CHAPTER XXVI
"What kind of situation?" I asked curiously. What kind of situation could not even be imagined by Hearst? Was it the discovery of apes among the descendants of dragons, or the discovery that this place, like human society, was rife with all kinds of illegal violence?
"Hehe, this is something you would never imagine...... It can be said that this is probably the real world before the appearance of human beings......" The headmaster suddenly stopped, and at the same time stretched out his hand, so that I also stopped advancing, "Shhh, the guards are coming......"
I was stunned for a moment, but the guards heard a small sound in the distance, as if dozens of fast-moving beasts were rushing towards us......
"Don't draw your sword!" the headmaster cried out in a low voice, and I realized that I had nervously placed my hand on the hilt of the sword at my waist.
"Rest assured, as long as you don't show hostility, they won't attack us. I'm already familiar with them. The headmaster turned to me and smiled, but the smile on his weathered face looked like a crumpled piece of paper, full of irregular wrinkles, but for some reason, it suddenly gave me a sense of infinite trust.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at the dozen green-gray figures slowly appearing in the trees in the distance, and if it weren't for my good eyesight, I am afraid that it was just a tree trunk blown by the wind.
Gradually, I saw that there were actually more than a dozen speed dragons! And the color of the scale armor on their bodies actually became similar to the leaves! I remember that the scale armor of the nine dragons in Long Jiu was dark gray in color, could it be that those were mutations due to domestication? Or are these dragons the real mutations?
The sound of rushing was getting closer and closer, but the speed of the dragons gradually slowed down, and stopped more than ten meters away from us, and the dragon led by the dragon suddenly raised its head to the sky and "quacked". The dozen or so other dragons stared at me nervously, gasping slightly, their eyes roaming back and forth over me, and then they all stared at my waist...... The most valuable thing in my body is this sword at my waist, do they also like it?
At this moment, several "quack" screams were also heard from a distance, as if in response to their call. I saw that these dozen dragons suddenly turned around and disappeared into the bushes quickly.
"We can go in, remember, never draw swords, they are sensitive to sharp things. The headmaster turned back to me and walked slowly forward.
Are you sensitive to sharp things? I don't know if my mask counts......
I followed behind the Headmaster, listening to the painful groans of broken branches and young grass beneath my feet, nervously surveying my surroundings to hear something, but all I could hear was the distant roar of dragons in the sky, and the loud noises that had begun to become dull.
The loud and unconscious noise is getting closer and closer, and it is becoming more and more deafening. The oncoming mist made me feel almost soaked, and my skin was covered with delicate droplets, and when I touched it with my hand, the droplets of water flowed down my cheeks in strands. The pale white mist obstructed my vision, blurring the surrounding trees and the headmaster's figure, and just as I stopped to start panicking to find the headmaster's trace, I heard the headmaster's call not far ahead.
"Leng Yu, this is an artificial lake, there is a small island in the center of the lake, and we are going to that island now. Come here, let me take you there. ”
Looking for the direction of the sound, I felt that there was a hole under my feet, and with a "plop" sound, I had stepped into knee-deep water. A hand came out of front of me, and with a strong pull, I rushed forward, staggering a few steps through the water before I could stand on my feet, and the splash made my face feel extremely cold.
"Headmaster, what's the matter with that voice, there doesn't seem to be any cliff to form a waterfall here......" I looked at the depths of the fog in disbelief, the loud bang that was close at hand but completely unclear how it was produced, with a kind of distant continuity, but I couldn't help but shudder secretly.
"Hehe, there's a giant fountain in this lake, let it carry the water here along the wind and spread it around. It never rains here, so that's the only way we can do it. Of course, the fog is a bit bigger, but with a guide, we can avoid the dangerous fountain. ”
"Guide?" I was asking, strangely, when my foot suddenly touched something soft, what seemed to be the belly of some animal...... Wait, what is this!
