Hey, King!

2021-06-17

Chapter 45 Chapter 45 Normal Hunting
Six months later, for Jiangu clansman, this Just a very short time in life. Lord Neal didn't let Dagon go to Myniris, not even mentioning it. If it is placed on humans, there is no news enough to destroy the patience of most people for half a year, but Jiangu clansman feels normal.

Dagon has an introduction to the Elvish language, and even if he leaves Tormund, he can learn it by himself by reading. If he encounters problems outside, he can also ask Reid for advice while he sleeps, and his learning progresses quickly. The reason why I said studying outside is because the hunting team has resumed the permission to operate. After all, it has to provide meat for an entire city and cannot be idle all the time.

After six trips in six months, youngsters such as Dagon and Doma quickly adapted to the life of the hunting team, and each time they got a good harvest. It may be due to the influence of the underground activities a while ago, the number of wild beasts and monsters wandering around Jiangu City has increased significantly, and the hunting team can also release their hands and feet to hunt, especially for those monsters higher in the food chain, in order to maintain the fragile underground ecology balance.

"It's another burrow crab. This is the 300th most recent." Doma and Dagon dragged the burrow crab by its hind legs and dragged it out of the trap. "Remember the first time we ate burrowing crab? It was so delicious back then, and now I don't even want to smell it."

"Don't be silly." Dagon shook his head: "Come on, Hurry up and cut the meat that can be used to deal with it, so as not to be polluted by the toxins of the silk glands. You should thank me for discovering such a hole-fishing crab nest, and also thank the hunting union for teaching us to make special traps, otherwise how could you do this? Quickly finish the hunting mission?"

Dorma swung his axe, accurately smashed into the gap in the crab's carapace, and dismembered it. Dagon didn't come to help, he had to restore the trap, clear the smell, restore the cordon, and prepare for the next ambush. After all this was done, he came back to help Doma move the crab meat to Junlong's saddle.

The star helmets were too small to carry heavy loads, so both of their prey had to be carried by Junlong. It should be said that Junlong is both handsome and "dragon", that is, he is very strong, and the advantages brought by a healthy body can be fully utilized. Dagon and Doma tied the spills of war with rope to ensure that it would not interfere with the bear lizard's movement and would not fall due to movement, which was relieved with satisfaction.

"Doma, be careful when you go back and take the big road." Dagon patted Junlong on the back, and said, "Take some more antiseptic salt when you come back, I'm running out of salt here. It's gone."

"You know, you said it just now, don't be too long-winded. The temporary smoking point is only a day's journey away from here, I'm faster, I can make a round trip in a day and a half. During this time You have to pay attention to safety here, and don't come back when I am greeted by the cave crab that is eating your corpse."

"I will be careful." Dagon waved his hand and told Doma to get on the road as soon as possible.

The hunting guild has a new leader. The recent increase in hunting missions is related to him. After all, he wants to show his ability and loyalty to Antoine Lord Daren. In order to complete the task, the hunting team can only use the method of casting nets, that is, with the smoker as the core, the squad hunting personnel are dispersed to cover a larger area as much as possible, and reduce the single transportation distance of the untreated prey.

Specifically, the hunters in the front all transport the prey to the temporary processing point, and then entrust other guilds to transport them backwards after centralized processing. The advantage of this is that it is more efficient, but the disadvantage is that each hunter cannot bring his own spills of war home, which will seriously affect the enthusiasm of everyone. So the new president lowered the union's share in the spills of war, and rewarded it to the hunters according to the level of contribution, that is, more money after returning to the city, which was regarded as a means of compensation.

Each group of hunters has to work hard to find a target, but when Dagon came out of the drowning hole before, he found a nest of crabs on the way. Only he knows that location for the time being. The number of prey there makes his job made simple. Using carefully arranged traps and bunkers, Dagon and Doma can deal with five or six cave fishing crabs at the same time, and they can also choose to trap a few of them and deal with them slowly in order.

Cave crabs are vicious and know tactics, but they have no intelligence. The last time they fell, the next time they fell into the same trap, Dagon had no sympathy for their failure. After Doma and Junlong left, Dagon continued to work. He threw the unusable cave-fishing crab wreck into a crack in the ground, fetched water from a nearby underground river, washed the traces of battles on the ground, and sat in a temporary shelter behind a bunker. , repair and polish crossbow bolts, and reload hunter trap crossbows.

"Bah." He spit, and then quickly rubbed it with the whetstone, and the tip of the arrow became sharp again. The Hunter Trap Crossbow is a heavy crossbow that fires three arrows in the shape of a zigzag at a time, with amazing power. This kind of crossbow is large and heavy, and the winding process is cumbersome and tiring. It can only be placed in a fixed place and used with traps.

Each hunting squad is issued with a heavy crossbow like this. Some squads feel that the 32-pound weight of this thing is too heavy for action, and they often do not carry it. Only Dagon knew before he set off that his goal was burrowing crabs, and he also knew that this kind of weapon could come in handy, so he brought three sets.

They really do play a big role, and usually resolve a target or two at the start of a fight. After the heavy crossbow is maintained and wound, the crab meat and potato flour porridge baked next to the peat is also good.

