Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

Chapter 1428 Human Compass
On the lunch table.

Feng Ying, who was starving in every sense, picked up a piece of roasted leg meat, but before she could put it in her mouth, she was met with everyone's sharp gazes.

Even the mushroom held up the dragon skeleton cloth with its claws, as if it was ready to rush over and strangle her at any time.

Feng Ying: "."

Suddenly I lost my appetite.

The professor noticed this and tapped the cup with his spoon to draw everyone's attention, "Don't be so tense, everyone.

This will make her nervous and affect the resonance between you.

The so-called resonance is a low-probability event. It is a waste of time to have so many people staring at it together. Just arrange one or two people to do it.

Ai Bo, you and Feng Ying are partners, remember to follow her these two days, and the others should continue to do what they are supposed to do."

"I understand." Ai Bo nodded seriously.

Following the professor's reminder, the others also withdrew their gazes.

Feng Ying, who had been feeling uneasy for the entire morning, finally heaved a sigh of relief, picked up the food on the table and started to eat.

After lunch, the professor led Feng Ying to a quiet cabin.

“Meditate, concentrate, and try to start from ‘you’ side and actively feel the information about ‘it’.”

Feng Ying took a breath, feeling the lingering anger and hunger in her heart, and sat down cross-legged.

Aibo carefully placed an exquisite brass incense burner beside her and lit the incense inside.

She borrowed this stuff from the leader of the third group, and of course the spice too, it is said to have a calming effect.

Hayata, who often practices sword meditation and is very skilled in meditation, sits opposite Fengying and guides her into the state.

With a series of soothing instructions such as "focus your mind", "start from your limbs and move on to your torso, slowly relax your muscles", and "feel and listen to your own heartbeat".

Hayata quickly got into the state, and Feng Ying.
She was almost asleep.

Hayata was helpless and was about to wake her up, but the professor stopped her.

“Perhaps relaxing into sleep is a more effective way for her than meditation.”

As he said that, he gave Feng Ying a pillow.

Under the professor's encouraging gaze, Feng Ying lay down on the spot, somewhat shyly, with her head resting on the pillow.

Although it was a bit strange to be stared at, I certainly couldn't let go of the opportunity to eat and sleep with a clear conscience.

At the professor's suggestion, Hayata once again talked about those drowsy "meditation points". Not long after, Feng Ying fell into a deep sleep with a little snoring.

One minute, five minutes, a quarter of an hour
She was sleeping normally.

After watching for a while, the professor whispered to April, "You stay here with her."

As he said this, he was about to get up and leave to do other things.

Feng Ying, who was sleeping soundly a second ago, suddenly sat up.

The hearts of the other people in the cabin were also lifted at the same time.

They stared at Feng Ying who had "woken up", worried about her condition and looking forward to the information she might bring.

Feng Ying stood up stiffly and slowly, like a malfunctioning machine.

It was as if she had bearings under her feet. She turned a small circle on the spot, then walked step by step in one direction.

The cabin was narrow, only a few meters deep. She almost hit the wall of the cabin after taking only two steps, and she had no intention of stopping.

The pupils turned into red and stared quietly at the wall in front of them, or rather, at something farther away behind the wall.

As he walked, he raised his right fist with his muscles tensed, obviously preparing to demolish the wall with his bare hands.

"mushroom!"

Realizing that Feng Ying's actions were all instinctive and unconscious, Hayata quickly shouted to remind her.

The mushroom holding the dragon skeleton cloth had already rushed forward, jumped up behind Feng Ying, shook open the dark red ancient cloth, and covered Feng Ying's head.

Feng Ying, who was sleepwalking, paused and fell backwards.

Ai Bo quickly supported her from behind.

Soon, she woke up, looked around in confusion for a few seconds, and then she came to her senses, "Did I just enter a state of resonance?"

"Ah."

The professor stared at the direction Fengying had just moved and took out a compass to record the location.

"Do you feel unwell anywhere? Like a headache or something?" Hayata asked uneasily.

In fact, she has always been opposed to this strategy of prompting Feng Ying to enter a state of resonance and obtain intelligence.

But the information from the Dragon King was crucial, and they could not give up this almost only source of information.

Feng Ying shook her head vigorously. "Actually, I don't feel very tired. I just feel like I had a very strange dream."

"What kind of thing? Describe it as quickly as possible. The memory of the dream will fade quickly after you wake up. Tell me quickly while you still remember it." The professor urged.

“I seemed very angry and hungry in my dream”

"From the perspective of the Dragon King?" the professor guessed, and then continued to ask: "Have you noticed what the environment around you is like?

Plains? Mountain tops? Basins and valleys?"

Feng Ying shook her head vigorously. "It's blurry, like my eyelids are closed. I can sense some light, but I can't see anything."

The professor nodded, not seeming disappointed.

“Although I haven’t expressed it more clearly in words, I think I have a solution. Put on the dragon skeleton cloth and take a rest.

An hour later we were out to sea.”

"Go to sea?"

"Ah."

The professor didn't play dumb and stretched out his hand to April. "Give me a big map of the Demon Gathering Land."

Ai Bo quickly took out a page from his book folder and handed it to the professor.

The professor spread the map on the ground. "We are here now, on the reefs in the southern waters of the Guiding Lands."

The professor drew a small red cross on the map, then pressed the compass on the position of the red cross and continued: "In the resonance state, the direction you are walking is about 20 degrees north and west."

As he spoke, he took out the pen and ruler he carried with him, and drew a straight line starting from the "red fork" where the Blue Star was located, along an angle of twenty degrees north-west, all the way to the end of the map.

"We are now on the southern sea of ​​the Land of Gathering Demons. We will head west later to see if we can make you resonate with us again and find a direction."

Ai Bo suddenly realized, "Draw another extended line. The place where the two lines intersect is where Feng Ying wants to go in the resonance state?"

“Well, that place could be the Dragon King’s lair, or it could be the place where the Dragon King plans to go after waking up.

Whatever the possibility, it's always a good idea to confirm the coordinates of that location first."

The professor glanced at the map and compass and continued, "But it is very difficult to confirm an exact coordinate based on the 'facing direction'.

Just like just now, Feng Ying's direction might be twenty degrees west of north, or ten degrees or thirty degrees west.

If only two lines are relied upon, the coordinate error of the intersection will be very large, and this error will expand infinitely with the extension of distance, making the positioning meaningless.

It would be best to let Fengying move forward several dozen meters on the ground, so that the direction can be locked more accurately through the footprints.

At the same time, we need to visit as many locations as possible. The more lines we draw and the denser their intersections, the more accurate the final coordinates will be.”

Feng Ying: "."

No? Are you really using me as a compass?!

(End of this chapter)