Monster Hunter Monster Girl Story

As night fell, the city of Shudre, shrouded in dark clouds, grew even darker.

Li Ai felt thirsty, pursed her chapped lips, and then regained consciousness.

He found himself lying face down on the ground, his chest covered in black tar and his hair coated with dust.

Given the gloomy sky, Li Ai guessed that she had been lying unconscious for several hours.

"I didn't die... but how did I survive the torture of flames?"

Li Ai couldn't understand it.

Pushing herself up and looking back, she saw Miss Mira sitting on a stone stool, her feet, covered in black scales, dangling in the air and gently swaying.

She didn't care that Li Ai had woken up, and with her arms supporting her back, she looked up at the gap in the cloud vortex.

"Since they're not dead, don't ask too many questions. It's better to let them speak first."

A gentle evening breeze blew by, and Li Ai felt a chill.

The pajamas top, which was burned completely on the front, no longer had any warmth-retaining properties.

She could only rub her hands together to keep warm. After touching the coin-sized burn on her chest, Li Ai felt that although Miss Mira was cruel, her words were still quite credible.

"In monster girl form, the use of abilities becomes more precise and controllable. If Miss Mira is like that, other monster girls should also have similar characteristics..."

As Li Ai was rubbing her hands, Miss Mira's voice rang out from the stone pier.

"I initially thought that going to the ancient tower to spy on that pervert was a lie to try and survive, but now it seems that you actually enjoy getting close to that pervert, making you the best candidate."

Li Ai was a little confused, but she nodded in agreement.

"You only have thirty years, so set off."

Thirty years?

This timeframe was clearly abnormal, but considering that Miss Mira's understanding of time scales differed greatly from that of humans, I immediately felt relieved.

"Thirty years...that's a bit short."

Li Ai did not show happiness, but sighed with melancholy.

"If you have any results to share, inform the red-robed poet of Dongdoruma. If the information is truly valuable, he will guide you to acquire more black scales."

"it is good."

After Li Ai finished speaking, she looked down at the pile of black scales on the ground, her face showing greed.

"Looking forward to your performance, Qin Ai De Laogong."

After Miss Mira finished speaking, she stood up, jumped off the stone pier, and, dragging her long dragon tail that swept across the ground, walked into the castle.

As she disappeared from sight, the amplification of emotions and senses also diminished significantly.

Li Ai didn't want to touch the dragon scales, but she couldn't be sure if Miss Mira, who had entered the castle, would continue to observe her.

He could only continue playing the greedy "Laogong," stuffing all the broken scales into his pajama pockets.

Looking up, Li Ai saw the body of her older brother leaning against the stone pillar again, and focused her gaze on the tattered flag lying beneath him.

He leaned closer and pinched the edges to confirm that the flag was thick and suitable for wearing over his body to keep warm.

He then grabbed one side of the flag and slowly pulled it outwards.

Click~

The corpse's neck tilted to the side, and its charred skull rolled to the ground.

"Sorry, bro."

Li Ai pulled out the tattered flag, which was about half a person's height, and unfolded it to look at the pattern on it.

At the top is a three-pointed crown. In the middle, from left to right, are knights holding long spears, soldiers wielding swords and shields, and ballistae holding ballistae sideways.

At the very bottom, two fire dragons, one male and one female, lay timidly.

This is clearly not a banner advocating for ecological balance; it's the kind of banner the Hunter's Guild would use.

Based on the location where the flag was discovered, Li Ai speculated that it represented the extinct royal family of Sishudre.

Draping the flag over her body helped ward off the chill of the evening breeze, and Li Ai stopped shivering.

"Brother, I won't use your flag for nothing, but your skeleton is fused to your armor, and I really can't move it. So I'll just bury your skull first."

After Li Ai finished reciting, she picked up the skull and jogged along the drawbridge leading out of the city.

On the castle tower, Miss Mira watched Li Ai running away carrying the skull and exclaimed, "You really are a pervert."

Having barely survived, Li Ai dared not rest for a moment.

Even as dawn broke, the black, scorched earth beneath their feet and the dark clouds swirling overhead seemed unchanged.

However, due to thirst and fatigue, I was already nearing my limit.

Looking at the barren, scorched earth ahead, Li Ai found a rock, lay down on it, and began to rest.

He now felt a sense of frustration, as if he had escaped the final boss's pursuit but was about to die from an environmental kill.

"Alas~ I had hoped to bury you, brother, in a place far away from Xiude City so that you could rest in peace, but now it seems that's impossible."

After muttering something to the skull, Li Ai suddenly remembered something and reached into her pajama pocket.

As several black scales fell off, the POOPa5 phone with its shattered screen was removed.

