Chapter 20: Riddles

Flying over the Plains of Yasun, thousands of small impalas with white maroon stripes can be seen migrating in large numbers, followed by lions, and a battle of the jungle is being staged in the fertile grasslands.

But the target of Holm's observations today is not them, but the humans who suddenly appear on the continent under their supervision. The true owner of this shijie has not been back here for a long time, and the thriving shijie grows harmoniously in perfect balance, no longer the monotonous appearance when it was first built.

How he wanted to tell Dierlando how interesting the evolution of this shijie was. However, even if that person occasionally appeared, he and the young dragon went headlong into a cave in the Mushroom Mountain, where they stayed until they were exhausted.

There will be sunrises and sunsets inside the dome of the new shijie like the real shijie, and the sun is like a luminous disc sandwiched between the transparent film of the dome, which emerges from the sea level every day and then slides across the sky dome and submerges into the sea on the other side.

When there is no sun, the dome turns an opaque dark blue, obscuring the eternal daylight outside the dome. The night here is different from the real shijie, there is no moon, only tiny stars that do not move scattered across the sky, and the earth will fall into real darkness.

Holm doesn't know what that "sun" is, but the shijie in the dome will have various natural phenomena like the real shijie under the illumination of this fake sun, and the landscape has been modified and carved by the atmospheric rivers with the passage of time.

Occasionally, he would drop to the ground and pick the sweet fruit that ripened naturally to eat, or tease the newborn critter for a pleasant day. But it's still hard to get rid of my loneliness. There is no one on this continent, except Winnie. He didn't have anyone to talk to.

But just before sunset on the last dome, the situation suddenly changed.

He was bathing in the sun at a lake near the forest. Suddenly, I heard a human voice. Because he didn't know who the other party was, he immediately found a rock as cover. Hiding behind to observe, it turned out that a group of people had come out of the woods.

Winnie stopped him from trying to make contact with them right away, as there were so many of them. Originally, Holm thought that the person who came was a soul like himself who had been swallowed by Ryses because of Weishenme, but he roughly counted the hundreds of people here. If it was really all swallowed by Rises, it was a massacre.

These people were ragged, dirty, and had cloudy eyes, which made the big lizard instinctively feel that something was wrong. And the truth is just as Winnie feared, they curse at each other in the sunset. They fought with each other and soon split into several small groups. When night fell, some went into the forest, others stepped onto the grassland, and the rest of the small groups scattered in groups of three or two went in different directions.

The temperature in the dome was always a pleasant spring and autumn day, and those humans should not freeze to death in one night, so Holm decided to return to the small space where he lived and come back the next day to observe.

Today, as soon as the sun appeared in the dome, Holm and Winnie made their way through the passage to the place where they had found traces of humanity yesterday. In this shijie, they can fly in the air at high speed according to their own will. So he and Winnie split up. A carpet search is carried out in a spiral line from the place where Zuihou saw humans yesterday.

The high pillar of smoke on the west side of the continent (Holm centered the entire continent around the top of the highest Ten Thousand Blades, and then set the direction of the sun to the east every day to determine the direction of the continent) alerted him to the fire on the ground, waiting for him to fly closer. It turned out to be a man-made fire.

The largest group of people in the group that split yesterday is burning the grasslands, and it seems that they are planning to clear land here. Among them were skilled farmers, under the arrangement of the temporary chief. A batch of crude tools was made in a short period of time. Holm also saw the prey they had caught and the fruits they had picked. It seems that this group of people is adapting well to this shijie, and I don't know what about the others.

As he watched with fascination as the group set up camp. Winnie had already returned from his rounds of the others. It looked at more people and found that most of them were living well. After all, this continent has a pleasant climate. Supplies are abundant, and only a few lonely unlucky ones are eaten by carnivorous beasts.

"What should I do now? His Highness is not here, and these people don't know if he arranged it, so I really want to go and talk to them. Holm put his arm around Winnie behind the tree and muttered, complaining that Diarlando didn't care at all about the progress of the Shijie he had created.

