49 CHAPTER XLIX
On this day, when it was just dawn, Ning Xuan called Aji up, not for anything else, but because the facial paralysis general agreed to meet and train very early, and Ning Xuan had to go to bed early and get up early. Please remember the URL of this site: .
Aji's schedule is similar to Ning Xuan's, and when he suddenly got up so early, even if he slept early last night, when he got up, Aji was still a little sleepy-eyed and dazed, and he was almost stepped on by Ning Xuan several times.
Looking at Aji, who was standing and sleeping, Ning Xuan lowered his head a little helplessly and kissed Aji's forehead and patted it, "Baby, wake up, I can't sleep anymore, we're going to see your teacher soon, it's not good for people to see you sleepy like this." β
"Papa, do you have to be my mentor to that big bad dragon?" Aji, who was coaxed by Ning Xuan to open his eyes, raised and grabbed the corner of Ning Xuan's clothes and asked vaguely, "I don't like it, it's so stupid that it will eat the wrong thing, I won't eat the wrong thing." β
Originally, Aji didn't have much interest in Bourne, and after the 'Dragon Mint' incident, Tong GuΓ² was even more indifferent to Bourne, but Aji was just a child's idea, although he was also quite speechless about the second lack of dragon's behavior, but as a father, Ning Xuan obviously thought more than he thought, he wiped his dragon son's face and said, "Uh, that's the case, we have to allow others to make mistakes, although the one in daily life, uh, that Mr. Bourne is indeed a little unreliable, but that doesn't mean it's incapable, right?" And aren't you Settrons power-minded? If it's not really powerful, can other Cytrons convince it? Are you right, good son? β
Well, although Aggie has been despising the adult Cythron who sprayed his own papa all over his body for a long time now, he couldn't refute his papa's words, so it nodded sullenly, and then held its head high and asked, "Papa, then if I let it be my trainer, will I be better than it in the future?" β
Any stupid father has a burst of confidence in his son, so Ning Xuan nodded Aji's forehead and nodded with a smile, "Of course, there is a saying in Papa's hometown, which says that 100% success depends on 1% talent and 99% sweat, so, son, as long as you are diligent and hard enough, you will of course be even more powerful than Bourne in the end." β
"Well, I'm going to be even better than that big bad dragon!" Ning Xuan's words made Aji unconsciously puff up his small chest and say loudly.
And Ning Xuan pulled Aji out of the door with a smile, laughing while rushing, "But, before that, what we have to do is to go out immediately, you know, punctuality is an imperial virtue!" β
"Wow Gaga, Gaga, Imperial Virtue, Imperial Virtue!" Aggie loves to play with himself the most, so he also flicked his tail and shouted with a grocking laugh as he ran forward.
The father and son were full of energy, while Ansel, who was still lying on the bed, frowned so much that he could almost kill a fly, and with his eyes closed, he hugged the pillow beside him viciously and yelled, "My young man, do you want to tear down the house and let us all sleep on the streets?!" β
Hearing Ansel's protest, Ning Xuan and Aji suddenly braked the car, glanced at each other and then made a grimace and slowed down, while Ning Xuan took Aji around to the door of Ansel's room and knocked on the door, "Ansai, I'm going to take Aji to training, I don't know when I'll come back, it's too late in the morning so I don't have anything to eat, you can go to the street to eat casually when you get up later." You don't have to wait for me at noon. β
In response to Ning Xuan, there was the muffled sound of a soft object thrown on the door and Anselle's crazy voice, "You're noisy, go quickly, don't you know that disturbing people's dreams is equivalent to murder for money!" β
Ning Xuan, who was bombarded by Anse El, had no choice but to shrink his neck, and then tiptoed downstairs with Aji and went out the door.
Just as the day before yesterday, Mr. Tiger Salem, who claimed to be the chief of guard at General Gonzalez's side, was already waiting outside the courtyard.
