Monster Hunt: Notes From a Hunter

  Chapter 85 Observation Balloon Help

   "And the most important point, if possible this time, I plan to capture the big monster bird."

   "Catch, catch meow?!" Pig Chop seemed taken aback by Gordon's words.

   It’s not that there is anything wrong with this hunting method itself.

  Many hunters choose to capture large monsters. Although it takes a lot of work, it is relatively safe and can get more monster materials.

   In comparison, the cost of trap tools and paralyzing **** for capture is negligible.

  However, in the two years since it became a partner with Gordon, it has never seen Gordon use a trap to capture a monster. It thought that Gordon was particularly disdainful of capturing, or had some special shadows about capturing.

   Noticing the surprised expression on the pork chop, Gordon was also a little helpless.

  The reasons the former thought were all for naught. He had never captured monsters before, mainly because it was unnecessary.

   He can easily hunt and kill two-star monsters like the Blue Velociraptor King. When cooperating with others to carry out three-star missions, there is no need to capture them.

   And this time.

  In order to defeat the powerful monster bird, he is willing to use all means.

  Due to serious injuries and critical conditions at the time, Gordon and Pig Chop did not have time to mark the big monster bird with dyed jade when they evacuated, so they lost the whereabouts of the big monster bird.

   But this is not a big problem. They have already confirmed the location of the big strange bird's nest before. Even if they hide near the nest and wait hard, they can always wait until the big strange bird returns to its nest.

  Already prepared to hide and seek with the big monster bird, but a certain discovery not long after leaving the hunter camp saved Gordon and the others a lot of time.

  While climbing over the ridge of a hill, Gordon, who has good eyesight, found that an observation hot air balloon was hovering in the sky not too far away from them.

  This kind of observation hot air balloon is generally jointly funded by the Wang Li Paleontological Scholars Team, the Hunters Guild, and the relatively mysterious academic institution "Gulong Observation Bureau".

  In addition to the necessary drivers, the flight crew also included the Scholars team and scholars from the Gulong Observation Bureau.

  On weekdays, the main task of these observing hot air balloons is to observe mountains and fields from high altitudes, and the specific content is more complicated.

Including but not limited to observing whether there are dangerous large monsters or groups of monsters approaching human settlements, observing changes in the local mountain ecology, providing information on monsters to the Hunter's Guild, and alerting to the migration of "ancient dragons" with natural disaster-like destructive power, and giving early warning etc.

  Most of these responsibilities have nothing to do with Gordon, who is only a two-star hunter at this time, but hunters who are often in the hunting ground can get great convenience from the hot air balloon.

   "Hi~! Hello!!~~~" Gordon waved his hands, dragged his voice and greeted the hot air balloon a few kilometers away.

  Unfortunately, due to the distance, the other party did not notice his existence.

  Gordon scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, but the full-cover metal helmet of the refined ore suit made him feel lonely.

"Um?"

  Gordon suddenly had a plan. He took off his helmet, and used a relatively flat metal plate on the helmet visor as a mirror to reflect the sunlight, and swept towards the hot air balloon.

  In the natural environment, this sudden reflection is very conspicuous. Soon after, the crew on the observation hot air balloon discovered the existence of Gordon on the ridge.

  Through the telescope, they saw Gordon waving his arms clearly, and they immediately understood the former's needs.

  For a hot air balloon located at an altitude of nearly a thousand meters, the scenery with a radius of tens of square kilometers can be described as panoramic. The two scholars searched for a long time with a telescope, and soon found the orange-red figure in a river valley.

   After simply calculating the direction and distance, they pulled the reflector on the hot air balloon and sent a reply signal to Gordon.

  On the ridge, Gordon squinted his eyes, carefully identifying the flashing and disappearing code signals on the hot air balloon.

   "Big, strange, bird. West, north, twenty degrees two, kilometers, river valley. Aha!"

  Gordon, who got the exact coordinates of the big monster bird, was very excited. He waved again at the hot air balloon, and then gave a thumbs up.

  The hot air balloon also sent blessings.

   "I wish Wu Yun prosperity"

  Farewell to the hot air balloon, Gordon and Pork Chop left the ridge and rushed to the valley at the fastest speed.

  They must contact the monster bird before it leaves and mark it with a dye ball, otherwise, the monster bird who is good at flying will make them lose the target again.

  Fortunately, the big monster bird is strolling leisurely in the valley looking for food, and it seems that it has no intention of leaving in a short time.

  Gordon and the pork chop looked at each other and decided to strike first.

  A dye ball and a sonic bomb camera were thrown by them. When the strong-smelling dye in the dye ball exploded into a puddle on the monster bird, causing it to be vigilant, the sonic bomb was also thrown in front of it.

  The sonic boom bomb, which was less than the size of a fist, exploded. There was no flame or smoke, only a burst of high-frequency sonic boom that could not be caught by the human ear spread instantly, sweeping around.

  The big monster bird trembled as if it had been electrocuted, and then it shook its head, its steps became chaotic, and it was obviously in a state of dizziness.

  Gordon, who had already started to charge as early as the time he threw the dyed ball, just rushed to the side of the big monster bird, stepped forward, lowered his waist, drew his sword, and instantly entered the charging posture.

   A few seconds later, the Power Slash, which had accumulated its strength to its limit, exploded with a roar from Gordon.

   The dazed monster bird was powerless to resist at all, and the heavy sword head of the giant scissors, which was covered with sharp serrations, slashed unreservedly at the base of its wings.

   That's right, the attack position Gordon chose was the wings again.

   The tactical thinking of destroying the wings of the monster bird to make it unable to fly or difficult to fly is correct. Every melee hunter will choose this way. What's more, the wings are the weakness of the monster bird's soft flesh!

  The astonishingly powerful three-stage power-up slash and the body-lifting slash in the first confrontation are simply not the same in terms of destructive power.

  The sickle-shaped blade of the giant scissors retains the power of the slash to the greatest extent, and the not too thick carapace at the wing root joints is smashed into pieces in an instant, followed by hard skin, muscles, and bones.

  Gordon could feel that the blade of the giant scissors directly cut into the joints of the big monster bird several inches deep, and even got stuck in the gap between the joints.

   This is a very precise cut. If a high-ranking swordsman with sharper weapons and greater strength comes in, this cut may directly remove one side of the big monster bird's wings.

  Gordon didn't feel sorry, anyway, the big monster bird was hit hard.

   Even though it was still in a state of dizziness, it couldn't help letting out a scream.

The visor blocked Gordon's slightly ferocious smile. With a loud shout, he pulled out the giant scissors from the joints of the wings of the big monster bird, used his strength to cut horizontally, and after making some adjustments, he carried the big sword on his shoulder again. Go up and enter the charging posture again.

  He planned to attack the **** wound again with a charged blow.

   "Watch me chop off your wings! Drink ahhh!"

   ps. I am not talking about observing balloons.

At least in mh2 and 2g (I didn’t confirm whether there are hot air balloons later), sometimes hot air balloons will appear in the sky of the hunting map. If the control character uses a wave gesture to the hot air balloon, the hot air balloon will send you a code with flashing lights , which tells you the location of the monster.

   Later, when chatting with hunting friends, I found that many people didn't know this.

  (end of this chapter)