining the two types of energy, Xiao Jia was able to unleash far greater destructive power than before.

Hmm... I wonder if feeding Xiaojia blood from other ancient dragons of different attributes in the future would allow it to master the remaining three elemental energies...

Ye Zi couldn't help but daydream: if that day ever came, perhaps Xiao Jia alone would be able to defeat some ordinary large monsters?

Insect Daddy is awesome!

……

Jumping roars not only disturbed the sleeping Xiao Jia, but also Ling Rui, who was resting on a nearby mountain peak.

As the sonic booms spread, a bolt of lightning suddenly struck down from the sky. After the lightning subsided, an ancient dragon, its entire body radiating silver-white lightning, appeared beside the temporary camp.

Upon noticing the appearance of the Qilin, Tiaotiao's body tensed up immediately, and he looked warily in the direction of the Qilin, preparing for battle.

Lin Lin placed one hand on Tiao Tiao's head, using little force, yet easily subdued him.
"Alright, alright, relax a bit, Lingrui is not the enemy."

Lingrui's gaze lingered on Tiaotiao for a moment before landing on Lin Lin, her clear voice resonating in Lin Lin's heart:
I thought you left yesterday.

"There was a slight mishap that delayed me a bit, and I'm about to leave now."

Ye Zi and the two cats were stunned by Lin Lin's abrupt words, but they quickly realized what was happening. The Qilin that appeared by teleportation seemed to be just quietly watching them without making a sound, but in fact, it was already communicating with Lin Lin in their minds.

'Are you leaving this time to chase after that evil platinum dragon?'

"Yes, we can tell from the fact that it released scale powder in the primeval forest without any restraint that this guy will mess up the ecology wherever he goes. We are hunters who protect the ecology, how can we sit idly by?"

Lingrui's red eyes stared at Lin Lin, then after a moment swept over Tiaotiao, Yezi, Yezao, and Niaru:

"I believe in you, you will succeed."

'I'll be waiting for you here. Don't forget our promise to travel together as partners.'

Lin Lin smiled and gave a thumbs up:

"That's like you're setting a goal for me."

"I won't say anything ominous like 'we'll win.' With a big battle imminent, it's best not to stack buffs on ourselves. All I can say is that we will do our best."

As Lin Lin spoke, he rolled over and climbed onto Tiao Tiao's back, calling Ye Zi Ye Zao and Ni Ya Lu to come up as well.

Lingrui watched as Tiaotiao flapped its wings and took flight, and saw Lin Lin waving to him from above, lost in thought.

What does "setting a flag" and "stacking buffs" mean?

(End of this chapter)