Li Ai was worried that using real mobile phone models would cause copyright disputes after the game was released, so she created her own set of model specifications.

Therefore, logically speaking, this phone should not actually exist in any place.

After unlocking with facial recognition, the phone froze for about ten seconds.

The beginner's tutorial with the Hunter Instructor has reappeared.

Li Ai looked at the status bar and was surprised to find that not only was there a network connection, but the battery level was also displayed as an infinity symbol with two twisted lines.

"This is the system interface I designed. Did it really get replicated on it...?"

The scene suddenly paused for a few seconds before the hunter instructor resumed his activity.

"Even the description of poor configuration and frequent lag has been replicated."

Li Ai did not intentionally design any lag to annoy players.

However, in order to highlight the advantages of the phone gained through cumulative charging, the description of the cracked screen version of POOPa5 was supplemented with a description that the phone model was old and had low configuration, and would often lag.

If players are highly immersed in the story, they naturally wouldn't want the protagonist to use a phone that is of poor quality.

"Unfortunately, even the most perfect recreation is useless now."

Li Ai clicked "continue" on the screen, and rows of garbled characters began to appear in the Hunter Instructor's language box.

The screen froze for a moment, and before the so-called beginner tutorial could even begin, it returned me to the system homepage.

Li Ai was not surprised by this; he also wanted to design a scenario where players could experience various hunting weapons.

But this is a prototype game with an incomplete framework, not even an internal beta version, so how could it have a complete tutorial?

Thinking about the in-game store that I had focused on designing, which was considered quite well done, I clicked on it from the main page.

Hahawa AD Calcium Milk x3 (6 bottles per pack), Old Brown Bear Crispy Noodles x3, Leoli Sandwich Cookies x3, Libo Seaweed Sheets x3.

Four basic supplies that do not require Hunter Star Level and can be purchased daily with a limit have appeared on the shop page.

"If you gave me a bottle of AD calcium milk right now, I'd drink it and die happy."

Feeling her throat burning from dryness, Li Ai reached out and tapped the "Buy" button on the screen.

You do not have enough Z-coins. Would you like to purchase more with points?

Li Ai scanned the top right corner of the screen and found that her points balance was -22908.

Based on the calculation of 1 yuan for 100 points, this amount is not large. The key is that it is a negative number, so the more you spend, the more you accumulate.

Li Ai did this to facilitate testing the in-game purchase content in the store.

"It's not bad to see game characters drinking it."

Li Ai clicked "OK" as she spoke.

A white light flashed and condensed in front of me, and a pack of six sealed bottles of calcium milk appeared before my eyes.

"what?"

Li Ai wanted to rub her eyes to see if she was hallucinating, but the suspended calcium milk had already begun to fall.

I reached out my hands to catch it, and the weight and feel were exactly the same as the real Hahawa AD calcium milk.

After tearing open the plastic seal and examining it closely, Li Ai, with slightly trembling hands, inserted the straw into the aluminum foil at the bottle opening.

goooo~

As the sweet, slightly cool calcium milk entered her mouth, Li Ai's expression became one of pure bliss.

Even after the bottle was empty, it was still making a gurgling sound as it was being sucked in, and only then did I reluctantly put it down.

"That was so awesome!"

The white light flashed several times, and the other purchased snacks fell to the ground one after another.

Li Ai quickly discovered the pattern: the items in these online stores all appeared half a meter away from the rear camera of the shattered screen version of the POOPa5.

"With this food, I should be able to get out of here alive... Wait a minute!"

Li Ai thought of something and quickly tapped her phone.

Exit the store and return to the main page, then click on the icon with the map on it.

The coordinates of his location, the outer perimeter of Shudre City, and the detailed map of the fog that would be unlocked after exploration were all displayed.

"All the phone functions are working, hahaha... Dude, I'm saved!"

Li Ai looked at the skull and burst into laughter.

Li Ai wanted to study the phone a little more, but then she remembered that they were still on the outskirts of Xiudre City, so she packed some snacks and ran while eating.

One day, two days...

On the third day of the hike, when we saw the green fields and rivers in the distance, the sunlight shining through the edge of the clouds, and heard the chirping of insects and birds in the forest, we were filled with joy.

Li Ai finally realized that she had escaped Miss Rami's territory.

However, a new problem arises: once they enter the forest and hills, the threat of the Black Dragon disappears, and the number of monsters inhabiting the mountains and forests will increase dramatically.

Even the herbivorous dinosaurs, which are at the bottom of the ecological niche and are generally considered "canned meat," are still dangerous monsters with heavy bodies and thorns on their heads and tails to ordinary people.

