Monster Hunter: I can hear the monsters' thoughts

Chapter 526 The Sea Bull Who Loves to Get to the Bottom of Things

The underwater ruins, which should have been dark and deep, were now as bright as day, with the bluish-white light illuminating every detail of the sediment accumulated on the seabed.

That was the light from the Great Sea Dragon.

No, that's not entirely accurate, because in addition to the bioluminescent organs of the sea dragon itself, its body surface also has a large number of bioluminescent bacteria. These bacteria work in tandem with the bioluminescent organs to release such a bright light.

Under such excellent light conditions, the large amount of algae parasitizing the dense armor hairs on the chest of the sea dragon can maximize photosynthesis, collect the carbon dioxide produced by the sea dragon's breathing, and supply a large amount of oxygen. Combined with the sea dragon's own huge lung capacity, it is enough to allow it to stay on the seabed for more than a month.

It had only been a day or two since it last surfaced to breathe. Normally, the sea dragon would have no need to surface again, but now, it was looking upwards with a hint of eagerness.

It wanted to find the little one it had dreamed about before.

Its own giant horn was simply too sturdy, and relying on it to constantly find rocks to grind it down was far too inefficient. Before, it had no other choice but to patiently grind it down slowly. But ever since it witnessed that weapon that could shatter the eerie rocks that exuded an ominous aura, it could no longer calm down.

As long as you can use that weapon to sharpen the angle, your field of vision will definitely improve!
Just as it was getting impatient and trying to follow the senses that existed in the dark, the sea dragon suddenly stopped moving again.

Because in its perception, the little thing that it vaguely connected with was rapidly approaching it.

Are they coming closer?
Good thing you came!

The thought that his long-standing visual obstruction was finally going to have a chance to be improved filled Da Hailong with excitement.

As its emotions fluctuated, the luminous organs covering the sea dragon's entire body began to brighten dramatically, and their color changed from bluish-white to pink, giving off a sense of danger and warning.

Following its instinctive senses, the Great Sea Dragon locked its gaze on Lin Lin, who was approaching. With a powerful flick of its broad tail, the entire dragon charged straight toward Lin Lin's location.

Its idea is simple: if it wants the other party to help it repair its horn, it can only do so by forcing the other party to fight it and then using its right horn to withstand the attacks as much as possible.

As a colossal ancient dragon, it had always wandered alone in the deep sea, completely lacking any concept of communication, and never even considering the possibility of interacting with other life forms.

"Hey! Wait a minute!"

When the voice rang in his mind, Da Hailong was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously stopped and looked around, trying to find the source of the voice.

"You're really stubborn. We came here to help you solve your vision obstruction problem; there's absolutely no need for us to fight!"

?

The sea dragon blinked blankly. What was that talking about?

The voice rang directly in one's mind, making it impossible to determine its source by hearing. After searching around in vain, it finally focused its gaze on Lin Lin, who was not far ahead.

Since we can't find it, let's just stop looking. It's probably just a hallucination or something caused by being annoyed by having our view blocked for too long.

The giant sea dragon decided to ignore the strange voice and continue its previous actions, flicking its long tail and charging forward again.

What are you babbling about? Go tell my dragon car!
Lin Lin was speechless. As the opponent's massive body charged towards him, he had no choice but to immediately dodge to the right.

Has this great sea dragon lived alone for too long? It seems so dull and stupid, lacking the intelligence of the ancient dragons we encountered before.

Thinking back, when I experienced the life of the Great Sea Dragon in my dream, I seemed to have a similar feeling. Apart from the time I encountered the skeletal dragon, this guy was invincible in the sea. His daily routine was to empty his mind and eat and drink. Even when he thought, it was limited to how to solve his physiological needs. Maybe his brain hadn't been used for too long, so it had become rusty and couldn't function.

By the same standards as the Chameleon, the Great Sea Dragon would probably be considered a particularly boring and stupid monster...

