"Don't waste ballistas." Kaede leaned against the stone and waved his hand at Adong. The huntress stubbornly shot a chain of bullets at the back of the distant golden lion before she lowered the crossbow again. The sound of gunfire swept down the valley far away, slowly disappearing, just like the dragon clan hidden at the end of the stone wall, "It's out of range." ”

The girl crouched down and looked at her sister, who still had a look of colic on her face. Fortunately, under the double obstruction of the double knife and the hunting suit, Ah Xia did not break the ribs, but the huntress kept holding her stomach, maybe there was more than one bleeding point in the internal organs, and she couldn't exercise vigorously anymore.

"I'm sorry, I didn't help much." Bai Ye said apologetically. In the previous battle, if it weren't for Ah Dong's shot at the critical moment, the rhino at this moment would have already turned into a piece of coke. However, Reverse Scale did not find a chance to repay the favor, but instead exposed the three of them to the claws of the golden lion, almost causing irreparable consequences.

"That's enough, if you really keep up, it will make us more dangerous." Kaede turned his face away, he grunted a few times in his throat, and spit out a thick bloody phlegm, and his face looked better, "What the hell...... Ah Dong only fired a few shots, why did that guy suddenly come at us? ”

"It's just a beast, and you can't understand it according to human logic." "I'm expecting that guy to stay here and continue fighting, or just slapped his ass and slipped away?" ”

"If I leave now, I can still keep up......" Ming Ming was dragged by Sen Luo to the back of a certain rock pile, but at some point the rhino regained some strength, and staggered back to the middle of the group in a sweat. The Silver-Armored Hunter's current condition can be described as miserable, with patches of charred black on the rhino's hunting suit, and hair exploding from the cracks in his helmet. Even with the measures to conduct electricity, the instantaneous electric current caused multiple burns on the hunter's body, and with each movement, the skin seemed to be being severely polished with sandpaper.

The King of the Tooth Beasts was still waving his teeth and claws at the hunters one second, but the next moment he quietly disappeared, leaving only the remnants of battle and the angry shadow hunters in their chests. Being able to walk on a steep cliff is definitely the most unexpected and tricky ability that the golden lion possesses, and the beast that knows how to escape is far more of a headache for hunters than the one who is good at fighting.

"Forget it." Kaede glanced at him, "Looking at your current appearance, being able to stand firm is already the limit." You're just stronger among the Shadowhunters, what do you think you are? Gods? ”

"I just don't want to waste the gold I invested in this hunt." Rhino tentatively stretched out his hand to the warm mountain, and sat down on the edge of the stone wall, "Anyway, thanks to Miss Adong's support, I thought I was going to die just now." ”

Bai Ye raised his thumb to estimate the height of the cliff, shook his head for a while, and said, "It's too late, whether it's rock climbing or detouring, we have to be at least half an hour late." If the monster insists on walking this kind of cliff, the gap will only get bigger and bigger, and it is useless to keep up like this except for wasting physical strength. Not to mention ......"

Captain Scales looked at the crowd in front of him. After a battle, everyone has their own losses - not to mention the rhino and Axia, who can escape, Feng and the golden lion have been fighting alone for so long, as if they have been stimulated by the girls in crisis. White Night and Sen Luo are the main forces of frontal combat, even if there is no big problem, the consumption of energy is real, if another battle is carried out in this state in a short period of time, I don't know how much the combat power will be affected.

After the reduction of two people, the shortcomings of the poachers were immediately revealed. If commissioned by the Guild Hunters, the captain could call in the airship to receive the wounded, while the rest of the men traveled lightly after a short resupply. In the Shadowhunters' hunting journey, every wounded person almost always threatens the very foundations of the team.

"Rest where you are...... Wait until the tusk is out of the threat, and it's not too late to search slowly. Captain Reverse Scale pondered for a moment, and then had to open his mouth to decide, "In the current situation, recovering the combat ability is far more important than recovering it for a few minutes. Ragan was wounded, and we knew where it went, and the rhythm of the regular hunt followed. ”

"In addition to the top of the mountain, there is also an ancient dragon ...... eyeing you," Sen Luo reminded.

"There's a bunch of Shadow Hunters on the mountain...... Rhino added.

