hunt and eat

Soon, after confirming that there was nothing missing, the Blue Star team fired a signal bomb into the air.

The airship, which had been on standby in the air, also began to fall immediately.

"Hunter Your Excellency, has that Tyrannosaurus been hunted by you?" The captain, smoking a pipe, looked around strangely.

Although the scene obviously experienced a big battle, it seems that no dead Tyrannosaurus was seen?

"Although it hasn't been hunted down, the mission is almost complete." Guta climbed onto the deck and said while rubbing his sore shoulders.

Although the captain didn't quite understand what it meant, he didn't ask any more questions. He nodded and went back to the rudder, controlling the flying boat to lift off again.

These young hunters have just experienced a big battle, and now they are going to ask the bottom line, it would be a bit too boring.

Anyway, as long as things work out, everything is fine, isn't it?

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Chapter 37 Pub Drinks

"cheers!"

In the open-air tavern covered with red leaves, the ancient pagoda is half leaning against a red maple tree that is said to be more than 200 years old, holding a large glass wine glass, and drinking with its companions.

The ice cubes kept colliding in the lightly frosted wine glass, making a crisp sound.

Amid the chatter and laughter, the cold sour pear juice flowed down the throat, making people feel a burst of coolness from the top of the sky to the soles of the feet.

"Today's big green bear beast, should it be the last one?" With chopsticks, some kelp mixed with vinegar was thrown into her mouth. Weiwei sat cross-legged on the cushion, shaking her big head restlessly.

More than a month has passed since the last time I hunted the Evil Tyrannosaurus Rex.

During this period of time, they successively defeated no less than thirty berserk monsters, among which there were five of them at the level of natural disasters.

Of course, among the five natural disasters, there is no monster of the level similar to the evil-eating Tyrannosaurus rex.

Even before the metamorphosis, Evil Shi possessed the strength of a senior natural disaster, and now it is estimated that he should have crossed the threshold of the peak, and officially possessed the terrifying strength close to the three strong members of the ancient dragon group.

This is also the main reason why the ancient tower did not persist in the crusade at that time.

Although the attack power is not outstanding, in terms of defense power, the evil-eating tyrannosaur is undoubtedly the strongest that Guta has seen so far. Even the armored dragon known for its defense is in front of it. Young children without clothes are average, not in the same rank at all.

Considering that the other party has completely overcome the mad dragon virus, it really doesn't make much sense to continue hunting.

"Ah, it is indeed the last one. The remaining infected individuals, ah, thank you...the danger is not high anymore, just hand it over to other hunters."

Guta took over a dozen skewers of roasted birds from the store, and put them on the big dinner plate on the table in front of him.

Large skewers of monster meat and local specialty scallions were interspersed side by side. While the surface was glowing with the unique bright luster of the sauce, the strong smell of meat wafted into everyone's nostrils.

"I can't take it anymore." Mie Jin muttered, grabbed half of the kebabs, sucked and slipped, and only the bare bamboo sticks remained.

"Eat slowly, there's still plenty of meat." Nia helplessly wiped Mie Jin's small mouth full of sauce stains.

"It's not to blame for Mieji, this store's roasted bird is really authentic." Guta also picked up a bunch of scallions and grilled meat, crunching and chewing.

The combination of fresh ingredients, thick miso repeatedly smeared by the izakaya's secret recipe, and delicate low-fire roasting is hard not to arouse the gluttons in the stomach.

After drinking another glass of cold sour pear juice, Guta arranged the messy barbecue bamboo sticks in front of him with some obsessive-compulsive disorder, and said, "The mission of Jieyun Village is almost completed, let's see next." Do you want to go to Sinard Village and Sky Mountain?"

"By the way, I don't seem to have seen your master today?" Guta turned to look at Niya who was digging almond tofu with a wooden spoon.

"There seems to be some trouble in the nearby stronghold, so Master set off there early in the morning to help... Anyway, the monsters that can threaten the village have been cleaned up, and with us staying in Jieyun Village, she also rest assured."

Nia said casually.

"Near Sky Mountain, has it been listed as a forbidden area now? Can we go in casually?" Qiao Qiao asked slowly with warm milk in his arms.

"We are not newcomers now, and we still have this authority." Guta put the big glass with only ice cubes on the slightly messy table, and picked his teeth with a toothpick he took out from nowhere. "As early as more than a month ago, the guild sent three high-sequence hunters from the ancient dragon group into Sky Mountain to investigate, but judging from the fact that the blockade order has not been lifted until now, it seems that the investigation is not going smoothly."

"After all, it is a crisis affecting half of the continent. It would be strange if it can be investigated so easily, right?" Wei Wei waved her hands disapprovingly.