The Great Sea Dragon's charge officially opened the battle. The hunters scattered and began attacking the Great Sea Dragon with weapons that were no different from toothpicks to it.

However, the Great Sea Dragon's entire body is covered in hard armor, and with no solid ground to support its movements, plus the water pressure of the seawater hindering its movement, the hunters' attacks can only leave very shallow wounds on the Great Sea Dragon, and most of the time they cannot even penetrate its protective skin. Even though the [THE Tracker], made from Elder Dragon materials, is sharp enough, without the red essence absorbed by the Kinsects to enhance it, Yoko's attacks are much weaker and can hardly cause any significant damage.

The only relatively weak area of ​​protection is the dense patch of armor hair that coexists with the algae. While weapons can easily cut through it, this is just body hair. Even if it is cut, it won't cause any damage to the sea dragon. At most, the reduction in algae will affect its endurance, and it may need to surface more frequently to breathe.

Therefore, after attacking for a while, the three melee hunters had no choice but to stop and focus on dodging the sea dragon's rampage.

Only Violet was still attacking. The deep-sea environment had the least impact on the heavy crossbow; at most, the resistance of the seawater reduced the effective trajectory. At this moment, she kept firing at the right horn of the Great Sea Dragon. The slicing bullets kept exploding, launching the blades hidden inside. The clanging and banging caused sparks to fly from the Great Sea Dragon's right horn, creating quite a scene.

However, after emptying a magazine in one go, Shion took another look and saw that the area she had focused her attacks on only had a few barely noticeable scratches. In fact, due to the water flow brought by the Great Sea Dragon's movement, these scratches were fading at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Why isn't it breaking through the defense at all? It seems that the effect of the slicing bullet attack is only slightly better than the sea dragon crashing into the rocks. If it continues like this, let alone five basic loads of ammunition, even if she has fifty basic loads of ammunition, the sea dragon might not be able to break this giant horn even if she doesn't move here and lets her use them all in one go.

This cannot continue.

The four hunters reached the same conclusion simultaneously.

If the goal is to damage the Great Sea Dragon, you can focus your attacks on its relatively weak points. If you don't break its defenses the first time, you can always try again. But if the target is its hardest horn, forcing an attack will more likely only injure yourself.

We need to find a way to create a crack first, and only after destroying the overall stable structure can we gradually expand the crack through attacks.

Such a rift must be created by a powerful and substantial attack, and the most suitable weapon would naturally be the Dragonslayer Spear in the ruins below.

However, Date and his group had only just submerged into the lower sea ruins, and it would still be quite some time before the Dragon-Slaying Spear could be fully activated. Until then, they seemed somewhat helpless against the Great Sea Dragon. They could only stall for time…

Lin Lin gestured, indicating that everyone should focus on delaying the attack and attack freely.

Ziyuan put away her heavy crossbow, turned around and swam towards the still-usable heavy ballista on the ruins of the city wall below, preparing to try attacking with heavy crossbow bolts.

As she swam, she felt quite regretful.

If only bombs could explode underwater... then we could just throw dozens of large barrel bombs G, pile them on the horn of a sea dragon and detonate them. The power might even surpass that of the Dragon Piercer. That would be so much easier.

Bref and Yoko noticed Shion's actions, but neither of them followed suit and went to find a heavy ballista to shoot.

Firstly, because they are all melee swordsmen, their archery skills are really not good. The heavy crossbow bolts they carry are ultimately limited. Once they miss or go astray, there is almost no way to retrieve them. It would be better to concentrate them and let Shion, who specializes in shooting, use them. The effect would be much stronger.

Secondly, when they first launched their attack, the sea dragon seemed unhurried and slow, almost like a sitting duck. But when they decided to stall for time and temporarily halt their attack, it suddenly became impatient and quickened its pace, acting as if it would attack them if they didn't, forcing them to continue maneuvering against the sea dragon.

As for Lin Lin, he was still trying to communicate with the stubborn Da Hailong.

