Chapter 1087 Slime Mold

[According to readers’ reminders, the previous chapter has been modified because Gordon’s Black Flame King suit has the effect of invalidating wind pressure [large], which is unreasonable not to use, so Gordon uses Black Flame King instead, and Hayata uses the windproof stone.

Due to the modification of several paragraphs, the corresponding paragraph comments will be deleted, don’t mind it orz]

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“Get out!” Ted roared.

The cave camp is low and narrow, and it is difficult for hunters to fully display their skills. Moreover, this cave is about to collapse, and continuing to hide in it is just suicide.

The three people and the strange-faced tribe rushed out of the cave and returned to the ground.

They looked back.

Two broken dragons, one large and one small, were hovering thirty or forty meters away.

The larger one, about 17 or 18 meters long, was using its well-developed hammer-shaped forelimbs to hammer and bombard the ground.

Its fists were like howitzers, not only with amazing power, but also triggered violent explosions the moment they came into contact with the ground.

These explosions did not come from the Broken Dragon itself, but from some kind of slime mold that coexists with the Broken Dragon.

These slime molds live in the gaps of the Broken Dragon's obsidian carapace, and the slime molds are most densely distributed on the forearms and the large horns in front of the forehead that are also hammer-shaped.

Under the wrapping of slime molds, the front ends of the Broken Dragon's forearms and horns are covered with a conspicuous fluorescent green layer. The different-colored arm hammers and large horns are their most obvious signs.

"Boom boom!" Another earth-shattering sound accompanied by explosions and flames.

Before a hunter successfully hunted the first Broken Dragon and scholars dissected the corpse, people's research on this monster was very limited.

Because Broken Dragons often lick their arm hammers before attacking, earlier studies believed that the substance that caused the explosion when Broken Dragons attacked was their saliva or some secretions.

It was not until the dissection that people realized that the explosions accompanying Broken Dragon's attacks had nothing to do with Broken Dragons themselves.

It was actually the slime molds that caused the explosions.

The relationship between slime mold and dragon shatter is not one-sided "parasitism", but "symbiosis".

The dragon shatter provides protection and shelter for the slime mold, and while wandering around, it spreads the slime mold everywhere to help it reproduce.

The slime mold has become the most powerful weapon of the dragon shatter with its explosive power far exceeding that of ordinary gunpowder.

It is also with the help of these slime molds that the dragon shatter, which is also a large beast dragon species and whose ecological niche should be similar to monsters such as the Explosive Hammer Dragon and the Barbarian Jaw Dragon, has been forcibly raised to a big step.

The guild's danger rating for the dragon shatter is six stars, second only to the top ecological creatures under the ancient dragons such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Golden Lion, and the Explosive Scale Dragon.

After being alert for a few seconds, the hunters were surprised to find that the dragon shatter's target was not them, or it didn't care about the existence of the hunters at all.

It just pounded the ground by itself, as if it wanted to collapse the cave in one breath.

Seeing this, the hunters retreated carefully and opened a safe distance, but did not leave directly.

After all, the target of their investigation is right in front of them.

"What do you think it is doing?" Osura asked in a low voice, but the crosshairs of his crossbow were always locked on the two dragons.

"How would I know?"

"Is it trying to occupy this cave as a nest?" Maka suggested a possibility, "The entrance is too small, it can't get in, so it plans to open a hole to get out."

"It's possible, the other dragon next to it is only six or seven meters long, and its scales haven't all fallen off, and it's still a cub. For the safety of the cub, is it looking for a suitable nest?" Osura guessed.

"I think it's just practicing boxing in the middle of the night."

"Ka-ka-ya" Babaka of the Strange Face Clan sighed.

I always feel that these guys whose brains are almost replaced by alcohol are not very smart.

What are you guessing about?

I have long said that I will find an editor partner for these guys to make up for their intellectual deficiencies, even if the whole team shares one brain and one editor.

But how could ordinary people get along with these drunkards? None of the young scholars who could become compilers were alcoholics.

This alone cut off the possibility of the drunkards finding a fixed compiler partner.

"Boom!"

