When the friendly Tutulu spat out a few box-cutting sword pills from the gap in his eye socket, the big octopus immediately burrowed into the bottom of the sea, shook its eight legs, and fled into the distance without looking back. I don't want to stay for a minute or a second, and have a big show with a human to send you a thousand miles.

Lin, who was half-raising his hand, was a little embarrassed, and explained to the white sword saint beside him: "Actually, I am using the characteristics of the box to deepen the communication with Tutu Lutu and avoid any misunderstandings between the two sides, do you believe this statement?"

Hey, just believe it yourself. I don't believe it, what does it matter." William was as carefree as ever.

Regardless of the big octopus that swam faster than it flew, Lin returned his attention to the focus of the trip. After nearly ten days of sailing, Lin finally approached the rumored island, and Lin looked forward to the mysterious Dragon Island.

Originally, I heard that to go to Dragon Island, you must be accompanied by the Empire's naval fleet to be able to pass through the dragon as the gatekeeper. At first, Lin didn't really believe such a statement.

The sea is so big, with the development of technology or magic, is there a way to defend every inch of the coastline and avoid smuggling? This kind of thing can't even be done in my hometown. There is always a mistake in 100 secrets.

However, after actually seeing Dragon Island, and asking William's father, who is also the president of the Greco Chamber of Commerce, Henry, Lin believes that this kind of thing is really possible.

The topography of Dragon Island is quite peculiar, and the outer edge of the island is not a sandy beach or a rocky shore, but a ring of mountains! Although it is not yet towering into the sky, the straightened rock wall and height will make anyone who wants to smuggle ashore despair.

Even if there were indeed stowaways, they would not be able to carry much with them if they started climbing from the boat and crossed the mountains into Dragon Island. It is better to say that it is impossible to send a few spies to such a terrain to form a regular trade route.

The checkpoint to enter Dragon Isle is, according to Henry, the only strait terrain on the outer edge of Dragon Isle. At the narrowest point, at most, let two boats carefully sail side by side. Elsewhere, if the captain is not skilled, a 180-degree turn could hit a wall.

On the left and right of the pass, there are huge dragon sculptures. One is in ascending posture and the other is in swooping posture. The shape of the sculpture is rough, as if it was born, and it is not like someone deliberately carving it.

Behind the sculptures, there is a cave entrance to the towering rock wall. It is inhabited by dragons who are in charge of guarding the gates. It is said that it was originally rotated, but in recent years it has been replaced by a fixed dragon.

When they saw the ships approaching, a dragon flew out of the cave and flew over the ships. It's like in my hometown, when the boat approaches the shore, seagulls will fly close and chirp. But the dragon's sense of oppression is not at all comparable to that of a seagull.

The flagship of the accompanying naval fleet of the Karlsruhe Empire actually hung a very special flag as early as a day ago. On the mainmast, a banner is much larger than usual, embroidered with a gold-threaded velvet flag on a black background that looks like a dragon but is actually a magic rune, exuding dazzling light with the support of power. Like a small sun, it is difficult to look directly at both eyes.

This flag is not for seeing. In Lin's perception, it emits a unique frequency of power maps, similar to fragments of dragon magic, but the content cannot be translated. It was just a reminder to the dragons that the fleet flying this flag was friend and foe.

It was the flag that kept the dragons flying above the fleet harmless. Otherwise, a few dragon flames would wash the ground, and it would not be easy for the fleet on this narrow waterway to even turn around, so they would have to sink into the sea.

The customs clearance here is not like the impression of hometown in someone's memory, where every boat has to stop and let the dragons board the ship for inspection. Basically, the dragons don't board the ship, and even if they stay on the deck, with the size of the other party, even the largest ship doesn't have room for the dragons to move. Not to mention the inspection of the cabin.

In short, entering Dragon Island, everything looks so simple. There is no difficulty, there is no ugly face of accepting bribes, and of course, there are not many customs clearance procedures. Just hang a flag, and then you can sail all the way in.

Quietly write down the dragon language bands emitted by that flag, and maybe it will be useful in the future. Lin took a closer look at the rumored island. Since I don't know if the dragon clan has arranged any covert reconnaissance methods, so

Lin didn't dare to use detection magic in a big way, so he just observed with the naked eye, passively collecting information.

In the maze, it is considered an offense to probe the details of others at will, and if they are discovered. In some aristocratic territories with extreme insecurity, adventurers who are caught carrying a map with them may be executed as a spy, let alone directly detected. Because he didn't know Long Dao's attitude towards this, Lin still restrained a lot.

However, from the outside, except for the outer edge of the mountain range, the internal terrain of Dragon Island is a volcanic island, and there is not much green vegetation. Everywhere there are caves that seem to be natural, but in fact may have been violently dug by dragons, inhabited by all kinds of dragons.

