Sealing the dust is not a kind of compassion for the sneak attack. As the first lord the team has encountered since they went up the mountain, the monster may have valuable information on it, and the Shadow Hunter's instincts caused him to stop the fight when he couldn't make a move.

"Don't use a weapon against it, this guy has a bad temper, besides...... Looks like we've trespassed on its territory. After landing, the bird dragon species did not calm down, but kept stepping on its feet, as if it was ready to charge at any time, and its state seemed to be restless. The Shadowhunter tucked his one-handed sword behind his back, unleashed a round shield and five fingers of his right hand in front of the monster's eyes, and kept reassuring him before he could barely continue the conversation.

"Its territory? What does that mean? Lu Xiu reduced the weapon in his hand to the shape of an axe, his eyes still full of wariness, "How long has this migration lasted, and has the lord level already settled north of the Snow Mountain?" ”

It was an unusual experience for anyone other than Sealed Dust to come into close contact with a lord-level without fighting. Everyone looked at the tall monster in front of them, and the other party was a typical flesh-winged ornithosaurus species - a pair of thick lower limbs alone were more than two meters tall, wings shrunk at their sides, and blue-black scale armor was covered by a layer of blue ice shell, which seemed to be the product of that strange breath. The beast's head was quite large, with a tuft of blue hairs on the back of its neck, and a thick upper beak that was raised high at the top, whether it was a keratinoma or an olfactory organ.

The dragon whisperer's attention did not take away from the eyes of the subspecies for a moment: "No, this is where its temporary nest is, and this big bird stays here because there is a fellow bird to take care of. ”

Only then did the young people notice that the sac at the chin of the bird dragon was bulging high, and it was filled with a bag full of food. The sharstorm birds are usually omnivorous, but prefer to be plant-fed and have no interest in a few hunters. However, the monster easily returned from foraging for food, only to bump into the human swaggering into its territory. At the time of the strange atmosphere on the snowy mountain, the beasts were all in danger, so it was no wonder that the other party was about to deal a heavy hand on a few young people as soon as they met.

"Is there a second one near such a monster? Where is it? Knowing that there was another companion hiding in the shadows waiting for an opportunity, Jia Xiao's back was cold, and he quickly glanced around. However, the surrounding environment is full of rocks after the glacier has disintegrated, and the large rocks are even tens of meters high.

"I've looked it all over, but there's nothing." Feng Chen shook his head.

"Then look for it again...... No offense, but you just missed this one. Xiao Yang looked at the subspecies monster, and quietly changed his posture to battle.

"I won't make the same mistake again." The flying species swooped down from a height of several hundred meters, and only then did he catch the dust off guard, and the dragon whisperer at this moment even rummaged through the clouds. Under the vision of the dragon cavity, even ordinary beasts are rare in the vicinity, and if there is a lord-level, it will never escape his eyes. The Shadow Hunter snorted, and said, "To be honest, I'm wondering too, monsters don't lie, and the other one should be nearby." ”

"That's because it's dead—" the cat poked its head out from behind a rocky mound in the distance, shook the short blade in her hand, and beckoned to the hunters from afar, "Look this way! ”

Following the earliest blue ice marks, the hunters stopped in front of a pile of rubble. The mound is made of more than a dozen boulders several meters high stacked on top of each other, creating natural caves in the cracks of the stones, and an equally huge ornithosaurus is curled up in them. The crack in the stone was not large, and the monster's head and small half of its body were exposed, and even the slightest movement could not be seen in its body. The Ornithosaurus had its eyes closed, its eyelashes and the tip of its nose hung with a thick layer of silver ice, and it had not moved for hours.

The hunters discovered the hiding place of the deceased, and the giant blue bird under the dust pipe chirped twice angrily, and followed suit. The beast flailed its wings in a whirlwind, pushing the young men into the distance, but itself stooped down in front of the hole. It leaned its head over, rubbed the tip of its nose affectionately against the cold cheek of its kindred, and only reluctantly lifted it up for a long time.

"It's its mate." Feng Dust explained to his companions in a low voice.