"Don't be afraid, come up, it's our guide. The headmaster pulled me, who was so panicked that I almost screamed, onto a raised round platform. The round platform was so smooth that I almost slipped down again when I came up, and I felt a kind of fleshy flexibility when I stepped on it, and it seemed that we were standing on the back of a large animal.
"This dragon is called the duck-billed dragon, and we are standing on its head right now. It likes to live in the water, only the top of its head is exposed to breathe, you be careful, don't step on its nostrils......"
I felt dizzy...... The bald head is so big, strange, does it only have one head? The water is so shallow, where is its body?
"Don't fall down now, the water down here is at least a meter deep, and there are all sorts of rare and aggressive dragons and fish, many of which are highly poisonous. The place where we went up to its head just now was a cliff-like place, and if you go one more step ahead, I promise you'll be scared half to death......"
It dawned on me that I nervously grabbed the principal's hand and searched for the so-called nostril under my feet......
After nearly a quarter of an hour, the mist in front of me gradually faded, and I saw the whole picture of the lake, the vast and boundless lake in front of me stretched to the sky, and in the distance it seemed that many small islands could be seen looming in the light mist. The place where we came was now shrouded in the thick white mist, and we could not see anything, but we could only hear that the loud noise was coming from there. The black surface of the lake spread out from the thick fog, reflecting the snow-white mist.
Through the fog, my eyes became clear again, and a green island suddenly appeared in front of my eyes. But I saw countless flying dragons in the sky circling around this island, red, green, gray, all with huge and incomparable wings, the slender and slender head in front of the neck also had sharp horns, and the flesh on some dragons' wings was so thin that it could penetrate the blood-colored light. From time to time, the dragons swooped down, skimmed over the lake, and then grabbed a fat fish, flapped its wings and flew towards the island. But no dragon dares to stay on the surface of the lake to fish like a bird, which makes me wonder.
Another fiery red long-necked wyvern, almost more than a meter long, swooped down and pounced on a large crimson fish under the surface of the lake dozens of meters in front of us. Then I was surprised to find that the red fish was not a fish, but a snake-like animal with a head very much like a fish, and its body seemed to be very long, and the whole body was dragged out of the water for four meters, but the bottom was getting thicker and thicker, and gradually turned a tender red, full of delicate little bumps.
"Leng Yu, you'd better close your eyes and don't look at ......"
Before I could figure out what the headmaster meant, a big change happened. The surface of the water shook violently, and then a huge mouth, with countless barb-like teeth, slammed down on the wyvern from under the water......
Immediately, a huge wave surged in front of me, and the terrifying sound of the water made my heart stop beating in an instant...... I could barely see an eye through the crack in the waves in front of me, a round eye the size of a fish but the size of my head, there was no emotion in the yellow-brown pupils, and the dark scales around me that were smooth as pebbles made me feel fear like never before!
Gradually, the water calmed down again, and only a deep whirlpool remained where the wyvern had swooped down. I could see a faint trace of crimson liquid tumbling up from the center of the whirlpool......
"This dragon is called the snake snake, its limbs have completely degenerated into fins and tails, but its body length is more than fifty meters, like a snake with fins, it is an unusually ferocious carnivorous dragon. The snake-like thing you saw just now is its tongue, which always uses its tongue to lure the dragons in the air to come down and prey, and then devour them while they are trying to drag the tongue out of the water. ”
Because the principal's voice almost came out of my ears, I was embarrassed to find that I had hugged the principal firmly in fright, and my whole body was trembling involuntarily......
At this moment, I am extremely relieved that the duck-billed dragon under my feet does not seem to be as frightened as I am by encountering this snake abuser. Just imagine, as long as it moves its head slightly, the next thing that greets us is the huge dragon's mouth full of dense rows of teeth......
