It wasn't dawn yet.

The horizon was artificially raised by sandstorms by several degrees, and the sunrise was no longer visible from the interior of the hunting grounds. The wind and sand shrouded on all sides seemed to make the sky over the battlefield a little darker.

The camp with its backs to airships has been repaired, and most of the hunters have nothing to do without exploration and patrol missions. Although the food and drinking water on the ships showed signs of shrinking, the building materials were left open to the public, almost in the blink of an eye, the craters on the original site of the camp were smoothed, the windproof tunnels and barracks were built as they were, and from a distance there were no traces of the attack.

The one-star hunter walked around a low barracks, and his fellow hunters were snoring inside, and a series of clear voices came from the window. There were no curtains in the makeshift barracks, and through the window grille, you could see that the guys inside were belly slumping together. The low-ranking hunter stepped forward and approached his companion's door, clenching his fist and trying to knock on it, but shook his head and stopped: "What a happy fellow. He muttered to himself. Even in the most pressing and oppressive environment, there are always a few people with big hearts who can sleep peacefully no matter where they lie down.

He shuddered, wondering if it was due to the location of the barracks and airships, or if the desert weather was a little unusual today, and the early morning winds were more frequent and colder than in previous days. The front line of the sandstorm was dormant less than twenty minutes from the airship, and perhaps the cold and dry wind was coming from there.

The young one-star hunter suddenly slammed and swallowed secretly. He pretended to be indifferent, and after observing the corners and walls around him, he quietly turned around at the same speed under his feet.

After a few minutes of seemingly random circles around the barracks-lined area, the One-Star Hunter finally returned to the snoring door. Instead of knocking, he put his hand on the handle of the door, while his other hand pressed the one-handed sword behind his back.

"Squeak......" The hunter applied a slight force on his hand, and the door opened in response. The young man emboldened himself and stepped silently into his companion's room with one foot.

"Bang-brush!" Before he could see the situation inside the house, the one-star hunter only felt a hard kick in the back, and one stumbled into the room. The figure behind him was extremely fast, and with a tug of his elbow, his arm uncontrollably let go of the door, and the door was closed lightly and quickly.

The room was plunged into darkness, and only the light of dawn through the small window barely illuminated a small area around the bed. There was a chaos of dust around the window, and several figures suddenly erupted from all corners of the narrow room, which had originally only allowed one person to live.

"Hmm!" The one-star hunter wanted to say "Hey", but the second half of the voice was forced back into his throat. In the blink of an eye, one rough hand pinched his throat hard, the other covered his mouth and nose, and a third figure circled behind him, holding a cold, hard object against the back of his heart.

The one-star hunter's eyes widened instantly, he thought that he would only meet a mischievous companion, or other colleagues with unclean hands and feet, but he did not expect to be treated with such a level of courtesy as soon as he entered the door. I was controlled in an instant, not to mention counterattacking, and I didn't even have time to cry out for help. The young man listened to his heart, and the courage he had just mustered disappeared in an instant.

"I don't want to die......" he muttered a few words between his teeth.

"Slowly raise your hand and place it on the back of your head, so that I don't see any suspicious movements." The voice sounded on the young man's right hand, a little low and faint because of the effort to suppress and deliberately change, "When I'm done, I'll let you breathe." ”

The one-star hunter let go of the hand on the weapon and slowly hugged his head. He only felt a tremor in his waist, and the weapon had been lightly put away.

As soon as the hand holding his throat was released, the young man's blushing face gradually improved. He rolled his eyes and swept the darkness in front of him, counting the guy with his weapon behind his back, there were at least six people crowded into the hut, most of them were hunters, and they couldn't see too many details in the dark room.

"Damn it......" the guy behind the one-star hunter scolded, "didn't you say that the defense of the camp hasn't changed?" ”

"We watched for a long time, and only this one had a problem...... "The deep voice retorted, "we can only say that we are too unlucky—the sky is about to dawn, what should we do with this person?" ”

The young man closed his eyes tightly, praying with trepidation that the six mysterious visitors would not negotiate the worst possible outcome. The other party seemed to be familiar with the situation of the camp, so they could sneak in quietly in the middle of the night, and whatever they wanted to do, it was not what they thought was a petty fight. The current situation is that he has been shot by mistake, and it is the one-star hunter himself who is really unlucky.

