[As reminded by readers, the previous chapter was modified, because Gordon's Black Flame King set has a wind pressure ineffective [large] effect, and it is really unreasonable not to use it, so it was changed to Gordon to use the Black Flame King, and the Wind Talisman was used by Hayata.

Due to the modification of a few paragraphs, the paragraph comments in the corresponding paragraphs will show that they have been deleted, don't care about Haorz]

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"Get out!" Ted yelled.

The cave camp is low and narrow, and it is difficult for the hunters to fully deploy it, not to mention that the cave is about to collapse, and continuing to hide in it is only to send death.

The three of them rushed out of the cave and returned to the surface.

They looked back.

Two broken dragons, one large and one small, were hovering thirty or forty meters away.

Among them, the larger one, with a body length of about seventeen or eighteen meters, was constantly hammering and bombarding the ground with its well-developed mallet-shaped forelimbs.

Its fist is like a howitzer shell, not only is it incredibly powerful, but the moment it comes into contact with the ground, it will also cause a violent explosion.

These explosions do not come from the Broken Dragon itself, but from some kind of slime fungus that lives in symbiosis with the Broken Dragon.

These slime molds are found in the crevices of the obsidian carapace of the Broken Dragon, and are most densely distributed on the forearms and in the large anterior frontal horns, which are also mallet-shaped.

Wrapped in slime molds, the front ends of the smashing dragon's forearms and horns are covered with a conspicuous layer of fluorescent green, and the discolored armsticks and large horns are their most obvious signs.

"Boom ——!" There was another loud bang that shook the earth, accompanied by a burst of flames.

Until hunters successfully hunted the first broken dragon and the corpses were dissected, there was limited research on this monster.

Since the dragon crusher often licks its armstick before attacking, it was believed that the substance that caused the explosion when the dragon crushed attacked was its saliva or some kind of secretion.

It wasn't until the dissection was studied that it was realized that the explosion that accompanied the dragon shatterer's attack had nothing to do with the dragon shatterer itself.

It was the slime molds that caused the explosion.

The relationship between slime mold and the broken dragon is not a one-sided "parasitic", but a "symbiosis".

The dragon crushing dragon provides a place of protection and shelter for slime molds, and as they move around, they scatter slime molds everywhere to help them multiply.

Slime molds, on the other hand, have become the most powerful weapon of the dragon with their explosive power far above ordinary gunpowder.

It is also with the help of these slime molds that the broken dragon, which is also a large beast dragon species, and whose ecological niche should be similar to that of monsters such as Hammerblaster and Brute Jaw, has been forcibly raised to a big level.

The guild's danger rating for Broken Dragons is six stars, second only to the Tyrannosaurus, Golden Lion, and Scaly Dragons.

After a few seconds of watchfulness, the hunters were surprised to find that the Broken Dragon was not targeting them, or rather, it didn't care about the hunters' existence at all.

He just pounded the ground on his own, as if he was about to hammer the cave down in one go.

Seeing this, the hunters cautiously retreated, opening a safe distance, but did not leave directly.

After all, the investigative goal of their mission is right in front of them.

"What do you think it's doing?" Oshura asked in a low voice, but the crosshair of the light crossbow in his hand was always locked on the two broken dragons.

"How does Uncle Ben know?"

"Does it want to occupy this cave as a nest?" Maca suggested a possibility, "The entrance is too small for it to get in, so I'm going to open it myself." ”

"It's possible, the other broken dragon next to it is six or seven meters long, and the scales on its body haven't all faded, or is it a cub, for the safety of the cub, looking for a suitable nest?" Oshura guessed.

"Uncle Ben thinks it's just practicing boxing in the middle of the night."

"Click," Babaka sighed.

I always feel that these guys whose brains are about to be replaced by alcohol are not very good brains.

What a guess

I had long said that I would find a codifier partner for these guys to make up for their intellectual deficiencies, even if the whole team shared a brain and a codifier.

But how could ordinary people get along with a few of them drunkards? No young scholar who can become a codifier is an alcoholic.

This alone cut off the possibility of drunkards finding a regular compiler's partner.

