Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 146 The Cat's Mutation
The giant bee is one of the smallest monsters at the bottom of the ecological chain of the world's monsters, only slightly stronger than those environmental creatures that have no combat power.

Even an ordinary person can fight against many enemies at once if he has a sharp weapon.

However, just like the hornets in the previous life, this thing always relies on numbers and its unique paralyzing toxin to cause damage to the enemy.

Their fragile bodies and weak power pose no threat to the monsters in this world. Even the scales of a small monster like the Raptorosaur can perfectly defend against the attacks of giant bees.

But for creatures like cats or humans whose defenses can be broken, giant bees are still dangerous enough.

Batch after batch of giant bees died under the attack of the cats. Gradually, the queen insect could not sit still anymore. Its colorful wings fluttered rapidly, emitting waves of melodious bass.

Soon, another large group of giant bees appeared and attacked in an overwhelming manner.

"Meow! There are so many mosquitoes, meow!"

"This is a giant bee, you idiot meow! Everyone retreat first, don't stay outside meow." The squad leader of the Fire Dragon Detel warriors cut off the waist of a giant bee with one knife and commanded the cats to retreat towards the cave entrance.

Because they, the Fire Dragon Detel, are wearing armor, it is difficult for the giant bees to hit their bodies under their special protection.

But the cats from the Wasteland Guardian Clan were in such a bad situation. That layer of hair could not stop the attacks of the giant bees, and they could not protect themselves from the growing number of bee swarms.

Thinking of the purpose of this trip, only by protecting them into the cave first, without any worries, can their team really perform.

After receiving the order from the Fire Dragon Detel warrior, the cats of the Wasteland Guardian Tribe did not hesitate at all. Under the cover of the cats holding shields, the group of cats quickly retreated into the cave.

No longer having to worry about the cats of the Wasteland Guardian Clan, the pressure on the Fire Dragon Detel warriors was suddenly reduced. They cooperated with each other and decisively killed the Queen Worm.

Although she is the queen of giant bees, her body length reaches an exaggerated seven meters.

But it still cannot change the fact that her ecological niche is low, and her strength is only that of a small monster.

With the cooperation and protection of each other, the Fire Dragon Detel warriors killed their way through the defense line formed by the giant bees and arrived in front of the Queen Worm.

Before the Fire Dragon Detel warrior could make any move, the Queen Worm turned around and ran away, showing no intention of participating in the battle herself.

"We can't let her leave meow! Her hive is right above ours meow!"

The Wasteland Guardians, who had been hiding at the entrance of the cave and using the geographical advantage to block the giant bees' pursuit, shouted loudly and rushed out regardless of their own safety. It was as if they were saying that even if the Fire Dragon Detel warriors did not intend to take action, they would keep the Queen Worm even at a price.

The Fire Dragon Detel warrior who intended to stop heard this and did not think much about it, and decisively intercepted the Queen Worm.

Fortunately, although the queen worm can fly, its flying speed is not very fast. The Fire Dragon Detel warrior pulled out his boomerang and aimed at the queen worm under the cover of his teammates.

At this moment, it suddenly felt warm at the cat paw pattern on its abdomen, and its body suddenly became a little hot.

"Meow!!"

With a very powerful cat's cry, the boomerang was thrown out.

However, the sharp-eyed cat discovered that the boomerang, which was supposed to be gray and white, had been stained with a hint of crimson at some point, and suddenly flames ignited on the boomerang while flying in the air.

With a burning heat, the sword cut off the Queen Insect's wings very accurately while she was unprepared, and the sword passed across her back. In a burst of sparks, the Queen Insect fell painfully.

"Meow meow meow?"

For a moment, the Fire Dragon Detel warrior was stunned. What was going on?
Especially when he saw the boomerang with sparks flying back towards him, he was so scared that he jumped up and successfully dodged his own boomerang.

The returning boomerang cut a giant bee that was blocking its path into two neatly like cutting a cake, and then inserted it into the sand pile. After a puff of green smoke, the orange-red flame dissipated.

