Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 378 Epidemics and Accidents

"What?! Plague!!"

The commander-in-chief, who was writing a report on the Black Eclipse Dragon, suddenly stood up from his chair and walked quickly to the repairman. The metal prosthesis under his feet made a slight metal friction sound due to the rapid movement.

In the area around Sky Mountain in the Old Continent, traces of the Black Eclipse Dragon have been confirmed. Even a ship sailing on the nearby sea suffered huge losses due to an attack by the Black Eclipse Dragon. Subsequently, monsters suffering from mad dragon disease began to appear near Sky Mountain.

Originally, with the previous director of the Ecological Research Institute in charge, the guild quickly locked on to the relevant targets and launched a crusade against the Black Eclipse Dragon. However, for some reason, after the crusade against the Black Eclipse Dragon, the mad dragon disease was not curbed, but instead became more and more serious. There was no other way for the Old Continent to let the fourth group come and bring a message, hoping that they can find other relevant information here.

It just so happened that after the Tianhui Dragon incident, the research on mad dragon disease has never stopped in the New World. Although the corpses of those mad dragon-transformed monsters have long been consumed, some biological samples have been successfully preserved.

Just as I was lamenting the many disasters in the Old World, suddenly someone here said that a hunter might have contracted a plague.

This news did make the commander-in-chief panic for a moment.

The technology tree in Monster Hunter World is a little bit off. It has good attainments in conventional toxins and trauma. With the help of alchemy, the direction of pharmacy has also developed very well.

But facing something like the plague, we are really helpless. Facing the epidemic, we often have to rely on the strong physique of human beings in this world to get through it.

However, facing the epidemic that the repairman mentioned, which could abandon an entire village, if it is not handled properly, the newly rebuilt Star Base might suffer huge losses again.

"Hu~~"

The commander-in-chief exhaled slowly, calmed himself down, and stared straight into the eyes of the repairman from the Fourth Regiment. He asked again, "Let me confirm again. Are you sure it's the plague?"

The repairman looked confused. He carefully recalled the hunter's symptoms and finally said with difficulty, "Eighty percent, mainly because the symptoms are too similar! According to the announcement of the kingdom, the source of this disease seems to be a red bug, which was brought by an ancient dragon named Silver Jue Dragon."

"So as long as we find out whether the hunter encountered the bugs you mentioned before he got sick, we can determine whether it is an epidemic!"

The commander-in-chief took over.

"Red bugs. I remember the emergency report sent back from the Ancient Tree yesterday. It seemed to mention something similar. It seemed to be caused by a female fire dragon that came to the Ancient Tree from the Great Ant Mound Wasteland. The female fire dragon was eventually driven away by the Blazing Sun Dragon."

The commander-in-chief muttered to himself as he arranged for someone to go to the medical department to inquire about the situation. Then he turned around and took out the report on the ancient tree from the pile of reports.

"Is this another creature that even the Blazing Sun Dragon has to deal with personally? It seems that we need to investigate this."

The mutated female fire dragon came from the Great Ant Mound Wasteland, and his own hunter was also on a mission in the Great Ant Mound Wasteland. He became like this now, and the commander-in-chief vaguely felt that there was a connection between them.

After all the busy work, the sky gradually darkened.

The commander-in-chief then took time out from his busy work, looked at the swordsmanship master who was instructing his grandson in sword-wielding practice, greeted him, and then came to the medical department with a heavy heart.

A whole day had passed and no one had come to inform him about the hunter's situation. It looked like the situation was not good.

But at this moment, the door of the medical department was closed, and only a doctor wearing a mask was sitting outside the door.

"Commander-in-chief!" The doctor stood up and stretched out his hand to stop the commander-in-chief who was walking towards him.

"what happened?"

The commander-in-chief stopped and looked at the doctor with some uneasiness. "Please stay away from the medical department during this period. The patient's condition is not good. We suspect it is a plague."

Hearing this, the commander-in-chief clenched his fists instantly, but his face remained calm. Although he was mentally prepared in advance because of the repairman's reminder, things were not yet certain, so he always had some luck.

Now that the doctors had made their judgment, the commander-in-chief's heart still sank.

"We tried a lot of different medicines, including extracts from the fruit, but none of them had much effect."

Seeing that the commander-in-chief didn't say anything, the doctor subconsciously began to report, but was interrupted by the commander-in-chief as soon as he opened his mouth.

He looked at the closed door of the infirmary, his voice a little hoarse.

"The doctors, are they all in there?"

"Yes, it is a plague after all." The gatekeeper doctor said this and then fell silent. The tightly closed door of the medical department already showed the response plan given by the doctors.

"I understand."

The commander-in-chief let out a breath, turned around and left without looking back.

He decided to go to the back mountain to invite Lord Xialong.

Although the epidemic and the toxin are not the same thing, the Xialong in the back mountain is also completely different from the Xialong they know. Maybe they can give it a try?

If someone looks carefully on the platform under the ancient tree, they will find that it is the place where the female fire dragon infested by gnawing insects stayed a few days ago, the platform where vines and tree roots are intertwined.

In the gap, a reddish insect egg seemed to be breathing and was constantly expanding and contracting.

As the egg shell becomes harder, a small crack gradually appears on the surface of the egg.

A very tiny gnat larva crawled out of the opening.

In the environment of the ancient tree, which filters and emits gentle life energy all the time, the larvae of the gnawing insects, which should have died after leaving the host, miraculously survived and successfully broke out of the shell.

It has to be said that after being affected by life energy, insects do have extraordinary adaptability in biological evolution.

However, it is not a true gnawing parasite that is bred from its parasitic object. Even if this larva successfully hatches, it is unable to flap its wings and can only crawl on the ground like a caterpillar.

If nothing unexpected happened, this gnawing insect, without food or energy source, would soon die quietly this night and become one of the nutrients for the ancient tree.

But the accident finally happened.

Just as the larvae of the gnawing insect were constantly moving in the gaps between the vines, they suddenly fell from an inconspicuous small hole and finally landed on the newly grown Taijing branch in the hole.

The gnawing insects, which were already in urgent need of energy, sensed the gentle life energy coming from the ancient tree on the Taijing branches, and subconsciously opened their mouths to bite through the leaf bark, greedily sucking the juice from the leaves.

(End of this chapter)