"yes, I know."

A few short words, but it seemed to inject a booster into Ron's heart.

"Well, I'm not a child."

Holding back the sour feeling at the corners of his eyes, Ron turned his head and avoided the palm of the rainbow dragon lady's caressing.

Veronica, the rainbow dragon lady, was stunned for a moment, but soon put down her hanging arm and said with a smile:

"yes, before you know it, Ron is already an adult."

Again, the tone was familiar to me.

Ron pouted dissatisfiedly in his heart, but he always felt that there was no sense of disobedience in this scene.

Ron's silence made Veronica seem a little overwhelmed, and in fact even he didn't know what was wrong with him.

Obviously, Ron had already brewed all kinds of questions in his heart before he came in, but now, the moment he saw Long Niang, he couldn't say anything.

"It's not a good place to talk."

After a moment of silence, Veronica looked at the unmanned speeding cars passing around, and suddenly took the initiative to propose:

"Why don't I take you somewhere?"

"Where?" Ron asked.

"Secret~~" Veronica laughed mysteriously on purpose.

"Cut"

Ron muttered, and although his tone was noncommittal, he flailed his wings to follow Veronica's back, revealing his inner thoughts.

“dremyollok~~~”

Veronica remained in the form of a human avatar, humming an unknown song, stepping on the silver and white metal roadbed with light steps, smiling and leading the way.

Her long orange hair fluttered in the wind, shimmering with a faint light, beautiful as a flame.

The pale yellow dress shone in the moonlight, like a fairy from a fairy tale, and even the modern scenery around her seemed to gradually become fantastical under Veronica's guidance.

Unconsciously, Ron, who was deliberately half a position behind, gradually paralleled the rainbow dragon girl.

While he wasn't paying attention, Veronica cautiously reached out and grabbed the dragon's claw that was naturally falling.

Well?

Ron turned his head to look at her, but Veronica, who was weak-hearted, quickly turned his head.

"Ahem."

Ron felt that this posture was a little awkward, and subconsciously wanted to pull out the dragon claws and break free from the restraints of those hands.

But just as he was about to do this, the rainbow dragon lady suddenly turned her head.

Ron looked at her and was suddenly stunned, because before he knew it, the pair of colored dragon pupils were already full of crystals.

After looking at the rainbow dragon lady beside her, it was almost pleading

"Forget it, there won't be a piece of meat missing anyway"

A certain rainbow dragon who suddenly softened in his heart made an excuse for himself, and finally gave up the action of pulling out his palm, and let the other party lead him to walk together.

Seeing this, Veronica's side seemed to have received some kind of permission, and while her steps were more cheerful, the smile on the corner of her mouth couldn't stop rising.

The two are like a mother-son duo who take their children out to go shopping, walking through this huge technology city.

"It's a place where all the inhabitants of Night City go to get water, and occasionally merfolk who travel there come to perform, but people don't seem to be interested in this simple show, and it happens to be held less often."

Veronica took Ron's hand and pointed to the fountain building not far away.

Then, turning a street, she pointed to the Colosseum-like circular building suspended in the sky, and said excitedly:

"It's a space theater, you've never seen anything like this, right?"

"Probably."

Ron was not interested in this thing, mainly because he had no one to accompany him to the cinema in his previous life, and he was a lonely widow.

Veronica didn't mind Ron's perfunctory reply at all, but explained with great interest:

"Little Ron, don't think it's just a regular movie theater."

"You must know that in the era we live in, the dragon gods have not yet established a system of dragon inheritance, and for some iridescent dragons who have not learned the [knowledge of dragons] well, many important knowledge and image materials are learned here."

She rambled on and on about the sights and everything of her time, and Ron only felt a little noisy about it.

After enduring more than thirty minutes of non-stop verbal bombardment, Ron was finally overwhelmed.

"You can"

Just as Ron was about to interrupt the other man's explanation and let him get straight to the point.

suddenly

Ron noticed the side of her face.

Under the moonlight, that gentle face was full of happy smiles at the moment, and that positive appearance was very much like a lively golden dragon girl in the main material plane.

In a trance, Ron suddenly understood one thing - the rainbow dragon girl in front of him was also a mother for the first time!

She used to be an innocent girl, and her nagging just wanted to talk to her children more, just wanted to tell her children everything she knew, although it seemed noisy, it was an expression of her mother's love.

This is also an interpretation of her role as a mother.

She wants to fill the gap between her separation from her son by telling her knowledge and experiences, and in this way she tries to get closer to Ron.

That's all, that's all

And when Ron realizes this, the throbbing in his heart also makes his attitude towards Veronica change subtly.

Have you ever gone shopping with your mother?

Ron couldn't help but think back to the human mother in his previous life, but no matter how he thought about it, he didn't have such a picture in his memory.

He was so busy struggling for the future that he didn't think about what happened to his loved ones who lived in the past

"Forget it, let her go"

Ron sighed softly, letting go of the thought of interrupting Veronica's explanation.

"Huh? What did you just say? ”

It wasn't until this moment that the excited Veronica suddenly turned her head, and only then did she react in hindsight.

"No, it's fine."

Ron turned his head unnaturally and gave himself a very far-fetched reason:

"I mean, you can explain it in more detail, and these ancient secrets may be helpful to me when I am promoted in the future."

"Yes! Then mom, I'm going to work hard! ”

Hearing this, Veronica's eyes suddenly flashed with excitement.

She raised her empty left hand, her small fist clenched in front of her chest, and her long red hair dancing in the wind seemed to become more active, and the whole person was inexplicably like the protagonist of the animation had ignited some kind of fighting spirit.

"Inexplicable."

Why is it just a simple shopping, she is so enthusiastic.

Ron silently complained about the "nerves" of Honglong Niang in his heart, but he unconsciously increased his strength when he held the other party's hand.

"Da, da, da"

Following in Veronica's footsteps, Ron's inner contradictions and tensions are slowly replaced by the novelty of the gorgeous cityscape that surrounds him.

His dragon pupils chased the leap of light and shadow in the gap between the high-rise buildings, looking at every corner of this technological city with curiosity.

The uneasiness and trepidation behind the gorgeous scene also left him behind for the time being.

The wonder of this tech city is, in Ron's view, undoubtedly a series of adventures and discoveries.

Ron was so sure that the technology was far beyond the world he had traveled to.

He saw intelligent machines, hovering vehicles, and buildings that changed shape at will, each technology so advanced and so different from the world he knew it to be, that Ron began to imagine how convenient and comfortable the city's inhabitants would be.

"Here."

"There."

"I'll tell you."

Along the way, Veronica's smile is like the key to unlocking this cold city, and her chattering and nagging give this empty, lifeless, icy city a sense of home.

Ron wonders where she's taking her, but he has to admit that the anticipation and curiosity are causing his distrust of Veronica to wane.

He began to think that maybe she was really harmless to him, and maybe maybe she really cared for him like a mother (though he didn't want to admit it).

The neon lights of the city are lit up, becoming the most twinkling starlight of this starless night, illuminating the busy streets, the two people who are in a hurry. (End of chapter)