Chapter 20: The Town of Eyre
The second sun rose into the sky, and the demon dragon took off on time, just in the direction of the Shengmen calculated by Ah Xue before.
The biological clocks of the two of them have not yet been reversed, and they leaned together and continued to fall asleep. Xia Dai's spirit recovered for the most part, and the speed of the demon dragon was several times faster than yesterday. The ground was filled with sand and dust, and the Natsuyo drove it to fly quietly higher into the sky.
"Boom!" A scorching thunder rolled overhead, and the two of them woke up from their sleep. Several bolts of lightning were like dragon claws, accompanied by thunder and swept through the clouds. The shining arc of light tore through the cracks of the dark clouds, and thunderous thunderbolts rushed over, as if to tear the dragon's back apart.
Cha Cha held her breath and nervously held Ah Xue's hand.
Xia Dai didn't care, gently chanted the spell, and methodically strengthened the protective shields of several people. On the originally transparent protective cover, there was an extra layer of red light, tightly wrapped like a thick eggshell. The lightning turned a corner as it approached the shield, scattering into fine pieces of gold and falling into the nearby clouds.
Flying steadily for a distance, the surrounding dark clouds suddenly gathered, and a purple lightning quietly climbed up the left wing of the demon dragon, its huge wings flashed with lightning, and the flying sparks hit the red scales, making a terrifying sound of stinging.
White smoke came out of the cracks in the scales, Xia Dai frowned, his hands shook, his left wing disappeared abruptly, and the demon dragon suddenly lost its balance. The huge body rolled diagonally in the air twice. The lightning spiraled downward, chasing frantically, and bursting against the shield on the side of the ear.
There was no time to scream, and in the next second, the demon dragon raised its wings again and passed through the clouds steadily.
Cha Cha bit her lip and forced herself not to make a sound. I'm afraid that the Xia Dynasty will be affected at all, and their lives will be gone. The rain rolled down from the sky and crackled down on several people. Countless bolts of lightning split through the thunderclouds and spewed blue flames towards the dragon.
"Let's go down." Cha Cha finally said. Xia Dai's protective shield is not waterproof, and his whole body is wet, which is simply a live target. They are not Pikachu and cannot withstand a hundred thousand volts.
"That's all it can be." Natsuyo agreed to Cha Cha's proposal, bent down and stroked the demon dragon's neck, and slid down from the sky at great speed.
Discord's jets of water roared in the air, trying to capture the escaped prey back to its cage. Cha Cha and Ah Xue's bodies floated in the air because of weightlessness, and they panicked to catch Xia Dai, who was lying on the back of the dragon. Poor Natsuyo was almost overwhelmed by these two sisters.
"It's more exciting than a roller coaster." Cha Cha said truthfully. The hair was sticking to his forehead, the rain was dripping down his eyelashes, and his whole body felt hot, "It's not good, this rain is corrosive, let's fast forward to Xingcha." ”
Ah Xue and Cha Cha went back to their rooms to change into clean clothes, and lined up to take a shower in the bathroom. Xia Dai dried his body by himself. The whole Xingcha is full of pungent smell. Ah Xue opened the window and found that the sky was actually clear, and the overwhelming thunderstorm just now seemed to be just an illusion.
"Damn, how come there are three suns in the sky?!" Cha Cha screamed. A large red fireball appeared on the blue sky, and together with its two original brothers, it dominated the entire sky. These suns look so real that they don't look like parhelions created after rain.
"We're not going to be roasted dry." Ah Xue remembered an old legend.
"Do you have a lot of suns in the sky in your Yunhai Continent?" Cha Cha asked Xia Dai, his face full of doubts.
"Usually there is only one." Natsuyo said nervously, feeling faintly uneasy in his heart, "I don't know what happened. After the blue sun rose, Xia Sha was taken to the Holy Capital. Now a third sun has risen. ”
"Shasha? Your sister? Cha Cha asked, "So, are you going to Shengdu to save your sister?" ”
"Hmm." Natsuyo nodded firmly. Before being brought to the Holy Capital, Shasha was indeed his sister.
"Then let's hurry up." Cha Cha became a little hot. She seems to have forgotten that she is now an ordinary person without any mana.
"Hmm. There is a teleportation array in the small town of Eyre, and we walk along the river. Natsuyo said gratefully, raising his hand and pointing ahead. An inky ribbon stretched over the endless yellow sand, winding across the dunes, and it was a river. White clouds are scattered around the river.
The dragon went back to the boy's head to take a nap, and the thundercloud just now caused it a small injury.