Seeing this, Ning Xuan hurriedly pulled Aji and walked a few steps to open the courtyard door, and then smiled politely at the other party, "Good morning, Mr. Salem, you didn't wait too long, did you?" β
"Good morning, Mr. Ning, I didn't wait too long, I just arrived." Sarem's personality is definitely a resolute person, and while greeting him, he opened the door of the carriage and said with a last look, "Since Mr. Ning and your cubs are ready, then please get in the car, the general is waiting for you and your cubs at the training ground." β
The other party's expression was so strict that Ning Xuan couldn't help but put away his smiling face, nodded with a serious expression, and took Aji to the car, and after closing the carriage door, Salem did not come in but worked part-time as a coachman, although Ning Xuan was a little puzzled, but there were only himself and Aji in the carriage, so he didn't say anything, but patted Aji's head and said that if you are still sleepy, you can take advantage of this time to take a nap to recuperate, and Aji, who has woken up, shook his head with interest, I began to pull my papa and imagine the training scenarios that I might encounter later.
Ning Xuan had always thought that the training ground that the other party was talking about was the one he thought had gathered the Scitron army in the city, but as the carriage walked, Ning Xuan felt that something was not quite rightβthis route seemed to be completely opposite to the training ground? So Ning Xuan poked his head out of the window of the carriage this time and said to Salem, who was driving the carriage expressionlessly, "That, Mr. Salem, this road doesn't seem right, shouldn't you go that way to the training ground?" β
Salem glanced at Ning Xuan with his peripheral eyes, and then said in a tone without ups and downs, "The training ground set by the general is not over there, Mr. Ning, please sit back in the carriage to avoid any unnecessary injuries caused to you by uneven road surfaces and bumps in the carriage." β
"Uh...... Good. Ning Xuan felt that it was quite stressful to communicate with such an expressionless person who spoke with an absolutely irrefutable momentum, but such a person had an advantage that it was reliable, so Ning Xuan retracted his head after answering, and honestly waited for the other party to take him and Aji to the unknown training ground.
It's just that the more the carriage travels, Ning Xuan feels that he is becoming familiar with this route again-isn't this the route to the seaside where he took Aji to play before? Could it be that the training ground set by the general was on the beach? But the sand is soft, can it be trained well?
Ning Xuan arrived at his destination with a full of questions, but when he got out of the car, he was stunned for a moment - the beach is a beach, but it is not the place where he usually takes Aji to play, the location is near the entrance of the forest, and when he saw the person and dragon standing on the beach from a distance looking at himself and Aji, Ning Xuan's expression quickly returned to normal, and he just wanted to turn his head to thank Salem, but Salem said first, "The training ground has arrived, If there is nothing wrong with Mr. Ning and your cub, then I will leave first, I hope your cub can listen to the general and Byrne well, after all, this is a very rare opportunity. Without giving Ning Xuan a chance to speak, he turned around and left.
Ning Xuan looked at the chief guard who was as cool as a rhinoceros, and finally just touched his nose and then took Aji's little paw and walked towards the facial paralysis general and his family's second missing Setdragon.
"Hello, General Gonzalez." Walking up to Gonzalez and Byrne, who had been looking at him as they walked over, Ning Xuan was the first to ask.
"Hello, Mr. Ning." Gonzalez nodded, then looked at Aggie, who became a little nervous and restrained, and then raised his hand and touched Aji's head, "Morning, Aji." β
Ning Xuan and Ah Ji didn't expect that this relatively cold general, who had always been a cold one, would make such a warm move, and they were a little stunned for a while.
On the other hand, Bourne took a breath from his nose and muttered, "Hey, isn't he just a little cub, why are you so gentle!" β
Aggie, who was born to be at odds with Bourne, immediately slapped his tail at Bourne's bared teeth and let out a low roar from his throat.
"Aggie, don't do this." Ning Xuan patted Aji's little head to indicate that it was not good, but he was really sad in his heart, he would fight when he met this time, could the training be smooth?
Because of his papa's stopping, Aji put away the appearance that he was about to blow up just now, and then glanced at Gonzalez a little shyly, then stepped forward and shook Gonzalez's fingers with his small front paws and ran back to Ning Xuan's side.
Gonzalez had never been treated like this by Settron, and he subconsciously looked at Ning Xuan with a rare and sluggish expression, and Ning Xuan looked at Gonzalez, whose eyes were revealing doubts, and laughed, touched Aji's head and said, "This is Aji saying hello to you, Aji still likes you." β
"Uh......" Gonzalez has always taken the iron-blooded route, and this kind of cuteness and warmth is a little strange to him, and he doesn't know how to deal with it, and in the end he just said, "Aggie is cute." Then he changed the subject a little at a loss, "If we can, I think we can start training." β
"Ah, okay." After all, training is a serious thing and not standing by the sea, so Ning Xuan quickly straightened his expression and nodded in agreement.
