I was born in a scorched earth. 】

I heard the word "we" when I was a child. It seems that human beings no longer want to call themselves "I", and after 200 years, they have begun to call themselves "I".

I was born in the midst of a blazing scorched earth. There is lava in that land, and I heard that when a volcano erupts, the lava will fall to the ground below, and I don't know if it's true or not. In short, the scorched earth in the entire Yunshi is so distinctive, and there are active volcanoes.

The scorched earth was very hot, and there was no grass growing at all, so my species evolved wings, which humans called the "red-scaled black-winged snakes".

Cloud beasts that can survive in extreme environments are good, and I have always been proud of my race. When each red-scaled black-winged snake becomes an adult, it will generate five magic cores in its body, corresponding to the fifth-order cultivation of human beings. When I became an adult, I naturally had five mana cores. But one day, I encountered my natural predator on the scorched earth, an adult black-clawed giant beaked vulture. I'm being targeted by it. Hide for your life in the scorched earth of boulders. For a few days, I didn't dare to breathe, for fear that if I didn't pay attention, I would die in my beak.

Fortunately, the vulture did not have the patience I had, and after hovering over the boulder for more than ten days, it flew away. Since then, I've come to understand that I can't just be a snake with five magic cores. So, I started to challenge myself and try to condense the sixth magic core in my body. It was a long and arduous process, but in the end I succeeded, my sixth mana core was in my head, and I grew a snake forehead horn that other red-scaled black-winged snakes didn't have.

I managed to hunt down a black-clawed beaked vulture that once scared me so much. The vulture is a sixth-order, and I didn't want to get entangled with it, but it didn't intend to let me go. On the seventh day of the fight, it tried to peck me to death, but I grabbed me by the neck and strangled me in mid-air. We fell out of the air and into the scorched earth on the other side, a place I hadn't been before. It doesn't seem to be that hot here, probably too far from the volcano. It was much later that I learned that the black spike-like plants that grew here were called thorns, and they were devouring the ground in large swaths, so that I had to parade on them, and let these little things make me uncomfortable.

Accidentally taken out of the depths of the scorched earth, I met humans. With a weak body, powerful magic, and all kinds of incredible magical weapons, I felt a mortal threat. In front of their hungry eyes, I witnessed the hunting of many cloud beasts - which made me more careful to hide my whereabouts so as not to become their new target. It's not just one person who is scary, it's that when you bite one to death, dozens of them will come out and hit you.

I have been dormant in this thorn forest for nearly thirty years. Someone may have spotted me while I was sleeping, and when I woke up hungry, I suddenly realized that I had fallen into the midst of human beings.

This is a highly experienced hunting regiment. Despite my best efforts, I have not been able to escape their encirclement. Eventually, I was captured by a magical weapon and became a trophy of the Beast Hunters, a plaything in the hands of nobles, a research object in the eyes of scientists, and a prisoner of humanity.

It was definitely the most humiliating experience I've ever had. Looking back after more than ten years, I really want to bite myself to death when I underestimated the enemy.

...... Well, that's the end of the recollection, after all, no amount of thought can effectively change the status quo. Because my body size has not evolved to be as thick as the average adult red-scaled black-winged snake, I was considered "malnourished" and "underdeveloped" by these ignorant humans, and I have been imprisoned and raised for more than ten years, still under all kinds of ignorant eyes. After traveling a few places, I am now in a secret base for the study of cloud beasts.

Counting me, there are two sixth-order in this base. The other guy is even worse than me, obviously it is a real sixth-order strength, but because their race is so rare that it may be the only one in the world, so I am stunned to regard it as another cloud beast, and it is also assessed as "deformed", only "fourth-order", I really feel deeply sad for it.

“......”

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm talking to you, so I'm going to give you some reaction! Sleep every day, sleep and sleep, you haven't moved the ground for seven days, get up and take care of me!" I saw that this mrigal that I called "nerd", and who only knew that he had slept and slept until the earth was barren and the sea was rotten, had no intention of talking to me, and I finally couldn't help but flick his tail and curl up into a ball and pump it away. Damn! All the cloud beasts I've encountered over the years are a bunch of delirious retards, and it's hard to find a guy who can understand my nagging, and he's still a bastard sleeping god!

Is it so hard for a snake to find someone to talk to!?

I was locked up with the Underearth Dace in the area of the "Disabled Cloud Beast", and the other Cloud Beasts were in other areas. Of course, my sixth-order strength must be the boss of this group of cloud beasts who really lack arms and legs, but they are still beastly and have a low IQ, and it is basically impossible to talk to me, and they can only communicate through a simple howl.

I think I'm a snake who is so smart that I can read the dumb sole horn in one breath, and now I can only be trapped in the experimental base and life and death are uncertain, I really ......

Well?

