All Heavens: Start with Monster Hunter

Chapter 135: A New Area Discovered by Accident
Of course, the more densely populated organisms and plants mentioned here are also relative.

Anyway, I estimate that all the plants and creatures in this environment combined are not as many as those in the surrounding areas within a dozen miles of Jieyun Village.

Moreover, most of them are plants like fireweed. It cannot be said that there are no normal plants that can grow in this environment, but they are extremely rare.

Not only Li Qing and others were surprised by the situation here, but even the monsters living here were surprised by the arrival of Li Qing and his companions.

A few crown dragons came over cautiously, apparently wanting to check out the strength of Li Qing and the other two. If they were easy to bully, they would give them an extra meal today, but if they were not easy to bully, they would run away.

This is the awareness that creatures at the bottom of the ecological chain in this volcanic area should have.

The fate of these guys was also obvious. Before they could get close, Ciri chopped them into pieces with a few strikes of the sword and ran away.

But the screams attracted an uninvited guest.

His tall body was covered with rock-like armor. Although he could be considered tall and mighty in any way, one could not help but think of those idiots when one looked at the other party's eyes.

"It's a rock dragon!"

Because Ciri recently came to the volcanic area, she learned a lot about the monsters in the volcanic area.

The big guy approaching in front of him was also very famous, so Ciri recognized it at a glance.

"An immature Kailong!"

"Weiwei, am I right?"

Ciri turned to look at Weiwei, who smiled and nodded: "That's right."

"But don't worry too much about this big guy. Generally speaking, rock dragons are very timid and will not take the initiative to provoke enemies."

"As long as we don't disturb it, it will go away by itself!"

Ciri nodded to show that she had learned it, then turned her head back to look at the rock dragon. Sure enough, although the other party was always paying attention to the situation here, it was reluctant to come over.

Finally, he even lay down next to a big rock, gnawing on it while looking at Li Qing and the other two, as if he was watching a video while eating.

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This was also Li Qing’s first encounter with a rock dragon.

But in fact, he didn't have many memories of Rock Dragon, but more of Armored Dragon.

And that impression is basically in the game, which is completely different from reality.

This timid and curious rock dragon is also a relatively new thing for Li Qing.

But no matter how novel it is, it will no longer be novel after watching it eat stones for a while.

Shaking his head, Li Qing looked at the two people beside him and asked:

"We are now at the edge of the volcano. If we move forward, we will probably reach the crater, which could be dangerous."

"Why don't you guys go back first? I'll go check it out by myself. If I don't find anything, I'll come back. If there's any danger, I can handle it by myself."

Ciri quickly waved her hand: "Forget it, we don't need you to worry about us."

"If we see any danger, I will take Weiwei and run away. Let's go quickly and don't waste time!"

"Ok."

Seeing that Ciri knew what was going on, Li Qing stopped wasting time, looked back, found a path that should be relatively easy to walk on, and then headed towards the crater.

Compared to the previous relatively flat road, the road chosen this time is much more difficult.

Not only is the terrain high and low, but there are also various hot and flowing magma blocking the way.

Monsters are really rare. Occasionally, one or two pterosaurs can be seen flying in the sky, but they are too far away and there is already some smoke and dust here, so it is difficult to tell what kind they are.

The toxic gases from the volcano have spread here.

This poisonous gas was emerging from the interior of the volcano. Li Qing was unable to clear it out and could only try his best to control the breeze to protect the three people, but that was all he could do.

If you really want to eliminate it completely, you probably have to turn it up high and extinguish the volcano.

After climbing for a while, the three finally reached the crater.

Although it looks very small from below, once you get up you can see that the area of ​​the crater is actually not that large.

But this is not a big deal as there is only a layer of standing space on the outer edge of the volcano, and inside, the volcano has basically been hollowed out.

At first glance, all you see is magma that is glowing golden at high temperatures.

Li Qing estimated that the temperature here was at least one or two thousand degrees. With his current physical condition, he probably wouldn't be able to withstand it for too long without special expertise in dealing with high temperatures.

