Monster Hunt: Notes From a Hunter

  Chapter 64 "Teaching" in Hunting

   whistled a few times.

  After receiving Gordon's signal, he used the bomb barrel to ignite the nitrated mushrooms of the peach-haired beast king, and rushed back immediately after chasing the few remaining peach-haired beasts in the lair.

  The little guy with a keen sense of smell is a good tracker of smells. The dyed bombs, the smell residue that ordinary humans can smell, are as clear and conspicuous as road signs to it.

  Everything is ready, with Ohshura's order.

   The hunt has begun.

  At first, the peach-haired beast king was very fast, climbing mountains and forests like walking on flat ground, and soon opened a large distance from the hunters.

  Gordon and the others did not feel anxious about this, nor did they speed up rashly and waste energy, but tracked all the way according to the original pace.

  Because they all knew that the heavily injured Tao Mao Beastmaster couldn't run for a long time.

   Its fast action is only to get rid of the hunters, and then find a safe place, eat something, and then rest and recover from its injuries.

  If it weren't for the effect of the dye bomb, maybe it could really escape, but now, it can't escape.

   "Looking at the direction, it seems to have turned a corner and ran out of the rainforest to the swamp." Gordon said after looking up at the sun and confirming the direction.

   "That's right meow!"

   "Oh hoo~, then I probably know where it's going." Ohhura's tone became cheerful.

"How to say?"

   "After leaving the rainforest in this direction, continue two kilometers ahead, and there is a swamp suitable for mushroom growth, which is the 'dining table' that peach-haired beasts often visit.

  Peach Hair Beastmaster probably planned to go there to forage and recover his strength. "

  Recalling the map of the nearby area in his mind, and comparing the direction they were traveling with the distance mentioned by Ursula, Gordon said with some uncertainty: "That location doesn't seem to be too far from the camp?"

"Well, in the northwest of the camp, more than a kilometer away in a straight line." Ohshura, who has been to the wetland many times, immediately gave a confirmed answer, "If it wasn't for the trouble on the route, I could go back to replenish the ammunition. "

   "The crossbow is almost exhausted?"

Ushula tugged on his armed belt, and said, "Lv3 is usually exhausted, and lv2 is less than half used, and there is still a lot left in lv1. Oh, right, flame bombs and piercing bullets are useless, armor-piercing grenade I also brought three."

   "Hey, let's forget about the flame bomb, so as not to burn those few hairs you dream of." Gordon said with a smile: "Then your trip will be in vain again."

   "Shut up! You crow mouth!" Ohshura glared.

   "When you talk about what an armor-piercing grenade is, it sounds very powerful."

  Oshula made a sudden stop, and Gordon ran a few steps forward by himself, before turning around, "What's wrong?"

  Oshura glared at him with his arms crossed and said, "You don't know what an armor-piercing grenade is? This is common sense. What about piercing grenade? What about diffuser, paralyzing, and splitting grenades?"

  Gordon scratched his chin helplessly. The lack of basic knowledge was indeed his biggest flaw. Ernest saw that he was not interested in long-range weapons at the time, so he didn't specifically teach him these things.

  If you don’t know, you just don’t know, Gordon didn’t have a good face to show off, but he admitted generously: “I really don’t know, I haven’t been in contact with shooter hunters before.

   The latter types of ammunition you mentioned can be guessed from the name, but the armor-piercing grenade is... So what are they used for? Will it explode? "

  Oshula gritted her teeth, started running again, and patiently explained: "When teaming up with melee hunters, we generally don't use shotguns and diffusers, which are easy to accidentally injure.

  Piercing bullets, splitting bullets, etc., as you said, can be understood literally, as well as poisonous bullets, paralyzing bullets, sleep bullets, etc.

  Armor-piercing grenades are quite special, and they have something to do with you swordsmen when you use them, so listen carefully to me.

  It is a large crossbow bomb with delayed detonation, pierced into the monster's carapace, and then exploded, so it is called 'armor-piercing grenade'.

  We usually use it to attack the monster's head, and the deep explosion will cause the monster to faint, which is very useful.

   But it must be noted that the explosion of the armor-piercing grenade is not small. If you get too close, you may be affected and injured.

  The main purpose of delaying the detonation is to give you time to evade, don't just stand there and be bombed, understand? "

   "Yeah! Got it!" Gordon put on an appearance of a well-behaved student, "Speaking of Senior Ohsura, what does the armor-piercing grenade look like, can you show me?"

  It will explode! Guys love to have a blast! Except for the bomb barrel of Sleep Slash.

   "Here, this is it."

  Oshula took down a crossbow shell about the size of her forearm from the armed belt, waved it in front of Gordon, and took it back before the latter took it for a careful look.

   Just kidding, this is dangerous goods, how can I give you such a layman to play with it casually?

  Although it was only a second or two, Gordon, who had good eyesight, could still see the appearance of the crossbow.

It has an all-metal shell, iron-gray in color, with a sharp steel cone about the length of a palm at the top, which is used to drive into the carapace of the monster. The huge shell behind it is obviously filled with gunpowder, and there is a tail fin at the end to stabilize its flight direction. .

   It really looks amazing!

  Looking at Gordon's envious eyes, Ohsura also wanted to show off, "Huh, I'll see the peach-haired beast king in a while, and I'll use a few shots to open your eyes!"

   "Whoa, whoa! Uh, wait, Senior Ushura, you just said that the armor-piercing grenade was shot at the monster's head?"

   "Of course, it was originally used to stun monsters. What's the point of shooting other parts?"

   "Did you also use this when you hunted the peach-haired beast king?"

   "I've used it!" Ohhura took it for granted, "It's super easy to use, let me tell you, after two or three shots, the peach-haired beast king will definitely have his head tilted and his eyes squinted!"

   Gordon: "."

   "What's wrong?" Gordon's sudden silence puzzled Ohshula.

   "Senior Ohshura."

   "Speak quickly if you have something to say! Don't be weird!"

   "For a while, don't use armor-piercing grenades on the peach-haired beast king."

"Why?"

   "The few 'brightly colored hairs' you want, since flame bombs can burn them, armor-piercing grenades should also be able to blow them up."

  “.”

   "The seven-headed Peach-haired Beast King has been hunted and can't get the desired material, the prisoner among them."

  “.”

   "It's you!"

   "Shut up! Shut up for me!"

  Following the scent, after walking out of the densely planted rainforest, the footprints left by the peach-haired beast king are much clearer, and many traces of blood can be seen along the way.

   Judging from the shape, depth, and distance of the footprints, the peach-haired beast king has already slowed down, even limping a little. It seems that the escape all the way is not easy for it.

   It got weaker.

  Oshura and Gordon, who read the information from the footprints and bloodstains, exchanged glances, and they immediately quickened their pace.

  —If you can arrive before Tao Mao Beastmaster eats a lot to recover his strength, everything will be easier.

  (end of this chapter)