Monster life starting from picking up materials

"But as long as there aren't any disasters, then it must be balanced. Let's continue pursuing it."

A few drops of well water were added to the river to explore the direction of the river.

Campbell raised his musket, and a safe green light shot into the sky and exploded, being captured by the telescope of the observer in the distant fortress tower.

With the end of martial law, people who had made preparations for evacuation relaxed and returned to their homes where they felt most at ease.

……

The ruined city once again entered a ruin. Ji Jie jumped out of the ruined city and looked around, trying to distinguish some details of the ruins.

This is a fortress.

Along the way, he has ravaged eleven ruins. In his spare time between dismantling and excavating, Ji Jie will also study the characteristics and history of the ruins to improve his archaeological experience.

The ruins are divided into settlements, fortresses, and cities that are a combination of fortresses and towns.

In terms of chronology, it can be divided into the ancient period, the not very ancient period and the modern period.

Those from the ancient times are the most dilapidated, so old that even the steel has oxidized, and there may not even be any harvest.

In the not very ancient times, people seemed to be very martial. You can often find a lot of rotten anti-dragon weapons and dismantle a lot of steel.

The steel in this world seems to be able to last forever. Although it is inevitable that it will decay, it will not disappear completely in just a few hundred years like in the previous life.

The level of smelting technology should have been higher in the previous life when technology was more developed, but the quality of the minerals produced in this land is obviously higher than in the previous life.

After all, he had never seen the iron face of the dragon slayer rust.

Modern ruins are rare, but they often contain relatively intact steel, which is Ji Jie's favorite material.

This fortress came from a not-so-ancient era, but Ji Jie searched for a long time and couldn't find anything useful.

It's like... it's been turned over.

If it wasn't him, then it must have been visited by mantises from other pavilions!

Ji Jie broke out of the ground, stomped his feet a little madly, and then returned to the ruins.

The existence of other mantises is also good news for him. After all, picking up junk is not as fast as robbing it.

If he is lucky, his city construction project can be completed in one go!

He had more expectations for the upcoming journey, hoping to meet a beautiful, wealthy and generous lady who would be the one he would give everything to.

"We just stopped for half an hour and then resumed our progress. It seems like something unexpected happened?"

The hunters were puzzled and decided to wait until the ruins of the city were gone before entering the fortress and began searching around.

"This is a fortress from the time of the Shured Kingdom, but... there's nothing here."

Although they do not have as much personal archaeological experience as Ji Jie, the hunters stand on the shoulders of giants.

After tracking for such a long time, they also returned to the ancient dragon observation ship to report several times, and the dragon scholars even gave them supplementary lessons.

"There's nothing, no wonder I didn't stop."

"Yes, but the Ancient Shurade Kingdom values the use of force, so there should be a lot of disassembled dragon-fighting weapons in the fortress."

Campbell was a little confused, as most of the materials used to cast anti-dragon weapons were steel.

After the development of smelting technology of tungsten, the durability and life of steel have been greatly improved.

"Maybe it was reclaimed by the kingdom?"

The big sword man touched his smooth head and made a guess.

After the fall of the ancient Shuled Kingdom, the East Shuled Kingdom and the West Shuled Kingdom split and continue to this day.

It’s just that the kingdom has its own knights and army, while hunters rely more on guilds, and guilds are often mentioned.

"Transporting large quantities of anti-dragon weapons requires supply lines and manpower. At least I've never heard of the kingdom recovering a large amount of anti-dragon weapons after the fall of Gushred."

The swordsman shook his head and spoke slowly and said that he was the one who loved reading the most on the ancient dragon observation ship.

Historically, both East and West Shured seem to be avoiding the legacy of the ancient Shured Kingdom, as if that legacy is tainted with disaster.

"Since there's a single monster active nearby, there must be a chance to find a group."

Cambey stood up.

Whether it is a human or a monster, there is one thing that cannot be ignored in the life: mating and reproduction.

In order to mate and reproduce, a species in a vast area is often not unique, and the concept of vastness will change according to the species' ability to move.

If there is only one of the same species, it is most likely migrating, and the reason for migration may be to enter an area where there are multiple members of the same species to seek mating.

"So, it could be another Pavilion Mantis?!"

The four people's eyes lit up.

Comparative investigations of multiple cases can yield more ecological intelligence by tracking individual individuals and reveal more about monster habits!

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Chapter 321 Another mantis.

Area after area was conquered by the ruined city, but the building materials that could be harvested were very limited.

Even a normal mantis queen would continue to migrate to collect materials, which made Ji Jie unable to even judge how long ago the other party's activities took place.

Even if he turned into a fire dragon and looked down, he couldn't see more without going far away from the ruins.

Therefore, the four-legged improvement plan of Xucheng is nowhere in sight.

So should we pause our journey to the ruined city?

Ji Jie climbed out of the ruined city, feeling the heavy snow falling, covering the surrounding mountains with a continuous white blanket.

Even the ruins of the city were covered in a layer of white.

When operating in such weather, the dragging of Xucheng's tail was lubricated, but the two front legs also began to slip.

The Thunder Wolf Dragon had already overtaken the city from the back and was now in front of it, running wildly towards the sky, seemingly about to disappear.

Perhaps, the Thunder Wolf Dragon initially migrated with the ruins city for safety, and now it is just migrating along the way.