Under the continuous hammering and blasting of the Broken Dragon, the cracks on the rock layer that was one or two meters thick continued to expand, and finally completely shattered and collapsed.

The Broken Dragon swung its arm hammer and roared to the sky.

Then, it couldn't wait to put its head and even its entire upper body into the collapsed cave.

The cub was chirping on the side, and it also wanted to get closer to the cave, but it was swung away by the tail of the adult Broken Dragon, who was not sure whether it was the father or the mother, and fell to the ground and couldn't get up for a long time.

Maka looked at her two companions, "Something is wrong, I'll get closer to observe, you cover me."

After that, she put on the invisible clothes and rushed towards the direction of the collapsed cave.

"Okay."

Oshura loaded the crossbow, and Ted moved forward to a position where he could charge and support at any time.

Maka approached cautiously. Of course, she would not run directly to the Broken Dragon, which would only anger the grumpy Broken Dragon.

She came to the side and back of the blind spot, then used the insect stick to pole vault and flip onto the top of a huge rock. Using the height of the terrain, she observed the Broken Dragon's behavior.

The Broken Dragon drilled in the collapsed cave, or "pit", and kept rubbing the inner wall of the cave with its head and arms.

Maka was confused. She took out a portable telescope, hoping to see it more clearly.

With the continuous rubbing, Broken Dragon's head and arms were stained with some conspicuous bright yellow.

This color was very familiar to Maka and the others, and she exclaimed in a low voice, "Ah, it's those glowing moss!"

Wait, moss, glow. That guy’s target is not the moss, but the slime mold hidden in the moss? ! "

After achieving its goal, Broken Dragon retreated from the pit. Maka also took this opportunity to jump off the rock and quickly returned to his companions.

"Well, what is that guy doing?" Oshula asked, but his eyes never left the target.

"It's rubbing against the glowing moss on the cave wall. Doesn't Broken Dragon have a symbiotic relationship with slime mold? There should be a lot of slime mold hidden in those moss.

It's just that the colors on the two sides are a little different. The one on Broken Dragon's body is green, and the one on the moss in the cave is yellow. Look at the yellow ones on its head and hands, it's just been rubbed on. "

"It might want to change its appearance." Ted turned his head with a grin and joked.

Broken Dragon shook his body as he exited the collapsed basement.

The cub that had just gotten up immediately came over and rubbed against its mother.

The green slime mold on the adult Broken Dragon, together with the little yellow slime mold that was just picked up, fell onto the little Broken Dragon.

This is how a Shatterling hatchling acquires slime mold.

"So, what these two Broken Dragons have been looking for are these slime molds? That doesn't affect us at all."

Ted said and made a gesture to his companions, "Let's retreat for now and track and observe them from a distance for two days. If there is no problem, we will go back."

Of course, Oshula and Maka had no objections. As for the question of "why we need to obtain new slime molds?", let the scholars have a headache.

At this moment, Broken Dragon stuck out his tongue, licked the new slime mold on his arms, and didn't forget to turn back and lick the cub twice.

The saliva of Broken Dragon is rich in nutrients, which not only promotes the rapid reproduction and growth of slime mold, but also activates it.

This is also why Shatter Dragon licks its arm hammer before attacking.

However, the next second, something unexpected happened.

The new yellow slime mold, the original green slime mold, and certain components in the saliva of the broken dragon were mixed together, triggering a series of violent reactions of unknown reasons.

Those yellow slime molds grew at an astonishing speed, quickly replacing the original green slime molds, and began to emit a red light that symbolized high fever.

As if it couldn't bear the high temperature, the cub let out bursts of painful screams.

"Back off!"

The hunters who realized the danger could no longer care about anything else and evacuated at full speed.

The next second, a series of violent explosions enveloped the two broken dragons, one large and one small. The tragic howls and explosions filled the originally silent molten mountain canyon.

A full ten seconds passed before the continuously flashing flames stopped. When the smoke dissipated, the Broken Dragon cub had turned into a shapeless, broken and charred corpse.

As for the adult Shattered Dragon, its obsidian armor was also shattered layer by layer, and it fell to the ground dying.