Almost the instant Zhou Si approached, Tianhuilong keenly detected the human.
He smelled familiar...
The Sky Comet shook its somewhat confused mind, and then the urge to hunt grew stronger and stronger, gradually overwhelming its reason.
It looked at Zhou Si, who was walking towards it from not far away, and its eyes turned fierce. It raised its streamlined, slender head, and the roar of an ancient dragon echoed in the ruins.
Unfortunately, Dragon Roar is almost ineffective against Zhou Si now.
Taking advantage of the aftershock of the dragon's roar, Zhou Si flashed with electricity behind him and instantly covered hundreds of meters to arrive in front of the Sky Comet Dragon. He turned and slashed at the scales on the Sky Comet Dragon's chest.
The sword blade sliced off a few silver scales, but this damage was clearly not enough to quickly destroy the dragon energy conversion organ.
Zhou Si's attack completely aroused the ferocity of the Heavenly Comet Dragon. Its right wing instantly changed direction and stabbed towards Zhou Si with boiling dragon energy.
clang!
A tremendous force traveled from the shield to Zhou Si's arm, shoving him dozens of meters away and leaving a long trench in the ground. But before he could catch his breath, the gun wings instantly opened, and dragon energy began to gather in the nozzles of the gun wings.
The electromagnetic force exerted itself again, pulling Zhou Si away from the muzzle of the Heavenly Comet Dragon. The dragon energy cannon that shot out grazed his body and left a deep mark on the land once again.
However, this Huihui was clearly an ADHD individual, giving Zhou Si no chance to catch his breath. The other gun wing pierced through the moment he dodged, and Zhou Si barely managed to raise his shield to block it.
Fortunately, the energy in the sword's edge was already fully charged. Zhou Si filled the lightning-attribute bottle with all the energy, and at that moment, Huihui raised the gun wing again.
"Just in time!"
Zhou Si calculated the distance accurately and took a step back, just as he was out of the attack range of the gun wing. At the same time, the weapon in his hand transformed back into the form of an axe. The energy in the lightning attribute bottle was poured into the axe blade, and the axe blade, carrying lightning, spun and sawed at the gun wing of the Sky Comet.
The spinning axe blade 'bitten' some of the white scales, and lightning splattered a few marks on Huihui's scales, but it didn't seem to have much effect.
Immediately afterward, Zhou Si gripped the axe handle and leaped high into the air, descending from the sky in a dragon-like motion. The axe blade was about to pierce Huihui's head when the red and black crystals on its body emitted an eerie red light, and blood-red flames suddenly ignited on the body of the Heavenly Comet Dragon.
The crimson flames had no temperature, but the instant they ignited, the Sky Comet's spear wings accelerated out of thin air. Just moments after its attack was still in the recovery phase, it used its spear wings to slam Zhou Si into the ground.
"Cough cough..."
Using the horned dragon's burrowing ability to escape the grip of the spear wings, Zhou Si coughed up blood a few times. A large amount of dragon-attribute energy was surging through his body, which had not yet fully adapted.
But at this moment, the Heavenly Comet Dragon hovered in mid-air, its dragon energy organs in its chest cavity trembling violently and emitting a low rumbling sound.
The next moment, the Heavenly Comet Dragon suddenly flapped its wings, its dragon breath nozzles at the wingtips opening wide. Burning with blood flames, the Heavenly Comet Dragon rushed over, grabbed Zhou Si who couldn't react in time, and transformed into a streak of red light, flying into the sky.
Chapter Sixteen Huihui: Fish, such a big fish
A cold, hard sensation came from beneath him, and the sound of the wind constantly brushed past his ears. Zhou Si's consciousness gradually returned.
His last memory was of being captured by the Sky Comet and taken into the sky. At a speed of Mach 20, he felt his body being gradually squeezed and burned. He struggled desperately, but the energy consumed was too great, and he eventually lost consciousness.
The world in his eyes gradually cleared, and a delicate face that seemed to belong to the Chinese psychologist appeared before Zhou Si. The silver-haired, red-eyed girl squatted beside Zhou Si, and a hint of joy appeared on her usually cold face when she saw him wake up.
