Monster Hunter: Wild Pointer

Finally, a sound was heard from inside the house, which made Aolan and the others breathe a sigh of relief.

Perhaps it was the hunter's identity or the elder's words that made the people in the house relax their fear and vigilance a little, and the window was opened a crack.

"Are you guys dealing with giant bees?"

The tone of the scream was different from the previous one. This time it was a young male voice, and the owners of the house seemed to be a young couple.

Eric came over and said, "Yeah, there's a huge bee that landed on your wall and kept scratching at it. We had no choice but to do this!"

Compared to the fully armed hunter, Eric, who was younger and dressed as an ordinary person, was obviously more relaxing. The window was opened.

They were indeed a young couple who were so scared that they hugged each other.

"So, has the giant bee been dealt with?" the husband asked with some stammering.

Muti was about to say no dejectedly, but Oran covered his mouth.

Eric pointed at the large shield in Muti's hand and said, "Of course! Look! The giant bee's blood is still on it!"

"That's good, that's good." The couple was obviously relieved.

The focus was shifted from "a hole was poked in the wall" to "the monster lying on the wall of their house was solved", and they finally managed to get away with it.

After apologizing to the couple again and promising that someone would come to repair the wall tomorrow, the three of them left with embarrassment on their faces.

"Well, if we see a giant bee perched on the wall again, we shouldn't attack it directly." Orlan lowered his voice and said, "Shoot it away first.

If it doesn't fly high, I'll take care of it. If it does, you can fire at it. It'll be a good opportunity to practice your artillery skills."

"it is good"

Chapter 93: Repeatedly altered task documents

"Boom! Boom!"

Amidst the continuous roar of artillery fire, another giant bee was blown to pieces in mid-air.

After finding the right way, the efficiency of dealing with the giant bees has indeed improved a lot. However, I'm afraid that everyone in the town will not be able to go to bed early tonight.

Fortunately, it's not a big problem.

During the clearing process, more than once someone pushed the door and opened the window to inquire about the situation. After learning that it was hunters who were clearing out the giant bees, everyone had no objections. It seemed that the giant bees had really caused a lot of trouble during this period.

Eric was responsible for finding, and the hunters were responsible for hunting. The three of them cooperated with each other and eliminated more than a dozen giant bees.

One of them fell down with half of its wing broken off because of Muti's artillery fire. Orlan wanted to go up and finish it off, but was stopped by Eric.

He asked Orlan for help, and the two of them took some effort to use a net to catch the giant bee that had lost its ability to fly alive, preparing to take it back to admire it.

Orlan looked up at the position of the moon.

It was late at night, and they had almost cleared out the giant bees wandering around the town. As for those hiding in the caves and grottoes, they could not be completely eliminated all at once.

After a brief discussion, they decided to go back first and deal with the rest tomorrow.

When the three returned to their residence and learned of their achievements, the professor first praised them a few words, and then noticed the giant bee that Eric had captured alive.

The old dragon man was immediately delighted, "It just so happens that the body we brought back earlier was somewhat damaged, and some things cannot be fully confirmed.

I was thinking of asking you to find a chance to bring back a more complete body, and now you have it, right?

Kill him quickly and put him on the dissection table!"

Eric pouted, but he couldn't disobey his mentor's decision, so he had to do as he was told.

He used an iron skewer as thick as a little finger to pierce the giant bee's ganglion, killing it quickly and efficiently. Then, he and the professor, who had put on his mask and gloves again, began the dissection.

Orlan and Muti were standing nearby, cleaning and maintaining their weapons and armor while waiting for the results.

After a long time, the professor finally took off his gloves and handed the tools and the body to his disciples to clean up, muttering to himself, "It is so."

"Professor? Have you reached a conclusion?"

Orlan put away the weapon that had been polished to a shine and carefully coated with blade oil, and Muti's face was filled with anticipation.

The old dragon man didn't answer their question immediately, but instead asked, "If I say that the subjugation mission will be changed to a hunting mission, are you interested in continuing to take it?"

This rhetorical question itself answered their question. Orlan and Muti exchanged glances.

