Monster Hunter: Wild Pointer

There was a sound like a sharp blade scraping against the shield, and the strong impact pushed her back a few steps, almost causing her to fall down with Orlan behind her.

Those are the queen bee's fluttering wings. They look light, thin and inconspicuous, but their power should not be underestimated.

The two men did not dare to get any closer. These dying monsters were the most dangerous. They knew they were doomed, and in the last moments of their lives, they would do everything they could to take their enemies down with them to hell.

After another violent struggle, the queen bee finally turned over. It stretched out its wrinkled and somewhat deformed wings and flapped them with all its might.

Is it taking off? Where else can it go?

In order to avoid a counterattack, the hunters who had kept a distance rushed forward and tried to stop it.

Perhaps because she was truly fighting for her life, the queen bee took off faster than the previous times. Although she did not rise very high, she finally left the ground and stumbled up the slope.

No matter how clumsily it flew, its speed was no match for the two-legged hunters, not to mention that it was flying on a steep slope.

Although they knew this guy couldn't escape, the young hunters couldn't help but feel anxious when they saw the prey moving away from them. Muti subconsciously raised the catapult and fired the grappling hook at the queen bee before it could fly away.

Seeing this, Orlan quickly followed suit and launched his grappling hook.

In theory, in order to use the catapult to stably hook onto the monster's body, a special component called a "flying claw" is needed, but neither of the two people's catapults has this thing installed.

But their catapults are no longer the old models from more than ten or twenty years ago. The power of both the hook and the spring has been greatly improved.

The two claws hooked onto the carapaces on the queen bee's chest and abdomen respectively. The spring retracted at high speed, carrying the two people "flying" onto the queen bee's body.

“Hiss—”

The queen bee screamed, but just as the hunters grabbed everything they could get their hands on, ready to deal with the queen bee's struggle, they found that the queen bee had no intention of paying any attention to them, but instead increased her flying speed.

It flew over the slope and then went up along the chute that the hunters had come down by.

The passage was narrow and it couldn't stretch its wings here, but it still didn't give up. It used its three pairs of not-so-strong legs to crawl up little by little.

Muti, who was lying on the queen bee's abdomen, grabbed the rifle with one hand and was about to shove it into the former's wound to give it a hard blow.

Aolan, who was sitting higher than her, quickly stopped them, "Stop! We don't have a safety rope. If it falls, we'll fall with it!"

Muti reacted and put away his weapon. The two of them lay on the Queen Bee and continued to climb up with the latter.

The Queen Bee took several minutes to climb the nearly vertical passage of more than 200 meters.

The light above their heads became brighter and brighter. When the queen bee crawled out of the hole where the slag was dumped and came to the open-air solar furnace, Orlan and the others realized that it was already dawn.

The elders and craftsmen who were waiting anxiously nearby were so frightened when they saw a giant bee of astonishing size crawling out of the cave that they stepped back one after another.

The queen bee twisted her broken body, looked up at the blue sky which she had almost never seen before, spread her wings, and prepared to take off.

But it forgot that there were two hunters lying on its body.

Just as its body left the ground and was about to fly into the clear sky, Muti inserted the muzzle of the gun into the wound that had been pierced by the stalactite before and pulled the trigger of the dragon cannon.

And Orlan also half stood up, and thrust the iron knife [Kagura] into the junction of the queen bee's head and thorax.

"boom!"

The explosive dragon-strike cannon almost blew the Queen Bee's body in two, and the piercing sword also severed several key nerve ganglia.

The queen bee let out a final hiss and fell powerlessly to the ground. The light of life in her compound eyes gradually dimmed and eventually turned into a lifeless gray.

The two hunters, their bodies covered in insect blood and mucus, crawled up from the queen bee's corpse.

The queen bee successfully hunted and the mission was successfully completed.

But looking at the queen bee lying on its back on the ground, gazing at the blue sky as if it would die, and thinking of its previous determination to crawl out of the cave and reach the outside world without caring about anything else and using up its last bit of strength, the two of them were inexplicably unhappy.

The professor came over.

The two young hunters, who didn't look injured but were in heavy moods, immediately guessed what they were struggling with.

“Respect nature and life, but don’t empathize with them.”

After a brief pause, the professor continued, "Don't bring in excessive sentimentality. Its behavior may not be as complicated as you think.

If it really wanted to stay here because of yearning for the blue sky and freedom, there would be no need for it to stay here and it could have left long ago.

The nest was destroyed and its life was threatened; these were the real reasons why it fled in a hurry."

