Under the scorching sun, the hunter team marched continuously for three hours before resting under a mountain rock.

The Melu Cat tribe was full of sand dunes and had no shade, so they all hid under the flatbed.

Li Ming couldn't squeeze in, so he buckled his back armor on his body, lay down and curled up.

"What a strong sense of security."

In the darkness, Li Ming sighed.

Soon, a wave of tiredness hits...

While! While! ~

"Li Ming, are you meow?"

With the muffled sound of two taps, Midodo's inquiring voice remembered.

Li Ming, who woke up, raised his hand and pushed it up, and one end of the back shell was cocked.

"In... Why is it dark? ”

Under the dark night sky, the sand dunes all turned blue-gray.

"It's been a long time since the sun went down."

Midodo informed.

"I consumed a bit too much physical energy today, and I fell asleep before I knew it."

Li Ming covered his head and said.

"Dinner is ready, meow, let's go over and eat."

"Hmm... What happened to the Hunter Squad? ”

Li Ming remembered the most critical place.

"Don't worry about meow, after they have surveyed the surrounding terrain, they will set up camp on the mountainside."

"So the target earth sand dragon should be nearby."

Receive two fist-sized meatballs, plus a portion of grilled meat.

Li Ming borrowed a telescope from Ellera and looked at the place where there was a fire on the mountainside in the distance.

A yellow tent with sharp horns, and a middle-aged hunter adding firewood to a campfire come into view.

"Carry supplies during the day, cook at night, and simply leave it to my brother at night."

Originally, it was just a casual remark, but I didn't expect that after the team had dinner around the campfire, Brother Hot-blooded Iron continued to play the shield with the accompaniment of Ailu's cat, and Brother Leng Mian found a dead tree and lay on the branch to enjoy the moonlight.

Only the middle-aged brother stayed in front of the fire to take care of the camp.

This made Li Ming more and more curious about the other party's position in the team.

After getting familiar with the surrounding environment and staying up late at night, Li Ming buckled his back armor with a sense of security on his body and fell asleep.

When~When~....

Early the next morning, amid the sound of Mi Duoduo's cat's claw slapping, Li Ming lifted the cover and got up.

After a brief breakfast, the hunter team had already prepared and used ropes to rappel from the mountainside to the surface to start tracking.

For example, there are generally two ways to find the earth sand dragon.

One is to head to habitats with deep mires.

One is to find the giant ant nest, the main food source of the earth sand dragon, and squat to guard.

The hunter team, which was heading towards the mire, chose the former.

"Uh... Tired. ”

Li Ming sighed lightly, took off his back armor, and sat on the ground to rest.

After less than half an hour of marching, he couldn't hold on, and he himself was very surprised.

After all, yesterday I trotted all the way with my back armor, and it has always been relatively easy.

"I'll go see Li Ming, you guys go first."

After Midodo finished speaking, he quickly ran over.

"What's wrong, meow?"

"I feel so tired, if I can't keep up with the march after resting, I can only bury my back armor in the sand first."

Li Ming said with some reluctance.

Although this young dragon's back armor has not been obtained for a long time and its value is very limited, it has super high practicality.

It can be used as a sand skateboard during the day and a dormant compartment at night.

And it's not clear what new uses can be developed in the future.

"It's so strange that I was able to carry it yesterday..."

Midodo stared at the arc-shaped back armor and looked at it curiously.

"If you want to say something different from yesterday, it seems that you are only more full of food."

Li Ming struggled to recall, only thinking of the difference in the amount of food eaten.

"That's right, Meow, you ate too little today, so you don't have the strength."

Midodo said suddenly.

"That makes sense..."

Such a straightforward truth, of course Li Ming understood, but he felt that something was not right.

After thinking for a moment, he felt that eating enough would indeed make people stronger, but the difference in strength would never be so great.

"Hurry up and eat more to replenish the meow."

Mi Duoduo said as he unloaded his small backpack, and as if by magic, he quickly pulled out a bunch of things.

"Let's eat, I'm not very familiar with the surrounding area, and it's hard to get behind."

Midodo urged.

Crunch~Squeak~...

Although Li Ming didn't think that this method would have a significant effect, he did not eat enough breakfast.

So whatever he grabbed, he would stuff it into his mouth and chew vigorously until he saw a cactus ball in the pile of miscellaneous food.

"Is this edible?"

Li Ming asked in surprise.

"You can crack it open and drink the juice in it, and if you don't have enough ingredients, you can also remove the needles on the spherical stem, mash it, and add it to the meatballs."

Midodo said.

