Online Cluster: Great Tomb
Chapter 12.5: Searching and Nesting
Point of View is in a character named Fadli.
Happy reading~
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After carrying out the previous mission of defeating the ants and escaping from the flying lizard, today at 9am, I returned to the game to begin the important mission given by the chieftain last night.
After doing Deep Dive I woke up in my room with a small table beside my head and there was a letter from the chief that read, “Don't forget the egg.”
In my heart I said, “Siap, chief!”
I started to exit the room and headed straight for the clan storage room, on my way to the storage room, I smelled something really good from the kitchen. Although my mask is skull-shaped, but if it's a food problem, my smell is beyond reason.
I checked into the kitchen and saw one of the female players I didn't know very well cooking.
“Excuse me, air.”
The most common offense that I often use to Novan and 2 more friends in the real world when entering the room.
The female player giggled slightly as she closed her mouth.
“What cooking time?”
I asked while looking at the stove.
“Owh it was, the leftover meat stew last night. For breakfast other members later.”
“Ooh..”.
“Hmm... What is it?”
The female player looked at me back with a curious face.
“Ah yes, no, I mean, continue aja.”
With a smile from the player, I returned to my original goal.
Inside the storage room there are many large sturdy and strong city boxes, all of which are neatly arranged by one of the players who like to clean up, namely Zia.
I saw the most sturdy box among the other boxes, where the egg was kept.
I opened the box and took the big green egg, I didn't take it in matrix form, but in physical form, so I knew the shape, the taste of the egg's surface, and the weight of the egg.
After knowing the specific shape I turned the dragon egg into a matrix and placed it in my inventory. As I climbed onto the main floor with the smell of food that the female player made, I became tempted to do something in the forest.
While thinking about it, Novan suda was in the middle room while getting ready, I also asked Dimas to Novan whereabouts.
“Dimas?”
“New rise he said, ntar nyulaus.”
“OK, I want to get ready in the armament room.”
“Sip!”
I walked towards the armament room and shortly afterwards Dimas appeared in the living room greeting Novan, I who was already far away from the living room did not hear much of their conversation.
Time to focus on what to bring, because the place we are headed is sector 59 or commonly called Sector Nature. A place I really like, as well as Novan, because from there we can feel the coolness of nature and wash our eyes with greenery trees.
Sector 59 also has the same small cities as small towns in other sectors, but uniquely, the sector city is integrated with nature there, he said, and many players get pets from the sector.
Well, I already have a dragon that will soon be our clan's pet. Continuing to the preparation of weaponry, I modified my beloved AK-47 which had been through many battles together. I replaced muzzle, barrel, underbarrel, grip, laser, and red dot scope mk6. Not to forget the RF version of Onepunchman, namely SPR 2, and Jagdkommando, the most sadistic and deadly army knife with a unique shape.
Once ready, I returned to the living room where Dimas and Novan were waiting for me with their equipment they had also provided and were ready to leave.
We are exiting the clan headquarters and will head for the Transporter in the middle of Sector 51 city which will move us to Sector 59. I entered the code and one of the gates started issuing a kind of vortex depicting the trees of Sector 59.
We walked in and arrived in the middle of Sector 59. Its special cold air made us more confident and passionate for the mission of incubating dragon eggs.
Before entering the forest, I said to Novan and Dimas.
“Van, Dims, before we get into the forest maybe it's good we find info.”
“Make what?”
Dimas asked confusion.
“We don't know what to do to hatch this egg right, you know it must be laid.”
“Dieramin.”
Answer Novan.
“Covered foliage.”
Answer Dimas.
“Eeehh...”.
Their somewhat inconsequential-sounding answers positively influenced my plans to search the Sector's library for information. I told the two of them to look for the equipment needed to survive in the forest and make a timetable of meeting back after 2 hours of searching and gathering in the middle of the Sector.
I went to the library, as a Biology graduate, reading books about living things was like reading a storybook to me.