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Orlan and Muti looked at each other and suddenly felt that the queen bee was not so pitiful.

"Kacha! Kacha!"

Eric, standing nearby, held up a portable camera and snapped a few photos of the Queen Bee's corpse. He looked up and said with some regret, "It would have been better if it were alive."

The professor glanced at him and said, "I'll eat you alive. Stop talking nonsense and get the tools and prepare for the dissection."

The solar furnace was temporarily closed. For safety reasons, all reflectors were closed and the craftsmen entered the waste cave to clean it up.

After an in-depth inspection, it was found that the giant bees had blocked most of the waste outlet with stones and secretions, which prevented the dumped slag from being discharged. It accumulated more and more in the cave, eventually forming a warm nest where the queen bee was born.

It can be said that this queen bee and the bee colony that should not appear in the desert are actually the products jointly created by humans and giant bees.

This is a very special case. The professor plans to compile it into a report and submit it to the guild headquarters, and publish a paper at the same time, which is sure to cause considerable discussion in the academic community.

His student Eric and even the two young hunters could also sign their names, although they didn't care about it.

After the hunt, what do hunters care about most? Of course, the monster materials.

Orlan and Muti said they wanted to prevent any giant bees from surviving in the cave, so they followed the craftsmen down as guards, actually to skin the pile of giant bee corpses.

Like giant bees and shield insects, the thick liquid in their bodies is the best adhesive and is used in the production process of many equipment.

They collected at least thirty units of monster fluids, and even more paralyzing stingers, giant bee wings, shells, etc., which could be used to make equipment for a lifetime. If they were to sell them to recyclers for cents, they could make a lot of money.

There is also material for the Queen Bee.

According to the professor, since Queen Bees are rare and the material strength is not much stronger than that of ordinary Giant Bees, there are no craftsmen who design equipment specifically for them.

Aolan couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. He had thought he could get new armor.

However, the professor said that he would reserve some materials for them, saying that they could be used as a "superior substitute" for ordinary giant bee materials, and would be sent over together with the "mysterious reward" later, so he should look forward to it.

Orlan looked forward to it fiercely.

Compared to the relaxed and happy outsiders like them, the elders and others seemed to be in a heavy mood.

Just as Muti had muttered before, looking at the thick pile of slag and scrap metal, everyone from the elders to the supervisors to the craftsmen had a look of devastation on their faces.

How long will it take to clean up this mess? Not to mention the caves will have to be renovated to prevent similar incidents from happening again.

Prolonged downtime is inevitable.

Sky-high liquidated damages.

ps. The protagonist will also have new equipment 0v0

Chapter 104: Barubale is busy

Olang originally thought that they would have to walk all the way back on their return trip just as they had come, and he had carefully designed his itinerary.

Unexpectedly, the professor directly rented a cargo airship in the name of the guild and the academy.

With four people, two long-haired camels, the queen bee and the corpses of several giant bees, they arrived at Barubare in just one day.

At the airship landing outside the city, Olangmuti walked down the airship alone, leading a long-haired camel.

Eric leaned on the deck railing and waved goodbye to them with a smile. The professor also waved briefly, turned around and prepared to order the airship operator to take off and return to East Doruma in a straight line at the fastest speed.

Although the queen bee's body in the cargo hold had undergone simple antiseptic treatment, it would have become smelly if left for a few more days.

Orlan shouted quickly, "Professor! What exactly is this additional reward you're talking about? Tell me!"

He has asked this question many times in the past two days, but the professor kept his mouth shut and refused to say anything. This made Orlan seriously suspect that the old man himself had not made up his mind.

"Why rush? I'll arrange to have it shipped over in a few days! Let's go!"

The cargo airship slowly rose into the air and soon disappeared among the blue sky and white clouds.

Orlan and Muti looked at each other, and the long-haired camel behind them made a "turululu" sound, as if urging them to hurry up.

During this period of time, they were either locked in animal pens or in the cargo hold of an airship, and they were already suffocated.

Orlan was helpless and took the reins. "Let's go. Let's go to the meeting place and settle the task first. We also need to return these two camels."

Muti nodded, touched the task sheet in his arms that was scribbled like a piece of waste paper, and muttered to himself, "When I left, I signed up for a subjugation mission, and when I came back, I handed in a document that was scribbled over to say it was a hunting mission or something.

Will the poster girl really approve of this thing?"

"More importantly, the client who did all this personally was in a hurry to get on with his journey." Olang couldn't help but glance at the horizon. The airship that was going away had become an inconspicuous dot.

