Monster Hunter: I can accept monster quests

But when Chen Yan calmed down and prepared to face Ao Tu Na, he opened his eyes and found himself still below the steps.

"Are you never going to stop...?"

Just as Chen Yan was about to draw his sword, he heard a familiar low growl.

"Xialong?"

He was met with a slightly cheerful roar.

Chen Yan looked up and saw the Xialong he had been longing for, but it wasn't the only Xialong.

From the crested dinosaurs, small scalydra, and large scalydra he encountered when he first arrived in the New World...

From the Pink Rathalos, Chameleon, and Nergigante fighting alongside him...

They stood on the steps with Him, roaring in different tones, piling together in harmony and affection, joyfully beckoning Chen Yan to come over.

"Ao Tu Na, you're so despicable...you're absolutely despicable..."

Chen Yan got angry.

It's just fantasy, right? Anyone can fantasize...

The hazy figures of the five forbidden dragons—Black Dragon, Red Black Dragon, Ancestral Dragon, Radiant Black Dragon, and Refined Black Dragon—suddenly appeared in this illusory space.

The once bright space darkened, and a wave of energy powerful enough to destroy the world filled every corner.

The shattered Rathalos, Chameleon, and Nergigante screamed at Chen Yan, but he paid no heed, focusing intently on recalling every detail about them.

He had a perfect memory of every scale, every horn, every wing... even their movements, expressions, and forms, whether they were angry or reclusive, wild or majestic...

"Don't underestimate the bond between me and them!!!"

Chen Yan roared.

Just as the five forbidden figures were about to open their eyes, the mental space that Ao Tu Na had been maintaining with all her might completely collapsed. The ancient forest landscape reappeared, and Chen Yan gasped for breath, his face pale and his head throbbing.

"Miss Mira, you're being too domineering! Can't I even think about you and your other sisters...?"

Compared to Chen Yan, who could still barely speak, Ao Tu Na's large horn exploded with a "crack," as if she had been severely injured. In her blurry state, Chen Yan seemed to see endless black and red lightning bolts crisscrossing inside and outside her body.

It seemed as if He had encountered "divine punishment".

A few breaths later, Aotu Na's trembling body calmed down. Although her mouth was tightly closed, pink blood still spurted out from the gaps.

Bathed in dragon blood, Chen Yan met His furious gaze without fear and drew his sword.

"I told you it's hard to chew, and now you're feeling the pain..."

Chapter 98 Forgetting your original intention means you have to pay three times the price

At Starry Sky Stronghold, Chen Yan's room was a complete mess.

The thick cotton quilt was rolled up into a ball, and a summer short-sleeved shirt was also wrapped around it, making the shirt bulge.

A pillow was stuck in the quilt, and a horribly distorted portrait was pasted on the pillow. The portrait was so distorted that it hardly looked like a human being.

Meanwhile, Hua Miao nestled in the "Chen Yan" figure that she had built herself.

To its left is a bag of rare dried fish that costs as much as ten gold coins.

The cat haphazardly curled its tail into a handful of fur and tossed it into the air. Most of the fur landed on the ground, while a small portion landed on its chubby belly.

It pickyly picked up the fattest piece with its fingernails, barely managed to throw it into its mouth, and after gnawing on the belly, it impatiently spat out the rest.

"Pah! This premium dried fish is awful! It's not even as good as the fish bones Chen Yan left behind!"

The cat complained as it reached out its paw to reach the boxes of milk lying on its right.

Judging from the luxurious packaging of the milk, it should be produced by the famous Milk King of the Old World. A box of it would cost at least ten gold coins. Considering the shipping costs and losses along the way, this box would probably sell for twenty gold coins in the New World.

Hua Miao took a sip, then turned her head and spat it all over the ground.

"Pah! This milk that costs twenty-two gold coins a box tastes awful! It's not even as good as the boiled water Chen Yan boiled for me!"

The cat grumbled and threw the dried fish and milk on the ground with its paw.

In just a few quick moves, over thirty gold coins were fed to the floor.

If it were the same cat from a few days ago, let alone letting it waste money like this, it wouldn't have been willing to buy these luxury items even if you beat it to death.

But judging from the various expensive foods piled up all over the bed and scattered all over the floor, the extremely stingy cat has clearly forgotten its original intention.

Now it only licks the top layer of milk skin when drinking milk, only eats the fattest part of dried fish, must ride in a cat stroller when going out, must use new cat litter, and even the fragrance in the room must be made from fresh leaves from the ancient tree forest.

Thanks to this Palico's extravagant spending spree, which turned its grief into consumption, it successfully transformed from a black and white cow-shaped fat cat with some savings into a gray fat cat burdened with debt and covered in dirt.

However, it didn't care at all. It wobbled and rolled off "Chen Yan's" arms, rolled smoothly off the bed, rolled across the floor, and finally bumped into the crooked altar.

The altar, which was made from a bench, only has three legs left out of its original four, and those three legs are not even complete.

Hua Miao climbed up from the altar. Besides a photo of it and Chen Yan before boarding the ship in the Old Continent, there was only a plush toy of Xia Long, Chen Yan, and Hua Miao, a family of friends.