Winnie was still so reticent that he waited for Holm to finish nagging before he spoke: (Not normal, no contact, wait for the master to come back.) )

Holm reluctantly looked at the crowd of people busy building temporary settlements for a while, but Zuihou followed Winnie away from the distance, and then flew into the sky again to continue his patrol.

Dearlando carefully removed Dino's arms and legs from his body, and the boy groaned and moved, and continued to fall asleep. Pushing open the door, I jumped directly from the balcony to the roof, the sea breeze on the summer night was very cool, and when I looked up at the starry sky connected with the sea, it seemed as if the whole city was floating among the stars.

In fact, he had been suffering from insomnia for four or five days straight.

After dealing with the Shili of Here and Zannaya, the Dome Palace was completely returned to the control of the royal family. As the second largest shrine in the country, the ancient scroll texts stored here are not inferior to those of the original Tianshu Palace. Moreover, there are various indications that the ancient ruins related to the dragon should be in the narrow inland sea between the Duchy of White Murdi and Hovland.

So when he was not cleaning up the Zannaya Underground Fortress and inspecting and dissecting the fake dragons, he plunged headlong into the Golden Dome Palace's archives, working day and night searching for information related to the dragon's challenge. It's a pity that this project is so huge that there has been no improvement in a few days.

Ruidan found that he hardly rested at all except eating, and that eating was mainly to satisfy Rises's needs, and finally he couldn't stand it anymore. Stuffed him back to Shaklin's estate this evening, hoping that he would relax a little and rest a little in the circus crowd.

But Ruidan didn't understand. I didn't sleep because I was in a hurry to find clues to the dragon's challenge, but because I couldn't sleep at all. No matter how tired the body is. The spirit is always in a very excited state. Although he obediently returned to the manor after listening to his younger brother's words, he was very happy to see Zoya and the children. But after I really went to bed, I still didn't feel sleepy. He lay down cautiously for half the night, and when Dino fell asleep, he finally got up.

It's been almost five days since he entered the Dragon Realm, and Ryses hasn't been making trouble going back with him every day since he learned the same thing. And if you can't go into a deep sleep, you won't be able to enter that shijie no matter how long you roll in bed.

If you are bored, you have to find something to do, sighed. He pulled out a notebook and continued what he had been doing the other night—recording dragon scripts. These characters are so difficult to write and memorize, and they are completely different from the alphabet words and words that are commonly used on the mainland here.

In order to allow Ruidan, who is more adept at language research, to have enough comparative information, he tries to copy down the words that he can still remember, and studies the rules of the language while copying them.

In fact, the research in the past few days has really allowed him to discover a little bit of a doorway. Each word of the dragon contains a lot of information, similar to a human sentence or a phrase. When he found words with repetitive meanings, Diarrando compared them and found that some of the patterns were identical on all six sides.

In other words, there are smaller units in the dragon script, and these units with independent meanings are combined to form their complex characters. Of course, the law of this combination has not yet been figured out by Diarlando. Sometimes it's a similar sentence pattern, but the pattern of the two six-sided characters is completely different.

Drawing a dozen more six-sided characters, and marking their meanings, Diarlando felt that his head was so dizzy that he could no longer continue to do it. Decided to do something else.

The notebook contains two secret letters that Ruidan had given him, including a record of the King of Light copied to himself. Because those texts only have one side of the hexahedral script, Diarlando has a young dragon as a translator. But I still don't understand what is written.

Based on what is known so far, this text seems to describe the situation on each level of the Dragon Realm. As Starlight said in the past. The realm of dragons is divided into seven levels, judging by the records. Each floor has its own name and idiosyncrasies.

In addition to the layers of chaos that I have already experienced, the other layers are "evolution", "energy and matter", "life", "consciousness", "wisdom and civilization", and "transcendence". The other layers have a vague description, only the evolution layer, because of the damage of the file, nothing but the name can be recognized.

