On the beach, Alva lit a fire with a sad face.
Cover the lit fire with some wet leaves or something, and thick smoke will rise. The weather conditions today are good, the wind is very light, and the smoke column can be vaguely seen dozens of kilometers away.
As for whether other teams will see it and rush over, it depends on luck.
The four hunting cats and the dark night also set off.
They were divided into three groups, with the most experienced Bones acting alone, which would traverse the basically oval-shaped island until they reached the other end of the island.
Pandan and Owl, Pork Chop and Fire Scythe searched separately along the coastline of the island. Whichever team found something would send out signal flares to notify each other.
There was nothing wrong with this arrangement, but Xianglan felt that there was something wrong with the guy she was assigned with.
With its keen perception, it could clearly feel that the latter's attention had been locked on it and almost never left.
Then consider the legendary dark night’s work direction.
I always feel like this guy wants to take advantage of me when I'm alone.
This terrifying suspicion made the hair on the tip of Pandan's tail explode. It stopped, jumped back, arched its back and bared its fangs, glaring majestically at the owl following behind it.
"Meow——! What are you doing, meow!"
"?" Owl looked at Xianglan inexplicably.
"Why do you keep staring at me?"
"I don't."
"There's meow!"
"." The scene was deadlocked for a few seconds, and the owl sighed and admitted, "I'm observing and learning from you."
"Learn from meow?"
"I have never experienced working with hunting cats and searching for monsters. You guys seem to have a lot of experience, so I am learning from you."
"Say meow early!" Xianglan stood up. It was the first time she heard that someone wanted to learn from it. Xianglan puffed up her belly happily, "I can teach you how to meow!"
".Thanks."
Xianglan turned around and meowed as she continued to run forward, "My secret is that smell is the key! As long as you follow the smell, whether it's a trace or the monster itself, it's easy to find it!"
The owl glanced at the tip of his nose, wanting to complain about something, but in the end he habitually said, "Understood."
Xianglan, who rarely had the opportunity to be a teacher, seemed very interested. After running for a while, she stood up and sniffed from side to side. "Whenever the wind blows, I have to sniff carefully."
Wind can sometimes bring smells from far away places, which is also very important. "
"clear."
"You can hold your breath for a short time from time to time to avoid being exposed to a certain smell for a long time and causing olfactory paralysis."
"clear."
The owl has become an answering machine.
She has been following Pandan's method, because the techniques shared by the latter are indeed very practical, but it is a pity that her sense of smell is not as sharp as Ellu.
Another gust of sea breeze came.
Xianglan suddenly stopped and sniffed carefully toward the sea.
The owl followed suit and carefully distinguished the smells hidden in the sea breeze, and actually made some discoveries.
She said in surprise, "This, this smell is?"
"Yes, meow. It smells a bit like black oil, meow, but it's different, meow. This smell feels a bit familiar, meow." Xianglan ruffled her ears, "I remember it, meow! It's the sulfur smell of magma, meow!"
One person and one cat raised their heads. A few kilometers away on the other side of the sea, another island was in sight.
"Is there an active volcano crater on that island?" Xianglan asked the owl.
The owl's tone returned to calmness, "It's not mentioned in the information, but it may be that the vegetation on the island is not very lush from here."
"Let's go over there and investigate, meow!"
Xianglan put the current task behind her and pointed at the island in the distance, meowing loudly, "Scholars say that the black oil of Styracosaurus has a high proportion of sulfur. It should like this kind of volcanic island." The place meow.”
Feeling that Xianglan's analysis made sense, the owl nodded and prepared to walk into the sea.
"What are you doing, meow?!"
"Go to that island."
"You want to swim there, meow?!"
"yes."
"Are you crazy?!" Xianglan jumped up and kicked the owl, "Go back to Alva and ask him to drive us there in an airship, Meow!"
"clear."
One person and one cat quickly returned to the beach where the airship landed.
The young scribe Alva was fiddling with the bonfire boredly, while thinking about what kind of things could be thrown in to produce a more conspicuous smoke column.
He was still a little stunned when he saw Xianglan and Owl running back.
"Take off the airship, take off the airship, meow!" Xianglan jumped up and down, "The island in the south is a volcanic island, meow. I smell the smell of sulfur, meow. Styracosaurus likes to eat that meow!"
Alva was obviously not the type to follow the rules. He immediately jumped up and climbed into the airship to prepare for takeoff.
The owl looked at Xianglan, "If you need to launch a signal flare, inform the other two teams."
"Don't meow yet. We are just guessing, meow. We will notify you when we find the exact traces."
"clear."
Small airboats have poor carrying capacity, poor ability to withstand extreme weather, and are not very fast. Their only advantage is flexibility and convenience.
One person can easily control it and take off quickly.
The airboat drifted leisurely towards the island that was suspected to have a volcanic crater. As the distance got closer, the smell of sulfur in the air became more obvious.
Alva controlled the airship to lower its altitude. He glanced at the bushes on the island that had turned gray. "It seems that there is indeed a crater. There should have been a small eruption in the past few days. There is still volcanic ash on the plants."
As for the crater, it is generally in the center of the island. Should we land here, or should we fly directly there? "
"Fly over there, meow!" Xianglan waved her paw.
One of the two people next to him is not decisive, and the other is accustomed to obeying orders. As a result, he became the commander.
The airship maintained a height of several hundred meters above the ground and moved forward slowly. It was easy to find the crater from the air. Soon, they discovered the small volcanic rock mountain.
When she was about to pass over the crater, Xianglan suddenly felt excited, "This, this kind of smell, occasionally feels bad, meow!"
Alva knew that the senses of trained hunting cats were much sharper than those of ordinary people, so he decisively began to climb higher.
The small airship rose slowly.
The two of them and the cat stared closely at the location of the crater. They all had a premonition that something would suddenly rush out of the crater.
But no.
When the airship arrived directly above the crater, they witnessed and confirmed that the crater was empty, the magma was basically extinguished, and there was nothing entrenched and living in it.
Faced with such a result, they couldn't tell for a moment whether they felt lucky or disappointed.
"Wait, meow?!" Sharp-eyed Xianglan suddenly made some new discoveries.
It took the telescope from Alva's hand, looked at the array carefully, and then jumped up excitedly.
"Seven o'clock direction, meow! There is black oil on the mountain near the foot of the mountain, but the ground is dark, so I can't see it clearly, meow! Although it's not in the crater, it should be around here, meow!"
The owl tightened the straps of his armor and weapons, "Do you want to land now and conduct ground reconnaissance?"
Xianglan was stunned for a moment, curled up her neck and shook her head seriously, "Let's forget it, Meow. Let's fire off the signal flares and leave the ground reconnaissance work to Pig Chop and the others. Meow."
"."
Alva looked at the owl.
The owl took a deep breath and made the decision for the first time, "Land."
"Meow meow meow!?"
(End of chapter)
