Rao is Xiao Zuoqing's eyes were already straight when she looked at the crystal pendant, but no matter how hard the Shadow Hunter tried her lips, the girl was unexpectedly unmoved, and insisted on not accepting Lina's gift. It's not that she wants to call each other "poachers" - in the simple logic of the female flute, there should be a clear line between the official hunter and the poacher, and it is already a circumstance to be able to walk in the same team like this, and no matter what, you can't accept each other's gifts.

The seniors behind Qing'er quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and watched Lena sigh softly and tie the stone back to her neck. "These guys, be careful too much...... "In Lina's heart, everyone in the small hunting group must still be jealous of themselves. Once upon a time, the Shadowhunter confessed to being a craftsman, and he couldn't say what he would do with the trinkets.

In fact, Lena was hiding only one thing - the purple bead was not a "stone". The eyes of the Celestial Eye Bubble Fox Dragon were blinded in the battle, and the remaining eyeballs not only did not shrink and degenerate, but also became its new way of perceiving the outside world. The monster's eyeballs emit a scorching mist of water all year round, and they perceive things by changes in humidity and temperature in the air. Its eyeballs themselves have also changed their properties under the tempering of the heat, and gradually condensed from a flexible delicate organ into a purple irregular crystal. With the blessing of a powerful jeweler, it became a crystal clear pendant on Lena's hand. Counting its origin, this may be a unique ornament between heaven and earth.

But the value of the Bubble Fox Dragon's Eye is by no means only in its beauty and rarity, and the "Fighting Spirit" ability attached to the ornament is said to be the evidence that the monster can only mobilize the power of the rank when he touches the top-level dragon. Under the pressure of survival, the sea dragon species actually mastered the weakened version of the "dragon cavity vision" as an ordinary monster on its own. After the death, the Bubble Fox Dragon deposited the last battle intent on this eyeball, which can provide a certain degree of rank suppression to the person who wears it, like a real high-level monster, invisibly weakening the strength of the hostile, and the more angry the monster fighting with, the more obvious this suppression ability is.

However, as a heavy crossbowman, Lena has few opportunities to fight powerful monsters head-on in the team, and wearing it can only be regarded as better than nothing. However, the "Eye of the Sky" is the most cherished hunting by the Huntress, and the Shadow Hunter has no intention of reselling any piece of material and finished hunting gear made from it. This time, Xiao Qing'er's personality is quite in line with Lena's appetite, and the Shadow Hunter, who acts from the heart, immediately made this decision, which can be regarded as finding a good home for this soul eye, but he didn't expect to be cruelly rejected by the simple-minded female flute. If Zuo Qing knew what the Shadow Hunter was thinking in the future, he didn't know how he would regret it.

However, this time, the Shadow Hunter was wrong to blame the group of small hunters behind him. The young people who had seen the dragonman's craft certainly knew how valuable the things that Lena had given away. Jewelers are not ordinary craftsmen, and it is impossible to add anything strange to the jewelry beads, although its efficacy is not clear, but there is no doubt about its safety. After all, Lena was still on the hostile side, and she rashly accepted such an expensive gift, and the two-star hunters didn't know how to deal with this poacher who was also friend and foe. When he went on the road again, looking at the back of the purple-clothed hunter in front of him, the little head couldn't help but feel an indescribable strangeness in his heart.

Without saying a word all the way, Lena's actions not only did not break the ice between the two groups, but only made the atmosphere in the team even more eerie. Even in addition to the necessary exchange of information, the little hunting group and her completely lost superfluous conversations. The group followed the original path of the purple-clothed hunter down the mountain, passing by the place where the reverse scale encountered and the small beast tide, and the people who sealed the dust had already left there.

Lena fired several shots into the air, and the low-level snake dragons lying on the dead lava dragon flew back in fright. The ichthyosaur species had been destroyed, the scale armor of its body had been cut into large and small cracks, and the main bones had been smashed in it. The scavenging bird dragons swarmed and tore large strips of fish flesh from their wounds, leaving the monster's entire body shriveled and the blood that had flowed to the ground evaporated, leaving a pale red mark.

