In the middle of the night, on a secluded beach outside King's Landing, near the sea, four ragged prisoners were tied to a huge rock, each with fear on their faces, constantly struggling, cursing, and pleading as they tried to escape the horror that was to come.

But unfortunately, no matter what these people did or how ugly the words they scolded, Zhang Cheng still carried out the preparation work in an orderly manner, and in just half an hour, he built a simple wooden frame, and put the dragon egg with a glittering glow on the top of the shelf.

When he had done all this, he turned around and smiled at the prisoners, and said in a slightly apologetic tone: "I'm really sorry, from a personal standpoint, I don't have any grudges against you, and I don't enjoy the pleasure of killing. The reason why I want to burn you is all to hatch dragon eggs. I promise that as long as the eggs hatch successfully, the rest of the people will be released, so please tell me, who will come first?"

All of a sudden, the originally noisy sound disappeared without a trace.

Each prisoner stared at each other with wide eyes, and no one dared to speak first, for fear that he would accidentally become the first "lucky one".

After all, burning to death is not an ordinary way to die, even if a hero with a strong will faces the raging flames, he can't help but let out a painful scream, not to mention that they are just ordinary people.

Seeing that no one made a sound for a long time, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but sigh slightly, bent down and grabbed a handful of pebbles from the ground, and then handed it to the prisoners: "For the sake of fairness, let's play a little game." Now guess if the stone in my hand is odd or even, I count to three, you answer together, and the slow one will be considered to abstain. Three...... Two...... One!"

"Even!"

"Singular!"

"Singular!"

"Singular!"

The four of them did not dare to hesitate and gave an answer almost at the same time.

But what's interesting is that three of them seemed to have colluded in advance, and they all chose the even number, and only one of the fatter guys chose the odd number.

Obviously, in order to increase the chance of survival, the three guys in the back deliberately chose the singular at the same time, because the rule just now does not say whether the person who guesses correctly will be burned first, or the person who guesses wrong will be burned first.

This means that it is likely to be safer to be on the side of the majority, or even to avoid death......

Looking at these criminals who were unscrupulous in order to survive, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but show a sarcastic smile and began to throw pebbles to the ground one by one in front of everyone.

When there was only one left, he held up the stone and said, "It's an even number, it looks like the lucky one was born, isn't it?"

"No!no!No!Don't burn me!I just stole some money!I don't deserve such punishment!" The fat man broke down instantly, and burst into tears.

"Quiet!Who told the lucky one that it was you?" Zhang Cheng glanced at the other party angrily.

The fat man was stunned for a moment, then seemed to understand something, turned his head and stared at the other three people next to him with malicious eyes, and finally laughed out loud: "Hahahaha! I'm sorry! Your conspiracy didn't kill me! You killed yourself!"

"What?!"

"Damn, this guy is actually going to burn all three of us at once!"

"Demon! He must be a demon who kills without blinking!"

......

With desperate cursing, the three unlucky guys were dragged out by Zhang Cheng and forcibly pulled to the side of the wooden shelf, one of them tried to resist, but was forced to break his legs and throw him on the ground like a dead dog, and then raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

Moment!

A bright flame flew out of his fingertips, directly igniting the grease-soaked wood, and in the blink of an eye, the skyrocketing fire lit up the night sky!

"Ahhhhh!!!!!!!h

"No!"

"Please let me go!"

Under the blazing flames, the prisoners let out a piercing wail and twisted their bodies to break free from the ropes and escape from the flames.

But by the time they broke free from the burned rope, their legs were so badly burned that they couldn't run at all.

The fat man who survived stared at the purgatory-like scene in front of him with two eyes, and his whole body kept shaking.

But Zhang Cheng didn't pay any attention to the other party, and all his attention was attracted by the dragon egg.

Just as he was about to bless the flame protection enchantment and walk in to check the status of the dragon egg, the mysterious energy in the air, which was originally slack, suddenly began to become active, and his brain surged towards the direction where the dragon egg was.

At the same time, a faint red star appeared in the sky.

Although the brightness is very, very weak, it can already be observed with the naked eye.

As a person who has read the original book, Zhang Cheng immediately realized that this is the comet that heralds the change of seasons, as well as the revival of dragons and magic, and exclaimed with an incredible face: "I see! I see!

Obviously, the planet where A Song of Ice and Fire is located does not have the so-called magical energy in the first place, and everything comes from this red comet.

In other words, whenever a red comet begins to approach, it will spill its own energy, just as Halley's Comet will bring a large amount of water vapor when it passes by the Earth.

And this energy will exist in the planet's atmosphere for a long time, and will be used by those who find the trick, and when all the energy is depleted, the energy-dependent things such as dragons and magic will naturally disappear with it.

With great excitement, Zhang Cheng raised his right hand and tried to absorb some of the active energy and feel the magical power and attributes contained in it.

But before he could put it into action, a shrill cry came from the fire.

"Whew!!!!!"

I saw that where the dragon egg was placed just now, a young dragon with violet light all over its body soared into the air, revolving around the flames.

There is no doubt that the dragon egg is corrupted......

"Come here!" Zhang Cheng, who came back to his senses, immediately gave an order to the young dragon through the power of the contract.

The latter hesitated only for a moment, and soon flapped his wings and landed on his master's shoulder, squeaking and howling, not knowing what he meant.

Zhang Cheng stretched out his finger and released a trace of arcane energy, and the young dragon immediately opened its mouth and sucked greedily when it found out, and the violet scales covering its body emitted a dazzling light.

After about two or three minutes, the young dragon seemed to have eaten enough, opened its mouth and burped, slowly closed its eyes and fell into a stupor.

Stroking the little guy's scales, which were not very hard, Zhang Cheng pursed the corners of his mouth and said to himself: "Interesting, this dragon can actually devour energy......"