The opportunity was fleeting. Seeing the Queen Bug being shot down, the other Fire Dragon Detel warriors did not bother about the problem of the boomerang, but quickly rushed forward to finish off the enemy.

Then, before the giant bees that flew over like crazy surrounded them, they retreated again.

The queen worm was attacked and her life or death was unknown. The giant bees subconsciously began to surround the queen worm, but all they could see was the queen worm's still burning corpse.

The giant bees pounced down fearlessly, using their bodies to endure the burning of the flames and extinguish the sparks on the queen insect. However, the queen insect was already dead at this time, and it was of no use even if the flames were put out.

Without a leader, the giant bees began to fly around without command and soon disappeared in the desert.

"Won?"

"I won, meow!"

After a moment of tension, the Detels of the Wasteland Guardians looked at each other, and finally realized that they had won!

God knows how much trouble this large group of giant bees that suddenly migrated here during this period of time has caused them. They were originally determined to fight to the death, even at the cost of a huge price, to drive the other side away. Unexpectedly, with the help of these four strangely dressed Detels, they were able to get rid of the queen worm without any damage.

Without the queen worm, the bee colony will be in disarray. They will not even return to the nest, but will scatter aimlessly in this wasteland, looking for a new queen worm.

However, in this season of food scarcity, the small monsters in the wasteland will not easily let go of the food that is delivered to their doorstep.

Now, the troubles of the Wasteland Guardians were completely solved, and they planned to thank these four strange fellows.

However, at this moment, the Fire Dragon Detel warriors were not paying attention to the Wasteland Guardians, and they didn't even show any reaction when the giant bees dispersed.

"Hiss, it's so hot meow!"

He tried to pull out the boomerang, but was burned by the residual heat on it. The Fire Dragon Detel warrior hissed and blew on his claws.

"Hot? Not hot, meow."

Having come to his senses and seeing his companion being scalded, the Fire Dragon Detel warrior named Egg Roll pulled out his boomerang immediately. However, he saw a wisp of white smoke that did not have time to dissipate come out from the gap in the sand pile the moment he pulled it out. He was stunned for a moment.

"I said, I don't know anything, do you believe meow?"

The cats shook their heads in unison.

"Sniff sniff."

At this time, the cats from the Wasteland Guardian Clan who were walking over suddenly sniffed and looked at the Fire Dragon Detel warrior in confusion.

"I think I smell something, meow."

"Smell?" Upon hearing this, the Fire Dragon Detel warriors sniffed with some confusion, and finally all their eyes fell on the egg roll.

"What's wrong, what's wrong meow?"

Danjuan was in a panic and felt a little hot, so he took off his helmet and followed his companions' example, sniffing with his nose.

"No, meow."

Danjuan looked up and saw that the cats all had their eyes wide open, staring in one direction as if they had seen some wonder of the world.

And that direction was exactly the long, pointed ears of Egg Roll.

"What's wrong, meow? Why do you look so weird, meow?"

As Egg Roll spoke, he subconsciously reached out to touch his ears, and suddenly a burning pain came from his paws.

Danjuan subconsciously retracted his hand. At this moment, the voice of a Detel warrior who was staring at his ear reached his ears.

"My ears are burning, meow!!"

"!!!"

Danjuan shuddered and instantly realized what had happened. His pupils dilated and his body trembled slightly.

next second.

“Meow! Help, put out the fire, meow!”

While shouting and running quickly, looking at his indifferent companions, Danjuan didn't care about panicking. He jumped directly and then hit his head into the sand pile.

The claws dug into the yellow sand, which kept falling on its ears. After a while, the Fire Dragon Detel warriors finally reacted and pulled it out of the sand.

Danjuan spit out the sand from his nose, not caring about his dirty face, and asked hurriedly.

"How's it going? Is everything ok, meow?"

The Fire Dragon Detel warrior nodded hesitantly, and finally thought about it and felt that he should not hide it from Dan Juan, so he whispered: "Your ears have turned red."

"Meow?"

Danjuan didn't know what to say. Not only did the patterns on its paws turn dark red, but even the tips of its ears turned the same color. It just caught fire. Could it be that it really had some serious illness?

