Chapter 850 Hayata Becomes Pork Chop
The Dragon-Knowledge Ship stopped steadily. Gordon and the others did not run around after landing on the city wall. They knew that someone would come looking for them soon.
Sure enough, a few minutes later, an old man with a short stature, a big belly, and strong limbs came hurriedly, surrounded by several hunters.
Gordon knew this man, Mr. Zhe Luo, the president of the Metabetat Hunter Guild.
He had met him twice before when he came to Metabetat on a mission. He was a heroic old man, but he also had a delicate mind that did not match his "cook-type" appearance.
The old man also recognized the Silver Edge people and the Dragon-Knowledge Ship in the air from a distance. His first reaction was excitement, after all, there were powerful reinforcements.
Then a feeling of uneasiness flashed across his face.
The guild issued an emergency declaration across the entire continent. Dongdoruma was under martial law, and all major cities were short of manpower. Now a batch of reinforcements suddenly arrived, which might not be good news for Metabetat.
Mixed emotions
The old man wiped his bald forehead, which had receded to the back of his head.
He was not the kind of fool who reversed cause and effect and thought that the reinforcements brought bad news and were therefore unlucky.
When he strode to Gordon and the others, he had adjusted his mood.
He took the initiative to extend his rough and powerful big hand and shook hands with Gordon and the other two. He lowered his head and pinched the small paw of Pork Chop Xianglan and shook it. Seeing Liefeng raise his thick dog paw, he also grabbed it with both hands and shook it.
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"The famous Silver Edge Hunting Group, welcome to Metabetat, but unfortunately we can't treat you well now." The old guy seemed a little regretful, "Our Metabetat seafood is great, and the dried goods are also delicious"
"President Zhe Luo, the situation is urgent, so let's not be polite for now." Gordon laughed dryly.
"Oh, yes, yes, is there any special instructions from the elder?"
"The elder didn't send us here. The overall situation is a little complicated, so I'll make it short." Gordon sorted out his words and said quickly:
"Our team was ordered to investigate the fortress attack. According to the investigation results, the attackers in the next round of attacks are most likely two, the Pavilion Mantis, and another ancient dragon-level creature whose identity is unknown.
The scholars of the Dragon Calendar Institute judged that the next attack location should be Metabetat."
The civilian staff accompanying the old man were stunned, "Two ancient dragon-level creatures?!!"
"What about the time? Is there an estimated time for the attack?" President Zhe Luo asked anxiously.
"Anytime, it could be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, or it could be the next second." Gordon didn't play tricks and directly stated the worst case scenario.
At this time, saying something like "it's just a possibility" or "it's not quite sure" will have no effect except to weaken morale.
Even if the judgment is wrong, it will make everyone nervous for nothing and be complained about afterwards.
Then complain, it's better than regretting after heavy casualties.
"Organize the citizens to evacuate immediately!" President Zhe Luo immediately said to the accompanying civilian staff.
"I'll make arrangements!" The civilian staff hurried away.
Metabetat is not like big cities like Dongdoruma and Minagard, which have defensive forts or battle streets.
Although there are walls, artillery, heavy crossbows, dragon-slaying spears, etc., there is a city behind the walls.
If the attacker is an ancient dragon-level creature, Metabetat's hunters and the soldiers of the city guards will fight desperately and may be able to repel it.
But if two of them attack together, it is almost inevitable that the city defense will be breached.
"We will do our best to help." Gordon comforted.
The captain of the investigation team also got off the Dragon Knowledge ship and said to President Zhe Luo: "We will also assist in the defense. The weapons such as the artillery and crossbow on the Dragon Knowledge ship should also be able to play a role."
President Zhe Luo tried to squeeze out a smile, "Thank you all for your help from thousands of miles away, otherwise I really don't know what to do."
"Excuse me, how many hunters are there in Metabetat now?" Anxier asked.
"There are 21 elite hunters with three stars and above, and there are only three of us as upper hunters."
The person who answered Anxier's question was a middle-aged strong man next to President Zhe Luo. He was equipped with black horned dragon armor and carried a famous greatsword made of horned dragon and black horned dragon materials, the Horned King Sword.