He blinked, still a little disoriented after waking from unconsciousness. Where was he? And who was this person in front of him...?
"Skadi???"
After his mind restarted, Zhou Si blurted out instinctively that the girl in the red dress in front of him was the deep-sea hunter that everyone was looking for.
Zhou Si leaped up from the ground and immediately distanced himself from the silver-haired girl, hiding behind a silver boulder. For some reason, his body felt surprisingly light, as if the exhaustion from his previous battles with Hai Si and Hui Hui had vanished.
But now is clearly not the time to dwell on that. Zhou Si picked up the Shesa shield and axe that had been thrown aside for some reason and looked warily at the girl opposite him.
Are you Skadi or Isamara?
According to the original timeline, Skadi should have already been possessed by Isamara's consciousness by now. Only if Isamara, as the sea goddess of migration, returned to the sea would those sea creatures be able to take the step of coming ashore.
But the current situation has clearly deviated from the original timeline, and Zhou Si is not sure who the girl in front of him is.
"I am Skadi."
The girl in the red dress whispered her name, but after a while she felt that just saying her name was not enough, so she added another sentence.
"Isamara has been silent for a long time."
Zhou Si breathed a slight sigh of relief. This dazed and confused look was indeed similar to the Titi he remembered, and she hadn't done anything to him while he was unconscious, so it was most likely that she really was Skadi.
However, Zhou Si did not completely let his guard down. After all, no one could guarantee that Skadi would not be possessed by Isamara again, so it was better to be cautious.
"where is this place?"
Zhou Si slung his shield and axe behind his back. His Thunder Dragon Armor was already riddled with wounds and he would need to have it repaired by Bai later.
Zhou Si looked around. It seemed that they were on a mountain peak with a considerable altitude. The sea of clouds was beneath their feet. Looking out from the cliff, even with Zhou Si's eyesight, he could not see the coastline.
It seems that he was taken by the Sky Comet to a place far away from Pramia, and may even be outside of Iberia.
"I don't know."
Skadi shook her head as well. Although she had been here for a while, she still didn't know the exact location.
The girl stared at Zhou Si with longing eyes, as if she had a lot to say but didn't know where to begin. Since she woke up, she hadn't seen any other living creatures except for the silver dragon. The man in front of her seemed to know her, and she really wanted to ask about the situation there.
"Just call me Zhou Si. Anyway, let's exchange some information first."
Zhou Si noticed Skadi's embarrassment and took the initiative to suggest a conversation, to which Skadi nodded in agreement.
"So what exactly happened back then? Why are you here?"
This was the question Zhou Si most wanted to know. He could roughly guess that Skadi had also been captured by Huihui, but why was she still in this place after waking up? What happened before Huihui captured her? Why didn't Tianhuilong kill them?
There are so many mysteries waiting to be solved.
"After disembarking from the Stuttifera, the second captain discovered traces of the city of Agor. After making preparations, she took me and the shark back to the sea."
Skadi's eyes held a hint of sadness; their longing for their homeland overwhelmed their reason, and the captain's persuasion ultimately failed to stop these few fish from leaving the group.
Agor's arrogance was deeply ingrained, and their return did not change anything about those people; the hunters were essentially still just Agor's weapons.
Finally, after Skadi learned the truth about her and the hunters, the long-dormant Newborn finally revealed her fangs. Her consciousness gradually sank into the deep sea, and she could only watch helplessly as Isamara awoke and Agor was destroyed.
"So how were you arrested?"
Zhou Si was a little curious. According to Skadi, since Isamara had already returned to the main group, how could she have been captured by Huihui?
"It seems that the people of the Deep Sea Church took away the remains of another newborn, hoping to make some kind of deal with Isamara through that."
The rest of the story is predictable: Isamara agrees to the deep-sea cultists' request and comes to the surface to communicate with them. Coincidentally, Huihui has just crossed the world barrier and arrived there.
