Before more heavy memories come flooding in—before greater remorse envelops Prayer Huan—the accident happens again.

The huddled dragon, the stone dragon, suddenly began to tremble all over its body, and the entire palace swayed with it. Qi Huan immediately staggered forward and picked up the blue pearl with a healthy hand. With this uncertain force, Frost Moon Jun took Qi Huan's arm back just by hanging it in the air. The sound of the joints rubbing was drowned out by the quivering sound of the stone dragon.

The sound was dull, with the characteristic friction of rocks. Hearing sounds in the water is much clearer than on the shore, so every time a similar accident happens, he feels that his ear hurts terribly, and his eardrum is already under the protection of the silk clothes, but he can still feel a trace of pressure. The two of them kept retreating, watching the behemoth suddenly change.

It "woke up".

The eyes were still black holes, but the dragon did "stand up". It no longer curled up, but straightened its long body, and the serpent erected its predecessor. The rocky parts of its body suddenly fell off like snake skin, but the "skin" was much harder, and they fell off one by one as it moved. Each piece of skin made of stone is almost an inch thick. What exactly is that? What is it?

It must have been a dragon too—at least at least it was the same as the two dragons before it. But even without that bulky shell, it still looks bigger than the dragons before it. Its scales have a strange color, a little mottled, and Qi Huan is hard to describe. Rather, there is a metal shell hidden under this layer of rock - a rusty shell. The brownish-yellow, reddish-brown scales were not as bright as those of the other two dragons. When almost all of its stone coat was removed, its eyes were still two empty holes. It stared at the two men in front of it with such a hole.

Qi Huan held his head high, facing the pressure, and he couldn't even feel the pain in his shoulder bones.

"Do you want to do it?" He asked Frost Moon-kun.

"I can't beat it." Frost Moon Jun had already made such a judgment before he made a move, "However, it doesn't seem to plan to fight us." ”

"Are you so sure?"

The dragon suddenly lowered its head, and a huge dragon head suddenly appeared in front of Qi Huan, and the current of water knocked him down. When he got up, he stood in front of the dragon and came face to face with it. Then the dragon suddenly arched him against the wall, and the kiss alone could crush him. But he didn't seem to be as scared as he used to be, I don't know if the dragon was giving him that feeling, or if his mentality had changed. Or both. He knew that the hole that swallowed Bai Ya into was behind the stone dragon.

"You might have something in him that he wanted."

"Amber?" Qi Huan was not very happy, "Didn't you give the magic weapon to other clans?" ”

"Let's try it first. You don't have a choice. ”

The words are not good, but Qi Huan knows that there is indeed no way out. So he hesitantly stretched out his hand and spread it out, completely revealing the blue pearl in his palm. It still emits a gentle and cold light, shining in no matter how deep the darkness.

But the dragon didn't seem to react. It remained in front of Qi Huan, looking at him with empty eyes.

"Nope."

Qi Huan heard a voice. He turned around and asked Frost Moon Jun, "What did you say?" ”

"I didn't speak." Frost Moon Jun raised her eyebrows slightly, "Moreover, I heard it too." ”

The owner of that voice was indeed not like Frost Moon Jun, he didn't notice that feeling, but there were only two people present, so he subconsciously thought so. Who could that be? The voice also fell directly into their heads, and was conveyed to them through amber.

Could it be......

"Maybe you have something else?" Frost Moon asked.

“…… What could there be? ”

Qi Huan put away the blue amber and rummaged through his body again. Finally, he took out two things from his body and held them in his hands.

a clear, heart-shaped glass; With a two-inch-diameter, shiny gray dragon ball.

The dragon's whiskers moved slightly. It turned its head slightly, toward the hand of the heart. In fact, from the moment he took it out, Qi Huan felt that this dead object seemed to be vibrating regularly, like a real heart beating. But when he looked at it, it was still silent, and Qi Huan almost thought it was an illusion.

But the sound of the heartbeat is too obvious to ignore.

I'm afraid that it wasn't Lan Per who woke it up, but maybe this glass heart.

However, this stone dragon did not choose it. It turned its head and locked on another dragon ball, and made no further moves.

"Is that what you want?" He wasn't sure, so he turned his head to look at Frost Moon Jun beside him.

"Where do I know, if you try it, you can get it." Frost Moon Jun frowned.

Qi Huan leaned his hand forward, let the bead roll to the part of his finger, and then raised his hand vigorously upwards and threw the shiny dragon ball out. The stone dragon actually opened its mouth, held it in its mouth, and closed it again. Immediately after, a golden light suddenly burst out from its two dark eyes, which made Qi Huan feel uncomfortable. He covered his eyes, and it took a long time before he slowly lowered his sleeves. When it looked at the stone dragon again, it had already raised its head, and the light in its eyes had dimmed slightly. Even so, the light was enough to illuminate the palace. Let's do it

"Who are you?"

