49. The Fall of the Eagle: Raging Dragon
When Frye swooped down on Ji Mo again, the orcs and females of the Raptor tribe of the Western Continent were stunned.
Roar roar roar ~~~~~
It was the roar of the white dragon's incredulous disbelief and thunderous rage.
In fact, when he fell weightlessly towards the sea, Ji Mo was woken up by tossing, and he saw the dragon who was looking up anxiously preparing to catch him in the middle of the fall, so he also relaxed and smiled happily: Great, am I finally saved?
Without the sharp and hard talons on his shoulder blades, the mermaid felt extremely relieved, but his peace of mind lasted less than a few heartbeats, and then he was horrified to find another sound of wings flapping and a driving wind above his head, and he was caught again.
"Ao Bai~" Crossing Fish shouted in despair, and he watched as he moved away from the dragon on the surface of the sea again. I thought that YiqiΔ was already safe and Ao Bai's hope that he would take him home soon was dashed in an instant? Ji Mo couldn't hold back the tears that he refused to show weakness before, and the tears condensed into pearls in mid-air and fell into the sea.
The females of the Raptor tribe who were hiding in the jungle to watch were quite sympathetic to Ji Mo, although he was the companion of the evil dragon, but he was also a female after all, and he was injured so badly, there was a kind of unbearable pity on their faces.
However, when they saw the mermaid's tears condense into pearls, their inner thoughts involuntarily changed.
"Ah~ Beast God! Look, it's really turned into a pearl! β
"It turns out that the legends are all true."
"It would be nice if there were mermaids in our tribe."
The females' attention was immediately diverted by the series of falling pearls, and the burning desire in their eyes could not be concealed - living in the depths of the dangerous dense forests on land, there was always the possibility of getting sick and seriously injured, especially since their beast fathers/mates were always injured accidentally in the hunt, and it would be nice if there were endless pearls at home......
Human nature is inherently selfish, not that there is no conscience, but sometimes that insignificant conscience is not as good as the health and life of one's relatives or partners.
Then again, Frye's move not only shocked Ao Bai, but even his two Eagle Clan companions were surprised: What's wrong with Frye? Didn't you just agree to return the female captives at the same time? How can an orc warrior not be true to his word?
For a short moment, everyone's feelings were very excited.
This time, though, Frye wasn't favored by the beast god, and he missed.
Because Ao Bai was guarding the sea below at that time, his height was within Ao Bai's attack range, not to mention that Frye risked flying lower in order to recapture the mermaid.
With an angry dragon roar, an adult eagle fell from mid-air.
Frye's miserable, high-pitched, painful chirp struck the hearts of the Raptor tribesmen present.
"Frye~"
"Oh my God, Frye has been attacked by a dragon!"
"What to do? Go and save him, for he is a warrior of our tribe. β
"Beast God, Frye's wings are broken......"
"Evil dragon, cruel dragon!"
Ji Mo fell again, and with him was the eagle that attacked and injured him.
Listening to all kinds of impassioned and angry curses coming from the jungle not far away, Ji Mo felt very puzzled: ...... Are you scolding Ao Bai?
His body was severely devastated, and the mermaid's soft skin was only broken and bleeding under the eagle's talons.
When Ji Mo fell in a daze, he felt that his heart was beating very slowly, very, very slowly, and very hollow, as if he could hear an echo in his ears.
Bang ~~~~~ bang ~~~~~ bang ~~~~
At the same time, he also found many fluttering and swirling silver-gray feathers around him, all of which were stained with the blood of different Cheng dΓΉ, which was extremely dazzling to look at.
"Plop~" With a loud sound, Ji Mo saw a silver-gray figure fall into the sea one step ahead of him, causing a burst of hoarse exclamations and angry scolding in the dense forest on the beach not far away.
The last thing he saw in his eyes before he was completely unconscious was his dragon, his Ao Bai - the blue eyes seemed to be red? Scared to cry? Alas~ he must have been terrified......
