Chapter Eighty-Six: Death
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It's not that Hard's team hasn't experienced missions related to the beast tide, and the abnormal migration of monsters, no matter what the reason is, is still nothing more than two reasons after all. One is that certain beings create fear for monsters in the entire area, and the other is that certain phenomena can attract monsters in the entire area.
For the latter, it is enough to resist the first few waves of beasts, make the monster realize that it is difficult to cross the obstacle to find something to attract him, and appease the excited monster. The former is a bit more troublesome, depending on what makes the monster afraid, depending on the actual situation, you have to choose to drive it back to its original location or expel it to a new hunting ground. Even so, an experienced hunter squad can take out most of the beast tides without harming any monsters.
"Do you know what the impact on the ecology of this hunting ground would be if the big predators were slaughtered?" Hard's face was already a little gloomy.
"Hey, hey!" Cheng Ji spread his hands and said helplessly, "I know that you all regard me as a big family, and I really don't have much experience, but this beast tide is really not normal, if you don't believe it, you can go and see it yourself." β
"See what?" Exuding a maverick air and a merchant's cunning, the young hunter's words were not convincing to Harder, and the old hunter turned to look at Andre for an answer.
The person in charge was about to say something, but was interrupted by a loud boom.
Not far from the three of them, the airship that Harder had just left was violently lifted upward, and a skull in the shape of ashlar broke through the earth and poked out from the bottom of the ship.
"Cover!" Harder and the young hunter Cheng Ji shouted the order almost at the same time.
The bottom of the airship is made of heavy iron plates, which causes the head of the monster rock to not be able to penetrate the bottom of the ship, but instead presses a pumpkin-sized dent in the iron plate, and the powerful monster lifts the airship several times the size of its body from the ground and dumps it to one side. The crew members who were maintaining on the side of the ship suddenly noticed the deviation of their bodies, and they couldn't control their balance and fell down one by one.
"Hold on to the hull!" Harder shouted as he pulled out his sword and rushed towards the airship, which was still nominally in charge of him, and anything that went wrong with the hull and workers was to blame him.
"Get out of the way!" Cheng Ji also shouted in place, most of the busy workers on the ground were ship-accompanying personnel, with no combat experience, and only the members of the Harder team, Harder and himself who were still on the ship on the huge tarmac had combat power. The young hunter was in charge, and he had already completed the action of drawing the crossbow and aiming while running.
Rushing forward, Harder stepped two positions to the side, a roaring heavy ballista firing across his body.
Under the effect of the extended barrel, the bullet accurately hit the head of the monster a hundred meters away, and a dull "bang" was followed by an even more violent explosion.
"Boom!"
The bullet seems to have two stages of damage, and the shell with enhanced speed and penetration pierces into the monster's stone carapace, and the core with strong explosiveness explodes in the monster's body, and this composite type of bullet has a better damage effect on this monster with a hard carapace than a single piercing bullet or burst bullet.
"Armor grenade!" One of the workers hiding on the side recognized the origin of the bullet, "Is it true that the family is so rich that the children even carry this valuable bullet with them?" β
Harder looked meaningfully at the young hunter behind him, who was loading his second bullet as he ran. Suddenly appeared in front of everyone, and the monster that attacked the airship was a rock dragon, and the old hunter had dealt with this kind of monster many times. The difficulty in dealing with the rock dragon lies in its thick shell, and regardless of the number of bullets that this strangely dressed young hunter shoots at one time, the fact that he was able to judge the best way to deal with it in such a short period of time, and that he was able to shoot accurately in such a chaotic scene, was already a "young and promising" that Andre had evaluated.
The rock dragon's head was stuck between the dirt and the bottom of the ship, unable to move, and it took a solid hit. It screamed in pain and lowered its head hard, its wings flicked hard, and in a moment it sank into the ground.
The airship lost the support of the monster and jerked back to its original position, and the workers on board shook again, and the deck was in shambles.