"Tell me your name and affiliation." This sentence was a woman's voice, which sounded familiar to the one-star hunter, "Be as quiet as possible, we have the power to make you unconscious before you even shout the first - this is the hunting ground, and wherever you throw it, there will be monsters rushing to make you breakfast." ”

The one-star hunter nodded busily, a flash of supplication in his eyes. The woman let go of the hand covering his mouth, but the palm of the hand still roamed over the young man's chin.

"I am ......"

"No need, Ah Yuan." The guy who had stuck the young man's neck earlier took the initiative to walk to the bright spot, tilted his head and took off his helmet, and explained to the people who were traveling with him, "I recognize him, it's the Wolf Moon." ”

"Team...... Captain? The one-star hunter named Ah Yuan turned around with his head in his hands, only to find that the three people who controlled him were the three captains who had escaped in the chaotic battle. He exclaimed, but his mouth and nose were covered by Lan Mei'er first, and the huntress's face quickly enlarged in front of him, almost reaching the tip of his nose, "Warned you, be quiet!" ”

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry...... Ah Yuan raised his hands a little more, "I thought you were dead...... No, no, aren't the captains still running away? ”

"We're back." The force behind him was light, and Captain Zhong also stood in front of the hunter. The old hunter withdrew the skinning knife in his hand into his waist and threw Ah Yuan's one-handed sword and shield into the corner, but what had previously held the young man's heart turned out to be only the scabbard of the hunting knife.

"Is it really good to reveal your identity like this?" The young man's voice sounded from the doorway, and Lu Xiu said nervously on the edge of the door.

"It doesn't matter." Captain He said calmly, "No matter what potions those guys use, it is impossible to use them on ordinary team members, otherwise, he doesn't need to make up some nonsense to confuse the public." ”

"Potions? What is it? Ah Yuan was still confused, "What happened on the airship the day before yesterday?" Are you really going to be bad for Locklac? ”

Even if he knew that the other party's current identity was an uninvited guest who infiltrated the camp, but with the faces of the three awesome captains, Ah Yuan could not include this group of people in the category of "enemies" no matter what. Today's young people have countless questions popping up in their heads, and they don't even know where to start asking for a while.

After a long time of hesitation, the hunter regained his mind, and his eyes fell on his companion lying on his back on the bed at the other end of the room: "Fat man...... What happened to you? ”

"We didn't hurt him, we just fed him some sleeping potions." Captain He explained. He would have done the same with the person in front of him, but now he had a better way.

Ah Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, the charcoal burning candlestick by the fat man's window had not been completely burned out, it was clearly the fire that someone took the initiative to extinguish after his companion slept, and the young man noticed this and inadvertently peeked through the whereabouts of several captains.

"So, do the captains need my help?" After finding out that the captains had no malicious intent, Ah Yuan's eyes rolled, and the muscles in his body relaxed.

"Why, aren't you worried we're going to be the bad guys?" Uncle Zhong asked deliberately.

"Strictly speaking, the combined team did not participate in the harvest festival, and the information about the ancient dragon species was collected by the three hunting groups themselves." After calming down, the one-star hunter's mind also became active, "The rumored Armor Stone Belt, even if there is, the Hunter Guild can't just deliver it to us. ”

"As for the hunting group to launch its own manual exploration, it is even more impossible - this is the same as setting up a private observation post in the hunting ground without the commission of the union, which is enough to be imprisoned in the prison of the Knights." Ah Yuan's eyes swept over the three captains, "Even if you did betray the hunting group, I don't think it would be because of this reason - I didn't believe the captains' explanations from the beginning." ”

"Is that so......" Zhong Dinghui exhaled a breath of turbid air imperceptibly, "Black Tan, light the lamp, we have a lot to say to this little brother." ”

Ah Yuan only then discovered that there was still an Ailu hidden in the shadows, and the kitten was hanging above the head of the one-star hunter, if he had only made a mistake in half a sentence, I am afraid that the orc's short blade would be cut off head-on - strictly speaking, Ailu who accompanied him was not a hunter, and the light of hunter glory could not shine on this short race.