Returning to the white dragon's claws with peace of mind, he didn't know anything about it.
A moment ago, the angry white dragon quickly seized the opportunity of Frye leaning over slightly and preparing to flap his wings and fly into the air, mobilized the power of condensing water into ice, and first accurately hit the claws of the damn treacherous eagle, and after the other party let go of Ji Mo in pain, the white dragon had no scruples, and the sharp and cold ice spikes instantly shot down Frye, who wanted to flapp his wings and escape, from the air, and the wings on both sides drooped down, and the feathers were splashed with blood, screaming and falling into the sea, I don't know whether he is dead or alive.
Actually, Frye should be thankful for the merfolk.
If it weren't for the white dragon who paid attention to Ji Mo and then fell into the sea, his fate would be to be torn into pieces by the furious white dragon, just like the two fierce sharks that attacked Ji Mo on the night when Ao Bai transformed, even if he had escaped and swam far away, the white dragon would have to chase after him with his mermaid and kill him.
"Ji Mo~" Bai Long quickly swam over to catch the falling mermaid, after he took a cursory look at his partner's bloody shoulders and closed eyes, he immediately took the other party to dive into the safe deep sea to prepare for treatment, and there was no time to clean up the bloody eagle on the sea for the time being.
Land orcs, damn land orcs!
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By the time Ji Mo came to his senses, he was already lying in a safe and warm home.
"Uh~Hmm~ It hurts!" At the moment when he was conscious, the crossing fish wished that someone would help him and knock him out with a stick.
- This is really not something that a mermaid can bear......
"Ouch~~Hiss~ Oh my God!" Ji Mo soon began to cry uncontrollably, he knew that his shoulder was injured, and when he just wanted to try to look down, his neck twisted, pulling the two bloody wounds on his shoulder, and suddenly his face was distorted in pain, and his eyes were blackened and starred.
It's over, am I crippled?
Ji Mo hurriedly moved his palm: No? This will pull the wound.
He didn't give up, and closed his eyes and felt his fingers move.
Whew~ Fortunately, the nerve is intact, but I don't know if the shoulder blade is broken or not, and the wound will not affect the flexibility of hand movement.
That damn eagle! I don't know if he's dead or not, he clearly recognized the wrong dragon, took my family's Ao Bai as Ao Yang, and vilely kidnapped and hurt me, making things so big. Alas~ Our feud with the Eagle tribe is settled.
The two shoulders were throbbing sharply, and slowly spreading, no matter how much you diverted your attention, you couldn't ignore the heart-rending pain.
"Hiss~hiss~ouch~" Ji Mo kept gasping, feeling like a year, "Where is Ao Bai?" He lay on the bed with the upper half of his body unable to move, wanted to get up but couldn't control his arms, accidentally pulled his shoulders, gritted his teeth in pain, and unwillingly smashed the wooden bed board with his heel.
After a few dull "bangs", there was finally movement in the room.
The old turtle protector who was napping in a daze was suddenly awakened, he was staying in the corner that Ji Mo couldn't see, and it took a long time for the turtle to react, and he hurriedly came out of the turtle shell, and walked into the bed side of the inner bedroom with his thick legs.
"Ji Mo, have you finally woken up?"
The mermaid couldn't do this action when he wanted to turn his head to see the visitor, which made him feel frustrated and anxious.
"Uncle Hu? You're not really hibernating. Ji Mo tried hard to talk and laugh to divert his attention, he lay on his back and teased the old turtle who always accidentally slept for several days.
Hu's head was just level with Ji Mo's shoulders, and he said sullenly:
"Originally, I was really going to hibernate this time, but your partner woke me up, and he threatened me to smash my turtle shell if I didn't wake up, and now the young dragon, alas~" Hu shook his head and sighed.
In fact, after Bai Long took the mermaid to the safe deep sea that day, he first used his saliva to help his partner clean up the wound, and then went to find some seaweed to stop bleeding and chewed it and smeared it on Ji Mo's shoulder, but the effect was very average: the wound was deep and large, and it was completely caused by several vigorous punctures, and ordinary seagrass could not be cured at all.
