hunt and eat

Whether it's the completely purplish red eyes, the dull and deep body color, or the ominous black smoke lingering around, it all shows that this tengu beast is already in a very serious state of mad dragon transformation.

"Did the unconscious activities lead to the further spread of the mad dragon virus in the body?" Guta frowned and said with some surprise.

As a medium-sized monster similar to apes, Tengumon has similar habits to monkeys, and its range of activities and activity are far superior to other monsters that move on the ground.

It is estimated that it is precisely because of this reason that it has entered such a serious infection state in just a few days.

Just as he was thinking about it, the Tengu Beast on the opposite side seemed impatient, and swooped forward with a wild bark.

Seeing the sharp claws slamming down heavily, Guta jumped back in a small jump, manipulated the invisible gravity at the moment of dodging, actively pulled himself towards the Tengu Beast, and easily boarded the latter left arm.

The latter obviously didn't expect this to happen either, so he froze for a moment, then waved his right paw recklessly, grabbing around to where the ancient tower was standing.

The sharp claws pierced into the arm, tearing off a large piece of hair, but Guta's figure disappeared again.

"The mad dragon virus will indeed reduce perception. Even a creature like the tengu beast, which is extremely sensitive to the external environment, will become this "blind person" state."

With his eyes tightly closed, the only blind man present was standing on the shoulder of the Tengu Beast, making sharp comments.

As if completely enraged, or just crazy enough, the Tengu Beast rolled and collided towards the ground as if losing its mind.

Gu Pagoda jumped back and landed on the ground, quietly watching the other party destroying his body recklessly, without any intention of reminding it that he had come down.

After about half a minute, the Tengu Beast, who finally realized that Guta was not on his body, got up panting, and touched the pocket in front of him with two slightly thin claws.

When the claw was pulled out again, four or five colorful persimmons appeared in its hand.

Guta scratched his head, and said with some confusion: "In the situation just now, can the persimmon in the pocket remain intact?"

"What kind of black technology is this?"

Soon, the Tengu Beast, which locked on the position of the ancient pagoda, waved its arms and smashed big persimmons one after another towards the position of the ancient pagoda.

Dodging a yellow persimmon that was almost half the size of a person, Guta stepped on the thick fallen leaves on the ground and flashed two purple persimmons with a faint rotten smell.

The purple persimmons fell on the rocky mountains on both sides, instantly bringing up thick poisonous smoke, and the surrounding ivy turned yellow and shriveled in the blink of an eye.

"It's quite poisonous." With a mutter, Guta touched the magic machine [Glutton] at his waist behind Guta, and raised the big curved sword it transformed into.

[Furnace Baixiang·Hound Fang]

Swinging his arm upwards rapidly, Guta turned around, and with the [Hound's Long Fang] in his hand, he split a certain persimmon with golden light in its entirety.

The moment the persimmons exploded, a dazzling flash suddenly rose from the valley.

Seeing the successful Tengumon, it let out a roar of excitement, then threw the three purple persimmons back, and grabbed them all with its tail like a big hand behind it.

Accompanied by a big stride, the Tengu Beast turned upside down from mid-air, holding three rotten persimmons with its huge claw-like tail, and dunked at the ancient pagoda whose figure could not be seen clearly in the flashing light.

boom!

The pervasive poisonous smoke rose quickly, and the Tengu hurriedly avoided it, staring straight ahead.

Papa~Papa

Soon, the unscathed ancient pagoda slowly walked out of the poisonous mist, dragging the big curved sword backwards.

"Using a flashbang on a blind man is really yours."

With a self-deprecating smile, Guta snapped his fingers with his empty left hand, dissolving the repulsive force field formed around him.

The uncontrolled repulsive force instantly spread in all directions, and even the poisonous mist behind the ancient pagoda was blown away by the violent repulsive force in an instant.

As the owner of the true meaning of Qi [annihilation], the ancient tower can not only release the power of annihilation that eliminates everything, but also split it into attraction and repulsion when necessary, and manipulate it at will.

Spreading a repulsive force field around his body to prevent the intrusion of poisonous mist will not be more difficult for him than breathing and drinking water.

"Then... I'll leave it to you, Weiwei."

"Haven't you always wanted to experiment with your new weapon?"

After making a hand gesture to the back of Tengu Beast, Guta turned around and left as if losing interest.

