Monster Hunter: Wild Pointer

The professor said "hmm" after hearing this.

According to the legends of our ancestors, it seems that similar events have occurred in the past.

It's a pity that the information is very vague, but the Qimian people don't record history, so it's not easy to pass down this information orally.

They still need to find out the specific truth themselves.

"Do you know where that star dragon is?" The professor asked the question that the investigation team was most concerned about.

No matter what the truth is, it’s definitely right to find that star dragon first.

"We don't know." The leader of the Qimian tribe shook his mask, making a "clicking" sound, "We tried to deal with those flying starworms, but we couldn't eliminate them all.

We have also seen the Star Beast, but it will leave immediately.

To find the Star Beast, you can track its offspring. Those flying star bugs will eventually return to it."

The professor shared the information he had just obtained with Orlan.

"Are you sure you can track him?" the professor asked, staring at Orlan.

Aolan thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes, Fukubi Rabbit has scouted this area many times, but has never found the whereabouts of Xinglong, which means it is deliberately hiding.

But since the Star Feather Butterfly will return to the Star Dragon, we can take advantage of this.

According to the Strange-Faced Clan, Star Dragons are very cautious, and following directly behind the Star-Feather Butterfly could easily alarm it prematurely.

My suggestion is to let Muxiang use dye bullets to snipe the Star Feather Butterfly, and the smell of the dye fruit will lead us to find it.

The only problem now is how to find a living Star Feather Butterfly."

"That's it." The professor expressed satisfaction with Orlan's strategy. "As for finding the Star Feather Butterfly, let's leave it to our friends from the Strange Face Tribe."

Chapter 283 I have to find a way to sleep with it

The leader of the Strange-Faced Tribe readily agreed to search for the Star-Feather Butterfly.

In order to ensure the timeliness of information, the professor gave the leader of the strange-faced tribe some flares and taught him how to use them.

Once the Qimian tribe discovers the trace of the Star Feather Butterfly, they will immediately fire a signal flare to mark its location. Muxiang will ride Xiang to the scene as soon as possible and use dyed bullets to snipe the mark.

Aolan and others will follow until they find Star Dragon's hiding place.

In addition, hunters are also actively preparing.

They did not come here for hunting purposes. According to the professor, there was probably more than one star dragon in the dense forest, but a group of them.

Under such circumstances, killing the star dragon is far less meaningful than capturing it and obtaining more information.

But it doesn't seem easy.

Star dragons gather in clusters at Lake Esther, but even large monsters, even if they are social, most of the time they act alone, which is related to the issue of foraging efficiency.

Therefore, the guild has also tried to capture lone star dragons, intending to study them before releasing them.

However, several attempts failed.

Monsters like star dragons are unexpectedly smart. They are aware of the dangers of paralysis traps and can also detect slight abnormalities in the ground after setting pit traps, and carefully bypass them.

Therefore, traps have no effect on star dragons.

This is similar to the ancient dragon species. Some scholars believe that they possess super high intelligence that is not inferior to the ancient dragon species, which is extremely rare among non-ancient dragon monsters.

However, besides using traps, there is another way to capture monsters. (Note)

This method is extremely dangerous. It uses sleeping bullets, sleeping meat, or weapons containing sleeping toxins to force the monster into a sleeping state, and then uses tranquilizer bullets to capture it.

The sleeping state is not like the paralysis caused by the paralysis trap, nor is it like the physical restraint of the pit trap. Any slight movement may wake up the monster.

In addition, the monster's breathing and heartbeat slow down when it is sleeping, and the blood flow rate decreases, so the effectiveness of the anesthetic bullet used to capture it will be greatly reduced.

To put it simply, the numbness is not deep.

It is very likely that the monster will suddenly wake up when the rope is tied halfway. Every step is very dangerous, and no hunter would normally consider capturing it in this way.

However, this time, in order to obtain as much information as possible and for the extra compensation promised by the professor, they had no choice but to take the risk.

Fortunately, the star dragon is gentle in nature and not very powerful in combat, unlike the extremely fierce creatures like the horned dragon, the slashing dragon, and the boom dragon.

Otherwise, no matter how high the reward is, Aolan and the others would not dare to do this.

As for how to force the Star Dragon into sleep.

Considering that Star Dragons have a high IQ and can avoid traps, if you marinate sleeping toxins in raw meat, dye the raw meat strange colors, and throw it in front of the Star Dragon, it is likely that it will not eat it.

We can only start with weapons.

There is no problem on Muxiang's side, her Water Beast Storm can launch sleeping bullets.

Although I didn't prepare this thing when I came out, there is sleeping grass that can be collected in the dense forest near the camp, so it is not difficult to mix a batch of sleeping bullets.

