Even though it doesn't share a border with Scarlet, the kingdom of Lyrak is already the closest to Scarlet of the kingdoms west of the continent. Further south is the vast and barren hinterland of the sand sea, so the narrow ancient forest is the only land passage connecting the two countries. This small settlement, known as Patin, was on the road connecting the two countries and, like many border settlements, assisted in interkingdom trade and transshipment.

There is no obvious natural dividing line between the dense forests, and it happens to be within the radiation range of the airships of the two countries, so there is friction between the two countries on the ownership of ancient forest hunting grounds and resources. Fortunately, although the kingdom of Lyraka is located in the deep land, the restrictions on commerce are more relaxed. The hunter chapters of the two sides often exchanged ideas and trade with each other, and the differences in interests between the countries were far from the point where the masses of the two countries hated each other.

So when they saw the fat aunt speaking in a thick northern accent and impatiently driving away the four dragons, everyone was displeased, and a wave of doubts could not help but arise in their hearts. Mo Lin forcibly suppressed the gloom on his face: "Auntie, is there any misunderstanding here?" We're not bad people. ”

"Ah Shao, captain, look-" Luo Pingyang quietly tugged at the sleeves of his companions, his eyes scanning the surroundings. After just a few breaths, the people on the street were attracted by the combination of four people and one beast, and formed a layered semicircle centered on the aunt's stall, crowding this section of the commercial street. The four of them seemed to have an invisible wall around them, making the nearest civilians stand five or six meters away in fear. As Luo Pingyang's gaze swept over, the spectators who were squeezed into the first row retreated towards the crowd half in fear and half disgust.

"Is this how Lyrac is hospitality?" Feeling the unkind gaze around him, Xiao Anfei's pupils shrank to the size of a pintip, her cheeks bulged high, and she muttered in a low voice, "It's really rude......

"Because you're not guests in the village of Pattin." Amid the buzzing of flies, Elu's complaints were heard clearly. The crowd parted through a gap in the response, and a man squeezed forward from behind the crowd: "You are not welcome here, Scarlettes. ”

"Who are you?" Receiving hostility from the local residents one after another, Ah Shao's tone became a little angry. He looked back, but saw that the man who spoke stepped forward, and what came into his eyes was a dark blue hunting suit, the armor was made of scales and delicately put together, and the workmanship was far beyond the ordinary standard, and a large knife was slanted behind him, as if it was the entire blade of some kind of large monster, and the identity of the hunter was already about to be revealed.

"It's Ah Shun!"

"Our hero is coming!"

As the strange man joined, there were also bursts of exclamations from the crowd. The blue-armored hunter lifted his visor, revealing a thin and well-defined face, his eyebrows were slightly thicker, but at the moment they were raised high, and his voice was full of anger, and he said rejectedly: "Go back to Scarlet as soon as possible, it is your hunting ground." ”

"Let them go back to their borders!" The surrounding spectators were far less polite, and the anger of the people was once again stirred up by the words of the hero, and the air was filled with all kinds of foul language for a while.

"It's a hunter—" Mo Lin and his companions glanced at each other, pulling Ah Shao and Luo Pingyang back half a step back, making way for the captain. Qin Hu looked the man in front of him up and down, only to notice that he also had a four-star hunter's badge on his chest, and the dragon nightmare captain cleaned up his mood and gave a hunter's courtesy: "This hunter - can I call you 'Shun' - I'm sorry that our information doesn't say that there is actually a four-star level hunter stationed in this village." Otherwise, it's better to get off the boat and pay a visit. ”

He patted his chest and introduced, "We are the 'Dragon Nightmare', the independent hunter team, and I am the captain Qin Hu......"

"I know your names—" The four-star hunter named Shun said with undiminished hostility, "I have seen the landing records of airships, and you are the only group of hunters who have stayed in Patin Village for ten days. He stepped forward and stood facing Qin Hu, "You guys...... You're here to fight the idea of the 'corpse god', right? ”

"Corpse God? Do you mean that guy called the 'Skeleton Dragon'? Ah Shao emerged from the captain's back, but was slammed into the back of the waist by Morin with his knuckles. Cologne-related information has always been a secret of the union, and it is not in the scope of "information transparency", even if both parties have the same authority, they must be allowed to be inspected by the elders. The white-armored hunter knew that he was speechless, and covered his mouth a little embarrassed, and shrunk his neck to say nothing.