My search has finally yielded results. I came across the book of Biological myths and legends, and I was very lucky to find a page discussing dragons. Without a second thought I looked for a page that discussed how to incubate the forest dragon eggs and met.
All I had to do was find a very unique location, it had to be in the forest and place a dragon egg on top of the geothermal vent.
As unique as that place is, my other thoughts say,”It should be easy.”
There was still an hour to wait for them to finish searching for materials to enter the forest. I started walking around the middle of sector 59 and saw a large tree that was tall and sturdy.
The surrounding buildings that encircle the tree are also fused with nature, whether the building becomes a tree house, or becomes a tree building. Around here also many who sell special needs such as cooking, armor, weapons, and so forth.
Given the smell of the cooking that the female player had made earlier, it gave me an idea. I went straight to the cooking shop and bought whatever was necessary for my plan later in the forest.
After 2 hours, we finally got together and at the moment of wanting to walk, my steps fell silent.
“Why, Fad?”
Novan asked.
The two of them clenched one of his hands and patted it into the next hand that was each open.
“Ah, reasonable!”
We also went to the vehicle shop and chose various types of vehicles that were suitable for the three of us. My vision was immediately fixed to a medium-sized vehicle commonly called a buggy, medium-sized, can walk quickly and one of the vehicles of the ATV family or All Terrain Vehicle. I asked the merchant and said the merchant, the buggy sold for 2 million credits.
I looked at my financial inventory and still saw 5 million credits, the result of me saving up last time. I also asked Novan and Dimas for a joint venture, which I would give 1 million credits, while Novan and Dimas, each 500 thousand credits.
After agreeing and buying, we finally headed into the dense forest, Novan who had bought a holographic map began to look for a place that I had told him. But halfway through I saw something move and stopped the buggy. I immediately went down and took out the hunting arrow that I bought in the city earlier.
I hunt a bunch of deer. Quite a lot, about 20, the rest had already escaped. Novan and Dimas who had just arrived at my place and found out I was hunting so many deer instantly nagged me all out.
Not long after a big brown bear appeared standing intimidating the three of us, but the intimidation had no effect on me, I was tempted by the bear instead.
20 Minutes later I've collected a lot of bones, offal, meat and skin from the 20 deer and bear. Although satisfied, I still feel there is less, but rather than being taken by the two of them again, I look for other alternatives.
We continue our journey to the forested interior of sector 59.
The interior of this forest was completely dense and there were no signs of NPCs or other players, all of them were all over trees and shrubs. Fortunately we bought a buggy so the journey in the forest was very easy.
Not too long later I saw a fine white smoke soaring into the sky, and it seemed like it was where the geothermal hole was located, I directly stuck the gas and finally arrived near the geothermal hole.
That place looks pretty good for hatching dragon eggs.
We got out of the vehicle and started to prepare the items, set up a tent, set up a small headquarters, and sentry gun for security where we and the dragon egg were.
Dimas began to look, inspect, and prepare fish traps in the nearby stream of geothermal water, for our food supply and the dragons later. Novan prepares a multi-purpose table and cooking utensils. As for me, bring this dragon egg to near geothermal while checking and looking for a way so that this dragon egg can be in the middle of the hole.
I looked around and found a lot of heart-shaped leaves that were very wide, the leaves were none other than the leaves that gurame fish like to eat, taro leaves. Very large and sturdy taro leaves. I borrowed Novan's military knife and started cutting, and again…
“ELU CUTNYA EXCESS BAGONG!!”
*BLETAK
The fried pot at high speed flew over my head and left a mound of hot smoky red bumps.
The newly finished Dimas dealt with the river, looking at us in confusion.
“Did I miss something?”
Finished crafting and making a dragon nest, I placed it in the center of the nest right under the geothermal steam, making it like a holy altar.
“Good too.”
Short of Dimas' praise, I just turned my head slightly and went back to look at my dragon nest. I looked while thinking, what kind of dragon will come out from this green egg.
When it showed at 2 pm in the game, the three of us sat down while grilling and eating the bear meat that we had killed, quite surprising because it tasted good, soft and fatty.
