A few months later, Mohenstein Sayervernon, a law student nicknamed Little Ballast, received a letter from Nick. In the morning, he opened letters and read them in the teahouse inside the university.

The letter reads: "I returned home early, but I was busy with everything, so I am not writing to you until now. I have a permanent address, in ...... No. 1, Lane 1, Longchao Road, Longchao District, Longchao City. It's a dragon's nest.

"In the middle of a civilization, there is a wild wilderness that stands unshakable, and that is where I live. As the address indicates, it is the dragon's nest, and as shown by this fact, I worship the dragon as a teacher. 」

This sentence caused Xiao Zhen to almost spray the onion rings in his mouth into the coffee.

It is true that the mage industry is more likely to come into contact with Warcraft than other professions, but they will also worship a human as a teacher normally, how can they worship a dragon as a teacher?

There was a little explanation of the beginning and end of the matter at the back of the letter, and Xiao Zhen frowned and read the letter. After that, partly because of worry, mostly out of curiosity, he took advantage of the holiday to go to the address written in the letter and visit his home.

The impression that most people have of the nest of Warcraft is that it is in a sparsely populated place, and there are at most small villages nearby that make a living by fishing and hunting, and they will not live next door to developed civilizations. But the master of Xi Ke, his lair is in the heart of the big city. It is said that this dragon lived in the same place for too long, and the surrounding area slowly developed from birds not laying eggs, and before you knew it, it prospered. Even though the number of humans in the neighborhood grew, the dragon never moved.

It's not so much that the dragon's nest is in the center of the city, but that the city center is around the dragon's nest. That city was named Dragon's Nest City.

When he found the place, he completely agreed with the description of the dragon's nest in the letter.

To his left used to be a twenty-story department store building. Reinforced concrete buildings are decorated with colored steel frames and large painted walls. Brightly colored advertising banners are several stories high, brand-name flags fluttering, a large number of posters in foreign languages, and photo light boxes of major Shijie attractions. The focus of civilized Shijie's life is in this.

On the right, there used to be a stained glass curtain on the seventeenth floor of the Art and Culture Plaza, which uses the angle of the glass and the reflection of colored tiles to produce endless changes, and the appearance of the lights at night will be more luxurious and beautiful. There are opera houses, galleries and other facilities that enhance the level of human civilization. There is also a large row of shops that specialize in authentic masterpieces. All kinds of exhibition documents, alloy sculptures displayed in the open air, are completely the shijie of civilization.

In front of me, that is, the place that is surrounded by these two civilization facilities, is a wild mountain of about six stories high, made of many complete trees stacked on top of each other, and then painted with dirt layer by layer, zuihou glued with hay and leaves.

Incidentally, this dirt hill covers a larger area than a department store or an art square.

There is a round entrance at the foot of the dirt mountain, and the surrounding mud has been groomed, and the surface is quite smooth. The wooden gate is now closed, and the outside is fenced off.

Next to the door stood a human-height plastic sign that read: "Long Ampat's home, a national first-class protected area, no pick-up and gathering, no sales." When he walked forward and saw the back of the sign, he realized that it was a police portrait standing on the side of the road to persuade pedestrians to slow down.

There are many flower pots on both sides of the Tsuchiyama Gate, which are full of plants. Some look cute with small flowers, and some whistle with a melody when the wind blows. Some are struggling to pull the roots out of the pot, probably planning to go for a walk. In order to stop it, the bonsai growers specially wrapped the bonsai whole with a net.

The primitive earth mountain did not have a doorbell, not even a primitive manual knocking doorbell. When Xiao Ji was worried about how to inform the people inside that he had arrived, Xi Ke happened to come out with a watering can. After a few months of not seeing each other, Xiao Ballast found that Xi Ke had changed a lot.

Rick wore a white shirt with no stains or deformations, and black trousers with no stitches or patches, not a mage robe with multiple discolorations. The hair is still the same as before, the length is different and messy, but it doesn't look so frizzy, and the whole person feels different.

He is much more refreshed and poised now. It's not like it used to be like sparks splashing and baring teeth and cracking mouths.

"Welcome, little ballast!" said Rick grinned. He was busy watering, and when the kettle was empty, he took Xiao Ballast by the hand and led him into the house.