"Damn, I shouldn't have promised you in the first place." There is no need to count the current state of the volcano, Kaede knows that the time and place are not on the side of the reverse scale.

"What, you want to quit?" Bai Ye raised his eyebrows and asked in a deep voice.

"Hell, of course not!" Kaede easily pulled out a roll of bandages and wrapped it around his face as a mask, "That beast hurt my person, even if I can't hunt it with my own hands, I will watch it die in front of me." ”

"Are you all okay?" After crossing the entire battlefield, Feng Dust finally arrived at the side of the Shadow Hunters. Until the top-tier predator species disappeared from view, the young man confirmed it with the dragon cavity, and only when it was completely safe did he breathe a sigh of relief and step out of his hiding place.

"Little ghost, you're here at the right time." Captain Reverse Scale beckoned, "The golden lion glanced at you before leaving, what did you do?" In that weird dragon language of yours? ”

"Not me." Feng Chen shook his head. The Shadow Hunter's distant interference only lasted for a moment, and it didn't have the ability to drive away the Tooth Beast Species, "There is another reason for the Golden Lion's departure. I'm here to tell you...... It's the unicorn, and the ancient dragon has just called for the golden lion. I couldn't fully understand what Kirin was saying, but no matter how you look at it, it looks like it's provoking - the unicorn wants to make a finish, and the sooner the better. ”

"What's the end'? Is it going to be a decisive battle? Kaede comforted Ah Xia, who was snorting in pain beside him.

"The ancient dragon will be waiting for Ragane on the top of the mountain, it doesn't want to be chased all the time, I don't know what will ......happen next," Feng Chen licked his lips nervously. Although I don't know where the feud between the dragon clan and the unicorn came from, this level of battle usually ends with the fall of one side. And with the current strength comparison, it is of course self-evident who will die.

"Hell, the crater of the main peak is the largest lava pool on the entire continent, and it may go straight to the center of the earth." Rhino Qiang straightened his body, "If the corpse of the golden lion falls into it, even if it doesn't melt instantly, only Yan Gelong can fish it up." I don't want to spend tens of thousands of gold coins and only get a handful of golden lion's ashes. ”

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The division of the suburbs and the outskirts of the castle is bounded by shelterbelts, and most of the hunters' commissions in the castle are limited to the forest area. From the South Acropolis, you can see a series of low river valleys and hills beyond the woodlands. Most of them are like valley training camps, with scarce natural resources and weak and harmless monsters.

The airship is perched atop an inconspicuous hill, its rudimentary landing pad serves only the most basic functions, and the platform is surrounded by tall vegetation that makes it easy for those who are not familiar with the place to ignore its presence from the air.

The dwarf hunter clutched his linen cloak tightly so that it was not blown away by the wind pressure of the propeller overhead. The hunter stepped down the gangway, and there were already several people on the ground waiting around the side of the ladder.

"Thought you'd come an hour early, was there some trouble on the way?" Among the greeters, the tall and thin man in the white mask stood out in particular, and the man stood at the very front, and asked hurriedly before the short hunter could step down the last step.

"It's nothing, the guild's airship cruise route has been temporarily changed, and it took a little more time to bypass the patrolling hunters." The short man nodded to the greeters in turn, "It's not too late, I can stay here until dark." ”

The airship landed on a remote estate that originally belonged to the banker. The family had originally wanted to set up a courtyard here to supply the southbound trade routes, but now that the Zhuang family was in name only, the development of the wasteland was shelved before it could even begin. Under the double punishment of the Hunters' Guild and the Kingdom of Scarlet, the Northern House declined at an incredible rate. A significant portion of the property and resource ownership was sidelined, and the rest was taken over by the unions in the form of compensation and fines, and this is one of them.

"I didn't see your car." The man in white led his right hand weakly, and the entourage around him made way for the two to pass through.

"At this juncture, I don't want to attract people's attention." The man in the cloak stepped forward and looked at the surrounding team of hunters and scribes, "Vice President Lin has never given up his deterrence against me, and even my direct subordinates in the union have secretly accepted the investigation commission against me without telling me. My office was passive the other day, and I have had to work from home for a few days. ”

"It's not as easy as ever to be on duty in the Hunters' Guild." The white-clad hunter looked a little gloating.