So he was anxious and helpless and thought of the old turtle protection, and Ao Bai rushed back to his home with the mermaid to ask for help, but when he swam to the reef cave next door, he found that the turtle was sleeping again! Ao Bai thought of countless ways to wake up the sleeping turtle, and finally even lifted the turtle up and kept making a loud roar to intimidate him: If you don't wake up, I will smash your turtle shell!
After Ji Mo listened to the old turtle's complaints, he hurriedly apologized:
"I'm sorry, Uncle Hu, Ao Bai is in a hurry, and there is no malice. You also know that he never bullies the weak, and when he comes back, I'll make him apologize to you - by the way, where is he now? β
Hey~ Don't say it, talking to Uncle Hu can really divert your attention, if you don't always pay attention to the wound, you won't feel the pain so meticulously.
The urn keeper said angrily, "Your dragon is going crazy in a hurry. I asked him why you were hurt so badly, and he didn't want to say, just angry and roaring, and the seaweed outside was destroyed by him......"
When Ji Mo keenly realized that the old man was about to completely deviate from the topic again, he quickly interrupted: "Uncle Hu, I'm here to tell you why I was injured, but you have to tell me where Ao Bai went, okay?" β
The old turtle's small round eyes froze and thought for a moment, then agreed.
"Okay, I tell you that your dragon is going to catch the white jade crab, and he asked me to help take care of you. Actually, he had already caught a white jade crab before, otherwise you would have died, mermaid female. β
Ji Mo hurriedly asked in detail: "White Jade Crab?" So where did Ao Bai go? Is that crab poisonous? Is it hard to catch? β
"Stop!" Goto shouted unbearably, "I'll forget about you asking so many questions at once, and I'll be very embarrassed." β
Uh, is that so?
The crossing fish corrected it like a stream: "I'm sorry Uncle Hu, I'm in a hurry." So, where did Ao Bai go to catch the white jade crab? β
"Oh, I told him to go and find the eggs of the tooth shark, and the white jade crab only eats the eggs of the tooth shark."
What the? Is there such a ferocious crab? Feed on the offspring of ferocious sharks?
"Then Uncle Hu, the white jade crab must be very ferocious and difficult to catch, right?"
The old turtle nodded: "Yes, they are not easy to deal with, and there are not many of them, after they are caught, all that can heal is the gland inside the crab shell." β
Ji Mo had only noticed the severe pain before, but when he concentrated on feeling it now, he found that although the wound on his shoulder was throbbing sharply, the medicine on it was cold and ironed, and faintly exuded a cold fragrance, which was very quiet.
"So, has Ao Bai been gone for a long time?" Ji Mo asked again uneasily.
Hu nodded again: "He's very worried about you." I already told him that a white jade crab was enough, but he didn't listen, and he didn't wake up and swam out again. β
Ji Mo was very worried, because he knew that Ao Bai attached great importance to him, Cheng DΓΉ - that stupid dragon must not be in a hurry to lose his mind, neither the fierce shark nor the white jade crab is easy to deal with.
"Thank you, Uncle Hu. When I went to patrol the sea near the Sicilian continent with Ao Bai, I met a group of orcs from the land eagle tribe, and I was caught by the eagle, well, I scratched my shoulder, and Ao Bai clashed with them in order to save me, and both sides were injured. However, we are innocent, it was the orcs of the Eagle tribe who attacked me first. Ji Mo explained the reason for his injury simply and objectively.
"Land orcs? Alas~ Ji Mo, you have to be careful in the future, the land orcs will be so greedy that they lose their minds when they see mermaids, because they need pearls. The protector said sternly.
That's true, but how do you know?
