Chapter 10: The Land of the Swamp

"What does your sister like?"

"Treasure. The little prince replied without thinking.

Tomorrow is the night of the full moon, and Catherine is going to be an adult, which means that tomorrow is Catherine's birthday! Li Xiang quietly inquired about Catherine's preferences from Sasario, and the answer he got was the same as nonsense. Dragons love to collect treasure, and fools know it. Catherine's lair is full of rare treasures, Li Xiang originally thought that he had a share of the industry in Huadu and was considered a local tyrant, but after seeing Catherine's treasure, he found that he only had soil left.

It's true that Catherine likes treasures and all kinds of shiny things, but what kind of gift does Li Xiang give to make the Black Dragon Princess look at it? Anything he can think of with all his racking brains can basically be found in Catherine's lair.

"Dante, Dante, it's Catherine's birthday tomorrow, what should I give?" Li Xiang felt as smart as Dante, and this kind of question was simply pediatric.

"Sour rot python. ”

"What?" Li Xiang thought he had misheard, girls like pets, even if Catherine was a black dragon, it would be too outrageous to send a snake.

Dante muttered to himself, "I have to go to the swamp to catch the rotten python, this season happens to be the season for spawning, but I have to find another helper......

Hearing that Dante was going to find a helper to catch some giant python in the swamp, Li Xiang didn't dare to breathe, turned around cautiously, and slipped out on tiptoe. Just kidding! Sour rotten python, it's not easy to mess with when you hear the name, in case Dante wants to catch his own strong man, and he will come back?

"Thirteen, eighty-eight!"

In Longqi Town, Sindra was killing all sides at the gaming table, and the three people who had lost all their money left the gambling table in frustration.

"Don't go, who of you will come again?" Seeing the "God of Gamblers" Sindra stretching out her demonic hand to herself, everyone hid far away, which made Sindra very bored.

"That, Sin, Sindra. Li Xiang summoned up the courage to call Sindra's name, he had not forgotten how terrifying this dragon man with drow elven blood had been that day.

Sindra's eyes fluttered, and she was still charming, and said, "Why didn't you accompany our little princess?"

After seeing Sindra's awesomeness, even if she was naked at this moment, Li Xiang didn't dare to make a mistake. He said, "Tomorrow is Catherine's birthday, what should I give?"

In Catherine's mind, Sindra is her nemesis. But after playing mahjong that day, Li Xiang understood who was the person who knew and cared about Catherine the most in Black Dragon Valley. The little princess who lost her mother since she was a child was able to grow up cheerful and lively, and Sindra contributed a lot.

Sindra thought for a moment and said, "Birthday? candlelight dinner, romantic night." The two hugged each other tightly, lingering on the silky sheets......" said as he covered his face with a flush on his face. "People are a little shy. ”

Li Xiang looked at Sindra angrily, and said in his heart, "Eldest sister, are you fooling me?" Of course I want to push Catherine down, but now the time is not ripe, I don't know how to die if I really do what you say.

"Dante!" suddenly someone exclaimed. The people in the town were gambling so hard that they all disappeared at once.

Li Xiang looked up and saw that Dante, the most dangerous figure in the Black Dragon Valley, had appeared in the town. It's a staggering deterrent. However, Sindra didn't seem to be afraid of Dante, but seemed to be waiting for him to come.

"It just so happens that both of you are there. Let's go to the marshland of Taniguchi. Dante beckoned, regardless of whether Li Xiang agreed or not, and motioned for Li Xiang and Sindra to follow him.

Li Xiang then remembered that Dante had said "find another helper", and it turned out that he and Sindra had already made an appointment. In front of these two people, Li Xiang had no right to speak at all, and there was no other way than to accept his fate. He can only comfort himself, Sindra is not easy to mess with at first glance, let alone Dante, a pervert, maybe just let himself get together.

But Dante's next words completely shattered Li Xiang's illusions: "Let's go and 'respond to requests' and find those goblins to get you something to save your life." ”

The swamp outside the Black Dragon Valley was in front of them, and Dante and Sindra walked leisurely in front, chatting from time to time. Li Xiang wore a gas mask around his neck, straddled a large bundle of ropes, and dragged a flis shield in his hand, on which he also had an oxygen cylinder, and he was so tired that he followed behind like a dead dog.

According to Li Xiang's original intention, he didn't want to take any of these things. When picking up equipment "when requested", Dante was very concerned about Li Xiang's comfort, and took the initiative to take the bundle of rope for him, which was not so much a rope as a thread, it was too thin. When Li Xiang asked if the rope was used to tie up the python, Dante replied: "The rope is tied to you, even if you can pull back an arm, leg or something, it can be regarded as collecting the body for you." ”

Li Xiang sat on the ground and completely struck: "I said two, whatever you do, I can't walk." ”

"Looks like it's here, right?" asked Dante.

"This is it. ”

The two of them completely ignored Li Xiang's protest and said something inexplicable. When Li Xiang heard something "this is here", he stood up and looked around vigilantly, guarding against the giant python that might appear at any time.

It was getting late, there was only a little afterglow of the setting sun in the sky, and the swamp was frighteningly quiet, except for the faint chirping of insects.

Puff! Puff! Li Xiang could clearly hear his heartbeat.

Puff!! Li Xiang held the iris shield, turned to the direction where the voice came from, and shouted: "Who?!"

A toad jumped out of the water, and it turned out to be a false alarm.

Li Xiang had just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the sound of fluttering in his ears, and something was trampling on the dead branches and leaves. Listening to the movement, that thing is not small. It was only then that he realized that Dante and Sindra were long gone.

"You can't do this!" Li Xiang shouted in horror.