"After the snake dragon finished predating, it will lurk and will not eat again for nearly a month. Rest assured, another snake snake dragon just ate a gooseneck last week, and now you won't be able to see them again. But you can't see them, and there's a chance to see other, more terrifying dragons. You'd better be careful not to step on that nostril under your feet, or I won't be able to save you if you run into a fast-swimming spear-finned dragon. ”
After another five minutes, it was finally landed. I couldn't wait to jump to the shore, gulping in on the fresh air and calming my heartbeat. On that dragon's head just now, I didn't even dare to take a breath of air. To tell the truth, no matter how high my light skills are, I don't dare to jump high in the place where there are so many flying dragons, and if I fall into the water, I will only die......
But it's also curious that when we were on the water, there were no dragons attacking us, and this guide was even more surprising, how did it know that we were coming, and how did it know where we were going?
"Do you know the Bluewing Swordback?"
I was pondering when I was interrupted by a sudden question from the principal. I looked up at his eyes with a sly smile and nodded in confusion.
"Do you know how the Bluewing Swordback grew up?" he asked, looking at me again.
To be honest, I hadn't even seen what the Bluewing Swordback looked like, let alone know how it grew up. So I honestly shook my head, and at the same time humbly asked the principal for advice: "This...... Could it be that you kept this kind of thing for your own sake?......"
"Don't use the word privately, okay? This was given to me by someone else, and the person who gave it to me is a guy with a good reputation. Although I was only given five dragon eggs, there are now seventeen here. Four of them were just born, and two of them died as adults, and it was because of their deaths that we discovered a secret that we had never seen before......" The headmaster smiled and looked deep into the forest on the island, gently took my hand again, and slowly walked there.
"Is the death of the Blue-winged Swordback so unpredictable? "Can't it be that they died of old age and disease?" I said, shaking my head disdainfully, "besides, they're not invincible either." ”
"You'll find out later, and remember, you can't draw your sword......"
I nodded painfully and said, "Yes, yes, Master, you've said it a few times...... "How can this guy be as wordy as my master!"
Walking into the forest of the island, the loud noise of the fountain immediately became quieter and less audible. I stepped on the thick, soft pile of rotting leaves, and made a slight rustling sound, and the trees that shaded the sky made the forest dark. From time to time, I heard something slipping away in panic more than ten meters beside me, and I looked over curiously, but I couldn't see anything except the dark trees.
The smell is a mixture of the fragrance of leaves and the strange smell of decay, mixed with the stench of animal feces. Gradually, it was already dark in front of me, and I could only take the principal's hand, and walk slowly forward* with a feeling, but from time to time I stumbled over the roots of the trees that were exposed to the ground. With a sigh, I was about to use my eyes, but in a flash, the surrounding scene suddenly brightened.
"It's coming soon. The headmaster said softly, letting go of my hand, "Whatever you see, don't scream, there needs to be absolute silence here." ”
I nodded secretly, carefully peeking through the gaps between the thousands of strange tree trunks, the strange world beyond the forest. I don't know why, I actually felt an unprecedented excitement in my heart, as if I met a friend of life and death that I hadn't met for a long time, or saw a great man I admired so much, that made me want to rush up and cheer at the same time, but I also had an urge to kneel on the ground and worship...... But I don't even know what it is, what kind of place it is......
Here, even the shape of the trees amazed me, all of them leaning towards one place, as if they were gently blown by a wind as soon as they reached a height of one and a half meters, causing them to involuntarily change the direction of growth. The more I looked at it, the more I felt as if they were bowing respectfully to something. The branches of each tree leaned backwards in the air, as if maintaining their own balance, and like the long hair of countless admirers, blown backwards by the invisible domineering......
"Here......" I just wanted to ask the doubts in my heart, but I was immediately forced down by the headmaster's serious eyes. Hey, I'm going to see it soon, and I'm going to ask him what he's doing?
......
"The great upper, the lower knows it, the second is the reputation, the second is the fear, the second is the insult......"
Master once told me something like this when he was taking a bath. He said this from the mouth of a powerful megalomaniac, because that man called himself old.
"In front of me, the scum who dared to call himself that way was killed by me, because those people were not only my enemies, but also disrespected themselves, and dared to insult me without that strength. But this man convinced me completely. Oh, by the way, do you know what that means?"
