Chapter 43: Poachers
The electric dragon Frufflu is a strange monster that has neither eyes nor a nose. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info such a monster with no sense of sight and smell can still find its prey accurately, and scholars speculate that this is because the electric dragons have evolved a special sensory system in such a gloomy and dark environment all year round, which makes them one of the deadliest hunters in this environment.
Li Hong and Loki are still very attentive to the surrounding situation, the electric dragon can attack anywhere in the cave, the surrounding rock wall, the top of the cave, many times will be a blind spot of human vision, in order not to be attacked by the electric dragon, Li Hong and Loki also deliberately pay attention to some places that they would usually ignore.
The hills don't look like they're very vast, but the depth of the cavern leading to the ground is quite far away, and it's tiring to be on constant alert, but neither of them has to do the same, neither of them knows when the electric dragon will suddenly burst out.
"Take a break, the further back you go, the more likely you are to run into an electric dragon."
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A monster with a white flesh body is slowly crawling out of the depths of the cave, it feels that there are creatures moving in the cave, there are few creatures in the cave, most of the creatures that can come in are eaten by it, if it wants to continue foraging, it has to fly outside to look for it. It would be better if a creature set foot in its territory, so it would not have to go out to find food, and in the wild, the bright environment is very unfavorable for it, and the predation efficiency is very low.
This ball of white meat is the target of Li Hong and the two this time, the electric dragon Frufflu. The electric dragon felt that the creature that came into the cave had a familiar feeling, it had fought with this creature, although the final result was that it swallowed two of these creatures and the other two escaped, but it also paid a lot of price for it, the skin on its body was slashed many times, some even deep to the bone, although it was almost recovered, but it still felt a paralyzing feeling in its body when it discharged.
It's all the fault of these damn creatures, the electric dragon moved a little faster, and it felt that there were only two creatures that had entered its territory this time, and this time it had to swallow both creatures.
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A group of hunters, hidden and with leafy branches tied to their backs and helmets, were slowly advancing through the hilly terrain, and they had to do so to avoid being spotted by the hot air balloon scouting team that might appear in the air.
"Brother Luo Shan, do we really want to do this, if we are discovered, we will be wanted by the Hunter Guild and the kingdom." A young hunter who looked to be only about 20 years old asked the hunter who was walking in front as he moved, "That damn profiteer is offering a lot of money, but it's too dangerous, isn't it good to go through the normal process?" ”
"If you follow the normal process and take the task in the Hunter's Tavern, you will get a maximum of ten or twenty gold coins for a mission, how can this gold coin be enough for your sister's treatment costs." The hunter, known as Roshan, glanced back at the young hunter.
They were poachers. Poachers are hunters who have not officially issued a mission, privately crusade against monsters, and then sell them to others. Hunters and traders can make higher profits from this private trade, so there will always be people who take risks to get this profit.
However, this kind of private transaction has affected the interests and rules set by the Hunters' Guild, and once it is discovered by the Hunters' Guild, they will not hesitate to crack down on such a transaction, and the hunters involved will be liquidated, and the merchants who make the deal will be severely punished. Fines are trivial, but restricting their freedom and not allowing them to do business in the future are the most fatal blows to these businessmen.
However, in the face of huge profits, there will still be hunters and merchants who choose to do so, as long as they are not found out on the spot, there will be almost nothing after the deal is reached. However, the Hunters' Guild has become more and more vigilant in detecting this poaching, so that the poaching transactions detected every year have not decreased, and the merchants and hunters have become more and more secretive about their transactions so that the Hunters' Guild will not be able to detect them.
The purpose of the group was the electric dragon that appeared in the caves in the hilly area, and the merchant who had made a deal with them privately offered a price they would not dare refuse. Under normal circumstances, if you take the task of defeating the electric dragon in the hunter's guild, the reward will only hover between 25 and 35 gold coins, and it is rare for the reward to be too high, and the price given by the merchant is 50 gold coins for the crusade, and the material merchant will also buy all the materials obtained from the electric dragon at a higher price.
In this way, there will be an income of more than 100 or even 200 gold coins, and a team of four people will have an average income of almost 40 gold coins. That's twice as much as the benefits you can get from taking a mission in the Hunters' Guild, so it's no wonder why anyone would take the risk.
"That being said, my sister's illness will definitely be troublesome if it drags on, and it's nice to be able to get a good reward as soon as possible, but I always feel a little uneasy, and I may encounter some problems this time." The young hunter still felt a little out of place.
"Zeil, if it weren't for the fact that your sister needs money, would Brother Roshan let you join this operation, which of the two of them, Blifon or Cech, is not better than you?" Before Luo Shan could speak, the other hunter responded impatiently to the young hunter.
The hunter's mouth of Blivon is his younger brother, his younger brother is absolutely capable of joining this operation, if the two brothers join at the same time, then the benefits will be very considerable, but his younger brother could not come in, the reason is this Zeyer. So the hunter didn't show Zeyl a good face all the way over, and now he heard Zeyl say such a thing, so he didn't even think about saying what he just said.
The other hunter who didn't say anything actually thought the same thing in his heart, but he didn't say it, because he still wanted to keep messing around with Brother Luo Shan, and some things were not something that could be said casually. It's not a secret that Luo Shan likes Zeyer's sister for a day or two, as long as he is a little closer to their relationship, you can inquire, although it seems that Zeyer's sister doesn't like Luo Shan's appearance very much, but what does it matter.