Monster Hunter: Wild Pointer

He finally understood why the professor emphasized the effect of flash bombs on giant bees.

When dealing with monsters that are not adapted to strong light, the effects of flash bombs can mainly be divided into two parts: one is to deprive them of their vision, and the other is to make them dizzy and lose their balance.

Balance is crucial for flying or moving monsters, so flashbangs can be used to interrupt the flight of many monsters or interrupt their attack movements.

Even flying dragons are no exception. I heard that large flying dragons like Fire Dragon will fall to the ground if they encounter a flash of light during takeoff.

But whether it was a flying dragon or a land monster like the sand dragon they had hunted before, falling was not a big problem for them and they could stand up again quickly.

Even if their vision has not recovered at this time, they can stop the hunters' attacks by turning around, swinging their tails, biting, ramming, etc.

But giant bees are different. They rely almost entirely on flying for movement. They land on rock walls to rest. It is rare to see them crawling on their limbs.

This means that when dealing with other monsters affected by the flash bomb, as soon as they get up, the hunter has to prepare to retreat, and if he is greedy, he will easily be bitten back.

Even if the giant bee gets up, it is no different from lying down. It only becomes truly threatening when it flies into the air. The same is true for the queen bee, which is even more bloated.

This greatly extended the hunters' attack window, with two people at the head and one at the tail, attacking continuously.

“Ji-ya——!”

The queen bee let out a sharp hiss.

This is a cry for help. If it doesn't call for support from its companions quickly, it will probably be pinned to the ground by these two hateful guys.

After several rounds of clearing by the hunters, only a dozen or so giant bees were left. At the queen's call, these remaining giant bees surrounded and attacked like crazy.

Orlan, who had just completed a series of air blade slashes and used a large spin of air blade to create a huge wound on the Queen Bee, completed the blade sharpening.

Seeing the swarm of bees coming, he decisively sheathed his sword, stopped attacking, and quickly walked to Muti's side.

Muti was about to bombard the gathering swarm when he heard Oran yell again, "I'll cover you! You keep attacking the Queen!"

Upon hearing this, Muti once again held the rifle horizontally and took a shock-resistant stance.

Before the Dragon Cannon cooled down, she used the charged cannon to empty the magazine in an instant, causing huge damage to the monster in front of her.

Orlan was guarding behind Muti. Facing the swarm of bees attacking him, he did not draw his sword to fight back. Instead, he fired a flash bomb at the ground with his catapult again.

The giant bees who were anxious to rescue the queen naturally focused their attention on the two invaders. As the flash bomb exploded under Orlan's feet, dozens of giant bees were hit at the same time and fell to the ground one after another. Almost none of them survived.

Orlan did not waste time finishing off the giant bees, but simply took out the remaining few poison smoke bombs and threw them at the struggling bees that fell to the ground.

The air was filled with poisonous smoke, and the giant bees twitched and soon became silent.

At this point, the bee colony has been basically cleared out, and the only thing left to do is to get rid of the queen in front of them.

The beleaguered queen bee also realized this, and she let out a long, shrill hiss, not sure whether she was expressing anger or sadness.

It endured the pain and the hunters' attacks, desperately turning over and flapping its wings faster.

The wind pressure created by the nearly twenty-meter-long, high-speed vibrating wings interrupted the hunters' attack, and the queen bee took this opportunity to try to take off.

Only then did the two young hunters realize their mistake.

When the queen bee fell, one of them chose the abdomen with the softest flesh, and the other chose the head, which is the weakest part of most creatures.

Now it seems that the priority to attack should be the two pairs of transparent wings.

Just destroying one or two wings will completely deprive the queen bee of the ability to take off, thus ending the battle prematurely.

But it was too late to regret now. The two of them faced the wind pressure, raised their catapults together, and fired flash bombs in an attempt to shoot down the Queen Bee again.

However, it is not known whether the Queen Bee really found a way to deal with the flash bomb, or it was just a coincidence. The strong airflow caused by the Queen Bee's wings when it took off easily blew the flash bomb to both sides.

In addition, the Queen Bee had just been dodged by a flashbang not long ago, and the two flashbangs with bad triggering angles failed to shoot down the Queen Bee.

When they finally reached the Queen Bee after fighting against the wind pressure, the latter had already risen into the air.

Muti raised his gun and fired continuously. The spreading bullets hit the queen bee's abdomen and created countless dark green blood spots, but such an attack could not prevent the queen bee from taking off.