The mantis dived into the ruins of the city. A flying bird flew across the sky and landed near the hunters, eavesdropping on their intelligence.

"The Thunder Wolf Dragon has left", "The ruins city has stopped moving again", "There has been no gain recently".

"The Ancient Dragon Observation Ship also didn't discover any new mantis individuals."

The female archer known as Lena returned to the group with supplies.

Obviously, the hunters are not satisfied with only obtaining a little information, and the guild is also working on collecting information on other mantises.

Maybe we can use this to our advantage?

The following topic was not very informative. Ji Jie just judged that they were not very willing to attack him.

Perhaps it was the shock brought to them by pulling down the old mountain dragon that made them reassess their own strength.

Perhaps it is because they have a good impression of the ruins city that brought them honor. As long as the ruins city exists and people continue to walk around, their legend will not become a legend.

Or perhaps it was the act of not invading human settlements and only picking up scraps that made them feel that a crusade was not necessary.

Ji Jie listened for a while and then left. The ruined city in the hunters' sight restarted.

……

Xucheng was walking in the snow. The Thunder Wolf Dragon in front of him was like a husky having fun in the snow, and had run out of his perception range.

The hunter behind did not move for a long time, gradually widening the distance between them and the ruins city until they disappeared from the perception range.

Ji Jie slowed down his pace towards the ruins city, but for a long time the hunters still didn't catch up with him.

You should know that even when the team splits up, they will leave someone behind to observe the ruins.

He was used to being followed all the time, but when the other party suddenly stopped following him, Ji Jie was naturally puzzled.

The way to solve the puzzlement is naturally to take a look. What kind of situation could make them let me go and not follow me?

This is the mantis that drives the ruins city. Isn't it more attractive than any beautiful girl or boy?

By eavesdropping all the way from Moga Village to the current hunter team, Ji Jie has long discovered that there are similarities between the hunters and the players who control the hunters.

That is - they all have a tendency towards dragon fetishism!

Hunt monsters and get up close to them, including the cute ghost frog, the handsome fire dragon and the handsome thunder wolf dragon.

Those who have not faced the horror of monsters will rejoice in them.

Facing a monster head-on might leave you feeling terrified, but after surviving, the memories of its bright scales and white claws also bring with them the exhilaration of an adrenaline rush.

Isn't fighting a kind of **?

Even hunters whose families were destroyed by monsters found it difficult to resist such temptation and turned the topic to the beautiful materials they had peeled off after killing the monsters.

Love and hate are both passionate emotions.

A love of beautiful things? A hunter's love is always hard to escape from monsters, whether alive or dead.

and so.

Ji Jie dared to assert that there was no hunter who would not be interested in the mantis that could control a huge ruined city with its beetle body.

He flapped his wings and followed the traces left by the hunters to find out what was going on.

The footprints were broken, but the huge ancient dragon observation ship was hanging in the sea of clouds and could not be obscured.

Ji Jie flew onto the airship and watched the people walking around inside from the window.

Four hunters were chatting at the table in the middle, and there was a dragon scholar beside them, who seemed to be the supervisor.

A strange smell made him inhale slightly.

It seems to be coming from the fuel area of the airship, and it smells a bit?

Transferring his keen sense of smell to his ears, he began to eavesdrop on their conversation.

"Since we are all going to chase the other mantis, what should we do with this one?"

The big sword man asked, it was a long-standing guess that the mantis would attack human settlements, and he was more interested in the mantis that did not attack human settlements.

More familiar, more favorable.

"Investigators will take over. Compared to this mantis, the one that showed an aggressive behavior is more important for you to deal with."

The dragon supervisor was writing something, raised his head to answer the question, and then lowered his head again.

He is very busy.

Since Mantis's investigation reports and speculations increased, the guild began to focus its attention on this monster that was becoming known.

The files whose behavior was similar to that of the Mantis and whose true culprit could not be identified were taken seriously. They also estimated the route of the ruined city and deployed a lot of manpower to the settlements that had been attacked in the past and the settlements along the way.

Pieces of information piled up into a mountain, defining the approximate range of the mantis's activities.

Recently, a settlement was attacked, and the target deliberately demolished and took away the buildings.

Such news undoubtedly aroused the guild's sensitive nerves regarding matters related to Mantis Pavilion, and the dispatched investigators immediately locked onto the target.

It was a mantis that also controlled the ruins city.

The elite team was naturally recalled and will go to face the threatening mantis.

Listening to people's conversations, Ji Jie captured the key information.

Another sighting of the mantis!

The fighting spirit was instantly ignited!

Good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished.

He was followed by the hunter before, and now it is his turn to follow the hunter!

"The guild has dispatched a number of personnel to take charge of the preliminary preparations. You just need to wait for the airship to arrive at the front line."

"Is the Ancient Dragon Observation Ship also participating in the battle?"

"Yes, the airship has obtained some weapons from the arsenal and will airdrop them when the time comes."

The dragon supervisor pointed to some cannons placed in the rear, where dragon engineers were adding equipment to cushion the fall of the cannons.

The defeat in the battle for the fortress forced the guild to adjust the subsequent battlefield. However, without the fortress facilities, it would be difficult for the hunters to break into the ruined city with hunting tools alone, so the airship airdropped cannons.