Seeing Melita's appearance in such a hurry, Calador subconsciously shouted behind him: "Your injuries are ......"

"I'm fine, it's just a short flight, after all," Melita moved her wings and glanced back at the red dragon left behind, "I'm feeling much better after removing those faulty nerve boosters, and the healing is working - I'll leave it to you, I'll go see how Noretta is doing." By the way, in which direction is she? ”

After knowing each other for many years, Calador also knew Melita's character, knew that he couldn't persuade the other party at this time, and confirmed that the other party's aura had indeed recovered a lot, so he said with a hint of helplessness: "Take off from here, due south, to the 22nd industrial plateau, where most of the area has now been razed to the ground, only one tower remains, you should be able to easily find the trace of Norretta." ”

Melita spread her huge dragon wings as she listened, and the invisible magic gathered to slowly lift her huge body: "Thanks, I'll leave now - whether I find it or not, I'll be back in three hours!" ”

With a sudden gust of wind, the blue dragon soared into the sky and soared into the sky again.

Immediately after leaving the makeshift shelter, Melita felt weakness and discomfort all over her body, as well as pain from several wounds that had not fully healed. The pain was bearable, but the pervasive feeling of weakness was unbearable for her—it felt like the muscles, bones, and organs of her body were filled with lead, and it took more effort than usual to do anything, and her body didn't react as well as before, and it took several minutes for Melita to realize where the weakness was coming from.

From her nervous system, accustomed to implants and synergists, from her limb memories of thousands of years.

Some of her motility muscles have been removed, nerve synergists near her vertebrae have been removed, more than half of the implants in her body have been shut down or semi-stopped as the omega system has gone offline, and only the underlying implants that don't need to be connected to the internet and provide basic reinforcement or health aids are still running...... She hadn't ingested any synergists in a long time.

"I thought I had a low dependence on these things...... "Melita muttered a little self-deprecatingly, feeling the weight of her limbs, "After all, I'm also the dragon of Talrond......

She looked up and looked into the distance in the dim skylight, and the outline of Industrial Heights 22 was clearly reflected in her field of vision - she felt something uncomfortable, which had been going on for a long time, had been bothering her since she first woke up, and now she finally understood what the reason for this discomfort was: in her field of vision, she could not see the current time, the direction indication and coordinates, the wind information, the undulating magic curves, and the advertising or communication windows that kept popping up from the edges... … Nothing, not even a basic filter, she looked into the distance, and all she could see was the natural pristine sky and earth.

She couldn't remember how long it had been since she'd seen such a clean and clear world...... Or maybe she hadn't seen anything like it since she was born.

Even with so much inconvenience to themselves, how long will it take for those compatriots who have undergone deep transformation to adapt to this "empty" vision?

Melita couldn't help but feel some emotion, and almost at the same time, she caught a flash of white out of the corner of her eye—a white that she almost missed, because her visual aid was no longer able to lock the active/interested information in her field of view on its own, but she finally noticed the figure just as it was about to pass over the edge of her vision.

She finally understood why Noretta hadn't noticed herself when she flew through the sky before—it turned out that searching for things with the naked eye was so error-prone after losing the aid of the implant.

Melita quickly lowered her height and swooped down towards the white, and after confirming that the white was still moving on the ground, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief at first—Noretta was still alive, and she was lying in the middle of a pile of rubble, her head down, busy not knowing what she was digging.

"Noretta!" At a height of only a few hundred meters above the ground, Melita hovered and yelled at the ground, "What are you doing here?" Why didn't you report back to camp? Are you digging something? ”

"Melita?" The white dragon, who was busy digging on the surface, only then noticed the shadow in the sky, she raised her head and looked at her friend hovering in the air in surprise, "Why are you here?" Are you all right?! ”

"Removed some of the broken parts, and treated the wound with healing spells, and it's all right," Melita said as she slowly lowered her height, as she was cautious, because her nervous system and muscle groups were nowhere near as good as they used to be, "What are you doing?" You've missed the coverage for a long time, and the camp is worried about you. ”

"What? Already missed the time? Norreta looked surprised, as if she had just noticed the passage of time, and she looked up at the giant sun, which had reached the horizon, and her tone was full of surprise, "It's so fast...... Sorry, my clock is out of alignment, and the visual aid is down, I don't know ...... at all"

"Well, I'm having a similar problem...... "Melita shook her head, then muttered a little self-deprecatingly, "Is there something wrong with normal time perception without the Omega system...... We're really taken care of by those automated systems......"

As she spoke, she also noticed the large pit that Noretta had dug - there were many similar pits nearby, and it was clear that the white dragon had been digging here for a long time: "Did you find anything?" Anyway, why are you digging with your claws? What about your spells? ”

"I'm afraid the power of the spell will collapse the structure underneath it...... Let's not talk about that, you can help me, right down here—I'm sure I've got the right spot this time," Noretta remembered what she was doing, and pulled Melita to help without explanation, "Come on, dig together, dig together......"

Confused, Melita leaned over and helped Noretta move the broken metal plates and heavy stones out of the pit, and it wasn't long before she heard her friend's shout, "Dig it out!" ”

"This is ......" Melita watched in amazement as Noretta probed her entire upper body into the depths of the large hole that had been excavated, and carefully removed something from it, the expression on her face suddenly changed slightly after seeing the appearance of the thing.

It was an ellipsoidal container, scarred but still intact and solid, and in the center of the container lay something quietly.