"There's still a plausible identity, isn't it?" The man in the cloak cast his eyes into the shadow of the hood, looked at each other, and after a while, the two of them actually laughed in unison, "Okay, don't talk about that, take me to see that." ”

The two walked dozens of paces and stopped in front of a sudden hut, which was made of union-style materials and looked very shabby. It's just such an inconspicuous empty house, but there are more than ten hunters guarding it outside the door, and seeing a tall and a short two people approaching, the sentinels have stepped forward to pay attention and perform a hunter's etiquette in a dignified manner.

The man in the cloak and the hunter in white pulled out a neatly folded flag from their bags early and unfurled it against the wind. The plain banner was the emblem of the Hunters' Guild, and the two of them stepped forward, throwing them into the fire burning in front of the hut, one left and one right. The two of them ignored the burnt smell of the fluff thread, stared at the twisted fabric in the fire, and put away the smiles on their faces, until the last of their plain whiteness sank into the ashes at the bottom of the brazier.

The man in white grabbed the handle of the hut and turned back to the man in the cloak and said, "Get ready, it doesn't taste good inside." ”

Standing firm on the mechanical elevator, the man in the cloak could adjust to the smell of blood in the air. It's not that the man hasn't experienced the bloody hunting ground, but the smell here is more like corpse blood soaked for years. He covered his mouth and nose, and the hut shook violently, slowly sinking downward.

After a brief moment of darkness, a cluster of firelight lit up from the hunter's feet, followed by more and brighter burning stone lights, and when the man in the cloak saw where he was sinking, he was startled and lifted his hood to block his view: "Hell, did you empty this place?" ”

The cavity in the ground is more than 200 meters in circumference and 50 meters high, and is covered with cascading stairs and corridors. The hunter looked up and saw that the roof was supported by a steel frame of a lattice structure, and the walls were covered with iron nets and shovel nails for reinforcement. Even without the hunters and scribes who traveled back and forth, and the oddly shaped machinery parked here and there, this bunker alone was unimaginably large.

"The results of two years are not bad." Seeing the short hunter's surprised expression, the man in white said quite proudly, "How is it, has it met your expectations?" ”

"To be honest, it scared me." Seeing such a busy and orderly underground world suddenly, the cloaked man even forgot that he was under the nose of the Hunters' Guild. His gaze straightened as he looked at the precious ore crystals that were being carried like flowing water, and after a moment he remembered something, "What about that project...... How's it going? ”

The white-clothed hunter pulled him to stand at the edge of a staircase, shrugged helplessly, and said, "At the bottom floor, I also want to take you to have a look, but I don't have the right to enter that area." He raised his hand and the short hunter stood on tiptoe, and through the cracks in the staircase that crisscrossed him, he saw an area strangely empty, surrounded by a fence.

"There's ......"

"Where the big one used to be, we opened a patio on the roof and it took a few days to lower it. What a beautiful guy...... It's a shame you can't see it anymore. The people here dismantled all the tissues on its body, and did not spare even a piece of fat. I'm willing to bet that with such a high utilization rate, there won't be a second one on the entire continent. ”

"Look at you...... If it weren't for this hunting suit, I would have thought you weren't a hunter, but a scrivener. The man in the cloak quipped.

The white-clothed hunter didn't smile, and his eyes behind the mask narrowed with some displeasure: "I'm not a hunter anymore." ”

"I'm sorry." The short hunter lowered his voice.

"Forget it...... masked man said, "the last batch of materials has been put into use, and it won't be long before it's completely finished." We replaced the full dragon jade function with the collected dragon blood and fragments of dragon jade, but that was only a stopgap measure, and sooner or later, a real dragon jade would be needed to fill the void. ”

"These things can wait, and I have one more thing to do today." The man in the cloak waved his hand and interrupted the other party's words, "North, tomorrow morning, I'm going to the Onifury Volcano." ”

"You mean ......"

"Now that you're pretty much done with your preparations here, it's time for that...... I think the moment the war begins, you should be the one who wants to witness it the most. The captain and Rowe should be there too, and we will be on the same hunting ground, just like before. ”

"It's the same as before...... Bai Bei's eyes obviously struggled, but he still scratched his ears, "I'd better stay in this bunker, to be honest, even if the whole world changes, I don't know how to face them." ”