Judging from the name alone, it seems that in the end what I need to reach is the level of transcendence, and when I get to that level, there is a way to reopen some kind of door for Ryses and Namuanto to return to their shijie.

This record doesn't mention how to pass each layer, and the order doesn't know if it's right or wrong. Reseth's translation is also plausible, as some dragons don't have the right human words to describe them directly, making it more difficult to understand this precious message.

"Evolution...... What is evolution, what will come out of the evolution layer? Riess, what should I do if I can't sleep?" Diarrando looked at it for a long time, felt that his head was getting bigger and bigger, and simply gave up and fell back, lying on the roof and muttering to himself.

The star box had to stay in the Golden Dome Palace to collect pure magic crystals, so now the young dragon hung on himself all day long. Because of the soft bed of human flesh, Ryses was finally woken up, and angrily gnawed directly on the neck of his symbiote.

"Riseth, we'll continue to guess when you're awake, okay? What do you mean by zuihou?" Diarlando rolled over, spread the note on the roof, and placed the note in front of the young dragon.

The record itself is incomplete, and Rises struggles to read it, so he refuses to translate it well every time, and always starts to lose his temper when he reads a few words, so the previous translation is still obtained by Dearlandor even coaxing.

The young dragon was so happy that he reluctantly climbed onto Deirlando's hand and followed the movement of his fingers to read the sentence at the bottom of the paragraph.

"The longest and the shortest, the most precious and the cheapest, impossible to touch and hear, so that the great and the small return to nothingness......" Riceth shook his head as he read, this time seemingly smoother than the previous translations.

But when it came to zuihou, the words were stuck again, and the young dragon turned around and jumped around the notes and looked at the words from all directions, zuihou still shook his head: "It's too incomplete, I don't understand." To find something, to hide something. ”

"Is this a riddle, Reseth?" Diarlando repeated the previous part, realizing that it was a riddle he had heard as a child, and although it was literally different, the answer should be time. "We're looking for something related to time?"

Ryses wagged his tail and looked down at the notes on the paper again, then nodded and said, "Yes, something important." ”

"Important things...... Diarrando turned over again, facing up, looking at the starry sky, "Don't play dumb riddles for important things~!

Ryses is coquettish again, I don't know if it's an illusion, it seems that after this big battle, its appetite has grown. Fortunately, there was no shortage of food now, and Deirlandor grabbed a few pure magic crystals from his waist pocket and fed them to the young dragon as a reward for his hard work.

There will be a formal audience tomorrow, because Shakolin finally can't resist the pressure from all sides, and almost crying and begging to meet the dignitaries who are swarming in. Those people didn't want to spend five hundred gold coins to see a dress in a crystal cupboard, they wanted to see Diarlandor himself. And both his father and Ruidan meant that he had to show his face and calm people's hearts.

Turn the note to the zuihou page and write down a few things on it. Is Dearlando listed must be in ...... What I did before, one of which I made a heavy circle was to solve the problem of Luna and Achille. But in order to capture Zannaya, he has been pushing and pushing the fake dragon research, and he has not had the opportunity to do it to this day.

These two children are kind to themselves and the young dragon, and originally planned to take them with them all the way to protect their safety and complete the young dragon challenge by the way. But now Ryses is undecided, and his emotional state is unstable. Even with Zoya and them as their backing, it is no longer suitable to take two weak and ordinary children by their side.

Even if they are needed for future rituals, if you can't ensure their safety, it's better to set them free now. Dearrando plans to break the contract by taking the siblings to the best souks on the continent and telling them the truth. But because of repeated delays, it has been six days since I came to Bai Modi, and I haven't had a chance to do it.

The audience should be done in one morning, and tomorrow afternoon. Drawing charcoal after Achille and Luna's names, Diarrando closed the note and tucked the notebook back into his pocket. (To be continued......)

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