“...... Is this what a man said?" I didn't even hear what he was saying, an ancient incantation?
“...... This one...... Is this a human word, or is it a fairly reasonable human word...... Oh, you don't understand, after all, this man is away from us...... Far away. What about this passage...... It means that the best monarch, the following surname only knows that there is such a person, the second monarch will be praised by the people, the second monarch will make the people fear him, the second, hehe, the people will scold him behind their backs......"
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Strangely, why do I recall what Master once said to me?
Out of the woods, across a clearing full of green and tender grass, presented in front of me, is a small mountain, the mountain is not high, only fifty or sixty meters, the mountain is overgrown with all kinds of strange flowers and trees, can be named, can not be named, charming, simple, beautiful, beautiful, dazzling, let me see in an instant.
What surprised me even more was the variety of small dragons that were constantly circling around the mountain. All of them are dexterous and lovely, the color of the scale armor on the body is richer than that on the lake just now, the egg yolk is dark green, snow-white, red, black and light purple, all of them are like pink carved jade, exquisite, petite and cute, each one is only half a meter long. But to my bewilderment, several little dragons were flying around the mountain, but none of them made a cry, and when they saw our arrival, they were neither panicked nor happy, but still fluttered around the green hill, and crossed the air in colorful arcs, intertwined and dazzling.
There are more than a dozen large herbivorous dragons on the meadow, tender green and grass-like, if you don't look closely, you think it's a haystack. They were eating grass quietly, silent and serene, and on their huge heads, the eyes the size of copper bells seemed to be looking at the tender grass in front of them affectionately, and there was a kind of gloomy helplessness in the sadness, and then they slowly ate one bite at a time.
The headmaster stopped and stood quietly on the edge of the grass. I stopped beside him and looked around. Around this two-kilometer clearing, there are dense ancient trees, which surround this clearing area and are full of foliage and vitality. But apart from the wyverns and herbivores in front of me, I couldn't see any other kind of dragons. I don't know what the headmaster just said, what kind of killer soldiers, or other dragons, are these dragons in front of you...... No, although there are more of those little dragons, they also look weak, I'm afraid they are not enough for the snake dragon just now! These herbivore dragons ...... God, that kind of compassionate eyes, let it be a killer? I think it's almost the same as being a monk!
The wind suddenly blew over the clearing, "whirring" and bringing up the leaves all over the sky. I raised my head and looked at the green leaves flying in the sky, and I faintly felt a commotion growing rapidly in my heart. How can such a strong wind be generated in this vast but enclosed space?
It seemed to me that I heard a strange sound, not like the sound of leaves blown by the wind, nor like the splash of a waterfall falling into a deep pool, but like an endless tide roaring and rushing across the vast sea. As the sound grew louder and louder, it seemed that the tide was getting closer and closer. I glanced at the principal in confusion, but he calmly closed his eyes, adjusted the rhythm of his breathing, and ignored everything around him.
The tide was louder, as if ten thousand horses were galloping, and there was no dust. With a secret fear in my heart, I turned my head around with a tingling scalp, hoping to see a clue in the skyline above the treetops.
I suddenly found that the little dragons swirling around the hill were all quietly staying on the hill at the moment, decorating the whole hill with colorful and colorful colors. The little dragons all bowed their heads obediently, carefully sticking out their tongues and toes, their wings half-spread, and waving twice from time to time, while their eyes stared excitedly at the corner of the mountain, as if they were expecting something to emerge from there.
Make no mistake, the boundless sound is approaching from a distance, but why don't they care at all about the source of the sound, but just look at the clearing at the foot of the mountain? I stared at it in confusion for a long time, and then suddenly I realized that under the cover of the green grass, there was a small black hole quietly hidden at the foot of the hill, and the mouth of the cave was facing me. But what's in that hole? What can such a small hole hide that is worth their excitement?!
The sound of the tide seemed to come from my ears all of a sudden, and a huge shadow instantly enveloped the entire clearing. I looked up in a panic, but I trembled with fright and almost screamed in fear!