Orlan took out his Shadow Spider Shield Sword. Thanks to the large space in the airship they were riding this time, there was extra load.

He brought a few extra weapons with him in case of emergency, and now they are used.

Olivia continued to use her Velociraptor hammer. Even though it was a purely physical weapon, it could cause total physical anesthesia in Olivia's hands.

Muti didn't have the ability to lock heads, and she had no other choice except the defense team's rifle, so Orlan found the professor and applied.

As for special circumstances, can Muti temporarily borrow his Shadow Spider Katana "Blood Tears"? (This is actually not uncommon, and the official novel also has cases of using other people's weapons)

Of course, this is against the rules. If someone reports it and the guild finds out, you will be punished.

Fortunately, although the professor looks serious, he is actually a person with a very flexible bottom line. When faced with Olang's application, he took off his glasses and pretended not to see it.

Olivia was also an insider. As a member of the guild, she repeatedly weighed the severity of the violation of the rules and the importance of capturing the star dragon, and also chose to turn a blind eye.

This matter could be big or small. Normally, confiscating weapons borrowed illegally would be considered a light punishment. However, considering the seriousness of the situation, even if the Great Elder knew about it, he would probably just let it go with a "humph".

As for others.

If Orlan doesn't take the initiative to tell others, who will know who the Shadow Spider Katana belongs to?

No one doubted that Orlan could change his dual swords to a one-handed sword, and that Muti could change to a katana. They just thought that Muti, like Orlan, was a versatile person who was proficient in multiple weapons.

Although from a certain perspective, this is not wrong.

Muti felt a little uncomfortable using the katana after a long time, but after so many years of hard training, she quickly regained her touch.

He held the hilt of the sword with both hands and performed a few standard Suzhens.

He smacked his lips and switched to one hand, still holding it steadily without the tip of the sword trembling at all. Then he swung his hand as if he were holding a one-handed sword, making a "swish" sound.

Is the katana really this light? I'm not used to it. The katana really doesn't suit me.

I’m sorry, Mom!!

While the hunters were making preparations in the camp.

Several scholars with rich experience in field operations, as well as hunting cats, followed the strange-faced people and dispersed into the surrounding dense forests.

In order to find the whereabouts of Xinglong as quickly as possible, one more person means one more force.

Seabuckthorn really wanted to take its Fire Dragon No. 9 out for a stroll, but Engine No. 2 disagreed, thinking that the Fire Dragon No. 9 made too much noise, which could easily scare away the target, and was not flexible enough, making it unsuitable for this kind of covert tracking operation.

This is the truth. Not only did Seabuckthorn fail to convince Engine No. 2 to get on the bus, but he was persuaded himself and chose to walk.

As an assist cat that focuses on using various mechanisms, not carrying any mechanisms will cause its combat capability to plummet. Considering the nature of this mission, it carried the rarely used Himeko No. 2 on its back.

That is, a portable restraint ballista.

This thing has a simple structure and clear purpose. It is the product of the experience summary of countless predecessors.

But relatively speaking, there are very few areas that can be improved, so much so that the Thunder Wolf series, which it started using the latest, has almost been improved to Unit 4, while the Himeshko series is still at Unit 2.

However, recently, there have been some ideas for improving sea buckthorn.

After all, ordinary ropes are not strong enough, and steel cables are not light enough. Spider webs are strong and light, but they are too sticky and difficult to process.

So it set its sights on Muxiang's Kinsect.

As a species unique to the Land of Fire, Kinsects were originally unable to survive in other areas. Later, thanks to the selection and improvement of a Ms. Rodna, a special variety that could survive in other areas appeared.

However, it is extremely difficult and costly to cultivate special varieties, and their numbers are very rare. There are only two of them on Muxiang's body, and she usually takes good care of them like treasures. She would never lend them to Seabuckthorn to use as restraint shells.

The extremely tough iron wire spewed out by the Kinsect will also deteriorate in a very short period of time, and its toughness and strength will be greatly reduced.

But even so, the strength of those insect silks is still far beyond that of ordinary silk threads.

The sea buckthorn method is to collect as much silk as possible and weave it into thin ropes, so that both strength and lightness can be achieved.

It’s just that the process of collecting silk is rather difficult.

There was no time to collect during battle, and Kinsects wouldn't spit out silk for no reason on ordinary days, so it could only use food to lure Kinsects into spitting out a little silk for itself when Mu Xiang wasn't paying attention, and then collect them one by one.

It will probably take some time to save up enough money to make a usable rope.

"Ah, meow—" Seabuckthorn sighed, "If only I could find a chance to go to Yanhuo Village, meow. I heard the Kinsects there aren't worth much, meow. I could find a bunch of them and let them spin silk as much as they want, meow."