It slowly came to a position near the top of the cave, turned around and adjusted its posture, then dived towards the hunters below with a scream.

“Jiya!!”

This time they were sure it was an angry roar.

Chapter 102: A Ring of the Sword

Faced with the swooping Queen Bee, Muti and Oran ran in separate directions.

Through previous encounters, they basically confirmed that the Queen Bee was not a monster that was good at fighting.

It has no powerful limbs, no sharp claws and teeth, no thick shell that can withstand swords and knives, and no ability to breathe.

The only organ suitable for fighting is the stinger at the tail.

But if it can't sting people, no matter how sharp the stinger is or how strong the paralyzing venom attached to it is, it is meaningless.

But even so, they still dared not let their guard down.

Faced with the swooping queen bee, the hunters suddenly realized that the combination of its huge size and flying prowess alone was enough to intimidate them.

Imagine a giant insect weighing tons swooping down from the sky. Getting hit head-on is no joke.

Then there are the insect wings, which have a wingspan of nearly twenty meters. They look thin and transparent, but can unfold nearly ten meters on each side without bending. They can also vibrate at high speed to carry the queen bee's huge body into the sky. The hardness and toughness of this pair of insect wings must be extraordinary.

If you get cut, it would be no different from being hit by a metal blade.

Perhaps it was because Muti was tall and carrying a large shield, which made her look even bigger, and her running speed was relatively slow.

After running separately from Orlan, the diving Queen Bee adjusted its direction and fixed its sights on her.

Facing the aggressive Queen Bee, Muti kept looking back while running to confirm the distance and height of the Queen Bee.

When the distance between the two was less than twenty meters, Muti suddenly stopped and turned around, running back in the direction of the queen bee.

This caught the Queen Bee off guard.

The dive has entered the final stage. It is easy to pull up in advance to interrupt the attack, but it is not so easy to increase the dive angle in advance. If you are not careful, you may fall to the ground. The instinct of flying creatures does not allow it to do so.

At the moment when the queen bee was about to fly over his head, Muti flew down and narrowly avoided the dive and impact.

Olang, who witnessed this scene from a distance, almost couldn't help but take out his memo and write this down on the spot.

He had little experience in dealing with flying monsters. If the Queen Bee locked onto him, he would probably choose to fly to the side at the last moment of the collision, which was far less safe than Muti's round-trip run.

You must remember this well, it may save your life at any time.

The queen bee, having missed its target, climbed to a higher altitude, adjusted its posture, and prepared for a new round of dive.

Aolan glanced around and had some plans in mind.

He waved at Muti, who was scrambling to his feet, and yelled, "Ramp! Go to the ramp!"

The area where they were at the moment was relatively flat, but the ground, made up of piles of slag and metal waste, was not easy to walk on. One could twist or trip at any moment.

The long slope they passed by when they came here was just the opposite. It was solid rock, but the slope angle was very large, exceeding 30 degrees in most areas, and even exceeding 40 degrees in the steepest places. It was impossible to run fast on it.

He would not have thought of this before witnessing Muti's evasive method of running back and forth, but now he felt that this steep slope was perfect for dealing with the Queen Bee's dive.

The Queen Bee climbed back to the top of the cave and locked her eyes with Orlan who had come down the slope.

Olang was trying hard to climb the slope, but because the slope was too steep, his speed was very slow. In the eyes of the Queen Bee, this was the best target.

Seeing the queen bee swooping towards him, Orlan smiled and continued climbing.

One hundred meters, fifty meters, twenty meters, the distance between the two was getting closer and closer, but Orlan continued to climb the slope as if he didn't see the queen bee attacking from behind.

"Be careful!" Muti couldn't help but shout.

The trick of using a telescopic run to avoid a flying monster's attack was taught by the instructors in the training camp. Timing is very critical if you want to safely avoid an attack.

You have to know that the diving monster is very fast. If you turn back even for just one second late, you may not be able to fall down in time and be hit head-on by the diving monster.

In her opinion, it was too late for Orlan to look back. The distance between them was less than ten meters. Orlan, who was climbing the slope with difficulty, had no room to fall down, and being hit was almost inevitable.

She desperately quickened her pace, wanting to rush over to cover her teammate who was about to fall to the ground with serious injuries.

