Chapter 22: The Giant Animals (2)
"No, not yet. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info There are some native behemoths here in the Snow Field, it seems that they can reach this size......" Anthony unsheathed his saber from his left waist and inserted the scabbard into the huge footprint on one side, and he began to examine it from each toe.
Just now, they rushed out very quickly. From the moment the cave trembles, it takes at most five minutes to get here. In such a short period of time, the falling snowflakes did not bury the footprints much.
"What are you ......" Alva looked at the middle-aged man in surprise and quickly shut his mouth, because he noticed that there was something special about the other party's scabbard: the row of crystal beads arranged in a straight line on the scabbard was too neat. Knowing that this was being used as a ruler, he didn't speak, just waited for the result - Anthony was the most familiar man in the wilderness here.
After a while.
"Looks like my worries are a little unnecessary, as you think. Anthony nodded to Alva and re-hung his saber back into the leather sheath on his left waist, "It's a giant animal, indeed." Judging by the footprints, this is a rat weighing tens of tons. Although I have heard that there are many kinds of arcane beasts of the rat species, it is unheard of to have reached such a size......"
His words are like a pebble falling into a calm lake. In a look of confusion, Alva asked him curiously, "How did you know it was a mouse?"
"It's not hard to guess. Anthony's gaze crossed over Alva and then at the faces of the others, "Don't be surprised. As long as you follow the right people and stay in the wild for another year or two, it's not difficult to do this. ”
He pointed to the footprints on the side, "The tracks of rats are special. They have 4 toes on their front paws and 5 toes on their hind paws. And the footprints left by the two pairs of claws have certain differences in toe length and depth. Familiar people can be distinguished at a glance. But this guy is a little scary, and if it weren't for the lord telling me some details, I really wouldn't have believed my eyes. ”
"Boss, what do we do now?"
"I mean keep up. Anthony looked at Alva again, "What's your opinion?"
"Same. The man with the terrifying scar on the left side of his face also nodded, "It's been four or five days since we came out, and we finally found a clue, but we can't lose it." Now that the snow is so heavy, after tomorrow, the footprints here will be covered. ”
He looked at the others.
"Do you have any opinions?"
He was answered with a "no", but the people who shouted were obviously a little lacking in energy.
Six of the eight people gasped and stared at the end of the vanishing footprint - tracking such a terrible thing was really a mental test.
But for this order, they can still reluctantly accept it. Before they set off, Levi had already explained to them that this time he would only let them follow, not let them arrest, just bring the news back.
Having made up their minds, the team immediately began to pack their bags.
This time, because of the sudden heavy snowfall and the hard work of the day, they rested very early. At this moment, the sun had just set, and there were still many red glows left on the horizon in the west, which was framed by the continuous mountains.
Before leaving, Alva took advantage of the dim light of the sky to apply "illumination" to the people in the group one by one.
From the strap he was carrying, remove the vial containing the silver dust substance. Uncork the bottle. He stared at the vial for a moment, his eyes somehow blood-red, and finally turned like two clear rubies.
Alva uttered strange syllables from his mouth, and the silver dust in the bottle glowed with a huge light, illuminating the surrounding area for several meters like the sun.
The moment the incantation is finished. Suddenly, the shining silver dust flew up, and one strand split into ten strands, and each threw at the wrist of the left hand of the people around him—the armor on the other side, and the back of each hand was inlaid with an oval white crystal, about the size of a quail egg.
"It's the same as before, if you shoot it twice, it glows. If you want to extinguish it after that, then just shoot it twice. It's easy to remember, right?" patted himself, and Alva demonstrated.
He stuffed the vial into the backpack behind him, a third of the silver dust in it had been used up.
"Let's go. After a while, the snow will fall heavily, but I won't look for it. After checking his own, Anthony gave the order, "It's still the rehearsed formation before." Behind my temple, the others stood guard around Alva. ”
After hours, the snow was no longer falling and the sky was clear, and they finally found their target based on their tracks.
At this moment, it is late at night.
The **** moon in the night sky, like the bright moon of the house, emits a piece of clear light, adding another piece of silver dust to the snow-white earth.
Anthony and Alva were hiding under a boulder. Through the clear moonlight, they watched the behemoth move in the distance.
Anthony was not wrong in his judgment.
It was a rat that had just woken them up.
Judging by its bulging cheeks when eating, it should be a hamster to be specific.
This particular hamster has a black-gray fur and a darker back than its belly, but it is as shiny as the finest silk. It has an extremely short furry tail. The hands and feet are pink, and the top is covered with a thin layer of white hair. The most noteworthy thing is that its eyes are as bright as black pearls, reflecting the silver light in the sky, like some rare treasure. Just looking at its appearance, it doesn't give people any sense of hideousness - on the contrary, it looks very cute.
It's just that it's lying on the snow to eat at the moment, and its towering back is seven or eight stories high. The vigorous and upright old trees in front of him were uprooted by its claws one by one.
The giant hamster is on the edge of the pine forest, and it keeps gnawing on the pine wood in its hand, and in the midst of the flying sawdust, it has replaced another. The surrounding pine forests have an average height of 30 meters in the canopy - but for it, it's just a sparse grass that it usually inhabits.
The team was just over thirty meters away from the giant hamsters, and they could even hear the murmur of fangs gnawing on pine trees.
Alva remembered Levi's instructions to point the "illumination" crystal on the back of his left hand to the snow beneath him—in case it glowed and alarmed the monsters on the other side.
After patting it, I saw that the back of his hand did not react.
Anthony tried the same thing, and the results were exactly the same, the crystal flakes did not respond.
The same goes for others.
At this moment, they were all terrified.
The words of the lord before he came had already been fulfilled - this giant god hamster was really surrounded by a layer of forbidden magic force field, which was enough to block any arcane arts!
Ignoring their consternation, the giant hamster continued to nibble on its own food.
It was a great blessing for it to find something that could fill its stomach, which had become gigantic—the food it had known had long since disappeared before its eyes, and it had been anxiously running for days. It wasn't until hunger lowered the threshold of its foraging behavior that it finally ate the new food of pine trees.