Chapter 21 21. Skill Analysis
With two "pops", Lan En and Bernie jumped from the boat into the muddy beach.
“This is the place where the fish are richer on the outskirts of the fishing ground. It’s easy to find water ghosts here. Those beasts don’t even bother to avoid people now.”
Lan En His nostrils were quivering, and the vapor-rich wind was mixed with all kinds of fishy smells.
The smell of the tidal flat is not pleasant, it smells like fish, blood, and sea
If it were a pampered man, his breakfast would be free of charge with the first breath.
Through the witcher's mutated senses, he felt that these smells were wrapping around him like colorful halos.
Finally, after careful identification, he selected his target.
——A disgusting smell like rotting fish, shrimp, and seaweed mixed together.
This is the smell of water ghosts.
After focusing on a smell, the air where the smell is distributed is like a streamer, "highlighted" in the witcher's field of vision.
The rest of the messy odors are filtered out.
Of course, being able to find the correct traces so easily is also due to the frequent activities of this group of water ghosts, which makes the smell here too fresh.
Logically speaking, these smells alone are enough for Lan En to find the group of water ghosts directly.
But he did not move immediately. Instead, he turned around and asked Bernie who had begun to take off the bow and arrow from his back.
"Can you track those water ghosts?"
Bernie glanced at the young man in surprise, isn't this your job?
But he didn’t say much.
"These obvious footprints, as well as the broken scales of the water ghost, any individual will do."
"." Mentos in his mind issued a series of ellipsis with unknown meaning.
Lan En looked at the beach in front of him expressionlessly.
The black and smelly mud is dotted with all kinds of strange and messy marks.
It was caused by wild beasts, drifting objects, and water ghosts.
To people without tracking experience, this is just a messy mud field.
It is impossible to distinguish the scales of a water ghost from the scales of a fish, and the so-called "obvious footprints" cannot be seen at all under the messy traces.
I'm a human being and I'm really sorry!
The corners of Lan En's mouth twitched vaguely.
"Very good, I need to adjust my combat status, and I will leave the tracking to you."
There is not much explanation, and it just so happens that Bernie doesn't want to ask more questions, anyway, this job It's actually very easy for him.
So the man wearing long leather gloves walked forward and began to naturally examine various traces and use this to formulate a direction of travel.
In Lan En's mind, Mentos also started to work according to Lan En's plan.
"New analysis item - [Trace Detection]
Skill source - [Fisherman Bernie]
Information integration analysis, current progress - 1%."
"The results of the analysis will be passed on to me in the evening. I don't want my head to be as swollen as a Coke bottle when I deal with the water ghost."
"Roger that, sir."
Mentos' intelligent voice follows the instructions.
The process of knowledge transfer by Intelligent Brain cannot be changed because of lack of authority. Painful for sure.
But it’s okay to choose a time to suffer.
The exchange in his mind was rapid, and Bernie was still looking down at the mud.
Lan Enze didn't understand at all why he could always detect all kinds of subtle traces.
For example, seeing a shallow scratch on the mud, or finding clues in the already messy pile of footprints, and then making a decisive change in direction.
The adjustment in that direction was much more precise than the scent he caught with his witcher's sense of smell.
Lan En followed and sighed. Extraordinary senses also require knowledge and experience to use them more efficiently.
Every qualified demon hunter is an out-and-out master of pursuit.
Although I don’t regret killing my teacher with my own hands, I still need to make up for my lack of experience and ability. In a world with backward productivity, even the crafts of butchers cutting meat and coopers hoisting barrels are passed down from family to family, or can only be learned by apprentices who have to pay and work hard.
Not to mention the ability to feed a large family such as hunting and tracking.
But fortunately, Lan En’s good partner allows him to extract and summarize nutritious knowledge just by looking at it.
“Your tracking method seems different from mine.”
Following Bernie, Lan En tried to pretend to be knowledgeable.
Whether it’s right or not, you have enough confidence anyway!
“Just like just now, you were looking at the scratch on the dirt, and we usually focus on the mess next to it.”
Bernie recalled He said "messy" in the young man's mouth.
Aren’t those signs of dead fish or rotten meat, dragged into the hole by crabs?
What use is this for tracking water ghosts?
Bernie had doubts, but he didn’t dare to talk nonsense.
After all, who knows the tracking skills of other demon hunters?
Maybe they can use crabs to tell fortunes?
“The scratches are the marks made by the toes of the water ghosts on the ground. There are webs between their fingers, and the marks are obviously different.”
Bernie answered the questions honestly.
"[Trace Detection] is undergoing skill calibration
Information integration and analysis, the current progress is - 9%."
"Sir, I suggest you continue to work hard to ask questions .”
The beep of Mentos made Lan En feel happy.
Of course, the brain can extract a skill from a person just by observing it, but if the skill holder explains the skill information, the progress bar will of course accumulate faster.
But Lan En was not prepared to keep asking questions like this.
Asking one or two questions is for technical communication. If you ask too many questions, don’t you just show that you don’t know anything? Pure and innocent.
This tracking process is not long. When we reach a small slope about two hundred meters away from the place where we landed, the chirping cry of the water ghost can be easily heard by ordinary people.
After crossing this slope, you should be able to see groups of monsters.
Bernie turned to look at Lan En, the meaning was obvious -
The next step is your job.
The young man was completely different from the previous tracking process, and stepped forward without hesitation.
The sharp silver sword of the Xiong School was unsheathed with a low and gentle sound of metal friction.
The gentle voice meant that the hand holding the sword was very stable, and it also gave Bernie a sense of peace of mind.
"Put away your bow. There are only five water ghosts in total. I can deal with them. We have never cooperated before, and your arrows may interfere with me."
So Bernie put the bow and arrows back on his back again.
He had already doubted Lan En's tracking skills along the way, but now that the young man directly stated the exact number of these water ghosts, he completely threw away his doubts.
The young man walked leisurely across the hill, making gestures with his free left hand in front of him.
The golden magic light flashed away, and a magic rune of the same color began to wander around Lan En's body.
"Quen."
Lan En, who has changed his clothes, plans to use a more radical fighting style this time.
The good equipment gave him a lot of confidence.
In this case, the spherical [Quen] that applies the knowledge of the school is not suitable, but the original version is more advantageous.
The screams at the foot of the small slope suddenly became silent. Five pairs of eyelidless dead fish eyes stared at the figure slowly walking down the slope.
Then
“Wow!!!”*5
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(End of this chapter)