As the guide worms light up more and more traces, Lann and Little Jack also learn more and more about their goals.

It is a skill of hunters to analyze the state of their prey based on its traces.

Although Little Jack does not have Lanen's brain, he can achieve superhuman-level detailed observation and analysis.

But he also once formed a team and successfully hunted the New World Hunters of the Brute Jaw Dragon. It is precisely because of this record that he will be sent by the commander-in-chief as a helper to improve the success rate of the mission.

'Using crappy hunters as helpers and replenishing the number of people will only reduce the success rate of the mission', the commander-in-chief understands this very well.

His act of sending little Jack is a recognition of his grandson's hunting ability.

The menacing claw marks on this kid's body, which stretched from the side of his neck to the corners of his mouth, were not handsome, but the honor he got from fighting monsters.

Now, the two of them are in the middle and lower part of a large tree, each fiddling with a hunting knife.

The steel flipped the viscous gelatinous object with a slippery, disgusting sound.

It was a colloidal mass that had been rubbed against the trunk of a large tree, showing a cloudy yellowish-green color, and the smell of sparks could be felt when you smelled it closely.

Lann rubbed the keel dagger against the leaves next to him, the sticky gum on the blade of Valyrian steel.

"The combustibles in its body are very energetic."

The witcher muttered to himself.

This is considered an occupational disease of witchers at work.

These sticky gums on the trunk of the tree are part of the ecological habits of the brute-jawed dragon. It's an overproduction of secretions from its nasal passages.

It can also be called nasal discharge.

The brute-jawed dragon will scrape to clear the exuberant secretions in the nasal passages, and will also use this secretion as a sign of territory.

And when they breathe fire, most of the time they actually spark out of their nostrils, so the snot also contains flammable substances.

However, the analysis of this trace is really just a routine exercise.

This habit of the brute-jawed dragon has long been found out in the decades of work of the New World Investigation Group.

What really stopped Lane and Little Jack was a strange trail behind the snot.

It was a mark of impact, and the force of the impact was large and violent, but the part of the impact did not seem to be used to attack.

As a result, only the xylem of the trunk is squeezed, deformed, and dents of wood thorns are left, but they are not completely destroyed and turned into sawdust.

Judging by the time, this impact mark was produced almost simultaneously with the snot mark.

Of course, it is impossible for the Jaw-Jawed Dragon to tolerate the presence of a creature that behaves aggressively (hitting a tree) in the process of marking its territory.

In other words, both traces belong to the brute-jawed dragon.

"If the size of this brute-jawed dragon is calculated by the height of the snot, then the location of the impact. Is it its flank? ”

Little Jack, who was very familiar with the brute-jawed dragon, opened his hand to measure the two marks, and his eyes were empty, obviously constructing an image of the brute-jawed dragon in his mind with experience.

"It's about a lap bigger than the brute-jawed dragon you fought back."

With the height of the snot marks and the height of the side waist, little Jack was able to easily estimate the size of their target this time.

But at the same time, he was also a little confused.

"But striking a hard surface with my side waist is the first time I've seen this kind of habit of a brute-jawed dragon."

Lan didn't speak, but became more vigilant in his heart.

The abnormality of the habits of the prey often means that the hunter is dangerous.

The two of them continued to move forward with the guide worm, although the brute-jawed dragon only represented four stars in the hunter's mission system.

But in the ancient tree forest, in fact, only a few monsters of the level of the king of the sky, the male fire dragon, pressed it in the ecological chain position.

That's why it leaves snot as a territorial marker in the forests where predators are endless.

Because the ecological chain is higher than it, it basically will not abandon the herbivorous dragon that is easy to catch and provoke it.

The location of the ecological chain is low, and it is more like delivering food to the door.

That's why the brute-jawed dragon is called the 'thug' who runs rampant in the forest by hunters.

And the more he followed the trail of this brute-jawed dragon, the more familiar Lan En became.

And since even people like Lan En who have just arrived are beginning to look familiar, let alone little Jack, who has lived in the New World since he was a child.

"This is the way to the Gate of the Stars?"

He muttered, and the familiarity in Lan En's heart, which had been spontaneous since he knew that the Barbarian Jaw Dragon was swimming around the stronghold, reached its maximum at this moment.

At the end of the guide insect trail, beyond the dense forest is the main road in front of the investigation team for vehicle transfer.

A brute-jawed dragon, sharpening its claws on a stone step along the road.

The sound of "stinging, stinging, stinging" was monotonous and heavy.

It's like the snort it snorts from time to time.

With a temporary, forcibly suppressed rage.

Mentos analyzed the scars and features on the brute-jawed dragon's epidermis, and the biological brain determined that this was the one that Lan En had repelled on his first day in the New World.

On that day, Rann used its own weight and movement to almost remove its thighs from its hipbone.

And now, its almost dislocated thigh hung peacefully in the socket of the hip bone, and it was thicker and more powerful than the intact leg.

So much so that his legs turned out to be a little uncoordinated.

It's back.

Wandering on the realm where he had been repulsed, waiting for the enemy who had repelled him.

Dislocation is an almost fatal injury for wild animals.

Because a decrease in exercise capacity can lead to predation failure.

And even in humans, after the dislocation is treated, the dislocated limb will lag behind the intact limb in many indicators.

'What doesn't kill me makes me stronger' is wrong in the vast majority of cases.

Because there is a limit to an organism's ability to heal itself, a wounded limb is in most cases inferior to an unwounded limb.

The injured waist is not as good as before, and the broken ligaments dare not be used again.

This is common sense that people will have as long as their work is related to sports.

But in this world.' Common sense' has been turned upside down.

The brute-jawed dragon, which should have been dragged down by injuries to the point of starvation and disease, survived with sufficient nutrition because of the flourishing ecology of the ancient tree forest.

The injuries on its body that should have caused disability and debilitation were twisted by its powerful vitality!

Maybe it was an accident, maybe it was deliberate, in short, a collision on the opposite side of the waist made its dislocated leg bone return to the bone socket.

And in the days that followed, it began to repeat the collision again and again, so much so that it became some kind of exercise.

And the result of this exercise can almost be called 'metamorphosis'.

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