Chapter 654 Entrustment
During the only night that the mountain road was blocked and the group stayed on the mountainside, Lena used a secret signal to summon the airship to which the Reverse Scale belonged. The cargo ship had been on standby for a long time at a distance, and finally got the signal to go out, and was commanded by the huntress to hang far behind the team.
What I never imagined was that the consequences of the dragon's anger would be so shocking, causing the entire core area of the ghost rage to sink in a sea of fire in an instant. The airship of the underworld does not have the style of a union, and the steward of the boat is concerned about the safety of the remaining three members of the scale, so he only has time to send Lena to the rope ladder. Without waiting for the crossbowman to explain, the companions on the airship hurriedly pulled up, leaving behind the dazed members of the small hunting group.
After a long escape, the desperate young men stopped at a slightly higher rocky area, where they met the cruising airships of Yoda and Ryan Yeru, who had arrived at the news. With a trail of smoke overhead and billowing lava behind them, the two-star hunters even thought they were hallucinating when the approaching battleship signaled their union status.
"How did you find us?" Jia Xiao gave a hunter's salute gratefully, "We walked all the way, but even the poachers dodged more than a dozen teams. β
"Your friends in the city have informed me." The little prince said with a strange expression, "Go up to the volcano, the rest is simple, just explore the most dangerous places, you must be there." β
"It's strange that we don't have any other acquaintances in town, are they...... The kid? When he said the second half of the sentence, Xiao Yang lowered his voice very low.
"I want you to be here too, and in fact I want to meet him." Yoda knew this, smiled and shook her head, "But it's not Sealed Dust, it's an Ailu named Meco." Rushed straight to where I landed in Border Town, and scared me too. β
"The self-talking Meralou? It's not our friend. Xiong Fuji glanced in the direction of the white-clothed hunter, "At least not yet. β
"Meralu...... No wonder I wrapped a cloak, as if I was afraid of being recognized. The little prince said to himself, "But I was able to bring you back safely thanks to the child's information." When I go back, I think everyone should thank him as well. β
Even if the royal family and union symbols were hastily removed before departure, the warship system of the Eastern Kingdom was very different from that of the poachers, and it was only possible to reach the top of the mountain when the volcano was killed and everyone was at risk. Even so, His Royal Highness and his entourage took a great risk on this trip, and they didn't know how much blame they would have to bear after returning home.
The Little Hunter Regiment did not hesitate to detour out of the country during this trip, but they did not get the necessary backup support in Ryan Yelu, and the members of the team were still slandering the practices of His Highness Yoda and the Hunters' Guild here until they set off. However, just two days later, everyone had to rely on each other's airships to escape from the disaster area. Thinking of this, the young hunters couldn't help but feel a sigh of shame.
"I'm sorry......" Seeing his companions looking at each other, they fell silent one by one, and Regiment Leader Qin had no choice but to speak first.
"I'm sorry." The huntress had only said two words before being interrupted by the little prince, and Yoda looked out of the window with the fireworks flying in which the airship was slowly moving away from the dangerous sky, "There is some information that should have been told to you before you set off...... I thought there was no way to go up the mountain, and everyone would just stop near the foot of the mountain for a while, but I didn't expect this to happen. β
"What information?" Xiao Yang furrowed his eyebrows and asked out loud. Seeing that the other party didn't answer, the two-star hunter was even more suspicious in his heart, "Wait, Ryan Yelu wouldn't have known that there was an ancient dragon in the ghost rage, right?" β
"It's not that simple...... I'll tell you more about it when I get off the boat. Yoda looked embarrassed and motioned for the hunter to stop asking.
"No-" As soon as he spoke, Jia Xiao felt that his tone was too harsh, and changed his tone again, "Your Highness, we are grateful to have you to help the little hunting group." But you'd better explain it to us now. If the Ryan Yelu branch really hid any important hunting ground information from us, it would not be so easy to obscure it. Especially the information related to the ancient dragon, I think that no matter what country you are in, this level of information should be conveyed to all hunters as soon as possible. The accent of the great sword hunter is dead on the word "ancient dragon".
