Monster Hunter: Wild Pointer

Xianglan's body stiffened, her words becoming stammered. "This fierce monster is too dangerous, meow! Even if you don't get close, there's still a risk, meow!"

"So it is true," Aolan pondered for a moment and raised his head, "I was too impatient.

If you find a high-risk ferocious monster, just note the territory and report it to the guild. It is beyond our capabilities.

Sorry, Captain Xianglan, we are holding you back.

You only need to conduct low-altitude reconnaissance and mark key targets. As for those potentially dangerous, ferocious monsters, we should simply avoid them."

Xianglan: “.”

You think flying a kite for low-altitude reconnaissance is easy?!

But I promised too much before, saying it was a small matter, and then I pushed the responsibility of secretly reconnaissance of high-risk monsters. I don't have the face to refuse anymore.

Under the expectant gaze of the two people and the cat, Xianglan's heart, which had been hanging in the air for a long time, finally calmed down.

Seeing that the light in Xianglan's eyes had faded, Ao Lang's expression also became a little subtle.

To be honest, he had no intention of being sarcastic or setting a trap for Xianglan. He would not resort to such tricks in the hunting grounds fraught with danger.

So he has been analyzing rationally, laying out the feasibility and difficulties as objectively as possible.

But this elder who cares about his reputation seems to have found himself in trouble again.

Chapter 244 Who is the King of the Sky?

"Well, Captain Xianglan, what's the approximate efficiency of your low-altitude reconnaissance, like how many square kilometers in a few hours?

We can arrange a more realistic reconnaissance plan based on your reconnaissance efficiency, such as reconnaissance of one-quarter or one-third of the area.

After all, we are just a small investigation team. There is really no need to be so aggressive and sweep the entire northwest part of the dense forest, even if you are a nine-star hunting cat."

Ao Lang tried to give Xianglan a way out.

"No meow!" Xianglan suddenly raised her head. "It's just a dense forest. Look, I'll turn it upside down!"

"."

Faced with the excited Eric and the dizzy Xianglan, Ao Lang found that as the de facto captain of this investigation team, he seemed unable to control these two guys.

The original investigation plan completely lost its meaning. After a brief struggle, he could only admit that he had no ability to bring the team back on track and simply gave up on treatment.

Since Miss Xianglan is determined to search the northwest jungle thoroughly, we can only obey her.

As for whether the supplies they carried were enough to support them in completing a carpet reconnaissance, he couldn't be sure. If not, he would have to tie these two guys up and take them back!

...

Xianglan, riding on a kite, was like a nimble bird, soaring over the dark green ocean.

Its whiskers trembled slightly, constantly capturing information from the wind. Sensing the changes in the airflow, Xianglan turned her body slightly to the side, controlling the large kite behind her to tilt as well.

Its altitude began to drop, and in just a few breaths, it landed smoothly on the ground.

Carefully take off the big kite behind you and fold it up.

Suddenly, Xianglan felt a little itchy under her feet. She looked down and saw that the dark humus soil had covered her paws. A millipede no longer than a finger was crawling across her paws.

With a look of disgust on her face, Xianglan kicked the innocent millipede away twice and sighed.

“Ahem—”

The moist and fertile humus in the dense forest nourishes all things, but it also dirtyes its lovely paws.

"My hair has turned gray, meow! Why on earth would I run into the jungle to do something like this during my hard-earned vacation, meow?"

Although she was muttering to herself, Xianglan did not neglect her work. She took out the map she carried with her and started marking it quickly while her memory was still clear.

"Two large strange birds have built a nest near this river bend. They don't look like they have any problems."

"A bit further west, there's a large group of blue speed dragon meows. I didn't see the blue speed dragon king, but judging by the size of the dragon group, there should be a king meow."

"Also, further west, there's a female fire dragon, meow. She looks quite old, meow, but she doesn't seem to have any problems, meow."

"... "

He used charcoal to mark the large monsters and information discovered in the past few hours on the huge map one by one, and then unfolded the map completely to take a look.

This was already the fourth day of low-altitude reconnaissance, and the map of the northwest part of the dense forest had only barely filled up about one-fifth of the area. The progress was slower than expected.

