A little blood splattered on the rocky ground, and some guide worms landed on it, making it very conspicuous, and more often continuing to guide forward.

Gordon half-crouched down, dipped his fingers in the blood, and twisted it.

"Judging from the traces, the blood also fell from a very high place, and the guy flew all the way and never fell to the ground."

"Such a big body, with injured and rotten wings, and in a state of fatigue, but still able to fly all the way?" Gail muttered with a frown.

They followed the guidance of the guide worm and tracked all the way for half a day, running for about twenty or thirty kilometers, but they still failed to catch up with the injured scaly dragon.

The biggest headache was that the guy flew almost all the way and didn't get down to the ground.

If it weren't for the fact that Hayatta had severely damaged the scaly dragon in their previous battle, it would have caused blood from its wounds to fall from time to time, and tissues such as carapace fragments to fall and become signposts.

Even guide worms with a keen sense of smell can be lost.

"The sun is about to set, and the sun sets earlier in the north." Madeatta straightened the straps of her weapons and asked, "Are we tracking overnight, or are we going to say that?" ”

Pork Chop's head hung down again, still wrestling with the fact that the flashbang had missed.

If you had succeeded in flashing the Scaly Dragon, the hunt would have been over long ago, and everyone would have been enjoying the celebration with the Odd-Faced Clan.

"Smack!" Gordon slapped the back of the pork chop on the head, "How long and how big are you going to be to worry about it." ”

"Meow-" The pork chop hugged his head, and the slap slapped the helmet of his cat armor crooked.

"If we don't chase overnight, the physical exertion will be too severe, and we will find a place to camp before the sun sets." After Gordon answered Hayata's question, he tapped the pork chop on the head again, "If you don't want to go, you will stay in the middle of the night tonight." ”

"Good meow!" Gordon's arrangement made the pork chop feel better.

The group followed for a long time until the sun set in the west.

During this time, they caught up with their prey twice, but the scaly dragon was very alert, and landed to rest in an unobstructed open area, and flew away again before they could get close.

The flight route is also not relatively obvious, one moment to the west, the other to the east, very confusing.

This left Gordon with some doubts.

After large monsters are injured, they often have the habit of returning to the nest to recuperate, and no matter how bad they are, they will move within their territory, so that when they encounter other large monsters, the probability of being picked up is smaller.

Is its territory so big?

Gordon didn't think so, if it were to change to a hunting ground of the level of the Eastern Shuret Sen Hill, the Scaly Dragon might indeed occupy thousands of square kilometers of territory.

But this is the north, where there is the greatest concentration of ancient dragons in the entire New World.

There are more than one or two monsters whose strength is far above the Exploding Scale Dragon, you are flying around so arrogantly, and you habitually throw a few exploding scales from time to time, are you really not afraid of eating lessons?

With this in mind, Gordon ordered to suspend the tracking for the time being, and instead look for a suitable camp nearby.

The terrain in the northern part of the New World is particularly complex, with the Cyclomedes Rift and caves of all sizes, which is not good for searching, but it is too easy to find a suitable place to hide for a while.

Gordon and the others randomly found a small closed cave and got into it, although it was a little crowded with four people, three cats and one dog, but such a camp was the safest.

In order to recover as much strength as possible, the hunters did not bother to find food, not even to light a campfire, after all, the area was so desolate that there were no plants to use as fuel.

Fortunately, it is summer now, even in the north of the continent, it is not too cold, and the closure of the cave is not bad, and it is not airtight, so this night will not be too difficult.

After simply filling his stomach with the food he carried, Gordon expressed the doubts in his heart, "Isn't the Scaly Dragon flying around like this, really not afraid of angering some ancient dragons?" ”

"I don't know, I'm thinking about something similar."

Anhill was relatively silent all the way today, and now it was almost the first time he spoke, "Listening to what Master Wilderness said, all kinds of high-danger level large monsters are not uncommon in the northern part of the continent.

But along the way, we didn't seem to find any traces of large monster activity, like."

"It's like they're all hiding." Gale continued Anhill's words.

There was silence in the small cavern for a moment, and Hayatta suddenly spoke, breaking the silence, "Actually, I wonder if our thinking will lead the Strange-Faces Clan?" ”

"How?" Gordon looked at her, and the others turned their gazes on.

Hayatta organized the language and continued, "You see, the Strange-Faced people believe that the Scaly Dragons hunted the Rock Thief Dragon, and the Rock Thief Dragon hid in a cavern deep underground.

Now they've lured the Rock Thief back in, so the Scaly Exploding Dragon has reappeared and attacked the Rock Thief Dragon, is that logical? ”

"Hmm."

Anhill nodded and added, "Master Wilderness has also put forward a hypothesis about this, the Scaly Dragon, the Rock Thief Dragon, and even the Hammer Blaster, these monsters all have the ability to secrete explosive substances.

At the same time, both of the latter two have the ability to eat ores, so is it possible for the Scaly Explodyptus to eat that kind of crystals to generate Exploding Scales?

If that's the case, the Scaly Dragon's attack on the Rock Thief is well explained—weed out the competitors. ”

"Well, logically there is nothing wrong with this series of speculations, but what if the Odd-Face Clan was wrong from the beginning? What if the target of the Scaly Dragons wasn't the Rock Thief Dragons in the first place? ”

"Isn't the target a rock thief dragon?" Anhill was stunned.

Gordon reacted first, "If the target isn't the Rock Thief Dragon, it can't be the Odd-Face Clan, you mean the lair?" What does the Scaly Dragon really want is actually that lair? ”

With a new idea, Gordon began to analyze along this line, "Originally, the Rock Thief Dragon and the Odd Face Clan shared the cave until the Scaly Dragon attacked.

The Scaly Dragons killed a Rock Thief Dragon, but thanks to the efforts of the Odd Faces and the Rock Thief Dragon, they struggled to defeat the Scaly Dragon.

After recovering from its injuries, the Scaly Dragon attacked again and tried to snatch the cave again, but was repelled this time by us

In this case, it would explain why the Scaly Dragons wandered around but never returned to their nests, as the Scaly Dragons had no nests at all. ”

"Although that cave of the Strange Face Clan is indeed very suitable for the Wyvern species to build a nest, but a monster as strong as the Scaly Dragon doesn't even have a nest of its own?" Gail asked, somewhat incredulous.

Anhill pondered for a moment and said, "If it were somewhere else, it would be incredible, but in the northern part of the New World, it seems to be really possible.

And did you find out? The Scaly Dragon flew east, west, and south, everywhere, but it never dared to go deeper into the north, maybe its nest was originally in the north, but something had recently driven it out? ”

"Further north, it will be closer to the core area, where there is more than one ancient dragon, and it is normal for it to be reluctant to go north, but it is indeed possible that some monster will rob the lair in the near future.

Otherwise, an adult scaly dragon would not even be able to get a nesting site. ”

Gordon folded his arms and thought for a moment, then continued, "If the possibility proposed by Hayatta is true, then we will have to be cautious about what we do next.

A wounded Scaly Dragon is no threat to us, but some unknown monster capable of snatching the Scaly Dragon's lair and driving it away from its original territory is a hard nut to say. ”

(End of chapter)