The help between hunters is about doing their best, and Ryan Yelu has no conditions for backup, even if the little hunting group has a gap in his heart, it is not easy to blame anything. However, concealing information about the hunting grounds may lead to a misjudgment of the hunting ground situation by one's companions, or even the death of oneself, which is a crime written in the union law. One of the biggest advantages of the Hunter Guild over the Underground World is the transparency of hunting ground information. It can be said that every decimal point in the survival rate of hunters on the mainland is based on solid accumulation of intelligence. Even if you are the prince of the Eastern Country, and you have just saved everyone's lives from the boiling lava, but if you really do something to deceive your companions, you will not be forgiven by the people of the small hunting group.
"We ...... There is no definite news yet. After all, he still couldn't lie to his friends, and Yoda couldn't help but smile wryly on his face. Why does the information of the ancient dragon species need any "exact news", the little prince's shirk is almost equivalent to admitting it. Sensing that the atmosphere in the cabin was weird, he hurriedly added: "But you have to believe that everyone in the Little Hunting Group is my friend, and I never wanted to hurt you. β
The fact that the other party was able to come to the rescue at the risk of the ghost's anger showed his own attitude. Thinking of the last time we met, Yoda wanted to talk and stopped, and if he didn't tell the truth, maybe it was really Ryan Yelu who had some trouble. However, seeing the unpredictability on the little prince's face, the self-reproach accumulated in the chests of the two-star hunters was still gone in an instant.
"We want to believe you," Captain Qin exchanged glances with the team members and said to Yoda in a deep voice, "but at least for now, you should also make up for what we missed last time." β
"Well......" the little prince nodded. The hunter found a place to sit down in the cabin, and the rest of the people approached with different expressions, "Actually, ......"
Yoda's explanation was finally not heard by the hunters, and a thunderclap sounded at the right time, completely masking the second half of the little prince's words. Feng Manyun's complexion changed, and he was the first to get up and look out the window, the blue arc of electricity lit up from the top of the volcano, and through the heavy thick clouds, the cheeks of the Xishu hunters were pale and pale.
In the hunters' field of vision, clusters of lightning struck down from the zenith and disappeared near the crater, each coarse in a way that was only seen in the lives of small hunters. The light of the thunder and lightning completely covered the splashing lava droplets in all directions, and for a time the rumbling thunder was endless. On the top of the mountain in the midst of the fire and mist, a small body was getting brighter and brighter in the ever-cleaved electric light, and in an instant, it turned into a blue ball of light, like a huge wick burning on the top of the volcano.
"The unicorn...... Did it and the Golden Lion start fighting again? Qin Shuiyu asked nervously. The main peak of the Ghost Fury Room has already become like this, and if the two fierce beasts continue to fight, it will only make the entire hunting ground worse.
"There's only one unicorn," Feng Manyun frowned, trying to get some useful information from his vague perception, "It's not a battle, but I don't see what it's trying to do." β
"Heaven-" The cat sniffed around, sensing an abnormality in the environment, and pointed a fleshy palm further up the airship, "It's the clouds, the ancient dragon is gathering the clouds around it......"
Hearing Elu's warning, Yoda was agitated and hurried to the window. Above the airship's head, the clouds that had been barely floating seemed to have received an order from someone, and they were rolling and gathering directly above the main peak. The area around the summit was already covered in a dark cumulus cloud, not sulphurous soot accumulated from the eruption of the volcano, but actual rain clouds. If it weren't for the more than ten minutes of departure from the main peak, the people on the airship would not even be able to tell the difference between the two.
"Is it trying to extinguish the fire on the mountain...... Xiong Fuji rubbed his chin, "making such a big noise, it turns out that he wants to deal with the aftermath of that stupid lion." β
"Ancient dragons can bring natural disasters, and it is not a problem to eliminate a natural disaster." Jia Xiao said this, but he breathed a sigh of relief, the unicorn in his heart may just be too concerned with the chaos around him, and he wants to clean up the mess for the creatures on the mountain and the humans at the foot of the mountain.
The scale of the unexpected eruption of the main peak this time, coupled with the ravages of poachers, made it even more difficult to restore the ecology to normal levels. Humans have no way of guessing their will, and it is a surprise that they will occasionally help the hunters do something good. Even if the thunder beast's attack can reduce the damage of the disaster by one point, it is the blessing that the ancient dragon species has sent to the human race.
