Seeing that she was about to leave, Dean's heart jumped, and he hurriedly said, "Are you going to look for it? Didn't you say that even if you Pioneers encountered it, it would be difficult to escape death? "
"I'm talking about ordinary Pioneers without bloodline power." Aisha's eyes swept over Dean's shoulder and looked at the dark cave behind him. She said, "This cave should have been dug by the Shadow Hunter. Most likely, there are eggs inside. The Shadow Hunter will only build a cave when it's ready to ovulate. If you have time, you can go inside and check. If there are really Shadow Hunter eggs, remember to move them out and find a place to hide them separately. In this way, they can play the greatest value."
"Hide them separately?" Dean was puzzled.
"Yes." Aisha said, "The Shadow Hunter is different from other monsters. From the beginning of its birth, its first target is the companions that hatched with it. This is also the survival philosophy of the Shadow Hunter."
Dean was stunned. "You mean, the Shadow Hunter that hatches first will kill the companions that hatched later?"
Aisha nodded and said, "In this wasteland, you can encounter danger at any time. Even legendary monsters are very weak when they are just hatched and can easily become the prey of other monsters. Therefore, after the Shadow Hunter hatches, it will often lurk in the nest opened by its mother, waiting for its new brothers to hatch, then it will hunt and eat them, so that it can enter the mature period as soon as possible. This process usually takes about 15 days. In other words, it only takes 15 days for the second mature Shadow Hunter to appear! “
Dean was startled.
From hatching to maturity, it only takes a short 15 days?!
He felt that it was a bit unbelievable. It took at least two months for the Splitter to enter the growth period, and this was still under the condition that there was sufficient food supply. And from the growth period to the mature period, it took even longer.
But this Shadow Hunter only needed half a month to turn a newborn Shadow Hunter into a terrifying monster with a hunting level of more than 60!
"Doesn't the big Shadow Hunter care about it? They are all its children. How can it watch them kill each other?" Dean couldn't help but ask.
Aisha smiled and said, "Of course it doesn't care. Monsters are monsters, and we humans are humans. For us, it's not desirable to kill each other, but in their thinking, there is no such concept. The only thing they have is survival."
Dean was startled and suddenly understood. He sighed and said, "So, whoever is born first will be the survivor that eats all the remaining eggs."
Aisha shook her head slightly and said, "Not necessarily the first. Every newly hatched Shadow Hunter has a layer of amniotic membrane on its body. This layer of amniotic membrane will protect it from the attacks of its companions. When it really enters the juvenile stage, this layer of amniotic membrane will be shed. At that time, it will be a real fight. In each nest of eggs, only one will survive, and this one will follow the mother and establish its own tribe and territory until the next time it reproduces."
Dean nodded slightly and sighed with emotion in his heart. Fortunately, he knew this news. Otherwise, this nest of Shadow Hunter's eggs would have been wasted and suffered heavy losses.
"I'll go first. Be careful." Aisha said and was ready to leave.
Dean quickly said, "Are you sure you can deal with it?"
Seeing the worried look on his face, Aisha slightly pursed her mouth, revealing a smile, and said, "It's hard to say. But even if I can't beat it, at least protecting myself is not a problem." Then, she took a step forward and quickly disappeared into the woods outside the cave.
Dean looked at her back gradually disappearing. He retracted his gaze and turned to look at the dark depths of the cave. Thinking of the Shadow Hunter hiding in the shadows, a trace of coldness emerged in his heart. He caught a glimpse of Martin's sword on the ground and immediately bent down to pick it up. Then he glanced at Martin's body at the edge of the cave, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes. That Shadow Hunter only took Ian's body but didn't take Martin's body. Could it be that it couldn't take two bodies at once?
If this was the case, didn't it mean that it had just taken Ian's body and would soon return?
Thinking of this, Dean's heart shivered. He picked up Martin's sword, then took off his gloves and put them on his own hand. He glanced at Martin's body, and his eyes flashed for a moment. Finally, he stretched out his hand, lifted Martin's severed head, and entered the cave.
After a while, Dean quietly sneaked to the top of the underground nest.
He quietly peeked into the hole, but he didn't see the Shadow Hunter. He breathed a sigh of relief and threw Martin's head down.
There was a thud, and Martin's head landed on the sticky floor inside. It rolled twice.
The surroundings were quiet.
In a blink of an eye, more than ten minutes passed. Suddenly, a shadow flashed by, and Martin's head, which fell right below the cave, was lifted up and plunged into the depths of the nest.
Dean's eyes flashed, and he suddenly jumped down. His eyes immediately locked on the shadow. It was the Shadow Hunter that killed Luna. Its body quickly climbed up the nest's rock wall like a lizard, and the next moment, it disappeared on the rock wall, as if it was integrated into the rock wall.
Dean was stunned. He carefully stared at it, but he still couldn't see anything strange. This thing actually disappeared from his sight!
He slowly walked toward the rock wall with the sword in his hand. Suddenly, he saw a bit of sticky water slowly seeping out of the rock wall. He couldn't help but be startled. Looking at the traces of the water, he saw the water slowly went up along the rock wall until it reached the top of the rock wall.
Dean was startled. Suddenly, his heart moved. He tiptoed and picked up a stone from the ground. His eyes were fixed on the rock wall. He grabbed the stone and threw it.
Bang! The stone hit the rock wall and instantly shattered.
Dean immediately noticed that there were traces of slippage from the top of the rock wall, along with the traces of damp swamp.
Seeing this scene, he immediately knew that his guess was right. This Shadow Hunter seemed to have the ability to change colors. It could blend in with the surrounding environment!
Finding a way to identify it, Dean's heart was determined. He didn't stay any longer and suddenly jumped up. When he was near the top of the rock wall, he suddenly slashed the sword toward the top of the traces of wet water.
Hiss!
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