Li Fan slashed wildly at the cave training ground with a knife. Even if he hit the ice wall, he didn't stop at all.
"What's going on? Why are they all standard slashing movements?"
Eudora watched for a moment and asked in shock.
The assimilation effect of dragon-slaying equipment is a strong impulse to slash. Generally speaking, it is easy to shoot casually and chop out at will.
"Perhaps Li Fan has trained this set of movements into an instinctive cat after countless trainings."
Dilu analyzed.
After three hours of slashing like this, Li Fan fell to the ground from exhaustion.
When he regained consciousness, he was already lying in a warm tent.
"How do you feel, meow?"
Dilu brought a bowl of hot soup.
“It’s pretty cool.”
"Meow?"
"Well, it's quite refreshing. You can slash freely without thinking about anything. Your mind is in a state of relaxation."
Li Fan recalled.
The adaptation training continued like this for four days.
On the fifth day, Eudora had just started practicing in the cave for a while when she heard a roar.
The walls on both sides of the cave entrance suddenly cracked. Li Fan saw several cracks spreading to his feet, and quickly dragged Yudora up.
Boom! Two people and one cat grabbed the flying insects and hung them in mid-air, while the cave training ground below had collapsed extensively.
Is this because the training ground is gone? The ice layer is really not reliable.
No matter how much Li Fan thought about it, he never expected that this would happen.
After falling on the snow, Eudora took off his dragon-slaying helmet. The remaining three pieces of dragon-slaying equipment could be resisted through willpower, so he put them on.
"I originally thought I would adapt to the full set of equipment today, but now it's all over."
The depressed Eudora picked up a cotton hat and put it on her head.
"As long as everything is fine, we can still find a venue."
Li Fan is still relatively optimistic.
“A lot of animal meat cat”
Di Lu looked at the collapsed ruins, her eyes shining.
"Animal meat?"
Li Fan also looked over.
At the section of the collapsed ice, a cave about the same size as a training ground was revealed.
Pieces of frozen meat with the skin removed are piled up in the corners. From a distance, they look a bit like the frozen meat freezer in a supermarket.
The team approached and Li Fan picked up a piece of frozen meat. When he saw the rough tear marks on the edges, he knew that this was not stored by humans.
"You still know how to remove the fur when you refrigerate it. This is a weird thing."
Li Fan said.
"There is also an opening above that is similar to the patio of the training ground, but this one seems to be blocked."
Eudora pointed to the ice at the top of the cave.
"It's blocked? Could it be that"
Li Fan thought of something, walked out of the ice section, released two flying insects one after another to climb over the ice, and reached the top of the ice.
After a short search, I dug under an area with shallow snow, and soon I came across a round ice cube made of crushed ice.
After being smashed with the Dragon-Zan Ryutachi, except for the larger diameter, it is almost the same as the entrance to the training ground's patio.
"What is Li Fan doing up there?"
Di Lu raised her head and asked curiously.
"This cave is not natural, it is a monster's lair."
"ah?"
"Meow?"
Upon hearing Li Fan's conclusion, Eudora and Dilu were immediately stunned.
The team quickly met below, and Li Fan immediately explained.
"If the judgment is correct, this is a double-cavity nest, which can fulfill the two functions of storing food. The owner has not been back for a long time, so the traces of life in the cave used for rest are not obvious. Of course, it is also possible that the owner is busy hunting.
Or maybe he didn’t check in at all for other reasons.”
"Can you tell what kind of monster it is?"
Eudora asked.
"Judging from the broken ice that currently seals the entrance to the storage cave and the cracks on the meat, Icetooth Dragon is the most likely possibility."
"Could it be that snow shadow?"
Eudora looked forward to it.
"I don't know, but the characteristics given by the guild are that the coat color and carapace are grayish, so it should be easy to determine."
"Then what should we do now?"
Dilu asked, sitting on top of the pile of frozen beast meat.
"I haven't thought about it yet, but if we transport these pieces of animal meat back to the camp, we will have a lot of time to think about it slowly."
The team immediately took action.
The little fool flew back and forth while eating, carrying it back and forth five times, and finally emptied all the pieces of animal meat in the cave.
If the hunter team doesn't have to worry about hunting, they will have a lot of free time every day.
So the team had lunch and began to discuss the deployment. They continued to study until dinner was over, and came up with a plan to temporarily put aside the adaptation training and monitor the collapsed cave.
The first reason is, of course, to try to secure a hunting contract.