"The sand thunderbird is not a very ...... Free race? Jia Xiao rubbed his frozen red nose, "I didn't know they actually had a strictly monogamous subspecies, the Ice Thunderbird, its name is right?" ”

I don't know if the Ice Thunderbird's mind is too dull to perceive the difference between "life" and "death", or if the relationship between the two monsters is deep enough for it to ignore this. When the ornithosaurus had enough intimacy, it opened its mouth in front of the hunters' eyes and spat the food it had gathered on the lips of its dead mate. The slurry of the unknown plant steamed, melting the snow on the ground, but did not cause the person being fed to react in the slightest.

"Just out of curiosity...... Anyone, like me, wants to know which of them is male? While looking at this precious ecology that can only be observed under the dragon's cavity, the Twin Blade Hands asked in a low voice.

"Alright, Feng Chen, can you find a way to probe that guy's injuries?" Ignoring Nie Xiaoyang's words, Qin Shui said in a deep voice to the dragon whisperer, "If you know how that guy died, maybe you can get the answer to this snow-capped mountain migration." ”

"I'll give it a try."

After several minutes of difficult communication, the Ice Thunderbird finally let out a wail and left the cave where he was hiding with his spouse's corpse. The hunters stood three meters away, the closest distance they could get without angering the ornithosaurus. Unlike the intact upper body, the back of the monster was already a scarred appearance, the scale armor on the upper body of the dead bird's back was missing, and only a small section of the tail remained, and the flesh was deeply sunken in, and the spine could be faintly seen.

Such a heavy wound did not smell of blood, because the surface of the wound was covered with a layer of blue ice crystals. The spouse carefully froze the affected area, both to hide the traces and to prevent the injury from worsening, but seeing the sleeping ice ptarmigan at the moment, it was obvious that neither of these intentions had been achieved.

"The wound was blurred, there were no obvious bite marks or claw marks, and there was no doorway at this distance." Jia Xiao's neck poked hard towards the beast's corpse, and then gave up. The details of the wounds are hidden beneath the ice, and they are like scratching the boot for hunters hungry for information. He scratched his cheek and pleaded with the leader, "Even if we hunt that obstructive ice ptarmigan now, we won't break the hunter's law, but will investigate more clearly—you don't think it's pitiful, do you?" ”

Qin Shuiyu pursed his lips noncommittally, but the pity in his eyes revealed what the huntress was thinking. During the days of hunting, all the monsters that the little hunter group came into contact with were fleeing north in a frenzy, but this one was willing to stop and give up the only hope of survival for the sake of his seriously injured and dying mate. Even if he knew that the other party was a monster with low intelligence, he couldn't help but feel some strange emotions in the little leader's heart: "There are stronger monsters in the south that are constantly rushing over, even if we don't do anything, this guy will die sooner or later, it is better to leave it some time to remember the dead family - Maomao, have you found anything?" ”

"Not much," Ailu squinted, "the corpses were frozen, and it was impossible to tell the exact time of injury or death. However, there was not even a single scratch on the front of this ice ptarmigan, and it seemed that no matter who its enemy was at the time, it was so strong that this guy could only care about running away, and he couldn't even think of resisting. ”

"What if these weren't injuries left after a battle, but were just a blow?" Lu Xiu tilted his head and gestured at the edges of the wound, "Look, these edges are quite smooth, right?" ”

"You mean...... Some kind of breath or corrosive attack? The heavy sword hunter thought along his train of thought, "It's impossible, a single blow can wipe out the small half of the body of a lord-level monster, and ordinary dragons can't do it to this extent." I remember that the last guy with this kind of destructive power had been charred at the top of the ruins tower. ”

"Well, it seems that this commission is finally starting to get a little interesting." Nie Xiaoyang crossed his hands and said with a smile.

"Everyone, try to be as fast as you can," Feng Chen hurriedly reminded him when he heard his companions discuss it elsewhere, "I told this giant bird that you can wake up its companions, and we have to leave before it reacts." ”

As soon as the words fell, the Ice Thunderbird in front of everyone suddenly raised its head, and the blue hair on the back of its neck stood on end. The hunters subconsciously took a step back, each holding their weapons in their hands. The Ornithosaurus did not realize the fact that it had been deceived, and its gaze did not linger on the body of the small hunting group, but looked warily to the south.

