hunt and eat

She noticed that they were at the lake surrounded by monsters before. As for the tiankeng in the distance that was emitting black smoke... probably it was where the blasting broken dragon was. Location.

It's a pity, the materials on a senior natural disaster level monster must be very precious, right?

Seeing the tangled expression on Nia's face, Guta on the side probably guessed the reason, and said with some amusement: "Don't worry, there are still some materials left, and the body of the passionate golden lion is also well preserved. .”

Nodding in embarrassment, Nia immediately said with some embarrassment: "Why did I faint?"

She was the only one who passed out among five people, which is really embarrassing to say the least.

Shaking his head, Jojo handed the water bag to Nia, motioning her to take a few sips.

"When we were blown away, because of the repulsive protective cover of the ancient tower, although everyone was a little embarrassed, they were not injured at all. The main reason why you fainted was because you directly hit the hammer behind the ancient tower. "

"..." Nia suddenly widened her beautiful eyes, only feeling that this reason was really absurd and surprising.

"Okay, it's all small things..." Guta was also a little embarrassed, and hurriedly changed the topic, "Our movement is a bit big, and it is estimated that other monsters will come to investigate."

"Isn't that just right?" Weiwei gave him a strange look, and muttered, "Aren't we going to clean up these infected crazily dragon-like individuals?"

From Weiwei's point of view, since they were going to hunt those mad dragons, and the ancient tower can also seize the source from the monsters to continuously increase their strength, it would be a good choice to continue hunting those infected individuals right now. .

"Although this is indeed one of our tasks, there are priorities between tasks. At present, our first task is to find out the truth about the abnormal activities and reproduction of the black erosion dragon. The task of cleaning up will not be a big deal in the future. Big problem."

"There are too many powerful monsters near Sky Mountain. It would be a waste of time to be entangled with those difficult guys." Guta said with a frown.

"You are the captain, you have the final say." Wei Wei had no objection to this.

"Is that the Canghuolong we saw before?" Mie Jin pointed to the sky above his head in vain.

Several people looked back, and saw a huge, blue fire dragon hovering about a hundred meters above their heads.

Guta could even feel the vigilant eyes of the other party betting on them all the time.

"There is really none of these ancient dragons that are easy to deal with."

Because the distance is too far, coupled with the highly active dragon-attribute energy on the opponent's body surface, Guta can't clearly scan it with perception, but it can be roughly guessed that the opponent must have come here specially after being infected with the mad dragon virus .

These ancient monsters who once relied on their own strength to break through the limits of their race and came to the natural disaster domain seem to have obtained some kind of information from the mad dragon virus, so they gathered here one after another.

This is not a good thing for the hunters who want to investigate the sky mountain mutation.

The ancient monsters who can live for a long time have generally dealt with humans or hunters more or less, and they also know how dangerous and cunning these human hunters are.

As long as there is a chance, even if it is combined with other monsters that are not very familiar, they will try their best to eliminate those hunters who are good at setting up ambushes and using tricks.

They watched the ancient tower from a distance, and probably witnessed the Canghuolong who fought between the Canglan Star team and the passionate Golden Lion, and the Violent Broken Dragon. The wings flew away slowly.

This made Mie Jin and Qiao Qiao, who were eager to try, hang their heads in disappointment.

When dealing with the Explosive Broken Dragon before, the two melee hunters hardly had many chances to make shots because of the critical slime mold that exploded all the time, and they basically stayed in ob all the time.

And Weiwei, who was not optimistic at first, stood up at the end, and even relied on her own red lotus zhenqi, while prescribing the right medicine, she directly suppressed or put down that senior natural disaster-level violent blasting broken dragon .

The two of them originally wanted to prove themselves again on Cang Huolong, but whoever thought that the other party was not a fool, so they would not come down to fight at all.

"Go ahead." Guta slowly withdrew his perception, and said meaningfully: "I can feel that whether it is those ancient individuals who have lost their minds or deliberately pursued them, the mad dragon virus on them is much stronger than our original one. The form I saw has changed too much, and this unknown change is becoming more and more serious as time goes by."

"How long can this kind of cautious reason last? It's really exciting..."

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Chapter 55 Missing Maternals

Continuing along the Red Stone Plain, a relatively dense forest of ancient trees soon appeared in front of a group of people along with a lot of lush greenery appearing from the edge.

The reason why it is called the ancient tree forest is mainly because almost none of the trees here are below 80 meters, and basically all of them are towering into the sky, which is taller than the behemoth [Gaoxianren] village crab they encountered back then. Not a lot.

From a distance, it looks like countless sky pillars towering into the clouds, giving people an extra sense of shock.

This is not the level that ordinary tree species and tree ages can reach. Even considering the strange weightlessness near Sky Mountain, it is impossible for such a strange huge forest to be born without hundreds or even thousands of years.

