Chapter 148 Flathead Brother, Miserable
[Side Quest: Greedy Predator from the Deep Canyon]
[Quest Guide: High Elf Lucia goes to the "Coral Highlands" to find the truth of the ecological chaos. ]
[Quest Note: The truth of the matter is often not on the surface. Depending on how deeply you explore the whole thing, the whole incident may be led to a completely different direction. ]
The quest guide is still as brief as ever, more like a simple signpost than a quest description.
But this time, Luke was quite concerned about the quest note.
If there is no big mistake in his understanding ability, doesn't this note mean that the elf girl actually did not find the real predator that disturbed the ecology?
That means it is not the flat-headed brother?
"Please forgive me for not agreeing immediately."
Compared with the rather impassioned elf girl, Luke, who thought more and cared more about this note, seemed much calmer.
Luke's performance made the elf girl slightly stunned, but she didn't give her any time to be stunned at all, and Luke's machine gun questions were all thrown at her.
"What kind of monster is the wild monster leader you mentioned? What is its strength and ability? What level of heroes does it correspond to? What kind of threat will it pose to an ordinary D-level person like me?
Also, what area is the monster leader in? How far away is it? What is the terrain like? Are there any dangerous vegetation that needs to be avoided? Do I need to prepare some necessary response materials in advance? Even make preparations for the night?
Apart from the wild monster leader, are there any other threatening wild monster groups? If so, how many are there? How strong are they? Will I encounter them while dealing with the leader? How should I escape if I encounter danger? etc."
Luke paused, and continued to speak in the wise expression of the elf girl, who seemed to have a little overloaded CPU in her brain.
"When these prerequisites are resolved, it will be about my reward."
"In addition, the reward for capturing 10 live swaying eels is calculated separately, right?"
The elf girl, whose brain was completely smoking, could only nod blankly, and it took a long time for her to recover.
The eyes of the elf fierce woman Lucia looked at Luke with a unique "fear", because Lucia realized that Luke might be the type of hero she could not deal with the most.
"Biological Investigator", a profession name that has no recognition no matter how you look at it, is the name of Lucia's hero with a C-level upper rating.
But in fact, this rating of only C-level upper is not worthy of Lucia.
A guy who can run around the world alone, go in and out of various dangerous environments to study natural creatures, and is still alive and kicking, his true strength can be imagined.
It's just that Lucia's temperament is too casual. No matter where she goes, she never makes any plans. She only needs a bow, a pot of arrows, and a knife to survive in almost any natural environment.
If it weren't for her hobby of buying messy things, she might not even take the bounty mission.
The pile of questions that Luke spits out like a machine gun are questions that Lucia has never thought about in her long elf career, and they are also the most headaches for her who is too lazy to think.
Isn't it just hunting a wild monster leader? Is it necessary to go through so much trouble?
Lucia admires heroes like Luke who will conduct preliminary investigations, strength assessments, and material mobilization before doing missions, but she doesn't want to be such a "fussy" person.
However, what Lucia didn't think about was that she could ignore these things purely because she was strong enough to deal with various emergencies, so even without any plan, her path would always go smoothly or stumble.
Luke has a clearer understanding of his low strength and knows that there are too many things in this world that can kill him, so he is more inclined to make preparations in all aspects before facing various accidents that this world can impose on him at any time.
Luke is of course very positive about doing side quests, but if the mission is really dangerous to the extent that he can't handle it now, he won't bite the bullet.
Even if the red mark of "mission failure" is really as heartbreaking as a steel fork scratching a blackboard for Luke, Luke will quietly do his own psychological counseling afterwards.
If there was a choice, Lucia would never team up with Luke, a guy who is reliable in logistics but nagging.
...But this kid's curse can work on me, and it is likely to work on the monster.
I have injured the monster twice, but it ran away, and when it appeared again, the wound was completely healed, which means that the monster has excellent self-healing ability.
But if Luke's physical attack damage double curse can be used, Lucia is confident that she can directly shoot off one of the opponent's legs with one arrow.
Then let's see how it can run!
In the end, the desire to hunt still took over the elves above and chose to compromise. They began to work hard to convert their various understandings of the monster leader and the Coral Highlands into text information, and Luke also began to purchase in the stars based on this information and his understanding of the game.
As a six-star city base that focuses on hunting and fighting beast breeding, there are also quite a lot of unique localized props here, which are difficult to buy in bulk in the seven-star city, which is very helpful for the next place to go.
And Luke's purchases are not just for himself, but also for his temporary employer Lucia, although she may not need them.
"Xiao Za! I didn't say I could take care of them all!"
Looking at the other three people who were going to follow Luke, Lucia, who was a little annoyed because she was doing a job she was not good at, expressed her dissatisfaction with Luke.
"It's okay, they are going with you to gain experience, they are safe and responsible, and you don't have to worry about them ruining your business. In terms of hunting and combat power, they are much better than me."
Luke said directly to the elf girl.
But these people who are better than you are all listening to your command.
Lucia muttered silently in her heart.
So, the pterodactyl rental that was originally only for two people became a pterodactyl for five people with a total of ten.
The pterodactyl has good endurance, but its speed is not so fast that it needs to wear goggles. It just requires a little bit of arm strength, grip strength, endurance, etc. of the rider.
It's called riding, but in fact it's just hanging on the rope pulled by two pterodactyls. The flying experience can't be said to be very bad, but it is definitely quite painful.
But there is no way. The Coral Plateau is at a high altitude and in a special location. There is a deep canyon full of toxic and harmful gases below. There is almost no path that humans can reach on foot. In addition to being able to move in space, it can only be reached by flying.
"Oh? It's really better to come early than to come at the right time."
Just when Luke was still moving his hands that felt sore because of grabbing the rope, he heard the voice of the elf girl from the side.
And when he turned his head, this sister had already jumped directly from the rented pterodactyl rope!
Estimated from the height... It must be about 40 or 50 stories high?
Although Luke was surprised in his heart, he knew that this fierce woman must have her own moves. He just watched a pair of wings suddenly extended from the cloak behind the woman, but in fact, it should be a pair of elytra-like things formed by super-large leaves that were mutated under the catalysis of magic.
Then, the woman was seen as if she was wearing a glider suit, swooping down very smoothly towards the ground, towards the flat-headed dragon - the Carnotaurus that was chasing the cat lizard.