Arriving at the location designated by the client, the bird scratcher was not unexpected, and it did not appear nearby.
"What's the next step? Establish a camp first or expand the search area?"
Eudora asked.
Although both of them were lone hunters before, Eudora had the impression that Li Fan's team had much more hunting experience than him, so he regarded him as the leader of the hunting team.
What to do?
I want to know too...
Li Fan originally thought that Eudora would guide this hunting mission, but he never thought that Eudora had the same idea as him.
Recalling the twelfth question of the hunter assessment, and keeping in mind the responsibilities of each member of the team, he asked a question first.
"Besides fighting, what are you better at in terms of team responsibilities?"
"Set up camp, cook, carry heavy loads, and carry seriously injured teammates to attack and escape."
After Eudora answered, Li Fan immediately started thinking.
After a while, he gave advice: "Then let's set up a camp where you are good at it."
"Okay, I also think we should be more conservative."
After Eudora gave her affirmation, she unloaded the skeleton sword and handed it to Li Fan to take care of. Then she ran to the heights of the hillside to find a suitable place to set up a camp.
"Li Fan, what are you best at in terms of team duties?"
Dilu asked curiously.
"Nothing is good at it."
Li Fan, who was wielding a sword with bones, responded.
Di Lu's eyes widened: "But you are a lone hunter, meow. How do you hunt if you have no special abilities?"
Without the specialized division of labor of a hunter team, the ability of a lone hunter should be more comprehensive.
Go on your own, build a camp, search for traces of the target monster, track the monster, and fight to complete the hunt.
After this whole process, any problem in any link will cause unimaginable difficulties to the hunting mission.
"It was because I used to be more casual when doing hunting missions and ignored these problems, which led to the destruction of the camp and the loss of all my family property. So from now on, I will try my best to learn and master the entire hunting process."
Monster hunting games focus more on the combat part, and coupled with the differences between the game and reality, Li Fan himself is not very outstanding, which can help the team's skills.
However, he did not choose to escape, but faced it.
"No wonder Cat Instructor said that hunters who have special abilities in some aspects will be lacking in other aspects, Meow! I will work hard with you."
Di Lu was very excited to hear that she could grow up with Li Fan.
"Okay! I would like to ask, after the camp is established, should we start exploring the remaining traces to narrow the scope of activities and determine the location of the bird-tickling?"
Li Fan asked tentatively.
"Yes meow."
"There is a small problem. Eudora is not very good at tracking monsters, and I am not very good at it either. So the process will get stuck easily."
Before setting off, Li Fan also thought about this problem.
But the priority is relatively low. Now it seems that if any link is missing, the hunting mission may be shelved for a long time.
"None of you are good at finding traces, cat?"
Dilu couldn't believe it.
"Um."
"That's great, meow."
"ah?"
Li Fan was particularly surprised when he heard the compliment.
Di Lu didn't rush to respond. She raised her cat's claws to straighten the sunhat with goggles on her head, lifted her belt, then scanned the surroundings, found a stone pillar about 3 meters high, and quickly climbed to the top.
"Why are you standing so high?"
Li Fan looked up and said.
Di Lu smiled slightly, took out her notes, flipped through them, and showed two pages to Li Fan.
"Dang! Look at this, meow!"
In the middle of the page on the left side of the note, a three-toed footprint was drawn.
There are many annotations around the footprints based on their size, depth, characteristics, etc. It feels like a graphic version of a biological science book.
The page on the right depicts a strip of feather, and there are also multiple detailed annotations marked on it.
"Are these notes about tickling birds?"
Li Fan asked in surprise.
"Yes, meow, leave the search for the traces left to me."
"Awesome Dilu, why didn't you notice before that you are so good at leaving traces behind?"
"Well... the information that Cat Instructor can display is also very limited. There has been no record of the big strange bird before. I thought that hunting and scratching birds would not have the opportunity to display it. I didn't expect that you are not good at trace investigation, so you will
very excited."
Dilu, who was praised, scratched his head in embarrassment.
Half an hour later, Eudora was on the top of a rock, shouting downwards.
Notify that a suitable place for setting up camp has been found.
Since he needed to climb, after unloading the supplies from Taimei, Li Fan put it into the satiety ball, and then released the big strange bird Kuku.
Kuku seemed uneasy about loading all kinds of heavy carrying straps on his body, but he still cooperated and completed the loading.
Phew! Phew!....
With its wings flapping vigorously, Kuku rose vertically and soon flew to the top of the rock where Eudora was.
