Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 380 Research, must research

As the sun rises and the moon sets, inside the ancient tree, the cat following the ancient dragon youth, carrying a medicine basket on his back, follows the method he has learned to pick Taijing branches and buds. He picks a Taijing branch and bud that looks very juicy and puts it into the medicine basket on his back.

Over the years, ever since the first Taijing branch was discovered by the ancient dragon prophet, a large number of Taijing branches began to gradually emerge on the ancient tree. The closer to the top of the ancient tree, the more there are of these things, and there is even a faint smell of them spreading to the canopy outside the tree hole.

Later, as the research on Taijing branches deepened, it was discovered that this thing not only met the material requirements of ancient dragon alchemy, but also had excellent heat resistance and softness. Therefore, it was also used in large quantities in the construction of fire dragon nests.

"Huh? What is this, meow? It's a bug I've never seen before, meow."

After Maomao used a knife to break off the top part of a Taijing branch, he discovered two-centimeter-long insect eggs hidden under the leaves. A silver insect with a shell that was almost as transparent as crystal and with blue patterns on its body was lying quietly next to the eggs.

The short beak was now piercing into the leaves, continuously sucking the juice.

Even through the insect's body, the cat could clearly see the juice in the leaves flowing into the insect's body through its beak.

"Ahhh! It's a pest, meow!!"

Almost in the next second, the cat classified the insect as a pest.

Taijing branch sprouts have appeared for several years. Cats have tried to use the residues left after alchemy to cultivate insects to see if they can increase the yield of insects or cultivate new varieties.

After a series of experiments, I found that I had never seen any insect interested in this thing. Even the most picky bitter insect would not taste it.

This result silenced the cats and made them feel relieved.

Although they did not get the expected result, it also means that they will not have to send people to carry out insect prevention work on the Taijing branches and buds, which are the "strategic materials" mentioned by the ancient dragon prophets.

But now, what did it see!!

Unexpectedly, without their knowledge, a 'pest' appeared! !

I can’t stand it, meow!

Maomao raised the knife in his hand and was about to slap the hateful pest to death when the voice of the ancient dragon youth leading the team came from above his head.

"and many more!"

The ancient dragon youth stopped the cat's actions, and under the cat's puzzled gaze, he carefully squatted beside the insect, fearing that his movements would be too big and scare the insect.

The ancient dragon youth held up his glasses on the bridge of his nose and carefully sensed the energy flow of the insect in front of him.

As the assistant of the ancient dragon prophet, he also possesses extremely high alchemical talent, and therefore knows the special nature of the Taijing branches.

Taijing branch buds are special products of ancient trees that mutated under the influence of the fire dragon boss's power in order to adapt to the existence of the fire dragon boss. This thing can be said to be a brand new species.

Logically, it would not be so soon that an insect would appear that feeds on the sap of this completely new species.

What's more, according to his perception, the energy in this insect's body is exactly the same as that of the Taijing branch bud, perfectly accommodating the mixed life energy in the Taijing branch bud.

This insect seems to be quite researchable.

Thinking of this, the ancient dragon youth quietly stretched out his hand and tried to grab the insect from the back.

Suddenly, the insect that was eating happily noticed the action of the ancient dragon youth and stopped sucking instantly.

The next second, a streak of energy flashed across the crystallized edge of the wings.

"Be careful meow!"

The cat pounced and grabbed the ancient dragon man's arm. With a strong pull, the ancient dragon man's palm rubbed against the edge of the insect's suddenly opened folded wings. "Hiss! It's so hot!"

The ancient dragon youth who realized it later took a breath of cold air and looked at the palm of his hand that he had retracted. There was a small red mark on it. It was just a brush and did not completely touch the insect's wings.

Otherwise, it would not just be a red patch, but a direct burn!
"This bug"

The ancient dragon youth regretted his carelessness while looking with lingering fear at the butterfly-like insect that was slowly flapping its wings and facing them.

Under its slightly shaking wings, bits of ice-blue crystals fell from its wings like powdered scales. Nothing could be seen when the crystals fell on the branches of the Taijing, but some powder crystals that floated outside the branches of the Taijing directly burned a small wisp of white smoke on the soil.

"What the hell is this!"

Just as the ancient dragon youth was looking at the insect vigilantly, he saw the crystals on the insect's wings solidify again, and it flapped its wings silently and flew up again. With a wingspan of 15 centimeters, the insect looked like a dreamy beauty with its beak bent and folded.

"What are you doing meow!"

The cat held up the knife and made a threatening sound of "shashasha" from its throat at the bugs that were slowly flying towards them.

Although it failed to complete the training of a cat follower and could not even be considered a follower cat, its aptitude was so poor that it could not even use the unique sweat gland fire control ability of the ancient tree fire dragon cats, but it was Detel who had received a certain amount of combat education after all, so it should have no problem dealing with this insect.

In the meantime, after the cat showed its hostility, the bug suddenly accelerated, and in a swaying blue light, it easily avoided the knife wielded by the cat, and in the cat's incredulous eyes, it instantly appeared on its neck.

The curled beak popped out again, piercing the skin under the cat's neck like a mosquito bite.

"Cantaloupe!"

The ancient dragon youth cried out in surprise, looking at the cat's eyes that widened instantly, and without caring about the pain in his palm that had not yet subsided, he rolled up his sleeves and fanned the bug on the cat's neck.

But this time the attack missed. The insect flapped its wings and easily dodged the attack of the ancient dragon youth. After drawing an arc in the air, it swayed and fell back onto the Taijing branch.

The ancient dragon youth didn't bother to continue attacking and hurriedly checked the cat's condition.

Unexpectedly, the cat's front paws and ear tips suddenly caught fire.

"I, I can use fire, meow?"

The cat pinched its paw pad in disbelief. The flames burning on it did not cause any harm to it. Instead, it felt warm and comfortable.

"How do you feel about this?" The ancient dragon youth withdrew his hand and asked cautiously.

"I feel great, meow. I've never felt better than now." The cat's mind moved, and its sweat glands stopped secreting flammable sweat. After feeling it carefully, the cat felt refreshed at the moment, and it seemed that its body was in much better shape than usual.

"But this bug seems very tired, meow."

After hearing these words, the ancient dragon youth's gaze shifted away from the cat and looked at the insect that had flown back to the branch of the Taijing.

Although the insect had returned to its initial state of folding its wings and sucking juice, its sucking movements had slowed down a lot and it looked listless, as if it had consumed too much energy.

Combining the fact that the cat could suddenly use fire with the look of the bug after it bit the cat, the ancient dragon youth quickly connected the two things in his mind and came to a conclusion.

"This bug is actually transmitting energy! And it's the same energy as the Detels of the ancient tree fire dragon clan!"

"Research! We must research!!"

(End of this chapter)