But in the Monster Hunter world, no matter what the environment, you cannot escape the presence of monsters.

The Flame Dragon that was seen not long ago appeared again in the magma below. And this time there was not just one, but at a glance, there were at least seven or eight Flame Dragons swimming in the magma.

I didn’t know this was a family gathering, luckily it was a company team building.

In addition, there were many young lava beasts of the Flame Dragon swimming in it, and they looked pale even in this high temperature environment to Weiwei who was standing by.

One Flame Dragon is enough to defeat the Fire Nation, and if all the Flame Dragons here go out, the Fire Nation will probably be destroyed before the next day.

"In this environment, it seems that my previous methods are not very effective."

Li Qing also looked at it with a grin.

Just as he thought before.

Although the weakness of the Flame Dragon is very obvious, that is, as a creature in a high-temperature environment, it cannot resist low temperatures, but it is really not easy to create low temperatures in this volcanic environment.

Even if low temperatures are created, they can be easily restored.

Li Qing was able to do it by gritting his teeth. He could directly move a river from a distant place and use countless rainwater to extinguish the volcano.

It is not only the Flame Dragons that can live on this volcano, but also a large number of living plants and animals, and even the people of the Fire Nation rely on this volcano for their livelihood.

Today's festival called 'Picking up Stones' says a lot.

Moreover, as a hunter, Li Qing is unable to do something that would completely change the ecological environment.

In this way, there is no difference between him and the rampaging Storm Dragon.

It's impossible that not long after slaying the dragon, you will immediately become a dragon, right?

So, Li Qing also felt it was a very difficult situation at the moment.

No wonder the situation in the Fire Nation has been going on for a long time, but the Hunter Guild still has no way to solve it.

Because this is not something that can be easily resolved, the humans living here will inevitably be affected by the situation in this area.

In the final analysis, the simplest way is to relocate directly. After all, the culprit here is the volcano. We can't drive away Lanlong to drive away the volcano like we did with Jieyun Village, right?
But in that case, the Fire Nation would be no different from a destroyed country.

Let’s not talk about whether the residents of the Fire Nation would agree to it, even Weiwei’s father would probably never agree to it. “It seems that the situation is not as simple as we thought.”

Weiwei was also silent. She couldn't even deal with one Flame Dragon, let alone these Flame Dragons.

"Why do I feel something is wrong?"

But Ciri next to him suddenly spoke with a strange expression.

Li Qing and Wei Wei looked at her together, puzzled: "What do you mean? What's wrong?"

“Look.” Ciri said without further ado, pointing directly at the Flame Dragons and the numerous Lava Beasts wandering in the magma: “Although I don’t know much about monsters, these monsters are still living creatures, right?”

"And since it is a living thing, it naturally needs to eat."

"But we haven't seen many living creatures in this volcano. For an environment that can support so many large monsters, the resources must be abundant, but at least not scarce, right?"

"But think about it, the places we have come from, except for the slightly better location downstream of the volcano, are not places that can support so many monsters?"

After hearing what Ciri said, Li Qing looked at Weiwei unexpectedly, with some surprise and thought.

What surprised me was that I didn't expect Ciri to be so attentive, and what I was thinking about was the information contained in Ciri's words.

"In other words, you think there should be another world here?"

"Or is there a place with rich resources that we haven't discovered yet?"

Without Xili's answer, Li Qing nodded: "I understand, there must be some secrets here."

He raised his head and looked at the two of them, and directly ordered: "You two wait here for me, I will go down to see if there are any clues. If there is any accident, you can go back directly."

"Okay, be careful!" The two women nodded in agreement.

Li Qing turned around silently and looked at the crater behind him. Then his body was enveloped by the steaming air flow and began to fly downwards.

The size of a volcano cannot be clearly seen with human eyes. Only when you get really close can you see it more clearly.

It was this bright fire that was so dazzling that even Li Qing felt it was a little dazzling.

Fortunately, the temperature is still bearable.

