Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 158 The Mud Fish Dragon Loses Its Awe

Winter passes and spring comes.

The cold wave began to recede, everything came back to life, and new buds sprouted from plants.

All kinds of herbivorous creatures left their nests, and after a winter of rest and recuperation, many herbivorous dragon groups that had originally declined in numbers recovered, while the carnivorous monsters that had been silent for a winter began to become active.

It is not known how many creatures died this winter, but after the spring, the hunting situation of the fire dragons has improved significantly.

That day, Luo Yun flew over the swamp.

There is lush grass around the swamp and not many large carnivorous monsters, so it has become a habitat for many herbivorous creatures. After the fire dragons migrated here, the common large carnivorous monsters here include male fire dragons in addition to the swamp mud dragons and the female fire dragons living in the big anthill wasteland.

Luo Yun's body flew low over the sky, and the scratching bird that was leisurely returning to its nest with a herbivorous dragon egg in its arms was frightened by the huge shadow. In a panic, the egg in its hand was thrown away.

It fell to the ground with a thud, shattered, and the egg liquid flowed into the swamp.

The scratching bird looked blankly at its empty claws, then looked at the egg liquid being absorbed by the swamp. After croaking with tears in its eyes, it returned dejectedly the same way it came.

It is going to steal eggs again, and it doesn't know if it can avoid the pursuit of the Crown Dragon this time.

After teasing the birds, Luo Yun was in a good mood. Just as he was about to increase his altitude, a red rescue signal suddenly lit up in the distance, followed by the faint cry of a fire dragon cub.

It was obvious that the hunters of the investigation team and the Deter cats of the Fire Dragon Clan had encountered trouble, and they had no choice but to release the rescue signal and blow the rescue horn at the same time.

Luo Yun was full and a little bored, so he turned around and flew in that direction to digest his food.

In the swamp, four cats from the ancient tree fire dragon clan were pushing a wooden board. A seriously injured hunter was lying on it, covering his wounds. His face was pale, and blood was flowing out of the wounds on his waist and thighs.

Another editor, under the protection of cats, kept driving away the young mudfish dragons that gathered because of the smell of blood. However, there were too many of them, causing their progress to be very slow.

Not far from them, two earth sand dragons were tumbling in the swamp. They had just thrown off the mud fish dragon that was entangled with them, but were then entangled by a new mud fish dragon like a python.

A bunch of mudfish dragon larvae are surrounding the battlefield at this time. When they see the sand dragon fall, they will immediately swim over and seek opportunities to drill into the sand dragon's nose or wound.

In winter, the water level in the swamp rose, causing the migration of the sand dragons, which made the mud dragons suddenly lose their enemies. During the continuous heavy rains during that period, the mud dragons began to reproduce in large numbers.

Even though the habit of cannibalism and the presence of some fish-eating creatures lead to a decrease in the survival rate of the young, the number of mudfish dragon young that survive after the spring is still exaggerated because there is no disturbance from the mudfish dragons.

This time, the hunting team came with the mission of investigating the anomalies in the swamp, but they never expected to encounter a battle between a mud dragon and a sand dragon as soon as they arrived.

As a result, out of curiosity, they accidentally went deep into the swamp and were attacked by several mud dragons. The hunters were caught off guard and were injured.

Logically speaking, as a mesosaur monster of the middle ecological niche, it is impossible for the mud dragon to injure an experienced first-phase group hunter like this in a sneak attack, even if there are multiple of them.

But the trouble lies in the young mud ichthyosaurs hiding in the mud.

The size of the young mudfish dragons is very small, similar to that of ordinary small water fish, but they are extremely carnivorous from birth. In addition to cannibalism, their only way of survival is to eat the leftovers left by the mudfish dragons after hunting.

They also drill into the body of an organism through its mouth, nose, wounds and other holes to parasitize, and eat away the host's internal organs. For this reason, the gills of the young ichthyosaurs even have a large number of barbs to prevent the host from throwing them out. In this way, attracted by the smell of blood, hunters have to deal with the attacks of ichthyosaurs while guarding against the very secretive sneak attacks of a large number of ichthyosaur larvae.

In this situation, even though the hunter was very experienced, he was still trapped in siege because he misjudged the current situation in the swamp.

As the saying goes, if you defend for too long, you will lose. In the end, the hunter was caught by the young mudfish dragon, which bit him in the wound and hung him tightly on the barbs on its cheeks.

In order to avoid further harm, the hunter and the editor rushed to a dry ground in the swamp, endured the pain, and pulled the mudfish larva off.

After drinking the medicine to sustain his life, he not only called for help from the cat car, but also sounded a rescue signal.

But what was unexpected was that even though the cats pushed the cat cart over, the mud dragons in the swamp were awakened and kept appearing nearby. For a while, even the cats could not retreat.

So the scene that Luo Yun saw at this moment appeared.

From high in the air, Luo Yun easily discovered two mud dragons hiding in the mud, ready to attack at any time, as well as the mud dragon cubs that kept emerging around them.

Luo Yun couldn't tell the exact length of the two mud dragons, but judging from the degree of their shadows, they were probably around 16 meters. Coupled with the advantage of the terrain, even the cats and the compiler had no way of escaping from the encirclement.

"Roar!"

A loud roar was heard, and Luo Yun lowered his altitude, flying low over the cats.

The pressure from a higher ecological position, along with the roar, frightened the mud ichthyosaur in the mud below.

When the cats saw Luo Yun coming, they looked delighted and quickly dragged the wooden boards through the mud.

Luo Yun was staring at them intently from above, not missing any details.

The young mudfish dragon, which had never experienced the beatings of nature, was the first to lose its composure and dared to swim towards the cats right under Luo Yun's nose.

Luo Yun didn't tolerate them either. He flapped his wings and a large amount of flammable liquid with flames fell down, directly covering the area where the mud dragon cubs were moving.

The mud dried quickly in the high temperature, and a group of mud ichthyosaur cubs that had no time to avoid it made crackling sounds as they were burned by the flames.

The scales of the mud dragon do not have particularly high defensive capabilities, and after drying under high temperature, they become extremely fragile.

Even an adult mud ichthyosaur would not dare to be burned by flames without its mud armor, let alone these young ones?
A large number of young fish were destroyed in an instant, but the two mud fish dragons did not show any emotional fluctuations. However, facing Luo Yun's pressure, they did not even have the slightest intention of escaping. One of them even raised its upper body and spewed a mouthful of mud mixed with a special liquid in its water bag, which became even more viscous and sprayed towards Luo Yun.

Perhaps it's because the changes in the swamp in the past few months have made life too easy for the mud dragons, and their numbers have increased, causing them to lose some of their fear of high-niche monsters.

After dodging sideways, he saw out of the corner of his eye that the cats had already run away with the hunter. Luo Yun took a deep breath, and then exhaled a breath, covering the two mud fish dragons in their panicked gazes.

The mud on their bodies solidified quickly, and then the extremely high temperature quickly penetrated into it. As a last resort, they could only burrow into the mud and roll around, trying to reduce the damage by using the moisture in the mud.

Unfortunately, in the area covered by the breath of fire, the moisture in the mud evaporated rapidly due to the high temperature, and the swamp turned into dry land in an instant. The two mud dragons were wrapped in the fixed mud in pain, and as the land solidified, they were completely buried in it.

(End of this chapter)