"The area of ​​the Red Stone Plain is much smaller than we expected."

On the trunk of an ancient tree closest to the periphery, a special mark unique to the Blue Star team was engraved. Nia raised her head and looked at the countless huge tree crowns above her head that almost covered the sky.

"Is it because of these huge ancient trees?"

Guta shrugged his shoulders noncommittally, scanned the surrounding terrain with his perception, and took off a vine as thick as an arm from the trunk beside him, sensing the internal structure little by little.

"The age of these vines seems to be a little older than those of the ancient trees." Guta said with some confusion.

Weiwei was obviously not very interested in this, but she just lowered her head and glanced at the bare ground around, and looked at the ancient pagoda strangely: "It seems that there are no other plants here except for these ancient trees and vines?"

"It's a bit strange..." Qiao Qiao took over the conversation, nodded and agreed: "Normally, even in an extremely harsh environment, at least there will be vegetation such as weeds or shrubs."

Guta thought for a while, and gave a guess of his own: "Maybe it's because the nutrients in this land have been absorbed by those ancient trees and vines."

While they were talking, there was a sudden rustling sound above their heads.

Mieju's reaction was quick, and without even thinking about it, he took off his slashing axe and threw it fiercely straight up.

【Fury·Flying Blood Axe】

The dazzling red light was fleeting, and the blue-black slashing ax suddenly thrown by Miejuan quickly turned into a red knife wheel under a layer of thick blood, and flew out at an accelerated speed.

Along the way, the trees were broken and the vines were torn. In the sea of ​​trees all over the sky, an unclear path was forcibly opened.

At the end of the road, a pitch-black flying dragon that couldn't dodge was hit by a chopping axe on one side of its wing. After shaking a few times, it smashed through the tangle of branches and fell crookedly from a high altitude like a plane crashed.

"Black erosion dragon? It's everywhere..."

Powerful perception swept across the monster's body, Guta said coldly.

As always, the pitch-black scales, the snake-like head without visual organs, and the winged quadruped skeleton with winged feet, the monster that was shot down by extinction in front of it is undoubtedly a black erosion dragon that is suspected to be an ancient dragon species.

However, for some unknown reason, the body of the black erosion dragon in front of him was extremely thin, and his body was covered with a layer of semi-solid turbid liquid with a pungent smell.

Nia frowned, and looked at the stunted black dragon in front of her, which was only half the size of a normal body: "Is this size really a black dragon?"

"The liquid on its body should be amniotic fluid, and the larynx is not fully developed, in other words..." Activated the ability of [God Spirit], Guta quickly analyzed the composition of the liquid on the other party's body, and it was quite He spared no effort to analyze the physical condition of this black erosion dragon.

"This guy was born not long ago, and he is completely in the state of a cub."

The black erosion dragon that landed on the ground roared mournfully, while waving its wet wings, it slammed hard at the side, trying to get closer to the recovery of the weapon.

After a few dodges with Mie Jin's small body, he dodged the attack of the black erosion dragon.

boom!

The Winged Foot that fell into the air smashed a small hole in the ground, and then swept towards the surrounding area without losing momentum.

The gravel slapped on the armor worn by everyone, making a crackling sound.

"Even if it is just born, does it have this level of power?" Guta said thoughtfully, and then unconsciously compared the black erosion dragon with the black dragon that he encountered near Pale at the earliest time. Eclipse Dragon was compared. "The one that appeared first didn't seem to be so powerful."

"No, even the ones I encountered recently, they wouldn't have reached this level of intensity when they were just born."

Thinking of this, Guta didn't even take off his weapon, and took the initiative to approach the black erosion dragon that was unable to take off again because of its damaged wings.

I don't know whether it was faintly aware of the threat from the ancient tower, or it was instinctively aggressive towards other creatures. With a roar, the black erosion dragon opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, and bit forward.

"A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, that's what it says."

As soon as the words fell, two muddy palms, which were a head taller than the black erosion dragon, suddenly rose from the ground on both sides of the black erosion dragon, wrapped in a patter of mud.

As the mud palms moved closer together, the black erosion dragon, who had no time to escape, fell into the imprisonment of the huge mud palms on the spot.

Although the latter struggled desperately, the mud palm created by Guta with the ability to resist earth remained motionless.

And as the black erosion dragon's movements became more violent, the outer layer of the giant palm also shook off the soil from time to time, exposing the dark brown stone inside.

The surface of this layer of palm seems to be made entirely of mud. Except for the outer layer of camouflage mud, the inner core is almost entirely composed of stones with a specially optimized structure and a hardness comparable to obsidian.

The [Earth Control] ability, which was once only used by a horned dragon to break through the sand and dive into the ground, has long since transformed into a terrifying ability that is completely different from the original version in the hands of the ancient tower.