Then Huihui's eyes immediately fell on the largest 'fish' in the sea below...
Zhou Si's lips twitched. According to this logic, the Terrans really should kowtow to the Sky Comet Dragon. Without Huihui's appearance, it would definitely be the Sea Heir's world-ending timeline.
This time, Tianhuilong got the MVP, while Zhou Si and Rhodes Island were just carried to victory.
"After that, Isamara remained silent. I don't know why the silver dragon didn't do anything to me, and it would even bring food up from time to time."
Skadi told Zhou Si everything she knew, and then asked Zhou Si some questions with some impatience.
"How's it going in Iberia? What have Hai Si and the Deep Sea Cultists done?"
"The coastline has been completely lost. The people of the Deep Sea Church are inciting the sea creatures to attack the mobile city, but they haven't launched a large-scale invasion yet. They are probably looking for you as well."
"..."
Skadi fell silent for a moment; rather than searching for her, she was searching for the sea god within her body.
This is why she has never left the mountain; she fears that Isamara's consciousness will awaken again, at which point Hai Si will truly set foot on land, and Skadi does not want to see that future.
The atmosphere suddenly became somewhat silent, but Zhou Si suddenly realized something: this mountain peak was most likely Huihui's lair.
What about Comet that day?
Upon hearing Zhou Si's probing question, Skadi pointed to the silver boulder beneath Zhou Si's bottom, tilted her head, and her red pupils were filled with doubt.
"Hasn't it always been sleeping here?"
Chapter Seventeen: Huihui Wins MVP
Skadi's words made Zhou Si immediately jump up from the 'rock'. Only then did he realize that he had actually been sitting on the tail of the Sky Comet the whole time!
Why didn't you remind me sooner?
'I assumed you always knew, and that you never asked.'
Zhou Si read something from Skadi's expression, and his face turned a little red, a warm red.
But there was nothing he could do, because he genuinely hadn't discovered it all along.
Zhou Si subconsciously moved closer to Skadi, trying to get away from the silver dragon.
The sleeping Tianhui Dragon lay motionless on the ground. Compared to its extremely imposing and ferocious posture during battle, Huihui now resembled a war machine that had been put to rest. This was the first time Zhou Si had observed a sleeping dragon, especially an ancient dragon, so closely.
The Silverwing Ancient Dragon curled up into a metallic hill, its streamlined body gleaming with a cold, silvery light in the sunlight. Reddish-black crystals, like veins, were embedded in the gaps between its scales, flickering with each breath. The pair of spear-like wings that had left a deep impression on Zhou Si were folded at its sides, resembling two closed crimson spears.
Wow, so handsome!
Zhou Si subconsciously voiced his thoughts. Huihui's appearance did indeed match his aesthetic, but unfortunately, it was still his mission target and had shown extremely strong aggression.
"When it captured you, did it have these red and black crystals on its body? Or was it engulfed in blood-red flames?"
"No."
Skadi shook her head. Now Zhou Si could confirm that the blood-red flames were the new ability that the Sky Comet had evolved into. What they knew so far was that the blood flames could significantly enhance Huihui's performance. Whether flying or attacking, this Huihui was much stronger than the one in the guild records.
Although the mission did not require Zhou Si to hunt down the Sky Comet, judging from its aggressiveness at the time, bringing it back to the Monster Hunter world was obviously not a simple task.
Moreover... Zhou Si glanced at Skadi beside him. He did not intend to stand idly by regarding the Sea Si's affairs. The actions of those Deep Sea Cultists were too outrageous, and Zhou Si planned to help them within his capabilities.
At the very least, Skadi needs to be sent back to Rhodes Island. As long as Isamara doesn't rejoin the main group, Layman should be able to handle the rest of the mess.
So we need to persuade this little killer whale, who is quite jade-like, to go back first.
“Skadi, running away won’t solve the problem. You can’t stay here forever.”
Skadi's gaze darted away. Agor had already perished because of her mistake, and if it weren't for her fear that Isamara would be completely resurrected as a result, she might have already made the worst choice.
