Outside the window, the night was already dark and the chill was deepening. But the room is warm and cozy, and the sweet smell of milk tea permeates every part of the room. This is a single dormitory for faculty and staff, two bedrooms, clean and tidy. In the living room, two people curled up on the sofa in front of the fireplace, squinting lazily, chatting with each other.

The fireplace was a foreign thing, and it did not exist in the customs and traditions of the empire. However, the owner of the house is An Ruosu, and according to her, when she was studying abroad, she rented a house with a fireplace. Coming alive in winter and watching the firelight dance in front of you, you can feel both real warmth and extreme closeness to nature – like keeping a bonfire at night, which is reassuring.

So after moving here, she asked someone to remodel her room to make it what it is today.

Ke Song didn't have any special impression of this thing before, but after getting along for a long time, he unconsciously liked the feeling of sitting by the fire.

The two of them each held a cup of milk tea and spoke, and the melting warmth rushed over them like a tide, almost falling asleep.

But the vibration of her phone woke her up. She took out the phone from her pocket and answered it, it was Li Zhen's voice.

"I ...... In Director Dai's car, walking towards the base. I may not be able to talk to you today. ”

"Ah...... It doesn't matter. Let's talk about it tomorrow! Ke Song blushed slightly. Is he "reporting" to himself by Director Dai's side? Don't care about this day, do you? It's going to be laughed at......

However, there is a slight sweetness in my heart.

An Ruosu squinted at her like a cat, and a smile appeared on her face: "Look at your young age." It's really a good way to control ......."

Ke Song put down the phone and blushed: "No, he calls me every day." ”

"Oh, that's how well you're domesticated."

Ke Song put the teacup in his hand on the stool, and squeaked her with his toes. An Ruosu hurriedly dodged away, screaming oops, spilling out and running under the sofa. However, as soon as one foot hit the ground, it really made an "ouch".

Ke Song stopped making trouble, and quickly sat up: "What's wrong?" Squirming again? ”

An Ruosu gently rubbed his ribs with his hand: "Hmm." The bruise wasn't healed yet. I shouldn't have been sitting next to the instrument...... The plane shook, and the whole thing fell on me. ”

Ke Song frowned: "You should go for a good check-up again, it's been three days and the bruises haven't gone away." ”

"How can I have time...... An Ruosu sat back on the sofa, but still carefully guarded against Ke Song's trouble. It's been busy during the day. I'm going to the lab again in the evening, and I'm only going to have some time today. ”

But speaking of this, Ke Song's eyes lit up: "By the way, Sister Ruosu, yesterday you told me that that thing will have an appraisal result today - then what is it?" ”

An Ruosu gently rubbed her ribs and slowly stretched out her legs. Seeing that Kesong had no intention of making trouble again. Only then did he stretch himself out on the sofa with confidence: "That...... We haven't figured it out yet. It should be a new species, though. ”

Ke Song bit his lip. Think about it for a long time. Only then did he cautiously whisper, "Could it be ......?" ”

But An Ruosu didn't laugh as she expected, but shook her head a little confused: "I don't know what to do." Actually, that's what I thought when I first saw it. But that's the kind of thing...... It's still hard for someone to take it seriously. That's a symbol, after all. ”

What the two of them are discussing right now is what people find on the beach in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

That weird "sea serpent".

Time has to go back more than ten days.

It should have been an evening in January. A beach near Wulintou in Kaohsiung City.

Unlike the cold in the north, the temperature in Taiwan in winter is still relatively high. Kaohsiung is located in the south of Taiwan, and the temperature reached 12 degrees that evening.

On such a night, fisherman Wang Yequan came to the beach. He had planned to take a walk after dinner, but as he walked, he thought about his thoughts and unconsciously came to this beach. There is no harbor in the area, there is no beautiful scenery, and it is sparsely populated—except for people like him who live nearby, and no one usually sets foot here for almost a few days on a weekday.

Bypassing the two coconut trees, the eyes suddenly opened up. The sun had set, and the sky was a pale blue-gray. The moon peeked out from the east, and a few stars the size of millet grains loomed in the sky. The sea breeze carried the smell and moisture in his face, blowing through his thin clothes, and giving him goosebumps.

He was a little tired when he got here, so he planned to blow the wind, so he turned and walked home.

There were a few mosquitoes flying around next to the coconut tree, and when they felt Wang Yequan's breath, they buzzed and pounced on him. He stared at the black mass on the beach from afar, unable to tell what it was. So it was just some kind of garbage in the sea, maybe parts of a wrecked ship, washed up on the beach by the waves.