"Everybody stay moving! The monster is burrowed into the ground, watch your step! AndrΓ©, the person in charge, also had a lot of experience in hunting, and his command was echoed by most of the ground personnel, and the workers gave up their shelter and began to run irregularly from one field to another.
"Caidou, can you sense where the monster is?" Harder was on guard with his sword.
The accompanying cat pressed its body very low, almost touching the ground, as the only Ailu in the field, he began to monitor the position of the rock dragon from the moment the monster burrowed into the ground, "Meow at two o'clock, meow is rushing towards us!" β
Ai Lu raised the short blade in her hand, her pupils shrunk to the size of a pintip, and she quietly listened to the faint sound of earth and rocks underground.
"It's now!" Vegetable Bean shouted loudly, and the short knife in his hand also slashed downward.
Harder and Eru have been partnering for some time, and the tacit understanding between the two is revealed at a critical moment. The old hunter took a step to the right, and at the same time the sword swung to the left, which was a slash from the robe. As if rehearsed, a huge head burst out of the ground where the blade pointed, kicking up a cloud of stones and dust.
The knife only made a crisp sound of "ding" when it hit the monster's body, but there seemed to be a faint white light flashing on Hard's knife, and although the blow failed to cause damage to the monster, it did not bounce back.
The rock dragon didn't care about the blow, it opened its huge mouth, and the scorching steam from its mouth was about to erupt.
Hard's eyes widened, and his forehead was bruised, and he actually stopped his remaining strength in his steps, and turned back to stab the monster in the mouth with the tip of his sword.
The rock dragon had no intention of dodging the hunter's moves at all, but just brewed the pillar of fire in his mouth on his own. Looking closely at the rock dragon, Harder found that the monster's eyes were almost blood-red, and he couldn't even tell where Hitomi was. The knife plunged straight into the monster's throat, and the blood mist erupted from its mouth with the escaping heat, and the monster roared indistinctly, and the blade in its mouth was about to spew out a pillar of fire.
The rock dragon lives on the humus in ore and soil, and has a peaceful mind and does not like to fight, but Hader has been hunting for many years, but he has never seen such a crazy and decisive rock dragon. It's not so much an anomalous migration, but rather a direct death. Without the slightest mental preparation, Harder exposed his body to the monster's fatal blow.
Rao is a battle-hardened Hard, and he also closed his eyes tightly at this moment, the distance between the two was too close, even if he decisively abandoned the knife, he could not dodge the monster's close attack.
"Ahh The chasing bean finally unleashed its own attack at the critical moment, holding a short knife in both hands, bowing its body into the monster's jaw and jumping upwards with force. The diminutive Elu Cat possessed a power disproportionate to her body, and although the knife did not cut through the heavy armor on the monster's chin, the force made the monster shut its mouth violently.
"Poof"
With a muffled sound, the high-temperature steam that the monster had easily gathered was suffocated back into its stomach.
Cheng Ji's bullets came belatedly, and two armor-piercing grenades pierced through the monster's eye sockets, shattering its entire skull, and the rock dragon, which had been hit hard in succession, was half-stuck in the dirt without even making a sound.
"I told you that these monsters can only be killed, or they will die." The young hunter gently swept away the smoke from the muzzle.
Harder glanced at the monster with trepidation, no matter how experienced an old hunter walked away from the hands of death, he would not be indifferent, "Thanks, Caidou." β
"Wait, this monster looks like it's been injured?" Andrei caught up, although he was also a hunter, but he worked as an organizer in the rear and did not bring hunting equipment.
Vegetable Bean used a short blade to dig through the dirt under the monster, and a wound caused by a heavy weapon appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and the wound was still bleeding before it was closed, which was one of the reasons why the rock dragon was reluctant to expose his entire body to the soil.
"Did you escape from the front?" Harder thought, "Or ...... Are there still people in the valley? β