The Fire Dragon Detel warrior who was the leader of the team patted Egg Roll on the shoulder, and it didn't know what to say.

Such a thing as a special individual has never appeared in Detel, so the cats are more willing to believe that they are sick.

Rather than some miraculous evolution occurring because of a certain dragon.

Since the matter has been settled, they don't know how to comfort Danjuan. They can only complete the purpose of this trip first, and then see if there is any solution after returning to their residence.

The residence of ancient tree fire dragons.

Luo Yun watched as another fire dragon Detel left his nest as if he was relieved. He slowly exhaled and looked at the pig bone not far from the nest, rubbing its claws on its belly from time to time.

During this period, many fire dragons came to him, and the reasons were basically the same, that is, the claw patterns on their bellies changed from black to dark red.

The leader of the Fire Dragon Detel didn't know how to solve the problem. This was a major event concerning the mutation of the tribe, so in the end he could only ask Luo Yun to make a judgment.

So, in addition to spending a lot of time hunting every day, Luo Yun also has to take some time to provide psychological counseling to the cats.

The cats didn’t know why such a change happened, how could he not know?
At that time, under the constant persuasion of the Fire Dragon Detel leader, Tongut finally agreed to ask Luo Yun for help. He looked resigned, as if he was ready to be expelled from the tribe by Luo Yun.

As a result, after hearing the description of Tonkotsu, Luo Yun not only did not drive it away in disgust, but he caught it excitedly and kept asking questions, just like a child who was about to get a new toy, full of anticipation.

But after so many days, reality poured cold water on Luo Yun.

Including Pigbone, all the mutated fire dragon Detels showed no changes except for the pattern on their bellies that turned dark red. This made Luo Yun suspicious for a while. Could it be that this so-called symbiosis was just a change in the Detels' fur color, completely distinguishing them from other Detels?

What's the point of this feature? His expectations were in vain.

Fortunately, after some self-adjustment, he kept reminding himself that biological mutations take time. Although it has been so long and the cats have only changed their fur color, it should be a matter of time. He believes that this characteristic will give him a surprise.

So, one day, when he and Yaji returned from hunting, they got a surprise when they saw the nervous fire dragon Detel warrior named Egg Roll.

"Come on, don't be afraid, try to remember how you felt at that time and show it."

Under Luo Yun's intimidating dragon roar, Danjuan took a deep breath, tightly grasped the boomerang in his hand, constantly recalled the situation at that time, and focused his attention on the area with the cat's paw pattern.

Soon, the feeling at that time appeared again, and its body temperature began to rise from the cat's paw pattern, and the originally dark red pattern suddenly became much brighter red.

When the body temperature rises to a certain level, Egg Roll's heartbeat speeds up, blood circulation speeds up, and the soft pink pads on its claws begin to secrete a lot of sweat, which then sticks to the boomerang it holds.

"Now meow!"

Danjuan threw the boomerang out instinctively. With Luo Yun's powerful eyesight, he found that the sweat on the boomerang began to heat up as the boomerang flew, showing a hint of crimson.

Then the temperature suddenly broke through the critical point, and the sweat stains instantly burned. From the appearance, it looked like the entire boomerang was flying in the air with flames.

This scene instantly reminded Luo Yun of the characteristics of his own flaming body.

It is precisely because of the transformation of the flame body that he can not only secrete a large amount of flammable sticky substances from the gaps between the scales of his body, but even the toxins in his claws are also transformed into sticky flame toxins.

And isn’t what this fire dragon Detel is showing something similar?
It’s just that cats secrete sweat on the soft pads of their paws.

At this time, Danjuan's body temperature also stabilized, and flames suddenly ignited on the tips of his ears, which had also turned dark red, as if they were dissipating heat.

The boomerang flew back, and seeing that Egg Roll didn't seem to dare to catch it, Tonkotsu flexibly pulled out the giant hammer on his back and intercepted the boomerang.

However, it never expected that the force with which the boomerang hit the giant hammer was beyond its imagination. After making a crisp sound, it bounced high and finally fell to the ground.

