Monster Hunter: Wild Pointer

With her help, Seabuckthorn not only completed the integration of the Fire Dragon No. 6 and the Explosive Dragon Bomb Launcher at the fastest speed, but also seemed to have made some secret modifications.

As a result, Olang hadn't seen Seabuckthorn for the past two days. It slept in Muxiang's room, which made Olang feel very awkward.

Two days passed in a flash, and the day of hunting had arrived.

Looking at the bizarre device that Seabuckthorn and Wood Fragrance had jointly carried onto the airship, Aolan couldn't help but ask, "What the hell did you guys come up with?"

"This is the chassis of Fire Dragon Unit 7, meow!" Seabuckthorn proudly put his hands on his hips, "Just keep an eye on it, meow! Boss, just focus on being a support this time, meow!"

Chapter 199 Abandoned Base

As the morning sun rose, the airship the group was on slowly rose above the clouds.

The climate and air currents here are relatively stable, which is suitable for small airboats to sail. As the propellers are started, the airboat sails steadily to the south where the target hunting ground is located.

"Does that mean that we usually travel to the hunting ground by airboat?" Mu Xiang withdrew his gaze from the clouds outside the ship and asked with some disbelief.

Even the cheapest small airship costs between one thousand and several thousand z/day for a single trip.

Not only was this price completely unaffordable for them at their hunter level, but taking an airship every time would be too extravagant.

After all, even if this mission is successfully completed along with the additional objectives, the reward allocated to each person is only more than 3,000 yuan.

"That's not the case. Miss Noya lent us this airship for free." Orlan shrugged. "This time, we're really taking advantage of you. To make the best possible impression on you, that guy really spent a lot of money."

Muxiang, who had learned some about the local guild situation from Muti and Seabuckthorn in the past two days, was speechless. To be honest, the behavior of the poster girl president was quite stressful.

"Don't think too much." Seeing her dilemma, Aolan said with a smile: "You can think of Miss Noya as the angler, and we are the big fish she wants to catch.

She has already cast the bait. It is up to you to choose whether to take the bait or run away."

"I am a fish."

"Anyway, we've all taken the bait." Muti said with a grin, "This place is quite comfortable to stay in. The citizens are friendly and welcoming, and the food in the tavern is delicious and cheap.

We had been traveling for over a year and were looking for a place to settle down for a while, and Metabetat seemed like a good place to stay.”

"I see." Muxiang remained silent, as if she was not planning to make any decision right now.

Since the mission was not urgent, the airship pilot cruised at a relatively economical speed.

It took almost a day and a night to travel from the northeastern area of ​​Metabe Wet Forest, one of the most extensive forests in the Old World, to the hunting ground at the southernmost end bordering the Ruins Plain.

The airship did not land directly at the camp, but instead flew over a half-destroyed stronghold.

The scale of this stronghold is similar to the small mountain village that Shadow Spider had targeted before, no, it is even smaller.

The wooden stakes and wooden fences surrounding the stronghold had been trampled down, and several houses within the fence had collapsed. The entire village was in ruins.

Muti looked a little angry. She had heard that the situation was not urgent before, and she thought nothing happened. Isn’t this situation extremely bad!

The defense facilities have been destroyed, so this village is obviously uninhabitable!

Orlan raised his hand and gestured to Muti, "Don't be in a hurry," and was the first to walk down the gangway. Noticing the landing of the airship, some people had already run out of the houses that had not yet collapsed and came to the open space to wait for them.

He was a lean, clever-looking young man. He bowed and said, "Greetings, fellow hunters! Thank you for all the hard work in coming here. The elders sent me here to wait for you."

Aolang hummed, then got straight to the point: "Excuse me, are the other people in the village okay? Is there a place to take shelter?"

"Refuge?" The young man was stunned for a moment, then reacted and shook his hand to explain, "Ah, you misunderstood. This is not our village. This is a base for us to collect mountain products."

"A base for collecting mountain products?" Muti asked in surprise.

Orlan nodded as if he had expected it.

Muti obviously did not read the mission document carefully. On the document, the client stated that it was "a stronghold" that was attacked. In this way, it was not the village itself that was attacked.

The young man scratched his head and said, "Our village is quite large, with nearly 200 people. It's not suitable to build a village of this size in a dense forest. The village is about dozens of kilometers away from here, in a valley on the other side of the Ruins Plain, which is safer.

As for the base here, there are many people in our village who collect mountain products. It is a waste of time to go back and forth to the village every day, and they can't collect much.

The elders organized the construction of this base here. We store the collected medicinal herbs and mountain products here, and transport them to the village by car every once in a while."

Aolang and the others nodded in understanding.

In this case, it would only be some economic loss. If the Tailhammer Dragon really attacked the village, then this mission would probably become an emergency mission.