Ji Mo was a little puzzled in his heart, and he asked directly: "Land orcs do know that mermaid tears will condense into pearls, but how do you know, Uncle Hu?" Ao Bai didn't know before he came to the Sicilian Sea, he had only heard that the land orcs would catch mermaids and go back to abuse them. β
After listening to it in surprise, Hu shook his head sadly: "Your partner is still a dragon, doesn't he even know the reason?" During the time I traveled, what happened to the dragon clan, I forgot even such an important inheritance. β
Well, so embarrassing, as if you are being taught by a dignified and knowledgeable teacher: what do you usually do in school, you can't even do such a simple question?
"Uh~ I don't know. However, Ao Bai has always been a very diligent and hardworking dragon, so there is no reason for the Dragon King and Queen Dragon to deliberately hide it from him, right? The Sicilian Sea is a sealed sea that they assigned to Ao Bai, and it is also a part of the East China Sea, and if Ao Bai can't hold it, they will also be affected. Ji Mo subconsciously defended his dragon, he knew that Ao Bai had always been a good dragon who worked hard.
The old turtle was silent, and he said in a trance: "Since my Wang Ao Yuan returned to the embrace of the sea god, I have left the East China Sea, and before that, the dragon kings of the four seas and the orc tribes of the land have reached an agreement: the land orcs take refuge in the depths of the dense forest, and the sea orcs move far into the deep sea, and the two sides will not invade each other and prosper separately...... However, that was a long, long time ago, and I didn't expect the dragons to be so confused now. β
Wow~ How old is Uncle Hu this year? The secrets he said about the mermaids of the East China Sea have not been talked about at all, which shows that this is a forgotten history.
Ji Mo was suddenly excited, he felt that he knew a shocking secret. However, when he wanted to turn his head to worship the "turtle" in front of the bed, he accidentally pulled the wound again, and he kept inhaling in pain.
"Forget it, it's already the ocean of you people, I thought that the sea god would summon me back every time I hibernated, but I didn't expect to always be awakened by the sea water in the warm season, alas~" Hu sighed sadly.
Ji Mo hurriedly comforted him: "What are you sighing for?" Longevity is a gift from the sea god to the turtle clan, just accept it calmly. More time to see more sea, see more fish, shrimp, crabs, seaweed, waves, shells, what a good thing, even if we mermaids want to live long. β
There are turtles who dislike their long life? Ji Mo felt a little unsure of how to comfort the other party.
"Take good care of your wounds, mermaid, I hope to see the stubborn appearance of the young dragon again." Said slowly. Once upon a time, the mischievous young dragons in the Dragon Palace always liked to lie on his tortoise shell, or get tangled around his legs to prevent him from moving.
After that, he slowly went out again, for he felt very sleepy, and it was already the time for the turtles to begin hibernation.
"Uncle Hu, Uncle Hu, don't be in a hurry to leave, can you tell me more about what happened between the sea orcs and the land orcs in the past?" Ji Mo shouted anxiously, feeling that his curiosity had been completely aroused, but it was not satisfied, and he was as anxious as a hundred claws scratching his heart.
"Uncle Hu? Uncle Hu? Ji Mo shouted a few more times without giving up, but the room had fallen into silence again.
The old turtle could no longer resist the fatigue that swept through its body, and returned to the corner of the wall to retract into its shell and fell asleep.
*****
When the white dragon successfully caught a white jade crab and brought it home, he saw a turtle sleeping in the corner of the outer wall, and when he quickly swam into the bedroom, he found that the mermaid was constantly shaking his calves.
"Ji Mo!" The white dragon immediately swam over and carefully circled his companion lying on the wooden bed, unable to hide the ecstasy and worry in his eyes.
"Ao Bai, I heard Uncle Hu say that you went to catch the white jade crab, right? Uncle Hu has already told me that one white jade crab is enough, so you can't take any more risks, you know? Ji Mo saw that a lot of scales had fallen off the white dragon's body, so he didn't say anything else, and first had to stop him from continuing to take risks.
