Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

Chapter 1123 The Road to Explosive Bombs

Pork Chop had an excited, even fanatical smile on his face.

Combat cats in the general sense are divided into two branches: melee cats and bomb cats.

Although he is also good at close combat, he loves studying all kinds of big banging pork chops, and emotionally he still prefers that he is a bomb cat.

Leaving aside for the time being technical factors such as the timing of throwing explosive bombs, the role that explosive cats can play in combat naturally depends on the type and power of explosive bombs.

In the early hunting, the explosive cat is very dominant. Even ordinary small barrel explosives, if thrown at a good time, can blow up monsters such as the Big Boar King and the Velociraptor King.

But when hunters enter four-star or five-star levels and need to face large flying dragons, beast dragons, or other large monsters with thick skin and flesh, the small barrel explosive bombs most commonly used by explosive cats appear to be relatively weak, and the power is sufficient. Large barrel explosive bombs are too bulky and inconvenient to carry.

Therefore, the explosive cat in this period will appear relatively weak.

Melee cats are just the opposite. Melee cats that grow up with hunters gradually begin to master the power of fighting spirit during this period. With high-quality weapons and flexible skills, their combat effectiveness is not even inferior to that of hunters.

Of course, pork chop has also faced this dilemma, and there are two solutions.

The first is to study various new types of bombs, such as more powerful rocket bombs, gyro bombs used to distract monsters, incendiary bombs that can continuously burn on monsters by adding incendiary agents, etc., all of which were developed during that period. of.

The second is "join if you can't compete". During that time, it has grown in martial arts, trap setting, first aid, and even cooking.

When he came back to his senses, he had become a true all-rounder and could proudly say "A bomb cat who can't use a cat sword to kill monsters is not a good cat cook."

At this time, it also promoted to the upper realm along with Gordon, and began to face various ancient dragon-level creatures with amazing strength.

Melee? Explosive bomb? support? Or cure? It is no longer important. Facing Gu Long, it is impossible to win without using all your strength and all means.

At that time, Pork Chop was about to succumb to reality and give up his love for explosive bombs. In order to make up for his lack of frontal combat capabilities, he also learned ghost transformation, a high-level skill that generally only powerful melee cats can learn.

During that time, it didn't use explosive bombs very much, and more often used steel claws to scratch and cat swords to chop.

However, the later finalization and mass production of high-density dragon-killing carbon, as well as the successful development of supernova, allowed it to see the way forward for the explosive cat.

Is Bomb Cat tired in the late stage? That's purely because of insufficient equivalent power, meow!

As long as the explosives are powerful enough, the ancient dragon will blow up for you, meow!

There is actually nothing wrong with this idea. If Pork Chop can really replace all the conventional explosive bombs he carries with high-density dragon-killing carbon, his combat effectiveness will indeed be quite scary.

But that's not realistic. The cost of blending high-density dragon-killing carbon is too high. Even if you make a small amount, Ancil will use it to make supernovae.

It has to be said that the power of this thing is suitable for use as artillery shells and crossbow shells.

Use it to throw away. I am afraid that the explosion radius will be larger than the throwing distance.

Therefore, Pork Chop has always wanted to find a high-quality explosive that can achieve a perfect balance in power, cost, stability and other aspects.

Originally, Pork Chop took aim at the degraded mass-produced version of dragon-killing carbon developed by the alchemists headed by Granny Alchemist during the battle against the Lava Dragon.

The power is quite good, and the material cost is acceptable. The only flaw is the catastrophic instability. After the blending is completed, it is basically immobile, and a slightly violent vibration may detonate it.

There are natural solutions, which are nothing more than passivation, but the result is a sharp decline in power, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Just as it was trying to crack this problem, Babaka and the Drunkards sent samples of ancient slime mold.

Intuition told Pork Chop that the upper limit of this slime mold was higher, so he changed the direction of his research.

After this period of unremitting efforts, the slime mold explosive bomb that can be used in actual combat has finally taken shape.

Gordon, Feng Ying, and Hayata squatted around Zhupa, looking at the strange explosive bomb in the latter's hand that was about the size of an adult man's fist.