Flying along the edge of the volcano, after just one circle, Li Qing had already locked onto the target.

It doesn't look very obvious from above, but once you get closer, you can easily notice a long crack appearing inside the volcano.

Lava was flowing into the cracks, but not much could be seen.

So Li Qing flew directly into the crack.

At this point, they were too close to the magma. The temperature was at least several hundred degrees, baking Li Qing, forcing him to drink a bottle of cold drink before he felt better.

The main thing is that even if you control the airflow to cool yourself down, the airflow is still scorching hot and there is no cool feeling at all.

Fortunately, although the path inside this crack is tortuous and complicated, it is not too long.

Only four or five minutes later, Li Qing flew out of the narrow crack, and then he felt his vision suddenly became wider.

This is a lava cave of unknown size. Li Qing can’t see the end when he looks up.

The boiling magma on the ground illuminated the space.

It seems that there is some rich vegetation growing in every corner of this lava cave, and there are probably dozens of Ankylosaurs distributed in the corners of the lava cave.

There are also some animals found in volcanic areas that are rare outside.

There is no shortage of insects and beetles.

There are some rare minerals outside, but they are actually abundant everywhere in this lava cave. If you can collect them and take them out, it can be said that the harvest from this trip alone is enough for an average family to live for a lifetime.

Unfortunately, Li Qing's attention was not on these minerals, but on those animals.

What he was really curious about was how these ankylosaurs appeared in this lava cave.

It is obvious that they could not have come in through the same route as themselves, so this lava cave must have other passages connecting to the outside, and it seems that there may be quite a few of them, otherwise the ecology inside would not be so harmonious.

"Bang! "

Suddenly, the exploding magma interrupted Li Qing's thoughts.

Looking back, he saw a medium-sized monster covered in lava, which looked like a fish but had two legs, walking onto the shore from the lava river and saw him at a glance.

"Lava dragon?"

Li Qing frowned, but was not too surprised.

This kind of monster is as common in the volcanic area as the blue bear beast is around Jieyun Village.

Although they are of medium size and their combat power is not very strong, since they live in magma and cannot conflict with most monsters, their numbers will never be too small.

Only monsters like the Flame Dragon and the Armor Dragon, which can also survive in magma and have a higher ecological chain than it, can reduce the number of lava dragons.

Now, you should treat yourself as a prey.

But unfortunately, Li Qing was not in the mood to talk any more nonsense with this guy.

The reason why the Fire Nation is now in such a situation, in addition to the fact that the Flame Dragon is indeed difficult to deal with, is actually because other supplies are too scarce.

Although the output of rare minerals is not small, the value of these minerals is not enough to make this small country prosperous.

The money earned is basically used to buy food and other products.

As the number of monsters gradually increased and they continued to attack the mine, the cycle that had been barely maintained was broken.

Being attacked by monsters → unable to obtain ore → unable to purchase resources → unable to strengthen the country → no money to hire hunters to fight monsters.

Even if you spend a lot of money to hire powerful hunters to deal with the Flame Dragon, the volcano is there. Even if you kill ten or a hundred of them, new monsters will reappear sooner or later.

We can’t expect the Hunter’s Guild to keep sending hunter resources to help the Fire Nation without getting anything in return, right?

It was under such circumstances that a vicious cycle unique to the Fire Nation gradually formed.

And if a unique hunting area can be discovered in the Fire Nation, then there is no doubt that the Hunter's Guild will increase its investment in the Fire Nation.

If enough resources can be obtained in this new hunting area, there will naturally be a steady stream of hunters coming from all over the world to hunt and complete commissions.

At that time, the monster crisis faced by the Fire Nation will naturally be resolved by the hunters who continue to arrive.

After all, hunters hired with money can only last for a while. Only when they last for a long time and form a good cycle can the subsequent crises be completely resolved.

The Fire Nation, which has gradually been unable to hold on, will also regain its vitality with the arrival of people from all over the world.

It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Although we all understand this principle, the most fundamental thing is to have fish!

(End of this chapter)