After getting the answer from the other party's words, Ah Shun's eyes became even colder, he gritted his teeth, and said in a cold voice: "That's really the case...... You dragonmares are famous on the mainland. His eyes flickered over the faces of the four members of the team, "You've scourged several kingdoms in the south, and now it's finally our village's turn?" ”

"What are you talking about?" Morin's brow furrowed slightly.

"Do you want to continue to play stupid?" Shun stiffened his neck, and his voice raised a few degrees, "Don't look at the village of Padding is located in the middle of the woods, thanks to the blessing of the airship, we know what kind of news!" Wherever you appear, you bring disaster to you! Avalanches in the snowy mountains of the south, storms in Ryan Yelu, and hunting grounds in the lakelands...... You've razed the town in two days! Do you want me to keep talking about it? ”

"Is that why you're putting on this post...... It's ridiculous! Faced with groundless accusations, even Luo Pingyang couldn't help but refute, "No matter what you say to these civilians, those things are not done by us." We are hunters, not natural disasters! ”

"Shun Hunter, I think you really still misunderstood something." Qin Hu coughed and said unhurriedly, "Since the formation of the Dragon Nightmare, the main commission it has received is to investigate the whereabouts of the ancient dragon species in various places. The anomalous weather is spread by natural disasters, and whether we are there or not, the local area will be attacked by ancient dragons. In fact, we're already doing our best to save the local population. The town of Lakeland was indeed a tragedy, but we also cooperated to save the lives of sixty percent of the residents. Although the Dragonmare did not dare to take credit for that commission, we at least deserved the glory of the hunter. ”

"That's not the story we heard." Shun leaned closer, as if he wanted to find evidence in the eyes of Captain Dragonmar, "The royal family of Pirecente refused to open the hunting grounds south of the lake to the union, so they sent you to harass the local ancient dragon species, am I right?" ”

"You threaten unarmed civilians with the power of natural disasters, and you frame those experiences as if they were your own." The blue-armored hunter stretched out his index finger and poked it heavily on Qin Hu's chest, "What else do you say 'Hunter Glory', I don't think you can even afford the name of a hunter." It's just four clowns who rely on some strength to make a splash! ”

"Bastard! You try it again? The clay man also had three points of anger, and when he saw the other party against the captain's chest, insulting the four with the glory of the hunter, Ah Shao's anger burned to his chest. The white-armored hunter simply did not lose his head, and in his anger, he did not draw the weapon behind his back, but swung his fist to smash it down in front of him.

"Ah Shao, don't be impulsive...... Luo Pingyang finally grabbed his companion's wrist and dragged him back to the team with one hand on his shoulder. Qin Hu's face was also blue and red, he brushed aside the hand of the blue-armored hunter approaching, and said loudly: "Shun hunter, it's a bit too much to say this. You and I are both hunters, and we should know that no matter what our respective commissions are, there is no reason to deliberately harm civilians. We came to the Ancient Forest this time precisely to defuse a disaster in Pading Village. As a garrison hunter, even if you don't have the obligation to help, at least you shouldn't make it difficult for us. ”

"Heh, sure enough, it's the same as rumored," Shun straightened his collar and showed a meaningful sneer, "The Dragonmare Squad, right...... You live in the dreams that Locklac has woven for you. ”

"Listen, big man." The blue-armored hunter stretched out an arm, grabbed the crowd of onlookers, and said in a deep voice, "I gave up the opportunity to be promoted to five stars, just to protect the village of Pattin, this is my hometown. I don't care what happens to the other villages and hunting areas that have been poisoned by you, but I swear in the name of the Hunter Ancestors that even if I fight for this life, I will not let you destroy this place. As long as I am still in the village, no matter what you do, you will not receive any help from the village. ”

"That's all you can do!" Ah Shao was grabbed by one of his arms by his companion, and he shouted to himself, struggling to attack with a red face. According to the law of the trade union, it is enough to prohibit hunting for more than a year by directly interfering with the commission of a colleague in the hunting ground. Mobilizing the people of the whole village to treat the Dragon Nightmare people negatively is already the limit of what Shun can do.