The background of the photo is the flagship ship of the fifth group. Hua Miao is sitting on Chen Yan's shoulder, and the two of them are smiling brightly.

The cat's eyes welled up with tears.

"That damn Chen Yan, he always said I'd get fat and die sooner or later, but he died even earlier than me. I heard from the other Felynes that the group of fire dragons in the forest laid eggs recently. Could it be that you succeeded, kid..."

It poked the fluffy little Chenyan with its claws.

"If you really become a fire dragon, remember to fly over and let Meow-chan ride you. That way, all my sadness won't have been in vain..."

Just as Hua Miao was mourning a "dead person" who was busy jumping around in Ao Tu Na's arms, there was a knock on the door.

"Meow, are you awake? Um, what about what I told you? What have you thought about?"

It's Harley's voice.

Unlike her usual carefree and impulsive voice, this time her voice was unusually gentle.

The cat only twitched its ears. It glanced back at the door, which was blocked off with tables and chairs, but didn't reply. It just silently crawled under the altar and curled up.

Harley knocked gently on the door again from outside.

"Meow, others may not know me, but you know me well, right? Being my Palico is great! I'll let you manage all the money, you decide what we eat, and I know the New World like the back of my hand. I can take you wherever you want to go..."

"..."

"Oh, right, I heard Master Yuanye is back, and he brought a lot of information about the Coral Highlands. I heard that there are quite a few lynxes living there. They have dark green fur with white stripes, red paws, and green paw patterns on their bellies..."

"..."

Harley outside the door was talking until her throat was dry, but she still couldn't hear any response from Flower Cat.

Her voice grew softer and softer until she finally sat down slowly with her back against the door. She turned her head to look at the letter written by Chen Yan himself, his fat cat face looking particularly comical. She sighed softly.

On the first floor of the outpost, Naomi, the head of the supplies squad, was looking through the supplies income and expenditure ledger. With her extensive experience, she immediately spotted several minor errors in the accounts.

Faced with the anxious intern logistics staff, she did not reprimand them, but gently explained the reason for the mistake to them.

After explaining the details, he then discussed the reward range for mission materials with several other responsible persons around him, and the range was determined in just a few concise sentences.

After everything was arranged, the hunters who had completed their missions gathered around and gave their reports. Naomi calmly approved the allocations.

After everyone had left satisfied, Naomi, finally alone, leaned back in her chair and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"There's no one here, why aren't you two coming in?"

The supply manager in charge of trading goods with the hunters appeared, followed by the captain of the supply transport ship.

The two men walked up to her, one after the other.

"Master/Boss's eyes are still so sharp..."

The merchant and the captain looked at each other, hesitant to speak in front of Naomi, yet still wanting to.

"Speak quickly if you have something to say, what's with all this hesitation?"

The two simultaneously opened their notebooks, revealing many slips of paper tucked inside. The slips, of varying sizes, were covered with crooked cat paw prints. Naomi glanced at them and interrupted what they were about to say.

"As I said, all of Hua Miao's expenses will be covered by me, and I will try my best to satisfy whatever it wants. If money can't buy it, I will post a request. If no one accepts the request, I will add money. When money can no longer meet its needs, it can come to me again."

"But Master, that Felyne is spending money way too much! It's already spent several thousand gold coins in just half a month. If you don't stop it, it's afraid it'll squander all your money..."

The captain nodded in agreement.

Lately, my cat's needs have become increasingly expensive. It needs milk from Old World Milk King, super rare dried fish, top-grade Wagyu cat food... and even the cat litter it uses has to be the most expensive kind.

Hearing their back-and-forth reports, Naomi smiled and the crisp sound of her closing her notebook interrupted them.

"Milk, dried fish, cat food... how much does that cost? Is it that my hundreds of thousands of gold coins in savings aren't enough, or are you just too lazy to bother with it?"

The queen, who once controlled the underground black market of the Old World, spoke in a cold tone. Although she appeared petite in front of the two burly men, the aura she exuded made them tremble.

Just as Naomi was about to say something more, she saw the little lynx cat, who was close to Flower Cat, happily running towards Chen Yan's house.

She paused for a moment, then her brows suddenly relaxed.

She beckoned the little cat over with dried fish. Without asking any questions, she simply handed it a thick stack of IOUs and pointed to Chen Yan's room.

"After I tell Flower Cat the good news, give it these notes, and also tell it that it owes me three times the amount it owes me!"

After a while.

The joyful cheers of Flower Cat and Harley echoed throughout half of the base.

A moment later.

The cat's heartbroken screams echoed throughout the entire outpost.

A moment later.

Naomi, with her legs crossed and toes pointed leisurely, looked up at the pterosaur swaying and flying towards the Ancient Tree Forest and showed the brightest smile she had had in the past two weeks.

Chapter 99 Dragon Tamer Cat!

"Master Harley, your little servant cat is here to massage your legs~"

The cat, all smiles and fawning, clung to Harley's legs, unleashing its signature stomp and poke technique. Harley, however, looked on with disgust, her head bowed to the dusty paw prints that had appeared on her once-clean trousers.

"Who's your master? Get out of my sight!"

Harley shook her leg, but she couldn't shake off that big lump no matter what she tried.