"No...... Hell, what is Kirin doing? In a sigh of reassurance, only Yoda cried out as if his ass had been burned by the rolling fire, "Border Town...... Border towns are in danger! β
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This was the first time that the seven members of the Little Hunter Group had heard the name of the unicorn, and it was also one of the evidences that Prince Ryan Yelu had known about it for a long time. However, the hunters didn't have the heart to care about these things, and Yoda's anxious appearance didn't seem to be fake, and everyone had to follow him all the way to the command room of the airship.
The two-star hunters waited outside, only to hear a fierce quarrel from the command cabin, and after a few seconds, the hunters were unstable under their feet, and the patrol ship actually ignored the damage of the power furnace and directly increased its maximum horsepower in the fire and fog in the sky. It's just that the airship is too deep into the volcano, and the air currents in the mountains are chaotic by the erupting lava, and even at this speed, it will take at least twenty minutes to land in Border Town.
"Your Highness...... Didn't you say at the beginning of our ship that an eruption of this magnitude would not spread below the foot of the mountain? Seeing Yoda pacing out of the command cabin with red eyes, the little head of the regiment asked hurriedly with a grim expression.
"If not...... "The little prince pointed out the window. The rain clouds at the top of the mountain were already forming, and thunder and lightning were spontaneously churning in the billowing clouds. Cat's eyesight is superhuman, and she has already seen that it is drizzling there, and the rain is getting stronger every second, "At the foot of the volcano, the natural disaster that can destroy the town is never magma. β
Viscous magma flows slowly and cools slowly as it flows. On weekdays, the heat flowing from the top of the mountain will condense and harden only near the lava line. Even during active periods, excess magma can move the lava line down a few kilometers at most. Most of the monsters that live in the upper layers of the volcano all year round have the ability to protect themselves in the magma, and the monsters in the lower layers will not be affected, except for the tons and tons of good fertilizer that are sown to the bottom of the mountain, the real impact of an eruption is limited.
If it doesn't rain.
The rain mixes with the cooling lava and forms a mud that takes over the lava's original channel, sliding down the disintegrating volcanic rock. After accelerating through a volcanic ramp several kilometers high, the flowing muddy water can even reach speeds of tens or even hundreds of kilometers, producing a destructive power countless times higher than that of flowing lava. What's more, as long as the rain continues, the mud will not solidify easily, and can even rush dozens of kilometers away from the foothills, enveloping the entire border town in it.
"Mudslide......" Jia Xiao muttered.
"A natural disaster is still a natural disaster, whether that damn ancient dragon is kind or malicious, it can only bring us disaster." Yoda glanced hatefully at the dazzling electric light on the top of the volcano, where the unicorn was still wreaking havoc, and had no intention of stopping. Although it will take some time for the secondary disaster to take shape, if it continues like this, there is a high risk that the entire town will be completely destroyed by the impact of muddy water.
"There's no way to stop it?" As soon as Nie Xiaoyang asked, he was the first to regret it. The summit of the main peak is now thundering and fire, and the airship must be dead and rushing into it, and even if it can get in, it is a high ancient dragon species that causes all this, and what means do the hunters have to stop it from raining?
"Time is running out, and we must organize it as soon as we land and evacuate all the citizens of the town."
"That's tens of thousands of civilians in a town......" Jia Xiao gasped, the number of people needed to evacuate must be astronomical, not counting the disorder and panic that may be brought about in the process, if it is not handled well, it may be a repetition of the Lockrak Ancient Dragon incident in the Eastern Country.
"Captain Qinβ" With a deep apology on his face, the little prince actually bowed to the huntress and said, "I know, I did disappoint the little hunting group this time. You have any reason to refuse this request, but now I need you, and the civilians of Border Town need your help. β
"Don't say that...... You're the head deacon of the hunters' branch. The huntress looked at her companion and replied solemnly, "Just post the mission." β
"That's right, just tell us what we can do." Xiong Fuji clenched his fists and said, "We are free hunters, and the commission to protect civilians must not be missed." β