Seeing this, the cats in charge of environmental sanitation in Luo Yun's nest immediately rushed over with tools and put out the flames on the boomerang to avoid accidentally igniting the nest.

Luo Yun looked at the timid Egg Roll after he had done all this, and then looked at the huge hammer held by Tonkotsu.

At the place where the giant hammer and the boomerang collided just now, a cluster of flames was still burning.

Now Luo Yun could be sure that the flammable liquid secreted by Egg Roll was of the same type as his own.

"Not bad!!"

Luo Yun nodded with satisfaction and praised Danjuan happily. After Danjuan was no longer frightened and showed a very enjoyable smile.

Egg Roll's body temperature also began to drop, and the flames on his ears dissipated.

Luo Yun hurriedly asked the other party what he felt at this moment.

"Feelings, meow? I feel a little tired, and my stomach feels empty, but I'm not hungry, meow." Egg Roll rubbed the pattern on his paws.

At this moment, it felt that the place was empty, as if something was missing.

Luo Yun blinked in understanding. He knew this feeling. When he fought against the Tyrannosaurus Rex before, he also experienced the feeling of having his fire bag drained dry. It was indeed empty.

It seems that the mutation of the Fire Dragons due to their symbiotic characteristics started from the cat's paw pattern. No one knows the principle, whether a new organ was created or a certain organ there changed.

But no matter what, the changes in the cats finally satisfied Luo Yun's expectations. I just don't know if the cats' evolution will stop here, or can they still go further?
Luo Yun felt that it would be the latter, but all this would take time, and he couldn't say for sure where it would end up.

After figuring out what was going on, Egg Roll, who received Luo Yun's praise, walked out of Luo Yun's nest with a silly giggle, ignoring Tonkotsu who had been following him.

It was not until Egg Roll returned to the camp that he discovered Tonkotsu's expressionless face.

As the son of the chief of the Fire Dragon Detel, the only hunting cat in the entire Fire Dragon Detel tribe, and the captain of the Fire Dragon boss's guard, Tonkotsu can be said to be the designated next leader of the Fire Dragon Detel.

Therefore, when Danjuan saw that Tonkotsu had followed him all the way, he was very confused. It was just a small follower cat. What did Tonkotsu want to do with it?
As for whether there was any malicious intent, don't be funny. There aren't so many twists and turns between the Fire Dragon Detel. If there is something that makes the other party unhappy, they will usually say it on the spot, and then both sides will start to argue. Those who should apologize will apologize, and those who should forgive will forgive. It won't drag on for so long.

"Brother Tonkotsu, is there something wrong, meow?"

Tonkotsu remained silent and walked around Egg Roll who had taken off his armor. He pinched his arm and made a request in the face of Egg Roll's puzzled look.

"Arm wrestling meow? Why meow?"

Although Danjuan couldn't understand, he still agreed to arm wrestle with Tongut, who had changed greatly in size and was covered in muscles, amid the cheers of the crowd.

The result was not surprising at all, the egg rolls were a complete failure.

But Tonkotsu was very happy. While Eggroll was rubbing his wrist and looking at him in confusion, he told him that he had the possibility of becoming a hunting cat.

This made Danjuan completely confused.

"Meow? Me?"

Danjuan thought that Tonkotsu might be joking. Wasn't it a follower cat because it was judged to be unable to become a hunting cat during its training? How could it become a hunting cat again in Tonkotsu's mouth?
It’s not that it doesn’t believe in pork bones, it’s just that when it comes to cat training, the investigation team is the authority.

Of course, if this was said by Boss Fire Dragon, Danjuan would not have any doubts at all.

Seeing Tonkotsu happily shouting that he was going to report to Boss Fire Dragon, Egg Roll, despite being skeptical, couldn't help but start to look forward to it.

If that person becomes a hunting cat, not only will he become stronger and be able to contribute more to the tribe, he can also join the Fire Dragon Boss's guard and guard the best Fire Dragon Boss. Just thinking about it makes the cat happy! !

(End of this chapter)