"Gah! That's impossible! ”

This is a tall building on the harbor of the Emerald Dragon City, known as the 'Marine Research Station', and at the top of the building, a group of Emerald Dragons are holding a meeting together.

Although this 'research station' says it is studying the ocean, it is doing a lot of other research, and recently they are studying: Will the stars fall? How to make a boat from non-wood materials? Where is the end of the world? What is the difference between an electric gnome and a dragon gnome? Should newt meat be seasoned with salty or sweet seasoning?

In particular, the last one was particularly hotly discussed.

But the main purpose of the research station is to keep in touch with ships in the ocean with a small dinosaur called a 'messenger', which can fly and have a strong ability to find directions, not only from distant seas, but also from where they can fly out to find ships on the move.

The cause is unknown.

Because of this creature, the Emerald Dragon can keep in touch with all the ships, and they just received a message that shocked them, 'Black Pepper. The Explorer's ship was wiped out?

This information was so difficult for them to accept that the Emerald Dragon here had to abandon its previous research and devote itself to the problem.

When the Emerald Dragons began to sail, many Emerald Dragons tried to start building ships on their own, but most of the ships built by other Emerald Dragons could not be too far away from the mainland because of their shape problems and other problems, and only a few ships built under the guidance of Susumi himself could reach distant places.

And many emerald dragons will get lost because of their direction and thus lose their tracks at sea.

And Black Pepper not only built a well-structured ship that was suitable for long-distance sailing. It also invented a way to observe the starry sky to determine the bearing. Its ships are also the ones that have reached the farthest places.

Black Pepper's ship is mostly crafted from specially collected fragments of the Homestead Tree. With a total length of more than 40 meters and a width of about 15 meters, it can carry hundreds of jade dragons and a large amount of cargo, mainly using sails to move, and reasonable shapes can make it drift on the sea for a long time, and it is called 'dream'.

Black Pepper used this ship to expand the territory of the Emerald Dragon Country, and every time Black Pepper brought back information about a new island, many Emerald Dragons cheered for it.

Right now. It can be said that the emerald dragons in the whole city are watching its journey, and even some dragons at the research station have made a lot of crystals by printing the travel information of the black pepper on the stone slab and selling it.

Then the black pepper suddenly went out.

…… This kind of thing is unacceptable!

"It mentions a thick fog inside." On the conference stage, one of the leading emerald dragons said; "And then all the dragons inside died."

"They must have been killed by some kind of monster!" The other dragon said, "What do you want us to do now?" This way we will earn a lot less! ”

After discovering that it could make money by selling information, this research station often sold navigation information of various ships, but it was the black pepper that sold the most.

"We don't need to explain, we just need to fabricate the voyage of black pepper and continue to sell it." The third dragon said; "This will guarantee income, and no dragon will suspect it!"

"But Wang is also concerned about this black pepper's journey." The first dragon said, "If it comes here to investigate, it may find that something is wrong." ”

"So what should we do? Could it be that if the black peppers are all wiped out, what about our income? ”

"You should pay attention to the king rather than income. It seems to have a lot of problems with us lately, and it always says we're working on something weird! ”

"Then don't spend all day researching sweet and salty things!" "But salty is better!" "What do you say? It's sweet! ”

The jade dragon at the meeting suddenly quarreled. Seeing this, the jade dragon led by slammed on the ground and shouted, "Ga! Shut it all up! I want the exact information of Black Pepper! It doesn't know what's wrong now, what the hell is going on in that fog......"

"Gah!" Suddenly, an emerald dragon burst open the door of the conference room and shouted, "The sea is suddenly foggy!" ”

"Fogging?" All the jade dragons present were suddenly shocked, and the jade dragon led by them was also stunned for a moment, but it quickly reacted and said: "Fog on the sea is a very common thing, what's so strange?" ”

"But......" the emerald dragon gasped, "many ships at sea have been attacked!" ”

"Quack?"

………………

"It's ...... What's going on? "The jade dragons of the research station came to the port, the port of the jade dragon has a tall city wall, and under the city wall is the ocean, there are many exits under the wall, and there are many shipyards that are directly connected to the sea, this group of jade dragons stood on the city wall and looked down, only to see a large number of wood chips floating on the sea.

It is clear that it is the wreckage of the ship.

On the sea surface tens of meters away, it was shrouded in a large amount of dense fog, and it was completely impossible to see any situation, and a large number of jade dragons stayed on the city wall to watch the situation outside, and they also wanted to know what was going on here.

"After the fog started, the wreckage kept drifting out of the fog." The previous Emerald Dragon said: "And there will be a loud noise in the fog, and the sound of ships shattering. ”

"Could it be that the monster that killed the black pepper is here?" Said the emerald dragon of a research station.

"How is this possible?" The leader of the research station said, "It's far away from us, but what attack did we take, and where are the defending soldiers?" Go and call over! ”

"Gah!" The jade dragon hurriedly ran back.

The walls here are mainly to prevent the dragons from sneaking up on the sea, but the dragons don't go into the sea much, so there are no dragons to defend after a long time.

'Boom! The sudden sound in the fog startled the jade dragon on the city wall, and they looked into the distance together, only to see a large number of debris floating out of the thick fog......

The leader said, "It may be the dragon attacking us, hurry up and blow the horn and let all the ships near the shore come back!" I thought they all ran into the depths of the forest and attacked here......"

"Gah!" The emerald dragon of one of the research stations immediately ran to a high tower in the city wall, on which was placed a horn made of horned dragon horns.

'Hum-'

The muffled sound of a horn sounded over the harbor, and the echo echoed through the nearby ocean.

I saw that in the thick fog, some huge shadows appeared.

"It's finally back...... There should not be much loss now, and then we can use the weapons on the city walls......" The leader breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the shadow, but it quickly became confused again: "Wait...... That's not our ship! ”

Ships emerging from the fog...... They all reflect a silvery glow. (To be continued......)

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