A dragon egg—however, had shattered, and the contents flowed out, solidifying on the inner walls of the container like flesh.

Clearly, the intact exterior container did not withstand the force of the shock wave.

“…… It's broken," Melita whispered, her claws subconsciously straining as a mass of steel under her feet was torn apart with a creaking noise, "Noretta, this one is shattered. ”

Noretta also stared blankly at the container that she had dug up, and she was stunned for two or three minutes before she suddenly threw the container aside, turned around and rushed towards the big hole she had just dug out: "There must be something that hasn't broken!" There are countless dragon eggs in here, and there must be some that haven't been broken! ”

Over here?

Melita only realized something now, and when she looked up, she saw a huge facility that looked like a spiraling mountain standing silently in the glow of the setting sun, pale golden sunlight slanting on its molten and resolidified shell, and from the unrecognizable main structure, the former take-off and landing platforms and transmission pipes could be faintly distinguished.

She finally recognized it – it was a hatchery and the largest breeding facility near Argondol.

"Melita! What are you still doing in a daze! The voice of the white dragon Noretta came from the cave, she raised her head, looked at the blue dragon who was in a daze outside, and her tone was urging, "Come and help me open the gate down here—my claws are injured and I can't handle something this big...... Anyway, why are these gates so strong......"

"The two of us can't dig anything," Noretta looked up at the size of the hatchery and immediately shouted into the hole, "The storage area on the lower level of the hatchery is too large, we may not be able to find the next quarantine room until tomorrow, we should go back and find more dragons to help!" ”

The sound of digging in the depths of the cave finally stopped, and after a few seconds, Noretta slowly leaned out of it, with a hint of hesitation: "You're right, but ...... The camp is also limited in manpower, and Karadol may not be able to send many ......."

"Let's take this back," Melita picked up the container of dragon eggs on the ground with her front paws - even though the eggs inside were broken, she was still careful when picking them up, "Calador will understand, he's a red dragon, and a very old red dragon...... He understands the meaning of dragon eggs better than any other dragon. ”

……

In the makeshift shelter, the dragons gathered once again, and after distributing the supplies they had, they had to start discussing how to survive in the ruins. Calador stood in the middle of his compatriots, listening to the thoughts of each member, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Things were going badly, and he expected it, but he couldn't do anything about it.

More and more dragons are showing symptoms of synergist backlash, others are experiencing various physical problems caused by implant failure, and almost all of their fellow dragons are also facing a huge "psychological hole" after losing the omega network. Physical weakness, pain, and psychological vacillation are constantly weakening the will of all their compatriots, who have gathered here and become a real group of refugees.

However...... It's a dragon.

A powerful dragon that once dominated the sky and the earth.

Calador knew that even if they lost their implants and synergists, even if they lost their omegas and automata, these weak dragons in front of them would still be dragons, still one of the most powerful creatures in the world, and even on the other hand, they would have regained their original appearance and returned to the "normal realm" of the race's evolutionary path, however...... These words don't make any sense today.

The existential dilemma is a problem at hand.

With a sigh, he suddenly thought of Melita and Noretta, who had been out of the camp for a long time - how were the two of them?

As soon as Karadol thought of this, he suddenly heard a whistling sound of air currents coming from high in the sky, and he subconsciously raised his head, just as he saw two blue and white figures approaching the camp from a distance.

Melita and Noretta landed in the middle of the camp, and the surrounding compatriots also cast their eyes on it, and after noticing that the atmosphere was a little strange, Melita first returned to her human form, and then strode in the direction of Calador.

"Calador, what's going on here?" Melita couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with work or material distribution again?" ”

"We're talking about expanding the camp and recovering supplies from the Rift Collapse Zone," a black dragon said from the side, "but we don't have the tools and the manpower - the ground is now full of molten and solidified alloys and polymers, and we can't dig a new camp with our claws......"

Melita listened to the other man's words, but her eyes moved around the camp, tired faces and scarred bodies appeared in her field of vision, and finally, she saw Noretta, the white dragon, still standing in the form of a dragon in the clearing, carefully holding the container with her front paws.

"Why can't you use your claws?" Melita's voice suddenly raised a little, she stared at the black dragon who had just spoken, and then at Calador and the other dragons around her, "With your claws, with your teeth, and with your breath, your magic, aren't these powerful?" What can humans on the Loren continent do, what can't the dragons do here—just because the environment here is even worse? ”

A nearby dragon opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but Melita didn't give anyone a chance to speak, she strode directly to Noretta's side, pointed to what the other party was holding with his front paws, and shouted, "This is what we just dug up with our claws!" ”

"That's ......" Calador only then noticed what Noretta was holding, and his eyes subconsciously widened, "That's the ...... in the hatchery"

"It's a dragon egg, it was broken when we dug it out - but there are still thousands of dragon eggs in the hatchery, and there are many storage warehouses that haven't been dug up, and there must be eggs in there that can be saved," Melita said quickly, "That's what I'm going to say - we need help, no matter how many helpers come, even one, to help us dig out the dragon eggs buried in the rubble." Who wants to go? ”

There was a brief silence in the camp, and then finally a low discussion and commotion gradually appeared, and one eye after another fell on the scarred and dusty container, on the cracked dragon egg inside.

Melita looked at the owner of those sights, in which she finally saw some more brilliance and warmth, and she looked up to say something more, but at that moment she suddenly saw a bright arc in the distant sky.

A flaming meteor suddenly lit up the dusk and crashed northwest of Argondol.