But suddenly, Orlan, who was climbing the slope, turned around and sat down. He pushed hard with his right hand and slid down. While narrowly avoiding the Queen Bee's charge, he turned his left arm and fired a flash bomb behind him.

Under the flash of strong light, the queen bee's flying posture became disordered.

You have to know that there is a steep slope of more than 30 degrees in front of it. Even if it climbs up at a large angle in time, its fat belly will probably be scratched on the slope.

But now, under the strong flash, even if it was not dizzy again, its flying posture became momentarily chaotic. The queen bee, whose angle was already very tight, had no time to climb and crashed into the slope.

Under the inertia that could not be resolved, its entire body fell forward, and then rolled down the slope, looking very miserable.

At this time, Olang also slid to the bottom of the slope.

That's right, he actually had no intention of climbing up the slope. He simply wanted to attract the queen bee to hit him so that he could easily lead it to crash into the slope.

Seeing that the queen bee was about to come to him after rolling down the slope, Orlan took a few steps back and drew his sword.

Choose the right moment, hold the sword horizontally, and thrust forward.

Muti, who was rushing over, was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Oran escape safely, but this breath was immediately held back by Oran's sword move.

Is that an Air Blade Thrust? He's going to use an Air Blade Cut (Dragon Ascendancy)?!

I have demonstrated to him the use of the Air Blade Thrust and the Air Blade Slash, but these are advanced sword techniques that require the use of "Air Blade" to unleash their power!

I've been practicing for all these years but haven't mastered it yet. I've never dared to use it in actual combat, and now he's going to use it?!

Her pupils were shaking and she couldn't help but slow down her pace.

The iron knife [Kagura], surrounded by light white air blades, suddenly thrust out and accurately hit the weak point between the queen bee's abdominal segment and thoracic segment.

Then, he used the force of the sword to leap high into the air, his eyes fixed on the queen bee's drooping wings, and was about to chop it down.

But after all, this was a sword move that he had not yet fully mastered. Even in the training grounds, he had only succeeded a few times against the target, let alone in actual combat.

The timing of the sword's chop was a little too early, and the action of turning over to adjust the angle was a little too forceful.

It was these minor mistakes that made his Qi blade cut look very beautiful, with the sword energy coming down in a line, solid and undispersed.

But it missed.

Aolan: “.”

Precious attack time was wasted, the sword energy accumulated for half a day was exhausted, and the attack failed to hit.

Why is it so painful?

Muti ran over from a distance with a comfortable smile on his face. Kongden is also a part of the katana. Don't play it if you don't like it!

Olang, who was experiencing this "specialty of the katana user" for the first time, gritted his teeth and was about to rush forward to continue the attack and accumulate sword energy again, but Muti stopped him at this time.

"Wait! Back off!"

Although he didn't know why Muti shouted that, Orlan still put away his weapon and stepped back.

Muti looked up.

Just as her gaze followed Orlan's Dragon Slash upwards, she caught a glimpse of a stalactite on the top, which was just above the fallen Queen Bee.

She raised her hand and launched the catapult's claw, firmly hooking onto the stalactite. Then she tensed her muscles, growled, and pulled down with force.

"Drink!"

Orlan looked up at the stalactites on the top, then looked at Muti who was pulling the hook hard, and felt speechless.

Of course he could guess what Muti was going to do, but that stalactite was as thick as an arm?

"Crack, crack!" A crisp breaking sound came from above my head.

Under Orlan's gaze, which was as if he had seen a ghost, the stalactite broke in the middle. A large section about two or three meters long pierced down like a sharp sword, piercing through the queen bee who was trying to get up.

Chapter 103 Respect life, but don’t empathize

The stalactites that fell from the sky pierced through the queen bee's abdomen, dark green insect blood gushed out, and a shrill scream echoed throughout the waste disposal cave.

At this moment, the same thought flashed through the minds of the two young hunters - this queen bee is finished.

However, just as they approached the queen bee cautiously with weapons in hand, ready to give it a quick death, the already very weak queen bee suddenly spread its wings again and struggled violently.

The stalactite that nailed it to the ground was broken free, but at the same time, the penetrating wound in its abdomen was further torn apart during the struggle.

Insect blood, unknown mucus, and substances wrapped around some suspected internal organ fragments gushed out like a spring, wetting a large area of ​​the ground.

As Muti was approaching, he caught a glimpse of something flashing out of the corner of his eye and subconsciously raised his shield a little.

"boom!"