Monster Hunter: I can hear the monsters' thoughts

Chapter 42 For Delicious Crab Roe
Lin Lin originally had some expectations for this escort trip, wondering what kind of monsters he would encounter, whether it would be difficult to fight, and so on.

However, a day later, he gave up this inexplicable expectation and lay bored in the carriage. He couldn't sleep and could only stare at the ceiling in a daze.

The stream area was so peaceful that the caravan was only harassed by the puppy dragon once during the entire day. Lin Lin chopped it down with his axe and made it flee in panic, never daring to approach again.

"Why do I feel like you're really looking forward to meeting a monster, meow?"

The curtain at the car door was lifted, and a golden-furred Ailu poked his head out to look at the bored Lin Lin, and asked hesitantly.

Lin Lin turned his eyes, saw who was coming, and then continued to stare at the roof of the carport in a daze.

He casually responded:

"It's Seabuckthorn? Why are you here?"

To Lin Lin, Seabuckthorn was also an acquaintance... no, a familiar cat. Like Sophia, he was rescued from the mouth of the Dog Dragon King.

Because the car was destroyed and the bird died, Seabuckthorn's family suddenly lost its source of income. Fortunately, the Chamber of Commerce was more humane and did not expel it. Instead, it allowed it to join the caravan and be responsible for driving one of the trucks.

"There's something going on up ahead, meow. Lady Rachel said she wants you to go check it out, meow!"

Hearing about the situation, Lin Lin suddenly became alert, jumped up, and asked hurriedly:
"Something's going on? What's going on? Is it urgent?"

"It's not urgent, meow, otherwise Lady Rachel wouldn't have let me come over to greet you, meow."

It’s not urgent, but you still want to go and check it out yourself?

Out of curiosity, Lin Lin followed Seabuckthorn's guidance and found Rachel on a small hill in front of the convoy.

"Senior, what happened?"

Rachel turned around and gave Lin Lin a somewhat mysterious smile, "Would you like to eat something good?"

Lin Lin:?
Aren't we supposed to be escorting a caravan? Why are we suddenly talking about food?

Rachel pointed to a river in the distance, where red figures were moving around in groups of three or four. "If you want to eat them, go kill those little creatures. I think you'll get something delicious."

As a shooter, Rachel's eyesight is undoubtedly very good. Lin Lin squinted his eyes and looked for a long time before he recognized what the red shadow was.

The whole body is covered with red carapace and has three pairs of limbs. The last two pairs are responsible for supporting the movement of the body, while the first pair has evolved into abnormally developed chelicerae. The back - in biological terms, it should actually be called the abdomen - carries the bone plates of the ankylosaur.

Small shield crab, which is the juvenile of the big shield crab.

Now Lin Lin understood what Rachel meant by delicious. A palm-sized river crab was delicious enough, so surely a meter-tall shield crab would take flight? Furthermore, this creature had grown so large that it looked like it had been cooked. Wouldn't it be a waste not to eat it?

The crab roe that a shield crab can dig out...

Hiss~
Lin Lin wiped the corner of his mouth. No, he couldn't help drooling just thinking about it.

However, Lin Lin hadn't been seduced by the delicious food and hadn't forgotten what he was doing here. "But if I go and get two shield crabs, what will happen to the caravan's safety?"

Then he got another tap on the head, "So you go hunting, and I stay to ensure safety. You're so stupid!"

"Even if I'm stupid, you still beat me..."

Lin Lin covered his head with his hands, looking resentful, but when he looked at the shield crabs leisurely digging in the soil for food on the riverbank over there, he couldn't help but drooling.

"Go quickly and return quickly. Pay attention to the surrounding environment. If there are shield crabs, there may be Daimyo shield crabs as well. Keep an eye out... Also, only kill two to eat. Don't kill more."

"Order!"

……

This was a riverbank. The ground, long soaked and eroded by the water, had turned into fine sand. Occasionally, a few stones could be seen, all of them round pebbles. "Squeak..."

A small shield crab kept spitting bubbles from its mouth, making a sound similar to the chirping of insects.

Four sharp legs support the body to move quickly, leaving tiny deep pits in the mud and sand. If there is no external force, these footprints will be washed away by the water within two or three days and no trace can be seen.

The thick crab claws dug in the ground, and in a few seconds a deep pit was dug out. The shield crab used its claws to pick up a shell from the bottom, and with a little force it broke the hard protection of the shell and successfully put the soft meat inside into its mouth.

There was a slight vibration approaching from behind, and the shield crab suddenly became alert and wanted to turn its head to look behind it.

However, the shield crab, which does not even have a neck, cannot turn its head due to its unique body structure, so it can only crawl sideways quickly to turn itself in the direction it was originally facing.

However, as soon as it turned around, it saw a huge shadow falling towards its eyes.

"Squeak!"

The shield crab was startled and quickly raised its two claws in front of its face, blocking its vital parts like a shield.

"Oh!"

The giant axe fell and embedded deeply into the crab claws. The huge force directly caused cracks to appear on the surface of the crab claws that served as shields.

Of course, Lin Lin didn’t feel well either. His knuckles felt numb from the shock.

Wow, it's so hard when it's still a small thing. No wonder the claws of the Daimyo Shield Crab can bounce off the knife.

Lin Lin pulled back the giant axe, this time drawing an arc so that the axe blade could scoop up the crab from below where its claws couldn't protect it, and directly lifted the small shield crab up into the air, with light blue fluid splashing everywhere.

After scooping it up, Lin Lin quickly chased after it and smashed the shield crab in mid-air into the mud with another blow, ending its life cleanly and efficiently, saving it from the pain.

The kind-hearted Lin Lin quickly stepped forward and began to peel the appetizing crab.

The only difference is that the target of peeling is not the shell and claws that hunters love most, but the crab meat and crab roe that gourmets love most.

It’s a bit of a pity that this is a male shield crab, with no crab roe, only some crab paste...For Lin Lin, crab paste is really not as delicious as crab roe.

Another pity was that the two large crab claws, which looked very meaty, were mostly broken into pieces by him, and a lot of the meat inside was wasted.

I can't be so careless next time...

Lin Lin decided to fully learn from the experience and lessons, so he began to listen carefully to the simple thoughts around him, which were more instinctive than their inner voices.

"Hungry, looking for food..."

"Thirst, drink water..."

"Where are the females..."

"I want a male..."

"Death, danger..."

Lin Lin filtered out the useless information, suddenly turned to the shield crab that had just conveyed the idea of "wanting a male", and rushed over.

Monsters won’t appear, Miss Nan, so there’s no doubt that this one must have crab roe!

Look, here's a lone female shield crab, with six times the protein of beef. Let's sneak up on it and...

(End of this chapter)