Chapter 72 Plan to attack Natsu
Chapter 72 Plan to attack Natsu
”Oh~oh~~~”
For Rod, who was used to living in the city, it was rare to hear a rooster crowing in the morning.
He lifted the thin blanket, got up, opened the curtains and looked.
It was not yet bright outside, and there seemed to be a thin layer of fog outside, which gradually faded as the sun came out.
There was a slight snoring behind him, but Natsu and Happy were sleeping soundly, and their carefree energy made people both worried and envied.
So, Rod tiptoed around the two and walked to the door to avoid waking them up.
After thinking for a while, he stepped back, squatted down, took a deep breath, and shouted between the two heads:
”Get up!!!”
Seeing Natsu and Happy bounce up, each leaning outward to rub their ears, Rod laughed heartlessly like Natsu.
”Asshole Rod!”
Natsu and Happy rushed over, and the three of them wrestled together.
When the three went downstairs for breakfast, one of them had a black eye.
The village chief thought they were injured last night, but it was dark and he couldn’t see clearly.
After a hearty breakfast, Rhodes summoned Worm: “We are going out to investigate the situation on the mountain today. Leave this at your house.
If there is any emergency, tell it ‘go back’. I will get the signal and rush back as soon as possible.”
The communication means are backward, so Rhodes had to use this method. Poro’s intelligence is much higher than other wild monsters, it consumes less magic power, and it is not good at fighting, so it is most suitable for this kind of thing.
This is also what he decided when he suddenly felt that Worm returned to the Howling Abyss last night.
Worm looked at the surrounding environment. It was not a familiar home or guild, so he had some opinions.
However, as long as Rhodes gave it clear instructions, it would do it – it does not count when it fights with its companions and asks it for help.
At the signal of the village chief, Snow picked up Worm: “I will take good care of it.”
The three turned to leave, just in time to see the little girl Clauti who had seen yesterday half of her head exposed outside the door, looking at them timidly.
After noticing that she was discovered, Claudia quickly hid back.
Rod didn’t care. As he walked out, he reminded Natsu not to be impulsive.
Just as the three were about to step out of the courtyard, the little girl mustered up the courage to run over.
”Excuse me…”
The three turned around and looked at her.
Claudia’s courage seemed to be exhausted all at once, and she asked weakly: “Excuse me… can you defeat the monster on the mountain?”
Rod asked as gently as possible: “Do you know the monster on the mountain?”
Claudia nodded and shook her head: “Dad said there is a leopard monster on the mountain, with a leopard upper body and a human lower body.
It is as tall as two people, its teeth are as long as chopsticks, its mouth is as big as a basin, its tail is thicker than my arm, and it has very long mane.”
As she spoke, Claudia began to sob, tears welling up in her eyes:
”Dad said the monster on the mountain is like that, and Dad’s wish is to defeat the monster and protect everyone. Dad asked me to be obedient and wait at home, and he will be back soon, but… but…”
Naz put his hand on the little girl’s head, and Claudia’s crying stopped.
“Then you have to continue to be obedient and wait at home. I will fulfill your father’s wish for him.”
Clauti’s tears suddenly burst out. She stared at Natsu’s back as he turned and left, and her vision became more and more blurred.
In order to see this warm big brother clearly, Clauti tried to wipe the tears from her face with her arms.
Rod sighed secretly and silently made a plan to sneak attack Natsu in an emergency and drag him underground. He knew that Natsu’s adoptive father suddenly disappeared one day and never came back. It was difficult for Natsu to remain indifferent when encountering such a thing.
And the little girl’s tears were indeed moving. Rod also felt sorry for the child, but he couldn’t lose his composure.
”Happy, pay attention to Natsu later, and don’t let him do stupid things.”
”Love.” Happy didn’t have much confidence.
Rod summoned two river crabs and a group of shadow wolves to speed up.
The beasts that were staring at last night really just found a jungle to hide in. It was puzzling that they were cautiously exploring new territories and looking for a place to live.
Rhode could only suppress his doubts and analyze the information he had just obtained.Intelligence.
Information about the Beast King provided by the little girl Claudia, dictated by her father.
Considering the possibility of partial loss and exaggeration during the information transmission process, the information cannot be fully trusted.
The most effective information now is that the opponent may be a leopard-like monster.
According to the racial characteristics, leopards are likely to be speed-type and agile opponents.
To deal with this type, Rhodes thought of Jet…
Stone beetles should be useful, and the covering attack of the razor beak bird may also be useful.
The antidote for the magic frog has not been obtained yet.
But if it is used against the enemy, it’s okay, just be careful not to affect your own people.
Rhodes and Happy caught up with Naz and held him at the foot of the mountain.
Rhodes had already asked Bit and Mastiff about the general terrain of the mountain. If he rushed up rashly, he might be bitten by a venomous snake, which would be a lot of fun.
“The more you want to help Claudia, the more you have to stay calm. If something happens to you, the child will probably never trust anyone again.”
This persuasion was barely effective. Natsu sat down with his legs crossed and folded his arms: “How long do we have to wait?”
”When I find it.” Rhodes connected the vision of the river crabs,
”The first one has climbed to the top of the first peak. I haven’t seen anything unusual for the time being. The shadow wolf is trying to find the breath of the beast.”
In order to prevent Natsu and Habby from getting impatient, Rhodes dictated the scene he saw through the river crabs in real time.
After searching for half an hour, a grizzly bear walked down the mountain. When it noticed the two people and the cat, the grizzly bear was slightly alert.
But when it compared the size, it was no longer afraid and pounced on them.
Natsu stood up and pounded his palm. He came just in time.
”Traces of fighting.” Rhodes finally found that there was the remains of a wild boar on the ground, which was obviously eaten by some animal.
The exposed ribs and spine were broken, and it was uncertain whether they were caused before or after death.
The shadow wolf sniffed the smell, chose a direction and ran, and the river crab followed.
In Rhodes’ field of vision, trees, rocks, flowers and plants passed quickly, and stopped at another place with traces of fighting.
This time it was the body of a wild wolf, with its body bent exaggeratedly, and its spine should have been broken.
The shadow wolf had no intention of hurting its own kind, sniffed forward, and ran to the next place.
So Rhodes saw the bodies of various wild animals such as tigers, grizzly bears, cheetahs, etc.
Each one seemed to have been beaten to death by a blunt instrument, the scene was very cruel, and…
Weird.
If the beasts in the mountains died in a fight, then most of the wounds should come from biting. There are not so many beasts that use blunt attacks, right? (End of this chapter)
