The patrol boat observed the Emerald Tower in the sky at dusk, and the tower was still a thin line on the horizon in the eyes of hunters, and the distance between the two never seemed to be shortened. Commander Qin urged the pilot several times, but this season, the south wind was raging, the airship had already driven to its maximum horsepower, and even ventured through the field of vision of the flying species several times, and when the hunters rushed to the vicinity of the supply station marked on the map, it was already completely dark.

At the southern end of the Eastern Realm, ancient ruins are surrounded by vast broad-leaved jungles interspersed with jagged bare rocks. The patrol boat circled the wilderness several times, but found no man-made facilities at the expected foothold. The map was handed over to the Little Hunter by Yoda himself, and the compass on the airship did not show any abnormalities. The cat relied on the Ailu clan's superior ability to know the way and confirmed it again and again before reporting: "Master, the supply station should be here, they ...... It can't be withdrawn, right? ”

"We informed the site this morning that if we retreat temporarily, we should at least say hello in advance." Shentu Miaoling frowned lightly, and carefully identified the legend on the intelligence. The female archer looked out of the porthole, humans did not have the ability to see at night like Ailu, and no matter how hard she tried, she could only barely make out the outlines of the trees on the ground by the cold moonlight.

"I can't care so much, send a signal." The regimental commander ordered with an irritated look on his face. The group had only recently spotted a fleet of suspected poachers, and now was the time to rush to confirm the news to their colleagues on the ground. What's more, if you want to enter the Emerald Tower, this is already the last chance for the airship to resupply, if you skip it, the hunters will run out of fuel in the wilderness, and the airship will fall into the hunting ground.

Two yellow and two green light bullets slowly rose from the lookout, reflecting beautiful spots of light in the wilderness. The young men waited with bated breath for a minute, but still didn't see any reaction from the ground.

"The airship rises a hundred meters and gives another signal."

"Commander, you'll recruit the Flying Dragon Seed......" Jia Xiao persuaded him. In a completely unfamiliar hunting environment, once you fall into a situation where you have to fight at night with an airship, it may be extremely unfavorable to the foreign visitors.

"Master-" The cat tugged at the corner of Qin Shuiyu's clothes, "Look, there seems to be movement on the ground......"

A faint glow of fire lit up from the back moon of a bare rock, and the firelight flickered cautiously three times in a row before returning to silence. The airship turned its bow and tentatively descended to a height of more than ten meters, only to be discovered by the sharp-eyed Ai Lu who was working hard to hide the temporary camp.

Most of the tents were covered with huge gray-green tarpaulins, there was not a single bonfire outside the tents, and there were no regular sentry posts on the watchtowers. The landing pad, which could have accommodated four small airships docked side by side, was mostly covered with artificial meadows and green rattan nets. There was only a piece of hard ground left, as if it had been hastily reorganized, specially prepared for the landing of the small hunting group. The concealment was done so thoroughly, it is no wonder that no matter how much the hunters searched, they could not find the friendly forces in front of them.

"What kind of battle is this...... Nie Xiaoyang smacked his lips and subconsciously looked towards the moonlit sky - in the impression of the young man, such a painstaking concealment would never appear only when he was avoiding the tide of the Flying Dragon Beasts.

"You ......!" The power furnace slowly went out, and as soon as the propellers of the boat stopped rotating, a shout came from the gangway that tried to suppress the volume, "The lights on the ship are extinguished, and the lens of the telescope is obscured!" Get off the boat! ”

"It's too cautious." Muttering, the young men extinguished the fire on the ship as the sound intended.

Nie Xiaoyang took the lead in pacing down the gangway. Suddenly from the bright cabin to the outside, the eyes of the double blade hands darkened, and after a few seconds finally adapted to the dim environment, only to find that a figure was standing in front of him, "The landing document is in the hand of the regiment leader, the director here-"

"Leave the damn paperwork alone!" The old hunter in the darkness waved impatiently to the young people, "The boatman's tent is behind the landing pad, the hunter is here, don't light a torch when you come out." Is there any extra tarpaulin left in the camp——? ”

The last sentence was asked in the direction of the barracks, and when the old hunter heard his question, there was a sound of a rope in the darkness, and a slightly younger voice replied in the same voice: "It's not enough to cover the airship!" ”

"Hell, let's make do with it all night." The old hunter sighed worriedly, "The only thing left is to figure out a way tomorrow morning...... What are you doing? Why don't you hurry into the tent? He shoved wildly towards the small group of hunters, and the young men moved in the direction of the tent like sheep.

