Chapter 1267 The More Confident You Are, the Luckier You Will Be.
Xianglan ordered her companions to disperse and search in the direction of the large lava lake.
Keeping a certain distance between each other can not only expand the search area and avoid missing important clues, but also reduce the probability of being noticed by monsters.
Xianglan ran on all fours, running through a pile of rubble.
Similar rubble is not uncommon in the Molten Mountain Canyon.
The geological structure of the Grand Canyon is special, and the excessive geological changes during its formation process have made the strata in the area where the Grand Canyon is located relatively thin.
The big explosion before the death of the Molten Mountain Dragon shattered and cracked the crust within a radius of hundreds of square kilometers, and magma surged to the surface, thus creating this scorching world.
Two whole years have passed since the explosion, and magma is still gushing out from the cracks in the crust, piling up to form clusters of semi-solidified lava blocks.
Some of these lava blocks will gradually cool down and form some strange-shaped boulders of various sizes, and large ones may even be piled up into mountains.
Some of them will be squeezed and exploded from the inside by the subsequent lava due to various reasons such as shape and lava composition, and exploded into a pile of rubble.
Xianglan didn't care at first, just wanted to pass through this rubble area as soon as possible.
After all, this place has been blown up once, so it's not surprising to blow it up again.
But a familiar smell made Xianglan sniff.
This is a bit like the smell of... Pig Chop, meow?
To be precise, it is the smell of the slime mold bomb that Pig Chop often carries with him, meow.
Wait, the slime mold bomb seems to use the same ancient slime mold as that of the Broken Dragon, meow?
Xianglan hurriedly stopped and looked back at the pile of rubble.
It always believes in its intuition and luck. Its intuition tells it that this pile of rubble is not naturally broken, and luck will rule out other possibilities for it.
So, this must be done by the Broken Dragon, meow!
This way of judgment is too reckless. If Pig Chop was here, he would definitely give it a few claws first.
But now it is the captain!
"Meow meow meow!" Xianglan meowed loudly, calling her companions scattered nearby.
Soon, Mushrooms gathered around Xianglan.
Xianglan pointed to the pile of rubble, "It was done by the Explosive Dragon meow."
Its tone was too confident, just like pointing to a red fire dragon and saying that this one was a male, there was an atmosphere that asking "why" would make one appear ignorant.
Chestnut and Mangosteen looked at each other, a little hesitant in their hearts, but did not dare to speak.
Only the studious Mushroom didn't care about these, and asked with shining eyes: "Teacher Xianglan, how did you see this meow?"
Xianglan put her hands on her hips and looked up, "There is a smell left after the explosion of ancient slime mold meow, and Pork Chop will use this slime mold to make explosive bombs meow, and I can often smell this smell meow."
"I see meow!" Mushrooms tried to smell it, wanting to learn to distinguish smells like Xianglan.
Chestnut and Wild Boar also showed a look of surprise at the same time.
For the Elu of the investigation team, the name "Pork Chop" is particularly convincing.
Although there is no logical connection between the two, as long as they hear that it is related to pork chops, they find it very credible.
In front of the other three cats, Xianglan confidently took out a small and exquisite insect guide cage and said proudly: "The insect guides in this are given to me by Hayata.
Let me show you the value of the insect guides cultivated by the upper hunters!"
As he said that, he picked up a small piece of gravel with a slight smell of slime mold explosion and put it into the insect guide cage. The insect guide flickered, obviously extracting some kind of smell.
If ordinary gravel is put in, there will be no such reaction.
Xianglan was full of confidence and waved his paw at the three cats surrounding the insect guide cage, "Look! The route I chose is absolutely correct! Keep going forward and keep searching!"
The area of the Molten Mountain Canyon is naturally not comparable to the ancient tree forest of millions of square kilometers.
In less than one night, the hunting cats searched all the way from the outer area of the Molten Mountain Canyon to the core area where the large lava lake is located.
Along the way, they found several traces left by the Explosive Dragon.
Most of these traces were discovered by Xianglan. With a sharper sense of smell than ordinary Elu, it can always find the places where the ancient slime mold exploded.
The existence of these explosion traces made the hunting cats more certain that this Explosive Dragon had gone crazy.
Nature is a very cruel place, especially in a barren area with scarce resources like the Molten Canyon.
Whether it is a large monster or those inconspicuous small animals, they will try their best to save their physical strength and energy.
Take the Boom Dragon, which also appears in volcanic areas, as an example.
The Boom Dragon is notoriously aggressive, but even the Boom Dragon will not attack the mountain or the stone meaninglessly.
Even if there is a situation where it occasionally uses the rock wall to grind its teeth, it will not destroy a rock mountain that is several times larger than its body size for grinding its teeth, right?
But this Explosive Dragon will.
Among the traces found by Xianglan and others, there is no biological corpse, almost all of them are crushed boulders, rock walls, and even large areas of ground.
There was no apparent purpose, just brutal and random use of violence.
Xianglan had been with Yinbian and had experienced a lot, but had never seen similar habits in any monster.
As for why he vented his anger with stones and rock walls instead of other creatures,
Xianglan had a not-so-good guess.
Since entering the lava canyon at night, they have not discovered the whereabouts of any large monster.
Not to mention large monsters, even small monsters such as assault dragons and herbivorous dragons that should be widely distributed were not seen.
The largest creature they've found so far is an exploding gas frog the size of a plate.
So, where did those volcanic creatures go?
There seems to be only one answer.
Staring at a burnt black thing on the ground that seemed to be the skull fragment of some kind of large monster, and after sniffing it, Pandan sent out a signal again, calling her companions together.
"Lord Xianglan, have you found new traces again?" Lizi said with admiration in his eyes.
The wild boar also nodded fiercely, "As expected of Master Xianglan, meow. There are so many traces on this road, and that Broken Dragon must often move on this route, meow!"
There was a seriousness on Xianglan's face that was rarely seen on ordinary days.
At this time, it could not care less about losing face, and directly overturned its previous statement of "the best search path":
"It's not that our search route coincides with the action route of the Explosive Shattering Dragon, that Explosive Shattering Dragon has regarded the entire Lava Mountain Canyon as its own territory.
It patrols the territory non-stop, killing all creatures it can see.
Even after that, I still felt dissatisfied, so I started destroying rocks everywhere, nya. "
"Teacher Xianglan seems to mean that the Exploding Broken Dragon may not be near the big lava lake, meow?" Mushroom seemed a little confused, "Then what should we do next, meow?"
Continue to search for traces until the guide insects begin to guide the cat? "
Xianglan nodded seriously, and while using the cat sword to knock off a small piece of the blackened bone, put it into the insect guide cage, and said: "That's right, meow, let's continue."
Halfway through his words, the guide insect, which extracted the aura from the burnt black bone fragments, flew out of the insect cage and began to guide the way.
"Ahem."
Xianglan had a straight face and cleared her throat, "What I mean is, yes, meow! It is indeed a meow near here. Let's continue moving forward. Please pay attention to the hidden meow."