Chapter 667: Popularity
"These are all rumors about an ancient dragon being injured, it's just rumors......" Feng Chen involuntarily emphasized twice. At first glance, when he heard the news of Qilin's injury, the young man's heart "chuckled". There was no time to worry about the safety of the thunder beast, but a deep question first rose in Feng Chen's heart.
"It's strange, a day ago, the Shadowhunters here didn't even know what monster was on the top of the mountain. After a natural disaster, how did their intelligence suddenly catch up with our progress? β
"The volcano is so big, it's possible for two monsters to meet any kind of people on the mountain, and what's so strange about one or two lucky guys who are just like us and have escaped from under the claws of monsters?" Rhino pointed to Lina beside her, "She's met a few imps on the mountain, maybe those people said it." β
"They're the Guild's Eagle Dogs, so there's no way they're going to leak information to other Shadowhunters, right?" Lena held the screwdriver, fiddling intently with the mechanism on the ballista, and raised her head when she heard the words, and retorted loudly. After a few hours of work, the craftswoman managed to reinstall a set of heat dissipation devices for her thousand troops, along with other parts that had been burned by lightning strikes.
"But the intelligence is guaranteed by the underground union, which is not something that one or two hunters can do." Feng Chen frowned and thought about it, but he didn't know what the problem was.
"Whoosh-whoosh!"
In the airship community above the town, two airships that were far apart shot out two green safety signals almost simultaneously, followed by a dim hunting group special signal. After a few rounds of communication, one of the airships, with the Ice Shattering Dragon insignia engraved on its side, slowly bypassed the surrounding obstacles and moved closer to the other. The two battleships were more than ten meters closer, and they were connected by hard connecting rods. A pontoon bridge was quickly laid on the deck, and the figures on the bridge could be faintly seen.
"Did you start forming an alliance with each other so soon......" Kaede sighed in a low voice.
"There's always a show like this before the big hunt starts, and no matter how much they toss, they'll all be in one team before dark." He said without raising his head, "We just didn't want to see such a scene before, so we deliberately split the same commission into more than a dozen parts, and we were forced to pay more than a dozen more advance payments. β
As the sun gradually sinks to the west, the communication activity on the airship is gradually increasing. For a while, the flares bloomed like scattered flowers, and from a distance, you might even mistake the town for a festival. In order to save fuel, most airships have turned off their power furnaces and floated in the air only by means of air capsules, and they are now slowly restarting.
The warships in the air are being rearranged with a strange pattern. Ships larger and brighter flags came together to occupy the advantageous shipping lanes to the east of the town. Some of the small, battered boats tried to find a position on the flanks of their powerful colleagues, but they were caught up in the cold by several large ships turning their bows at the same time and aiming their main guns at the side of the ship. The confrontation lasted less than thirty seconds, and the small boat withdrew to the rear in a gloomy manner under the aggressive power of the strong men, and the rest of the miniature airships with the same calculation also gave up their careful thoughts, turned the bow several times, and disappeared into the group.
"Assemble a formation of airships of this size...... Are they going to go to war with the Hunters' Guild of Ryan Yeru? Taking advantage of the sunset, Feng Chen took a rough inventory of the airship on the side of the porthole. There are more than 20 hunting group flags of different colors in the field of vision, and many of them are large hunting groups that are familiar to the underground world. There are more than 10 medium-sized cargo ships on the same scale as the Reverse Scale Ship, and there are even more small and micro ones.
Few of the poachers have the means to build large airships, partly because of the blockade of strategic technology by hunters, and secondly, because they are doomed to do things in a way that cannot afford to raise or use too large warships. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that the airship team displayed in front of Feng Dust has been able to represent the combat power level of the entire underground world of the New World to a large extent. If such a force breaks into Ryan Yelu desperately, it will not know how much damage it will cause to the Eastern Country.