As it was muttering, a huge "butterfly" with a body length of nearly one meter and bright colors flew past it.

Seabuckthorn was stunned for two seconds, and seeing that the beautiful insect was about to disappear among the overly dense trees in the dense forest, he hurriedly took off the Fei Spider No. 2 unit behind him.

"Take our shot, meow!"

Note: I've heard from others that there seems to be a bug in Star Dragon, where it can be captured after sleeping? I haven't tried it myself, but it seems to be true. Anyway, I'll borrow this setting here.

Even without this bug, it's still reasonable that sleep can be captured.

Chapter 284 Accurate Hit

Seeing the signal flares rising high in the sky, the hunters who had been on standby in the camp for a long time immediately took action.

The first one to rush out of the camp was naturally Muxiang riding on a hound.

The hounds are good at running in any terrain. When necessary, they can even carry fully armed hunters and climb almost completely vertical rock walls. Running at full speed in dense forests with lush branches and leaves is naturally not a problem for them.

The nearby strange-faced people arrived at the scene earlier than the hunters.

Just a few minutes after Seabuckthorn released the signal flare, two strange-faced creatures jumped out from the bushes.

After looking around for a few times and seeing the situation clearly, they immediately raised the bone sticks and broken iron knives in their hands, and rushed towards the beautiful insect that was bound by the restraint bullet, screaming.

Seeing the aggressive appearance of the Qimian tribe, Seabuckthorn, who was controlling the Princess Spider Unit 2 like flying a kite and wrestling with the struggling Star Feather Butterfly in the air, shouted in panic:

"Don't be impatient, meow! Wait, meow!"

Its purpose was to keep the Star-Feather Butterfly and let it lead the approaching hunters, not to hurt it, let alone kill it.

It was really afraid that the two violent strange-faced creatures would rush over and hack to death the Star-Feather Butterfly it had finally found. It didn't know when it would have to wait to meet it again.

Fortunately, although the strange-faced people seemed manic, they were not brainless. They stopped when they were still seven or eight meters away from the star-feather butterfly in the air.

One of the strange-faced people took out a bamboo tube as thick as a thumb from his back - this was the most commonly used long-range weapon of the strange-faced people in the Old World, the blowgun.

For hunters who are attacked by the strange-faced tribe, these insidious blowgun darts that are tempered with various poisons and come and go silently are much more dangerous than the tattered knives in the hands of the strange-faced tribe.

If you accidentally get hit by a paralyzing dart and are paralyzed and fall to the ground, and a large group of strange-faced people take the opportunity to rush up, it will be no joke.

The strange-faced man held up the blowgun, aimed at the Star-Feather Butterfly in the air that was fighting against the rope for a long time, and then blew hard.

With an almost inaudible sound in the air, the tiny blowpipe shot straight towards the target that was flying around in the air.

Seabuckthorn was also praying, hoping that the arrow would hit the target.

After all, the Star Feather Butterfly is not a large monster with thick skin and flesh. Its body shape is similar to that of a giant bee flying beetle.

In order to prevent the restraint bomb from causing fatal damage to the Star Feather Butterfly, it specially adjusted the power of the Princess Spider Unit 2, so that the restraint bomb with a barbed warhead hit very shallowly, just barely stuck in the shell, and could be broken free at any time by the flying Star Feather Butterfly.

If the Qimian tribe's blow darts can hit the target and paralyze it, they don't even need to wait for Muxiang to arrive and use sniper dye bullets. It would be the same to just throw a dye ball at the immobilized Star Feather Butterfly.

The Qimian people's blow dart skills are so superb that they can actually hit the star-feather butterfly flying back and forth in the air. But before they can be happy, the blow dart is bounced off by the star-feather butterfly's elytra and falls to the ground.

The appearance and attack of the Strange-Faced Tribe made the already panicked Star Feather Butterfly struggle even more violently. Seabuckthorn could feel that the restraint bombs fired by the Princess Spider Unit 2 were loosening.

Perhaps in a few seconds, the restraint bomb will fall off, and it is unknown how long it will take to find the next Star Feather Butterfly.

While Seabuckthorn was manipulating and adjusting the rope, he took out a dye ball from the prop bag, but did not use it immediately.

The dye balls thrown by hand are far less accurate than the dye bullets shot from a crossbow, and the targets are small, flying insects, so it is very easy to miss when thrown by hand.

The dye balls themselves are of very low value and do not need to be saved, but the dye juice splashed after they fall will emit a strong odor. If there are too many of them, it will cause serious interference to the scent tracking plan.

Therefore, before the operation began, the professor issued an order to try not to throw colored balls with bare hands to mark the Star-Feather Butterfly, and at the very least, to use a catapult.