Chapter 11: The Dragon's Lair
For strangers, the Dragon's Lair is undoubtedly an extremely dangerous place. Generally speaking, dragons are accustomed to blessing magic near their lair, and the power of magic increases with distance from the center, and in the center of the dragon's den, dragons generally bless their own unique realm, the dragon domain, for a long time. But, despite this, there have been countless adventurers who have broken into the dragon's den for a long time. Adventurers who break into the dragon's den can be divided into three main categories in general:
The first and most numerous category - the greedy, as we all know, dragons have a habit of collecting shiny items, such as: gold coins, gems, magic weapons, magic crystals, mirrors, etc., a large dragon's lair is actually a large treasure trove, rich and rivaled. What if you have it?
The second category - Avengers, it is undeniable that a small number of dragons are accustomed to hunting humans or other races, and in order to seek more long-term peace, some village mercenaries or themselves are dispatched to the dragon's lair to encircle and suppress the evil dragons.
The third category - dragon slayers, this is a very strange social product, among the brave, the most revered are related to dragons: dragon knights & dragon slayers. If you find yourself at the top of most professions and don't have the mysterious bloodline of the Protoss or Demon to be the dragon's best friend, then the most option is to kill the dragon - to make the world recognize that he is greater than the dragon. For the things you love, if you can't have them, you can completely destroy them, which is probably a unique plot of the human race.
——Recorded in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Dragon Clan"
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"Ha, the little guy is pretty cute. Reg showed his usual good temper, and he smiled and stretched out his black hand to the little dragon.
"Wow-woo-" Lu'er was not polite, maybe she couldn't get used to seeing people not washing her hands for so long, so she opened her big mouth and bit it hard.
"Hey, don't bite," said the old magician, still smiling, "I petrified my hand, and you can't bite it." ”
"Phew-phew-" Lu'er spit out that hand very cooperatively, panting while desperately spitting into the ground, the original green sè's spit has turned into black sè after the process of washing the hands of the great magician.
"Young man, what did you just say your name was?" It seemed that the petrification still hadn't all worked, and the old magician's black and stone-like hands were still oozing black and red blood, and Reg shook the blood on his hand while silently changing his target.
"Daqingshan, Hark Daqingshan. "People are as their name suggests, Daqingshan, calm and steady Daqingshan, although he sees someone beating his idea, although some people don't pay attention to him, but, just like the towering Qingshan, there will never be an evil reaction.
Perhaps it is this kind of benevolent nature, unpretentious style, and one-handed style of doing things that will win the favor of the ancient ice dragons.
At the age of 10, when most children are still used to snuggling in their mother's arms, Daqingshan has been hunting for 1 year.
It is hard to imagine how a little boy could face prey that is at least half the size of other continents in the snowstorm, or more accurately, many animals are using Daqing Mountain as prey.
In the beginning, some villagers sent him some food, but when the cold winter came, the days were very short, only two hours, and most of the animals went into hibernation, so they could not hunt on a large scale. Families live on their few prey hunts in the summer, and even less on food that can be given to an orphan.
Always looking for someone to eat, this is undoubtedly not something that Daqingshan can make.
In the short days and long nights, the most common thing that 9-year-old Daqingshan does and hopes to do is to sleep.
Only in dreams can you forget about hunger, only in dreams can you see the sun, only in dreams can you eat fragrant food, only in dreams can you see your parents before the avalanche, and only in dreams can you save energy.
However, even in dreams, I often feel hungry.
Hunger and cold have become the most profound part of the memory of 9-year-old Daqingshan.
He was so hungry that he couldn't support it, and Daqingshan, who was dizzy, held on to the last trace of fantasy and wanted to go outside to see if he could catch a small prey such as a snow rabbit. He had tried to dig traps, bury crossbows, and burrows in snow rabbits.
The prey on the frozen continent has long begun to adapt to human hunting activities, unless there is a large-scale encirclement, whether it is a cunning rabbit or a fox hiding in the walk, it can escape most of the hunt, not to mention the childish tricks of a child.
Although his father also left him a steel crossbow, a 9-year-old boy who had no strength to pull a crossbow that even a chéngrén could not necessarily pull.
Occasionally, on the sunny snow slope, Daqingshan picked up snow hares, snow rats, and snow pheasants that froze to death at night, but more often, every time he went out to hunt, he could only go back empty-handed or dig up some edible wild vegetables that had frozen to death.