"Of course I'm interested!"

"Can you tell me more about it?"

"I knew you would say that." The professor took off his glasses and rubbed the corners of his sore eyes. "I hope I won't regret handing this matter over to you two young people."

"So the existence of the queen bee has been confirmed, right?" Orlan asked, wanting a clearer answer.

"Yes." The professor put his glasses back on, "I've explained before that certain organs of giant bees affected by the queen bee will undergo changes.

The reproductive organs degenerate and lose the ability to reproduce, the digestive system mutates, and food-guiding organs similar to honey sacs grow, etc.

The first corpse you sent back had shriveled reproductive organs, but this can also happen when there is a lack of food.

The second one not only had its reproductive organs shrunk, but also had a feeding organ, which is an organ specifically grown to feed the queen, so the queen bee must exist."

Aolan nodded upon hearing this.

The time they spent together made him realize that the professor was a very rigorous person. If something was difficult to determine, he would use words like "probability" and "possibility" to describe it.

Now that we say "definitely", it means that the evidence is conclusive.

"Excuse me, what's the danger level of the Queen Bee?" Muti asked nervously.

It is true that she is very interested in hunting queen bees, but she has never forgotten the warnings of her elders - never do anything beyond her ability.

Trying to run before you learn to walk is risky, and jumping off a mountaintop to fly before you learn to walk is courting death.

If the Queen Bee's danger level is really four stars, five stars or even higher, then no matter how interested she is, she will not take her companions to die together.

"You'll have to judge for yourself on this question." The professor raised his snow-white eyebrows. "There are so few records of queen bees hunting that you can count them on one hand.

There were three-star hunters who successfully hunted, and there were also five-star hunters who were seriously injured and had to retreat.

Its ecological niche is similar to that of monster tribe leaders such as the Sand Dragon King and the Peach-haired Beast King, so the guild has assigned it a three-star danger level.

But as I just said, there have been cases where five-star hunters have failed to hunt, so what do you think of its strength?"

"It should be slightly weaker than those of the Sand Dragon King." Orlan said.

The professor looked at him and asked, "What is the basis for your judgment?"

"Whether it's the Sand Dragon King, the Peach-Haired Beast King, or the weaker Speed ​​Dragon King or the Great Boar King, they all must have gone through countless battles, defeated many of their kind, and seized the most food and resources before they finally grew into the so-called 'kings,' right?"

"That's right." The professor nodded, as if encouraging him to continue.

"But the Queen Bee is a little different. From what you said before, it seems that the Queen Bee relies more on luck?

Under the stimulation of favorable environmental factors, they mutated to have stronger reproductive abilities, controlled their own kind through hormones, obtained support from the tribe, and became reproductive machines.

It sounds a bit like the queen bee and the queen ant. When I was a child, I also dug out honeycombs and ant nests. Those so-called queen bees and queen ants are not as powerful as soldier ants and worker bees.

Of course, the size factor cannot be ignored. The stinger of a seven-meter-long giant bee is probably more than one meter long. If it is strong enough, it can directly pierce a person.

But can a 'king' who grew up relying on his own kind and focused on reproduction really be good at fighting?"

"Good analysis." The professor suddenly smiled at him.

Eric spread his hands aside and said, "I've seen the backup of the Queen Bee's mission report in the Great Library, and it says the same thing. She relies on her tribe for protection and isn't good at fighting herself."

Ao Lang was speechless. "Since you have these conclusions, why don't you just say it directly?"

The professor chuckled. "Since you have the ability to think independently, why not let you think for yourself first?"

"." Is this old man used to teaching and educating people?

Muti, who had just been nervous, also realized that if the Queen Bee was really far more powerful than their opponents, then even if the professor had the authority, he would not give them the task of hunting the Queen Bee, right?

Given his status in the guild, it wouldn't be difficult for him to use the Peregrine Falcon to send an urgent letter to Barubare, asking them to quickly arrange for a hunter of equal strength to come by airship.