"It's so cruel...... Xiao Qing'er only glanced at it, and then hid behind Sister Miaoling's back with a "yah". During the hunting ground battle, it is normal to destroy the monster's leather armor and break the bones, but as long as the situation allows, the hunters will try to give the monster a humane death. Destroying the material all over the body like this in front of me is clearly just intentional to make it suffer more.

"There's nothing cruel, see clearly, these wounds are caused after death." Lena couldn't help but explain.

"The monsters are all dead, what are you doing with all this?" Xiong Fuji scratched his head, unable to understand the thinking of the underground world, "Are you afraid that it will cheat the corpse?" ”

"If you can't take away the material, you will destroy it, just to prevent other hunting groups from getting it." When the purple-clothed hunter talked about this, he was unexpectedly serious, "The world of the Shadow Hunters is not as ...... as the Hunter Guild Harmony, on this volcano, all hunting groups are competitors. The huntress lifted the monster's drooping scales with a skinning knife and gestured left and right at the wound, "Sure enough, it was the hand of the regimental commander and Cai. Looks like after I left, other monsters attacked. ”

"Kill all the monsters that stand in your way, that's your style." Nie Xiaoyang sighed bitterly. The dead ancient dragon species in front of him was at least the level of a four-star hunter, and as a union hunter, he was already thinking about how much impact this would have on the entire volcano. If the same thing happened to the small hunting group, even if it took a little more time, the leader would only give the order to the level of "expulsion".

"Put away your compassionate set, in my opinion, monsters don't need human protection, and the Hunters' Guild is just making a fool of itself." Lena wiped the blood-stained blade from the hide, and said indifferently, "Free hunting in the volcanic hunting grounds has existed for dozens or hundreds of years, and there are countless Shadow Hunters active in this area today. According to you, this hunting ground has long since become a barren land. But in fact, even without the intervention of the Hunter Guild, the monsters here have not decreased, but are all alive and well. ”

"Don't talk as if you are all innocent people who have been oppressed by the trade union, what about the hundreds of monsters on the continent that have been exterminated by you?" Xiong Fuji's arm shook, and he waved his fist in the air.

"There are more new species that have been discovered in the last hundred years than that, right?" Lena circled around the lava dragon, and faintly found a few footed shoe prints in the chaotic claw tracks, "Maybe this world doesn't need so many species in the first place, and if they can be extinct, it means that they themselves are no longer suitable for today's world, and the Shadow Hunters are only playing a role in fueling the flames at most." ”

"It's just a quibble." Jia Xiao said coldly, "Don't say that it is the destruction of a race, even the death of a high-level monster will bring immeasurable turmoil to the entire hunting ground." ”

"Have you ever thought that 'stability' has never been a real need of a hunting ground, but a condition that you have imposed on it, a need of the Hunters' Guild?" Lena suddenly raised her voice and asked, "When monsters migrate, the guild has one less way to obtain materials; When a tide of beasts occurs, only the neighboring human settlements suffer; When a monster goes extinct, a component is forever missing from your large game equipment until a new replacement is developed...... At the end of the day, it's not the 'monsters' that you're protecting, it's the supremacy of the Hunters' Guild. ”

"We are protecting our fellow soldiers, unarmed civilians." Jia Xiao thought for a moment, and drank the concept of the huntress stealing, "Even if you are so selfish that you don't even care about human lives...... You're a craftsman, don't you even care if you lose a material to make a hunting suit? ”

"Of course I don't care, there are so many types of monsters in the world, it's only a matter of time before we find a replacement." The Shadowhunter tilted his head, "As long as there is fighting and turmoil in the hunting grounds, there will be no shortage of new species. In a sense, free hunting is the way to truly protect the hunter's world. But then again - I don't care. ”

"Enough is enough," the Great Sword Hunter was about to continue to retort, but was stopped by the Captain. The battle between the Shadow Hunters and the Guild Hunters has been going on for a long time, and of course neither can change the other's ideas with just a few words, and it is just a matter of words to argue here, "If you have this time, you might as well continue on your journey." ”

"Your people started it first." Lena was not angry, and when she looked at the people of the Little Hunting Group again, there was already something else in the eyes of the young people. Hunters have rarely been exposed to ideas that are different from those of mainstream voices, and even if Lena's remarks seem contradictory and full of errors to them, there are things worth thinking about, and it seems that the short-lived debate does not seem to have no effect on them.

