Chapter 696: Cleanup
The cramped cabin was filled with all the members of Reverse Scale, including Dust Seal and Kaede. Lena sat in the driver's seat, the Scales refueled, and finally staggered up before dark, cruising deeper into the Emerald Tower.
Harder was the last to step into the hatch, and before he could see what was going on in the command cabin, he was suddenly hit on the shoulder by something, and one stumbled back out of the door. The old hunter grabbed the handle of the hatch before he stabilized his body, and saw the green-armored hunter standing at the door with his arms crossed, and his hunting suit glowed with the electric light that no one could approach.
"Sen Luo, what are you doing?" Bai Ye rebuked in a low voice, "Leave some space for our guests." ”
"He's a guild knight, so he should be in the cage of the airship. When will the lackeys of the Order be able to step into the command module of the Scales? The Green-Armored Hunter said angrily to the captain, turning his face to Hard, "Even if you get on the ship of the Reverse Scales, it doesn't mean that you are our guest. You have to be prepared, although it is easy for the Reverse Scale to come up, it will not be so easy to survive. ”
Several cold and hard glances suddenly cast from behind the command platform, and Harder pretended not to see all this, and said to the leader of the Shadow Hunting Order, "According to the previous promise, I have sent the Knights' airship away. My men have taken over the poaching group you left on the ground, if you don't mind. Once the warship of the union is dispatched, it is necessary to take some results back and pay the difference, and it is not good to return empty-handed. ”
Harder privately mobilized the airship and contacted the poachers, either of which was an unforgivable crime, and the only way to wait in front of the old hunter was to confess his guilt and go to prison or defect from the union, but the mechanics and boatmen accompanying him on the ship were innocent. Before the old knight left the fleet, he was to leave at least a way for the poor fellows to make amends.
"The union hunter has always been this obnoxious personality, his life is on the verge of death, and he pretends to help those guys get away with it." Sen Luo snorted, "Maybe one day, the guy who controls the hunting ship to chase you is the same group today." ”
?“ That's what I did. Harder crossed his hands indifferently, "I won't bother you." ”
"Scales is more concerned about the situation of the Hunters' Guild than those at the moment." White Night coughed heavily, drawing the attention of everyone in the cabin back to him, "We don't want to leave the Emerald Tower and be guarded by a team of heavily armed union airships on the course we came. ”
"I can't tell," replied the old hunter, "when I set out from the Order's place of residence, Scarlet had a group of warships coming from the interior landing, how many...... The consumption of supporting a large order is more than enough. ”
The Knights have a whole set of procedures for approving the commission of airships, and even though Harder has accumulated a lot of contacts in the regiment in the past two years, he still waited until he was busy working on the landing pad to take advantage of the loophole in the command system and drive the silver boat out of the harbor smoothly.
As soon as he heard this information, the Silver Armor Hunter's breathing instantly became much heavier. Rhino silently calculated an account in his heart, considering the time for preparation and scheduling, the union's airship could be spread over a large area throughout the country in half a day at the latest. At that time, the overstretched manpower of Ryan Yelu will be relieved as soon as possible, and as poachers near residential areas continue to be cleared, the union will have more energy to devote more energy to the depths of the hunting grounds.
Depending on the goals and plans of the commission, the length of the process will vary, but in Scarlet's style of dealing with large commissions, the process will not take more than three days at most. Of course, the premise is that Ryan Yeru does not block the help that comes in hastily.
"How many union knights are there in the fleet? Do you know their routes? "Based on the scaly claws revealed by the old hunter, it is not possible to determine the specific movements of the union. Reverse Scale's hunt for the Golden Lion had lasted more than a month, and it had taken longer and unimaginable resources to plan and prepare, and with the net on the horizon, how could the Shadow Hunters be disrupted by the Hunters' Guild. The hammerman blurted out with a frown as he calculated how much time he had left.
"I'm sorry, I can't tell you that." Harder shrugged and made a gesture of impotence.