"Such a bad temper?" Xiong Buer almost wanted to have a seizure, but Jia Xiao quietly grabbed his arm, "It's still the royal flag hanging on our ship......"

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"For the sake of the king's sake! Otherwise, even if you run out of ammunition and food in the sky, Lao Tzu's camp will not receive it! The old hunter rebuked as he fastened every lock on the curtain, "If you want to die, don't pull up my camp!" ”

Mei Ke lay on Feng Manyun's shoulder, and a weak snoring sound sounded from time to time. Meralou had chewed too many leaves at dusk, and had gone mad at the lookout, and was now asleep. The white-clothed hunter originally carried the orc out of the rest cabin, but in the process of disembarking, the orc grabbed his arm instead, climbed onto his shoulder in a daze, and refused to let go no matter how he pulled it. It's hard to believe that it sleeps so deeply, and its limbs still have so much strength.

"This guy, how much Mu Tianli did you eat in one go......" Looking at Mei Ke's ugly sleeping posture, the cat scolded in her heart.

"Senior, what's going on in this camp?" After being scolded without a head or tail, Jia Xiao scratched his cheeks and asked inexplicably, "No...... Something to do with the airship formation at dusk, right? ”

Finally confirming that the tent was no longer shining outward, the old hunter breathed a sigh of relief for the time being. At first glance, when he heard the young hunter's words, he suddenly had a fierce look on his face, and his hands clamped Jia Xiao's shoulders fiercely: "You also saw their ship?" You weren't tracked when you came, were you? ”

"No, that fleet only appeared in our field of vision for a short moment, and there has been no trace of other airships for several hours since then......" Tightly clamped down, Jia Xiao could only tilt his head back as hard as he could, explaining as quickly as possible. The old hunter was a little taller than himself, with high cheekbones, prominent eyebrow bones, and two strands of beard that were about to fly to his cheeks, and trembled before him as he spoke.

"Are you sure?" The old hunter's eyebrows were crossed, and his hands like iron pincers increased a little harder.

"There are observation records on the airship, and if you need it, we can show it to you." Jia Xiao looked away in embarrassment, "Speaking of which, we just wanted to confirm to you, are those guys really poachers?" Why is the supply depot covered up like this? ”

The old hunter finally came to his senses, and he did not reply, but let go of the young man's hand and looked at the outsiders in the camp. When he saw that the members of the Little Hunting Group were just a group of young people under the age of twenty, and even one rookie had just left the training camp, he said angrily: "Hey, it's actually a group of little ghosts, I knew that I shouldn't let you down...... Who's the captain here? ”

"I am." Qin Shuiyu straightened his back, took a step forward from his companions, and reported the name of the hunting group and his companions.

"Dry Horse, the head of this supply depot." The old hunter's beard trembled, and he was angry and famous. He glanced at the people behind the female hammerman: "Sure enough, it's a small hunting group...... At your age, you should go and record the ecology of the hunting ground with a pen and paper, who gave you the commission to run to the Emerald Tower? ”

The girl took the power of attorney from her waist and handed it to the stationmaster.

"Your Highness's mission? I wonder why there is a royal flag on the ship? Seeing the bright royal seal on the paperwork, the withered horse's voice softened a little. His gaze kept down, falling to the column of the entrusted location, and the whites of his eyes suddenly appeared bloodshot, "You are from the border town?" Is it true that the information about the disaster of the Onifuma volcano? ”

The young hunters looked at each other, and after a while, Captain Qin replied in a difficult voice, "When the volcano erupted, we were at the scene. It was the ghost spitting out the pulp, and one of them hit the border town directly, and now the town has turned into a swamp. ”

"Hunter Ancestor Blessing...... The two little ones in the camp are still in the town. The withered horse's fingertips were forced, and the power of attorney was printed with debut wrinkles. Although it is not uncommon for the Hunter World to destroy cities and lands, it is far from being able to compare with pale intelligence when it is really related to oneself.