And when it came to training, Gonzalez also regained his usual cold and hard momentum, put his hands behind his back and looked at Aji, "Before training, I have something to say, I hope Aji will not only remember it in his head, but also in his heart, okay?" β
Aji nodded obediently, and even because of Gonzalez's words, he involuntarily stopped snuggling up to Ning Xuan like a little baby, but stood straight and listened to Gonzalez's words.
"Good." Gonzalez was pleased with Aggie's attitude, he bowed his head slightly and then said loudly, "As a Cytrosaurus, they are most proud of their great power, but to become a qualified Cytrosaurus in the true sense of the word, it will take a lot of boring and tedious training to achieve. During this time, it will be very tiring, it will be very hard, and it may even bleed and hurt, and that's what you will have to deal with. When you're hurt, there's no one to give you gentle care, when you're bleeding, there's no chance to cry and retreat, there's only training and stronger training. What I ask is that as long as you don't die, then you have to persevere, and you can never stop until you reach your goal. I'm not telling you the truth, then, Aji, please tell me, are you willing to pay a thousand times more sweat and even blood and injury to become a qualified and excellent Cytroon? If not, then now you can let your master take you home, and today's qiΔ will be treated as if nothing happened. β
Gonzalez's words were very harsh and revealed the slightest meaning that could not be changed, and Aggie felt a feeling of blood boiling when he looked at the tall man like a mountain in front of him, although it was still small compared to an adult Setdragon, although it was only a cub now, but at this moment its eyes were more determined than ever, and nodded vigorously and said loudly, "I do!" β
Of course, Gonzalez couldn't understand what Aggie was saying, but he understood what Aggie meant from Aji's movements, he nodded, and then turned sideways to let Aji see Bourne standing behind him, "All Setron cubs, the initial training is guided by adult Setron, so, now, Bourne is your teacher, and in the days to come, you will ask Bourne to have only one word, obedience." There is no need to question, no discussion, only unconditional and resolute obedience. Alright, now, go ahead, let Byrne go and give you the first lesson. With that, Gonzalez walked up to Ning Xuan's side and pushed Aggie in front of Byrne.
Aggie has seen Bourne several times, and in Aji's heart, there are many images of Bourne, arrogant, disdainful, face-saving, and embarrassed, but now such Bourne, Aggie has never seen it, its eyes are cold and critical, as if what is standing in front of him is not a Setdragon cub but just a useless waste, such a demeanor makes Aji feel uncomfortable, and even has a sense of fear that wants to retreat.
When Bourne spoke, Aggie noticed that it didn't even speak in a different tone than before, "Until now, I think in your heart you have always thought that Setrons were precious and rare, right?" That's why humans value us so much, right? Now I'm going to tell you, put away your childish and self-righteous thoughts, and don't underestimate the fertility of female dragons, the number of eggs they lay every time is staggering. However, we Cytrons, from the time we are still in the eggs, must start to work hard to live, because, even if they are laid by Shun, nature still has to take the lead in eliminating a batch of eggs that cannot withstand the wind and rain. This is only the first level we have to pass guΓ², even if we stay in the egg until the time of the shell, don't think that there will be an amiable Cytrosaurus to welcome you out of the shell, no adult male Cytrosaurus has the patience to wait for the cub to be born, basically they are just trying to see if there is a cub to break the shell at about the same time, yes, then take it, no, then it will not come again, because, once β‘, it can only let it go back to find its cub once. And those who come out of the shell early or late will either survive on their own or die. Of course, the latter is the end result of most cubs who don't wait for their own papa. In this way, another batch of cubs was screened out. And you, lucky enough not to find your own papa, let that human adopt you, and you think you'll have peace of mind from now on? Don't dream, as my master said, training is never about playing games, it's about bleeding and getting hurt, and you don't have the naivety to think that injuries are just injuries in the process of training, but-" At this point, Byrne lowered his head and said in a voice from hell in Aggie's ear, "too stupid cubs will be torn apart by adult Cytrons mercilessly. After saying this, Byrne straightened up and continued to speak, "You were raised by humans, but don't forget that you are flowing with the blood of Cytron, and don't think that I will give you any warmth, for us Cytron, what blood and family affection are all nonsense, only strength is the only criterion for accepting each other." So, little ghost, if you regret it, it's too late to quit now, it's not that there has been no waste in the Cytroon, and it's good to be a human pet just as a pet, how about it? β
"Nope! I won't regret it! I'm not afraid of bloodshed or injury, I promised PAPA, and I will definitely become a more powerful Setron than you! Aggie shouted with his head full of fighting spirit, Byrne, who was many times older than him.
