Monster life starting from picking up materials

Julius murmured, looking at the entire history, the ancient dragons had caused countless natural disasters to humans, but friendly contacts such as gifts were rare.

Even if it's just returning what was taken away.

"The most unbearable gift."

“Because we don’t know what the price is.”

The compiler and Hubble exchanged a glance and didn't take the props back, but Julius didn't notice the atmosphere between the two, moved his body, and took back the prop bag.

With a little curiosity, the young hunter left a piece of bread there.

"Ah, now that we're full, should we continue exploring?"

"Let's wait until the fog clears before we go."

As the compiler spoke, Hubble stared blankly at the campfire and nodded.

By the time everyone had put away the food, packed up their bedding and arranged to keep watch, a slight evening breeze blew and the fog gradually dissipated.

"Let's go back."

The atmosphere between them was not strong enough to support any loud noise, so they maintained the quiet of the night and headed towards the direction of the airship.

"Wow?"

Xia Bao watched the backs of the people leaving and wanted to continue following them, but was covered by Ji Jie's wings.

"No need to keep up, it's time for us to leave."

He patted Xiabao's wings, turned around and walked towards the ruins city.

The ruined city returned to the bottom of the sunken mountain and slowly sank into the crack in the ground. As the golden light left the body of the steel dragon, it fell into sleep again.

Ji Jie then dragged the skull of the old mountain dragon to the side of the sunken mountain, and the skull's cranial cavity just happened to cover the ruins of the city.

After reuniting with Nana, Ji Jie planned to head southwest and find a volcano before leaving the mountains to replenish combustible minerals for Nana.

--the other side--

"This concludes the investigation report for this mission."

It was not at the rectangular table in the meeting hall, but in Dark Night's room, and there was only the sound of communication between Dark Night and the compiler.

The clue board in the corner was moved out and the curtain on it was removed.

The investigative report that had been read was hung on the clue board and became part of the many clues.

"Gate Mantis, come to think of it, the King of Gate Mantis also appeared and became active during the ancient dragon crossing ten years ago."

Dark Night stood in front of the commission board, thinking quietly.

"There are also the mantis silk threads and bone constructs found in the underground wilderness of the New World. Who knows, maybe the Mantis King himself is a special individual from the New World."

"Perhaps, during that time period ten years ago, there were also some secrets hidden among the non-ancient dragon monsters. For example, the four-winged bone fire dragon that also appeared during that period but has since disappeared without a trace."

The compiler looked at the clue board and saw the New World Fire Dragon that was active alongside the Flame Dragon.

"There's no doubt that the monster group in the new continent still has more members, and their range of activities has expanded to the original continent along with the ancient dragon crossing."

"I could ask scholars to sort out the documents from that period ten years ago. Perhaps they still followed me to the New World."

The author lowered his eyes and recalled the wonderful experience on his return voyage.

"It's not your fault. Perhaps everything was brought forward by Gu Longdu."

Dark Night spoke in comfort and silently added a line to the clue board: "The Monster Group is suspected to have arrived at the original continent for the first time ten years ago with the returning personnel of the first group."

"By the way, we should pay more attention to the existence of the Smoke Weasel. I have a feeling that it is the bridge and the answer to everything."

The editor suddenly looked up and saw An Ye adding more clues. He couldn't help but stop talking and felt a little embarrassed.

"Okay, I'll keep an eye out."

"Dong dong dong."

There was a slight knock on the door. An Ye came to the door and opened it, and saw the knight instructor saluted him.

"what happened?"

"Some scholars hope to visit the front lines in person to conduct research."

The knight instructor did not look into the room, but just stared into An Ye's eyes and said.

"I approve, but remember to send hunters to protect and restrain them so they don't get into danger."

……

"Is it still too late?"

The "Dragon Scholar" looked at the footprints on the ground and shook his head with some regret.

"However, these humans seem to be chasing them. Their efficiency in searching for those with easily resonating constitutions might not be as high as focusing on them."

A smile finally appeared on the "scholar's" tense face, but then his eyes went dark and he fell to the ground.

"We found him, what's going on!"

And in the woods behind him were the calls of the hunters.

"This second investigation confirmed that the Yangyanlong couple had left this area, but their migration was not yet complete."

The knight instructor handed the new investigation report to An Ye and gave a brief summary aloud. He paused and hesitated.

"what happened?"

"A reckless young scholar got lost during his investigation. Hunters followed his footsteps and discovered he had circled the ancient dragon's area for nearly a month before finally collapsing in the woods. His shoes were worn through."

"Have the scholars diagnosed anything?"

"After the lost scholar regained consciousness, he reported experiencing hallucinations, perhaps due to the forest's miasma and poisonous insects. He recovered after returning to the ship."

"I'm glad you're alright. Has the Mantis King left too? Even the ruined city has returned to its previous buried state?"

I was reading the investigation report at night, feeling a little confused.

"And it was covered with the skull of an old mountain dragon."

"He left, but didn't take the ruins city with him. Was it because he didn't want to make too much noise? But at the same time, he concealed his own ruins city. It was a protective act."

"We can notify the guild and designate the abandoned city and its surrounding areas as restricted areas."

An Ye recalled what Hubble had said to him and nodded.

"This……"

The Knight Instructor seemed to have some reservations about this attempt to use wisdom to understand the monster's primitive behavior, but he did not refute anything.