Kaede made a well-behaved gesture, "It's not your first day as a Shadow Hunter, and we've never been at war with anyone, whether it's the royal family or the union. It angers the meat eaters, and the entire underground world will suffer. β
The Shadowhunters still exist today because the Superior need them as a source of goods and a market. Despite the union's pretense of purging the last poacher, the amount of material flowing from the black market into regular hunters and even the military every year is astronomical. In areas infested with Shadow Hunters, the Guild's annual plan will even set aside a portion of the hunting quota for their activities.
However, once these guys show their uncontrollable power and touch the bottom line of the overworld, presumably the guild will not mind a clean-up as it did a few years ago - the hunters' guild doesn't even need to use force, as long as they sincerely cut off the trade in the black market, it will be enough to kill a large number of poachers without blood.
"It's just a group of tired people, and if you want to be targeted by the union, there is more than one way to go to war." Even though Sen Luo's belligerent nature is deeply ingrained, he also deeply understands that some battles cannot be easily started.
"There are only a handful of people who want to fight the airship, the airship with the bloody mouth on it, the ruby flag, the largest brown airship, and maybe others...... These hunters barely have the ability to fight at that height, and the rest is just trying to fish in troubled waters. Kaede made a slight recognition.
"And us." Lena pointed at herself with a screwdriver.
"That's right, and you." The old hunter changed his words and said, "The remaining small fish and shrimp want to follow the big army to break into Ryan Yelu, hunt some monsters casually, and make a little cheap." β
Although the strength of the Eastern Kingdom is not as strong as that of Scarlet, where the Hunters' Guild is located, it is difficult for poachers to easily cross into the kingdom mainland under militarized management. There are many materials that are unique to each country and can be sold at a good price on the black market.
No one could stop an army of Shadow Hunters, and neither could the young Hunter relay the information he was getting out of the way - the Dragonwhisperer himself was trapped in the middle of the underground towns, and the only nameless predecessor he could rely on was a few hours' flight away. He could only secretly pray that Ryan Yeru's patrol airship would detect the movement on the other side of the volcano as soon as possible.
"The battlefield is no longer in the volcano, and our advantage is completely gone......" Rhino's face changed suddenly, and he took out the dust mask on his waist and rubbed it on his hand. This mask took Lina more than a month of research, and it also cost him a lot of money for materials, and now that the ancient dragon species has run back to Ryan Yeru, all the arrangements of the reverse scale on the volcano have become useless, "If we sell our information to various hunting groups before it gets dark, maybe we can make the last money - what do you all think I do?" β
The Silver Armor Hunter's eyebrows furrowed: "Reverse Scale has been playing the role of a union hunter all day, and it's time to get back to our business." You have also seen that there is a dark airship in the sky, and what advantage can we have in these people? Anyway, there is little hope, so it is better to earn a right in advance as a stop loss. β
"Why is there no advantage? Isn't the biggest advantage in the whole town in the hands of the Reverse Scale? In front of the many competitors, Bai Ye still seemed calm and relaxed, "We still have him-" The ironclad hunter looked into Dust's eyes, "I've seen your previous performance, I don't think there is anything more powerful in finding traces in those airships." β
"You mean......" Feng Chen asked hesitantly.
"We're also going to Ryan Yelu, right in the middle of the group." The Ironclad Hunter shook the dust mask in his hand and said categorically, "Even if you don't rely on these tricks, Reverse Scale has the confidence to come out on top in the hunting arena - don't show that expression, I know you care about the life and death of that ancient dragon." The Qilin's injuries are all over the town, don't you want to make sure with your own eyes that it's safe? β
"Of course I want toβ" Dusty nodded heavily.
"That's fine." The corners of Bai Ye's mouth lifted slightly, and he patted the young Shadow Hunter on the shoulder, "In the hunting ground next, I can't say that it depends on your ability. β
"Those hunting groups are almost negotiated, it's time for us to find a team to form an alliance, right?" Seeing the words of the reverse scale, the person decided the next movement of the team in a few words, although there was no sadness or joy on Feng's face, a pair of fists under the table had been clenched tightly.
