Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 253 It’s time to release the mission
"Nutrition!!"

For non-ancient dragon creatures, nutrition is even more important than life energy.

For monsters that cannot utilize life energy, life energy is more like a catalyst rather than a necessity. Nutrition is the important thing in the life development of ordinary monsters.

This is why, although the resources on the Coral Plateau are not abundant, it can sustain the survival of the Wind Drifting Dragon Group. Even the Sakura Fire Dragon prefers to live there because the food there is more nutritious.

Fire dragons are oviparous species. Their young are hatched in eggs, and they cannot have their mother replenish their nutrition and energy at any time like live-bearing creatures.

Luo Yun guessed that it was most likely because of the influence of symbiosis that the current group of ancient tree fire dragons was still in the process of mutation, which resulted in the nutrition that the eggs laid by female fire dragons could provide being still at the same level as that of ordinary female fire dragons in the past.

However, the cubs in the eggs, due to malnutrition, are either lucky enough to become a "premature baby" like these successfully hatched cubs, and rely on the strong physique brought by the mutated genes to force through the weak period of premature babies.

Otherwise, it will suffocate silently in the egg due to lack of nutrition.

This inference is unscientific, but in the world of Monster Hunter, it seems to make sense.

In short, if you want to know whether your speculation is correct, you just need to go and see the cubs of the fire dragon couple on the upper and lower levels of the ancient tree tomorrow, and then find a dead egg to find out.

As long as there is the body of a fire dragon cub that failed to hatch successfully, it means that there is a high possibility that Luo Yun’s speculation is true.

No matter what, at least he thought of a possibility, and Luo Yun felt a lot more relieved.

The night passed quickly as Aji and I snuggled together.

The next day, Luo Yun checked again according to the plan and found another pattern, that is, in a fire dragon family, the greater the gap in strength between the male and female fire dragons, the lower the success rate of hatching the eggs.

Because according to the current symbiotic characteristics, this is an energy pyramid. The stronger the strength, the higher the position in the pyramid, and the closer to Luo Yun, so the faster the mutation speed.

According to the current mutation situation of the ancient tree fire dragons, there is even a genetic gap between the strong and the weak.

Under Luo Yun's order, a confirmed dead egg was soon brought over by Maomao.

As the cat cracked open the shell of the dead egg, it saw the body of a fire dragon cub that had been dead for a long time and had not yet taken shape, and only a small amount of egg liquid remained beside it.

Let the cat return this dead egg and let it realize its surplus value.

"This is ridiculous."

After a whole night, Luo Yun felt that his guess was a bit ridiculous, but he didn't expect that now it seemed more and more like a correct inference.

At this moment, Luo Yun even had some hope that it was due to the life energy.

At least if it's because of insufficient life energy, he can just migrate with the ancient tree fire dragons. With the current strength of the fire dragons, they should be able to occupy a place in the dragon crystal land, right?

Even if the price is a bit high and not cost-effective, at worst we can just not go to the Dragon Crystal Land. We can go to the volcanic area not far from the Dragon Crystal Land. The life energy there is also not bad.

But this nutrition is a problem.

The food for the fire dragons was not bad, and the dragons did not suffer from malnutrition. It was only because they had not yet completed their mutation that the deviation occurred.

From the root, even if the fire dragons now choose to leave the ancient tree fire dragon group and eliminate them from this symbiosis, they cannot save the current situation. So now there are only two choices.

Or wait until the mutation is completely over and the genes in the body stabilize before reproducing.

Or you can do something about the eggs!
As long as the nutrition of the egg is replenished, the fire dragon cub inside can naturally hatch successfully.

As for how to write this article, Luo Yun had no idea.

But, just because Luo Yun doesn’t have it doesn’t mean that others don’t have it!

"Time to post some quests!"

As the overlord of the Ancient Tree Forest, he directly facilitated the cooperative relationship between the cats of the Ancient Tree Fire Dragon Clan and the Investigation Team, and indirectly made the Fire Dragon Clan and the Investigation Team become Fire Dragon Kings of the same camp. He will be an important NPC in the game.

After such a long time, the only task issued was to the leader. It was such a waste of the investigation points that the cats had worked so hard to earn.

It is said that the Detel mission board in the Star Base has been covered in dust for a long time!
"Also, we can try to give the fire dragons non-combat orders, but I don't know if it will work."

The orders issued in the past were basically all related to combat, and the only non-combat orders were the previous rules regarding Yuanqi Cat Fans.

Now, Luo Yun planned to let the fire dragon take the cat and send a few dying fire dragon eggs to the Star Base to ask the scholars there to help study them. He didn't know whether the fire dragons below would obey his orders.

Soon, Luo Yun repeated the situation to a follower cat through Pig Bone, and then summoned some fire dragons to give the order for transportation.

When they learned that this trip was simply to send the cat across, two male fire dragons immediately refused.

This was within Luo Yun's expectations, but fortunately, there was another male fire dragon that also showed resistance but did not refuse. So, this task, which was different from the previous ones, fell on the head of this male fire dragon.

After watching the male fire dragon flying towards the Star Stronghold carrying the basket that had been updated many times and became very suitable for the fire dragon's grip, Luo Yun returned to his own nest.

Luo Yun's speculation soon spread among the cat community.

After knowing that the existing fire dragon cubs were all "premature babies", the cats responsible for taking care of the cubs showed great maternal instinct. In addition to various meat pastes, their daily food even contained nutritious ingredients such as mandrake and blue mushrooms.

Occasionally, they will share some of their cat food with the kittens.

With such nutritious feeding, these congenitally deficient cubs soon swelled up again like inflated balloons.

Less than half a month old, it can shake its big head, chase after cats and try to bite their tails.

In this atmosphere, the members of the Detel resource collection team finally returned to the ancient tree.

"Where did you get these threads and metals?"

Using a small saw to saw up the "scrap metal" brought back by Detel, the muscular craftsman conducted a level test on these things and found that although they were severely corroded, they still retained sufficient strength.

The craftsmanship involved was something he had never seen before.

(End of this chapter)