The inside of the eye of the storm, which was originally relatively clear, began to become cloudy, giving the illusion of being in a hot spring.

"Looks like it's taking some interest in us."

The professor put down the binoculars, wiped the mist lenses with his cuffs, and said, "According to the records, the places where Lanlong haunts are often accompanied by high temperature water vapor, which is not something that should occur in natural storms. ”

"Is it predation?"

Gordon, who had recovered from the shock, once again showed his big heart, and his tone was so natural that it was hard to imagine that the object of his words was being "preded" on them.

"No, if Lan Long is hunting, do you think we can survive until now?" The professor glanced at Gordon with disdain.

"Curious?" Alva was also on the side, even a little excitedly said: "Just like the sea dragon sometimes cruising around the merchant ships?" ”

The professor shook his head, "It makes no sense to speculate on these noble creatures in our human minds, to whom we are as insignificant as dust in the air. ”

"So it doesn't want to eat us?" In Gordon's mind, if a monster doesn't want to eat itself, then it probably won't attack itself.

"From the information available today, there is no definite record of the dragon preying on humans or other large creatures. In fact, it may be because most of the dragons are accompanied by large-scale rainstorms, and there are few clear written records from ancient times to the present, so it is impossible to conclude that the dragons did not hunt large prey. ”

In Gordon's opinion, the professor said a very rigorous nonsense, and he couldn't help but say, "Then why say"

"Don't interrupt, listen to me!"

The professor glared at Gordon angrily, and Gordon shut up and raised his hands for the professor to continue.

"Although the information on the ecology of Lanlong is very incomplete, there are records of fishermen at sea witnessing Lanlong preying on fish in the documents preserved by the Gulong Observatory."

"Fish hunting?" Gordon couldn't help but think of the huge shadow that had just emerged from the cloud wall, and he was surprised: "Can such a huge body meet the needs of only preying on fish?" Even a whole herbivorous dragon won't be able to satisfy its appetite! ”

"You don't think that Arashi takes fish in his mouth one by one, do you?"

The professor had a look on your muscle-filled face that I couldn't explain to you.

"According to that information, 'Tianjin Dancing Wind, Turning the Sea, Fishing' describes the scene of the Lan dragon flying in the air, driving the storm to roll up huge waves, and rolling the fish into the air to hunt.

With the 'weight' of the four of us and one cat, it is not enough for it to launch a storm to hunt. ”

“.” Gordon kept his mouth shut.

Indeed, judging by the shadow that had just been reflected by the thunder, Lan Long's body length might even exceed fifty meters, and if a giant beast of this size really wanted to prey on humans, it was obviously more reliable to attack a human village.

"Even if we don't be seen as prey by the dragon, the chances of survival are slim." The professor shoved the telescope into Alva's hand and asked him to keep it for a moment, while he muttered rummaging through the dragonskin backpack he carried with him.

Soon, he removed charcoal, a few pieces of parchment, and a wrist-thick cylindrical sealed metal tube from his backpack.

The professor shook his snow-white eyebrows, which almost covered his eyes, "While there are still a few minutes to live, let's record the course of this storm and the ecology of Lanlong."

If we're lucky, the metal letterbox that holds this information will be found by passing merchants or hunters, so we'll be able to do our part in the study of the ancient dragon. ”

Alva nodded, took the pen and paper and prepared to take notes, and Lao Hei also walked over, holding the professor's shoulders with strong hands, so that the latter could stand firmly on the deck and observe.

Silently looking at the three professors, their composure made Gordon almost forget that this was the place of death in the eye of the storm.

Alva's thin wrists trembled slightly, and of course he feared death, but he still managed to stabilize the tip of his pen, leaving clear lines of text on the parchment smoothly.

Dedicating their lives to research, that's their belief.

The pork chop somehow untied the rope that bound it to the main cable, and staggered to Gordon's feet, and despite the straight-cut tail and the fact that his body never stopped shaking, he insisted on standing with Gordon.

Gordon lowered his head and smiled at Pork Chop, the cooperation of the past two years has filled them with tacit understanding, and Pork Chop also raised his face, shaking his beard and revealing a very ugly stiff smile.

It's still so scary!

"Show up, Lan Long, let me take a good look at what kind of existence the legendary 'Ancient Dragon' is!" Gordon whispered.

His voice was so small that even the pork chops beside him couldn't hear what he was saying.

However, the great being that dwelt in the thunderclouds seemed to sense the call of the young hunter, after another thunderbolt that tore through the sky.

It slowly swam out of the wall of clouds, revealing its majestic and beautiful body in front of everyone.

Looking at the existence that seemed to occupy the entire sky, Gordon forgot to breathe for a moment, and he finally understood why a proud scholar like the professor would call him a "god".

Those who have never seen it with their own eyes cannot imagine that there is such a beautiful life in the world.

The massive body of the cloud-white body is covered by countless ornate spinous fins and wing membranes during the connection, reminiscent of the tassels on the skirts of the noblewomen at banquets.

However, if you compare the two, you feel that this metaphor is an insult to the former—it is a kind of magnificence and majesty that no man-made object can match.

The streamlined head bears a slight resemblance to a fire dragon, but lacks the ferocity of the latter, with slender and graceful white spines extending from the back of the head and neck.

Two of them are particularly slender and have a golden-like color, and their textures seem to be slightly different, which may be called "horns".

It does not have the wings and claws of a wyvern, and its limbs resemble the fins of a sea creature, flat and powerful, which complement the white spiny fins that cover its entire body.

What attracted everyone's attention the most was its purple-red spots all over its body.

Strange spots of light and darkness form strings of mysterious runes, dotted with silver-white thorns and wing membranes, giving people an indescribable sense of sacredness.

As Lan Long appeared, the scorching water vapor lingered and wrapped everyone, and the sweat from the high temperature ran down his face, but no one raised his hand to wipe it.

The professor fell into a state of extreme excitement and even madness, snatching the pen and paper from Alva's hand and sketching the image of the dragon at an astonishing speed, occasionally annotating something next to the pattern.

"Oh my God! Look at those golden flaky horns! Is it just using these two horns to control the wind and rain, like the Wind Dragon?

No, it's not! Wrong! Not a horn! Damn, I just noticed that Arashi didn't have wings now?! This is never mentioned in the literature, hahahaha!

Creatures that don't rely on wings to fly. Like the Ukigaku Dragon? No, that's floating! And this is another way of flying, in a very different evolutionary direction!

How exactly does it fly? High-temperature water vapor spotted fin. Rainstorm water vapor! Got it, I got it! It's water vapor!

Relying on a certain organ to generate high temperature, the water stored in the body is transpired into high-temperature water vapor, and the spiny fin wing membrane is pushed by the hot air to fly in the air, so that the formation of thunderclouds can also be explained!

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PS. In the original game and in the official information book, there is no exact information about the flight principle of Arashi.

Making high-temperature water vapor and flying with it is a forum or something quite famous in the post, many people recognize, we also think it makes sense, here is this setting.

(End of chapter)