What annoyed it the most was that Orlan Eric and Seabuckthorn were idle on the airship all day long, leaving it alone to fly around.

How did things get to this point? Meow! I'm going to go back and scold them!

Xianglan angrily put away the map and charcoal pencil, looked around, and soon found an exceptionally tall tree. The crown of this tree was much higher than the other trees around it, making it convenient for takeoff.

Xianglan ran to the giant tree on all fours and was about to climb up when the golden reflection that caught her sight attracted her attention.

"Meow?"

It looked up toward the area where the reflection appeared.

There is something stuck in the tree trunk, it seems to be a piece of metal fragment?

Xianglan tilted her head, jumped and hopped, and quickly crawled to the "metal fragment".

The fragments were roughly diamond-shaped, with edges as sharp as blades. They were embedded nearly halfway into the tree trunk, with about 20 to 30 centimeters of material exposed. The sunlight shone through the tree canopy, reflecting a golden light.

"What meow? I thought it was a gold meow, but it turns out to be the scale meow of a pine cone chicken." Xianglan curled her lips at first, then realized something was wrong.

It suddenly looked up at the dark cloud-covered sky, "Oh no! That thing has a very strong sense of territory, meow!"

He assembled the kite as quickly as possible and put it on his back. He clung to the tree trunk and waited for a few seconds. As a strong wind came, he jumped up and soared into the air.

At the same time, above the dense clouds, the airship was hovering.

Seabuckthorn was carefully operating the airship, while the original pilot Eric was sorting out the information brought back by Xianglan in the past few days, and planning the next low-altitude reconnaissance route.

Aolan came over and asked, "Based on our current efficiency, how long will it take us to complete the low-altitude reconnaissance?"

"About two weeks." Seeing Aolan frown, he quickly added, "That's already pretty fast. Even the Scribes wouldn't dare to blanket-scout such a large area in two or three weeks."

"It's not a question of efficiency." Orlan interrupted him, "According to the original itinerary, we will return to Metabetat within two weeks of departure.

I prepared 50 percent more supplies according to the itinerary, but even so, we could only stay in the wild for three weeks at most.

The lightweight gas and fuel of the airship can only last for about another week at most. As long as the airship does not land, there is a limit to how much it can save.

In short, before Miss Xianglan completes her low-altitude reconnaissance, our supplies will be exhausted, and there will be no time to conduct a ground investigation. Do you understand me?"

Eric opened his mouth, "Then, is there any other way to replenish supplies? The information Miss Xianglan brought back can be used to draw a very detailed monster distribution map.

But the monsters' territories are constantly changing, which means this distribution map is time-sensitive. It would be a shame to give up halfway!"

Ao Lang took a deep breath and said, "This is a dense forest area. As long as we land on the ground, it will be easy to get food and water. The problem is the fuel and gas for the airship. There is no way to solve it.

Don't forget, we have to return.

Seabuckthorn told me that, with enough fuel left for the return trip, the empty boat could only hold out for five more days in its current state. We can’t get stuck like that; we have to return after three days.”

Eric wanted to argue something more when suddenly a sharp cry was heard in everyone's ears.

The sound came from far away and got closer at an extremely fast speed.

"What's that noise? A flying dragon?!"

"Seven o'clock! The clouds above are swooping down!" screamed the sharp-eyed Seabuckthorn.

Ao Lang took two steps at a time and rushed to the side of the boat, looking in the direction pointed by Seabuckthorn.

A large flying dragon covered in pure golden scales swooped down, its target obvious: the airship they were currently on.

"Get out of the way!" Eric yelled. "Celregios (Thousand Blades Dragon) is a large flying dragon whose aerial combat ability even surpasses Rathalos. It's ferocious and extremely aggressive, and its weaknesses are lightning, followed by ice and water!"

"Meow!" Seabuckthorn quickly hit the steering wheel of the airship.

The airship began to tilt.

However, the airship, which was always floating slowly at a nearly stationary speed, was simply unable to complete the turn in time.

The rapidly approaching golden dragon had already entered an attack stance, and its raised claws seemed to be able to tear them and the airship into pieces in the next second.