An enamel jar, both a cooker and a tableware, Dagon uses a spoon to solve only one hot meal a day. The mashed meat sauce made of hash browns and cooked crab meat is a cold meal that can be eaten at any time, and the smell is relatively weak. It can be eaten directly by picking some out of the bag with your fingers, and it will not affect the hunting, so it is very convenient.

But in Dagon's mind, eating hot is the real meal, and the enjoyment in the enjoyment. He eats a big jug, Starhelm eats a spoonful, and both guys are satisfied.

Extinguish the peat and picking up the blanket, Dagon is about to get a good night's sleep. Suddenly, the hunting heavy crossbow facing the direction of the cave fishing and crab cave on the distant cordon was triggered, and the crossbow machine made a buzzing whistle, but the sound of the crossbow arrow hitting a hard object was not heard. Immediately alert, Dagon rolled over and grabbed his head axe, moving from the sleeping shelter to the battle bunker.

The shelter is a stalactite extending from the top of the cave to the bottom of the cave. It is close to the cave wall and is wide, thus forming a wall-like effect. Viewed from the other side, because of the similar colors, the same shape, and the effect of the viewing angle, this wall does not stand out, so it is difficult to immediately imagine that there are people hiding behind it. And Dagon can see the opposite side through a few not-so-obvious gaps behind the bunker, which is the direction from the cave fishing crab cave. He clenched the rope attached to the heavy crossbow.

There was no sound of the arrow hitting a hard object just now, so after the arrow was fired, something must have blocked the arrow's way to the ground and walls. Dagon listened carefully, he heard the ticking of the water, and the sound of sī sī sī sī, which was not the sound of a cave fishing crab.

"What..." Dagon slowly stretched out his hand to open the small bag around his waist, took out some ash-gray viscous oil from it, and smeared it lightly between his nose and mouth. This is a potion that reduces the "Jiangu clansman odor", which can effectively blind those underground creatures with a keen sense of smell. While it can't be done to completely eliminate the odor, as long as it's less odorous than the shack on the other side of the cave for sleeping, it does the trick.

After waiting for a while, the sound of pong pong pong came from the cave in front, and then the second heavy crossbow was fired. Those animals have no brains. After stepping on the trap and getting injured, they always want to take revenge. Dagon and Dorma didn't want the heavy crossbow to be destroyed, so they set up a fake target near the first heavy crossbow to make it look like the culprit. When the hole fishing crab destroys the false target, it will trigger the second group heavy crossbow.

"si si!! Ahhh..."

The strange voice is definitely not a cave crab, and it is definitely not an intelligent creature. Dagon took a deep breath, tucked the curious starhelm back into his beard, and put it on. Just now he carefully distinguished, the two si si sound characteristics are the same, indicating that they are from the same monster. Being able to take two heavy crossbows without dying is worth a spare no effort fight.

It's getting closer, it's getting closer, it's coming from the shadows. It was a lizard even taller than a bear lizard, nearly three meters long from the top of its head to its hind legs, with a two-meter-long tail trailing behind it. It has a brown yellow body and is nearly two meters high at the shoulders. Blood drips from a mouth full of sharp teeth, making a si si sound. Behind the head that was looking around, two wings that could be opened like a screen flap slightly, and three crossbow bolts pierced one wing and chiseled into its neck.

Is this not dead yet? Dagon didn't see another set of bolts, presumably blocked by its body. Once the giant lizard entered the cave, there was a glimpse into the shelter Dagon used to attract his target, with the strong smell of blankets on the bed and enemies (disguised in clothes and backpacks) looking bulging. So it lifts the head, its eyes suddenly emit rays of light of golden, and at the same time, it opens its fleshy wings, opens its bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl, and roars when it moves towards the direction of the shelter.

"Waaaaaa!"

In an instant, the loud noise made Dagon's ears unable to hear anything, and waves of dizziness and nausea came over him. There's definitely a mana effect in the shout of giant lizard, and Dagon is now glad he didn't get hit in the face, otherwise his head would have exploded. The giant lizard's umbrella-shaped fleshy wings form a surrounding posture forward, like a loudspeaker, which can focus and orient sound waves. Through the gap, Dagon noticed that behind the monster's eyes, that is, between the cheeks and the fleshy wings, there are several organs that vibrate and sound, and emit dizzying sound waves through extremely high-frequency impact and friction. He struggled to control his attention, watching the giant lizard's posture, holding back his physical discomfort, and tugging at the rope.

The heavy crossbow of the third group as the final line of defense was activated, and three crossbow bolts were fired from the side and from the height to the giant lizard, penetrating the canopy and hitting its neck again. The whole giant lizard seemed to be hit by a heavy hammer, and the height of the body and head dropped instantly, and the blood bloomed like flowers in the air.

Not dead yet. Dagon saw the giant lizard struggle through the stalactites, looked around, saw it open its mouth and roared in all directions, but couldn't hear any sound. So he clenched the head-hunting axe, took a gentle breath, and prepared to charge ahead.

(end of this chapter)