Sensing that something was wrong with the atmosphere outside the area, I immediately ran to the edge of the transparent glass wall and calmed down to feel the sounds outside. Words like "intruder" and "attack" were perceived by me as the sound waves vibrate, and I realized that even these experimenters, who did not know magic, could not stop the menacing intruders.

Sure enough, soon I couldn't feel the breath of any living people in the area of the sixth floor. Without hesitation, I immediately flicked my tail and began to slap the mrigal dozens of times in this small space, until I really woke him up: "Don't sleep! Something is wrong! Wake up quickly, we're in big trouble!"

The mrigal was reluctantly woken up by me. It is pitch black, snow-white on its forehead, slightly erect on its body, with small ears and eyes dragging a long mouth and large nostrils, and it is not unreasonable to be considered a tree-dwelling pangolin. In fact, it should be regarded as a living fossil, maybe it is the ancestor of the pangolin, after all, the current pangolin in the Yunshi has not heard of any race being an adult sixth-order.

"Nerd, listen up, the current situation is not optimistic. The base we are at now has been invaded. You know what invasion means? It's somebody breaking into here. I used my wits to make a rational analysis: "The first case about the intruder: he sneaks in just to steal something. If his target isn't us, then we just have to think about what the leaders of the base will do with us if this underground base is discovered and invaded. The worst-case scenario is to kill us and take our bodies with us. In the second case, the intruder invaded the site in order to directly seize control of the entire base. The worst-case scenario is still that we are killed, after all, the corpse of the cloud beast is still quite useful to humans, even if we are assessed as disabled. ”

"So, to avoid the above two worst-case scenarios, we have to wait for the opportunity to escape, understand, idiot?"

“...... Well. ”

I seriously doubt that this mrigal listened only to the last sentence.

Just as I was about to destroy the special glass wall here and run away, I suddenly felt an unprecedented pressure coming towards me.

It was a cold that pierced my soul, and it made me tremble with fear.

[Interesting. 】

Someone seemed to be whispering right in front of me. My mind froze for a while, and I subconsciously wanted to turn around and run away. Can't win, no, not even have the consciousness to resist at all. Absolute coercion, the power that can kill me in an instant. My somewhat meagre words could not describe the power and fear of me, and my instincts as a snake could only drive me to run away with all my might.

Boom – The ground seemed to fluctuate a little, and the world in front of me seemed to have lost its original level and stability. This is the mrigal mobilizing its earth-based power. Although it said that it could only do simple ground movements, I had no idea that its so-called "simple" could make me directly plant a big heel!

"Calm down. I have no ill intentions. I was just...... A little curious. And, I want to make a deal with you. ”

After these words sounded, the coercion that directly threatened my soul seemed to disappear. I wasn't so scared anymore, I looked up and looked around, and wow, there was a thick layer of ice on the floor and ceiling, and even the subtle changes in the ground movement could be clearly seen frozen in it. Even half of my body was frozen, and the cold of the ice was so cold that I wanted to die immediately. The nerd is even worse, only the head is still outside.

I turned my head again and saw a young man with a mask in his left hand and black-rimmed glasses in his right hand walking towards us. His eyes were silver, like the ice cubes he had released around him. I'm not sure how strong he is, I just know that it would be very simple for him to kill two sixth-order cloud beasts.

Well...... How do humans call something like a miracle? Oh yes, you can call it a god.

"Hello God, please take my knees!" I expressed my kindness and request smoothly, "Can you let me out first?" Great god, you are so powerful, what do you want us to do, we naturally know everything, say everything, go up the knife mountain, go down to the sea of fire, and go to hell!"

The great god was silent for a while, probably because I was too enthusiastic. With a slight lift of his hand, he removed all the ice from the area and put his glasses back on. "My purpose is the whole base. You can not die. In the end, it is not me who makes the decision, but based on your performance. The first thing, at four o'clock in the morning, destroyed the main control room on the fifth floor. ”

"Okay, no problem!" I agreed. "I can destroy the glass wall here and tell other cloud beasts to run around at will, absolutely hidden, without leaving any deliberate traces. ”

The great god should be the type who doesn't like to talk.,What I said just now wasn't long-winded at all.,A total of four main points.。 (1) The base belongs to the Great God, (2) Our Cloud Beast will not be killed, (3) The Great God should belong to a certain organization and can help us, but it depends on our performance, (4) Good performance starts from now on.

The great god was silent again. "You're smarter than I thought. ”

"Thank you for the compliment! I am a red-scaled black-winged snake from the scorched earth of the volcano. "In order to earn a little impression points, I did not hesitate to introduce myself. "And this one, it's not a pangolin, it's a mrigal. I don't know what this mrigal is, but I don't think it's lying. Nerd, come here and squeak!"

Nerd: "ZZZ......"

Me: "!?"

Okami: "......"

Nerd: "ZZZZZZ......"

Asleep......

Ahhh