Feng Chen still maintained a posture of holding one hand high, and busily glanced at the beast corpse beside him. The exhalation effect of the Ice Thunderbird did not last long, and the ice film that sealed the wound seemed to have begun to melt, and in the eyes of the high-level predators, a slight smell overflowed, as bright as a lighthouse. He secretly said something bad: "Oops...... The lair may no longer be hidden. ”

After several minutes of difficult communication, the Ice Thunderbird finally let out a wail and left the cave where he was hiding with his spouse's corpse. The hunters stood three meters away, the closest distance they could get without angering the ornithosaurus. Unlike the intact upper body, the back of the monster was already a scarred appearance, the scale armor on the upper body of the dead bird's back was missing, and only a small section of the tail remained, and the flesh was deeply sunken in, and the spine could be faintly seen.

Such a heavy wound did not smell of blood, because the surface of the wound was covered with a layer of blue ice crystals. The spouse carefully froze the affected area, both to hide the traces and to prevent the injury from worsening, but seeing the sleeping ice ptarmigan at the moment, it was obvious that neither of these intentions had been achieved.

"The wound was blurred, there were no obvious bite marks or claw marks, and there was no doorway at this distance." Jia Xiao's neck poked hard towards the beast's corpse, and then gave up. The details of the wounds are hidden beneath the ice, and they are like scratching the boot for hunters hungry for information. He scratched his cheek and pleaded with the leader, "Even if we hunt that obstructive ice ptarmigan now, we won't break the hunter's law, but will investigate more clearly—you don't think it's pitiful, do you?" ”

Qin Shuiyu pursed his lips noncommittally, but the pity in his eyes revealed what the huntress was thinking. During the days of hunting, all the monsters that the little hunter group came into contact with were fleeing north in a frenzy, but this one was willing to stop and give up the only hope of survival for the sake of his seriously injured and dying mate. Even if he knew that the other party was a monster with low intelligence, he couldn't help but feel some strange emotions in the little leader's heart: "There are stronger monsters in the south that are constantly rushing over, even if we don't do anything, this guy will die sooner or later, it is better to leave it some time to remember the dead family - Maomao, have you found anything?" ”

"Not much," Ailu squinted, "the corpses were frozen, and it was impossible to tell the exact time of injury or death. However, there was not even a single scratch on the front of this ice ptarmigan, and it seemed that no matter who its enemy was at the time, it was so strong that this guy could only care about running away, and he couldn't even think of resisting. ”

"What if these weren't injuries left after a battle, but were just a blow?" Lu Xiu tilted his head and gestured at the edges of the wound, "Look, these edges are quite smooth, right?" ”

"You mean...... Some kind of breath or corrosive attack? The heavy sword hunter thought along his train of thought, "It's impossible, a single blow can wipe out the small half of the body of a lord-level monster, and ordinary dragons can't do it to this extent." I remember that the last guy with this kind of destructive power had been charred at the top of the ruins tower. ”

"Well, it seems that this commission is finally starting to get a little interesting." Nie Xiaoyang crossed his hands and said with a smile.

"Everyone, try to be as fast as you can," Feng Chen hurriedly reminded him when he heard his companions discuss it elsewhere, "I told this giant bird that you can wake up its companions, and we have to leave before it reacts." ”

As soon as the words fell, the Ice Thunderbird in front of everyone suddenly raised its head, and the blue hair on the back of its neck stood on end. The hunters subconsciously took a step back, each holding their weapons in their hands. The Ornithosaurus did not realize the fact that it had been deceived, and its gaze did not linger on the body of the small hunting group, but looked warily to the south.

Feng Chen still maintained a posture of holding one hand high, and busily glanced at the beast corpse beside him. The exhalation effect of the Ice Thunderbird did not last long, and the ice film that sealed the wound seemed to have begun to melt, and in the eyes of the high-level predators, a slight smell overflowed, as bright as a lighthouse. He secretly said something bad: "Oops...... The lair may no longer be hidden. ”