The old hunter had planned to part ways with Reverse Scale in the town, but when the time came, he couldn't get off the ship anyway. Knowing that there is another adventure at the destination of the airship voyage, even if it is
"Uh...... We don't align ourselves with these guys. Rhino touched his nose in embarrassment.
"Huh?"
"The circle of the underground world is not big, and the popularity of the reverse scale is among them...... It's not too good. White Night explained.
"Why?"
"Because there are only four of us, and we're still strong." Sen Luo's eyes flashed with danger. It is understandable that such a thin team has eye-catching resources and financial resources.
"A lot of the people in those airships want to kill us." Facing Kaede's questioning eyes, Rhino shrugged his shoulders and said, "What else can I do, there is always a certain price to pay for letting a hunting group of only four people sit on a medium-sized airship." β
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"Of course I know the truth of not breaking it, but this price is inevitably too heavy......" Xiao Yang turned his head and looked in the direction of the volcano, and the gradually spreading twilight obscured the afterglow of the ghostly rage, leaving only a gray curtain that appeared like nothing.
"We're living in this hellish hunter world, and we'll have to get used to it one day." Jia Xiao cushioned the pile of blankets in his arms with his knees, pulled out a random shoved hand in one of the crowds, and said loudly, "The union's blanket reserves are not much, please share them as much as possible!" After tonight, a new shipment of supplies will arrive in the Kingdom! β
The town was only half the size of the border town, and only one-third of the refugees who arrived first entered the city. The town was surrounded by a layer of traps and checkpoints for wild beasts, and the semi-permanent facilities could not be dismantled and filled in in a matter of hours, so the remaining refugees were stranded on a few flat slopes quite far from the city.
This place is already close to the territory of lord-level monsters, and such a large-scale migration will sooner or later attract the attention of monsters. The union temporarily leveled four landing pads, each with a dozen war-use airships standing on each platform, which could be used as a support for civilians tonight, and to evacuate refugees farther away as soon as possible when things were not possible. Before the hunters of more than three stars had time to eat a hot meal in the tent, they were immediately scattered into the surrounding hunting grounds, blocking any danger in the hunting grounds with their bodies, and temporarily turning this dangerous wilderness into a haven for refugees.
"There are not many material reserves in Kaishi Town, even if there are some rescued from the border town, I don't know if I can survive this night." Xiao Yang scattered the last blanket in his hand, and the cold and hungry townsfolk all had the same bitter expressions on their faces, and when they saw it too much, it made the hearts of the Twin Knife Hunters also flood with layers of bitterness, "I don't even know why we are still here...... The instructor asked us to investigate, not to earn a pitiful commission fee. And there is nothing wrong with this country, and the commission remuneration for freelance hunters has to be discounted. β
"We're not here for the reward, we can help as much as we can in the event of a natural disaster like this." Jia Xiao's hand patted on the armor, and when the blanket was handed out, the young man grabbed it on the arm and printed five clay fingerprints, "Besides, His Highness Yoda has already asked us like that, and as a friend, we should do our part." β
"I still can't believe him......" The tall hunter looked at the little prince in the distance as Yoda was surrounded by refugees and whispered something about safety. After the airship landed, Xiao Youke was the first to find him, his sister's eyes were still high and swollen, I don't know whether he was worried about the injuries of the refugees all over the ground, or worried about his brother's safety, "Ryan Yelu is turning the Hunters' Guild into the army of the second kingdom, I have seen the army, those guys and hunters are completely two creatures." β
"I still can't believe him......" The tall hunter looked at the little prince in the distance as Yoda was surrounded by refugees and whispered something about safety. After the airship landed, Xiao Youke was the first to find him, his sister's eyes were still high and swollen, I don't know whether he was worried about the injuries of the refugees all over the ground, or worried about his brother's safety, "Ryan Yelu is turning the Hunters' Guild into the army of the second kingdom, I have seen the army, those guys and hunters are completely two creatures." β