Monster Hunter: I can hear the monsters' thoughts

Chapter 503 The Four-Man Team Reunites

A ferocious beast with a white coat leaped out of the shadows, its target the sky that had just spewed flames at it.

This creature was incredibly fast, and being in the shadows made it practically a white gust of wind. Even though the Sky's reaction was quite swift, flapping its wings and gaining altitude the moment the creature roared, it still couldn't completely evade the attack. Its long tail was slashed by the sharp blades, leaving a narrow wound and splattering hot blood.

The Great Sky couldn't help but let out a painful roar, but the pain did not make it shrink back; instead, it aroused its ferocity.

Despite the pain, Da Kong flapped his wings slightly and circled around to the back of Bai Jifeng. Then, his claws shot out instantly, grabbing at the base of the Velociraptor's bladed wings.

After all, Bai Jifeng and Da Kong were two individuals who had been tested in battle for a long time. Their reaction speed was not slow at all. Knowing that they could not be captured by the opponent, they immediately used their amazing jumping power and jumped again before Da Kong's claws locked its joints, thus creating distance again.

The Sky's claws only ripped off a tuft of fur from Bai Jifeng's body, leaving a very shallow claw mark. Of course, it also left some hemorrhagic toxins—but this amount of venom was just a drop in the ocean for Bai Jifeng, at most it only hindered the wound from healing.

With his astonishing jumping ability, Bai Jifeng moved too fast on the ground for Da Kong to catch up with. So he didn't bother to engage in hand-to-hand combat with his opponent. Instead, he ignited flames in his mouth again, intending to unleash a breath attack on his opponent.

However, it did not expect that the other party also had a means of ranged attack. After glancing back, it vigorously swung its long, thorny tail, and a "vacuum wave" roared and cut into the sky.

The Sky had no doubt that if the wind blade had hit it, it would have easily severed its wing membranes and severely damaged its flight ability. However, it acted as if it hadn't seen it and directly spewed the flames it had accumulated in its mouth at the White Gale.

Bai Jifeng's bright red eyes flickered slightly. It had thought that the other party would definitely use a fireball to blast away the "eight-part light wheel" in order to protect itself, and it was ready to seize this opportunity to launch another fierce attack.

It had to change its poised pounce into a side leap, but even so, the exploding flames still covered one of its bladed wings, and the scorching flames quickly climbed up its body along its glossy fur—in order to be more stealthy and swift in its movements, the velociraptor did not have scales, but instead had thick, soft black fur, which, in addition to having excellent electrical conductivity, was also very easy to ignite; in other words, more fur meant less fire.

Although the flames were quickly extinguished by the wind pressure generated by the velociraptor's movements, the burning dust from the explosion still turned the white fur licked by the flames completely black. In this small area alone, White Gale's body looked almost indistinguishable from an ordinary velociraptor.

The pain from the burning flames infuriated Bai Jifeng even more. It roared angrily and turned its gaze back to the sky, hoping to see the scene of its opponent being torn apart by its own energy blade and falling miserably to the ground.

However, no.

Before the Sky, a figure retracted the Swift Insect, pulled the sword and shield that were joined together from the ground, and twisted its body to disassemble them again. The surface of the shield immediately emitted a hazy red light.

In front of him, the ground was slashed with grooves by chaotic air blades, while behind him, the ground was flat, without even a step.

The male fire dragon remained unharmed, hovering there, and even condensed flames in its mouth once more, ready to breathe fire at Bai Jifeng's location.

Bai Jifeng's pupils constricted slightly. Its proudest skill had actually been blocked by that tiny human.
And this human... looks similar to the previous one, are they in cahoots?
His gaze lingered between the annoying Rathalos and the hunter who had blocked the air blade. After a moment, White Gale took a deep breath, nimbly sidestepped the fireball from the sky, and then let out a loud roar.

Almost immediately, a similar roar came from another direction.

"It's summoning another Nargacuga. Sky Dragon, that one's yours. Don't let it interfere with our battle."

"Roar!"

Da Kong let out a very sensible low growl, then ignored Bai Jifeng's provocative roar and went straight to the direction from which the other roar came, intending to intercept the other party halfway.

