"You're much calmer than I thought you would." After saying too many words at one time, Bai Shao stopped and gasped for several breaths before his face returned to normal. He pursed his lips, as if he was not satisfied with the reaction of the two companions: "Don't you want to sigh something?" ”

"No, that's one of the benefits of being older." Amphinis's eyes flickered, but that was all. The world of hunters is full of mysteries, and Rao is a top-level hunter and scholar who has exhausted his life's work, and at most can only understand a small part of it. On the long road of hunters, old Ailu has long learned not to be surprised. Moreover, whether it is encountering the ancient dragon species or learning the secrets of the human-dragon war today, the Black Star Twins have been affected too much. Even one more piece of equally heavy information could not stir up more waves in the already numb nerves of the two, "There is another thing that I care more about than these. ”

"You said you knew about the dragonmen's entry into the war. Chief McGonagall will be injured like this, can't it be in your plans? Amphines asked, her face darkening.

"So I can win your sympathy by self-harm, and then take advantage of the opportunity to escape?" The white-clothed hunter pursed his lips and waved his gauze-wrapped hand twice, "Come on, I'm neither a god nor a hunter ancestor, and it is not my expectation that I will fall into the hands of the two of you." ”

The defector bit the lid of the pot with his teeth, tilted his head and took a sip of the spicy hot drink, and two blushes immediately appeared on his face: "Frankly, in the blueprint of the Eye of Death, he is one of the biggest variables. If one is not handled properly, this guy can become an obstacle that we cannot bypass. He glanced meaningfully at the sleeping orc, "I said that hunting an ancient one is 'not that easy,' and that half of the problems and troubles come from him. Even if the big guy in the mountains changes to a place of birth, eighty percent of us will encounter a dragonman who is similar to him when we act—as long as it is related to the ancient dragon race, the ancient orc clan will intervene sooner or later, do you know why? ”

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"Woo-" Lu Xiu's wrist shook for no apparent reason, and the page in his hand was torn apart by the sound, leaving jagged jagged teeth at the root of the page. Xiaolongren held the heavy classics, and quietly glanced at Lu Yingying, who was busy beside him, and saw that the girl was also looking at him, he was even more embarrassed to hide the torn page behind as much as possible.

"It's useless...... the little scribe smiled lightly, glancing at the hunter's hand behind his back, "I see it all." ”

"That'...... I'm going to get the paste. The Hunter smirked as he placed the ancient book on the table, stitching the torn page back together towards the fracture. However, Lu Xiu's fingers kept shaking, and he couldn't align after several attempts at simple movements. In a hurry, his breathing became heavy, red appeared in his eyes, and the pages of the book were instantly crumpled into a ball, tightly clenched in the palm of the young man's hand.

Before he could say a word of apology, a slightly cool little hand covered Lu Xiu's trembling fist. The little scribe's other hand waved up and down in front of the dragonman, motioning for the other to breathe at his own pace. After a few long breaths, the red glow in the dragonman's eyes finally faded back to normal, and his hands stabilized. He withdrew his hand wryly: "I ......"

"I feel it." The girl's eyebrows furrowed slightly, she pointed to her temple, and whispered, "That's why you came to me, didn't you?" ”

In the command cabin, according to the instructions of the regiment commander, Lu Xiu replaced the crew members on the shift and did some simple liaison work in front of the microphone. However, since this morning, the inexplicable irritability and anxiety in the hearts of the young people have lingered, and the hunting ship has even intensified after its second voyage. After continuously reporting a few wrong parameters to the other side of the microphone, he was finally driven out of the bridge and "dispatched" to Lu Yingying's cabin.