A charge came, and Li Ai didn't think his body could withstand it, let alone encounter a carnivorous group of Blue Velociraptors that were widely distributed in the forest.

"Let's rest for the night on the edge."

With the daily purchase limit on snacks available in the online store, Li Ai has no worries about food and drink.

However, in order to follow the map route from the planning office and get away from Xiuled City as soon as possible, he only had a few very short naps in these three days.

Once they enter the forest hills inhabited by numerous monsters, their rest time will likely be even shorter, so Li Ai felt it necessary to make thorough preparations.

After taking a bath by the river, Li Ai also washed the flag she was wearing to keep warm, her pajamas, underwear, and cotton slippers.

The large amount of ash from the burning was washed away, and my body finally felt refreshed.

In the evening, Li Ai lay face down on a broken piece of wood and turned on her phone.

In the character information section, Li Ai's name is prominently marked with 4.9 stars.

He was shocked when he first checked it, because this star rating is used to assess a character's overall strength.

Five-star hunters are among the best hunters, capable of accepting high-risk commissions like hunting the Rathalos, the king of the skies.

Anyone would be happy to receive such praise upon arrival.

After eating snacks multiple times, I could indeed feel my strength and endurance steadily improving.

However, this improvement is still far from enough compared to hunters who can fight Rathalos head-on.

After careful inspection, Li Ai realized that the 4.9-star rating was correct, but like the balance of points in the store, it was also a negative number.

That is, a negative 4.9-star rating.

This isn't some special setting; it simply reflects his current strength.

The Earth environment in which Li Ai grew up did not possess the high-energy ecology of the monster world, thus preventing the development of a powerful body.

If judged by the standards of an ordinary person on Earth, he would at least receive a rating of one or two stars because of his diligent training.

But if you suddenly transmigrate here, by the standards of this place, you'll naturally be as weak as a chick.

Li Ai wasn't discouraged, because based on the benefits of snacks to the body, and the more paid enhancements unlocked as the star level increased, the lack of physical constitution could be made up for.

However, the skill in using hunting weapons is indeed difficult to improve without talent, and spending money cannot provide much assistance.

Because Monster Hunter is an action game, even if players have the same equipment at the end, the way they use their hunting weapons will be vastly different. This is the key to truly determining how powerful a hunter is and how high their skill ceiling is.

When Li Ai's finger landed on the monster girl status icon, she paused for a moment, but still clicked it.

The only entry, featuring the black dragon monster girl Mirapolias, is displayed.

Even more bizarrely, after the name of Miss Mira, who is clearly unattainable, there is a burning heart representing her affection level.

"How did you increase this favorability rating...?"

Li Ai scratched her head, completely baffled.

Wrapped tightly in the flag and inhaling the scent of grass and trees emanating from the forest, Li Ai slept soundly.

The next morning, it was confirmed that the weather was normal.

Li Ai then left the area shrouded in dark clouds and entered the sunny, forested hills.

Lizards, flying insects, birds...

As you venture deeper into the forest, a large number of environmental organisms begin to appear.

"This must be the blue mushroom that can be used to make healing potions."

Li Ai took out her phone to scan and confirm.

After the screen completed the identification process and confirmed that they were blue mushrooms, Li Ai picked all three.

"If we could give it to Zhang Daifu, he would definitely love it."

Upon seeing a large tree, Li Ai circled around it for a moment, then squatted down and dug with his bare hands, placing the charred skull into the pit.

"Brother Nameless, thank you for guarding this flag. It has helped me a lot... I am really incapable of revenge, so I will bury you here, which will also be a way of keeping you away from her."

After bowing twice, Li Ai filled the hole with soil, compacted it, and continued on his way.

By noon, covered in sweat, he realized something was wrong.

Looking back, the large bundle tied with flags had now bulged into a sphere.

Li Ai unpacked and opened it: blue mushrooms, hollow fruit shells, herbs, insect remains, ore fragments, and dried monster droppings...

The forest produce, which had been packed together, suddenly scattered.

"No wonder I was so tired, turns out I've already collected so much material."

Li Ai picked up a heavy piece of iron ore and wanted to throw it away.

But his hand seemed to obey his will, returning to the bundle as he muttered, "Just in case it comes in handy..."

"wrong!"

Li Ai immediately became alert to the current situation.

"I'm not here to gather materials. Every extra day spent traversing the forest increases the danger. Being greedy for these resources and carrying heavy loads is definitely not a wise move..."

Li Ai immediately thought of something and reached into her pocket.

Before long, Li Ai began digging a hole under a tree again, but this time she buried the forbidden material, black dragon scales, and even marked the exact location on the map with a beacon.