Orlan thought quickly and took out a flash grenade as quickly as possible, pulled out the fuse and threw it out.

However, the reaction time left for him was too short. It took several seconds for the fuse of the flash bomb to burn. The flash bomb failed to flash in front of the Thousand Blade Dragon and fell behind it.

Just when they were almost in despair, another flash bomb approached from a distance and exploded on the side of the Thousand Blade Dragon's head.

"Liga!"

The flash of light deprived it of its vision and destroyed its balance.

The golden flying dragon, covered with sharp blade-like scales, tilted its body and roared past the airship.

But it did not fall. Even though its eyes were temporarily blinded and it felt dizzy, its super flying ability and sense of balance allowed it to quickly regain its flying posture. Its wings danced as it hovered in the air not far from the airship.

"It's Lady Xianglan, meow!" Seabuckthorn cheered.

Xianglan, who flew close on a kite, landed directly on the Thousand Blade Dragon's back. She drew her cat sword and stabbed it, meowing loudly, "Descent quickly, meow! This guy is too powerful in the air, meow!!"

Eric reacted quickly and quickly replaced the unskilled Seabuckthorn and controlled the airship to descend.

However, the Thousand Blade Dragon obviously did not intend to let them go so easily. It flicked its long tail and several blade scales flashing with cold light flew towards them.

Thanks to Eric's timely operation, the airship was not hit head-on, but a blade scale brushed past the airbag, easily cutting a large hole in it.

The speed at which the airship descended, or rather fell, accelerated dramatically.

Chapter 245 Falling from a High Sky

"This airship has split airbags. Even if one or two of them break, it won't completely lose buoyancy! We can throw away everything to reduce weight and still have a chance to make an emergency landing!" Eric shouted at the fastest speed.

Orlan and Seabuckthorn pushed everything on the deck down as quickly as possible.

Without caring about his precious machines, Seabuckthorn quickly picked up Orlan's cold chopping knife and put it on his back, but the airship was still descending too fast.

High in the sky, the Thousand Blade Dragon, which had partially regained its vision, ignored the pain from behind, let out a long hiss, and began to dive in pursuit.

The already dilapidated airship could no longer withstand any attacks.

Aolan glanced around and a crazy plan flashed through his mind.

The airship couldn't be stopped from falling, and there was a Thousand Blade Dragon chasing overhead. If he didn't take a gamble, he would die. There was no need to hesitate.

"Eric! Seabuckthorn! Grab the number one main cable! Quick!"

"what?"

Eric didn't react for a moment and was kicked by Seabuckthorn, so he hurriedly did as he was told.

Orlan drew out the iron sword [Kagura] behind him and swung it at a main cable without saying a word.

There are a total of six main cables on this small airship, connecting the airbag and the pod. These cables, made of animal skin and steel wire, are very strong and cannot be cut by ordinary knives.

But in front of the hunter's large sword, they were no different from ordinary straw ropes. With the swing of the sword, the first main cable was instantly cut off.

Then came the second and the third.

As the main cables broke one by one, the pod tilted violently. Before the pod completely overturned, Orlan launched a grappling hook, hooked the No. 2 main cable, flew up and cut the third-to-last main cable.

At this moment, all the cables have been cut except the No. 2 main cable where Olang is located and the No. 1 main cable where Eric Seabuckthorn is located.

The pod pulled the airbag vertically and continued to fall.

"Get ready!" Orlan yelled.

Seabuckthorn understood what he meant and pulled out the cold chopping knife behind him. Together with Aolan, they cut the last two main cables connecting the pods.

The pod lost its connection and fell to the ground, leaving only two people and a cat holding onto half of the cable, continuing to hang under the tattered airbag.

No, the airship's fall finally stopped, and it was even rising slowly.

At this time, they were still two or three hundred meters away from the ground.

“Ah ...!”

The hair-raising screaming sound came again.

In just a moment, the dragon wings covered with blade-like scales tore the already damaged airship airbag into pieces.

The two people and the cat were once again captured by gravity.

Orlan was quick-witted and quick-handed. He raised his hand and fired a grappling hook, catching the Thousand Blade Dragon's hind claws. With his other hand, he tried to grab Seabuckthorn and Eric and the others.