Kuku was witnessed and hunted by Li Li himself. There were obvious marks on his body and no one could identify him.
Therefore, it is not a big problem if other hunters witness it again.
Li Fan's only worry is that he is afraid of encountering monsters with a higher ecological niche than Kuku.
Instead of letting it move freely, it was put into the elf ball again.
Tighten the wind rope and secure the ground nails.
After assisting Eudora in setting up the camp tent, the sky gradually became dark.
Eudora originally wanted to visually observe with a telescope on the top of the rock to look for traces of the birds. He was particularly surprised to hear that Dilu was good at investigating traces.
Because purely visual observation, in the vast wilderness, it is basically a matter of luck.
After dinner in front of the stew pot, the soft moonlight enveloped the earth.
Eudora was reading a book in the tent, and Li Fan kept swinging the jaw blade in the air next to the camp fire to practice the distance control of air blade slashing.
Dilu was holding an empty bottle and collecting samples of unseen substances around the camp.
Although this area is not very far from Kara Village, Dilu has never been there, and many things are very novel to it.
The two of them and the cat spent a peaceful night like this.
The next day, as soon as it dawned, it began to drizzle, and gray clouds covered the sky.
"Oh no, rainy days are not good for trace investigation."
"It doesn't matter. The Tickle Bird is a very active monster, and it's not good at hiding itself. I believe you can do it, Dilu."
Eudora said as she stepped on the fire and put out the fire, carrying the skeleton sword on her back and getting ready to go.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Bang! Bang!
One person and one cat jumped directly from the rock. Although it was not as exaggerated as falling to the bottom, it only landed on a lower rock platform. Li Fan was still frightened to see it.
Smells, footprints, bone mounds, traces of destruction, decaying beast carcasses, and even huge piles of feces...
Dilu didn't miss any detail and carefully explored the muddy jungle bit by bit.
After the two men and one cat pursued it all morning, they came to the bottom of a rock.
Looking at a line of cat paw prints and two lines of human footprints in the soil that had not been washed away by the rain, Di Lu looked up.
"This looks like the camp we set out from... Meow."
"It doesn't seem like it, this is it."
Li Fan added.
"Obviously I have been following the traces..."
Di Lu lowered her ears and her eyes dimmed immediately.
"Don't be discouraged, we still have observation and tracking methods that can be used."
Li Fan gently touched Di Lu's shoulder and said comfortingly.
"Gu Gu Gu Gu Gu..."
At this time, a rapid and powerful sound, similar to the chirping of a bird, came from above.
Phew! Before he could figure out the situation, a black shadow fell from high in the sky.
The legs of the jumping dragon landed firmly on the ground, and the black three-toed soles sank into the mud.
Seeing the orange and yellow stripes on the back, Li Fan and Eudora said in unison: "Tickling the bird!"
The scratching bird turned its slender neck, and the row of orange feathers on its head had been wetted by the rain and hung slightly to one side, like a Gothic side-parted hairstyle.
Two hook-like three-toed forelimbs held a pitch-black barrel-shaped object at the end.
"Stewpot! Meow!"
Dilu shouted anxiously.
But Tickle Bird didn't take it seriously, turned around and took a step forward with the stew pot in hand, and started galloping on the muddy road.
"If you dare to steal my pot...I'll chase you, Eudora is waiting for my signal!"
Li Fan took off two elf balls from his shoulder strap and threw them out.
While riding on Taimei's back, Kuku also took off into the air.
Although it has amazing endurance, it is good at running long distances.
However, Taimei is currently in a zero-load state with no carrying items.
Carrying only a hunter wearing a breastplate and a sword, Li Fan was confident that he could catch up.
Di Lu crawled on Li Fan's back and moved the goggles above his head to his eyes.
"Follow me, it's so beautiful!"
The current ones are so beautiful. After participating in Kuku hunting, the most important thing I lack is confidence.
Not to mention chasing the male fire dragon, Li Fan felt that as long as he gave the order, the other party would dare to try.
The chase lasted for about five minutes, and Zia Niaojian, who kept watching, was unable to distance himself.
He simply stepped hard on the ground with his two paws and came to a sudden stop.
"Goooooooo!"
After barking at Li Fan for a while, seeing that the other party was unmoved, he turned around and wanted to escape. Unfortunately, Kuku, who was waving his wings in the air, had already landed steadily and blocked his path.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Kuku lowered his center of gravity and rubbed the ground with one sole, ready to perform a bird-car crash at any time.