The anomaly of the chosen hunter was clearly written on his face, and the little scribe certainly knew it, and she unfolded the tome torn by the dragonman and stroked the small print on the header: "The Great Scribe Stefan Notes on the End of the Story...... I hate the books he wrote, the metaphors are obscure, the wording is awkward, and if it weren't for the fact that my borrowed share still has room and it's more detailed than other places, I wouldn't have considered bringing it to the hunting grounds. Leave it alone, get back to Locklac and give the librarians a headache. ”

"I'm sorry, it's not a dangerous situation, but I want you to follow me to be restless." Lu Xiu pinched his eyebrows hard, trying to drive the irritability out of his head, and then he remembered where Fang Cai's mood swings came from. He unfolded the crumpled pages in his hand and searched them line by line under the light, his thick fingers finally resting on a few lines of small print: "I can only read a rough idea, but the annotations on this seem to be different from those in other books." ”

"Siqi Benji" is a historical material about the social changes of the dragon people during the two human-dragon wars. In the page torn out by the specially selected hunters, there are only a few lines in the original history, describing the large-scale migration of ancient orcs out of the Zenith Mountain to the human world after the war, but the compiler left a surprising number of annotations and errata here. The little scribe leaned his head forward, his eyes moving quickly from side to side, and then a thoughtful look.

The "Dragonman Journey" is quite a famous historical event. The two migrations occurred at the beginning of the revival of the Dundelmar Guild in the Old World and the partition of the kingdoms in the New World, both of which were when humanity had just come out of the shadow of war and was in ruins, and the dragonmen were also able to integrate into human society very easily. Considering the limited population base of the ancient orcs, the sum of the members who left their homeland twice even exceeded the scale of human migration during the opening of the New World.

There are two explanations for this in mainstream scholarship – the spontaneous behavior of the Cenozoic dragons and the cleansing of pure-bloods in the group. Although the former is not convincing, and the latter smacks of conspiracy theories, this is the conclusion that most scribes need to choose one over the other until a better explanation emerges.

"But Stefan doesn't support either." Lu Yingying quickly skimmed through the front and back of a page, raised her head to look into the hunter's eyes, and a strange smile appeared on her face, "I have read this book more than once, but I have never noticed the details here...... Maybe you have the potential to be a scrivener. ”

"Is that so?" Lu Xiu scratched his head, "I can only see that the dragon patriarch is mentioned above, and it seems to be related to the ancient dragon race." It seems that it was the words related to natural disasters that stimulated the nerves of the little dragon man, so that he almost failed to control himself.

"That's right, the 'migration was the result of the Patriarch's mobilization' was just his speculation, but the rest is all well documented." "According to the book, the predecessors once summoned disciples for field trips and visited dozens of settlements where the traveling dragon people stayed for a long time. More than 30% of them have been observed at least once in history, and many of them are still birthplaces, and there are even active natural disasters. In the vicinity of the remaining villages, many of them have been found in the following decades. Lu Yingying's voice froze, "It's like ......"

"They know where the scourge will end up, and they're deliberately approaching them." Lu Xiu continued, "If each dragon man has hidden combat power that is not lost to the village chief McGonagall, according to this Stefan's statement, their large-scale migration will not be to secretly protect the human race, right?" ”

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"That naïve speculation...... Are you serious? Bai Shao shook the hot drink in his hand, his face turned red under the effect of the drink, "Of course, I hope that Tianzeng Mountain will one day open its power to the hunter world, but the dragon people take 'neutrality' as their creed, and theoretically will not stand on the side of humans or monsters, and of course they will never make a big move to protect humans." The Rum brothers are the top hunters in the continent, and they have also made them outliers among the dragonmen. In the eyes of the pure-bloods who are high up in the Zenith Mountain, we have always been no different from monsters. ”

The white-clothed hunter took another sip of his drink, and his tongue became visibly slurred: "Their clan members are called Youli, but in fact, from the first day they descended the mountain, they have brought the mission of 'monitor' and 'mediator', according to the assumption of the promulgator of the 'Patriarch's Decree' at that time, whether it is a beast tide or a natural disaster, those clansmen living in the human territory do not need to look up, just let us fend for ourselves." They have only one mission - to nip in the bud any possible future human dragon wars as a powerful third party. ”

"Is that what you know from the stone slabs of the ruins?" Luo Pingyang melted some dry food with water and fed McGanini in small sips.