Unaware of the danger at all, Tengumon mistook Guta for fleeing, and prepared to take advantage of the victory after roaring.

As everyone knows, behind it, a red-haired girl with an excited face is carrying a gun barrel made entirely of steel, aiming at it.

In the faintly crimson eyes, circle after circle of spiral patterns began to spin sharply unconsciously.

"Go away!"

After the roaring sound, flames spurted out, and a group of dazzling flames crossed a parabola from mid-air, hitting the upper body of Tengu Beast.

The terrifying explosion like a mushroom cloud swallowed it completely in an instant, and even affected the surrounding area within ten meters, being completely swallowed by endless violent flames.

When the flames dissipated, apart from a shriveled and mutilated scorched corpse, there was only a piece of scorched earth that was still shining bright red, and a small part even turned into semi-glazed crystals.

It was like a scene of purgatory.

……

Chapter 4 [Red Lotus] True Qi and [Red Lotus Calcination Cannon]

【Red Lotus Calcining Cannon】

This is the name of Weiwei's newly manufactured weapon during this period of time.

Generally speaking, it is still a ballista, but compared to the concept of ballista in most hunters' routines, Weiwei's [Red Lotus Calcined Cannon] can be said to completely exclude the function of continuous firing, and take into account the internal characteristics of the shell Gunpowder requires a certain amount of reaction time, and it needs to be preheated for a full 3 minutes before each launch.

The steps can be regarded as quite troublesome, and it is completely unsuitable to use in battle from a common sense point of view.

But in contrast, the range and power of the [Red Lotus Calcined Cannon] have also been strengthened to the limit.

Of course, even so, it is still impossible to achieve the terrifying power like just now.

The reason why Weiwei can achieve this level is mainly because of her newly awakened true meaning of qi.

The True Meaning of Qi——【Red Lotus】

[Strengthen all attribute attacks related to blasting, and trigger explosions at any time when the conditions are met. 】

The previous sentence is easy to understand, that is, all the attacks that Weiwei uses that are related to blasting can be strengthened to the limit, which is the main reason why Weiwei can create such a terrifying bombardment.

As for the second half of the sentence, to put it simply, it doesn’t even need to be ignited, as long as the gunpowder and saltpetre required for the explosion, it can trigger an explosion anytime and anywhere. .

For example, originally a bomb barrel may need to be ignited to explode, but now Weiwei can remotely control it to explode at any time as long as a little Qi is attached to the bomb barrel.

For example, at this moment, the [Red Lotus Calcination Cannon] that originally needed 3 minutes to warm up, under the action of Weiwei's [Red Lotus] Qi, does not even need half a second. As long as she is willing, she can achieve a completely non-cooling Bursts.

Considering the bullet capacity of the red lotus calcined cannon, she can fire three cannons in a short period of time like the bombardment that wiped out the tengu beast with one shot just now, and she has even surpassed everyone except the ancient tower in terms of combat effectiveness.

Even Guta dared not face her shelling directly.

This girl is a natural gunner and gunner, with terrifying accuracy. From the establishment of the team to the present, Guta has never seen her miss.

"Huh~ It's cool!" Weiwei put down the slightly red barrel, pulled the front of her chest with a happy face, and fanned the wind with her hands vigorously.

【Red Lotus】Zhen Qi seems to have the side effect of raising body temperature. Every time Weiwei uses it up, she is always in a state of being hot and smoky, and everyone is not surprised.

Turning his head away, without looking at the large snow-white skin that she inadvertently exposed, Guta walked around the red-glowing ground, squatted down and observed the tengu beast's body.

"Huh~" It seems that there is something new, and Guta sticks out with one hand.

A burst of gravitational force spread rapidly, and soon...a certain crystal glowing with purple light flew out from the scorched and completely carbonized chest of the Tengu Beast.

"What is this?" Nia approached curiously, looking at the strange stone in Guta's hand.

"I don't know for the time being. Let the people from the Kuanglong Virus Research Institute fiddle with it when the task is handed over." Guta can roughly guess that this spar is probably something similar to gallstones.

From the above, we may be able to trace some information about mad dragon disease, but it is of little significance... Compared with this method, observing the ecology of mad dragon monsters, or directly capturing black erosion dragons, is obviously much more efficient.

