Monster Hunter: I can accept monster quests!

Chapter 77 Sweet Wild Fruits

Chen Yan was blinded by the flashing light, tears streaming down his face. For a moment, he couldn't tell which way was which, and could only hear the crackling sounds of fighting. It was clear that Hua Miao was fighting him.

After finally regaining its vision, it saw the cat that was fighting it at close range take a kick with a very short wind-up, followed by the combo that all three of them were familiar with, and then it opened the flashing membrane on the top of its head.

Seeing that the cat was about to be hit by a flashbang, Chen Yan pounced again.

However, instead of rescuing Flower Cat, he rushed to the side of Dazzling Bird, drew his sword forcefully, and warned Dazzling Bird with a crisp sound of the blade.

The dazzling bird glanced at the knife in Chen Yan's hand, which was clearly longer and larger than the knife in the little cat's paw. It immediately judged that Chen Yan was more threatening, and then hopped around to adjust its position, preparing to give him another flashbang.

Just a second before it was about to detonate the flash, it suddenly heard a low roar from behind.

The Pink Rathalos also struggled out of the soft coral. Under Chen Yan's command, it did not charge, but instead growled and glared menacingly on the other side of the Dazzling Bird.

Now, the dragon, the human, and the cat surrounded it in a triangular formation.

Faced with this scene, the dazzling bird, with its shimmering membrane above its head, looked at the three of them with a bit of unease.

It is somewhat special, but no matter how special it is, the flash membrane on its head can only accumulate one flashbang. After use, it will take at least a few seconds to recover. But facing the approaching Flower Cat, Chen Yan, and Sakura Rathalos, it really doesn't know who to blind.

Since that's the case, Chen Yan kindly offered to help Xuan Niao make a choice.

He roared and made a move to attack, while Flower Cat and Pink Rathian also roared and shouted.

The situation was critical. The Dazzling Bird completely lost its judgment. It tried its best to open the foldable flash membrane on the top of its head and, with small, quick steps, tried to include Chen Yan and the Pink Rathian within the blinding range of the flash bomb.

Ultimately, it chose to judge combat strength based on size.

Ignored, the cat seized the opportunity and immediately charged forward in its four-pawed cat cart. It leaped up and landed on the bird's head, its hind legs and tail wrapping around the bird's neck to stabilize itself.

Just a second before its luminous membrane was about to glow, it grabbed the claws and snapped shut.

With a "pop," the flash of light burst forth concentrated in its wrinkled flash membrane.

The bird let out a miserable cry, and a foul, burnt smell wafted over; the luminous membrane on its head had clearly been burned.

The dazzling bird, having lost its shimmering membrane, was greatly weakened in combat. Chen Yan's Rathalos pounced on it and ruthlessly ravaged the fearless "Coral Highlands Overlord".

With a mournful cry, the dizzying bird fainted, the circle kick ended, the bubble burst, and the mission was complete.

The pointer spun and finally stopped on the kicking technique.

[Task completed.]

[Kicking Technique]: Your kicking power has been greatly enhanced, enough to kill a Pteranodon with one kick and send a fully armed hunter flying. You should know that even a single kick from an Anjanath is not enough to send a hunter flying.

A few drops of warmth appeared, slightly moisturizing my legs, but it was fleeting, and the enhancement was barely noticeable.

Flower Cat stepped on the Dazzling Bird and was about to boast as usual when it turned its head and found that all the fat chickens it had worked so hard to hunt had been trampled to pieces. Flower Cat let out a mournful meow, and then angrily pulled out a dagger and began to brandish it at the Dazzling Bird.

After gesturing and comparing, they couldn't find a spot with plenty of meat; the bird was all skin and bones, with not a single ounce of good flesh on its body.

After gesturing for a long time, the cat finally decided to take out the heart and liver of the dazzling bird to compensate for the few fat chickens that had been trampled.

Just as the knife tip touched its chest, the dizzy bird, its eyes rolled back, suddenly jumped up, shook off the flower cat, and disappeared behind the towering coral tree with a few leaps.

Hua Miao, knife in its mouth, was about to chase after them when Chen Yan stopped it. He bent down, picked up the fat chicken, and weighed it in his hand.

"Forget it, you won't catch it even if you exhaust yourself. The trampled chicken meat isn't necessarily bad. Go find some wild fruit, I'll make some meatballs, let's just have a quick meal and keep going!"

Flower Cat stared at the spot where the Dazzling Bird had disappeared, muttering to itself, before heading off to gather wild fruit with a look of resentment on its face.