"If you have any grievances against us or objections to this commission, you can go through the union channel to file a lawsuit." The communication failed, and seeing that the other party had completely made up his mind, Qin Hu also gave up his mind of good words and business, and said bluntly, "Before the cancellation of the entrustment document is issued, regardless of whether we can get the assistance of Pading Village or not, our actions will still continue." It's the Nightmare's job, just as it's your job to guard the village. ”

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"It's really unlucky, but I still haven't been able to buy any supplies from Pading Village......" Ah Shao hung in the air, his feet propped up on the straight cliff, his hands tightly grasping the hook rope, and he drooped towards the bottom of the valley little by little.

"With our reserves alone, we can handle it for the time being!" Qin Hu climbed at the bottom of the team, the captain tested the strength of the cliff, raised his head and said to his companions, "The hunting equipment that I temporarily applied for to Locklac is already on the way, this time the right to act is regarded as a test, you don't need to care about whether you can kill or not, just collect as much information as possible." ”

"What? Spare me,......" the white-armored hunter wailed, "We have only transported two machine crossbows nearly ten kilometers with our bare hands, and this mountain cliff is four or five hundred meters high, at least, right?" Rappelling up and rappelling down...... After this commission, I'm probably going to hate the hunters of Lyrac all the time. ”

"You mean the hunter in the bazaar? It's not hateful, at least it's an honest guy. Luo Pingyang took the hook handed by Anfinis and fixed it in the stone crack under his feet with a "pop", "It can be seen that he is the kind of hunter who will do everything for the village, and he is also very loved by the villagers." ”

"Besides, it looks very strong." Amphfinis added.

"That's right, if you change the environment, you might be able to become friends." Xiao Luo sighed gloomily, "It's just that for some reason, we have such a deep prejudice as soon as we meet." ”

"I've been thinking since last night," Merlin took a deep breath and lay down on his back in the air, slumping his entire body weight on the hook and relaxing his stiff muscles, "Is it possible that the guy named Shun is in his words...... It's not all about chasing the wind? ”

"Conspiracy theories aren't something we should be thinking about." Captain Qin reminded that he was the first to turn over and land, retract the hook claw on the cliff wall, and his feet "clicked" and crushed something, it was actually a white beast bone that was already crispy, "Let's focus on the current commission." ”

"With our reserves alone, we can handle it for the time being!" Qin Hu climbed at the bottom of the team, the captain tested the strength of the cliff, raised his head and said to his companions, "The hunting equipment that I temporarily applied for to Locklac is already on the way, this time the right to act is regarded as a test, you don't need to care about whether you can kill or not, just collect as much information as possible." ”

"What? Spare me,......" the white-armored hunter wailed, "We have only transported two machine crossbows nearly ten kilometers with our bare hands, and this mountain cliff is four or five hundred meters high, at least, right?" Rappelling up and rappelling down...... After this commission, I'm probably going to hate the hunters of Lyrac all the time. ”

"You mean the hunter in the bazaar? It's not hateful, at least it's an honest guy. Luo Pingyang took the hook handed by Anfinis and fixed it in the stone crack under his feet with a "pop", "It can be seen that he is the kind of hunter who will do everything for the village, and he is also very loved by the villagers." ”

"Besides, it looks very strong." Amphfinis added.

"That's right, if you change the environment, you might be able to become friends." Xiao Luo sighed gloomily, "It's just that for some reason, we have such a deep prejudice as soon as we meet." ”

"I've been thinking since last night," Merlin took a deep breath and lay down on his back in the air, slumping his entire body weight on the hook and relaxing his stiff muscles, "Is it possible that the guy named Shun is in his words...... It's not all about chasing the wind? ”

"Conspiracy theories aren't something we should be thinking about." Captain Qin reminded that he was the first to turn over and land, retract the hook claw on the cliff wall, and his feet "clicked" and crushed something, it was actually a white beast bone that was already crispy, "Let's focus on the current commission." ”