The secondary reason was that no one knew what the opponent would do to an Icetooth Dragon whose base was stolen.
Moreover, the camp is too close to the cave training ground. If the camp is attacked and destroyed, the team will not be able to think about it easily.
The next day, two people and one cat took turns squatting in the wild, and this began.
The specific implementation method is to select a relatively high hillside in the distance.
After hiding his body, he guarded the collapsed training ground for 24 hours.
Configuring a team with only two people and one cat was actually quite difficult to implement in the past.
However, there is currently too much food to eat, so I can naturally focus on squatting.
In extremely bad weather, monsters will also try to reduce their activities, so the team plans to conduct control only in normal weather.
One day, two days, three days
At noon on the fourth day, when Eudora was calling Li Fan to change his shift, two ice-toothed dragons appeared in sight.
Eudora quickly crawled to the ground and pulled the camouflage net covered with white leaves towards herself.
"Half of my body is exposed"
Li Fan had no choice but to pull the camouflage net back a little.
The two of them moved towards the middle with a tacit understanding and raised their binoculars at the same time.
On the pure white snowfield, two Ice-toothed Dragons were walking slowly forward one behind the other.
Among them, the larger one in front is extremely conspicuous on the snow because of its light gray hair and carapace.
It's like a shadow cast on white paper.
There is a smaller Icetooth Dragon in the rear. Its hair and carapace are conventionally white. If it weren't for the pair of amber fangs in its mouth that resemble saber-toothed tigers, it would be difficult to locate its traces on the snowy field at first sight.
"No wonder the guild named it Snow Shadow. When it moves on the snowfield, it really looks like a shadow."
Eudora sighed.
"This carapace color should not be conducive to hunting or avoiding natural enemies."
Li Fan speculated.
"Well, being able to appear here means that the collapsed cave training ground is its lair. If it finds that the lair has been destroyed, will this Snow Shadow go crazy?"
Eudora asked worriedly.
"Not necessarily. The emotional expression of monsters is very different from that of humans, but it should be very uncomfortable."
Li Fan judged.
The two ice-toothed dragons stepped onto a snowy slope in a hurry and continued to climb up before reaching the highest point.
The collapsed training ground cave is directly below, just opposite here.
Snap!
Xue Ying was stunned for a moment, and then the brown-haired snow deer in his mouth fell to the snow.
The Ice Tooth Dragon behind him came to the edge of the cliff, stretched his neck and looked down for a moment, tilted his head and fell into deep thought.
"Ahem"
Eudora coughed twice.
"We haven't communicated yet, okay? What can I translate?"
Li Fan was speechless.
This state lasted for about 2 minutes. The smaller Icetooth Dragon glanced at the snow shadow.
Bang! The black three-toed wing claws slapped the snow hard, raised his neck and shook his head, turned around and left.
Ouch! Ouch?
The somewhat overwhelmed Snow Shadow hesitated for a moment, picked up the snow deer again, quickly ran to the Ice Tooth Dragon, and placed it in front of the opponent.
The Ice Tooth Dragon shook its tail and walked around.
Xue Ying stared at the other person's leaving figure, the light in his eyes gradually dimmed.
"You don't need to translate this scene, I already know what happened."
Eudora said sadly.
Whoosh! The snow shadow suddenly rose up and jumped into the air.
When the wing membranes on both sides are stretched to their maximum, they dive and slide downward.
After falling into the collapsed lair, Snow Shadow smelled the residual smell, peeled off the broken ice with her claws, and repeatedly observed the broken ice layers, as if she didn't want to let go of any relevant traces.
Finally, the three-toed claw marks all over the surface of the ice made Xue Ying fall into deep thought.
"Do you think it will be fooled?"
Eudora asked uncertainly.
"We don't have the material for Honglong, so it's unlikely, but at least we can guide the other party not to think in the direction of the hunter team."
While Li Fan was talking, Xue Ying quickly climbed back to the snow slope, picked up the snow deer and quickly turned back.
Use your claws to hold it down, bite it and tear it apart.
The still steaming animal meat was placed in the cave where the faults were exposed due to the collapse of the ice.
The scarlet blood on the wing claws, which was about to freeze and solidify, was smeared on the surrounding ice.
"The cave where the food is stored is exposed, why does Xueying still put animal meat in it?"
Eudora asked puzzledly.
"Could it be that it wants to investigate the real culprit?"
Li Fan speculated.