It's really the dragon that's talking.

Qi Huan didn't react for a while, just tilted his head blankly, looking at this strange dragon. This sentence seems to have been done through Lan Po as well, but why not before? How could those two dragons be so unreasonable, they only knew how to go on a rampage, what they saw and what they bited, and they couldn't communicate at all.

But since it speaks......

"We come from the sea, beyond the sea – on land. I'm a ...... Humans, not sharks, nor monsters. But my companions and I heard that the dragons had taken possession of the Crystal Palace, which originally belonged to the Shark Clan, and had taken away the orbs that had been agreed upon and belonged to the Shark Clan. They say that you have gone back on your word, and that you have not believed in your word, and that their people have not returned, and that they have been killed and wounded. ”

"One side."

“…… But what exactly are you? Are you also a dragon, or are you ...... Anything else? Why are you different from them? ”

"One side."

Shi Long still said so.

"What is the truth? Are the mermen hiding anything from us? If there is, you tell me. ”

Qi Huan stared straight at the dragon's glowing eye sockets, and there was no fear in his eyes.

"Not enough."

"Who's talking about, me? Or a merman? Are you underestimating me? Qi Huan frowned, facing the behemoth in front of him alone. He didn't have any timidity, he didn't mean to flinch, he just stood upright. The clothes and silk clothes on his chest were still bright red. There's no air here, and if it's on land, it must be tan, just like the color of this dragon. He clenched his fists, and then asked Shi Long:

"And my friends—you should get them back!"

The stone dragon lowered its head slightly, stretched its neck like a snake, and moved closer to Qi Huan. He took a step back, making room for it, and didn't mean to back down. Only Frost Moon Jun stood still, silently watching all this.

"Whoever you see is not of my race."

"What?"

Frost Moon Jun habitually rested his hand in his sleeve and suddenly took a step forward. He turned around, stood between the awakened stone dragon and Qi Huan, and asked the dragon:

"You're saying that the dragons that stand in our way don't belong to the dragons? What would that be? ”

Shi Long leaned closer, as if he had found someone who finally had the position to talk to him. A long exchange of eyes ensued, and Qi Huan didn't hear a sound—not the slightest. It was strange to him. The human mind is very complex, and the blue amber filters out useless information, and any creature around him, even if it is too small to see, will convey its own unique thoughts, and this sea god's magic weapon will dilute them into a faint noise. It's like the natural sound of a person walking on the road in an ordinary way, except for himself. But now, Qi Huan's ears seemed to be blocked, and he couldn't hear anything, as if Frost Moon Jun and Shi Long had suddenly established a new way of connecting and isolated him.

Perhaps, in a different way that he could not understand.

Qi Huan didn't interrupt them, he just waited silently. After a long, very long time—so long that he felt numb, sleepy, and felt that something had to be changed immediately, Frost Moon suddenly turned his head and said to him:

"Those dragons, ethnically speaking, are still a type of dragon, but their identity is not that of dragons themselves. These dragons, as the guardians of the Dragon Palace, are both real and fake. They are just illusions, they are silhouettes. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"The dragons guarding are small and do not possess the wisdom and consciousness of the dragon clan, they only know how to protect this dragon palace. Because they are not from the dragons, but the creation of orbs. ”

"Orb?!" Qi Huan's eyes widened suddenly, "You mean the merman's orb and created those dragons?!" ”

"And that big pearl is not a kind of dragon pearl in the first place, but it is just wrapped in the tears of the merman. The dragon balls we got were not real dragon balls, they were projections of the orbs, and they were inferior products. It can't be like the real Dragon Ball, but at least it can wake up this friend...... Of course, it's not really a dragon either. The real Dragon Balls are even more beautiful and dazzling, and the real Dragon Clan is even larger, and some dragons can't even fit the entire Crystal Palace. ”

"So we have overcome all the obstacles and paid so many costs, and the dangers we face are all fake and false?" Qi Huan spread out his hands, "It's meaningless? ”

"That's not how the meaning is decided. The friend was in charge of telling the visitor something...... The Orb created a false dragon and changed the structure of the Crystal Palace without authorization, because it had its own consciousness - although these consciousnesses were also 'unconscious', and it adjusted according to its own needs. It can respond to the prayers of the outside world, but when no mermaids are near, the part that belongs to the dragon family is still growing and developing. The afterimages of those fake dragons attracted the real dragon clan and also made the mermaids misunderstood. ”

"So there's really some misunderstanding here?"

"The mermaids are a proud race...... But dragons too, dragons are arrogant, with a kind of arrogance and arrogance relative to humans, but in fact, they just don't take anything seriously. There is no need. For them, human beings are like thousands of pigs, horses, cows and sheep in the world, there is nothing special. ”

Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs.