"Meow--! It's beautiful, meow!" Pig Chop jumped out of the airship and let out a burst of exclamation.
This is a flat valley surrounded by mountains.
Located on a plateau, the mountain breeze mixed with the fragrance of grass and earth is so fresh that it seems to cleanse the soul.
Under the blue sky, a few white clouds floated low, as if you could catch them in your palm just by stretching out your hand.
Gordon took a deep breath of refreshing air, held it in for a long time, and then slowly exhaled it. His body suddenly felt relaxed. "Master is not exaggerating at all. It is a good place."
"Right!" Yuna came over, looking proud, "It's not like we haven't been to the world outside the mountains. Compared to this, this place is the most beautiful!"
"How many places have you been to? You're so loud." Lan sneered and said, "The world outside is so vast!"
"I haven't been there, have you been?!"
Lan dusted off the non-existent dust on his shoulder armor, "How do you know I haven't been there? At least I have been to the Frasian Snow Mountains, the Great Desert, and the Shuretson Hills!"
Yuna pursed her lips angrily.
She was promoted to two stars just a while ago. When she was a one-star hunter, she was not qualified to take on missions to hunting grounds in these areas.
She looked around and saw that her brother Yin Liade would not intervene in such meaningless arguments. Most of the time, he was mute.
But the presence of Gordon made Yuna's eyes light up, "Senior Gordon! Senior Gordon! You are a high-level hunter. You must have been to many places, right?"
Facing this nonsense question, Gordon scratched his chin and said, "Indeed, I have been to quite a few places. I have been to basically all the major hunting grounds in the Old Continent and the Western Continent."
"Compared with those places, our Bernard Village is also very good, right?" Yuna asked repeatedly.
"Well, indeed, although there are different scenery everywhere, the scenery on the plateau here is indeed dazzling."
"Look!" Yuna felt like she had won and raised her chin towards Lan.
Lan, however, didn't bother to pay attention to her at all. He was very adventurous and had always dreamed of traveling around the world. His attention was entirely focused on Gordon's phrase "everywhere has its own scenery."
"Senior Gordon! Are there any places that particularly impress you?"
Gordon thought for a while and replied with a smile: "There are many, the bustling streets with no end in sight in East Doruma, Sky Mountain, the windy village of Sinard Village, the dust city of Lockark on the giant rocks of the sand sea, There are so many Yanhuo Villages on the mainland where cherry blossoms are flying all year round that it’s hard to mention..."
Lan, who was full of longing, seemed to have fallen into fantasy, and even Yuna and Yin Liade, who didn't like to talk much, had a different look on their faces.
"Yeah~ Not to mention the young people in the village, even an old man like me felt like his soul was about to fly away after hearing this!"
A sturdy man with a thick beard came over holding a hiking pole.
"Oh, it's the village chief uncle!"
"Hello, village chief!"
"village head."
Yuna and the others greeted each other one after another, and Gordon also knew the identity of the other party.
Following the dragon tribe old man, there are more dragon tribe grandpas, dragon tribe grandma, dragon tribe elder sister, and dragon tribe young man. Is the village chief this time a human uncle?
"Hello, Mr. Village Chief." Gordon nodded to the other party, "I am a hunter introduced by the guild to support Longliyuan. I estimate that I will stay in your village for a while. This is my letter of introduction."
The bearded village chief took the letter, read it quickly, and carefully confirmed the seal before the vigilance in his eyes dissipated.
It’s no wonder that he was dressed in Gordon’s outfit, which could easily give people the negative impression of a “violent criminal”.
"Mr. Hunter, thank you for coming all the way here."
The village chief stretched out his generous palm and shook hands with Gordon, "I am the village chief of Bernard Village, haha, just like the young people in the village, just call me the village chief uncle!
The Ryuryakuin research facilities can be seen all the way up the hillside. "
The village chief uncle pointed into the distance and could see a limestone "object" like a huge mountain over there.
"Right at the foot of that giant mountain."
Gordon nodded.
It is said that a team of scholars came here and stayed here for a long time in order to investigate the super giant limestone.
That was the predecessor of Longliyuan.
With the establishment of Longliyuan, scattered herdsmen on the plateau and some small surrounding villages gradually gathered, eventually forming today's Bernard Village.
From the beginning to the present, the two have always had this kind of interdependence and mutual help relationship, and it can even be said that they are integrated into one.
"Yuna, help Mr. Hunter pack up an empty room and come out. It's the one on the east slope."
"Leave it to us!"
The village chief turned his attention back to Gordon, "That was another hunter's residence over there. It has weapons racks, storage boxes and other furniture, which is very convenient.
You can go to the chief researcher of Longli Institute to register your information first, and you should be able to check in directly when you come back. "
"I understand, thank you very much."
Even if the village chief didn't say anything, Gordon would still go to the chief researcher.
The master craftsman had asked himself to give the drawings to the chief researcher and then ask him to help transfer them to the chief engineer. Although he didn't know why there was such an extra step, the master must have his reasons.
After thanking him, Gordon said goodbye to the village chief and the trio for the time being, and walked up the hillside with the pork chop.
More than a quarter of an hour later, he came to the research facility that the village chief uncle mentioned.
Unlike the tall buildings in East Doruma, the research facilities here are semi-open-air, and the housing part is also composed of multiple small buildings in parallel.
Pork Chop jumped on Gordon's shoulder and looked over, "Gordon, look over there! It looks like a large open-air dock. It should be a place where large spaceships are built."
Gordon looked over there, "It should be, but the construction progress is slower than I thought. I thought it was almost complete, but it looks like this is just the beginning of construction?"
"I guess there's really a shortage of materials, meow..."
"Excuse me, who are you two?" A man wearing a light cyan scholar's robe walked towards them.
He looked to be in his early thirties, wearing glasses, with silvery hair and long pointed ears.
Dragon tribe? It's hard to judge at that age...
"Hello, I am a hunter assigned by the guild to come to support me. Could you please tell me where I can find the chief researcher?"
"Higher Hunter Gordon, right? It's been a hard journey."
The dragon researcher smiled happily, "We received the letter from the guild headquarters a week ago. We have been waiting for you for a long time. Welcome!
Well, I almost forgot to introduce myself. I am the chief researcher of Longli Institute. The registration will be completed quickly. "
Pork Chop glanced sideways at Gordon.
If they hadn't been lucky enough to meet the three members of the cross team and board the airship, they would have had to climb over the mountains and ridges for at least half a month before they could climb to the village of Bernard.
Although the other person's appearance was unexpectedly young, Gordon did not doubt his identity - there was no point in telling such a lie that would be exposed immediately.
“There’s no hurry about registration.”
Gordon took off the heavy metal document tube from behind his back, "This is a drawing from my master, Master Campbell.
He asked me to give you this drawing and then ask you to forward it to the 'Chief Engineer'. "
"Master Campbell, that famous craftsman?"
The chief researcher was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Leave it to the chief engineer? I understand, that old man has a bad temper. I'll just leave in a while."
