MTL - I Formed The El Cat Investigation Team In Pirates-Chapter 5 A world that's not quite right

Chapter 5 A world that’s not quite right

"drink!"

As Xie Wen, who was holding the fresh knife Bai Nagi, gave a low drink, his skin quickly turned a light red. At the same time, the blood vessels in several places such as his forehead and the back of his hands also swelled.

 After maintaining this state for about ten seconds, the red color on Xie Wen's body quickly faded away, and the bulging blood vessels also calmed down.

"Huh... My current body is still too young. I can't last long in the ghost-human transformation. Let alone just turned on the ghost-human transformation without making any movements. If I really want to fight, I guess the limit is about five seconds. "

Xie Wen exhaled a long breath of white air and shook his head helplessly.

Although in the ghost-human state, Xie Wen can produce in five seconds what would normally take more than ten seconds to produce, his first priority now is to explore the entire island as soon as possible, not to defeat a certain monster. .

 He ​​and Sanji Miao have been living on this island for more than a month, and the exploration rate of the map is only 7%.

 The reason why the exploration rate is so low is mainly because the areas that Sanji Meow explores alone are not included in the map of the Hunter's Manual.

In fact, Sanji Cat has at least mastered more than one-third of the island's situation, but many places are the territory of a certain or even a group of beasts. Elu cats, who are good at sneaking, can pass by without much problem. But it’s hard to say with Xie Wen.

If Xie Wen wants to complete the map of this island as soon as possible, he must improve his strength to the point where he can escape from the most powerful guys on the island.

So for more than a month, Xie Wen basically stayed around the cave where they lived, and spent most of his time exercising and training combat skills, such as collecting ingredients, all done by Sanji Miao. Responsible.

 In short, Xie Wen now relies on cats for food.

However, there is nothing wrong with being raised by a cat. Xie Wen shook his head to put aside his distracting thoughts, and then started a new round of exercise.

In fact, he has almost mastered the simple Tai Sword skills. After all, in the absence of actual combat training, no matter how you practice the sword skills, it will be just like that. You just need to consolidate it every day. Now Xie Wen's training focus is still on improving his physical fitness. And apply the skills of other weapons to tachi.

Thanks to the cat rice made by Sanji Miao for logistical support, Xie Wen did not need to consider the issue of physical exertion when exercising. In addition, he had collected many fitness videos before time travel, and he had many scientific fitness methods in them. I still remember a little bit, so Xie Wen's training efficiency in the past month or so has actually been quite high.

To be honest, Xie Wen never expected that he, a lazy otaku, could quickly adapt to this boring exercise. You must know that he had collected a lot of fitness videos, but he basically only lasted for two or three days. I gave up, and those videos ended up just sitting in my favorites collecting dust.

And now Xie Wen is able to enter the state so quickly, in addition to a lack of security, it is more because of...

This poor place has no internet, no electricity, and no mobile phone. Apart from working out hard and petting the cat, he doesn't seem to have any other entertainment options.

 As expected, people are forced out.

“Xie Wen, look, meow! I found a new ingredient, meow!”

While Xie Wen was doing who-knows-what group of burpees today, Sanji, who was out hunting, came running back holding up a beast that was at least half as big as him.

"Thanks a lot."

Xie Wen stopped exercising, went up and touched Sanji's little head, and then scratched his chin. After he purred with satisfaction, he turned his eyes to the side and was brought back by Sanji. of “ingredients”.

 Then, he took out the "high-tech" hunter's manual from his pocket and opened it to the next page of the weapon interface.

At this time, this page has been unlocked, and the words "Small Monster Illustrated Book" are clearly marked at the top of the page.

Xie Wen was not sure when exactly this page was unlocked. It was when he wanted to take a break after training one day and took out the hunter's manual to kill time, when he suddenly discovered that this page had been unlocked. Details of two "ingredients" also appeared.

After several tests, Xie Wen found that he needed to see the other person's complete appearance and have direct contact before his information would be automatically generated in the small monster illustrated book, which not only had paintings of the corresponding animals, but also a brief introduction. , basically similar to the hunter notes in "Monster Hunter: Rise".

Thinking about it, the way to unlock the large monster illustrated book should be the same. Of course, there are some differences from the game.

 Some animals that Xie Wen has never seen need to be named by himself, and a (tentative name) prompt will be automatically added at the end of the illustration...

 Most likely, it will be updated to the official name later when the village is found or when other hunters who know the situation are met.

 Hence Xie Wen's naming is very random, such as "black-backed, white-bellied pig-nosed wolf".

The beast Sanji brought back this time looks a bit like a wild boar, but it has a head similar to a mouse, but has wild boar tusks, and a pair of forelimbs are not hooves, but like a mole. The claws are also long and pointed, and the hind legs are not as pointed as pig hooves, but look like horse hooves or cow hooves.

After Xie Wen casually named it "Mole Boar", he touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

 In fact, he had some doubts before. Among the animals brought back by Sanji, there would occasionally be strange creatures like moles and wild boars.

Although there are many strange creatures in the Monster Hunter game, the appearance and ecology of those creatures are traceable. The game company consulted professional biologists and then designed them step by step according to the constructed ecological environment. from.

 Simply put, the creatures in Monster Hunter are scientific, or at least they seem to be scientific.

 But some creatures on this island completely ignore this rigor, as if the designer had pieced together a bunch of animal materials while drunk.

  To put it in a more understandable way, it is...the style of painting of these creatures is not quite right.

 So... maybe I did not travel to the world of Monster Hunter, but to some other unknown world?

 Or is it that there is a new Monster Hunter game, and it has overturned?

However, even in the world without any special powers before the time travel, there were many weird-looking creatures. So in the real world of Monster Hunter, is it normal to have such creatures?

Xie Wen, who didn't have much idea, thought about it for a while and decided to ask Sanji Miao. After all, from a certain perspective, he was the "aboriginal person".

“Sanji, have you heard of such a creature before?” Xie Wen asked, pointing to the mole boar.

"No," Sanji shook his head, then put his hands on his hips and said proudly, "But don't worry, as a chef, I can tell what cats can eat and what cats can't, and I will definitely not eat it bad. Your belly is so cute."

 “That’s not what I meant.” Xie Wen waved his hands dumbfounded, and then told Sanji Miao his guess.

“...You mean, we may have drifted to other continents, meow?” Sanji meow asked in a panic after being stunned for a while.

 “That’s pretty much what it means.”

Sanji Miao seemed to have some difficulty understanding the concept of another world. After Xie Wen thought about it for a while, he did not explain further, but followed his words and answered.

 “I don’t want meow!”

However, what Xie Wen didn't expect was that after Sanji Miao heard his answer, he immediately lay down on the ground and started to get awkward.

“Grandma Cat said that there are no El Cats on some continents, so I won’t be able to see the beautiful El Cat sister in the future, meow! I don’t want meow!!”

ˆXie Wen: “…”

 Is this the point? !

 (End of this chapter)