"They are all the records and research results of the scribes of the past generations, and as long as they have the heart, officials above the rank of deacon, high-ranking hunters, and scribes can easily obtain these." The white-clothed hunter shrugged, "The most obscure secrets are often buried in history, and you just never care about them. ”

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Lu Yingying rummaged the shelf in front of her, and in excitement, her elbow knocked down a row of classics. The heavy ancient book fell to the ground, but the little scribe didn't realize it, and still said something to Lu Xiu behind him: "Stefan's views have not been handed down, most likely because the content of the book is too obscure. I've read similar statements in some wild histories, but I've always laughed at them as legends. ”

"I remember some of their views that the Dragonmen have the means to find the scourge in their hands. Their people have chosen to settle on both continents in order to use their own power to counterbalance the human dragon and prevent the war from resuming......" The girl tossed over in the stacks of books for a long time, and finally turned around in chagrin, "Hell, I kept them in Loclac as a pastime. ”

"I don't understand," Lu Xiu tried his best to smooth out the crumpled page by himself, laboriously reading between the lines, "Even according to the guesses of the predecessors in the book, the zenith mountain is really to maintain the balance after the war, and the traveling dragonmen are now scattered all over the continent, like the village chief McGonagall, what can they do?" ”

"If what the scholar said is true, those dragonmen don't really need to do anything, just show up on the battlefield when the war is about to start." Lu Yingying replied without thinking, and the girl patted Lu Xiu's solid chest, "It's true that every dragon man is a powerful warrior, but what is more fearful than that is their identity as a dragon man. ”

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"No matter which side of the ancient dragons or humans is the first to provoke a dispute, it is necessary to consider the consequences of the dragonmen possibly falling to the other side, this is the simplest but effective strategy of Zenith Mountain." Bai Shao's eyes were filled with layers of fog, "His name is Magnini, right?" The name is a much more powerful weapon than the blue wyvern. ”

"No, it doesn't make sense." Amphinis squinted her eyes, as if she could read if the other party was lying by staring at Bai Shao's face like this, "In those days of the Dragonmare, we fought throughout the New World, and we have provoked more ancient dragons than we have in both hands, but we have never seen a dragonman come forward to stop it. With our past achievements, I am afraid that Tianzenth Mountain has long been incompatible with human beings. ”

"Oh...... Little Anfi. Bai Shao smiled exaggeratedly, "I didn't mean to hit you, and I didn't want to deny the past achievements, but this is the truth: in the eyes of the dragonmen stationed in the New World, the strength of the dragonmares back then was not even qualified to threaten the ancient dragon species - we have never been the strongest hunters, but we have been lucky enough to escape from the scourge every time." ”

Under the manipulation of the ancient dragon species, the weather on the snowy mountains was as warm as spring, but Amphinis subconsciously shivered.

"But now, this hellish contract has become a problem for me and Ah Yang. We don't want to take out one enemy and only to have another group of stronger ones in the blink of an eye. ”

"Among the ancient dragon species recorded by the trade union, you chose the Qilin and Fengshan Dragon, and that's why." Luo Pingyang said coldly.

Unicorns are accustomed to long-distance migration, and the Eye of Death can choose their own aircraft and battlefields, leaving plenty of room to avoid the surveillance of the Dragonmen. As for the Fengshan Dragon, the harvest festival has become a part of the hunting culture of the New World, and under the attention of the whole Locklac, no one would have imagined that one day humans would actually shoot the deadly dragon gun at the giant whale. However, now that Merlin has to fight against the ancient dragons on the territory guarded by the dragonmen, it is not surprising that the defectors talk about "trouble".

"As a symbol of the country of Siqi left here, he must live and not get in the way of what we do, and Arin has had a headache for a long time...... Thankfully, we've finally found a way to do both. Bai Shao's body swayed, as if it would fall at any moment, and he sniffed the hot drink in his hand, revealing a confused expression.

"What's the solution?" Amphfinis hurriedly asked in a loud voice, drawing the defector's attention back to his own account.

"Think back to the previous battle, and the first one to attack the Ancients was Magnini, right?" The white-clothed hunter restrained his suspicions and said with a slight expression, "Now among the races that provoked this war, there are also dragonmen. ”