"Shhhh Do you think this kind of thing can be achieved by shouting? Childish imps! Aggie replied with Byrne's face full of disdain.
"I'll prove to you that I'll do the training you want me to do!" Aggie is still so stubborn.
"Okay, show me the proof!" Byrne casually pointed to the reef some distance away from the two dragons, "Run to that reef and run back, and I'll see how fast you are." β
As soon as Bourne's words fell, Aggie rushed out, using all its strength to mobilize its speed as fast as possible, and then quickly ran back after touching the reef, only to wait for him to run back in front of Bourne, and before it could even stand firmly, it was pulled out by Bourne's tail, accompanied by Bourne's disdainful words, "Waste, are you really sure you're sprinting and not walking?" At such a speed, even the most wasteful Setdragon far surpasses you, oh, no, because your storage zΓ i, the most wasteful Cytron is no longer the most wasteful, because now the title of the most wasteful belongs to you! β
Aggie, who had been whipped by Bourne and threw himself on the beach, listened to Bourne's sneer, and it jerked its head up and glared at the other party, its eyes full of anger, it had never been insulted like this.
"What? Not convinced? Byrne snorted, and then rushed towards the reef without pause, rushing back and forth, so fast that Aggie seemed to see only a shadow back and forth.
And this distance that made Aggie run out of breath was as stress-free as if he had just walked a few steps for Bourne, but, this time, Bourne looked at Aji's expression with even more disdain and contempt, "Idiot, the result is not shouted, if you think you can be invincible by shouting, I will build yΓ¬ you go to the bragging competition, you will definitely win the championship, I am convinced of this." β
This sneering like this had never heard before made Aggie's front paws clench, and this time, instead of looking at Byrne again, it stood up in silence and took a breath to rush in the direction of the reef again......
Gonzalez, who was standing aside, watched as the cub kept running and running, being whipped and taunted by Bourne every time it returned, but it didn't make any more noise, but just stood up again and again in silence, running without distraction.
Finally, Gonzalez said, "You're not what I thought. β
"Huh?" Ning Xuan, who was watching Aggie's training side by side with Gonzalez, turned his head and asked puzzled.
"I thought you'd be distressed." Gonzalez explained again, this is not a polite word, but a sincere word, although Gonzalez has not accepted any request for him to train cubs with Bourne, but it does not mean that he has not seen what kind of reaction the owners who come to train with carefully cared for cubs, the harshness of the training is far beyond their imagination, and the cubs who are usually afraid of melting in the palm of their hands are beaten mercilessly by those adult Cytrons as rags, such a scene is a torture for the owner of the Cytron, Especially for those who were raising Cytrons for the first time, how often did Gonzalez see them crying and shouting at their cubs, then angrily accusing his soldiers and adult Cytrons of committing a murder and then leaving the training ground with the dying cubs in their arms.
Before, Gonzalez thought that Ning Xuan would be like this, because, from the information collected by his subordinates, he learned from the information collected by his subordinates that Aji lived a life of being carefully cared for, this person, he was reluctant to be hurt a little bit, his love for Aji and those owners who immediately returned immediately after appearing in the training ground with cubs for the first time were the same, but now, his reaction made Gonzalez puzzled.
Ning Xuan's chuckle answered him, "Of course I'm distressed, but I don't want Aji to know that I'm distressed." β
Such an answer made Gonzalez can't help but turn his head to look at the mellow and always smiling and amiable stranger beside him, but at this time, Ning Xuan had already turned his head and focused on Aji's running figure, not noticing the exploration in Gonzalez's eyes.