After confirming this, the hunters finally felt relieved about the "village ruins".

"Explain the situation to us." Orlan took out a nearby topographic map and spread it out in front of the young man.

Judging from his clothing, the medicine basket and the small sickle on his waist, this young villager should be a professional herbalist. They travel through the dense forest on a daily basis and are naturally very familiar with the surrounding terrain and environment.

No wonder their elders sent him to wait here and explain the situation to themselves and others.

"Okay, let me take a look. Well, we are here now." The herbalist pointed to a point on the map.

"As for the big guy's range of activities, it's probably this area." The herbalist drew another circle on the map.

The name "big guy" made Aolan dazed for a moment, but he immediately focused his attention and asked, "Tell us about the situation of the Tail Hammer Dragon and the situation when the stronghold was attacked.

And where is the nearest hunter camp nearby?"

"That big guy, the Tailhammer Dragon, has actually been active in this area for many years. I saw it at least three or four years ago.

That guy used to be quite docile. We who were picking mountain products and herbs had never been attacked by it. There were two times when a convoy transporting mountain products collided with it. The convoy stopped to make way, and it just walked past.

There were even a few times when our people were chased by dog ​​dragons. When we ran to it, it helped drive away the dog dragons.

Because of its existence, other large monsters active nearby were driven away, making this forest quite safe.

Some elders in the village call it the 'incarnation of the mountain god' and are planning to prepare offerings for it."

"The relationship was pretty good," Muti muttered, "Why did it fall out?"

Aolan glanced at her and said, "Similar situations are actually not uncommon, especially with these powerful herbivorous monsters. They won't actively attack humans, causing humans to mistakenly believe they are 'kind' and blindly approach them.

In fact, monsters cannot be distinguished by the human concept of good and evil, nor do they regard humans as friends. In their eyes, humans are no different from insects on the roadside or birds in the trees.

Just like you, you wouldn't just kill any bird you come across, but when you need to start a fire in the wild, a bird's nest mixed with down is the best material for starting a fire, so you wouldn't mind dismantling a bird's nest and starting a bonfire, right?"

"I wouldn't do such a thing." Muti pouted.

"Okay, but I can do it." Orlan shrugged. "This Tailhammer Dragon did something similar."

Muti fell silent.

The herbalist nodded. "So, after that Tailhammer smashed the fence, it didn't bite anyone. It just ate the wood used to build the fence and the house. It even ate stones and bricks."

"It aids digestion and replenishes minerals. Nothing surprising there. Have similar attacks happened again?"

"Attacking? No, but it came here twice, also to eat wood." The herbalist pointed around, "After all, there's still a lot of wood left.

Oh, right, you just asked about the nearby hunter camp. The nearest hunter camp should be more than ten kilometers to the south, in the open woodland where the Ruins Plain meets the dense forest. Do you need me to lead you there?"

"More than ten kilometers." Muxiang, who didn't participate in the conversation much, looked a little green.

The opponent was a tough, thick-skinned creature like the Tail Hammer Dragon. As a shooter, she needed to reload her ammunition at least once or twice. The one-way distance was about ten kilometers, and the round trip was thirty kilometers, so two trips would be sixty kilometers. How could she train her physical fitness here?!

Orlan looked around again and asked the herbalist, "Is there a basement in this basement?"

The herbalist easily guessed his thoughts. "Yes, it's a warehouse that used to store medicinal herbs and mountain products. But it's been abandoned for a while, and no one has cleaned the warehouse, so it's not very clean."

Aolan nodded and looked at his two companions, "How about we use this abandoned stronghold as a temporary camp?

The Tailhammer Dragon roams nearby, and the underground warehouse can be used to store ammunition and rest, and the safety is not much worse than the hunter camp.

There's wood everywhere, so maybe the Tailhammer Dragon will come and eat it on its own without us even having to look for it."

"I agree!" Muxiang expressed her opinion immediately.

Muti also nodded, "I think it's okay too."

"That's it." Orlan walked to the airship parked nearby and said to the pilot, "It's not safe here. Please wait in the nearby hunter camp.

Once we've defeated the target, we'll send you a signal. Then come pick us up, take the tail hammer, and we can return."

"no problem!"

The driver agreed readily, and after he and the hunters moved all the supplies off the airship, he took the herbalist away from the dangerous area where monsters were lurking.

Only three hunters and two hunting cats were left in the abandoned stronghold.

Ao Lang clapped his hands. "Check equipment and supplies, scout the terrain, confirm the target location. There's still a lot of preliminary preparations to be done. Everyone can get busy now."

Chapter 200 Cat Power Engine

There was a lot to do, so the three people and two cats began to divide the work and work together.

The most important and most dangerous task is naturally to confirm the location of the target monster through reconnaissance.