"Just because we're traveling together doesn't mean we're fellow travelers." Qin Shuiyu suppressed the restless companion behind him, and said to Lina with a shelf.

"Hide back in the lies the Hunters' Guild told you." The purple-clothed hunter smiled strangely, "The world is like this, whether you want to believe it or not is your business." Gone - my companion had gone up the hill a few hours earlier, probably because of the lightning strike. ”

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Lena and her group were unsurprisingly blocked on the mountainside, three to five kilometers away from the lightning strike, on a flat rocky beach.

There is no "road" in sight, and the volcano in the field of vision is completely soaked in a layer of lava. The nearby volcanic rock had cooled to a reddish black, but the rocks were still sneering and emitting heat, and in the distance there was a distinct bright red, and the lava could be seen flowing slowly down the slope under the volcanic ash mist, piling up at the feet of the hunters.

"Hey, your companion...... Did you go up from this kind of place? Xiong Fuji's Adam's apple moved up and down, "Is it an airship?" ”

"How would I know?" Lena said impatiently, "The last time I contacted us, the Hunting Regiment's airship was still on the other side of the mountain. ”

The bubbling lava mudflats are obviously not something that humans can set foot in, the Shadow Hunter squatted down, trying to find the traces of his companions, and on the shoulders of Captain Qin, the cat cat preemptively said: "These volcanic rocks have not completely cooled down, and the terrain in this area has only recently formed, probably ...... It's only a few hours at most, and your friend may have been up to the top of the mountain by then. ”

"I can't see the end of this lava pool," Jia Xiao pulled up his clairvoyant eyes and pointed in disbelief at the back of the gray mist. The light of the magma pierced through the fire mist, slightly widening the field of vision, "No matter how it was formed, it would be more than a kilometer in diameter, and the range of influence would be far more than that. ”

"It's going to take a lot of work to find your way up the mountain from here." Feng Manyun touched the ground with his hand, and a burning sensation hit from his palm. There were enough partitions that the hunters had never noticed, and the temperature on the surface of the volcano had exceeded the average. The concentration of the gray mist was also beyond the purifying power of the Little Hunting Mask, and a choking smell of rotten eggs was burrowing into the nasal cavity along their breathing holes.

"Are we trapped?" Xiao Zuoqing raised her head and asked Shentu Miaoling, "What should I do next?" ”

"Compared to that...... I wish I had seen something! The cat's ears moved slightly, but her head was raised high, and she looked up along the smoke on the dome, "Everyone hide! ”

The unusual light, sound, and smell of the volcano slowed Elu's reaction by half a beat, and by the time it could warn it, the black shadow was clearly visible to all the hunters present. The flying species in the sky pierced through the gray clouds all the way, and their wings swooped down with the whining of the wind. The hunters scattered and separated, each finding a hiding place to hide, and quietly clenched his weapons in his hands. Xu found that his movements were detected by the hunter, and the nameless flying species in mid-air flapped its wings, stopping the momentum of its fall before the figure was illuminated by the lava on the ground, and slowly rose again.

"Flying Dragon Species," Qin Shuiyu squinted his eyes and glanced at Lina, who was reloading bullets not far away, "It's actually at this time...... It's the worst time possible. ”

At that time, the black shadow had been clearly seen by all the hunters present. The flying species in the sky pierced through the gray clouds all the way, and their wings swooped down with the whining of the wind. The hunters scattered and separated, each finding a hiding place to hide, and quietly clenched his weapons in his hands. Xu found that his movements were detected by the hunter, and the nameless flying species in mid-air flapped its wings, stopping the momentum of its fall before the figure was illuminated by the lava on the ground, and slowly rose again.

"Flying Dragon Species," Qin Shuiyu squinted his eyes and glanced at Lina, who was reloading bullets not far away, "It's actually at this time...... It's the worst time possible. ”