The desert has become stiff due to the action of the rain, and the soles of the feet are no longer embedded in the sand, which is much easier to walk than before, and Cha Cha happily leads the way in front. Ah Xue followed behind the two in shock. The temperature of the ground gradually rose, and there was a pungent smell everywhere, and Ah Xue sneezed.
"Would you like to take a break?" Cha Cha asked with concern. Ah Xue's health has always been bad, and it rained again just now.
As soon as Ah Xue wanted to speak, a gust of hot wind blew, and her nose seemed to be blocked by rotten eggs. The surface of the river rippled on his side, and the river fluctuated with the wind, but strangely it did not flow.
"Why doesn't the river feel still?" Xue asked.
"The river wasn't dead before." Xia Dai squatted down, stretched out his hand and pressed lightly in the river, and a small hole was concave in the water, like a pudding for breakfast, "When Xia Sha and I used to come to play, although it flowed slowly, it could barely hold the boat. At that time, we were all sitting on cloud boats, drinking the water and drifting along the river. ”
"Something terrible must have happened." Cha Cha thoughtful.
"Are those the cloud ships?" Xue asked, pointing to the white clouds by the river. I used to stand far away, thinking that the clouds were relatively low, so it seemed to be floating on the riverbank. Now that I got closer, I realized that the white cotton was growing on the riverbank.
"Hmm." Natsuyo nodded, "However, the cloud ships woven by Xia Sha are much better looking than them." It's even more gorgeous than a rainbow in the sky. ”
Cha Cha curiously went to pull the cloud boat on the ground, thinking that it was soft and could be easily pulled, but it was as hard as iron, and her body suddenly lost her balance, and she fell backwards into the river. There is no feeling of getting wet, as if falling on jelly.
"Are you alright?" Xia Dai fished Cha Cha out of the river.
"Nope." Cha Cha pouted, "I'm sorry." ”
"It's okay, it's the river that's in trouble." Natsuyo scratched his hair embarrassedly, and the little dragon with a bird's beak on his head reluctantly changed positions, "Wait a minute, when we get to the small town of Eyre, there are real flowing hot springs, and we can all soak in them." ”
The three of them continued to walk along the river. Imagining the gentle touch of the hot springs caressing your skin, all the bad emotions on your body are swept away. But when they arrived in the town of Eyre, they found that the town was deserted. There was no one on the cloud-paved street. There was golden gravel everywhere, almost annihilating the town.
"I'm sorry, I can't ask you to drink Gudong water." Xia Dai showed an aggrieved expression, and his blue and gold eyes shone with a melancholy light.
"I'll have a chance later." Cha Cha hurriedly comforted, "Didn't you say that there is a teleportation array?" We hurried to the Holy Capital, where there was sure to be plenty to eat. ”
"Hmm." Xia Dai whispered and led the two of them to find the teleportation array in the town. The Holy Capital is two thousand kilometers away from the small town of Eyre, and even if you ride the fastest Bone-Piercing Silver Dragon, you will have to fly for seven days and seven nights.
"Boom!" A loud noise came from the river. The three of them followed the sound, only to see that the river suddenly widened, and the jelly-like water gradually melted and began to flow again. The cloud boat, which was originally lying on the ground, floated into the air and lit up one by one along the riverbank.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa......" Something is crashing at the waves.
Cha Cha walked over curiously, and a slender fishtail came into view, and the scales reflected a breathtaking blue light under the light of the cloud boat.
The river is getting wider and wider, and the water is quiet. A breathtakingly beautiful face emerged from the river, her cherry lips slightly open, singing softly, and the beautiful song lingered in her ears through the space. Lingering and mournful, it seems that every note seeps into the soul, evoking the deepest sorrow and darkness in the heart.
"Cover your ears!" Natsuyo suddenly said, "This is a mermaid's requiem!" ”
The floating cloud boat hung on both sides and flickered, like a spiritual lamp that attracted souls. There are more graceful figures out of the water, and the singing is getting louder and louder.
The merfolk seemed to be escorting something, and in the long belt they had made of their bodies, snow-white transparent shadows loomed. They are light, like clumps of mist, but faintly fluorescent. If you look closely, those shadows have all the eyebrows and eyes, and they seem to have human facial features.
"On special days, mermaids sing requiems to escort souls to the place of rest. This process must not be disturbed, otherwise they will escort more than just the original souls. Xia Dai dragged Cha Cha and Ah Xue in the opposite direction. And Cha Cha actually subconsciously touched her mobile phone to take pictures, but fortunately, the mobile phone was stored in the room on the third floor by her, and then she ran quickly with Xia Dai.
The young man's heart sank to the bottom, and the Transance Empire was obviously in trouble. The merfolk came down from the upstream, so many souls, and many people must have died upstream.
May his beloved princess be safe.