"So, the example you just mentioned of the five-star hunter who was seriously injured and retreated, was it because the hunter did not reduce the number of bee colonies in advance, but went directly deep into the bee colony's territory to kill the queen bee?" Orlan guessed.

"Indeed, the hunter mentioned in his mission report that he was besieged by more than thirty giant bees.

The size of our bee colony is likely to be even larger," the professor said meaningfully.

"Besieged by thirty giant bees." Muti felt his scalp tingling just thinking about that scene. How noisy it must be!

Orlan couldn't help but rub his arms. "Don't worry, we won't go looking for the queen. We will hunt the giant bee until it can't help but come looking for us."

"Hahaha." The professor chuckled a few times, "Then I can safely hand this task over to you."

He took out the task document that had been altered many times and revised it again.

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Hunting Quest: Queen's Feather Sound (★★★)

Mission content: Hunt one queen bee and subjugate thirty giant bees

Mission location: Bedrock where Chongri Town is located

Mission time: 10 days

Reward: 5100z

Possible monsters: Giant bee

Professor from the Academy: Work hard, solve the problem beautifully and get a mysterious reward.

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"Wow, 5100z! Hunting the giant monster bird only cost 3000z before!" Muti happily took over the messed up task sheet.

Aolan smacked his lips. "Because I also took on the extra mission of subduing thirty giant bees, if you add the two missions together, the reward isn't that much, right?"

The professor glared at him. "How about I double your reward, but remove the secret reward?"

"I'm just kidding!" Orlan laughed. He was not stupid.

"So what is the mysterious reward?" Muti looked at the professor and asked curiously.

"I haven't decided yet." The professor said unhappily, "Anyway, it's something that complies with the law. I'll give it to you when the time comes!"

Chapter 94 The Disappearing Beehive

Early the next morning, the professor first went to the elder's residence, explained the situation to the latter, asked the elder to help prepare some things, and then left the town with several young people.

The giant bees wandering around the town have been almost cleared out, and it's time to turn our attention to the caves, big and small.

The professor held the detailed map he got from the elders and led the hunters to check one place at a time.

Some caves are independent, and there will be giant bees that fly in and can't get out. After Orlan and his team dealt with them, they left marks on the map so that they could notify the elders and arrange people to clean up the bodies later.

But more caves are connected by narrow passages and gaps. Many places are too difficult for the professor to pass through with his body size, but the giant bees can crawl through after folding their wings. These places are really troublesome.

The group did not dare to go too deep, fearing that they would accidentally enter the bee colony's nest and get into danger, so they kept wandering around the outside of the cave, constantly cutting off lone giant bees.

After two or three days, they had dealt with more than thirty giant bees.

But the bad news is that in that maze-like cave, you can still see giant bees flying from time to time.

"Boom!" He raised his hand and fired a shot, smashing the giant bee flying over his head into pieces. Muti put away his weapon with a happy look on his face.

The nimble flying giant bees were the best targets. After a few days, her artillery skills improved by leaps and bounds. The gunpowder in her hands was no longer a machete, which was an unexpected gain.

“That’s the thirty-seventh one,” the professor muttered to himself, the wrinkles between his brows deep enough to kill a mosquito, “but you can still see giant bees wandering around.

The swarm is much larger than previously estimated.”

Aolan glanced at the shattered corpses and, after confirming that they were worthless, turned to the professor and asked, "Professor, should we go deeper?"

"No." The professor shook his head decisively. "Let's go back to town first. The things I asked the elders to prepare should be arriving soon."

After saying that, the old dragon man turned and left.

The three young men looked at each other. The old man was an impatient person who pursued efficiency in everything, but when it came to making decisions, he was very cautious and prudent.

When they arrived at the elder's house, the professor directed the young people to carry the boxes of things back to the residence. When Orlan was about to ask what these things were, the professor directly opened the boxes.

There are a lot of poisonous mushrooms, smoke fruits, sticky grass and other things.

Aolan had never used these things before, but he could probably guess what the old dragon was thinking. "Are you planning to mix up some poisonous smoke balls to deal with the bee swarm?"

"Ah."