What's special is that there will be multiple dragons living in a dragon's den, but they will all be of the same race. However, the dragons living in the dragon's lair are not necessarily of the same race. It is possible that in the eyes of outsiders, the metal dragon and the color dragon that belong to the feud just live in the dragon's lair next door.

This is different from what someone had guessed. Someone thought that different dragon species would swarm, so that there would be several major factions in Dragon Island according to the dragon species, as well as two camps of metal and color. But in reality, the barriers between dragon species are not so clear.

This made Lin can't help but wonder, how do so many dragon species divide different mountains? …… Isn't it really a mountain, it's just a group of like-minded dragons.

However, in addition to the question of the distribution of dragon groups, as soon as he passed through the Dragon Island level, Lin inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity lingering in his heart.

But when it comes to the composition of the air, as well as the usual data, there is no difference between Dragon Island and the rest of the city. Even the degree of power in the atmosphere is similar, and there is no particularly dense or thin phenomenon.

In other words, in terms of data, there is nothing special about Dragon Island. Then the sense of familiarity that arises in oneself, if it is not an illusion, is that there is a place that I have not observed, and it brings me this feeling.

Is it a delusion? Or do you admit that your environmental detection technology has been developed so far, and there are still some gaps?

Leave aside the scrutiny of such questions for the time being. For a newcomer, intelligence is still the most important. Although there are many methods that may trigger the alarm that cannot be used, there are many methods that do not trigger the alarm. Therefore, Lin tried to gather this information as much as possible to establish a reasonable physical and ecological model for Dragon Island.

As the fleet moves through the river, the mysteries of Dragon Island are revealed bit by bit by a certain magician. As far as you can see, it's an island with poor natural resources. It's no wonder that dragons need to hunt for food from the main continent, or import food. If you want to rely on the natural resources of the island to feed this huge number of dragons, I am afraid that in less than a year, they will starve to death.

As for mineral resources, that's not to mention. Aside from obsidian, no precious veins have been observed. This point, after being certified by the two primordial earth elemental lords of Imaginary and Haifu Quinn, Lin was even more convinced.

However, this also proves that Dragon Island is a volcanic rock island, and there may even be an active volcano. This judgment can only be said to be not surprising at all. Because the red dragon and black dragon among the color dragons originally liked to live in volcanic craters and areas rich in sulfur.

As the fleet went deeper into Dragon Island, the number of dragons became more and more concentrated. In the past, when I wandered around the Lost Landlord Continent, I might have walked for more than a month, and I didn't necessarily hear a rumor about the dragon clan in the vicinity. It's as if these creatures who are born kings live only in the stories of children's pillows, or the drunken nonsense of taverns.

On Dragon Island, not to mention a dragon in ten steps, but it is also everywhere. In particular, the fleet sailed in the river, and on the hanging walls on both banks, from time to time you could see a giant dragon squatting on a high place, folding its wings and looking down.

That feeling, to describe it in a very earthly way, is like watching the rotating plates of sushi on the small train that turns around the sushi in my hometown. And I am like vinegared rice in sushi, although I have something on my head, I still can't avoid the fate of being swallowed in one bite. All in all is terrible.

However, as the fleet continued to advance, Lin found that Dragon Island was not without green vegetation, but only very little. But there were still no tall trees to be seen, at best a meadow, and then a few shrubs

Wood embellishments.

Except for a few people who look like Druyin from the outside, and who nourish the meadows with magic, there are some cattle and sheep sparsely grazing. The whole area looks rather empty.

This laid-back scene should have been heartily admired, but a sudden hunt made this idyllic style more ambiguous. A dragon flew through the sky and bit a sheep along the way.

Dragons don't hunt as fast and sharp as eagles. The speed of the dragon's flight wasn't even too fast, but Long Wei did a good job of lowering the target's intelligence. I didn't even dare to run the cattle and sheep, or they were so frightened that they didn't know how to run, so they all stood there obediently, letting the dragons choose.

But the dragon's predation was not so unbearable, and the series of movements were smooth and ...... Elegance? In short, after a fancy flight, I picked up a sheep in my mouth, and it felt like watching the group of masters who were good at riding on horseback on the grassland of my hometown.

It's hard to say if every dragon is so good at playing. But Lin probably also knew where the cattle and sheep brought by the fleet had gone, and why there were so few livestock in the pastures. Isn't it because it's almost finished, so I need to replenish it?

I don't know if there is only such a grassland on Dragon Island. Otherwise, judging by the number of livestock in the pastures and the number of ships carried by the fleet, the consumption and speed of the dragons are very staggering.

It seems that every replenishment is carried out under the bottom line of consumption, and of course there is no way to have much reserves. It can be said that as long as the livestock industry of the Karlsruhe Empire suffers a disaster, or the fleet of ships that are replenished is attacked, Dragon Island will be short of food.