Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

Xianglan ordered her companions to spread out and push towards the large lava lake to search.

Separate a certain distance from each other, which can not only expand the search area, avoid missing important clues, but also reduce the probability of being noticed by monsters.

Pandan was on all fours, running, through a pile of rubble.

Similar detritus is not uncommon in lava canyons.

The Grand Canyon has a special geological structure. The intense geological changes during its formation made the strata in the area where the Grand Canyon is located thin.

The big explosion before the death of the Lava Mountain Dragon shattered the earth's crust within a radius of hundreds of square kilometers, and magma surged to the surface, thus creating this scorching world.

Two full years have passed since that explosion, and magma is still pouring out from the cracks in the earth's crust, stacking up to form lumps of semi-solidified lava.

Some of these lava blocks will gradually cool and form some strangely shaped boulders, large and small, and large ones may even pile up into mountains.

Some will be exploded from the inside by the subsequent lava pouring out due to various reasons such as shape, lava composition, etc., and explode into rubble.

Pandan didn't pay attention at first, she just wanted to cross the gravel area as quickly as possible.

After all, this place had been bombed once, so it wouldn't be surprising if it bombed again.

But a certain smell that was familiar to Pandan made her sniffle involuntarily.

This is a bit like the smell of pork chops, meow?

To be precise, it's the smell of slime mold bombs that Pork Chop often carries with him.

Wait, the slime mold bomb uses the same ancient slime mold as the dragon?

Xianglan hurriedly stopped and looked back at the pile of rubble.

It has always believed in its intuition and luck, and its intuition told it that this pile of rubble was not exploded naturally, and that luck would rule out other possibilities for it.

Therefore, this must be what that Broken Dragon did!

This way of judging is too random. If the pork chop is here, I will definitely give it a few claws first.

But now he is the captain!

"Meow meow meow!" Xianglan meowed loudly, calling her companions scattered nearby.

Soon, the mushrooms gathered around Pandan.

Xianglan pointed at the pile of rubble and said, "It's Meow who exploded the broken dragon stem."

Its tone is overly confident, just like pointing at a red fire dragon and saying that it is a male. It has an atmosphere where even asking "why" makes it look ignorant.

Li Zi and Shan Zhu looked at each other, a little hesitant in their hearts, but did not dare to speak.

Only the studious Mushroom didn't care about this, and asked with shining eyes: "Teacher Xianglan, how do you see this?"

Pandan put her hands on her hips and raised her head, "There is the smell left after the explosion of ancient slime mold. Pig Chop will use this slime mold to make explosive bombs. You can often smell this smell."

"That's it, meow!" The mushroom tried to smell it, trying to learn how to distinguish smells like pandan.

Chestnut and Boar also showed surprised expressions at the same time.

For the Elu of the investigation team, the name "Pork Chop" is particularly convincing.

Although there is no logical connection between the two, as long as they hear it related to pork chop, they find it very credible.

In front of the other three cats, Xianglan confidently took out a small and exquisite insect guide cage and said ostentatiously: "The guide insect in this is the cat assigned to me by Hayata.

Let me show you the value of the guide worms cultivated by superior hunters, meow! "

As it spoke, it picked up a small piece of gravel with a slight smell of slime mold explosion and put it into the insect guide cage. The guide insect was light and dark, apparently extracting some kind of smell.

If ordinary gravel is put in, there will be no such reaction.

Xianglan was so confident that she waved her paw at the three cats surrounding the insect cage, "Look, meow! The route I chose is absolutely correct, meow! Keep moving forward and continue searching for meow!"

The area of ​​​​the molten mountain canyon is naturally incomparable to the millions of square kilometers of ancient tree forests.

In less than one night, the hunting cats searched all the way from the outer areas of the lava canyon to the core area where the large lava lake was located.

Along the way, they discovered several more traces left by the Explosive Broken Dragon.

Most of these traces were discovered by Pandan. Its sense of smell is sharper than that of ordinary Ellu, so it can always find places where ancient slime molds exploded.

The existence of these explosion traces made the hunting cats more and more sure that this Explosive Shattering Dragon had gone crazy.

Nature is a very cruel place, especially in resource-poor and desolate areas like lava canyons.

Whether it is a large monster or an inconspicuous small animal, it will try its best to conserve physical strength and save energy.

Take the Thunder Dragon, which also appears in volcanic areas, as an example.

Honglong is notoriously aggressive, but even Honglong will not attack mountains or rocks in vain.

Even if you occasionally use a rock wall to grind your teeth, you would never destroy a rock mountain several times bigger than yourself just to grind your teeth, right?

But this violently explosive dragon will.

Among the traces that Pandan and the others found, there were no biological corpses anywhere. Almost all of them were crushed boulders, rock walls, and even large areas of the ground.

No purpose can be seen, he is just using violence ruthlessly and casually.

Xianglan has experienced a lot with everyone in Yinbian, and has never found similar habits in any kind of monster.

As for why he used rocks and rock walls instead of using other creatures to vent his anger.

Xianglan had a bad guess.

Since entering the lava canyon at night, they have not discovered the whereabouts of any large monster.

Not to mention large monsters, even small monsters such as assault dragons and herbivorous dragons that should be widely distributed were not seen.

The largest creature they've found so far is an exploding gas frog the size of a plate.

So, where did those volcanic creatures go?

There seems to be only one answer.

Staring at a charred black thing on the ground that seemed to be the skull fragment of some kind of large monster, and after sniffing it, Pandan sent out a signal again, calling her companions together.

"Lord Xianglan, have you found new traces again?" Lizi said with admiration in his eyes.

The wild boar also nodded fiercely, "As expected of Master Xianglan, meow. There are so many traces on this road, and that Broken Dragon must often move on this route, meow!"

There was a seriousness on Xianglan's face that was rarely seen on ordinary days.

At this time, it could not care less about losing face, and directly overturned its previous statement of "best search path":

"It's not that our search route coincides with the action route of the Explosive Shattering Dragon, that Explosive Shattering Dragon has regarded the entire Lava Mountain Canyon as its own territory.

It patrols the territory non-stop, killing all creatures it can see.

Even after that, I still felt unsatisfied, so I started destroying rocks everywhere, nya. "

"Teacher Xianglan seems to mean that the Exploding Broken Dragon may not be near the big lava lake, meow?" Mushroom seemed a little confused, "Then what should we do next, meow?"

Continue searching for traces until the guide insects begin to guide the cat? "

Xianglan nodded seriously, and while using the cat sword to knock off a small piece of the blackened bone, put it into the insect guide cage, and said: "That's right, meow, let's continue."

Just in the middle of speaking, the guide insect that extracted the aura from the charred bone fragments flew out of the insect cage and began to guide the way.

"Ahem."

Xianglan had a straight face and cleared her throat, "What I mean is, yes, meow! It is indeed a meow near here. Let's continue moving forward. Please pay attention to the hidden meow."