Monster life starting from picking up materials

Watching the blue stars in the daytime pass overhead and then fall, the investigators who were investigating the missing monsters immediately found obstacles to hide behind and began to talk in low voices.

"I heard he caused a horrific explosion in the hunting grounds around the East Kingdom. Should we end our mission and stay away from him?"

A cringing expression appeared on the young scholar's face.

"Hey! If we run away the moment we encounter him, how will we know how that huge explosion happened? The ecology of the Dark Lantern Dragon will remain a mystery forever."

The respected elderly professor pushed his glasses and shook his head in dissatisfaction.

"He must be here for a reason, perhaps... the same reason we are here, to get closer."

This team is mainly composed of scholars from the Dragon Calendar Academy. They arrived here by airship. Their purpose is to investigate several hunting grounds where monsters have disappeared recently and collect clues.

The similarity between several hunting grounds is the appearance of blue slime. The scholars who gained nothing were very disappointed, but now the appearance of the Dark Lantern Dragon has cheered them up.

"He seems to be searching for something like us? Like he's investigating the culprit that caused this change?"

"To be more precise, the culprit that caused this change might be his prey."

The professor reasoned, while his assistant beside him recalled the compiled investigation report:

"In the hunting ground where this blue slime first appeared, someone reported seeing a two-headed dragon fighting a Dark Lantern Dragon."

"It's hard to imagine a dragon with two heads. That's too weird."

"There are still many unknowns in the world—"

“He’s watching us!!”

Before the scholar could finish, the young scholar fell to the ground with a thud, and couldn't stop raising his voice.

584

Chapter 584: Guidance to the Season Ending.

“He’s watching us!!”

As soon as these words were spoken, the scholars who were discussing the matter immediately shrank behind the obstacle.

The professor took out a twisted telescope, poked out a small end of the lens, and hid himself behind a rock.

"No? He didn't look at us."

The Dark Dragon in the scope was still searching for the blue slime, which made the professor mutter in confusion, and the others also showed expressions of false alarm.

"He just actually turned his head and stared at us!"

The young scholar continued to argue in panic.

"We stayed 300 meters away and used deodorizing balls. He shouldn't have been able to spot us."

The professor shook his head. The young scholar was about to say something, but was interrupted by him:

"Wait, he's leaving, let's follow him."

Everyone kept a safe distance, put away their equipment, and slowly caught up with the advancing Darklight Dragon.

"Wow?"

A hundred meters away from them, Xia Bao was curiously staring at the "bent pipe" used by the elderly scholar. Seeing them pack up their equipment and move forward, he followed them quietly.

These people were following Dad, and Xia Bao was following them. She thought this was very interesting.

As for the look in his father's eyes just now, he understood that it was telling him not to go too far.

How could that be! Hey hey hey——

Xia Bao smiled innocently and followed the group of scholars.

After paying just a quick look at the scholar and Xia Bao, Ji Jie continued to track the skeleton dragon.

The blue mucus had dried up a little, and the skeleton dragon had been gone for a long time. He soon found the lake where the skeleton dragon had landed.

The perception extended into the lake, and all the larger creatures in the lake were devoured by the skeleton dragon, leaving only some small fish and shrimps.

And deeper at the bottom of the lake, there is indeed a road leading to the abyss.

But he had no intention of entering the waterway. He flapped his wings suddenly, and the wind pressure created waves on the surface of the lake, while he himself disappeared into the clouds.

The Hate Bird swooped down from the clouds and landed on Xia Bao's wings, commanding him to come closer.

Xia Bao stared at the hateful bird on its wings with his circular eyes, nodded obediently, and approached the scholars with side steps, moving from a hundred meters away to within fifty meters, disguising himself as one with the rocks and trees.

Ji Jie was using wings disguised as branches, and listened to the scholars' whispered conversation with his ears tilted. Only then did he realize that the skeleton dragon had ravaged more than one hunting ground.

The main vein of the waterway extends to the east, but at the same time it is intricate and complex, making the eastern range quite vast.

In terms of information efficiency, the hunters' guilds that have bases in various hunting grounds are much more informed than him.

Moreover, scholars have realized that they are tracking the skeleton dragon, but they are not clear about its nature and are still stuck on some past records of the "two-headed dragon".

A few decades is not a long time for ancient dragons, but for humans it represents the advancement of various technologies and the development of hunting grounds. This time the skeleton dragons are wreaking havoc on land again, and soon there will be clearer sighting reports than those of decades ago.

If things go wrong, the skeleton dragon's nest might also be dug out.

Maybe he should give them another hint?

Ji Jie flapped his wings and flew into the sky, transforming into a Dark Dragon again. He pretended to look down from the air and found nothing, then landed back beside the lake.

He stared at the center of the lake, wandered around the lake, and then uttered a series of intimidating growls, showing his state of "waiting for something" vividly.

"Lake, is there something in the lake?"

"Well, several of the affected hunting grounds have lakes. That's not a pattern. What hunting ground wouldn't have a large water source?"

The professor shook his head, but did not take his eyes off the lake.

"However, it is indeed a point worthy of investigation."

"But that will have to wait until the Dark Lantern Dragon leaves. Even if we put aside the original mission, the fact that we successfully tracked down the Dark Lantern Dragon this time, and the investigative data we obtained, is enough to make us famous!"

The young scholar forced a smile, and after he finished speaking, he saw the Dark Dragon flapping its wings and flying into the sky as if it could no longer bear it, and disappeared again.

After waiting for a while, everyone dared to approach the lake. The first thing they surveyed was naturally the footprints of the Dark Lantern Dragon.