When Bai Jifeng saw that Da Kong wanted to leave, it tried to rush over to stop him. However, the burn on one of its blade wings still slightly affected its power. It was a little short and failed to touch Da Kong's body. Instead, it landed with a crisp "ding" sound, followed by several bright arc-shaped blade energies that left several white marks on Bai Jifeng's wing claws.

Brave glanced at the gleaming white fluorescence on the knife, grinned, and said, "I've been waiting for you for ages."

There was actually another human.

Bai Jifeng turned his head to look around. On his left was the hunter who had just blocked his wind blade with a shield, and on his right was a hunter who was attacking with a wind blade that worked on the same principle as his. The two hunters were approaching him from the left and right.

Ha, interesting. So you've actually made me your hunting target?
Bai Jifeng scoffed inwardly. Did they mistake it for that inexperienced young velociraptor? The female hunter had managed to make that guy look so pathetic, but I chased him away like a dog.

It quickly selected its target and, before the two hunters could rush up, leaped twice in quick succession, easily traversing dozens of meters to get behind Bref. Without pausing, it pounced again, opening its mouth, which, though not very large, was filled with sharp fangs.

In its view, Lin Lin was able to block its "eight-tenths of the light wheel", so its threat level was undoubtedly greater. It planned to kill the weaker one first, and then concentrate its strength to kill the stronger one.

Then it heard another crisp "ding" sound.

His mouth closed, but he didn't feel anything as if he had bitten into something solid. He just swallowed a mouthful of air. Besides that, several more arc-shaped air blades appeared, but this time, they landed on Bai Jifeng's head, cutting out small, narrow, bloody gashes.

But that wasn't the end of it. As Bai Jifeng endured the pain and tried to adjust its body to find the hunter's location again, it felt as if something had gently poked its blade wing again. The sensation made it subconsciously turn its head to look in that direction.

Did it run this way?
However, it saw nothing except a flash of bright light.

"chichichi"

The condensed energy blade slashed down, cutting a much deeper wound on Bai Jifeng's head than before, and bringing with it a spray of blood.

"Wow, Dragon Ascension Sword, cool!" Lin Lin ran over to Bai Jifeng, having witnessed Bref's incredible skillful maneuvering, and couldn't help but exclaim in praise.

After not seeing you for more than half a year, you've actually mastered the essence of the Dragon Ascent technique, a move that embodies the essence of the katana swordsman.

Um, and also, if I'm not mistaken, was it Yellow Blade Ascending Dragon?
That's even cooler.

"Hehe, I'm not here on vacation!"

Bref responded with a sound, and then, as if his feet were equipped with pulleys, he smoothly took a step back, just avoiding Bai Jifeng's sideways Iron Mountain Strike counterattack. Then, like a spring, he bounced back, and the Sea Dragon Katana once again slashed at Bai Jifeng's scorched blade, making a crisp "clang".

"hiss……"

Bref's arm trembled uncontrollably. The powerful recoil prevented him from smoothly connecting the Great Whirlwind of Qi Blade to re-activate the Yellow Blade. He could only roll awkwardly to avoid the tail that was sweeping towards him by the White Gale.

Cool, a quick cut and a flick of the blade!

Lin Lin gave a silent praise and rushed in front of Bai Jifeng. He swung his sword and unleashed a powerful double slash at Bai Jifeng's head.

In sword form, it was difficult to inflict serious damage on this guy with just that slashing sword, but the pain was enough to provoke Bai Jifeng to become even angrier. After failing to hit Bref by whipping its tail counterclockwise from the right, it directly spun its body clockwise with a faster speed and stronger explosive force, and once again whipped out a horizontal "eight-point light wheel" with its long tail.

Generally speaking, Nargacuga's side-swipe tail whip is not a very threatening move. Hunters with experience dealing with Nargacuga often take advantage of this opportunity to stand in front of Nargacuga's head and launch a fierce attack.

However, White Gale is different. Its previous tail whip was just a feint, designed to unleash even greater power in its true killing move, the faster and stronger sweeping air blade. If a hunter were to fight it using the same methods as when dealing with a regular Nargacuga, the worst outcome for the hunter standing in front of it would be to be cleaved in two, blood splattering everywhere.

