Chapter 46: The Anatomy of the Dragon

Ilea's busy feet don't touch the ground, and Li Yu's side is also not idle.

At the end of the battle, he counted his losses, first of all, in terms of personnel, in which twelve lizardmen and eight warriors of the Arias family were killed and thirty-five others were wounded.

Because the black dragon's strength was so amazing, it was almost certain that if it was hit by its wings or tail, it would almost certainly die.

Therefore, the wounded who survived were all burns without exception, but fortunately, most of the injuries were not too serious, only two were severely burned, and the rest were basically first- or second-degree burns.

Li Yu called Adele to assist him in cleaning and bandaging the wound, and then let the wounded take oral antibiotics to prevent infection, as for the two severe burns, Li Yu definitely couldn't do the skin grafting operation, so he could only hang some glucose to rehydrate them, and then combine some painkillers to relieve the pain.

At this point, he has almost done everything he can do, and the rest is only up to their own creation.

In addition to the loss of personnel, Li Yu also had blood on the equipment this time, and he lost two Neptune halberds as soon as he came up, thinking that when he asked Fitzwilliam to build the first Neptune halberd, it cost thousands of gold coins, which is not counting the labor cost.

Although it will continue to be built in the future, and with the improvement of the manufacturing process and the increase of proficiency, the expenditure can be further reduced, but seven or eight hundred gold coins will always be needed.

And the black dragon went down with two mouthfuls of fire, and it directly evaporated him at least 1,500 gold coins.

However, it is relatively easy to make up for the loss of pure finance.

In fact, this harvest Ilea has promised to share it equally with the Shuangxiu Sect, and the reward from the Figuerola family alone is 5,000 golden lions, which is enough for the Shuangxiu Sect to create six more Sea King halberds.

For Li Yu, what really distressed him was the loss of an outdoor mobile power bank and the Qianjiang motorcycle that [Environmental Frog] picked up for him.

Especially the latter, because he wants to burn gasoline, Li Yu is usually reluctant to ride, so he rode a few times back and forth during the test drive, and then put it in the yard, and the commute mainly depends on horses.

Just a few days ago, Li Yu also did a maintenance for his car, and it turned out that this motorcycle did not disappoint him and made a shining debut in that dragon slaying battle.

The scene of Li Yu riding it to kill the black dragon made everyone present unforgettable, and also made the name of Saturday resounding in the green field, and it became a classic scene in the mouths of countless bards in the years to come.

To say that the only downside is that it is a bit scrapped motorcycle.

The motorcycle was a veritable appearance of ashes, and it was torn apart on the spot by a powerful tail swing from the black dragon, and the fuel tank was also blown up, turning into a fireball, and was shot far away.

Li Yu later tried to search the remains of it to see what else could be recycled, and found a rearview mirror that was still covered with cracks.

So the prophet of Merlin could only accept the reality of losing his love to ride, and he didn't know when the [Green Frog] would be able to give him the whole car again.

It's better to be electric, so you don't have to bring gas.

And after counting the losses, it is natural to take stock of the harvest and expand the results.

The former was counted by Ilea's side first, while the latter, Li Yu, also sent the first batch of missionaries after the ban was lifted and began to operate around the green fields.

As for himself, he studied the black dragon.

Li Yu is intrigued by this legendary creature, which has long existed only in fictional literature, especially the question of how the dragon flies and breathes fire.

After the autopsy, Li Yu also got a glimpse of some answers.

When it came to flying, the black dragon was able to leap on the ground with a pair of powerful hind legs, as he had expected, and his wide wings could propel the air and provide lift like a bird.

But it was still not enough to support its massive body to soar into the air.

The real secret lies in a stomach-like organ in the dragon's body, which Li Yu named the second stomach, which is so large that it occupies almost one-fifth of the dragon's body.

It is filled with a large amount of biogas and a portion of hydrogen.

Li Yu was also shocked when he first found out, because the power of this thing is comparable to a bomb, once it is not handled properly and accidentally detonated, everyone who is close, including himself, is afraid that the bones will be gone.

If you don't believe me, you can search for whales and explode on your own. The methane and hydrogen sulfide in the whale's body after death are decomposed by bacteria, and the volume is far less than that of this black dragon.

Li Yu didn't know how its second stomach had evolved, and it could actually resist extreme pressure, which allowed the dragon to store a large amount of biogas and hydrogen in its body.

This explains why it was first discovered in swamps, where there is a large amount of biogas, which is known to be less dense than air, which provides it with an additional levitation force.

Let it soar through the sky with its massive body.

At the same time, these biogas and hydrogen are also the fuel of the black dragon, with oxygen and catalyst (Li Yu guessed that it may be the static electricity in the black dragon's body, or the friction from somewhere, but unfortunately it is impossible to verify) for it to spit out flames.

After realizing this, Li Yu took out the black dragon's second stomach.

He hadn't figured out how to use it yet, but it was undoubtedly a good thing, and with this toughness alone, there was no synthetic material in the universe that could compare to it.

In addition, Li Yu was also very curious about the part of the tissues in the throat and mouth of the black dragon, because they were not afraid of fire, and they were obviously a very good refractory material.

Maybe you can find a way to process it into a fire-resistant suit or something, with the attribute [Fire Resistance +100%].

As for those scales, they were much lighter than Li Yu had imagined, and they were obviously the top materials for making shields and armor, and with shields and armor, of course, there must be warriors who could wear them.

That's right, Li Yu didn't plan to follow the route of the Silver Moon Church and give up arms.

This will certainly win the favor of the nobles and ease their wariness, but history has proven countless times that no matter what kind of world you intend to build, if you don't have enough force to protect it, it's just a castle in the air.

It's like a castle made of sand that can be destroyed by a gust of wind.

And this time the crisis that swept through the Western Realm also proved this point once again, without the lizardmen warriors of the Shuangxiu Sect, the Arias family alone was obviously not enough to deal with the black dragon.

(End of chapter)