Looking at Daqingshan's increasingly weak body and more and more floating steps, most of the villagers knew that this child would not be able to survive this cold winter. I can't help it, the frozen continent is so cruel, and there is only so much food......
Until one evening, the villagers suddenly found that Daqingshan was walking back from outside the village alone, dragging a huge carnivore, the snow leopard, with great difficulty as he walked.
Everyone was stunned.
In the hinterland of Longya Mountain, the snow leopard has an extremely sensitive body, claws and teeth, a huge body, can climb trees and swim, and its attack power is the strongest. A snow leopard can dúlì attack a pack of snow wolves.
Hunters tend to stay away from snow leopards, and even 10 hunters can't necessarily kill a single snow leopard.
How did an orphan get killed?
In winter, the relationship between people and people is extremely cold. No one visits each other, not only because they can save energy and calories only by sitting, but more importantly, everyone is afraid of "going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing". More and more people are wondering: "Did that snow leopard freeze to death?"
"I don't know"
"Behold, he is not hurt, can he fight the snow leopard without being hurt?"
"If you look at the snow leopard, there are no injuries on it. ”
"The snow leopard doesn't seem to freeze to death, but its body is still soft. ”
As silent as ever, Daqingshan laboriously dragged the snow leopard home, then disemboweled, put the snow in the pot with a basin, picked up dry firewood, lowered his head and lit a fire, the chimney of the hut that had not smoked for a long time finally came out of the first green smoke, and the long-lost smell of meat slowly drifted from the house to all corners of the village.
When the meat was cooked, Daqingshan put the best meat in a wooden basin, and gave it to the villagers who had helped him before, and the silent xìng grid was still like that, knocking on the door and bowing: "Thank you, uncle/aunt/grandpa/nǎinǎi." "Put down the meat and leave.
Two days later, it was dusk again, and the villagers found a thin figure walking from the snow again, and Daqingshan again, and what he was dragging again: two snow foxes!
In the frozen continent, the most cunning animal is the fox, and unlike other animals on the continent, the snow fox is still a blood-red fur even in the cold winter, even if it is so dazzling, but there are almost no hunters who can hunt foxes. And the average hunter is reluctant to hunt foxes.
A few years ago, a hunter wounded a snow fox, and from that day on, foxes visited his house every day, and first the chickens were bitten and dragged away one by one, and after all of them were bitten to death, the fox took the idea of pigs. But the pig was too big to be taken away even if it was bitten to death, and the cunning fox rode on the pig's back, bit the pig's ears as a steering wheel, and used its big tail as a whip, and drove the pig back to the fox's nest in one breath, and then bit it to death and ate it.
After that, no one dared to fight the idea of a fox. How did this little guy get killed? And two at once!
In silence, after Daqingshan went home, he disemboweled, boiled meat, although the fox meat was not delicious, but in winter, as long as there was food, it would be fine. When the meat is cooked, it is still the same as last time: the best meat is packed in a wooden basin, and one by one it is given to the villagers who have helped them before, and the silent xìng grid is still like that, knocking on the door and bowing: "Thank you uncle/aunt/grandpa/nǎinǎi." "Put down the meat and leave.
In this way, every few days, Daqingshan dragged one or two huge carnivores back to the village, and the dilapidated hut left behind by his parents became the only house in the village that smoked every day. The villagers who have helped Daqingshan have never worried about food again.
In the courtyard of the hut, there is an increasing number of alum carnivore fur supported by hardwood trunks.
At that time, a rumor began to circulate in the village: after Daqingshan's parents were killed by the mountain god with an avalanche, the mountain god chose Daqingshan as his heir, so he ordered the carnivore to commit suicide in front of Daqingshan and let Daqingshan eat it - otherwise why didn't any of the animals have any signs of injury on their bodies. Therefore, fewer people dare to fight with Daqingshan.
After the cold winter passed, the orphan who was supposed to starve to death became much stronger than the average child because of the abundance of food, and the original clothes were torn, so the boy cut the fur behind the alum himself, used the bones of the animals as bone needles, and used the tendons of animals as threads, and sewed his own clothes.
In the summer of that year, the statement of the heir of the mountain god was confirmed again: when Daqingshan, who had disappeared for several days, returned to the village again, it was discovered that there was an extra green dog beside the boy, and this dog actually walked on two feet, and all the animals immediately became incontinent and trembled as soon as they saw this dog—except for the mountain patrol dog given by the mountain god, what other dog had such great majesty?
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