Monster Hunter: I can hear the monsters' thoughts

Chapter 221 Ice Shield Axe is coming
The cold air in the cave seemed to solidify into substance, and the cracks on the ice wall continued to expand amid the roar.

Lin Lin gripped his shield-axe tightly, his gaze fixed on the massive creature before him. The transformed ice shark's limbs were thick and powerful, sending icy shards flying with every movement. Its sharp teeth gleamed coldly in the dim light.

This is a huge monster that looks like a mako shark, but unlike normal sharks, it has strong limbs. Its body is about seventeen or eighteen meters long and is covered with smooth blue-green scales, except for its belly which is milky white.

At this moment, the monster was staring at Lin Lin and the others with its white eyes, in which pupils could not be seen.

Brave's mouth twitched slightly, and he turned his head to glance at Lin Lin.

I know this guy is a dandy with bad luck. Whatever materials he digs up are fake. There must be some accidents in the process.

Lin Lin glanced back at Brave innocently, then refocused his attention on this big guy who suddenly jumped out and had ill intentions towards them.

If he said he was familiar with this guy, he was definitely not as familiar with him as the female fire dragon and the ice dragon, but he was not unfamiliar with him either.

Its scientific name is Zaboya Zakir, commonly known as Transformed Ice Shark/Shark/Kisame (this guy has a lot of common names, Transformed Ice Shark is the official translation, Shark and Kisame are folk translations before Monster Hunter was officially translated into Chinese). At the same time, based on the one-letter difference between the Transformed Ice Shark and the Transformed Baby Ice Shark that has just been hunted, it is enough to see that this guy is the adult form of the Transformed Baby Ice Shark. In the guild's danger assessment, this guy, like the Female Rathalos and the Ice Fang Dragon, belongs to the four-star level.

It was after seeing this guy that Lin Lin suddenly remembered that the Shark Soul and Ice Shark series of weapons made with the materials of the Transformed Ice Shark seemed to be quite excellent ice-attribute shield axes.

According to the hunter's code that he had read and memorized many times, hunting monsters is not allowed without accepting the corresponding hunting commission, unless the hunter is attacked by a monster in the wild and is forced to kill the monster in a fierce battle to protect his own life. This is called self-defense.

If he followed his previous idea and hunted an ice merman dragon, it would definitely be classified as poaching. The survival pressure in Yanhuo Village was relatively high, and the guild had no energy to take care of things like ecological balance. Even if there was a punishment, it would not be too severe, and he should not be invited to have tea by An Ye. That's why Lin Lin dared to come up with such an idea.

Well, it’s hard to say that it has nothing to do with the experience of being put in solitary confinement after Ye Zi ran away.

Due to his past experience playing games, Lin Lin subconsciously thought that there were only juvenile and deformed baby ice sharks in the Frozen Islands, and no adult ones. But the fact is, if there were no adults laying eggs here, could those deformed baby ice sharks have popped out of the stones?

By the way, because the small monsters he encountered while hunting in the abandoned shrine were no carnivorous monsters except the sickle-weasel dragon and the giant wild boar, he did not pay attention to the difference between reality and the game. In the game, there was a small thief dragon but no big thief dragon in the abandoned shrine, which is obviously impossible in reality... Inertial thinking is harmful!
"What do you mean? Retreat?"

Brave had only seen the introduction of the Transformed Ice Shark in the Monster Encyclopedia and was not clear about its fighting style, so he subconsciously prepared to be safe.

"Why retreat? Do you think it's going to let us go?"

Seeing the deformed ice shark opposite him making a somewhat awkward movement, with its whole body tensed like a spring, it was obvious that it was gathering strength. Lin Lin quickly put the shield in front of him and was alert.

According to his superficial memory of the Transformed Ice Shark, after the opponent took such a posture, he would either follow up with the Dragon Chariot or the Breath Technique, both of which required full concentration to deal with.

He stared intently at the creature. After two seconds, the transformed ice shark remained motionless, frozen in place like a puppet. Brave had rarely seen one take so long to gather momentum, and he couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. "Is it really going to attack... Shit!"

Almost at the same time he opened his mouth, the deformed ice shark opened its big mouth, and a white torrent emitting freezing cold air spurted out, sweeping across the not-so-spacious cave as its head twisted.

Faced with such an attack, Lin Lin decisively put away his shield and ran to the side with all his strength, while his eyes were fixed on the direction of the surging column of ice and water. Seeing that the attack was about to hit him, Lin Lin exerted force on his feet and suddenly pounced forward.

Feeling the whistling sound of the wind behind his head and the cold air passing by that almost froze him to death, Lin Lin couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Glancing at the area swept by the water column, he saw frost composed of fine ice crystals condensed on the originally smooth ground. Walking on such a ground normally would not have any impact, but once he jumped like this, those sharp ice chips would likely penetrate the protection of the armor and injure the hunter's body.

Almost instantly, a thought flashed through Lin Lin's mind:
We must not allow the Transformed Ice Shark to continue using its breath!
If this continues, the venue will become more and more suitable for the opponent to fight!

He glanced back in the direction of Brav and found that the other party was just like him and did not try to use Iai to resist. Instead, he avoided the attack by flying. He felt a little relieved.

The next moment, Lin Lin stepped forward and rushed in front of the transformed ice shark within a few seconds. He raised his hand and slashed at the deformed ice shark's eyeballs with a knife.

The transformed ice shark reacted just as quickly, and with a slight tilt of its head, the blade missed its fragile eyes and landed on the skin next to its gills.

Protected by strong scales, the knife only cut through the skin, causing the deformed ice shark to bleed a few drops, which was not considered any damage at all.

The transformed ice shark did not hesitate and immediately raised one of its powerful front paws and slapped Lin Lin hard.

To be on the safe side, Lin Lin did not intend to test the opponent's strength by resisting head-on. Instead, he slightly misstepped his steps, slid backward, and swung his sword across his body. Of course, he missed, but this action also blocked the shield in front of him in time.

The next moment, the transformed ice shark kicked its limbs, and its huge body rushed out like a cannonball, turning out to be a second-to-second relay car!

The shield collided violently with the ice shark's head shell, making a dull loud noise.

Because the ground was covered with ice, the huge impact force caused Lin Lin's feet to slide nearly ten meters on the ice before he stopped.

Lin Lin grinned. Fortunately, the impact force had been almost dissipated and he was basically not affected.

Fight again!

(End of this chapter)