The strong man took off his armor, greeted Gordon and others, and briefly introduced himself, "Seven-star Great Sword User, Asa."
"Six-star Hunting Flute User, Dorothy."
"Six-star One-handed Sword User, Devitt."
Silver Edge introduced each other to the hunters of Metabetat.
Their faces were not very good. The three of them were hunters from the local area. Who could be happy when their hometown was facing a crisis?
When Gordon saw the appearance of the great swordsman clearly, he was slightly distracted—Iron Head Asa, a well-known great swordsman active in the northwest of the continent, was famous for his love of slashing dragon chariots with power.
He had a special connection with this great swordsman.
When he left his hometown at the beginning and worked alone in Minagard, he had met Asa several times and shamelessly asked the latter about some hunting and great sword skills. The latter did not hesitate to teach him.
Once, he took advantage of Asa being half drunk and wanted to ask for advice on the strong power slash, but Asa did not teach him, saying that his muscle strength was not enough and it was easy to hurt himself.
At that time, Gordon did not take Asa's words to heart, thinking that the other party was unwilling to teach him, so he laughed and flattered Asa while pouring wine.
Asa, who was drunk and dazed, showed Gordon a charging move for a strong charged slash. After Gordon went back, he pondered over the move.
He had to go through many strains and sprains, and in the end he was able to practice blindly, but he also left a lot of wrong movement habits, which he corrected only after meeting a master.
From a certain perspective, maybe Mr. Asa can still be considered half of his teacher?
Therefore, when Gordon greeted Asa, his attitude was particularly respectful.
Asa was a little surprised, but didn't think too much about it.
He didn't recognize Gordon, the leader of the Silverborder Hunting Group who had become famous in the past two years and was known as "The Brave", as the boy who pestered him with questions back then.
Gordon felt a little regretful, but unfortunately now was not the time to reminisce about the past, and Mr. Asa was obviously not in the mood to reminisce.
"The attack may come at any time." Gordon gathered his thoughts and said to President Zheluo and the three high-ranking hunters of Metabetat:
"This city wall is not a fortress. It has a lot of weapons, but it is not strong enough after all. It is too difficult to repel ancient dragon-level monsters.
We may have to think of other ways. A head-on confrontation will cause heavy casualties, and the result is probably not going to be very good. "
"Mr. Gordon, do you have any plans?" The female flute player named Dorothy looked very anxious.
"Sorry, not yet." Gordon sighed. He said these were just stating the facts, not trying to elicit anything.
"Well, I actually have an idea, but it may not be reliable." Hayata on the side raised his hand.
Everyone looked at her.
Hayata rubbed Pandan's head and said: "It was my hunting partner who reminded me, what was the purpose of those two monsters attacking the fortress?
It is not for the purpose of preying on humans, otherwise it would be more convenient to bypass the fortress and directly attack cities and towns, nor is it for migration like the Laoshan Dragon.
We know better about the Pavilion Mantis, which is designed to collect large devices.
As for the mysterious monster.
It seems that in the two attacks so far, it has swallowed up all the gunpowder and taken away those sharp metal instruments, such as crossbow bolts, dragon guns, etc."
President Zheluo quickly reacted, "You mean, give them what they want, so maybe they will leave?
There's nothing we can do about the mantis. We can't tear down the city wall to satisfy it. It's too dangerous, but the mysterious monster
Indeed, the stored gunpowder and those metal devices were nothing compared to the loss of the city's destruction!
We can keep the part of the gunpowder and ammunition needed for the battle, hand over the remaining inventory as tribute, and bet on the possibility of a mysterious monster leaving! "
"Well," Hayata pondered, "can you hand over the gunpowder as a tribute? Maybe that's okay?"
"Uh, Miss Hayata, isn't that what you originally thought?" President Zheluo asked blankly.
The expression on Hayata's face was a little dangerous, "My original idea was to pile all the gunpowder together, and when the mysterious monster was about to eat it, detonate it in one breath to see if I could blow it half to death. "
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