"Huh?" Sen Luo seemed to have heard a joke, "You can see clearly, this is not your knight's ship, are you afraid that you are impatient?" ”
Captain Scales stopped his companion's action of pulling out his weapons and said unhurriedly, "Mr. Hader, you should also know in your heart that from the moment you step on the Scales airship, you don't have much choice. It is recommended that you cooperate well, and it is too late to regret it at this time. ”
"I don't mean to go back." The old hunter smiled, but his eyes looked at the silent dust in the corner of the command cabin. The Dragonwhisperer had been looking out of the porthole from the beginning, seemingly deaf to everything around him, "But before the union issued my bounty order, I was still a working hunter somewhat. You know that...... I can't just tell you about the secrets of the guild and other things like the condemnation of the hunter ancestors. ”
"And what are you going to do?" Rhino asked impatiently.
"I'll tell Feng Chen everything I know, and it's up to him to decide whether he wants to tell you or not, what do you think?" Harder seems to have thought it through.
Bai Ye's face softened a little, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly: "A person who is about to betray the Hunter Guild, I thought you had no fear of the Hunter Ancestor for a long time. Anyway, there is a cabin next to the command cabin, and if you need space, you can go there and rest for a while, and I will tell the boatman not to disturb him. ”
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Dusty shoved the old knight into the cabin and slammed the hatch. The dragon's vision spread out in all directions, confirming that no one was eavesdropping, before he clenched his teeth and burst out of his teeth: "Hunter Ancestor? Are you kidding? ”
"I'm protecting you!" Harder shouted in a low voice. The more the young Shadowhunter knows, the more valuable it will be to Scale, and the safer it will be along the way. Therefore, the first thing the old hunter did when he got on the ship was to transfer all the information to him, the poachers were moody guys, and the dust was like dancing with wolves, and it was impossible to add any more chips to himself.
"I don't need your own protection!" Looking at Hader's tired cheeks, a warmth swelled up in Feng Chen's heart, but he still maintained an angry expression on his face and said, "Reverse Scale still wants me to help them find prey, it won't do anything to me." What the hell did Instructor Anfi send you for? ”
Harder didn't answer him, but asked in a deep voice, "I would like to ask you, what else do you have to do in the Ruined Hunting Ground?" Tracking down the Dragons for poachers and causing trouble for the union? ”
"My business is none of your business......" the young hunter said.
"Dust boy." The old knight's expression suddenly froze, and his words became slurred, "You don't want to take advantage of this opportunity...... Kill the second Elder Dragon, right? In my intelligence, that monster was not lightly injured. ”
"Heh......" Hearing such a question, Feng Chen was stunned for a moment, and then stared at Hader's eyes and said slowly, "I'm afraid that kind of words were instilled in you by Morin, right?" In order for you to hunt me down without any fear, the deacon is really doing anything. ”
The old hunter shook his head: "Ever since you escaped into the underworld, you have been searching for information about the ancient dragon species, and these are not hidden from the eyes and ears of the Knights. Something like that happened...... I'm afraid that you will do something unfavorable to other ancient dragons on the spur of the moment, and it has nothing to do with Lord Mo. ”
In the aftermath of Raven's mishap, the Knights have given up on arresting Dust, but they have never slackened their intelligence about the Dragonwhisperers. Jin Yucheng has been monitoring the movements of the young man, not only in which poaching group he is in, but even what kind of underground commission he has received and who he has traded with.
The knights also asked Morin why he was indifferent to the impunity with such a tip, and the answer was "the gains outweigh the losses". The repeated failures of the knights have sharpened the young man's dragon cavity into a powerful weapon, and at critical times, it can even inspire the ability to break the net with the knights. As Bai Ye said, the strength and resources of the union are limited, and they cannot withstand the repeated destruction of the teenagers, so although they are unwilling, they have no choice but to let it go.
The Knights still have a lot of more harmful targets to hunt down and punish, as long as they are still an ordinary poacher, hunting some small fish and shrimp in places that are not covered by the Guild's ability, like the Yange Dragon entrenched on the secondary peak of the volcano, and the human world Jinghe does not offend, there is no need for the Knights to touch his bad head.