"Have you confirmed they're heading south? The airship has adjusted its course and is continuing its pursuit."

Sensing his deputy's subtle questioning, Dark Night continued:

"We have to chase them and find out how a place changes after they pass through it."

"Until they find a suitable place to settle down and stop migrating, and everything settles down, or they leave."

The airship adjusted its course to the south and continued to follow the footsteps of Yangyan Dragon, while Ji Jie and his group of dragons found a dormant volcano to settle down.

Looking further south from the crater, one can vaguely see the end of the horizon, where the gap leading from the mountains to the plains is blocked by a human city.

Apart from the fortress, what caught his attention was a bronze steel dragon on a distant hill.

567

Chapter 567: Encountering Lao Gang, covered in rust and thirsty.

Ji Jie, who transformed into a Xialong, climbed up the mountain stealthily. He saw this bronze steel dragon with extraordinary demeanor, gazing into the distance.

Following his gaze, Ji Jie discovered that this guy seemed to be looking at the human fortress.

Was he beaten by a hunter and wanted revenge?

The steel dragon sitting on the ground flapped its wings, and the cyclone blew away the white mist around it. It tilted its head and stared at where Ji Jie was.

After losing the hazy white mist, the camouflage color of the Xialong could not escape the ancient dragon's eyes.

Ji Jie moved twice to the left and twice to the right, but the Steel Dragon's gaze still followed him, as if it was somewhat curious about this swaying blurry object.

Seeing that his concealment had failed, he had no choice but to remove his camouflage and appear in front of the Steel Dragon.

"Hang!"

Seeing a large mass of purple emerging, the Steel Dragon jumped up in fright and spit out a violent ball of air from its mouth.

Ji Jie flapped his wings and extinguished the tornado that was about to erupt in its cradle.

His actions made the Steel Dragon in front of him confused and hesitant. It growled intimidatingly, but actually retreated slowly.

The Steel Dragon's desire to fight reached its peak the moment the purple thing appeared, and then dropped to the bottom after he recognized what kind of monster this purple thing was.

This fluctuating desire to fight made Ji Jie call him an old thing.

It seems that not only is it common knowledge that Steel Dragon is weak to poison, but even Steel Dragon himself knows it.

Ji Jie scratched his face with his claws and looked up and down at the steel dragon in front of him.

The Steel Dragon in front of him stopped after taking a few steps back, and also looked at the Mist Dragon in front of him.

The two ancient dragons looked at each other, and finally the steel dragon flapped its wings and flew to another mountain. While paying attention to Ji Jie, it continued to observe the human fortress in the distance.

With its tail scraping the ground and its wings sweeping through the mist, Ji Jie once again disguised itself and approached the Steel Dragon, but was discovered by the Steel Dragon once again.

"Is there anything special there? Why do you keep looking at it?"

When their eyes met, Ji Jie revealed his confusion.

The steel dragon in front of him looked at him in surprise and shook its wings lightly, and some rust fell from the bronze steel wings.

Its body is now covered in rust, and even its light jumps seem clumsy.

The rusty wings rubbed against the barbed body of the Dragon-Slaying Spear, and a large amount of rust fell along with it.

Ji Jie followed Steel Dragon's thoughts and looked towards the fortress, and his gaze was fixed on the incomparably thick head of the dragon-slaying spear on the city wall.

"I see, you want it, right?"

He couldn't help but recall the ecology related to the steel dragon. Rusting is a very important state in the long life of the steel dragon.

Steel dragons will shed their skin, and before shedding, their steel shells will continue to rust due to oxidation like ordinary metals.

As the rust on its body increases, the Steel Dragon will enter a neurotic state, become more aggressive, and the scale of its attacks on human settlements will also increase.

This aggressiveness may also be related to the desire to use the battle to scrape off the rust from the sky.

If I were not in the form of a Kasumi dragon, this steel dragon might have excitedly pounced on me and started a fight.

The guy in front of him obviously had a history of fighting with hunters to get rid of rust, which was why he was looking at the human fortress.

Resonance allows Steel Dragon to express his thoughts externally, and external expression is also a process of self-examination.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that his plan made sense. Steel Dragon immediately entered a nervous state, and his subjective motivation was greatly improved.

Without hesitation, he left Xialong behind and flew excitedly towards the distant human fortress.

"Okay, okay, this old thing is so hungry."

Looking at Steel Dragon's back, Ji Jie also became a little excited.

Faced with this situation, how can you not become a war correspondent and watch the fun!

He couldn't just watch the fun, he had to use the Steel Dragon as an example to educate his own child and prevent him from playing with fire in front of the Dragon-Slaying Spear.

Ji Jie no longer hesitated and found Xia Bao and asked him to follow him.

"Roar?"

Nana, who had finally replenished the volcano with a large amount of burning coal, regained her liveliness and wanted to join in the fun.

"That won't do. Your presence will only complicate the situation. This is our Xialong's little secret!"

Ji Jie shook his head and refused Nana's invitation to accompany him.

Watching the Xialong father and son leave, Nana lay on the ground with some resentment, but soon regained her liveliness and began to tinker with the volcano and the powerful monsters that the volcano had extinguished.

The two Xialongs who were rushing to the front line with their backs to the volcano did not notice that the volcano behind them... had erupted!

At this time, Ji Jie had already brought Xia Bao to find an audience seat on the mountain near the fortress, and looked at the fortress that was making emergency preparations for the attack of the Steel Dragon.