"It's no wonder that the taste of the balls in the tribe's daily quota is different, and the original recipe is based on the existing ingredients."

Li Ming was stunned.

"Uh... You've noticed the meow. ”

After wiping his mouth after eating, Li Ming tried to lift his back armor, and unexpectedly noticed that it was really much easier.

Isn't that right, isn't strength supposed to be related to physique?

How to eat before and after, the difference in strength will be so huge...

Could it be that the reason why hunters have strong strength has something to do with the food here?

Li Ming thought about it and felt that this could only be explained by the unique characteristics of the monster hunting world.

At noon, the sun is in full bloom.

The hunter team reached a bog depression closest to the camp.

Since the camp has been built, the size of the bag carried by the decadent middle-aged man this time has returned to normal levels.

Brother Tie and Brother Leng Mian communicated briefly, and they separated along the edge of the mire to find the traces of the earth sand dragon.

Paw prints, feces, bone mounds...

The two cats made detailed observations and collections of the ecological traces found.

Since the scale of this quagmire is not large, the survey was completed in ten minutes.

Li Ming, who was far away, couldn't see the results of the investigation, but judging from the ambush after the team members hid in the rocks, they should have confirmed that this was the resident habitat of the target soil sand dragon.

On the other side, on the cracked hard mud on the periphery of the mire, a middle-aged male hunter waved a shovel to dig down quickly.

The old orange cat on the side pushed a roll of green rattan nets with excellent elasticity and spread them on the ground.

"It turns out that the arrangement of the trap requires so much preparation."

Li Ming found that not only did he need to learn about the hunting process, but also the use of hunting props, and there were many things that needed to be paid attention to.

After the middle-aged hunter tirelessly dug a huge pit, he and the orange cat each grabbed one end of the rattan net, stretched it completely, and covered the surface of the giant pit for fixation.

Then there are a large number of withered yellow leaves scattered on it, similar in color to the surrounding mud.

Li Ming thought that the one person and one cat who had completed the trap would go to join the other two members.

As a result, the other party retreated to a hillside further back, leaning against a dead tree, and rested in the wait-and-see.

The long wait began.

Two hours later, a gray blur appeared on the curve of the twisting sand dunes in the distance.

Eller put down the binoculars, lowered his voice, and hurriedly informed, "The earth sand dragon is approaching Meow!" Get ready! ”

The Meilu cats, who were originally lazy in the hot weather, immediately cheered up and got busy around the four-wheeled flatbed.

Brother Tie and Brother Leng Mian, who were lying in ambush behind the rocks, took off the spears and double knives on their backs respectively, and prepared for battle.

Li Ming turned his gaze to where the middle-aged hunter was, wanting to see how the other party was responding, but he was stunned after just one glance.

A person and a cat hugged each other and slept under the tree, and the scene was very warm.

When is it! Still sleeping!

The success or failure of this hunt is not only related to the safety of the two hunters, but also determines whether Li Ming has the possibility of rubbing the earth sand dragon skill ball.

He felt the need to be reminded, and hurried towards the hillside.

I don't know if the sound of hurried footsteps attracted attention, the middle-aged hunter slowly opened his eyes and looked at Li Ming who was running over.

"Ah Tang, wake up, there's a fierce man."

Wiping the saliva from the corners of his mouth when he was sleeping, the middle-aged hunter poked the old orange cat's bulging belly with his finger.

"Don't talk nonsense about Wood, I don't believe meow... Yes! ”

Ah Tang opened his hazy sleepy eyes, and was a little startled for a while.

A young man running not far away wore a cloud-knotted hat with a big hole on his head, and a strange costume made of thin fabric that was no different from what he didn't wear.

The pair of cloth shoes with exposed toes on their feet, one red and one green, of different sizes, were obviously picked up to make a pair.

It is even more outrageous that he did not carry a hunting weapon or a backpack on his back.

Such a person appears alone in the sand field and still survives.

It is not too much to call a hunter with a strong style of "fierce man".

"Uncle! The earth sand dragon is approaching the mire! ”

Li Ming shouted.

Wood and Ah Cheng turned their heads synchronously with calm expressions, and looked at the direction of Li Ming's finger.

"It's coming sooner than expected... Thank you for the information. ”

After Wood finished speaking, he rummaged through his satchel for a moment and pulled out two strips of metal boxes.

"This little brother, please put away these two boxes of food and materials, I hope it can help you."