With a worried mood, the two came to the Dragon Boat Assembly Hall.

The return of the long-haired camel went smoothly, as there were special staff members in the animal pen who were responsible for this. However, the task settlement was indeed stuck.

In front of the task counter, Hannah, the poster girl whose originally golden hair had been dyed a dazzling rose red, looked down at the task receipt, then looked up at the two of them.

His face was filled with a weird expression that said, "Are you kidding me?"

Muti said somewhat aggrievedly, "What we said is true. The document was indeed altered by the client."

The poster girl was helpless. "But the client can't change the document, right? To temporarily change the task type or something like that, that requires a lot of permissions."

"Authority?" Orlan, who was holding his forehead, reacted and quickly raised his head and said, "This matter is quite special. President Sophia knows the inside story. If you don't believe me, go ask her."

"That's fine." The poster girl, who loves dyeing her hair, nodded.

Come to think of it, no one with a normal brain would act so recklessly. Moreover, Miss Muti and the president seemed to be acquaintances. After asking them to wait for a while, she hurried to the president's office upstairs.

After waiting for a few minutes, the poster girl Hannah came back with the receipt, and the expression on her face became even stranger.

"The president was busy and couldn't come down. She said the settlement should be based on what's written on the invoice, and she even asked me to change the registration details in the file to match the invoice." At this point, she tilted her head. "This is the first time I've encountered something like this."

"Us too," Orlan said with a dry laugh.

Under the Guild Master's instructions to "do what's convenient for you", the mission was quickly completed, 5100z in reward was received, and a record of a three-star hunting mission was added to the hunter notes of both of them.

After receiving his share of the reward, Orlan suddenly uttered an "Ah," causing Muti and Hannah to look at him.

Orlan whispered to Muti, "We must have taken out more than a hundred giant bees, right? Didn't the professor say we'd get extra compensation for those above thirty?"

Muti couldn't help but roll his eyes. "You even wrote to the professor to ask him to revise the receipt? Be careful or he'll downgrade your 'mysterious reward'."

I've stripped all that giant bee material and brought it back with two long-haired camels. I'll sell it to a buyer later. So, what's the extra compensation you need?"

"Makes sense."

"Wait? How many giant bees have you defeated?!" The poster girl, who had overheard something, stared at them in disbelief, as if she were looking at two rampant criminals who had destroyed the ecology and still dared to come to the guild to collect their rewards.

"It's reasonable and legal! I swear!" Muti raised his hand with a serious face.

"If you don't believe me, go ask the president." Ao Lang also responded seriously.

Hannah: “.”

After returning to Balubare, Orlang and Muti spent a few days of leisure. In addition to the necessary daily physical training, they also relaxed themselves.

However, the two of them relax in different ways.

Ao Lang borrowed a few books from someone. They were not all profound professional books, but also novels, travel notes, humanities and geography books, and even some cookbooks.

Muti established a good relationship with Jara, a local fat man who knew how to eat. The latter gave her a list of delicious food. Guided by the list, she ate all over the city in two or three days.

The two also ran to watch Seabuckthorn's training. Seabuckthorn was mysterious. When he saw the two people entering the studio, he quickly covered what he was working on with a large piece of cloth.

Aolan was curious and wanted to uncover it to have a look, but he was scratched by the little guy.

According to Nazia, Seabuckthorn's mechanical basics have been almost completed. The next step is to continue practicing and find opportunities to communicate with experienced mechanics.

Sometimes a set of drawings can make a mechanical craftsman's skills advance by leaps and bounds.

Although his training had ended, Seabuckthorn still planned to stay in Nazia's caravan workshop for a few more days.

Its creation, the thing covered with cloth, has entered the final stage of assembly, which requires some professional tools from Nazia's workshop.

Once this thing is finished, it will be helpful in battle!

After a few days of leisurely leisure, Orlan suddenly found that the atmosphere in the city was a little strange. Everyone seemed to be busy with something. The caravans left one after another, and even the hunters who were drinking in the tavern of the meeting place were nowhere to be seen.

Muti was also keenly aware of this, because several of the food stalls she loved to go to were also closed, which made her very nervous. She hurried to Olang's room to discuss it with him.

"Isn't it something like a 'state of emergency declaration'?" Muti asked worriedly.

"It shouldn't be, otherwise there would definitely be a notice posted in the meeting hall." Orlan, leaning against the door frame, suddenly remembered something and asked, "What day is it today?"

Muti looked up and thought for a moment, "It's the end of the month anyway, and it's almost February."