"Rumble ——!"

Under the continuous hammering and blasting of the broken dragon, the cracks in the rock layer one or two meters thick continued to expand, and finally completely shattered and collapsed.

The broken dragon flicked its mallet and roared in the sky.

Then, it couldn't wait to poke its head and even its entire upper body into the collapsed cavern.

The cub chirped and tried to get closer to the cave, but was swept away by the tail of the adult crushed dragon, who didn't know whether it was the father or the mother, and fell to the ground, unable to get up for a while.

Maca looked at her two companions, "Something is wrong, I'll get closer and observe, you cover me." ”

With that, she put on her invisibility cloak and rushed in the direction of the collapsed cavern.

"Okay."

Oshura loaded his ballista, and Ted moved forward to a position ready to charge.

Maca approached cautiously, of course she wouldn't run directly to the Broken Dragon, that would only anger the grumpy Broken Dragon.

She made a detour to the side of the blind spot, and then used the bug stick pole vault to jump to the top of a huge rock, and observed the dragon's behavior from the height of the terrain.

The Broken Dragon arched back and forth in the collapsed cavern, or "pit", constantly rubbing its head and arms against the inner walls of the cavern.

Confused, Maca pulls out her portable binoculars in the hope that she can see more clearly.

As he continued to rub and play, the top of the broken dragon's head and arms were dyed with some conspicuous yellow.

The color maca was familiar to them, and she exclaimed in a whisper, "Ah, those glowing mosses!"

And so on moss, glowing. That guy's target isn't moss, it's slime molds hiding in moss?! ”

Having achieved its goal, the dragon retreated from the pit, and Maca took the opportunity to jump off the rock and quickly return to her companions.

"What's going on, what the hell is that guy doing?" Oshura asked, but never took his eyes off his target.

"It's rubbing against those glowing mosses on the cave walls, isn't the broken dragon symbiotic with slime molds or something? There must be a lot of slime mold hidden in those mosses.

It's just that the color on the two sides is a little different, the one on the broken dragon is green, and the one in the moss in the cave is yellow. ”

"It might be trying to change the look." Ted grinned sideways and made a joke.

The broken dragon that retreated from the collapsed basement shook its body.

The cub, who had just gotten up, immediately came over and rubbed around his mother.

The green slime fungus on the adult Broken Dragon's body, along with the little yellow slime mold that had just been glued, fell a little on the little Broken Dragon.

This is how the dragon cubs get slime molds.

"So, what these two broken dragons have been looking for is these slime molds? That doesn't affect us at all. ”

Ted said, gesturing to his companions, "Let's retreat for the time being, follow them from a distance for two days, and then go back without any problems." ”

Naturally, Oshura and Maca have no objections, and as for the question of "why do you want to get new slime molds", let the scholars have a headache.

At this moment, the broken dragon stuck out his tongue and licked the new slime mold stained on his arms, not forgetting to turn around and lick the cub twice.

The saliva of the broken dragon is rich in nutrients, which can not only promote the rapid reproduction and growth of slime molds, but also activate them.

This is also the reason why the Broken Dragon will lick its armsticks before attacking.

However, in the next second, something unexpected happened.

The new yellow slime mold, the original green slime mold, and some of the ingredients in the smashing dragon saliva mixed together, triggering a series of violent reactions of unknown principle.

The yellow slime molds grew at a surprising rate, quickly replacing the original green slime molds, and began to emit a red glow that symbolized high heat.

As if unable to stand the heat, the cub let out a scream of pain.

"Stand back!"

Aware of the danger, the hunters could no longer care about anything else and withdrew at full speed.

In the next second, a series of violent explosions enveloped two broken dragons, one large and one small, and the terrible howls and explosions filled the originally silent molten mountain canyon.

A full dozen seconds passed, and the continuous flames stopped for a while, and by the time the smoke cleared, the broken dragon cub had turned into a shapeless, broken and charred corpse.

And the adult broken dragon, the obsidian armor all over his body was also shattered layer by layer, and he fell to the ground and died.

(End of chapter)