Little Eru jumped off the beams of the house and set fire to the last charcoal left on the candlestick. The room immediately became bright, except for the fat hunter on the bed, who was still snoring vigorously.

"Uh......h Wow! Finally seeing the situation in the whole room, Ah Yuan involuntarily screamed again. Lan Mei'er rudely squeezed the young man's mouth into a trumpet shape: "I said don't make noise, do you want to recruit a patrol team?" ”

"It'...... It...... Why did this guy come with him? The young hunter stretched out his index finger and pointed to a crouching figure in the corner. Black Tan stole a few well-fitting hunting outfits from Orson from the airship's warehouse, but even under Lu Xiu's instructions, the orcs didn't want to wear them, so they had to go with him, "Isn't this ghost a monster locked in an airship?" ”

"Now it's with us." Zhong Dinghui said, "Don't care about it, it's about to dawn, what's the problem, let's make a long story short." ”

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"So, now it's no longer the people of the Three Hunting Group who are in command of the entire joint team?" Ah Yuan listened to the captains' words word for word, and it took a long time to completely digest them.

"It should be a similar situation for dragon strikers." Lu Xiu said, with the strength of less than two hunter teams, he took over the next two large hunting teams with one hand, and the little dragon man couldn't believe it when he first heard it, "It's a little ...... It's hard to accept, right? ”

"No, that makes sense." Ah Yuan came back from his trance, he leaned in another corner of the room, trying to stay away from Orson who showed his sharp teeth from time to time, "Since the battle ended, nothing has been normal, I just never thought that there really was such a potion that could distort personality." ”

"We don't know for sure yet." Lu Yingying said, "This is one of the reasons why everyone is willing to risk their lives to return to the airship, we want a sample to determine its composition." No matter what Wang Li's hunting group wants to do, I'm afraid it will have nothing to do with it. ”

"You're a little late." The One-Star Hunter said dejectedly, "Whatever those people want to do, they've probably already started. ”

"The ship has been moved, do you mean that?" Captain Zhong asked in a low voice, "Is the dragon ship leaving?" ”

In the middle of the night last night, the shipwreck, with the boatman as the slenderman, dragged the bow away from the airship, leaving enough safety to leave enough safety to turn the bow of the ship towards the inside of the battlefield surrounded by a sandstorm. Such a big action can be seen clearly from several kilometers away, and the hunters also took advantage of this opportunity to sneak in.

"It's more than that." The corners of Ah Yuan's mouth twitched, "Last night, I heard the boatmen of the sand boat working on the bow for a long time. ”

"Dragon Strike Gun?" Luciu interjected.

"The fins of the Dragon Shotgun have been replaced with brand new, and they are clearly preparing for battle." The one-star hunter said worriedly.

The launch of the ultimate weapon is not unrestrained, and the high-speed rotation and high thrust can take a heavy load on both the crossbow and the barrel. Even with a cooling interval of nearly twenty minutes, the Dragon Strike still needs a complete set of heat dissipation equipment to ensure that the crossbow machine is not melted into a puddle of molten iron at the moment of fire.

The base of the gun body is equipped with four heat sinks, which theoretically can support the weapon to fire three times in a row at the maximum frequency. The battleship had worn out the airships when they attacked them, and it was clear that Aemon was going to adjust the dragon strike ship to the best for the battle to come.

"How do you know?"

"I can't sleep," Ah Yuan shrugged his shoulders and smiled bitterly, "so he sneaked up on the deck of the airship and took a look." By the way, I'm not on duty. ”

"The guys in black and the hunters in blue armor, although I haven't seen them with my own eyes, but I have heard rumors from my companions that they don't often stop on the side of the airship." Having said so much, the one-star hunter no longer made any more reservations, "Whether it's the people who are looking for them, or their potions, I'm afraid you're all on the wrong ship." ”