Guta shrugged his shoulders noncommittally, and said, "Maybe, and according to my internal information, one of the three ancient dragon hunters is an old acquaintance of ours."

"Who is it?" Everyone looked at the ancient tower together.

"Sequence 9 [Magical Equipment] Nocsimilian." Guta chuckled, and continued, "I heard that this time he volunteered to participate in the mission... Judging by his behavior, it's quite rare."

"What's the style of Master Noxi? Don't talk nonsense." Weiwei glared at Guta with some dissatisfaction.

This girl has always been Noxie's little fan girl, although she won't go to the point of blindly chasing stars, but she will still fight with reason for slander.

"My mine, pretend I didn't say it." Guta said helplessly.

"All in all, let's ask for everyone's opinions, should we go to Sky Mountain or not?"

"I have no opinion."

"I do not have either!"

Several people raised their hands in agreement, but in the end only Nia remained silent.

Looking at the group of partners who looked at her expectantly, Nia stroked her forehead and gave a wry smile: "I actually don't agree with going to such a dangerous place, but seeing you look like this, it's useless to say anything, right? "

"Then go."

"Okay, okay, in fact, Tiantian Mountain may not be as dangerous as you think. After all, everyone has been vaccinated against the mad dragon virus. No matter how high the concentration is, it will not be effective for us."

"Of course, if you're really worried, I'll contact Bordeaux recently to give you another booster injection... This thing was originally developed by him and Fengxian, and he has backups for antibodies and pathogens. "

Guta said with a smile, stood up and walked to the bar, chatted with the owner of the izakaya, and settled the bill.

The consumption is not high, after all, no expensive ingredients are used, but the taste is really top.

Compared with the sky-high bill for fish flavor, the price-performance ratio here is almost as high as the height of Mount Everest.

After drinking and eating, everyone walked back to the hotel where they stayed along the winding path in Jieyun Village.

Compared with a month ago, the flow of people in Jieyun Village is obviously much larger. The people who come and go are all unfamiliar faces, and more than half of them are hunters who came from other places.

Or in twos and threes, or five or six get together to discuss something.

"It's really eye-opening that the mad dragon monster can become a hot commodity." Weiwei rubbed her eyes and yawned.

"The merit points of the mad dragon monster crusade are three times that of normal monsters. For those hunter teams who want to rise to a higher rank earlier, it makes no sense not to take advantage of this kind of advantage, right?"

Guta shrugged noncommittally, and then said again:

"Everyone pack up tonight, we will go back to Yanhuo Village tomorrow."

"Before officially entering Sky Mountain, just in case, we still need to make some preparations."

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Chapter 38 Prohibition of vertical entry - [Sky Mountain] restricted area

After three full days of recuperation in Yanhuo Village, the Canglan Star team officially arrived at their destination in a spaceship.

Three months ago, [Sky Mountain] was officially listed as a forbidden area by the guild.

Of course, if you really want to say Sky Mountain, it is actually relatively inaccurate.

Except for the lofty mountain that stretched straight to the sky from a distance, even the area with a radius of a hundred miles was classified as a forbidden area by the guild.

"I'm sorry, little brother, I can only send you here." The old captain Zhepu who was wearing a one-eyed eyepatch said a little embarrassedly.

Compared with the last time he went to the natural disaster trial site, the old man seemed to be a little older,

"If we go any further, the airspace will not be very stable. We can only stop in front of this area."

"You're welcome, it's been a great help to be sent here." Guta shook his head and said with a smile.

Behind him, a kind of companion is carrying a large amount of supplies and equipment, doing inspections before the battle.

It is also a coincidence that when Guta and the others were replenishing supplies in Yanhuo Village, they happened to meet the [Barefoot], which was temporarily resting here, so they directly entrusted the captain Zhepu to transport them based on the principle that it is better to build the old than the new. Go to Sky Mountain Forbidden Area.

"I didn't seem to see your granddaughter this time?" Nia, who was carrying a huge backpack taller than her, scanned the empty deck back and forth, and asked a little confused.

"Hey~" With a long sigh, the old captain habitually wanted to take a puff of his pipe, but in the next second he remembered that this old man seemed to have been accidentally smashed by him a few months ago, so he felt even more depressed right now.

"After that girl met you, she argued every day to become a hunter, and then ran away from home after a fight with me... I guess she is still receiving training from the guild in some initial town."

"Well, it's either Paley or Garrett, and that girl knows these two places... She still wants to be a hunter with this little knowledge.

Although Zhepu cursed fiercely, both Guta and Nia could tell that the old man still cared about his granddaughter.

