Monster Hunter: I can hear the monsters' thoughts

Chapter 73 Lin Lin is recovering from his injuries

After a roar, the female sand dragon left the corpse and burrowed back into the mud, covering herself with mud.

However, this time it was not for daily maintenance, but to prepare for a battle that might happen at any time.

It doesn't know what killed its mate, but it knows that anything that can kill its mate will definitely pose a threat to its unhatched cubs. Covering its body in mud can somewhat enhance its defense and make it more powerful when protecting its offspring.

Standing up from the mud, the female sand dragon took a last look at the body of her mate, and left with heavy steps. Looking at the direction of departure, it was surprisingly the same direction as that of Date and Tiaotiao.

"Sure enough, there are two sand dragons living here..."

Suddenly, a red head emerged from the bushes, with a white diamond-shaped mark on its forehead.

He touched his pointed ears, looked in the direction of the sand dragon's corpse, and smiled slightly.

"Looks like a reliable hunter has arrived. I don't need to worry about it..."

……

Brave was looking for traces of the caravan around the oasis with a very nervous mood. He thought about launching a flare into the sky to let the caravan know his location and come to find him, but what Lin Lin said before they parted made him hesitate again and again, and finally gave up.

What if there really was another Sand Dragon, and he sent out a flare to let anyone who saw it leave their temporarily safe hiding place, but ended up running into it on the way here? How desperate would he feel at that moment?
So Brave had no choice but to use the stupid method. After finding the place where the caravan was attacked, he began to search along the traces bit by bit.

When the sky had completely darkened and the stars began to shine, Brave finally followed the trail and found a caravan member who was shivering in a tree. He handed him a bottle of hot drink, and after comforting him for a while, he finally calmed down.

With this beginning, Brave was able to use the special communication method between caravan members and imitate the special call of a bird to gather the scattered caravan members little by little along the way. Finally, he climbed over a sand dune and found the last caravan captain and the depressed mother and son in a simple shack built in the leeward place.

Brave took off his visor, his expression excited:
"Mom! Little Zack!"

The mother and son, who had seemed so happy after being rescued, suddenly looked up. Their childish faces when they left home had now become resolute. After being stunned for a moment, they didn't care about the hard and thick metal armor on his body, and threw themselves into his arms, crying uncontrollably.

"Abu!"

"elder brother!"

Braif patted his relatives' backs with his hands, calloused from holding a sword for so long. After they calmed down a little, he looked around and asked, "Where's Dad?"

These two simple words made the mother and son, who had just calmed down, unable to control their tears again.

Brave was immediately panicked. The joy he had just felt in seeing his family members safe and sound was instantly dissipated. He muttered to himself:

"No, no... Impossible!"

However, his mother and brother, who were hugging him tightly, did not say a word of rebuttal, which made his expression go from panic to pale.

The caravan captain hesitated for a moment, walked over, and patted Brave on the back.

"The package he took away contained a lot of hunting tools. Maybe things haven't reached the worst point." This gave Brave a glimmer of hope. He quickly stood up and asked the other party.

"Do you know which direction he went?"

This place is far away from the oasis and is located in the sea of sand. Even footprints left a few minutes ago will quickly disappear in the hot wind, and there is no way to find any traces. Therefore, Brave can only place his hopes on the captain of the caravan.

"Oasis, he led that guy back to the Oasis."

Brave sniffed, returned, and hugged his family. "They've recovered a lot of supplies. You can set up a simple camp here. I'll go find Dad, and then we'll set off back to Rocklark."

This caravan that departed from the port of Tangia did not use sand ships, but instead used domesticated herbivorous dragons to pull carts - this also meant that they often needed to rest and replenish supplies in the oases along the way - and after being attacked by sand dragons, although some of these guys broke the reins and ran away, most of them still ran with the carts. Along the way, as the caravan members continued to gather, most of the trucks were recovered.

The long-haired woman subconsciously wanted to stop her son from taking risks, but then she remembered that her son had grown up and was no longer a fledgling who needed to hide under his parents' wings, but an independent hunter, so she could only look at him with worry.

Brave pulled the corners of his mouth and showed a forced smile: "Don't worry, Mom, I came here with a very reliable companion. We have already killed the sand dragon, it's okay."

……

Tiaotiao followed Coconut Date's instructions and soon spotted an elf deer.

The other party was equally alert. When they heard the cross-species communication between a dragon and a cat from afar, they discovered the arrival of the predator and immediately started to run away. As the elf deer is at the bottom of the ecological niche, the only thing that allows it to survive when facing predators is its four hooves, so its speed is naturally extremely fast.

Although Tiao Tiao was trying very hard to chase, this was not a group hunt where they could form a circle to slowly encircle the prey. It and Date alone could not catch up and could only watch the backs of both parties getting farther and farther away.

When the elf deer jumped lightly and got into a narrow crevice in the rocks, Tiaotiao stopped helplessly and let out a low growl from his mouth.

It really doesn't have much experience hunting alone, so why not go back and get some raw meat from the Sand Dragon's corpse?
The reason why Coconut Date suggested hunting the Elf Deer was mainly to let Tiaotiao change his target, not because he really wanted to eat some barbecue. In the luxurious hunter's cabin a few days ago, he had eaten a lot of various delicious foods, so he was not really craving barbecue for the time being.

Besides, barbecue is so greasy that it is not suitable for a wounded person like Lin Lin to recuperate. It is enough to just bring some food and soak it in water to make a pot of porridge.

"Huh? What's that, meow?"

Jujube accidentally turned his head and noticed a tall mud mound standing quietly in a smaller mud puddle not far away.

Tiaotiao also discovered this place. He looked at the huge mud mound with a loose surface with curiosity. Suddenly, his nose twitched, as if he smelled a certain smell.

It seems... edible?

　Q: What? Where is Lin Lin? He doesn't even appear in this chapter.

　　Answer: Lin Lin is recovering from his injuries

　　
　
(End of this chapter)