Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 377 Doubts and Disease

After several days, there were no more cases of gnawing insects infesting the ancient trees. This made Luo Yun secretly let down his guard, but he also began to have some doubts.

Although he didn't know much about rodents and only remembered some basic information about them from his previous life, after thinking about it for the past few days, Luo Yun felt more and more that something was wrong.

The situation of the female fire dragon at that time was obviously that it had been deeply parasitized and had entered a weird state. If Luo Yun had not appeared and attracted the gnawing insects hidden in its body, the female fire dragon would probably have really entered a weird state on the spot.

However, in Luo Yun's memory, gnawing insects would not normally parasitize these ordinary monsters. They are very picky, and the monsters that can coexist with them are very limited.

For hundreds of years, the most perfect symbiotic partner has been the Nether Abyss Dragon, an ancient dragon that has been released from the forbidden level. The degree of symbiosis between the two parties has even reached an inseparable relationship.

The Dark Abyss Dragon releases a large number of gnawing insects, which it uses to collect the life energy of surrounding creatures, and then receives the life energy from the gnawing insects for its own consumption. In this process, the gnawing insects are also able to share the "food" suitable for their own reproduction and survival from the Dark Abyss Dragon.

If the Abyss Dragon is the 'demon of the abyss' in the Monster Hunter world that lives underground, then the Gnawing Worm is the 'apostle' of the Abyss Dragon, a biological natural disaster.

The only difference between this virus and the mad dragon virus of the Tianhui Dragon is that the gnawing insects do not have such strong ecological destructive power.

In addition to the Abyss Dragon, another object with which the Gnawing Insect can achieve symbiosis is the Silver Dragon, or to be more precise, the Original Silver Dragon.

Apart from these two ancient dragons, the gnawing insects can hardly find any other suitable hosts.

Then the problem arises. When there is a host, the gnawing insects will only instinctively collect the life energy of the monster and will not forcibly parasitize other creatures. They will even violently transform the monster into a breeding ground suitable for their reproduction and proliferation.

Only ownerless gnawing insects would choose to adapt to the environment and evolve into this appearance out of necessity.

You know, transforming ordinary monsters into temporary breeding grounds will not only enhance the strength of the parasitic monsters but also consume a lot of the monsters' vitality. The gnawing insects will also suffer great consumption in the process. After all, the monsters will not surrender obediently, right?
So where did this common group of gnawing insects come from?
Could it be that a Dark Abyss Dragon died near the New World?
But this is not right. Among the forbidden monsters, the Dark Abyss Dragon is an absolute tank. If a Dark Abyss Dragon dies near the New World, Luo Yun cannot fail to sense it. After all, the life energy released after the death of a forbidden monster is not so easy to conceal.

But if there was no Abyss Dragon that died near the New World, then these gnawing insects must be wild, right?

This thing is not like the lightning bug, which can survive independently in nature and rely on plants to survive. Its characteristics mean that it can only survive by relying on parasitism.

"Could it be that some monster was just having its life energy absorbed by the gnawing bugs, and was unwilling to be sucked to death, so it chose to follow the ancient dragon ferry across the ocean to come here before being sucked to death. As a result, because it was too far away, the gnawing bugs lost contact with the original host, and had to evolve forcefully?"

Thinking back to the day when Yaji gave birth, the unnatural thunderstorm and the strange and abundant life energy, even without any news from the investigation team, Luo Yun knew through time calculations that the ancient dragon ferry had arrived.

Therefore, thinking about this, this thought emerged in my mind.

But soon, he denied this idea.

After all, the Old World and the New World are so far apart. How strong must the monster's will to survive be to withstand the accelerated speed at which gnawing insects absorb life energy when they are far away from their hosts, and then travel across the ocean for such a long time without dying on the road?
Things like food sources along the way, and how to deal with the monsters that have been weakened by the large amounts of life energy they have absorbed?

Taking all these problems into consideration, Luo Yun felt that his idea was indeed a bit too far-fetched. How could it be possible that such stringent conditions could be met at the same time? The probability was too small!

Luo Yun, who really couldn't figure out the cause of the problem, finally put it aside for the time being. Anyway, the information had been revealed to the investigation team. With the curious nature of the investigation team, even if they were in a state of paying off debts, they would squeeze out some people to conduct an investigation. Luo Yun only needed to wait quietly for the results of the investigation behind the scenes.

Luo Yun was no longer hesitant, and ate the Fire Chinchilla Rice specially made with mushroom pig happily. Feeling the unique flavor of mushroom pig coming from his taste buds, he couldn't help but swallow it again in big gulps.

At the same time, in the Star Stronghold.

There was suddenly a commotion at the gate of the Star Stronghold leading to the Great Ant Mound Wasteland.

“Make way, make way, meow!!”

Anxious voices were heard, and the hunters who were originally coming and going at the gate jumped to the side of the road to avoid them.

I saw a group of Detel from the Wasteland Guardian Tribe, led by an Elu cat follower, half pushing and half pulling a cat cart rushing in from the gate.

A hunter with a bandage on his arm was now in a coma with a look of pain on his face. He lay unconsciously on the cat cart, making painful noises from time to time as the cart shook.

"Doctor, where is the doctor, meow, come and save people, meow!!"

Amid the loud shouts of the panicked Felyne follower, the cat car stopped in the circulation area, attracting a crowd of onlookers.

Soon, several doctors who came with the fourth group appeared from the cable car, ran all the way to the sick hunter, and began to provide emergency treatment on the spot without further ado.

"It's so hot, his temperature is too high and he needs to be cooled down as soon as possible."

"There are no signs of severe trauma on the body."

After a quick check, the hunter was given some medicine and then taken to the logistics department.

Among the crowd, a repairman from a remote kingdom in the Old World looked at the hunter being carried away and felt uneasy.

The main reason was that the hunter's appearance at this time evoked some very painful memories in his heart.

"plague."

The repairman muttered to himself as his body shuddered subconsciously. He would never forget the scene in which the hunter guarding the village was attacked by the scarlet bugs and brought the plague back to the village, causing the village that had been passed down for hundreds of years to disappear due to the plague in just one year.

The repairman clenched his fists, thought again and again, put down the tools in his hands, and walked towards the meeting place where the commander-in-chief was, amid the puzzled voices of his colleagues.

(End of this chapter)