At this time, there was a tingling pain in his forearm, and he slapped it without thinking-

Syllable.

There's an extra thing in the palm of your hand.

But Wang Yequan was stunned. Because of that snap.

The slap on the arm was not like that. It was louder and farther, like the sound of a large fish leaping out of the water and falling back to the surface. So he followed the prestige, and found that the puddle of black things that he had previously regarded as parts of the ship was moving.

A piece of what he thought was a plank that had been attached to the sand, just as he looked at it, rose again and fell heavily—

Syllable!

Just as a wave crashed onto the beach, the water splashed everywhere.

Wang Ye was shocked. It's clearly a tail, enough to be more than a person's tail! That guy, is it a big fish?

He scrambled to reach for a flashlight from his trouser pocket—he had planned to take a walk too late and get home when it was dark, to illuminate the road. But in a hurry, the flashlight fell to the ground. He hurriedly crouched down and groped for a while, fearing that the thing would follow the tide and return to the sea.

Judging by this size, maybe it's a calf - if you can get your hands on it, the worries in your heart will no longer be a problem!

It was getting darker, and he fumbled for a while before picking up the flashlight.

Then quickly light it, three steps and two steps, and run forward, while shining the light in his hand—

Then he suddenly stopped his steps and stood on the spot.

At this moment, he even suspected that he had read it wrong, or that someone was playing a joke on him. He subconsciously rubbed his eyes vigorously and looked over again, only to be sure that both himself and that thing were real.

He felt his mouth dry and his mind dizzy, and the muscles in his legs had almost lost their strength, and it seemed that in the next moment his knees would go limp, and he would fall to his knees.

All this is because of the inexplicable sense of awe in my heart.

In the light of the flashlight, a huge head stared at him.

The skin of the skull was slightly blue, with a long nose convex and two nostrils the size of tennis balls at the top. Beneath the nostrils stood bright fangs, each half a meter long. If you look at this part alone, you might think that it is a huge canine beast, but when you look back, you will find two huge orange eyes like copper bells. The eyeballs ...... back again The lion-like mane was as thick as a yellow-brown mane that clattered wetly against its head, still dripping with water.

However, the reason why I don't think this head is ridiculous is because just above its head, two giant pale blue horns more than a meter long rose obliquely, piercing the sky!

The skull was followed by a thick, serpentine body, coiled in a ball. The scales glowing with a faint blue light clung to it one after another, and the strong muscles underneath bulged out one bulge after another.

This is clearly the ......

Dragon!

There is an extremely proud people in this world, who claim to be the descendants of the dragon.

The story of the giant dragon has been passed down for thousands of years, and with the word of mouth from generation to generation, it is deeply rooted in the hearts of every descendant of Yan and Huang.

So at this moment, the sense of identity and awe that came from the depths of the blood spread to every corner of Wang Ye's body with the violent beating of the heart and the rapid flow of blood.

He even wanted to kneel down and bow down!

However, at this moment, the tail of the "dragon" raised again, slapped the sand, and finally remained motionless.

The pair of orange, brass bell-like eyes also turned, and quickly dimmed. The translucent eyelids slowly close along the surface of the massive eyeball...... The colossal creature seemed to have exhausted its last strivings, and stood still in the sea breeze like a statue.

Wang Yequan was stunned for a few seconds. Then, as if mad, he ran towards it with one foot and one shallow foot, and only stopped when the water was gone, and threw it one by one with both hands. But the strength of human beings seemed to be a drop in the bucket for this behemoth, and the "dragon" was coiled on the beach, still motionless.

Wang Yequan grabbed its tail again and tried to drag it into the sea. But it had a slippery mucus on its surface, and he scratched it several times but got rid of it, so he ran up to the "dragon" and pressed his shoulders against his coiled torso, trying to push it into the water.

But this big creature seemed to be made of fine iron, and no matter how hard he tried, it was always in vain.

After falling a few times on the sand, Wang Yequan took out his mobile phone from the pocket of his wet jacket and dialed the number at home. A sudden deep sadness in his heart occupied his mind, as if the emotions of the "dragon" were firmly entangled in his place, and there was only one thought in his mind - save it!

However, there was nothing he could do about it, and he felt as if he had become the luckiest and most unfortunate person in this world.

So he turned into the phone, cried as if he was insane, and shouted to his wife in a hysterical tone: "Call the police...... The dragon is dying! (To be continued.) )