Chen Yan lit a campfire and unfolded a folding cutting board.

He skillfully skinned and deboned several chickens that had been trampled flat, then picked up a stone and smashed it repeatedly, mashing the chicken meat into a paste before breaking up dry rations and mixing it in.

After mixing well, grab a handful and squeeze it hard, and a round chicken meatball will appear.

Three skewers are placed on a fire and grilled, and soon the aroma of meat fills the air.

The Sakura Fire Dragon, who had never smelled the aroma of grilled chicken meatballs before, was extremely hungry. It stared longingly at the skewers, its tail wagging behind it, and humming and nuzzling Chen Yan with its head.

"Don't worry, you'll get a share. But you won't be full just eating meatballs. Go hunt some spirit deer, and I'll roast a few for you."

The Pink Rathalos cheered and followed the scent to find the Fairy Deer.

Flower Cat, meanwhile, strolled through the low bushes while humming a song.

This place is really nice, there are so many wild fruits, red, green, black, purple, all kinds of colors. And the way the foodie Flower Cat distinguishes whether wild fruits are poisonous is very simple, that is, smell them.

It smells sweet, so it's definitely not poisonous.

It smells sour and astringent, but it will become sweet after a while, and it's not poisonous.

If it smells bitter and makes your nose numb after smelling it for a long time, then it must be that the skin is inedible but the flesh is edible.

In no time, it had filled a whole bag with fruit. Just as it was about to head home, its gaze swept across the room and it suddenly spotted a huge, bright red wild fruit growing on a coral tree across the way.

Even from a distance, the cat could smell the sweet and sour aroma of the wild berries. Looking at the tempting fruit, its mouth was practically watering.

A stream blocked its path in front of the coral tree, but the flower cat, whose eyes were only on the wild berries, could not be stopped by a small stream.

It casually tossed the animal skin bag filled with wild berries onto the stream bank, then took a few steps back, charged forward to the stream bank, and leaped up, landing steadily on the coral tree in a less-than-perfect arc.

It climbed the tree branches, inching its way toward the wild fruit at the top. The coral branches it crushed fell into the stream with a crackling sound, and the animal skin bag lying on the streamside tilted, half of the bag of wild fruit rolling into the stream as well.

The cat was completely unaware that its commotion had attracted a monster covered in gorgeous pinkish-white scales, with fine, soft purple fur on its belly and tail.

It glided its limbs, its graceful figure and elegant movements slowly rising above the stream.

Clear water droplets slid down its head and back, past its pink and white scales, and silently disappeared into the stream.

Its two short, thin whiskers trembled slightly as it followed the falling coral branches to the flower cat climbing the tree. It stared at the Palico that had invaded its territory, its eyes showing no ferocity, only intense curiosity.

After tilting its head and staring at the clumsy cat for a while to make sure it wouldn't fall into the water, it was then attracted by the wild fruit that had fallen into the stream and floated to its side.

It gently waved its front paws, and several clumps of foam welled up from under its fur, enveloping the wild fruits that had fallen into the water. The colorful bubbles, carrying the wild fruits, rippled and floated to the top of the flower cat's animal skin bag.

It blew a breath, the bubbles burst, and the wild fruits fell back into the animal skin bag. Just as it was about to dive back into the stream, it discovered that there were several kinds of poisonous wild fruits in the animal skin bag that could not be eaten.

So it turned back again, half of its body protruding from the stream, the sunlight shining on its scales and pink fins, a beauty that seemed like a dream.

It reached its whiskers into the cat's fur pouch and picked up one of the wild fruits.

First, sniff it, then lick it, and finally, gently bite it.

After carefully picking out the inedible and unpalatable wild fruits and confirming that only the edible and delicious ones remained, it swam its small, cute pink fins to the side and disappeared contentedly.

Just then, the cat climbed down the tree with a large fruit in its mouth. It munched on the wild fruit as it swam across the stream, picked up the bag, and headed back.

"Huh, it's gotten much lighter. Oh well, half a bag should be enough..."

Hua Miao returned leisurely, having eaten its fill of that big red wild fruit. Chen Yan, who was sweating profusely from grilling skewers, didn't even look at it, and casually grabbed a handful from the pocket Hua Miao had brought back and stuffed them into his mouth.

The sweet and sour wild fruit tastes great, but it's a bit sticky and slippery when you eat it.

If you savor it carefully, you can also taste a unique sweetness.

"Wow, this lazy fat cat actually took a bath. I guess I'll have to eat two more..."