After completing the collection of traces of the Dark Lantern Dragon, they gathered at the lakeside and looked towards the center of the lake.

The lake was exceptionally calm, with a sense of desolation and taboo. After surveying along the lakeside, scholars confirmed that there were no traces of large monsters in the lake, just like on land.

"Similar to the investigation reports from other hunting grounds, not only on land, but even in the lakes, large monsters have disappeared. This can only mean that the perpetrator possesses amphibious capabilities."

“The recipes are really extensive.”

"However, there is one thing worth noting. Judging from the investigative reports we've collected so far on several hunting grounds where accidents have occurred, the perpetrator's movements on land are inconsistent. He can be described as elusive."

"Perhaps it's like the old mountain dragon, active underground and occasionally on the surface?"

"But there were no earthquakes in the several hunting grounds."

Everyone stared at the lake in front of them. At this moment, it seemed that this was the only answer left.

Every hunting ground has a large water source...

"Do you want me to go down and take a look?"

The person who spoke was a hunter in the group, an exclusive hunter of Longliyuan.

The hunters of Longli Academy are talented young men selected by scholars, that is, outstanding hunter seedlings, and then directly trained and educated.

In addition to being influenced by knowledge and able to keep up with the thinking of scholars, this type of hunter is also not short of resources because of the dragon people's expertise in alchemical herbs and accessories, which is not comparable to ordinary hunters.

The scholars were relieved to let him go into the water to find out what was going on.

The hunters dressed lightly and dived into the lake, while the scholars waited patiently on the shore.

Ji Jie was not idle either. He entered the lake where no one could see him, transformed into a water beast, and observed in real time whether the hunter could find the bright spots under the water.

"And water beasts?"

The hunter was easily attracted by Ji Jie. All the larger creatures in the lake disappeared. He wanted to find clues from this surviving water beast, so he thrust his body forward and moved towards Ji Jie.

"The boy swims pretty fast, and his lung capacity is incredible."

Ji Jie burst out with a speed far beyond that of a water beast, avoiding the grasp of the ape-dragon monster, but he shook it off and swam towards the center of the lake with it hanging on his shoulder.

Soon, they arrived at the bottom of the lake. The hunter floated up and down in the lake and stepped on the bottom. Then he suddenly floated up as if he had been electrocuted, and turned his head down to observe the situation at the bottom of the lake.

Bones, lots of bones.

There are old bones and new bones, and there are plankton emitting faint light spots around the new bones.

When the hunter raised his head, he was surprised to see that the water beast was still in his sight, as if waiting for him.

He no longer hesitated, and straightened his body to chase the water beast again.

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Chapter 585: Since ancient times, the left side has always lost, except for that pig Dyna!

Seeing that the hunter behind him had caught up with him, Ji Jie continued to swim into the waterway. His perception had already scanned the bottom of the lake again and again and locked the position.

Is this lake really that deep?

The lake water became increasingly dark, so dark that Ji Jie could feel the hunter's consciousness churning behind him.

[What a deep underwater cave.]

It’s more than just deep, this is the secret why skeleton dragons can appear all over the continent.

Ji Jie gazed at the depths ahead, but the hunter behind him did not have enough oxygen to move at this depth. Being able to hold his breath and move to this depth was already his limit, and it was unimaginable for ordinary people.

Maybe even longer if I were wearing some aquatic monster gear?

【We need to bring up the underwater situation.】

The hunter's thoughts stopped churning, and all his remaining strength was used to float upwards.

A slippery touch came from under him, and it turned out to be the water beast pushing him upwards.

The hunter was slightly surprised, then quickly broke through the water surface, quickly restored his oxygen reserves in a backstroke posture, and then dived down again.

With the help of the sunlight from the upper layer of the lake, he noticed that the water beast was looking at him, and he couldn't help but smile and waved.

Ji Jie nodded slightly and dived down again.

This time, the hunter dived to a deeper depth, thoroughly confirmed the existence of a waterway under the lake, and then floated back to the lakeshore.

"Judging from your expression, did you really find something underwater?"

"Skeletons, caves, and a very deep cave beneath the lake. I don't know where it leads to. A large aquatic beast also led me there."

"How fantastical! Perhaps the aquatic beasts also want to avenge their dead comrades."

"If there's a cave beneath the lake that leads to somewhere else, that would explain the culprit's elusiveness."

The professor nodded and wrote this down in his notebook, then continued:

"This result is enough for us to report back to the Dragon Calendar Institute. On the way back, we'll pass by a hunting ground where something happened. I'd be grateful if you could dive down and take a look."

"it is good."

After finishing the investigation report, everyone headed towards the airship they came from.

Ji Jie turned into the Hate Bird and returned to Xia Bao, watching the scholars board the airship and slowly fly up.

How does something like this fly without big wings?

Xia Bao asked Ji Jie curiously.

"The special gas inside the airbag is lighter than air, and when heated it increases buoyancy, and then it floats."

Ji Jie explained, and then saw Xia Bao start to inhale, trying to make herself swell up.

"Silly boy, how much air can you breathe? Besides, the air you breathe is just air, how can it be lighter than air?"

He patted Xialong's forehead with his wings. Xiabao seemed to be stunned and held his breath without moving.

Xia Bao thought about it carefully and it seemed to be true, so she let out a long breath.

When they found Nana, the Flame Queen Dragon looked quite unhappy, and it was obvious that the hunting was not going well.

After explaining to her the habits of the Tyrannosaurus Rex from the ancient dragon world of the Skeleton Dragon, Nana frowned and felt that the Skeleton Dragon deserved to die.

Continuing eastward, and getting further away from the lake where the skeleton dragon landed, Ji Jie's sense of struggle began to sound.