The leaves in the sky are gone, replaced by countless blue bats!
They filled the entire sky, not even a single filament, and at an altitude of seventy or eighty meters, they pressed against a dark cloud, giving me a heavy sense of oppression, as if I couldn't even breathe. The bats flew in large formations, and from time to time they flew low, skimming over the hills, and then flying high again, and at that moment they heard a pleasant chirping sound, which instantly pierced the huge noise of the tide, like birds singing, but leisurely straight up to the sky without stopping. It's like a soprano with superb singing skills, so that the loud and crisp singing voice spreads out in the sky, but it is clearly distinguished from the roaring wing flapping sound of the bats, and there is not even a trace of mixing in it......
The dark clouds in the sky immediately faded, and countless bats scattered and flew towards the dense forest, hiding one after another. After a while, the sound of the chirping continued, but the sound of the tide disappeared without a trace......
I realized that the loud and distant sound came from the black hole, but there was no humming sound through the hole, and I was really surprised when I thought about it.
Suddenly, a white dragon head seemed to flash through the hole, and then four small dragons the size of a palm jumped out, playing and chasing each other, clapping their pale blue wings, fluttering on the grass, rolling around like four balls of blue and white wool.
I suddenly noticed that their backs were covered with snow-white spikes like porcupines, sharp and shiny, like rows of small silver swords...... These are the four newborn blue-winged swordback dragons that Master said?
Suddenly, a small dragon hit a herbivorous dragon's **, due to the excessive momentum, it turned out by itself, flapping its tender blue wings on the grass for several rolls before stopping, lying on its back on the grass, and then like a baby presumptuous "croak" crying out, and very angry flapping wings, kicking the little claws, as if very sad.
The rest of them swarmed around, and one gloated on it, and jumped twice with a scream, and then fled with a "crackle" flapping of its wings. The other two clung to its side and whispered, as if to comfort it......
"These little ones look really carefree......" The headmaster's reassuring laugh rang out from beside me, and I smiled and nodded, watching the four cute little things chase each other.
"yes, they're the age of fun, and I'm going with them. Is this the same student you mentioned to me last time?"
I turned my head to look around in surprise, but I didn't know which lady was coming from this beautiful female voice. I turned my head to look at the headmaster, but suddenly I felt a weakness in my heart, dizziness, and I opened my mouth wide in fear and wanted to scream, but I felt a suffocation in my chest, and I couldn't even make a sound, and I almost fell to the ground so softly......
I don't know when, a snow-white and crystal dragon has been standing between me and the principal!
"Leng Yu, you don't seem to have a good face...... "The principal looked at me with a thief smile on his face, as if he liked to see me scared out of strength, "Let me introduce you, this is the student I mentioned last time, Leng Yu, he came for the first time, so he was a little surprised to see you, don't be surprised, he is so virtuous, he likes to make a fuss when he sees anything." ”
I gradually calmed down, covered my still weak heart, and took a few big breaths, only to find that the dragon in front of me was so beautiful! The slender and graceful body was as weak as a girl, with a long and soft neck slightly bent, and a slender tail elegantly coiled at my feet. The top of its head reached only my chin, and the beautiful curves of its head had a feminine softness and spirituality, and its large bright eyes had slender horns that curved upward, like a woman's long eyelashes. Its curvaceous hind limbs were strong but not thick, and its front paws were lazily wrapped around its chest...... God, if it weren't for the fact that it was so close to me that I could see clearly that the snow-white scale armor was full of crystal luster, and it was slightly dilated and contracted with its breathing, I would have thought it was a human pretend............! Amazing......!
The dragon turned its head slightly to look at me, and the moment those incomparably clear eyes came into contact with my vision, I suddenly felt as if it had seen through everything in my heart!
I didn't see any movement from its mouth, but I heard the melodious female voice whisper again: "You guessed right, he is indeed the murderer of the stegosaurus......
I only heard a loud bang in my head, and the cold sweat on my back instantly soaked my clothes......