With the power of [God Spirit] to quantify everything, the ancient pagoda that perfectly controls various abilities can not only imitate all kinds of sand and soil creations in a short breath, but also optimize the structure and density to make the mud of the imperial envoy The sand is sublimated into a high-density stone that is countless times higher in both hardness and strength.

"Did you see anything?" Guta turned around and asked the teammates who were approaching him, with a gentle face, not paying attention to the screaming roar of the black erosion dragon.

"This black eclipse dragon doesn't look very good?" Weiwei raised her hand with seriousness written all over her face.

"..."

Guta twitched the corners of his mouth, put on a hellish expression and said: "In a sense, your observation is in place."

Afterwards, he didn't try to be a joke anymore, and simply said directly: "This black dragon's organs are exhausted. Even if it doesn't meet us, it may not survive for 48 hours."

Nia reacted quickly, thinking of the amniotic fluid that Guta said before, and tentatively said: "Sounds like a symptom unique to premature babies?"

Nodding his head, Guta continued: "I've checked the surrounding area for two kilometers before, and I didn't find any traces of corpses or large monsters."

"But we all know that the Black Corrosion Dragon is most likely a monster that reproduces parasiticly, so it is impossible that there is no mother around the newly born larvae."

"This means that the black erosion dragon in front of me was either spontaneously removed from the body by its mother, or there were other existences that stripped it from the mother, and then took away the mother's body."

Listening to Guta's analysis, a strange and incomprehensible feeling gradually brewed in the hearts of several people.

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Chapter 56 Golden lions flocking together, the first species【Red Lotus】appears

"This kind of thing doesn't seem like something a monster would do..."

Nia frowned, and said somewhat falteringly.

The subtext is that it was done by the hunters.

But it is difficult to explain why the black eclipse dragon in front of him is still alive... From the hunter's point of view, even if it is an autopsy for research, it is not impossible not to deal with the remaining black eclipse dragon, even if Knowing that the other party will not live long.

You must know that even the larvae of the Black Corrosion Dragon can spread the mad dragon disease. Before it really dies, who knows how far the mad dragon virus can be transmitted.

From the girl's understanding, the species of black erosion dragon is fundamentally the source of the plague of walking, as if its existence itself is to spread the virus.

No, considering the special parasitic reproduction characteristics of the Kuanglong virus, perhaps it should be called reproduction.

Mie Jin looked at Nia's ugly face, and said in a low voice, "It may also be made by monsters, the smarter ones."

After finishing speaking, she hurriedly added: "Didn't Guta say that the extreme monsters at the natural disaster level have smart heads, maybe they did it."

"I can't rule out this possibility. After all, there are too many special individuals wandering around in the Sky Mountain area. It wouldn't be a particularly strange thing if there were one or two monsters with research spirit."

"Of course, it's just a guess at the moment. It's also possible that other hunters didn't deal with it for some reason."

"Go ahead, it's getting late, we have to find a suitable camping point."

Guta clapped his hands, did not jump to conclusions, and then greeted everyone to leave.

"Oh, I almost forgot, there's you..."

As soon as the front foot moved forward, the ancient tower stopped on the back foot, and glanced at the dying black dragon larva beside it.

After struggling for a few minutes, it, which was already deficient in nature, was already in a state of hypoxia panting, as if it was on the verge of death and life at any time.

"What a sad fellow, what is the purpose of your birth?"

Gently resting a palm on the neck of the black erosion dragon, Guta said in an extremely soft voice.

In the next moment, with the sudden igniting of black and white flames, a layer of chaotic sea of ​​flames wrapped the whole body of the black erosion dragon like a curtain woven with light gauze.

There was no howling of pain, no cursing of resentment, except for the slight crackling sound like firewood burning, the forest at this moment was silent.

"Let's go." The flames gradually dissipated, just like the figures of several people gradually leaving.

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In a cave somewhere under the restricted area of ​​Sky Mountain

A huge monster whose body is covered with a black carapace like volcanic limestone and looks like a golden lion is looking down at something in its huge palm in an almost human sitting posture.

The huge striped horns bend and extend forward like a demon, with red sparks flashing from time to time.

If Guta was here at this time, he would probably be able to recognize the opponent's real name at a glance.

【First species】Golden Lion——【Red Lotus Lion】

In the guild files, this is one of the very few dangerous monsters that has been marked with the [Highest Avoidance] command.

It is also a terrifying individual that only the great elders of the guild and the peak natural disasters at the level of the three powerhouses are eligible to try hunting.

The so-called [primary species] refers to those extremely special individuals that have maintained the form of the ancient times and have continued until now without any changes.

As for whether those monsters are really ancient individuals that have survived since ancient times, even the most in-depth dragonman scholars cannot give a definite answer.

The Primordial Era is too far away, neither the history of human beings nor the dragon people can be traced back to that period. Therefore, for those [first species] individuals, in addition to the research on ecology and species evolution, people have studied in other aspects Can be called ignorant.