"Lord Mo has his own source of information, your every move is under our control, a few days ago when you returned to the Swamp and met with Xia Long, the elite of the Knights guarded the periphery of the hunting ground for a day and a night......
"Where are you too?" Feng Chen exclaimed, as if he had figured out something, his face was cloudy for a while, and finally sighed and said, "Nosy...... This is my own atonement, and I don't need you to ask about it. ”
"I've seen all your life in the poaching group these days, in the files." Harder glanced at the people on the airship and said earnestly, "Don't stay with these guys anymore. Even if you leave the Hunters' Guild, you don't have more than one way out. ”
"Who are you to persuade me like that?" Feng Chen's heart was shaken for a moment, and then he calmed down again. His eyes swept out of the porthole, "As long as the Order exists for a day, there will be only one way for every hunter who leaves the guild." ”
"However, you can rest assured that the tragedy of Locklac will not be repeated on the Emerald Tower."
As soon as the words fell, I saw that the sky outside the porthole suddenly sank treacherously, there was no light in the cabin, and the whole room fell into darkness between breaths. Before Feng Chen's voice could be spoken, the deck of the airship shook violently, and a bright light came from the side of the bow, followed by a deafening explosion.
"Boom...... Prosperous! ”
The young hunter subconsciously covered his ears, the thunder still shook the dusty eardrums, and the dragon whisperer opened the hatch, stumbled out of the corridor with his support for the bulkhead, and shouted loudly towards the sides of the corridor, "What's the matter?" Are we being attacked? ”
"Not an attack! Suddenly there was thunder! The young boatman replied hurriedly, and without looking back, ran toward the deck, as if the roof had been damaged by a previous lightning strike.
"Dust up! And Mr. Harder, are you two alright? Bai Ye rushed out of the command cabin, and seeing that Feng Chen was still safe and sound, his face became slightly better, "Thank God, you should come and see this." ”
"How's the ship?" The young hunter asked, being dragged by the white night towards the lookout.
"There was a blow to the flanks of the deck, but fortunately it didn't hurt the air chamber and propellers." Captain Scales slammed open the door to the lookout. The Reverse Scale was covered in heavy slabs on all sides, which attracted the first wave of lightning strikes. White Night had instructed the boatmen to unload all the trays, but it was unclear how useful they were.
The lookout is the highest and best view cabin on the airship, and most of the portholes in the room have been closed at the moment, leaving only the front one for the scope. Bai Ye pushed the scope away, pulled Feng Chen to stand by the window, and pointed out, "Tell me, is this the ancient dragon seed?" ”
It was far from sunset, and there was no light in sight between the heavens and the earth, and dark clouds were tumbling over the head of the Scale, as if they were about to fill the entire hunting ground with darkness. From time to time, thunder streaked through the clouds, and it was only at that time that Feng Dust could see that the raging clouds were spreading away from the center of the hunting ground.
Dusty jumped off the observation deck and opened the porthole facing the stern, revealing a clear line of cloud front in the Shadow Hunter's field of vision.
"There was a blow to the flanks of the deck, but fortunately it didn't hurt the air chamber and propellers." Captain Scales slammed open the door to the lookout. The Reverse Scale was covered in heavy slabs on all sides, which attracted the first wave of lightning strikes. White Night had instructed the boatmen to unload all the trays, but it was unclear how useful they were.
The lookout is the highest and best view cabin on the airship, and most of the portholes in the room have been closed at the moment, leaving only the front one for the scope. Bai Ye pushed the scope away, pulled Feng Chen to stand by the window, and pointed out, "Tell me, is this the ancient dragon seed?" ”
It was far from sunset, and there was no light in sight between the heavens and the earth, and dark clouds were tumbling over the head of the Scale, as if they were about to fill the entire hunting ground with darkness. From time to time, thunder streaked through the clouds, and it was only at that time that Feng Dust could see that the raging clouds were spreading away from the center of the hunting ground.
Dusty jumped off the observation deck and opened the porthole facing the stern, revealing a clear line of cloud front in the Shadow Hunter's field of vision.