He never expected that his resonance ability, which had been invincible against Gu Long ever since he met Mrs. Fengshan Long, would suffer such a crushing defeat today, to the point that he even doubted whether there was something wrong with his ability.

However, after several more attempts to communicate, Lin Lin had to admit helplessly that this Big Horned Bull was really stubborn! How could it be so fixated on a single point?

This thing stubbornly believes that the thoughts it transmits are its illusions, and that all life is the same, only opening when it is threatened, and only when it opens can it guide the other party to attack its horn.

Lin Lin sighed wearily. Why was this guy so stubborn? Even the Mine Mountain Dragon Lady wasn't this stubborn when it was a super-large ancient dragon!

'I'm really not hallucinating! I'm talking to you right in front of you right now! If you don't believe me, just stay in this position and don't move, and you'll see if we stop!'

The sea dragon's dull gaze, which looked like that of a Dunkleosteus, fell on Lin Lin again. Finally, it was somewhat persuaded and temporarily suspended its actions with some doubt.

Could it be that this isn't my imagination, but rather that this little one is talking?
But how did he do that? He didn't make a sound at all.

Ugh...it's so complicated, I don't want to think about it...

Lin Lin quickly gestured to Zi Yuan behind him, signaling her to seize this opportunity to launch an attack on the sea dragon's horn.

Then he saw Ziyuan return a gesture, indicating that she had just run out of heavy crossbow bolts, and as for the effect... it wasn't particularly ideal.

Even with the powerful propulsion provided by the heavy ballista, the power of the heavy crossbow bolts was greatly reduced after crossing dozens of meters of seawater. Each bolt only carved a small crater three or four centimeters deep at the point of impact. This level of lethality was much stronger than the previous slicing bullets, but it was still quite inadequate compared to the huge curved horn of the sea dragon, which was thirty or forty meters long.

The sea dragon opened its mouth and spat out a series of bubbles, its body becoming restless again.

Sure enough, the sound just now was just my imagination. As soon as its attack stopped, the opponent's attack also stopped.

That won't do. The clanging attacks that landed on the right corner just now had a much stronger impact than if I had hit the rock face myself. If I keep at it, I'll definitely be able to fix it.

Seeing that the sea dragon was about to move again, Lin Lin gritted his teeth, disregarding the possible shock damage from the recoil during the attack, and swam directly towards the sea dragon's right horn.

This guy is incredibly stubborn to begin with. We finally managed to persuade him a little bit, but if we let him get stuck on his own ideas, this battle will become much more troublesome.

Lin Lin swam directly to the area near the root of the Great Sea Dragon's horn, which was the area where Zi Yuan had concentrated her attacks. A dozen or so heavy crossbow bolts had hit the same spot in succession, creating a crater about the size of a palm.

"call--"

Lin Lin slowly exhaled, pressed the mechanism to release the shield's transformation mechanism, aimed at the cratered area, and suddenly swung it upwards.

Shield saw, open!

Saw it!
"Fuck!"

The piercing sound traveled through the large horn and penetrated deep into the sea dragon's mind, but as it felt its massive right horn being worn down little by little, the noise, which was originally unbearable, suddenly seemed pleasant to the ear.

It was somewhat surprised.

That voice... it sounds like he's telling the truth, doesn't it?

They'll help me smooth out my horns even if I don't attack myself?
'Thank goodness, you finally understand! And let me say it again, the person right now hacking at your horns with an axe is me!'

The high-frequency, intense vibrations gradually subsided. The Great Sea Dragon subconsciously turned its head and glanced at Lin Lin, who was disassembling the sword and shield. For the first time, it made a formal response in its mind:
"Keep going! Why did you stop?"

Lin Lin: ...

"Your horn is too hard. Sharpening it will cause significant wear and tear on the weapon. I need to sharpen it to restore its sharpness."

"Oh, right, since you're finally willing to listen to me, go down there and get hit by the Dragon Piercer later, it'll be much more efficient."

(End of this chapter)