Chapter 1031 Another Possibility

A little blood splashed on the rocky ground, and some guide insects stopped on it, making them very conspicuous, while more continued to guide them forward.

Gordon squatted down, dipped his finger into some blood and twisted it.

"Judging from the traces, the blood also fell from a very high place. The guy flew all the way and never touched the ground."

"With such a big body, the wings are badly injured, and the body is in a state of fatigue, it can still fly so far?" Gale frowned and muttered.

They followed the guidance of the guide insect for a long time and ran for about twenty or thirty kilometers, but still failed to catch up with the injured Explosive Scale Dragon.

The most troublesome thing is that the guy flew almost all the way and never landed on the ground.

If Hayata and the others hadn't severely injured the Explosive Scale Dragon in the previous battle, blood would occasionally appear in its wounds, and tissues such as carapace fragments would fall down, becoming a road sign.

Even guide insects with a keen sense of smell may be lost.

"The sun is about to set. It sets earlier in the north." Hayata adjusted the strap of his weapon and asked, "Are we tracking overnight, or what?"

Pork Chop's head drooped again, still struggling with the failure of the flash bomb before.

If the Explosive Scale Dragon had been successfully dodged at that time, the hunting would have been over long ago and everyone would have been enjoying the celebration banquet with the Strange Face Clan.

"Pah!" Gordon slapped Pork Chop on the back of the head, "How long are you going to struggle with this? It's such a big deal."

"Meow--" Pig Chop held his head, and the slap caused his cat-armored helmet to tilt.

"If you don't chase all night long, it would be too physically demanding. Let's find a place to camp before the sun goes down." After Gordon answered Hayata's question, he knocked Pork Chop's head again, "If you want to feel bad about it, you will be the one tonight. Stay for the rest of the night.”

"Good!" Gordon's arrangement made Pig Chop feel better.

The group of people followed for a long time until the sun set in the west.

During this period, they caught up with their prey twice, but the Explosive Scale Dragon was very vigilant and chose unobstructed open areas to rest. It flew away again before they could get close.

The flight route also had no relatively obvious direction. Sometimes it was heading west, sometimes it was heading east, it was very confusing.

This caused some doubts in Gordon's mind.

After large monsters are injured, they often have the habit of returning home to recuperate. No matter how bad the situation is, they will move within their own territory. This way, when encountering other large monsters, the probability of being picked off is smaller.

Is its territory that big?

Gordon didn't think so. If it were a hunting ground of the same level as Dongshuretson Hill, the Explosive Scale Dragon might indeed occupy a territory of thousands of square kilometers.

But this is in the north where the ancient dragons are most concentrated in the entire New World.

There are more than one or two monsters that are far more powerful than the Exploding Scale Dragon. You fly around so arrogantly and habitually throw a few Exploding Scales from time to time. Are you really not afraid of learning a lesson?

With such doubts in mind, Gordon ordered a temporary suspension of tracking and instead looked for a suitable campsite nearby.

The terrain in the northern part of the New World is particularly complex. Single peaks, rift valleys, and caves of various sizes can be seen everywhere. This is not conducive to searching, but if you just want to find a suitable place to hide temporarily, it will be too easy.

Gordon and the others randomly found a small closed cave and got in. Although it was a little crowded with four people, three cats and one dog, this kind of campsite was the safest.

In order to recover their strength as much as possible, the hunters did not bother to look for food, and did not even light a campfire. After all, the area was so desolate that they could not find any plants that could be used as fuel.

Fortunately, it is summer now, even in the northern part of the mainland, it is not too cold, and the cave is well sealed and airtight, so this night will not be too difficult.

After simply filling his stomach with the food he carried, Gordon expressed his doubts, "Is the Explosive Scale Dragon really not afraid of angering some ancient dragons by flying around like this?"

"I don't know, I'm also thinking about similar issues."

Anhil had been relatively silent along the way today, and now it was almost the first time he spoke, "I heard from Master Yuan that various high-risk large monsters are not uncommon in the northern part of the continent.

But we didn’t seem to find any traces of large-scale monster activity along the way, just like..."

"It's like they're all hiding." Gale continued Ancier's words.

There was silence in the small cave for a moment, and Hayata suddenly spoke, breaking the calm, "Actually, I'm wondering, will our thinking lead the Strange Face Tribe astray?"

"What should I say?" Gordon looked at her, and the others also cast their gazes over.

Hayata organized his words and continued: "You see, the Qimian clan believes that the Explosive Scale Dragon hunted the Rock Thief Dragon, so the Rock Thief Dragon hid in the cave deep underground.

Now they have lured the Rock Thief Dragon back, so the Explosive Scale Dragon appears again and attacks the Rock Thief Dragon. Is this logic correct? "

"Um."

Anhil nodded and added: "Master Wilderness also put forward a hypothesis about this. Monsters such as the Explosive Scale Dragon, the Rock Thief Dragon, and even the Explosive Hammer Dragon all have the ability to secrete explosive substances.

At the same time, the latter two have the habit of eating ores, so is it possible that the Explosive Scale Dragon also eats that kind of crystal to generate Explosive Scales?

If this is the case, the behavior of the Explosive Scale Dragon in attacking the Rock Thief Dragon is easily explained - to eliminate competitors. "

"Well, logically there is nothing wrong with this series of speculations, but what if the Strange Face Tribe was wrong from the beginning? What if the Explosive Scale Dragon's target was not the Rock Rogue Dragon?"

"The target was not the Rock Rogue Dragon?" Ansir was stunned.

Gordon reacted first, "If the target is not the Rock Thief Dragon, it can't be the Strange Face Tribe. You mean the nest? The Explosive Dragon really wants that nest?"

After getting a new clue, Gordon began to analyze along this line, "Originally, the Rock Thief Dragon and the Strange Face Tribe shared the cave until the Explosive Dragon attacked.

The Explosive Dragon killed a Rock Thief Dragon, but with the efforts of the Strange Face Tribe and the Rock Thief Dragon, they struggled to repel the Explosive Dragon.

After recovering from the injury, the Explosive Dragon attacked again and tried to take the cave again, but this time we repelled it.

In this case, it can explain why the Explosive Dragon wandered around but never returned to the nest, because this Explosive Dragon didn't have a nest at all."

"Although the cave of the Strange Face Tribe is indeed very suitable for flying dragons to build nests, but a monster as strong as the Explosive Dragon doesn't even have its own nest?" Gale asked in disbelief.

Ansir pondered for a moment and said, "If it is somewhere else, it is indeed incredible, but in the northern part of the New World, it seems to be possible.

And have you discovered? The Explosive Scale Dragon flies east, west, south, everywhere, but it never dares to go deep into the north. Maybe its nest is originally in the north, but it was driven out by something recently?"

"Going north will be closer to the core area, where more than one ancient dragon lives. It is normal for it not to want to go north, but it is indeed possible that its nest was taken away by some monster recently.

Otherwise, an adult Explosive Scale Dragon would not be unable to find a nesting site."

Gordon crossed his arms and thought for a while, and continued, "If the possibility proposed by Hayata is true, then we have to be cautious in our next actions.

A wounded Explosive Scale Dragon cannot pose a threat to us, but some unknown monster that can take away the Explosive Scale Dragon's nest and drive it away from its original territory is not easy to say."