Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

Hearing the words of the Felyne, Fufu's first reaction wasn't "What big fish? How big?", but rather "So you guys can speak the Common Tongue!"

I thought you could only go 'Gaba uba'!

Faced with Fufu's complaint, the drunken Felyne, now more talkative, tapped its short legs. "A few, years ago, learned from Miss Herta.

Our squad, had a lot of contact with the research team, for a while, the research team commissioned us to monitor the wind drifting dragon packs in the Frozen Valley."

The Felyne spoke the Common Tongue a bit haltingly, but it wasn't difficult to understand.

"Miss Herta?" Fufu of course remembered the name.

Her dad's old flame.

"Brother Ancil and the others were also there when they became friends with the Felynes, also Sister Herta," Jiajia added from the side. "They lived with the Felynes for a few days together."

Calculating the time with her fingers, it seemed she was already born at that time, Fufu suddenly went "Eee—."

Not daring to think too deeply about it, she quickly focused her attention on another key point, "You said your squad was commissioned to monitor the Frozen Valley, so you and Sister Jiajia knew each other a long time ago?"

"Uba!" The drunken Felyne nodded vigorously.

Jiajia hugged it, rubbed it a few times, and then said with a smile: "We're very familiar, this child is called Tiannu Glacier in the Heavenly Fury Icefield.

And its teammates in the same squad, Zhan Kong Cangying, Hanwu Tentacle, Lie Feng Aishuang, are all old friends."

The few Felynes who were drinking together jumped around a few times, seemingly very happy that Jiajia could remember their names.

These aren't their names? The style is completely different from what I imagined?

Fufu carefully looked at these few Felynes a few times.

Come to think of it, they were the ones who surrounded Jiajia asking for belly rubs before, no wonder they were so proactive, so they already knew each other.

Hanwu Tentacle, the biggest and fattest, shook its head, "Bigger! Bigger! As big as a mountain!"

"No! Bigger than a mountain!" Zhan Kong Cangying retorted loudly.

"Oh ho?" Fufu, who was sitting cross-legged, straightened up a bit.

At first, she didn't take the so-called "big fish" too seriously. Given the size of the Felynes, a monster like the Icefish Dragon could already be called a small mountain.

But they clearly said that the big fish was bigger than the Icefish Dragon, and much bigger.

According to the information in the illustrated book, the average length of the Icefish Dragon is between fifteen and twenty meters. To say much bigger, that would have to be at least twenty-five meters, or even thirty meters, right?

Don't think it's just ten meters longer, that means at least several times the difference in size.

There are very few creatures in the natural world that exceed twenty-five meters in length. Even large flying dragons are mostly around twenty meters in length.

As for the thirty-meter class, she had already memorized the illustrated book of creatures from the New World. There wasn't a single large monster that could reach the thirty-meter class.

Unless, could it be an Elder Dragon?

"It can't be, it can't be," Fufu muttered, but her heart couldn't help but thump.

Now, not to mention satisfying her curiosity, just from the perspective of the research team, she had to go see what that so-called "big fish" was after dawn.

This night in the Felyne camp was surprisingly comfortable.

After drying her shirt by the campfire, she didn't feel cold even in just a single layer of clothing.

Leaning back on Lie Feng's soft belly with Jiajia, surrounded by a few fluffy Felynes, hmm, it was more comfortable than the Third Fleet leader's bed, which only had hard books on it.

She slept until dawn.

When Fufu opened her eyes with a yawn, most of the Felynes in the camp had already left.

Except for a small number of elderly and young left behind, most of the Felynes would go out in squads to hunt. This was precisely why there was always plenty of meat in the Felyne camp.

Tiannu Glacier and the others also got up very early, each carrying weapons and throwing spears, looking very experienced.

Seeing that Fufu was awake, Lie Feng Aishuang tossed her a warm roasted flatbread.

Not caring whether it was good or not, Fufu quickly finished her breakfast in a few bites, and then quickly washed up at the hot spring pool, which could be considered preparation for the trip.

Having obtained the Felynes' permission, this time they didn't have to swim out from the bottom of the hot spring pool, but could ride Lie Feng and leave the camp from the opening at the top of the cave.

This also avoided the embarrassing situation of her underwear getting wet again.

In the icy and snowy weather, even if the outerwear and cloak left outside were dry, wet underwear was still deadly.

Arriving at the place where she had left her outerwear yesterday, Fufu shivered and put on her cold-weather clothing, and then drank a bottle of hot drink, and her body finally slowly warmed up.

"So, where is that big fish you mentioned? Is it far?" Fufu asked, wrapped in her cloak, to the four Felynes with arrogant names who had followed her.

"Not very far, if we set off now, we can arrive in the afternoon," said Tiannu Glacier, the squad leader.

"That's not very far…" Fufu clicked her tongue, "There's another problem, how are we going to go? Do you have sleds?

We can't all ride on Lie Feng's back, even if Lie Feng can carry us, there's not enough room, is there?"

The Felynes didn't answer her question, but put their little paws in their mouths and whistled.

Soon, several black and white Ice Wulgs with shiny fur ran out from the surrounding woodlands, surrounding the Felynes.

The Felynes familiarly rubbed their heads, and after stuffing a piece of dried meat into their mouths, they jumped on their backs.

"I almost forgot, you're also 'cavalry'." Fufu smiled as she climbed onto the saddle on Lie Feng's back, and then pulled Jiajia up as well.

"Huha!"

Tiannu Glacier, as the squad leader, shouted, and the Ice Wulg under it immediately darted out.

Don't underestimate these common carnivores in the snowy forest. Although they are not large and have short legs, they run surprisingly fast on the thick snow.

Its companions followed closely behind, and Lie Feng also strode forward, following beside them.

The group traversed rocky mountains, left the complex hilly area, and crossed vast snow forests, galloping all the way in a northwesterly direction.

"They're going to the northwest coast," Jiajia, who was almost a native of the ice field, said behind Fufu's ear, "There are many Paolumu there, and many glaciers.

Be careful when you get there, the glaciers are very unstable and prone to collapse, always watch your step!"

Fufu nodded, carefully remembering these words in her heart.

From morning to afternoon, the tall snow forest trees gradually disappeared, replaced by countless towering glaciers.

The cold wind from the icy sea, with a slight salty taste of seawater, made people's noses run and tears flowed uncontrollably, and then they were condensed into ice and frozen on their eyelashes, blurring their vision.

Just when Fufu asked "How much further?" for the nth time, the Felynes finally pulled their Ice Wulgs to a stop.

They jumped off their mounts and waved to Fufu and Jiajia.

Fufu took off her light-filtering goggles and rubbed away the frost on her eyelids. Only then did she see that they had arrived on a glacier cliff, and beyond was the surging icy sea.

Several Paolumu waddled past them, and Fufu looked up ahead and saw even more Paolumu lining up to the edge of the glacier and jumping into the sea headfirst.

"Follow them!" Tiannu Glacier shouted, pointing at the Paolumu that were jumping into the sea one after another.

"Huh?" Fufu was dumbfounded.

She didn't want to see any big fish anymore, she wanted to go home.