Put aside Az's lazy fishing for now.

While the food was still cooking, Gordon asked the Fishbone Chief, the head of the Fish Basket Clan, about the ancient dragon that brought the storm.

As the fish bone of the patriarch, he really knows more than the two Detel he met before.

Knowing that Gordon and the others were chasing the monster that caused the storm, Fishbone tilted his head and thought for a few seconds, then pulled out a silver gleaming scale from a small leather pouch he carried with him.

"This is a meow that someone picked up in the forest, probably a monster from the storm." Fishbone handed the scales to Gordon, "Meow, who picked up the scales, said that many trees had been blown down, and there were many huge marks on the ground!" ”

The drooling Worm also nodded repeatedly, "The place where the Frog sees is also like this!" ”

Gordon took the scale.

The scales were cold and heavy to the touch, not at all like keratin, but more like a piece of frozen metal, and even covered with a layer of white frost.

After flipping and looking at it, Gordon handed the scales to Alva.

When it comes to living monsters, he must have seen more than Alva, but when it comes to books and specimens related to monsters, it is certainly far less than the latter.

"There is no doubt about it! These are the scales of the steel dragon! Alva was excited, "I've seen steel dragon scales in the warehouse of the Ancient Dragon Observatory, and that's it, but it's not so 'fresh'.

Wow, it's really cold, it feels like you'll get frostbite if you put it against your skin for a while!

In this way, it seems that there is a saying that some steel dragons will condense '10,000-year-old ice', can steel dragons control the power of ice and snow in addition to wind?! ”

Alva said a lot to himself, but Gordon cared most about the first sentence.

Since it was confirmed that the target of this investigation was the steel dragon, their preparation this time was not in vain.

Wind pressure-resistant armor, windproof beads, windproof talismans, and highly toxic weaponsWhen you have to fight the opponent hard in extreme situations, you don't have to worry about not fighting back.

After looking at it for a while, Alva reluctantly passed the scales to Hayata.

Hayata, like Gordon, didn't look long before handing the scales to the Grasshopper, she actually wanted to try her hand at the silver scales, but in the end she was too embarrassed to do so.

With a casual glance, the frog handed the scales back to the fish bone, returning his attention to the seafood in the pot.

Gu Long or something, she wasn't interested.

The fishbone retrieved the scales and thought for two seconds before handing it to Gordon again.

Gordon was a little confused, and the fishbone shook his long pointed ears with tufts of hair, and explained: "It's useless for you to hold this thing, and it may attract calamity, if you like it, I'll give it to you." ”

Gordon hesitated, but eventually accepted the gift.

As the fish bone said, the ancient dragon materials contain the unique aura of the ancient dragon species, and it is really possible to attract the attention of some powerful monsters for them, which is not a good thing for the fish basket family.

"Show me again, show me again!" Alvar rubbed his hands together like ADHD.

The hunter tossed the scales to the scribe, then turned to the fishbones and asked, "Can you tell us where you found them?" ”

"No problem, meow!" Fishbone nodded.

Hayatta immediately took out the map and charcoal he had with him and handed it to him.

The fishbone summoned Detle, who had found the scales of the steel dragon, and several other people who had also found traces of the wind destroying trees and ground.

The maps used by the hunters were complex but clear enough that the little creatures who spent their days running in the wild quickly confirmed the scale and corresponding position of the map through the shape of the coastline.

They marked the location of the steel dragon on the map.

After Hayatta retrieved the map, she studied the formation with Gordon.

It's a pity, there's no clue.

There is no obvious pattern to where the steel dragon haunts, nor is there a clear concentration of locations, it seems to wander around in the forest.

"Ah, by the way, there's one thing that might be worth caring about." Alva, who was about to stuff the scales into his eyes, suddenly raised his head, "Maybe in order to maintain the strength and metabolism of the metal carapace, the steel dragon has a habit of gnawing on metal ores."

If there are veins in the vicinity, it may be seen more frequently in that area. ”

"Ore veins," Gordon listened with a little pain in his head.

There were indeed ore veins in the ancient tree forest, but there were no mines in the true sense of the word.

Scattered clusters of ore are scattered throughout the forest, and some large trees even draw minerals from the soil and accumulate over thousands of years before precipitating on the branches to form high-grade ores.

For example, on the giant ancient tree in the middle of the forest, there are many mining sites.

"Maybe the steel dragon is wandering around the forest just to find scattered clusters of ore?" Hayatta offered a possibility.

"It's possible, let's go to a few familiar vein points later, maybe there will be some discoveries."

"I'll talk about those meows in a while, I can already eat Na Meow!" Fishbone jumped up and lifted the lid of the huge pot.

The hot steam diffused and dispelled the dampness and coldness of the cavern.

The frog cheered, and Gordon and the others also stopped discussing for the time being, holding a bowl made of coconut shells, and feasting.

Only Alva kept holding the scale, and he couldn't remember to eat if it weren't for a bowl of fish bones in his hand.

Later, Detl also brought fish juice, a specialty of Moga Village.

It's the kind of salty and fresh seasoning that Azi takes with him wherever he goes, with a slightly fishy smell.

Looks like this guy really taught them a lot of things.

Hayatta wasn't too used to the fishy smell, but the two Ailu liked it very much, and Pandan added a lot to her bowl.

Succeed in salting yourself to.

When everyone had their fill, Gordon put down the dishes and began to inquire about another thing they cared about—the so-called "light of life."

Fishbones looked confused when he heard this word, obviously unable to understand the word.

Gordon had no choice but to have Worm break up the roots of words like "life" and "light" and translate them to it.

But after it understood, it could only shake its head, "I've never heard anything like this, but I can call the old people in the clan to ask Meow, they may know a little about Meow?" ”

"Then I'm sorry for you."

Soon, the fishbones brought with them several old Detle, who did not speak the lingua franca of the Old World, and Gordon had to let the worms and fishbones translate the whole process.

Most of them knew nothing about the "light of life", except for an old cat that was so old that he could barely open his eyes, lost in thought, as if remembering something.

After a long time, it muttered a few muffled words.

Gordon and the others looked at the worm expectantly, but the frog, who was not proficient enough in "meow language", failed to understand what the other party said, and in the end he could only be translated by fishbone.

The old fish scale said that there were about 10,000 meows before sunset, and there were similar heavy rain and wind meows in this forest.

One day the waves were too big to catch a meow in the sea, so he went to the forest to look for food, and then met an ancient dragon meow who looked like a mushroom.

It asked the ancient dragonman when the wind and rain would stop meowing, and the ancient dragonman did not answer it.

I just sighed to myself, 'It's like a light-oriented wing worm, attracted by light', probably what does this mean? ”

(End of chapter)