After a brief assessment of the threat level, Tickled Bird turned to face Kuku.
Looking down on me so much...
"Dilu, send the flare!"
"No, meow, Eudora is here!"
Dilu told him while looking back.
"If we can keep up with this speed...forget it, let's throw one dyed ball each."
Li Fan was a little worried about Eudora's physical fitness.
The reason why I had to act on my own before was because I knew that it would be difficult for a hunter to keep up with the monster just by running long distances.
I thought about intercepting the scratching bird and releasing the signal point to give the location.
I didn't expect that Eudora would force herself to catch up.
"Whoa!"
Kuku spread his legs and rushed forward quickly.
Tickling Bird bent his knees to gather strength, leaped forward high, and when he stepped on Kuku's back, he slammed down the stew pot he was holding.
Kuku staggered as he was hit, and before he entered the second half of the collision where the bird-car was lacking in power, he was already sliding close to the ground.
Sure enough it doesn't work.
Li Fan was not too surprised by this result.
In terms of size and strength alone, Kuku actually has a certain advantage.
But this scratching bird was just like the bear. It attacked passers-by and ended up on the union notice board.
Coupled with the species characteristics of daring to steal various dragon eggs, the accumulation of actual combat experience is obviously stronger than that of Kuku.
Whizzing!
Li Fan and Di Lu threw two dyed balls, one on the left and one on the right, hitting the torso and legs of the bird.
Two masses of pink mist with a pungent smell exploded.
After Kuku stood up, he felt quite unhappy. A black mist emerged from the giant beak, which was obviously brewing a fireball of flames.
"No Kuku!"
Li Fan quickly spoke up to stop him.
The flame fireball is launched in a projectile trajectory. Not only does it have a falling process, but Kuku's own hit rate is also very impressive.
"Woo!"
Kuku screamed fiercely, obviously very unhappy, but finally resisted the urge to spray fireballs of flames.
At this time, he was slightly confused when he saw the constant interaction between humans and monsters.
Cainiao knew that both sides were hostile to him, but the fact that the other side was in the same group was beyond his comprehension.
throat!
The sound of a sword being drawn sounded, and the bird immediately became alert.
But the one who saw the weapon drawn was Li Fan, who was very thin in stature and equipment.
Tickle Bird was stunned for a moment.
Because Li Fan has become a very contradictory existence in his eyes.
The other party didn't look like a threatening human being, but the posture with the knife raised seemed to make the bird feel uneasy.
Huh~huh~
Li Fan increased his breathing intensity.
My mind kept thinking about the details of the training during this period, as well as the combat experience accumulated by the monster hunter.
The beak of the scratching bird in front of me is not as big as Kuku.
But when you look at it at close range, you can notice the metallic black light emitting from it, as well as the sharp tips.
Although Li Fan didn't want to admit it, he really felt a strong sense of oppression.
After about ten seconds of confrontation, Cainiao suddenly lowered his body, gathered momentum with his two paws, and jumped towards Li Fan.
Li Fan bent over and rolled forward.
Of course, the roll here does not have an invincible frame, but it is because of the hunter's strong physical strength that it has become a physical skill that can be used to quickly move and avoid.
Li Fan also learned from this that increasing strength can not only be used for weapons, but is also a necessary condition for developing physical skills.
Among them, the double-sword ghost dance is not just a double-sword move, but a product that is highly integrated with physical skills.
Three-toed claws with sharp barbs passed over the head.
Li Fan put his palms on the ground and stood up quickly.
He knew very well that there was no follow-up action for Tickle Bird's jumping attack. As long as he used the knife quickly enough, it would definitely not be a problem to hit Tickle Bird with a knife from behind!
Step forward with one foot and slash down with great force.
When! The jaw blade struck from behind on the strong thigh of the bird, the blade did not cut through the hard and fine scales on the body surface, and there was a strong rebound.
However, because this sword is very powerful, I still managed to absorb the Qi training.
The tickling bird tilted its body slightly and turned around quickly.
This time he didn't jump up, but smashed the stew pot down directly.
Bang! Earth and rocks flew.
Li Fan ran down as fast as he could, but managed to avoid it.
However, the proper posture for holding the tachi has been completely deformed, and the tachi is held in the hand like a machete.
It's like fighting with someone. You rehearse many moves in your mind before you take action.
But when it comes to fighting, you can only use bastard punches.
I forgot to put away the knife!
Li Fan also realized his mistake, but it was too late.
