"And most importantly, if it's possible this time, I'm going to catch the big monster bird."

"Catch, catch meow?!" Pork Chop seemed taken aback by Gordon's words.

It's not that there's anything inherently wrong with capturing this type of hunting.

Many hunters choose to capture large monsters when hunting, which is more labor-intensive, but relatively safe, and allows for more monster materials.

In comparison, the cost of trap tools and capture paralysis balls is negligible.

However, in the two years that Gordon has been partnered, it has not seen Gordon use traps to capture monsters, and it thinks that Gordon is particularly disdainful of capturing, or has some special shade of capture.

Noticing the surprised expression of the pork chop, Gordon was also a little helpless.

The reasons that the former thought were all shadowless things, he had never captured monsters before, mainly because it was unnecessary.

He can easily hunt two-star monsters such as the Blue Speed Dragon King, and when he cooperates with others on three-star missions, there is no need to capture them, and everyone doesn't want to spend that effort to set traps.

And this time.

In order to defeat the powerful monster bird, he is willing to use all means.

Due to the severity of his injuries at the time, Gordon and the Pork Chop did not have time to mark the Great Monster Bird with the dyed jade when they withdrew, so they lost the whereabouts of the Great Monster Bird.

But this is not a big problem, they have already confirmed the location of the big monster bird's nest before, even if they hide near the nest and wait, they can always wait until the big monster bird returns to the nest.

They were ready to hide and hide from the big monster birds, but a discovery shortly after leaving the hunter camp saved Gordon a lot of time.

While climbing over the ridge of a small hill, Gordon, who has a good eye, spotted an observation hot air balloon hovering in the middle of the air not too far away from them.

This kind of observation hot air balloon is generally jointly funded by Wang Li's paleontology scrivener team, the hunters' guild, and the relatively mysterious academic institution "Ancient Dragon Observation Bureau".

In addition to the necessary drivers, the crew also included scholars from the Scribe Corps and the Ancient Dragon Observatory.

On weekdays, the main task of these hot air balloon observation is to observe the mountains from high altitudes, but the specific content is more complicated.

This includes, but is not limited to, observing whether there are dangerous large monsters or groups of monsters approaching human settlements, observing changes in the local mountain ecology, providing monster information to the Hunters' Guild, and alerting to the migration of "ancient dragons" with natural disasters, and giving early warnings.

Most of these duties had nothing to do with Gordon, who was still a two-star hunter at this time, but many times hunters in the hunting grounds could get great convenience from hot air balloons.

"Hi~! Feed!!! ~~~" Gordon waved his hands and shouted hello to the hot air balloon that was several kilometers away.

Unfortunately, due to the distance, the other party did not find out about his existence.

Gordon scratched the back of his head in some embarrassment, but the all-encompassing metal helmet of the Refined Ore suit made him scratch his loneliness.

"Huh?"

Gordon suddenly had a plan, he took off his helmet and used a relatively flat metal plate on his helmet's visor as a mirror, reflecting the sunlight and sweeping towards the hot air balloon.

In the natural environment, this abrupt reflection was very conspicuous, and it was not long before the occupants of the hot air balloon spotted Gordon's presence on the ridge.

Through the binoculars, seeing Gordon waving his arms, they immediately understood the former's needs.

For the hot air balloon located at an altitude of nearly a thousand meters, the scenery of a radius of dozens of square kilometers can be said to be in full view, and the two scholars held binoculars to search for the array, and soon found the orange-red figure in a river valley.

After a simple calculation of the direction and distance, they pulled the reflector on the hot air balloon and sent a reply signal to Gordon.

On the ridge, Gordon squinted, carefully scanning the flickering and extinguishing code signals on the hot air balloon.

"Big, weird, bird. West, northern, twenty degrees two, km, river valley. Aha! ”

Gordon, who had obtained the exact coordinates of the big monster bird, was so excited that he waved his hand at the hot air balloon again, and then gave a thumbs up.

Hot air balloons also sent blessings.

"I wish you good luck"

Say goodbye to the hot air balloon and leave the ridge with Gordon and the pork chop to the river valley as fast as they can.

They must make contact with the Giant Bird before it leaves, and mark it with a dye ball, otherwise the Giant Bird will cause them to lose their target again.

Fortunately, the big monster bird is wandering leisurely in the river valley to forage for food, and it seems that it has no intention of leaving for a short time.

Gordon and Pork Chop look at each other and decide to strike first.

They threw a dye ball and a sonic boom camera, and when the foul dye exploded into a puddle on the bird's body, alerting it to the sonic boom, the sonic boom was thrown in front of it.

The sonic boom, which was less than the size of a fist, exploded, and there was no fire or smoke, only a burst of high-frequency sonic boom that could not be captured by the human ear instantly spread and swept around.

The big monster bird trembled as if it had been electrocuted, and then it became shaking its head and its steps were messy, apparently entering a state of vertigo.

Gordon, who had already begun to charge at the same time as throwing the dyed ball, happened to rush to the side of the big monster bird, stepped forward, sank his waist, drew his sword, and instantly entered a charged posture.

A few seconds later, the power slash that had been built up to its limit exploded with a roar from Gordon.

The vertiginous monster bird was powerless to resist, and the heavy sword head of the giant scissor, which was full of sharp jagged teeth, slashed at the base of its wing without reservation.

That's right, Gordon's chosen position of attack is wings again.

The tactical thinking of destroying the wings of the Great Monster Bird to make it impossible or difficult to fly is correct, and every melee hunter will choose this way, not to mention that the wings are the weakness of the Great Monster Bird's soft flesh!

The astonishing power of the three-stage charged slash and the blow on the body in the first confrontation are not at all the same in terms of destructive power.

The scythe-shaped blade of the giant scissors retained the power of the slash to the greatest extent, and the carapace, which was not too thick at the joints of the wings, was instantly shattered into pieces, followed by crust, sinew, and bone.

Gordon could feel the blade of the giant scissors slashing directly into the giant monster bird's joints several inches deep, and even stuck in the gaps between the joints.

This is a very accurate sword, if it is used by a superior sword with a sharper weapon and greater strength, this knife may directly remove one of the wings of the big monster bird.

Gordon didn't feel sorry, anyway, the big monster bird was hit hard.

Even though it was still in a state of vertigo, it couldn't help but let out a scream.

The visor blocked Gordon's slightly hideous smile, and he let out a loud shout, pulling the giant scissors out of the wing joints of the great monster bird, slashing horizontally with the force, and after a slight adjustment, he carried the big sword on his shoulder, and entered the charging position again.

He was going to slash the bloody wound again.

"Watch me cut off your wings! Drink, ahhhh ”

P.S. It's not my nonsense to observe balloons.

At least at MH2 and 2G (I didn't confirm if there is a hot air balloon in the back), the sky of the hunting map will sometimes spawn hot air balloons, and if the control character uses a wave action on the hot air balloon, the hot air balloon will send you a code with a flash to tell you the location of the monster.

Later, when I chatted with my hunters, I found that many people didn't know about this.

(End of chapter)