Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 138: Survival pressure, a prelude to relationship collapse?
The outer area of ​​the Ancient Tree Forest and the Great Ant Mound Wasteland had already been flooded with a large number of large monsters due to the miasma. The bottom-level "food" that was originally sufficient and even slightly excessive began to become insufficient.

The living space between monsters has been greatly compressed, and the entire area has become more wolves than meat. Monsters fight for territory and food every day.

In some places, because fighting is too frequent, there is even a trend of monsters not interfering with each other without much conflict.

But with the entry of a large number of high-ecological-niche fire dragons from the ancient tree fire dragon clan, the situation suddenly became more complicated.

The fire dragon's hunting frequency is relatively high every day, and its hunting range is wide, covering many hunting grounds in one go.

If it's just a short stop, you can just endure those large monsters and get through them.

But as the fire dragon stayed longer, under the pressure of survival, these monsters had to list the fire dragon as a competitor.

As a result, fights between monsters and fire dragons began to become very frequent.

Often, every fire dragon will encounter competitors when hunting, and sometimes there will even be a multi-party fight.

This caused the fire dragons' hunting efficiency to begin to decline. Many times, even if they successfully caught a prey, they would be dragged into a battle before they could even start eating.

Relying on air superiority, one can gain an absolute upper hand in battle, but sometimes, the opponent will risk getting injured in order to tear a piece of meat from the prey.

Or when there is a melee among multiple parties, there is always Lao Liu who takes advantage of the fire dragon's fight to secretly take away the prey.

Without prey, there is naturally no reason to fight. The fire dragon can only rush to a more distant hunting ground to hunt, and then the cycle begins again.

At the end of the day, it didn't catch much prey, but due to the huge consumption of physical strength, its body began to become a little weak. Over time, even a dragon with a high ecological niche like the male fire dragon began to fall into a food crisis.

In fact, this alone would be enough. After all, the fire dragons in the ancient tree fire dragon group are still very powerful. Although the hunting process is a bit difficult, with sufficient strength, they can still get through it by gritting their teeth.

But what is really uncomfortable is that the ancient tree fire dragon group has nearly a hundred fire dragons, more than forty cubs and hundreds of cats!

With so many mouths to feed, a lot of food is consumed every day.

The area where they are now is still relatively sufficient in terms of prey, and in the early stages, if the fire dragons work hard, they can barely maintain the overall consumption.

But as time goes by, the growth rate of prey in this area will eventually fail to keep up with the consumption rate.

Simply put, the number of ancient tree fire dragons has increased in this area, causing the number of hunters to exceed the area's tolerance threshold.

This is not a good sign.

Although the current groups of ancient tree fire dragons gather together because of the cats, once they are under long-term survival pressure, the fire dragons will begin to go to other areas alone in order to survive.

In other words, when that day comes, it will be the moment when the fragile racial concept of the ancient tree fire dragon group will fall apart, and it will also be the moment when this new symbiotic relationship that has emerged with great difficulty will begin to break down.

This matter was not discovered by Luo Yun, but was a problem discovered by the Detel wise man during his observations during this period.

If you ask who is most anxious about the symbiotic relationship being broken, Deter is definitely more anxious than the fire dragon.

Therefore, after discovering that the relationship might be broken down, the wise Detel and the fire dragon Detel leader convened an emergency meeting of the Detels.

Some Detel warriors also began to go out to collect various plants and vegetables and hunt small creatures, hoping to reduce the hunting pressure of the fire dragons and reduce their hunting frequency. But the same problem still existed, the number of Detels was too large, they were no longer the small tribe they once were, and doing so now was just a drop in the bucket.

In the end, there was no choice but for Fire Dragon Detel leader to find Luo Yun and tell him the situation one by one.

Compared to the anxiety of the wise man Detel, the leader of the fire dragon Detel is actually much calmer.

Although the number of fire dragons Detel is indeed much greater than that of the past.

But first of all, the Fire Dragon Detel is the most unique branch of the ancient tree fire dragon clan, and they have the support of Luo Yun and Yaji.

With Luo Yun and Ya Ji's wisdom and sense of responsibility, they will definitely not abandon them.

Secondly, their relationship with the investigation team is closer than that of other ethnic groups.

With the double guarantee, at least it can be guaranteed that the Fire Dragon Detel can still remain intact in this possible crisis.

The idea of ​​the leader of Fire Dragon Detel is not cruel, or he does not regard cats other than Fire Dragon Detel as companions, but he has seen many times in his life that in order to survive, the tribe has to adopt methods similar to separation to ensure that more cats can survive.

After listening to the description of the Fire Dragon Leader Detel, Luo Yun looked strange.

During this period, he traveled back and forth between the two places with Yaji every day and didn't pay much attention to the situation of other fire dragons.

Moreover, because the distance was a bit far, he and Yaji's hunting did not overlap with the fire dragons. In addition, due to their strength, they had no shortage of food and could bring back about the same amount every day as before, so they did not consider how the other fire dragons were doing.

If the fire dragon leader Detel had not come to tell him about this, he would not have known that the ancient tree fire dragon group was now having such a hard time.

As the person who benefits the most from all current relationships, Luo Yun really doesn't want to let these relationships collapse unless it is necessary.

But the most critical problem at present is that there are really only so many prey in this area. To solve this problem, we must either reduce the number of hunters or increase the number of prey.

But it's not easy to do either way.

Reducing the number of hunters means having to hunt other monsters on a large scale. Not to mention whether doing so would cause other monsters to unite against the group of fire dragons, just imagine how many fire dragons would die in this desperate fight.

It is still unknown how many monsters there are in this area, and this behavior is no different from sending the fire dragons to their deaths.

What's more, this is just a place to live for a few years, not a breeding ground for several generations of fire dragons like the ancient trees. Paying such a price would be putting the cart before the horse.

As for increasing the number of prey, this is also not easy. The fire dragon's prey is mainly herbivorous dragons or crustacean herbivorous dragons, supplemented by various pterosaurs.

But whether they are herbivorous dragons or pterosaurs, they are also the main food source for other carnivorous monsters. Even if the fire dragons try to reduce the number of hunting times, other monsters will not stop.

The herbivorous dragons are constantly moving and are not kept in captivity. The fire dragons can control themselves but cannot stop other monsters.

　I'm still a bit stuck, the next chapter will probably be out at 12:

　　
　
(End of this chapter)