We started talking about dragon maintenance, both at incubation and after hatching later, but before that….
“Oi, you think the dragon will like how?”
I asked them while eating the bear's meat.
“Maybe stone dragons.”
Reply Novan while taking drinking water.
“Hmm... Stone, well..?”.
“It looks like not really rocks, yaaa... at most small but fat pepper with green scales and long strands like leaves.”.
Dimas also gives a picture of the dragon that will come out of the egg.
“How do you think, Fad?”
As he asked me, sipping water and clearing my throat, I gave a picture of what dragon was going to come out.
“In my opinion, the dragon will not be much different in shape from ordinary dragons, that is, the dragon still has hard scales, brown or green, and maybe quatropedal, has a pair of wings, he said, and spitting fire like a dragon in general.”
“Hm... so, yeah.”.
They looked at me like they were enlightened about dragons. As for me being the most expert in biology in the clan, I was already like a biology professor to them.
It is time for us to patrol, in addition to eliminating boredom, this patrol is also done to get to know the surrounding terrain, so that if something unexpected happens, it will also be done, we can act quickly to fight back.
Dimas stood guard at the headquarters while drinking my tea, while me and Novan, began to walk around the headquarters in the east.
The eastern area is really a wet place, a very humid forest, whether this forest runs out of rain or indeed the density of moss plants is so much that every plant we plant, hold, hold, and pass always in the wet.
Novan and I went down a small hill by sliding past the moss at our feet. I saw a cave that was quite large in size, even though I was wearing a mask, but the unique aroma that I was very familiar with told Novan not to continue inside. The confused novan asked.
“Why?”
“Hive centipede, centipede gede.”
Novan was speechless and we both stared intently at the cave while walking backwards and alerting our hands in AR weapons.
After passing through the cave and again combing the eastern area, Novan asked me why I could tell it was a centipede nest even to the size he knew.
“Kok can know?”
“My experience of disappearing in the small forest of the city is very often a long time ago, so unique things like the smell of animals and insects I can recognize it, he said, followed by the high humidity I knew enough it was an insect's nest, but the centipede had a distinctive smell, and with its size, it was very clear the smell it gave off, and also I saw some animal corpses strewn on the floor of the cave mouth.”
Novan who listened to my explanation looked amazed.
We combed through the eastern forest for quite a while and finally returned to the small headquarters we had set up, where Dimas was watching security cameras while eating a cake bought earlier in the city.
The three of us gathered and docked at the table while giving information about the eastern forest.
During the patrol, it was concluded that the eastern forest was an area with high humidity, a very high density of moss followed by large mushrooms that we had passed through, reinforcing the statements of me and Novan, he said, the forest is wet and damp due to the activity of moss and fungus.
The forest also has a nest of giant centipedes sleeping in it, there are streams and a great diversity of insects and their large size. But the size of the ants here, although large but not as big as the ants on the previous mission, hearing that statement Dimas heaved a sigh of relief that was previously stiff when he heard the word ant earlier.
I also added 3 surveillance cameras and 3 motion sensor alarms to increase the security of the dragon headquarters and nest.
When I wanted to talk about a trap, Dimas cut me off and started talking about his egg treatment.
Hearing that I took out the library book I borrowed earlier and placed it in the middle of the table. I opened the last page I read about dragons. I told them, to hatch dragon eggs, it takes all day or even up to 3 days, depending on the environmental conditions and egg incubation factors.
Dimas and Novan take a closer look at the book to once again understand what to do. I looked to the west and my instinct felt bad and followed by a roar from the sky, a sign of rain.
Our established preparations ignored the rumbling sound of the rain and focused on preparing to take care of the dragon, if it had hatched. That dragon nest I didn't cover, it would also make it look natural. But the thing that made me most worried was the western region. After finishing the stale bases in the headquarters, I will immediately comb through the southern and northern forests, while Novan sets a trap, and Dimas stays at the base to stand guard.
