Monster Hunt: Notes From a Hunter

  Chapter 97 God

  The interior of the eye of the storm, which was originally relatively clear, began to become cloudy and misty, giving people the illusion of being in a hot spring.

   "Looks like it's interested in us."

  Professor put down the binoculars, wiped the water-smeared lens with his cuff, and said: "According to the records, places where Lanlong haunts are often accompanied by high-temperature water vapor, which is not what should appear in natural storms."

   "Predation behavior?"

  Gordon, who recovered from the shock, once again showed his big heart, and his tone was so natural that it was hard to imagine that the "prey" objects in his words were themselves.

   "No, if Lanlong is hunting, do you think we can survive till now?" The professor gave Gordon a contemptuous look.

   "Should it be curiosity?" Alva was also at the side and even a little excited: "Like the sea dragon sometimes cruising around the merchant ship?"

  Professor shook his head, "It is meaningless to speculate on these noble creatures with our human thinking. To it, we are as insignificant as the dust in the air."

   "That is to say, it doesn't want to eat us?" In Gordon's thinking, if a monster doesn't want to eat itself, then it will most likely not attack itself.

"Judging from the information available today, there is no real record of the misty dragon preying on humans or other large creatures. In fact, perhaps because the misty dragon's appearance is mostly accompanied by large-scale heavy rains, there have been clear written records from ancient times to the present. There is very little data, so it is impossible to make a conclusion that Lanlong will not hunt large prey."

   In Gordon's view, the professor said a very rigorous nonsense, and he couldn't help saying: "Then why?"

   "Don't interrupt, listen carefully to me!"

  Professor glared at Gordon angrily, Gordon shut up awkwardly, and raised his hands to signal the professor to continue.

   "Although the information about the ecology of Lanlong is very incomplete, in the documents kept by the Gulong Observation Bureau, there are records of fishermen at sea who witnessed Lanlong preying on fish."

"Fish prey?" Gordon couldn't help thinking of the huge shadow that just emerged from the cloud wall, and said in surprise: "Can such a huge body meet the needs only by preying on fish? Even a whole herbivorous dragon can hardly Satisfy its appetite!"

   "You don't think Lanlong eats fish one by one, do you?"

  Professor has an expression that I can hardly explain to you with your brain full of muscles.

   "According to the description in that document, 'Tianjin Dances the Wind, Overturns the Sea, and Fishes' describes the scene where a haze dragon flies in the air, drives a storm to roll up huge waves, and drags fish into the air to prey.

  With the "weight" of our four people and one cat, it is not enough for it to start a storm to prey. "

   "." Gordon closed his mouth.

  Indeed, judging by the shadow cast by the thunder just now, the Lanlong may even exceed fifty meters in length. If a monster of this size really wants to prey on humans, it is obviously more reliable to attack a human village.

"Even if we are not regarded as prey by Lanlong, the chance of surviving is equally slim." The professor stuffed the telescope into Alva's hand and asked him to keep it for a while, while he muttered and rummaged through the dragonskin backpack he carried with him. stand up.

   Soon, he took out charcoal pencils, a few pieces of parchment and a wrist-thick cylindrical sealed metal tube from his backpack.

  Professor trembled the snow-white eyebrows that almost covered his eyes, "Taking advantage of a few minutes to live, let's record the course of the storm and the ecology of Lanlong.

  If you’re lucky, the metal letterbox that holds this information will be discovered by passing merchants or hunters, so we’ve somewhat contributed to the study of the ancient dragon. "

  Alva nodded, took the pen and paper and prepared to record, and Lao Hei also came over, holding the professor's shoulders with his strong hands, so that the latter could stand firmly on the deck and observe.

  Looking silently at the three professors, their calmness made Gordon almost forget that this was a dead place in the eye of the storm.

  Alva's thin wrist trembled slightly. Of course he was afraid of death, but he still worked hard to stabilize the pen tip, leaving lines of clear text on the parchment smoothly.

   Dedicating life to research is their belief.

Pig Chop didn't know when he untied the rope that tied it to the main cable, and staggered to Gordon's feet. Although the tail was stretched straight and the body never stopped shaking, it still persisted. Stand with Gordon.

  Gordon lowered his head and grinned at Pig Chop. The cooperation between them in the past two years has made them full of tacit understanding.

   Still so scary meow!

   "Come on, Lanlong, let me take a good look at what kind of existence the legendary 'ancient dragon' is!" Gordon whispered.

  His voice was so small that under the cover of the wind and thunder, even the pork chop beside him couldn't hear what he was saying clearly.

  However, the great being living in the thundercloud seemed to sense the call of the young hunter, after another thunder that tore through the sky.

  It slowly swims out of the cloud wall, showing its majestic and beautiful body in front of everyone.

  Looking at the existence that seemed to occupy the entire sky, Gordon forgot to breathe for a moment. He finally understood why such a proud scholar like the professor would call him a "god".

  Those who have never witnessed it with their own eyes can never imagine that such a gorgeous life exists in the world.

  The huge cloud-white body is covered by countless gorgeous spinous fins and wing membranes during the connection period, reminiscent of the fringes on the skirts of noble ladies in banquets.

  However, if you compare the two, you feel that this metaphor is an insult to the former—it is a kind of magnificence and solemnity that cannot be matched by any artificial objects.

  The streamlined head is slightly similar to that of a fire dragon, but it does not have the ferocity of the latter at all. There are slender and elegant white thorns extending from the back of the head and neck.

  Two of them are extraordinarily slender, showing a magnificent golden color, and the texture seems to be slightly different, which may be called "horns".

  It doesn't have the wings and claws of a dragon. Its limbs are like the fins of sea creatures. They are long and powerful, and complement the white spiny fins all over the body.

   What attracts everyone's attention the most is its purple-red light spots all over the body.

   Strange light spots form a series of mysterious runes between light and dark, dotted on the silvery thorns and wings, giving people an indescribable sense of sacredness.

  As Lanlong appeared, scorching water vapor lingered and enveloped everyone, and the sweat from the high temperature ran down their faces, but no one raised their hands to wipe it.

  Professor fell into a state of extreme excitement and even madness. He grabbed the pen and paper in Alva's hand, sketched the image of Lanlong at an astonishing speed, and made notes beside the pattern from time to time.

   "My God, my God! Look at that pair of golden-yellow flaky horns! Is that how it controls the wind and rain, like Windcarpenter?

   No, not right! wrong! Not horns! Damn it, I just now noticed that Lanlong has no wings? ! This is never mentioned in the literature, hahahaha!

   Creatures that don't rely on wings to fly. Like Fuyuelong? No, that's floating! And this is another way of flying, a completely different direction of evolution!

   How on earth does it fly? High temperature water vapor spot fins. Torrential rain water vapor! Got it, I got it! It's water vapor!

  Rely on a certain organ to generate high temperature, transpire the water stored in the body into high-temperature water vapor, and use the spinous fin membrane to rise and propel it with the help of hot air, so as to fly in the air, so the formation of thunderclouds can also be explained!

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   ps. The original game and the official information book do not have any definite information on the flight principle of Lanlong.

   It is a forum or a famous post that creates high-temperature water vapor and uses it to fly. Many people agree, and we also think it is quite reasonable. This setting is used here.

  (end of this chapter)