Li Ming glanced at the bone shield axe standing next to the dead tree, his hands were in a circle, and he said in an accentuated tone: "Earth sand dragon!" It's getting closer! ”

"Uh... In fact, we came to rub the promotion assessment of hunters, and the condition agreed with them was to take care of the logistics of the team, and as for the part of the hunting battle, there was no need to participate. ”

Wood explained.

You're here too...

At this point, Li Ming finally understood why the distribution of logistics work in the team was so uneven.

Because the brother named Wood in front of him doesn't need to participate in hunting operations at all.

Li Ming speculated that the Hunter Guild in reality should not let this kind of thing happen, so he asked: "Does the guild allow such behavior?" ”

"Of course not, but in the emergency contract of the Sandstone Cave Branch, more than three people are required to take it, and the two of them have been unable to find a suitable candidate, and they have been waiting for many days, and I just joined in... I'll give you two more boxes of food to carry, and I'll be sure to keep this matter a secret for me today. ”

With that, Wood pulled out two more boxes of food from his satchel.

"You want me to keep this kind of thing a secret... You can open it and eat it with you, right? ”

Li Ming was entangled for a moment, but still took the portable food.

"In the past, when the ratio of dragon meat was high, it was eaten immediately after opening, but now the taste is much worse, if you pursue deliciousness, it will be better to bake it first."

Wood imparts experience.

"Is it important to be promoted to a three-star hunter?"

Li Ming asked tentatively.

"Yes, two-star hunters have been in the industry for most of their lives, and they haven't made much progress, and if you mix a three-star before you retire, not only will the treatment given by the guild be higher, but you can also become the focus of the village when you return to your hometown, what about you? It doesn't seem like a good situation. ”

Wood asked.

"I'm trying to become a hunter."

"Yes, I like energetic young people, but your field adaptation training, is the intensity a little too much, I suggest starting with the outer area of Senqiu."

Wood, as a senior, gave a reminder.

Surviving alone in a harsh environment does bring more opportunities for training.

But if you want to become a hunter, you must first be able to ensure that you are alive.

For this question, Li Ming was also quite depressed.

I want to go too, but this is where I go.

Wearing a set of pajamas to force your way across the sandbar, you will only die faster if you are attacked by monsters.

"Actually, I regret it a little bit..."

"Well, when this hunt is over, we'll take you back to the Sandstone Cave stronghold, forgetting to ask, your name?"

"Thank you so much, my name is Li Ming."

"Naruto... The sound of the horn before the hunt signifies the arrival of the incomparable, and it seems that your parents have set great expectations for you to become a hunter. ”

Wood stroked his stubble-covered chin, analyzed it, and solemnly made an introduction.

"My name is Wood, a resident two-star hunter in the Sandstone Cave Branch, characterized by strong toughness, good at team logistics, trap arrangement, this is my old partner Ah Tang, a two-star hunting cat certified by the guild."

"Hello meow, lonely fierce man Li Ming."

Ah Tang waved his paw and said hello.

"Fierce man?"

This title is used to find himself, and Li Ming feels both familiar and novel.

"Fierce man is the name of a hunter who behaves fiercely, and when you have come into contact with enough hunters, you will understand."

Wood explained.

Bang~Bang~...

At this time, a dull thump sounded, from far and near.

The soil sand dragon, which had been completely cracked with silt attached to its body, slowly came to the side of the mire.

Compared with the light and flexible yellow speed dragon, the earth sand dragon wrapped in thick and heavy block shells is like a heavy armored vehicle.

The body is nearly twenty meters long, and every step it takes causes the ground around it to tremble.

Goodo~Goo~...

The earth sand dragon stepped into the mire, and the dirty gray water surface spread out one after another.

"Do these two members have a big chance of winning?"

Li Ming, who couldn't take his eyes off the earth sand dragon, asked.

"They are all talented hunter stars, but unfortunately they are too young, their personalities are too egotistical, and as team members, they lack the cooperation they should have with each other."

Wood said with a little wistfulness.

"That means there's a good chance that this hunt will end in failure?"

"If this setback can make them wake up, it can be regarded as a good experience."

When it came to the failure of the hunt, Wood did not show the loss as Li Ming expected, but was a little relieved.

"Isn't the plan to get a promotion evaluation also in vain?"

Li Ming asked.

"yes... But I'm here to try my luck, and it's a miracle to wait. ”

"If you help, the probability is not higher."

Li Ming's gaze was aimed at the bone shield axe.

Wood put his hands behind his head and leaned back against the trunk of a dead tree.

"Forget it, I want to end my hunter career in good health rather than being promoted to a three-star hunter."

Wood's uncombative remarks exude a sense of depression burned by reality.