"The training of the guild's reserve hunters? I miss it so much~" Weiwei said lazily leaning on the railing, yawning.

Compared to Guta and Nia, two self-taught hunters who had never experienced novice training, Wei Wei had experienced a complete hunter training course.

From the use of weapons, physical exercise to fighting monsters, the instructors in the training camp told them almost everything they could, which can be called a model of systematic teaching.

Even a lazy guy like Weiwei has more or less mastered most of the basic skills of a hunter after a round of training.

Although it was completely abandoned soon after passing the hunter assessment, it was not picked up again until they met Guta and the others.

"Well, it's not a bad thing to want to be a hunter." Guta said casually, sensing the messy aura of a large number of creatures in the forest below.

Zhepu curled his lips and said with a wrinkled face: "I'm not opposed to her being a hunter, but I'm afraid that this child will be a stickler, so at least find a few reliable friends to form a team... Otherwise, if she gets messed up one day, she shouldn't be messed with." monster, who will collect her body then?"

Guta noticed that when he said this, Zhepu subconsciously glanced at his wooden leg, it seems that there are some stories in it.

"You also know that child, she has a stubborn temper, a bad mouth, and she does things carelessly... I originally wanted her to go to an old friend's hunting group as a trainee to sharpen her temper, but this girl has a bad temper. When she came up, she felt that I looked down on her, and ran away after arguing with me."

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what to say for a while.

Where have you seen this scene?

Seriously, kids are rebellious these days, right?

"Yamanashi's hellish temper, even my own grandfather can't stand it sometimes, let alone other people, and now I'm probably alone."

"She's not a genius hunter like you. What's the difference between performing a mission alone and courting death, eh."

During the conversation, Zhepu took the helm and controlled the flying boat to wander around outside the forest for a few times.

After guarding around the bottom and confirming that no monsters were found, the flying ship fell a little bit, and quickly stopped behind a sunny hillside.

"You don't need to worry too much about the Yamanashi matter. The guild usually deliberately arranges hunters with better personalities to partner with them at the same time." said the captain suddenly.

"Ah? Is there still such a saying? Why hasn't the old man heard of it before?"

With a faint smile, Guta waved his hand without looking back: "This is an idea that was thought up by a fool 50 years ago. It's an unwritten rule within the guild. It's normal if you don't know."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Zhepu to ask any more questions, he jumped down and landed on the ground.

"See you later then."

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Compared with the virgin forests in other areas, the environment near Tiantian Mountain may be affected by the local abnormal climate and phenomena, and most of them appear tall and sparse.

Coupled with the towering Sky Mountain in the distance, with no end in sight, it gives people a sense of loneliness and desolation.

"Speaking of which, isn't it winter?" Weiwei reached out to catch a few small snowflakes falling from the sky, and looked up at the somewhat dark sky, "It's getting cold so fast this year."

"When we were in our hometown, winter came a lot earlier than usual. It seems that there is no sign of this in Guanghai." Nia left a mark under a tree and took the conversation casually.

After all, it is the first time here, so it is necessary to make a mark from time to time.

Qiao Qiao, who was at the end of the team, turned his head and looked at the weeds that were almost half the height of his eyes, and the pale frost on them, and said:

"The climate here seems to be very cold, but apart from frost, unexpectedly there is not much snow."

They had done their homework before they came, and they knew that the environment on Sky Mountain was much harsher than the outside world.

Now it is more or less the first clue.

"Maybe it's not time yet, or the humidity in the air is too low." Guta was still wearing the slim windbreaker that was about to reveal his collarbone, as if he couldn't feel the cold, walking barefoot in the rough woodland .

Neither gravel nor thorns seemed to be able to harm his body, and before the soles of his feet fell, he was pressed down inch by inch by an invisible force field.

After advancing a certain distance toward the depths of the forbidden area, Mie Jin stared at the ground for a long time, and suddenly said: "There are many traces of monster activities."

Hearing her words, Qiao Qiao deliberately bent down and inspected the footprints on the ground.

The footprints are messy and finely divided, with various sizes, and the old and new traces are not consistent. It can be preliminarily judged that they are not left by the same batch.

"Recently, there should be quite a few groups of monsters fleeing towards the Sky Mountain, most likely to avoid those berserk monsters." Qiao Qiao glanced at the small guide insect lantern on his waist, and after confirming that there was no response, he continued: "It's almost like a great migration."

Before he finished speaking, several strange-looking black birds flew in the sky.

They didn't fly very fast, but they surprisingly didn't make any sound, like owls.

Nia withdrew her gaze little by little, and said in an inexplicable tone: "Hate Bird..."