The search begins.
Under normal circumstances, hunters would spread out and search an area. If they found something or encountered a monster, it would be the most efficient way to send out flares to warn their companions, but this was obviously not possible now.
Acting alone, Feng Ying might be able to survive the encounter with the Prison Wolf Dragon for a while. With Amber around, she should be able to escape, but Sunshine's little brother Aiden would be more dangerous, so Gordon decided to act together.
The direction of their exploration is also very clear, which is the group of ruins where they encountered the Prison Wolf Dragon before.
That area is originally the territory of the Prison Wolf Dragon, and there are a lot of Hexing Stones scattered around, which may attract dragon-eating insects.
At that time, there is no need to rush to use the insect catching net. It seems to be a good idea to let the dragon-eating insects lead them to the prison wolf dragon.
Feng Ying rode Amber and walked at the front of the team.
She searched very carefully, her eyes carefully scanning every stone crevice and grass. Whenever she saw a piece of grass with a slightly white color, she would go over to confirm it. Her pointed ears would tremble from time to time, and she could hear the sounds of the surrounding environment. Be careful.
Gordon sighed, if only this kid would be so serious and cautious every time.
Aiden's performance is also very good, he is very smart, there is Feng Ying nearby, Amber and Gordon are paying attention, and there is really some overlap when he stares again.
So he raised his head and paid attention to the surrounding mountains and cliffs, and from time to time he opened his telescope to confirm the situation in the distance.
Doing so would make it less likely to uncover clues, but it would eliminate the possibility of them being raided by monsters from above.
Julius's disciples do have a way of teaching him, Gordon sighed in his heart.
It is said that apprentices will become more and more like their masters. Aiden, who was once hot-blooded and brainless, learned Julius's caution and meticulousness, so what did Feng Ying, who already likes to make sudden advances, learn from her?
Do pigs protrude more powerfully?
wrong! Now Feng Ying is no longer reckless. She is still quite flexible and calm when fighting. She should have her own contribution to this.
While Gordon was paying attention to the surrounding situation, he comforted himself in his heart.
Amber, who was carrying Feng Ying, suddenly stopped. He sniffed around and made a "wow" sound.
Pig Chop also sniffed, "I smell urine, meow. This should be the territory of the Prison Wolf Dragon from now on, meow."
"Yes." Gordon nodded, expelling all the vague thoughts in his mind, and said in a deep voice: "Stay vigilant."
The team began to move in a relatively compact triangular formation. The hunters were only a few meters away from each other and could support each other at any time.
They moved forward while searching like this. An hour or two passed in the blink of an eye. At that time, the ruins of the previous encounter with the Prison Wolf Dragon were already in front of them. Feng Ying still found nothing, which made her a little anxious.
Gordon felt helpless. The carrot he gave might be too tempting. Donkey Fengying wanted to eat it too much, which made her worry about gain and loss.
"What are you anxious about?" Gordon asked angrily.
"But, it's been so long, and I still haven't found any clues."
"Is there a possibility that there are no clues in the first place?" Gordon said, "Didn't I find nothing?!"
"Yes!" Feng Ying suddenly realized.
"Don't think wildly, keep your mind calm, and focus solely on how to do better and how to get rewards. On the contrary, you will make mistakes."
After listening to Gordon's reminder, Feng Ying nodded, took a deep breath, put aside distracting thoughts, and prepared to continue the search.
Gordon speeded up and walked in front of her, "It's not a good thing to have your nerves tense for a long time. Enter the ruins, take a rest, eat and rest to adjust your state.
This place is already deep inside the territory of the prison wolf dragon. The guy may appear at any time. If he smells a strange smell, he may come to him and be prepared for an encounter. "
Feng Ying was obviously aware of her problem. After entering the ruins building, she ate quickly and closed her eyes to relax.
Amber sniffed around, Pork Chop asked him to be quiet, then pulled Gordon, and whispered at a volume that only the latter could hear: "The smell of that guy remains in the entire ruins, he may come back here often. Meow."
Gordon nodded and let Aiden and the others rest first, while he walked out of the ruins hall of the suspected religious building with the pork chop and came to the surrounding dilapidated courtyards.
First, they walked around and found a lot of footprints in the courtyard of the ruins, which further confirmed the target's conclusion that the target had been here recently. Then they came to a messy rock wall.
Gordon stopped and looked at the huge claw marks crisscrossing the rock wall, "I remember this is it, right?"
"That's right, meow." Zhupa nodded, "The Hexing Stone was found here, meow. I remember that there was only a crack on the rock wall at that time, and there were no traces of these claws.
The smell around me was also very strong, and some of the claw marks might have been left in the past few days. "
Gordon took a closer look and saw that there was no longer any black ore on the rock wall. There were only scattered black fragments among the gravel scattered around.
"That guy came here specifically to scratch the rock wall. It's not like sharpening his claws. He is probably helping the dragon-eating insect to break up the Hexing Stone so that the latter can absorb energy."
Measuring the length and depth of the claw marks with his eyes, Gordon chuckled and said, "What a responsible and good landlord, he also takes care of the food."
At this moment, a butterfly with membrane wings faintly emitting a bright red light flew past Gordon and the others.
Zhupa's eyes lit up, and he forcibly stopped his instinctive desire to rush forward to catch the butterfly, and jumped excitedly, "It's the dragon-eating insect, meow! Let's follow him, and we'll find that guy soon, meow!"
Gordon's attention was not on the butterfly. He suddenly looked up to the heights as if he felt something.
"Ah."
Gordon couldn't help but smile, "Don't bother, Pig Chop, go and call those two little guys out from their nap, and don't forget to remind them to bring insect nets."
At the top of the twenty- to thirty-meter-high rock wall, the pitch-black giant wolf squatted there quietly like a part of the ruins, its eyes intersecting with the hunter.
"Meow meow meow?!"
The next second, the giant wolf jumped down from the top of the cliff and stopped in front of the hunter and Ella.
Its movements were light, and its strong limbs landed gently like a cat. Its huge body weighing dozens of tons fell to the ground, but it made almost no movement, and the ground only shook slightly.
After landing, the giant wolf surrounded the hunter and Ellu, pacing slowly.
It did not launch an offensive immediately, but carefully looked at the tiny creatures in front of it. The aura contained in those silver-white "carapaces" made it fearful.
Looking at the huge scar on the face of the dark giant wolf that almost split its entire face into two, Gordon couldn't help but grinned and said with a smile, "I haven't seen you for a while, do you still remember me?"
The dark yellow pupils shrank suddenly. It could not distinguish the appearance of humans, but it remembered the smell and sound.
The scars on its face throbbed faintly, its eyes became scarlet due to congestion, and the light of dragon attribute energy escaped from the pupils.
"Ouch——!"
The dark giant wolf looked up to the sky and let out a violent roar.
This time there was no need for Pork Chop to provide wake-up service. Feng Ying and Aiden heard the noise and rushed out of the ruins in a hurry.
"Come on, have you brought your insect net?" Gordon smiled and pulled down his visor, "Get ready to catch butterflies."
As he spoke, Gordon waved his sword and faced the giant black wolf that rushed towards him.
(End of chapter)