Yuwan took on this task first. No one was more suitable for reconnaissance than him because of his keen sense of hearing and smell, good tracking skills, and small and flexible size.

Ao Lang is responsible for confirming the nearby terrain and refining the hunting plan and process previously formulated by Mu Xiang. This part is also very critical. The suitability of the combat terrain can often directly determine the success or failure of the hunt.

Muti was wearing heavy armor, which made it difficult for him to move around in the dense forest, so he was left in this abandoned stronghold.

It just so happened that she had the greatest strength, so she was responsible for moving and sorting the supplies and transforming the abandoned base into a temporary camp.

Seabuckthorn was busy looking for suitable materials to assemble its Fire Dragon No. 7 unit for use in subsequent operations.

Only Muxiang, who was officially collaborating for the first time, was left. She found that all the work had been divided up by others and she seemed to have nothing serious to do.

After thinking for a while, she decided to prepare some food for everyone to store nutrition and energy for the upcoming high-intensity battle.

Starting from the abandoned stronghold, Orlan used it as the center of the circle and conducted spiral reconnaissance outward, confirming the situation in the surrounding area bit by bit.

Even though the Tailhammer Dragon's danger level is four stars, in terms of ecological niche, this guy is no less powerful than regional overlords like Rathalos.

If it were not for its herbivorous nature, rarely attacking humans, and its desire to pursue was not as strong as that of monsters like the Ceratops, it would be easier for hunters to retreat if they were defeated. It would not be surprising that the guild rated its danger level as five stars.

Therefore, Orlan and the others also prepared with the mentality of hunting five-star monsters.

From morning until sunset, Olang spent a full six or seven hours carefully confirming the forest environment within a radius of several kilometers.

As a result, he actually found several battlefields suitable for fighting the Tailed Hammer Dragon.

According to Ms. Muxiang, who has experience in hunting Tailhammer dragons, the most threatening attack of the Tailhammer dragon is the whirlwind attack in which it uses its hind legs as a fulcrum and spins its body at high speed to swing its tail hammer.

The airflow created by its huge body and tail hammer rotating at high speed can even generate a strong suction force like a real tornado, pulling the opponent to its side.

If you are hit by such an attack, losing your combat capability on the spot would be the least of your worries, and it would not be surprising if you were to be shattered to death.

The only thing to be thankful for is that this move takes a long time to prepare, and as long as you react in time and create distance early, you will generally not be hit.

In addition, suitable obstacles can also block the attack of the Tailhammer Dragon to a certain extent.

For example, the forest chosen by Orlan as the main battlefield is mostly made up of giant trees with trunks more than two or three meters in diameter.

The crowns of these giant trees are extremely lush and cover a wide area, snatching away almost all the sunlight, making the herbs and shrubs on the ground very sparse and not affecting the hunters' movements.

These giant trees will also become obstacles that hinder the movement of the Tailhammer Dragon, which invisibly provides a huge advantage for the hunter.

In addition, Orlan also took a fancy to an area with dense vines, suitable for setting traps, and a rocky hill suitable for escaping the pursuit of the Tail Hammer Dragon.

If we make good use of these terrains, we can wear that guy down to death.

After carefully marking these locations on the map, Orlan returned to the abandoned stronghold with satisfaction.

Oh no, now it should be called a temporary camp.

During his absence, Muti did not rest either.

Of course, she wouldn't be stupid enough to renovate the entire base. Instead, she found a small wooden house that was still intact, reinforced it with wood that could be found everywhere, and then set up some staggered pointed wooden stakes around it to prevent certain monsters in the forest from lurking around.

The entrance to the underground warehouse is inside the wooden house. Important supplies such as ammunition, dry food, and medicines have already been stored there. When necessary, they can also hide in the warehouse.

She even got some mattresses from somewhere and spread them on the floor of the cabin, so she didn't have to sleep on the hard floor at night.

Orlan was extremely satisfied with this temporary camp. He dared to say that most hunter camps could not meet the conditions here.

They can rely on this camp to fight a war of attrition with the Tail Hammer Dragon. If one day doesn't work, try two days. If two days don't work, try three days. They can slowly wear it down.

"Okay, that's about it." Orlan stopped Muti, who was still hammering sharp wooden stakes into the ground around the cabin. "Is Yuwan back?"

Muti put down his tools and wiped the sweat off his face. "It came back at noon. It said it had confirmed the whereabouts of the Tailed Hammer Dragon, and then went to rest.

It has to keep watch at night, so wait until dinner time before calling it."

"Well, what about Seabuckthorn?"

Muti pointed to another wooden house not far away. "That's where it ran out a while ago. I don't know where it found a bone mound and dragged back a few sturdy dragon bones. I don't know what it's doing now."

"You take a rest, I'll go take a look."