To be honest, if Lin Lin hadn't seen Bai Jifeng's move in the game before, he might not have been able to react in time. Fortunately, he knew about the move and had prepared in advance.

The silk threads swished, the sword was inserted into the shield, and the fully charged counterattack was formed in an instant. Almost the next moment after Lin Lin took a defensive stance, the long tail swung and the high-speed spinning air blade slammed into the shield. The sharp thorns rubbed against the scales on the shield's surface, producing a piercing, sharp noise like scratching a blackboard with a fingernail.

Lin Lin felt extremely uncomfortable listening to it, and Bai Jifeng's movements stiffened slightly. Then, it decisively gave up using its tail to wrestle with Lin Lin's shield and jumped again to create distance. The velociraptor's hearing was very sharp. What Lin Lin found unpleasant was nothing short of torture to the velociraptor.

Bai Jifeng scanned Lin Lin and Bref with its bloodshot eyes. After the recent exchange, it realized that neither of these hunters was easy to deal with. One was as slippery as an eel and impossible to touch, while the other was as hard and foul as a rock in the mud.

It instinctively wanted to open its mouth and call for its young companion to help it, but after its ears twitched slightly, it heard roars rising and falling in the distance.

That damned fire dragon has it wrapped around itself!
Looks like I'll have to figure out how to take down these two guys myself... Ha, I've gotten so used to having companions that I've almost forgotten how I fought enemies when I was all alone.

Bai Jifeng stared at the two hunters, its long tail seemingly flicking casually behind it twice, but in reality, it had already skillfully flung out several sharp thorns, which flew in an arc towards the two hunters under the cover of the shade of the trees.

This is another of its special skills that far surpass those of ordinary Nargacuga. Its control over its tail spines is so exquisite that it can even control them to fly in an arc. Some hunters and scholars who managed to escape after witnessing the White Gale's battle believed that it could control its tail spines to guide and track enemies.

"Boom! Boom!"

Two crossbow bolts were fired from the shade of the trees, but their trajectories were very strange. Their targets were neither the White Gale who was confronting the two hunters, nor the clusters of tail thorns that were flying towards them. They were fired into the empty air.

But a tenth of a second later, the two crossbow bolts appeared exactly on the arc of the tail spike and collided with it.

The crossbow bolt was propelled away by the tail spikes, and the two clusters of tail spikes lost their momentum due to the collision, and could only fall to the ground in vain.

Upon hearing the sound of the ballista firing, Lin Lin and Bref couldn't help but show a hint of joy on their faces.

It's Shion! I didn't expect her to arrive and join the battle so quickly!
In contrast, Bai Jifeng roared with even greater rage.

Sure enough, these humans were in cahoots! Now, the prey it was hunting had also escaped and even joined the battle against it.

"Gentlemen, am I not late?"

A white figure darted swiftly into the battlefield. Ziyuan looked at the two hunters with a beaming smile, proudly patting her heavy crossbow:
"My archery skills aren't bad, are they?"

Brave nodded, glanced at Shion's complexion, and muttered a complaint under his breath:
"Why do I get the feeling that this girl doesn't look like she's been trapped for days at all?"

Lin Lin glanced at Zi Yuan riding on Xiao Bai, and Cha Cha also riding on Xiao Bai's back, and asked, "Where's Ye Zi?"

From the moment they officially began their battle with White Gale, Chacha had already quietly led Little White to find Ziyuan and the others so that they could get to the battlefield more quickly. Nia Lu was hiding in the nearby bushes, holding life powder and recovery potions in her hand, ready to rush up and provide first aid if the hunters encountered danger. Meanwhile, Afu was circling above their heads, monitoring the surroundings for any other unusual movements so as to warn the hunters.

Now that Shion has arrived, where is Yoko?
"I'm here!"

Upon hearing the familiar sound of the crossbow firing, Bai Jifeng rushed straight towards Ziyuan's location. However, just as he reached halfway, a slender figure leaped out from the shadows of the trees above and swung her insect club downwards.

(End of this chapter)