Gawain didn't know what to say for a while.

He stood quietly in front of the incubator, looking at the young dragon in the transparent sac, at the cub that he saw as unsightly, even a little ugly, as the little guy who had just visited the world began to flap its young wings and began to try to observe its surroundings - dragons are really powerful creatures, so much so that their cubs can walk on their own power as soon as they hatch, and they can open their eyes to observe the world, and even ...... It may already have some kind of magical power.

Gawain saw rune-like streams of light faintly emerging from the edge of the young dragon's wings.

But these remarkable talents don't mean much in Tallund.

"Is he watching us?" Amber on the side asked curiously, "Hey, this little guy shouldn't think of us as parents, I heard ......"

"No," Noretta shook her head, "the hatching sacs are made of a special material, and the view from the inside is filtered and processed to ensure that the young dragons don't think of the machines or anything else that are moving here as their parents. ”

"It's time for us to leave," Melita took a half-step back, "the little one's parents may already be on the landing platform and will be coming to claim him soon, this is an important occasion, let's not bother here." ”

The group quickly left the "hatching corridor" and entered a softly lit passageway in which no humans or dragons were visible, except for the occasional mechanical device that sprang along the slides on the walls or on the ground to break the silence. It's exactly what Melita says: it's a highly automated factory, and almost everything here is handed over to machines under Omega's control, and these machines ...... It is the "starting point" of the dragons of Talrond.

After walking quietly for a few minutes, Amber finally couldn't help but break the silence: "Just now, those machines cut the skin on the back of the young dragon's neck, as if something was stuffed into it...... What is that? ”

"It's a synergistic implant that can slowly affect and reshape the brain's nervous system, the foundation of the newborn dragon's survival in Tallund society, the starting point of everything, and the foundation for the first formal implant in their dragon life," Melita said slowly, "The composite device will guide and strengthen the young dragon's nervous system little by little, until the latter can withstand the pressure of the implant and the 'parallax signal interaction', which will take about ten years, and wait until that thing grows into a 'parallax base' at the base of the young dragon's skull slots', the baby dragon can receive the first official implant of their life. ”

Amber struggled to repeat these literal phrases that sounded strange and difficult to her: "The first...... Formal implants? ”

"The Resonance Core, an intracranial plug-in, accompanies the dragon for the rest of his life," says Melita, "and only through it can we connect directly with Omega, and it also has various functions such as identification, location positioning, and personal property preservation." It can be said that only after implanting the resonance core can a young dragon truly become a member of Talrond, and be able to survive in this prosperous and terrifyingly large country. ”

"Do all dragons have to implant that?" Amber's eyes widened slightly, "Do you have that too?" ”

"Of course, I have ...... too" Melita immediately laughed, pointing to her head, but then lowered her hand, "Ah, well, not in this head, but I do have a resonance core." ”

"The Omega controls everything on this continent, and the Resonance Core is the terminal extension of the Omega, and it is the basis for the survival of the Dragons in Tallrond," Noretta continued, "Even when we are far away from Tallrond, the Omega can determine the location and health of the Dragons through the Resonance Core and maintain the connection between the Far Traveler and the Mainland, so you can imagine how important this thing is to us." ”

"Is there - I mean, what if a dragon's resonance core is damaged or the connection with the Omega is broken for some other reason?" Gawain couldn't help but ask curiously, "Has such a situation ever occurred?" Is there any dragon in Talrond who would break away from Omega for one reason or another? ”

“…… We can't imagine what that would be like," Melita thought for a moment, shaking her head strangely, "As far as I know, no dragon has ever been separated from Omega. Of course, the 'damage' you are talking about is a real possibility, but Omega will immediately warn and send an emergency rescue team to repair the connection of the 'accidental disconnected' and return him to the Omega network. In the territory of Tallund, the process should take no more than twelve hours. ”

Speaking of this, Melita seemed to suddenly remember something, and added a few words with a smile: "But I've seen some older thrillers and plays, which mention that the unlucky protagonist damaged his resonance core by accident, and for one reason or another, Omega didn't find out about him as an 'accidental breakaway', so the dragon in question became the Talllund society." The 'transparent dragon', no longer has an identity, his property is cleared, he can't leave, he can't even open the door of his home, he walks down the street and even the cleaning machine won't give way to him...... Hey, it's really scary, and now that I think about it, it's all my psychological shadow......"

"You read too many weird old stories when you were a kid," Noretta couldn't help but mutter, "that's why you're old now." ”

"That's okay!" Melita's eyes immediately widened, "You just envy my classical temperament!" ”

Gawain: "......"

He wasn't actually listening to Melita's interactions with her friends, because what he had seen and heard here had already made him think deeply.

This is the intention of the dragon god Enya to insist on letting herself visit Tallund first? Is this what the god wants to see?

In thought, Gawain exhaled softly, and then he shook his head, seeing that the softly lit and unusually wide passage seemed to have reached its end, with a trapezoidal door standing at the end of the corridor in front of it.

The tour of the hatchery seemed to be coming to an end, but before leaving, he couldn't help but ask Melita: "By the way, you are here too...... Hatched? ”

"I'm not, I was hatched in an incubator in another nearby city," Melita shook her head and pointed at Noretta, "but she hatched here." ”

"You hatched out to be a member of the 'Upper Talrond'?" Gawain asked, "Are your parents also members of the Council or the Mithril Vault?" ”

Melita shrugged her shoulders and said an answer that Gawain didn't expect: "I don't have parents, and neither the members of the Council like me and Noretta have parents—the upper Tallrond is divided into many different sections, among which the members of the Council, the House of Elders, and the Temple Group are all more special. Noretta and I are not ordinary dragon eggs that were 'claimed' by our parents, but were 'ordered' directly from the factory by the jury, and the genetics came from the laboratories of some large life groups. These large companies specialize in the service of the upper Tallund.