Ao Bai was excited for a moment before he remembered that he was going to turn into a human form, he held Ji Mo's face with both hands and put his forehead on it: "Ji Mo, I'm really scared." β
If it weren't for the guidance of the turtle guard, he wouldn't know how to treat his mermaid, and he might have been cruelly faced with the desperate scene of guarding the mermaid's death.
The upper body of the crossing fish couldn't move, so he kissed Ao Bai's lips and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, aren't we safe now?" β
"Those damn land orcs, I won't let them go!" When Ao Bai said these words, his originally clear blue eyes were full of unforgettable hatred.
Ji Mo felt that it was not very proper, this kind of Ao Bai was very different from before.
Although he had a very unhappy time in the past few years because of his late transformation, Ao Bai was still an upright, kind, positive and energetic dragon, at most he was a little introverted, and he liked to look at his partner silently with those clear eyes, and he was a veritable elegant and noble dragon.
"Ao Bai, actually, that's actually the way it is." Ji Mo carefully organized the wording, "Those eagles recognized the wrong dragon, they took you for Ao Yang, that's why they show that they hate us so much, but those don't matter, anyway, we don't live on land-"
Ao Bai said angrily: "No, not at all! You're such a stupid fish, that eagle didn't notice me in the first place, he went for you, a mermaid, and he was intent on getting you back! I can't think of a more plausible reason other than pearls. Ji Mo, they almost really took you away, it was a despicable and shameless eagle, he lied to me, I actually believed his words...... Ji Mo, they all deserve to die, and the orcs with wings deserve to die......"
The situation that the crossing fish feared the most appeared: Ao Bai was greatly stimulated and already hated the orcs of the entire Eagle Clan, which was actually very dangerous.
They have seen the strength of the Eagle Clan: they are not weak at all, they are also very cunning and scheming; The most important thing is that they have wings, and Ao Bai can't help those eagle orcs flying high in the sky, which also makes him even more annoyed.
Ao Bai's previous goal was very clear, that is, to build the Sicilian Sea into a prosperous and safe sea, attracting many sea orc tribes to come and live, and he wanted to become a qualified and excellent dragon king.
How good that is a goal, that is the reasonable and ambitious goal of the aspiring dragon.
And now, his attention has been divided by the Eagle Clan in the Western Continent.
Hate? Affirmation of hate, must be hated, mermaids are the direct innocent victims. However, Ji Mo didn't want Ao Bai to face the orcs of the entire Eagle Clan when he was not strong enough.
As Xi Tu said personally, the Eastern Continent and the Western Continent have teamed up to slaughter Ao Yang who lives in the Holy Lake many times, Ji Mo doesn't believe that Ao Yang can always be so lucky to defeat, there are so many orcs on the other side!
"Ao Bai, you calm down first. Listen to me, you must be careful when you patrol the waters of the Western Continent in the future, don't get too close to the land, let alone show the sea, those eagles seem to live near the coast, otherwise their females won't appear on the beach-" Ji Mo had just persuaded a few words, but was interrupted again by Ao Bai.
"Ji Mo, I'm sorry, I can't listen to you this time, I have to let those damn eagles be punished." Ao Bai said resolutely with a resolute face.
- Those damned winged eagles have not only invaded my sealed sea, but also taken my merfolk from the sea, and they will have to pay the price!
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Raptor tribe of the Western Continent, patriarch in the treehouse.
"It seems that we have to join forces with the Eastern Continent to slay the dragon again, the evil dragon is too rampant! He had seriously wounded two of our orcs, and Frye had not known if he would be able to wake up, and had scared two precious young females into sickness. β
"Frye is a true warrior, and the beast god will bless him. Then when are we going to talk to their patriarch in the Eastern Continent? β
"The sooner the better, the holy lake will freeze in the cold season, and then the evil dragon will hide at the bottom of the lake, and we will have nothing to do with the evil dragon." Scar, the patriarch of the Raptor Tribe, said with a solemn expression.
"Okay, I'm going to gather the warriors of the tribe, hoping that the beast god will bless us and help us recapture the holy lake as soon as possible!"