Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

Chapter 1442 Trap Operation
The shooters each found their attacking positions and fired in dispersed positions.

The ammunition they used was mainly armor-piercing grenades and penetrating bullets. The former was suitable for destroying monsters' body tissues, while the latter was extremely effective when facing such huge monsters.

Julius used the slope of the crater created by the previous fire storm to leap onto the red dragon's back.

He spun around and turned into a whirlwind of sharp blades, sweeping past.

Maka also chose to climb onto his back, selecting a wound that was exposed after the shell was shattered, and launched her best falling stabbing attack.

Aiden was not in a hurry to launch an attack. As he was using a one-handed sword, he was more of a supporter in terms of combat positioning.

He moved flexibly around the red dragon, slashing it with swords from time to time, looking for an opportunity.

The arrival of the pen and alcohol teams, plus the heavy crossbow team, a total of ten hunters, suddenly changed the situation of the battle.

For hunters who work in harmony, doubling or tripling their numbers does not mean their combat effectiveness will also double or triple.

Just like two or three strange-faced people can hardly pose a threat to a large monster, but when more than ten strange-faced people surrounded the monster with various explosive bombs, rocket launchers, and artillery vehicles.

Even a large flying dragon might be blown so hard that it would be dizzy and unable to even get up.

It wasn't just the hunters who hit rock bottom.

Scholars, led by professors, also ventured to the front line.

They hid in scattered places far away so as not to cause trouble to the hunters, while using multi-functional eyepieces to observe the red dragon and try to analyze its behavior.

The professor shouted in a voice that was not proportional to his size: "Its wounds have not healed! The energy in this area has been exhausted! Do everything you can to hold it back!"

"Lure it to exhale!" The leader of the third group also shouted from another location: "That will accelerate its energy consumption and make it weaker!"

Alva and April are also hiding nearby.

At first, the professor was not going to approve the two young men to join.

Especially Ai Bo, who is younger than Feng Ying. The professor is worried whether she can withstand the pressure of facing the red dragon.

But scholars’ obsession with the unknown knows no age limit.

During the past few years in the New World, she had experienced no less than those senior members of the Scribe Team, and she finally succeeded in convincing the professor.

Even though they were far apart, even though the other person's attention was not on her at all, the suffocating feeling that made her mind stagnate still enveloped her.
April slapped his cheeks hard, trying to wake himself up.

But the instinctive fear still made her look away.

She wanted to slap herself in the face. She had clearly been pestering herself to get it, but it didn't work at the critical moment.

Just as she was hesitating whether she should evacuate alone and not cause trouble for others, she suddenly discovered something.

Although it has nothing to do with the Red Dragon, it may be of some use.

Ai Bo took a deep breath and shouted, "Ten o'clock! The ground fissure is obvious and the geological structure is loose! Maybe we can trap it!"

After completing an aerial spinning attack and landing on the ground, Julius, who was about to quickly sharpen his weapon, made a gesture to Aiden when he heard this.

Aiden nodded and ran quickly towards the place that Aibo mentioned.

Just as the latter said, the rocky ground nearby was covered with cracks, as if it had been bombarded by some powerful force.

Was it the aftermath of the attack by the red dragon or other ancient dragons?
No one knows.

But this is indeed a natural trap.

Humans and even large monsters of the conventional system will be fine if they walk on it.

But a creature of the size and weight of a red dragon would almost inevitably cause a landslide once it stepped on this loose and fragile ground.

"Here!" Aiden shouted, attracting the attention of his companions.

At the same time, take the time to arrange it.

There are also some vines growing nearby.

These vines can be said to be the only green in the Quiet Valley, if the brown-green color can be considered green.

Leaving aside the color, Aiden pulled hard and found that the vines were at least strong enough.

So he dragged them hard and laid them on the ground full of rock cracks.

If the red dragon gets trapped and struggles, these vines may wrap around its body and have some restraining effect.

Pig Chop also crawled out from the ground, shook off the sand on his body, and crawled into the natural trap again, hurriedly setting up something.

The hunters who received his signal began to consciously lead the red dragon here.

How to induce the actions of monsters is almost a compulsory course for hunters.

Julius and others are particularly good at this.

He kept passing through the Red Dragon's sight, attacking briefly and then retreating, like a fly, which annoyed the Red Dragon greatly.

Others also paused their offensive.

The red dragon focused its attention on Julius and sprayed a high-energy flame at him.

Julius deftly dodged the attack with a dashing move and turned to run in the direction of the trap.

The red dragon subconsciously took a few steps forward.

Given its size, these few steps covered a distance of nearly 100 meters, and it rushed into the area with loose geology.

Under the weight of nearly a thousand tons, the ground began to collapse.

The red dragon, realizing something was wrong, tried to retreat, but suddenly two muffled explosions were heard from underground.

It was an explosive placed by Pork Chop.

Under the precise blasting, the speed of ground collapse suddenly accelerated. The red dragon howled angrily, but was unable to stop its body from falling, and fell into it in a miserable state.

The pit was not too deep, only about four or five meters in the middle. Given the size of the red dragon, even if it fell into it, its back and head would still be exposed on the ground.

But it is not so easy to break free from it.

Its body was too heavy and too big, and its claws were too sharp. As soon as the dragon claws that had climbed onto the edge of the cave began to exert force, they collapsed a large piece of the ground.

As it struggled, the tangled vines caught its claws, wing bones, and dorsal spines.

This further restricted its actions.

Of course, the heavy crossbowmen would not miss such a good attack opportunity.

Gale, the temporary captain of the heavy crossbow team, shouted “Ahahaha!” and came to the side of the red dragon. He squatted and set up the Molten Dragon Heavy Crossbow. “Everyone, spread the bomb! Lock on the front half of the body, and blast it!”

Amid the rapid but orderly bombardment, Lv3 diffusion bombs fell like heavy rain, covering the front of the red dragon.

The arrangement was slightly different from that when hunting the Earth Dragon. This time all the heavy crossbowmen, including Ansel and Gale, used the powerful Lv3 diffusion bombs.

As for bombarding the monster's head with armor-piercing grenades to cause stun and stiffness, it is entirely the responsibility of the two light crossbowmen.

Both Oshura and Natia use the [Black Feather Crossbow II] which is capable of rapid-fire Lv2 armor-piercing grenades. The power of Lv2 armor-piercing grenades is slightly weaker than that of Lv3, but the rapid-fire completely makes up for this shortcoming.

Under the continuous firing of two light crossbows, almost in the blink of an eye, the Red Dragon's head was full of armor-piercing grenades.

As another wave of diffusion bombs fell, these armor-piercing grenades were detonated together.

A strong shock swept through the red dragon's brain. Even if it was a "taboo", it was still a living being, a flesh and blood body.

Due to the violent shock, it tried to stand up but its limbs went limp and it fell back into the pit.

The hunting cats and Babaka of the strange-faced tribe, led by Pig Chop, desperately threw explosive bombs at the red dragon.

At this time, skills, angles, and timing are not important. You just need to pull the fuse and throw it at the target.

"Meow meow meow!"

"Kababa!"

"Blast it meow!"

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(End of this chapter)