Then she paused, then continued, "But Norreta and I don't know which lab we're from—this information is classified, and only the Speaker and Omega have access and access to it. Of course, we don't care about that. ”

Amber's eyes widened, and she looked Melita and Noretta up and down incredulously before she could say, "This...... It's a bit beyond my imagination......"

Gawain glanced at Amber, in fact, he wanted to say that this half-elf was not qualified to talk about others, and her own way of birth was even more bizarre than these "Dragons of Tallrond", but the words still didn't come out of his mouth.

What he saw and heard here was so much beyond expectations, so much to think about, that the rambling became boring.

A few minutes later, they left the hatchery and came to the take-off and landing platform area outside the factory.

Noretta took Amber and Veronica to the nearby platform, while Melita re-transformed into a dragon in front of Gawain and stood in the center of the platform. Looking at the vast night outside the platform and the dense city lights at the foot of the mountain like a river of light, Gawain couldn't help but look up and ask, "Where are we going next?" ”

"I'll take you to Downtown—there's a neighborhood I go to a lot and it's pretty good," Melita said as she lowered her wings, "Come on, it's a little late at night, and we've been in the hatchery for a bit of a long time." ”

Gawain walked over to Melita, but before stepping onto the dragon's wings, he took out his close-fitting mechanical watch to glance at the time on it, and then looked up at the starry night sky overhead.

This small gesture made Melita curious: "What? Do you have any other arrangements? ”

"No, it's nothing, just a glance at the time," Gawain put away his mechanical watch and shook his head with a smile, "It's not just Amber here, even my time is a little messed up." ”

Melita didn't become suspicious, but waited until Gao Wen'an was firmly on her back, then slowly took two steps out of the platform, and then flew into the sky with the undulation of her magic—and on another platform not far from her, the graceful white dragon Noretta also flew into the night sky.

The city lights of Tallund swept backwards in Gawain's vision.

It was a short flight, and it was only a swooping and gliding deceleration distance from the towering hatchery tower to the neighborhood Melita spoke of, and Gawain soon saw a block rapidly enlarge in his field of vision, with many towering buildings with a very different style from the human world.

Those were extremely sturdy, beautiful buildings, and if they were placed on the Loren continent, perhaps the kings and dukes would not be able to live in such houses. Exquisite residences are lined up in this neighborhood, with flickering lights in the streets and alleys, and holographic projections of advertisements and art videos fill the eyes, making it seem as if it is bustling to the extreme, advanced to the extreme.

However, Gawain already knew that this was actually the "lower Tallund".

Spacious and grand for a man, narrow and cramped for a dragon.

There are no special take-off and landing platforms in the block, and Melita and Noretta land land directly in an open space that looks like a small square, and there are many "people" walking back and forth in the streets near this open space.

As the dragon landed, Gawain felt a slight jolt under his feet, and then he exhaled and prepared to walk to the ground, but at the moment of his step, he suddenly felt something.

Pulled by some kind of "intuition", he subconsciously looked up.

Countless shadows that seemed to be black chains floated in his sight!

Almost reflexively, Gawain immediately looked up overhead, but he didn't see the massive "Deranged Dragon" again, as he had expected—he only saw the polar night sky, and the artificial lights of the near and far cities glowed with light pollution at the edge of his vision.

The indescribable "Dragon of Confusion" did not appear, but countless black translucent chains seemed to float in the air, floating in the streets and alleys of the lower city.

Gawain saw far more "black chains" here than the upper Talrond, connecting the bustling "people" around the square, connecting the dragons of the lower Talrond, and the other end floating straight into the sky, towards the invisible dragon of confusion......

……

"My lord, the guests have entered the lower Tallund," said Hragore, with his hand down, "and are touring the streets of the lower city in the company of the two young dragons named Melita and Noretta. ”

There was no response from the light-shrouded Holy See, and there was some silence in the entire temple hall.

Ryujin Enya was sitting quietly on a gorgeous seat, seemingly staring into the distance with some distraction.

"My lord?" Hagere looked up curiously and couldn't help but call softly.

The god on the Holy See finally turned his gaze and said lightly, "I see." ”

"My lord," said Hragore, after a moment's hesitation, "is there anything wrong with this?" Lower Tallund ...... It's cluttered and may not be suitable for showing guests, but the upper level has a better view and is good enough for guests to visit. ”

"I ordered it," the dragon god said lightly, "I asked Andal to make arrangements so that our guests could see a complete Tarlund. ”

For a moment, it seemed as if he wanted to ask something, but in the end he lowered his head: "...... Yes, I see. ”

……

A kind-looking middle-aged "man" was talking to Melita, while a little girl, about five or six years old in the human eye, was hiding to the side, looking Gawain and Amber up and down with some curiosity—Veronica tried to approach the little girl with a kind and warm smile, but was cleverly dodged by the other party.

The "Holy Princess", who has always used her smile to create an amiable persona, looks a little depressed, but soon returns to normal and returns to Gawain's side.

The kind, middle-aged "man" was a resident of Downtown, who ran a "scale polishing boutique" on the corner, and the little girl, who looked a little scared, was his daughter, who had just turned 120 this year.

Or a baby dragon.

The father and daughter are one of Melita's few friends in the lower city, and Norretta knows each other, and their "business" is one of the few "work trades" in the lower Talrond, and it is also a very dragon-like industry, but none of this is important to Gawain.

The important thing is that Gawain can clearly see a chain extending from the top of the middle-aged "man's" head, all the way to the sky, and even the head of the little girl who looks like she is only five or six years old, there is a chain attached to it.

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