"Fortunately, the early warning before the disaster was in time, and everything went smoothly during the evacuation process, and the civilians were temporarily relocated to Kaishi Town." Jia Xiaokuan said, "We just chased the culprit who caused the mudslide and rushed all the way to the Emerald Tower." ”

"Hmm......" the old stationmaster nodded, seemingly indifferent to the scary words such as "dragon family" and "ancient dragon species" that appeared in the commission description, "In this case, you shouldn't rush over recklessly." Did you know that you almost made a big mistake? ”

The Emerald Tower is the country's most important place, and the primeval fragments produced in the core area of the hunting ground are the technological support of the entire kingdom. Even in the early days without the presence of the Kirin, the kingdom would only launch one or two ruins exploration once or twice a year, and the rest of the time the hunting ground was a desolate and uninhabited area.

In order to prevent unscrupulous hunters from infiltrating the ruins, the supply depot outside the Emerald Tower has been on the move from time to time. The specific location information is treated as confidential information and is only stated in the necessary commissioned information. In the vast hunting grounds, powerful hunters can find all the necessary resources for survival, but they can't fill up the airship with fuel, and without the support of the supply camp, the hunters who enter the ruins either choose to return empty-handed, or have no way back.

"Poachers' airships were spotted at the observatory this afternoon, and those guys have been walking around the hunting grounds a few times, and I've heard that many of the more peripheral supply camps have been killed by them." The old stationmaster's eyebrows were crossed. The camp had been in emergency seclusion since noon, as per protocol. If the little hunters had been more public, and the poachers who had heard the news had robbed the camp of the supplies, their airships would have been able to go one step deeper into the Emerald Tower, and the entire ruins would have been left to them.

"Sure enough, it's poachers...... Jia Xiao said with a solemn face, "How did those guys bypass the blockade of the trade union and come to such a deep part of the border?" ”

"You're from Border Town, so you should tell me." Dry Horse flicked the power of attorney in his hand, "There has never been a single poacher in the territory of Ryan Yelu, they can't always come out of thin air from the sea, right?" ”

Everyone in the Little Hunter Group looked at each other, and on the night of the volcanic disaster, Yoda had confessed to the young people that the defense of the entire kingdom was at its weakest point at the moment. Even the important commission of chasing the two thunder beasts had to be handed over to the small hunting group. Jia Xiao estimated the speed of the Shadow Hunters' ship, and came to a terrifying conclusion in his heart, maybe as early as the night when the young people set off, the defense line on the west side of the border had been infiltrated by the Shadow Hunters.

"The hunters of Ryan Yelu are all military hunters, why are they forced to hide by a few poachers?" Xiong Fuji said in a rough voice, his mouth turned to the two badges standing side by side on the stationmaster's chest.

"There are more than a dozen poacher airships observed, and maybe that's not all of them." The dry horse blew his beard, "We've been able to escape the eyes and ears of the poachers a few times, and we've done our best, why are you kid pointing fingers?" ”

"What about the garrison near the hunting grounds? It's not just these people in the supply depot, right? ”

As if he had been poked in the spot, the withered horse immediately fell silent. Since the "Thor" entered the Emerald Tower, this hunting ground has rarely been set foot in, and the size of the permanent supply station has been reduced year by year. There were now less than twenty mechanics and laborers in the camp, and even fewer were able to fight. At this moment, everyone was huddled in their respective tents under the order of the station master.

"To put it lightly, give you a full three-star hunting group, and you can try to touch the moldy head of the airship formation?" Without waiting for the old stationmaster to answer, Xiao Yang mocked in a low voice behind the spearman.

"Have you tried asking for help? The royal capital is not far from the northwest, and it can go back and forth once a day at the speed of a bird. Jia Xiao said, "If something so big happens to the Emerald Tower, the royal family won't ignore it, right?" ”

"Do you think I haven't messaged?" The old stationmaster said bitterly, "At least for the past few days, we won't get any help from the military department. ”

"How so?" The little regiment commander exclaimed, "Can't the kingdom army get out?" The disaster in the border town should not be mobilized to the garrison of the royal city. ”

"You really don't know that the villages and towns near the royal capital were also attacked by poachers earlier."