This thing doesn't look like explosive bombs. Generally, the shells of explosive bombs are made of wood. On the one hand, they are light, on the other hand, they are relatively strong and safe, and the cost is not high.

But the shell of the bomb in Pork Chop's hand is made of thick glass, and the shape is very familiar to hunters.

"Isn't this a standard medicine bottle?" Feng Ying muttered.

"That's right!" Pork Chop put his hands on his hips, "The ancient slime mold was very powerful, so a small amount of the medicine is enough. It doesn't need to be bigger. The advantages of the wooden shell and glass are also there, so the medicine can be used." The bottles are ready-made!"

"That makes sense." Hayata nodded, "The larger glass jars are easier to break, but the smaller ones are very strong and can withstand knocks."

Able to become a widely used pharmaceutical bottle, the reliability of this type of glass bottle is absolutely guaranteed. Gordon picked up the glass bottle and looked at it. He found that it contained half a bottle of earthy moss, and a small amount of snot-like amorphous fluorescent yellow slime mold was mixed in it.

"Is this a bottle-shaped petri dish?" he couldn't help but ask.

"That's it, meow. It's very safe at this time, meow!" Pig Chop shook the glass bottle vigorously.

The soil, moss and amoeba were poured around in the bottle, but nothing happened.

"Then how do you detonate this thing?" Feng Ying asked.

"We need to put in the 'lead'!" Pig Chop took out a small sealed glass tube that was about the thickness of a little finger and two or three centimeters long.

The glass tube is filled with a light blue liquid.

Feng Ying understood somewhat, "Is this filled with nutrient solution?"

“It’s almost the same, it’s a special nutrient solution that has been adjusted according to the ‘taste’ of ancient slime molds, and the enzymes used to activate the slime molds are also in it!

As long as these cats are touched, the slime mold will grow rapidly, and then activate and detonate the cats in just a few seconds! "

Feng Ying thought of something, pinched her chin and said, "What you said reminds me of a special kind of monster?"

"Meow?"

"There is a unique monster called 'Galan Orangu' (rigid beast) living in Elgad. It secretes a kind of body fluid that has the effect of quickly promoting the growth of various plants and moss. What is it called? It's special. Thick body fat liquid?

If you use that thing as a nutrient for slime mold, will the effect be amazing? "

"The effect should be very good, meow." Pig Chop looked at her sideways, "But is it possible to get something like that now, meow?"

"Well, it does seem impossible." Feng Ying smiled dryly, "Next time a liaison ship comes, maybe you can write a letter back and ask Lie Yan to help send some?"

"We'll talk about those things later." Gordon waved his hands, "First let us see how this thing works and how powerful it is?"

"Watch it, meow, that's how it's used, meow."

As Pork Chop said, he took off the lid of the glass medicine bottle and stuffed the glass tube containing the nutrient into it.

"In this way, even if the fuse is installed, you can do this step before the battle, so you don't have to worry about accidents such as accidental explosions."

As he said that, Pork Chop shook the glass bottle vigorously again.

The glass tube hit the thick wall of the glass medicine bottle and broke immediately. Nutrients mixed with enzymes for activation were sprinkled on the slime mold in advance. The slime mold multiplied rapidly, filling the entire glass bottle in the blink of an eye, and then radiated danger. of red light.

"Meow!" Pig Chop threw the glass medicine bottle that had turned into a powerful explosive bomb.

The medicine bottle, no, the slime mold bomb drew a parabola and fell to the ground dozens of meters away.

The moment it touched the ground and was impacted, there was a flash of explosive flames.

"Boom--!"

The ear-splitting roar swept all around along with the blast wind, and the hunters couldn't help but raise their arms to block the incoming wind and sand.

When the dust dispersed, a large crater nearly one meter in diameter appeared at the impact point of the slime mold bomb.

"Tsk, tsk." Gordon clicked his tongue, "Such a small one is almost as powerful as a barrel of explosive bombs, isn't it?"

"Meow hahaha! Almost meow!"

"It is indeed a bomb named after a mushroom." Feng Ying grinned, looking proud.

"But as expected, I still want to call it slime mold bomb meow."

(End of this chapter)