In the darkness, something came behind Li Xiang, he was covered in cold sweat, he didn't dare to move, maybe a bloody mouth was waiting for him behind him.

"Bring him here. ”

Sindra's voice came from a distance, and then Li Xiang was dragged forward by his arm.

Li Xiang stiffly turned his neck, glanced at it cautiously, and finally fell to the ground. Although the light was dim, at least he could see that there were two people walking on his back, but they were very burly, not giant pythons.

After about a quarter of an hour, a bright light gradually appeared in front of him, and Li Xiang could vaguely see the outlines of several houses.

The two men brutally threw Li Xiang into a hut. Through the light, Li Xiang saw a few fine scales on the cheeks of one of them.

"Nice young man, it's a pity. "It's Dante is voice.

"Not only does the little princess like him, but I also like him very much, it's a pity, it's a pity. ”

Li Xiang looked up and saw that when Dante and Sindra were enjoying dinner, they didn't forget to make fun of the embarrassed Li Xiang.

"What's the pity?!" Li Xiang was so frightened that he was furious with a belly, and his words were full of anger.

"It's a pity you're going to die young. Sindra covered her mouth and smiled, gloating.

Dante said solemnly: "We will sweep your grave today next year." ”

"Wait! Who said I was going to hang up today?"

Sindra directly ignored Li Xiang's protest and said to herself: "Before we die, we can fulfill your wish, if you have any last words, we will definitely bring them to Catherine." ”

Li Xiang wanted to continue to say something, but looking at the appearance of these two people, it didn't seem like they were joking at all, so he had to say stupidly: "Okay." Trouble tell Catherine, I ......" Speaking of this, Li Xiang's voice became smaller and smaller. “...... Like her...... I'm sorry I couldn't spend my birthday with her. It's not that he didn't think about running away, but this proposition is completely untenable in front of these two people.

Dante said, "Alright, let's get down to business." If you are obedient, you may be able to come back alive. ”

Sindra picked up the bundle of rope that Li Xiang had carried all the way, pulled out a thin thread from it, and said, "This bundle of rope-like things is actually a high-strength silk thread made of iron web spider silk fibers extracted by Dante commissioned by goblins. With that, Sindra took a hatchet from the wall and slashed at the thread, which was not broken.

Dante pointed to the iris shield beside Li Xiang, and continued: "This shield is made of sacred oak that has been blessed by the elves, and it has a good resistance to general toxic substances. As for the gas mask and oxygen cylinder, I don't need to explain, the miasma in the depths of the swamp, plus the poisonous gas of the rotten python, you probably won't survive without these two things. It should be pretty much the same, but it feels like something is missing. ”

Sindra smiled and said, "If you plan to let him come back alive, of course there is something missing." As he spoke, he pulled out a scroll. "This is a magic scroll written in my own blood, and I will use it as a last resort. "Elves and dragons, the two races in the world that are best at using magic, Sindra has the blood of these two races in her body, and the scroll written in her blood is really exciting.

Hearing the two of them say this, Li Xiang felt a little more comfortable. He asked, "Is this so that I have no need to worry about my life?"

Sindra thought for a moment and asked Dante, "Can you end up with a whole corpse?"

Dante replied in the affirmative, "Yes." ”

Li Xiang fell to the ground, hammered the floor helplessly, and cursed in his heart: What did Lao Tzu do to provoke these two femme fatales.

There was a knock at the door: "Lord Sindra, it's almost time." ”

After going out, Li Xiang found that hundreds of people had gathered outside. These people have different shapes, but each of them has some dragon scales on some parts of their bodies. When he came here just now, he only saw a few sparse houses, but he didn't expect there to be so many people in this place. At this time, Li Xiang suddenly remembered that the swamp was a place where dragons lived.

When Catherine was flying in the sky with him, she once passed by here, and the Black Dragon Princess mentioned it in passing, but Li Xiang didn't take it to heart. The area within the Black Dragon Valley is where the pure blood of the Black Dragons live. A large swamp outside the valley is home to all kinds of half-blood drakes. This swamp is several times the size of the Black Dragon Valley, not only the environment is very harsh, but also hides all kinds of ferocious creatures, even the black dragon is not willing to set foot here easily.

Generally speaking, half-blood dragons are not allowed to enter the Black Dragon Valley. As a half-blood dragon, Sindra can not only enter and exit the Black Dragon Valley at will, but those black dragons in Longqi Town are a little afraid of her, which is really a miracle.

The swamp was not inhabitable, and the houses of the Dragonman Village were scattered in twos and threes in the swamp, and they gave it a name - Mire Village. The rotten python is considered a bully of the swamps and often attacks the village. Tough as a dragonman, he is helpless against it, and people often die in the mouth of the snake.

This time, it is rare that Dante is interested in the rotten python, and it can be regarded as indirectly eliminating the harm of the mire town.

There were hundreds of dragons behind him, Li Xiang was suddenly full of courage, and said in his heart that the giant python is not a giant python, and the ants bite the elephant to death, not to mention that this is still a dragon man. But when he walked to the shore of the lake in the swamp, Li Xiang noticed that something was wrong.

Tomorrow is the night of the full moon, and tonight's moonlight will shine on the swamp like day. Those dragonmen all extinguished their torches, which is understandable, but they are silent one by one, what does it mean to hide far away?

Li Xiang had already been dressed neatly with his equipment, and his body was also tied with the so-called iron web spider silk fiber. He didn't know what to do next, so he just stood there stupidly.

Dante kindly reminded Li Xiang and kicked him into the lake. Li Xiang fluttered, struggled to swim a few times, and actually stood up, it turned out that the water was no more than waist-high......

The calm surface of the lake was stirred, and the ripples slowly swung into the distance.

A terrible howl tore through the silence of the moonlit night.

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