Monster Hunter: I can hear the monsters' thoughts

Chapter 17 Rescue
"How could a monster break into the trade route, meow!"

Just as he finished speaking, the bushes not far away suddenly shook, and the faint howling of a monster could be heard.

"From the sounds, it's the little dragon puppies, meow. They still occasionally wander onto the trade route, meow! We need to speed up, meow!"

Elu, who was driving, was making assurances with confidence, but his face froze when he heard the noise. He then did not care about the winding road, as the car might roll over if he accelerated, and hurriedly urged Marudori to run.

"Don't worry, customer, meow! I've run this route many times, meow! It's no problem, meow!"

Upon hearing this, the girl in the carriage quickly closed the book and put it away, then raised her head and looked around.

But the expression on her face was more like excitement than panic.

"Where is it? Where is it?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge white shadow suddenly jumped out from the bushes on the side and let out a shrill roar at the man, cat and bird.

Elu was so frightened that she couldn't speak clearly and stammered:
"Dog, Dog Dragon Meow! Why is he here?"

"Hmm, so this is what a king's scarf looks like? It's a very fitting description. So, is there a rule in the dog-dragon tribe that the bigger the ears, the higher the status?"

The girl in the car stared at the dog dragon leader closely, muttering to herself. After hearing what she said, she thought seriously for a moment, "The book says that the males in the dog dragon tribe not only hunt, but also take on the responsibility of patrolling the territory. Therefore, you can encounter them even in places far away from their nests."

"So if we can encounter little dog dragons on the trade route, this place is actually considered the territory of the dog dragon tribe. It's normal to encounter the leader of the dog dragons, right?"

"Is this the time to talk about this, meow?!"

Amid Elu's screams, Marutori ran hard on the trade road, and the dog dragon leader behind him chased him relentlessly with saliva dripping from his mouth. The girl seemed to be able to smell the fishy smell coming from the other's mouth.

"Why are you chasing us, meow!"

"Maybe you're hungry?"

The girl sat in the bumpy carriage, her body tossed up and down, but she didn't care about the pain on her butt and watched the dog dragon leader at the back carefully.

"The dog dragon is a carnivorous bird dragon species. Its diet includes herbivorous dragons, maru birds, mushroom pigs, etc. Perhaps it has set its sights on the maru bird that is carrying us?"

"If we're going to be caught, we should abandon Maru-dori and run away. It probably won't chase us."

The girl's calm analysis helped Elu, who was driving, calm down a bit. He took a moment to look back, and then, terrified, "They're catching up, meow!"

Just as he turned around, Elu failed to notice in time that the road ahead had turned a corner. The car followed Marutori and soared into the air for half a second, then overturned and fell with three screams.

Elu and the girl in the car were thrown out directly, and rolled several times on the ground before they came to a stop. It was because the ground here was made of soft humus soil that they did not suffer any injuries. However, they were in a mess and could not run away.

Compared to the man and cat who were thrown into the air, Marutori, tied to the cart with a lasso, was in a far worse state. Half his body was pinned beneath the cart, unable to move, and he could only watch helplessly as the white behemoth cast its shadow of death. The Dog Dragon leader savored the tenderness in his mouth, feeling quite relieved.

This morning I killed a ball bird to vent my anger, but I didn't eat a single bite. Then I patrolled the territory and re-marked the area. My activity level increased, so I naturally felt hungry. I was quite annoyed, but suddenly I found a lone ball bird. It was like a pie in the sky, and I would be a fool not to eat it!
After swallowing a piece of fresh meat in his mouth, the Dog Dragon Leader glanced to the side. A kitten was not enough to fill the gap between his teeth, and a hairless monkey was only enough to fill the gap between his teeth.

I wanted to ignore it, but my mind couldn't help but recall the hairless monkey I chased some time ago. I would rather jump off a cliff than let it taste me, and my heart suddenly felt itchy.

"Meow! It's coming meow! Your analysis is wrong meow!"

"I know! Run!"

However, how could a leg that was just over one meter long possibly outrun a leg that was four or five meters long? The girl had only taken a few steps when she was about to be caught up by the dog dragon leader.

The fear of the shadow of death finally overwhelmed her initial excitement and calmness, and the girl closed her eyes in despair.

Suddenly, there was a flash of strong light. Even with my eyes closed, I could feel the darkness in front of me suddenly become bright, and a wailing sound came from behind me.

The strong light burst out for only a moment, and when the girl opened her eyes again, she was not used to the dim light in the forest. The dog dragon leader, who had been hit by the flash, had tears in his eyes and could not open his eyes at all. He could only shake his head uncomfortably, trying to get rid of the state of being blinded for a moment.

"Run! I'll stop it!"

The girl saw a hunter running towards her, and she waved the sword in her hand and attacked the dog dragon leader. Before she could say anything, she was urged by the other party to stay away from here.

Lin Lin chopped the dog dragon leader's head with a sword. The force of the sword's rebound made his arm feel numb. The feeling was not much better than chopping knotty cloud wood, and it was completely different from the feeling when he chopped the dog dragon's head.

Trying hard to maintain the slashing action of the sword without deformation, Lin Lin watched the girl and the Elu running away with his peripheral vision, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Originally, he followed the traces he had found along the way and finally found the little dog dragons who were gathered together with the dog dragon leader to patrol the territory. He finally found an opportunity to kill a lone one and completed the commission. Just as he pried off the dragon's tooth, he heard screams. He rushed over in a hurry and found that someone had indeed been attacked. Then he threw a homemade flash bomb to save the person.

"Bang" "Squeak——"

Although his vision had not yet recovered, when the Dog Dragon Leader felt the continuous pain in his head, he opened his mouth wide and bit hard in the direction of the impact. However, he felt that he was biting on hard bones, which hurt his mouth and made his teeth feel sore.

Lin Lin was so shocked by the impact that he took a few steps back to steady himself, looking at the huge monster in front of him with an extremely solemn gaze.

This guy's huge body gave it great strength, and it could no longer rely on its strength to bully the little dragon like before...

They stepped forward to fight again. The fierce collision made the sword accumulate energy continuously. After a while, with the sound of "chi chi", the blade emitted a red-hot luster.

Glancing in the direction the girl was fleeing, Lin Lin saw that her figure was obscured by the dense jungle. He took a deep breath, stepped back a few steps, inserted his sword into the shield, and poured the superheated energy accumulated in the sword into the shield.

Come on! Although I'm not ready to face this guy head-on, I absolutely have to stop him here and not let him attack anyone again!
(End of this chapter)