“Those deep-sea cultists will not abandon their goals because of you, and dragging it out will only make the outcome worse.”
“You know they have another newborn corpse in their hands. It’s not surprising that those madmen would do anything with that thing. You are the key to this war, and you don’t want to see more people die at the hands of the Deep Sea Church and the Sea Heirs, do you?”
Zhou Si stared intently at the girl in front of him. In this war between humans and the Sea Kings, Skadi's choice almost determined the fate of humanity.
If she were to turn to the other side, the Sea Kings, having welcomed back Isamara, would tear apart all enemies in their path, and then no one would be able to stop the Sea Kings' tide.
In other words, as long as Skadi can completely overwhelm Isamara's consciousness and eliminate the GZs of the Deep Sea Church, the threat of the Sea Heirs will no longer be insurmountable.
Lao Bo will use his pre-civilizational gadgets to send these long-legged, shape-shifting robotic vacuum cleaners back to the seabed.
Zhou Si explained all the pros and cons to the girl in front of him. Skadi was just a little dazed, but she wasn't stupid. Zhou Si believed that she could make the right choice.
Looking at the hand outstretched towards her, Skadi remained silent for a long time before finally reaching out her right hand to grasp it. Perhaps Agor's tragic state made her have some thoughts of escaping, but as a deep-sea hunter, Skadi never lacked courage and fighting spirit.
Zhou Si smiled as he held Skadi's hand; now it was his turn to have a headache.
Looking at the silver ancient dragon quietly coiled to the side, Zhou Si was at a loss for what to do.
If you want to defeat it, now is undoubtedly a very good opportunity. As long as Zhou Si can destroy the dragon energy conversion organ in the chest of the Heavenly Comet Dragon in one fell swoop, it will be equivalent to breaking half of the Heavenly Comet Dragon's wings.
In addition, Zhou Si is in better condition than ever before. After his body was ravaged by dragon-attribute energy, his adaptability to dragon energy has also increased significantly.
Now might be the most opportune time to defeat the Sky Comet Dragon. Zhou Si subconsciously gripped his shield and axe, but hesitated to take action.
Just now, while Zhou Si was thinking about how to persuade Skadi, he suddenly realized something.
This comet dragon seemed to have never done anything bad from beginning to end. On the contrary, its appearance gave the Terra continent, which was heading towards destruction, a glimmer of hope.
Looking back at what Huihui did, from capturing Isamara, attacking the mobile city occupied by the Deep Sea Church, to killing the giant sea creature, it did indeed perform meritorious service, except for the fact that Zhou Si took the initiative to go to her and got beaten up.
It didn't even kill Zhou Si, who had initiated the attack.
Realizing this, Zhou Si hesitated for a moment about whether to hunt down the Sky Comet Dragon. After all, the mission did not require killing it, and the silver-haired girl seemed to have a good relationship with the Sky Comet Dragon.
Just as Zhou Si hesitated, the 'silver hill' in front of them stirred. The sleeping ancient dragon gradually awoke from its dream. The constant chatter of two little people in its ear made it very difficult for the dragon to get a good night's sleep.
Zhou Si picked up his shield and axe and stood in front of Skadi, ready to face the Sky Comet's attack at any moment.
The newly awakened Sky Comet stretched its body, tilted its head as it looked at the two humans in front of it, and revealed a hint of human-like confusion in its crimson vertical pupils. It didn't understand why this little person with a familiar scent had picked up a weapon again, which was quite painful to use against dragons.
Roar--!
However, Huihui was clearly not afraid. Her high-pitched dragon roar resounded throughout the entire mountain. The Heavenly Comet Dragon straightened its massive body, and crimson light began to shimmer in the gaps between the scales on its chest. Its spear wings opened again, emitting a small amount of dragon energy particles.
As an ancient dragon, it fears no challenge from any opponent. Even if it can't win in the end, it can still run away. It is very confident in its speed.
The atmosphere between the man and the dragon gradually became tense, but neither side made a move, and the two remained deadlocked on the mountain peak.
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