After carefully observing the surrounding environment, Xueying jumped up again. After climbing and jumping several times, he reached the top of a higher slope.
It uses its wing claws to lift up the snow, constantly covering its body.
After completing the disguise, his amber eyes narrowed into a thin line and stared at the collapsed nest.
"This Xueying is so smart."
Eudora also didn't expect that the other party would have a plan similar to that of a hunter team.
"It feels like a gray carapace, making the snow shadow look like this."
Li Fan guessed.
"Oh? Does that color represent a subspecies with outstanding intelligence?"
Eudora asked.
"It's not a subspecies. Judging from the appearance and mate selection, it's just a simple variation in color."
Although the change in simple external characteristics is very slight, it is still a mutation.
"Then why is Xueying so smart?"
Eudora couldn't understand.
"Children who no one cares about will have stronger self-reliance. I guess Xueying's carapace color mutation may be congenital, which has caused him to be unpopular with his own kind since he was a child. He can avoid pursuit and has great restrictions on hunting. But it is not
I didn’t give up, but found a survival path that suited me through constant training.”
Li Fan explained.
He felt that neither the guild nor the hunters could accurately detect this difference.
"Does that mean its intelligence was developed by being forced to develop it?"
Eudora asked tentatively.
"Well, that's a good summary. That's roughly what it feels like."
"It would be a pity to kill such an individual Ice Tooth Dragon who worked so hard. Why not try to capture it?"
Eudora suggested.
"I'm afraid it's difficult. There are so many individual tricks like this. It's difficult to just track them. But monsters are monsters after all. If you don't go out and taunt them now, you might lose your mind."
Li Fan vaguely sensed an opportunity.
"It feels a bit forced. Since they are here for a long time and Xueying has no source of food, it will definitely be more beneficial for us to drag him down."
Eudora suggested.
Before witnessing it, the type of monster is not even sure, so the team will definitely not be able to make advance arrangements.
"That's right, let's use it up first, but when we change shifts later, we have to be more concealed."
Li Fan agreed.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye. Except for intermittent disappearances of more than ten minutes, the snow shadow basically did not move.
Eudora even felt that the other person slept with one eye open.
As long as there is no extremely bad weather, the team can live a relatively comfortable life.
At noon on the fourth day, Li Fan was so skilled that he climbed to the side and raised the telescope.
"Is something wrong? Why do I feel that Xueying has gained weight?"
Li Fan knows the standard body shape of monsters, so he is particularly sensitive to this aspect.
"It seems a little bit, maybe you're sulking and your whole body is swollen, right?"
Eudora explained forcefully.
"No, even if there are expanded organ structures on the body, the whole body will not become fat."
As he spoke, Li Fan looked through the observation records and found that the time Xueying left was obviously not enough for hunting, but it was indeed very regular.
"Wait a minute, there will be another cave for storing food!"
Li Fan suddenly thought of Zhao Dehan.
"ah!"
Eudora was so surprised that she almost stood up, but after thinking about it, she felt it was unreasonable.
"If Xueying really has a cave to store food, why didn't he show it to the female Icetooth Dragon before?"
"Maybe the Ice-toothed Dragon was too determined to leave, which made Xue Ying sad."
Li Fan guessed.
"Ugh! All the hard work these days have been in vain."
Eudora covered her head with her hands and buried her face deeply in the snow.
Looking at this state, Li Fan probably guessed why those previous teams were going crazy.
"Don't worry, we have nothing to lose. Xue Yingguang lies down after eating, so his athletic ability will inevitably deteriorate."
Li Fan said comfortingly.
"real?"
"Yes."
With renewed confidence, Eudora continued to observe and collect information to look for possible turning points.
After the rotation, Li Fan also released Puff for combat drills.
It is true that there are individuals of Buhulong that can adapt to extremely cold environments, but these are the result of long-term adaptation.
Among them, only suppressing the secretion of foaming synovial fluid requires long-term practice.
The advantage of Puff is that his posture when skating is perfect, and he can adapt to the ice perfectly without training.
Watching the light and graceful Puff gliding at high speed on the ice, Li Fan started thinking in his mind.
In this case, it is best to choose a battle location on a wide ice surface without high ice and rock walls around it.
If you want to escape, the little fool can easily dive to intercept it.
However, this also limits the application of paralysis traps.
While I was thinking, a booming sound passed through the mountains.
"This rhythm, this sound is like a roaring dragon!"
Li Fan stood up suddenly and put the puff into the ball.