"Check the vicinity to make sure there are no new infections... The infectivity of this virus is indeed a headache." Guta looked around and tapped his temples helplessly.

The rest of the people nodded, and soon began to check the valley.

This is much more time-consuming than simply fighting the Tengu.

……

"Village Chief, you should be able to submit the task, right?"

After searching around, Guta, who was sure that there were no more infected people, found a nearby village with half a piece of charred tengu beast tooth.

The village head is a rare young man with a bookish look, holding an ancient book in his hand.

He didn't have the logo of Longli Academy or the Scholars Team on his body, and he seemed to be a wild scholar.

"Yes, you just need to give me the certificate and the task list. As for the place to collect the bounty... would you choose East Doruma or another place?"

The village head took the animal tooth from Guta's hand and looked at it in the sunlight, "This tooth...you just hunted down the nearby Tengu beast infected with the mad dragon virus?"

Everyone in the Canglan Star team nodded hesitantly.

The village chief is obviously very familiar with the tengu, and said with some regret at the moment: "That tengu, in fact, has a good nature. There have been situations where villagers in distress were rescued by it before, and we have always deliberately not disturbed it. Thinking of... eh."

Sighing, the village chief put the task list and the animal teeth into his side pocket.

Afterwards, he raised his head to look at the crowd, and said, "Guys, do you need a carriage? We also have a small post station here, which can provide chocobo rental services."

"No need, village chief, we came here by flying boat, and the flight will arrive at the nearby dock in two hours."

Nia said with some embarrassment.

Sure enough, the village head in front of him soon showed a disappointed expression.

"Ever since flying ships came out, everyone is reluctant to take ground transportation like chocobos. Hey, I don't know what will happen to our small stations in the future."

Rao Guta, he was not too embarrassed to start a conversation for a while, so after saying goodbye, he left here in a hurry with his companions.

Although they sympathize with them, and feel a little bit sorry for these irreversible changes, in any case, it is impossible for them to give up the convenient means of transportation such as airships and use the time-consuming and labor-intensive method of movement of chocobos.

The change of times is something that cannot be helped.

……

Riding on the newly arrived airship, Canglan Xing and his party arrived at their next stop very quickly.

The hometown of beautiful mountains and rivers ——【Yanhuo Village】

Of course, it also has another name that is talked about.

【Village of Starting Point】

According to legend, the first stop of the [Annihilator] Thagul in his hunter career was here.

It even became a place of pilgrimage for countless hunters.

Disembarking from the temporary stop about half a kilometer away from the village, Guta stood on the hillside, looked at the phantom of the village faintly visible in the distance with his powerful perception, and took a deep breath unconsciously.

Many memories of the past, as well as people and things that have disappeared for many years, come to mind little by little.

The heavy time of half a century was so clearly pressing on his heart at this moment, which made him feel tired from the bottom of his heart.

Although I subconsciously ignored these changes, in the final analysis... everything has changed.

Suddenly, a palm rested lightly on Guta's shoulder.

Turning his face sideways, Nia's image appeared in Guta's special vision.

"Let's go, Huoya, Shuiyun and the others are still waiting for us."

Shaking his head with a dumbfounded smile, Guta temporarily let go of the complicated feelings in his heart, and reluctantly followed a group of curious companions, walking slowly towards the entrance of Poxia Village.

……

Chapter 5 The Flaming Fire Village

Walking past the fences and fortifications set up outside Yanhuo Village, a wooden bridge covered in red paint soon appeared in front of them.

On both sides of the bridge, there were many colorful flags with various patterns drawn on them. From time to time, pedestrians carrying loads walked by and greeted the Canglan Star team friendly.

This is the entrance to Yanhuo Village.

"It doesn't look very big here, but it always feels like it's more lively than Jieyun's side."

Weiwei looked around curiously, staring at the black-tiled building standing behind the bridge with dragon-shaped chimneys on the roof, "Is that the legendary bellows for ironmaking?"

Guta chuckled and stepped forward, the perception like sound waves swept across the surroundings in an instant.

Soon, he sensed two familiar breaths.

In addition, he was a little surprised that no less than ten people seemed to have discovered his wide-area perception, and one of them even followed him directly, as if he wanted to see who was so unscrupulous in Yanhuo Village.

"Oh, it's probably that one."