The inside of the mountain is very comfortable, and the temperature and humidity are just right. The air is also fresh and does not feel stagnant. The soil layer is hard and does not shed chips, and it is not as dirty as the ballast thinks. It doesn't feel like dirt to the touch, but turns into pottery or glass.

"When the dragon has built its nest, it will burn it with dragon fire, and that's what it will become. 」

In his head, a dragon crawls through a tunnel and breathes fire.

After walking about five meters, the surroundings became more spacious and I entered the living room. There are large tables and log chairs that have been ground out of wood. A row of bamboo baskets filled with fruit sits next to the wall. A simple cooking table faces the window. All kinds of sundries, brooms, buckets, etc. are piled up in the corner, bringing a strong atmosphere of life. Xiao Zhen also noticed that there were a lot of books here, very many books, so many books that exploded. No matter where you look, you can see the mountains of books formed by stacks of books.

"Are these books yours?" said Xiaozhuo, sitting down on one of the log chairs.

"It's Master's. He has a lot of books. There's a whole bunch more on the second floor. Rick smiled and asked, "Would you like dessert?"

"Okay. It's afternoon snack time, and Xiao Zhen does tend to eat something sweet: "Yes, your master is a mage. The dragon's impression was so strong that he forgot for a moment that the mage's master must be a mage.

"Well, he has a college degree and a license. When he was in college, there was no Warcraft conservation law, he went to study far away, and he couldn't come back often, and his house was almost demolished to build a studio. Now that the law clearly states that the location of the dragon's nest is a protected area, he can run to Yishijie with confidence. Xi Ke took out a packet of pale yellow, dried filamentous objects from the cabinet, put them in a bowl of boiling water and let it swell: "Because it is a conservation monster, Master doesn't need money to see a doctor or take a bus. 」

"Oh. Xiao Gu answered. He was still watching Syke. Rick looked good, better than he had expected. Now it looks like a stray dog has been raised by a good owner. The hair was washed and combed, the skin disease was cured, the stomach was full, and I learned to find someone to play games. Temperament becomes very different. Not only is the appearance of the mourning dog gone, but even a natural intellectual atmosphere has appeared.

It seems that the dragon is very good to him.

The filaments are soaked and turn into translucent strips. Xi Ke added rock sugar water to it, put a bunch of sliced fruits, washed half a cabbage and put it in a large bowl with a round iron mesh inside, and brought it to the table together. He gave Xiao Ji and himself a bowl of the soaked thing, and placed the cabbage on the third side of the table.

Xiao Gu tasted it, in addition to the sweetness of rock sugar, there is a fragrance, and the taste is smooth. He asked curiously, "What is this?"

Rick replied, "Dragon's Lair. 」

"This is the building material?" Xiao Ballast looked at the ceiling, and a tree root was piercing out. He's eating the house?

"It's dragon saliva. They used this to mix mud when they built their houses. This is a secret medicine, and it is very good for people who read until their heads are burned. Xi Ke shrugged his shoulders and began to eat his own bowl: "Master's head will not burn, maybe it has something to do with the fact that he drinks this every day. Self-sufficiency or something.

Xiao Ji couldn't help but laugh and continued to eat. Reading law also burns his head badly, and he needs it very much.

They casually talk about some trivial things in life.

"Developers in this neighborhood always come and persuade Master to move out with high-end fruit gift boxes. 」

"That fruit is very good, but unfortunately, I can't promise them, so I can't take it. 」

"As you can imagine, this piece of land is worth a lot of money. 」

"After all, I've lived here for so long, and I don't want to move...... I used to expand the potions room a lot, and I used up a lot of Master's salary. 」

"But that's all necessary. I can use it too. Together, we carefully selected the ones we bought. 」

Xiao Zhen said, "The mage profession costs a lot of money, right?"

"Potions are pretty good. If you can go up the mountain yourself, you can get a lot of things with time. The cost of disciplines that require the use of refined products is really large...... Master taught me to write cursive and oracle bone script...... The pot outside is covered with a net, and it will sneak away to eat other people's cat and dog feed! Last time, I actually climbed into the balcony on the fourth floor of someone else's house, and Master and I finally caught it with dried meat. 」

"After three months, he will have teeth, and then the net will have to be replaced with a stronger one. Before that, I taught you how to make an enchanted Internet café for magic grass. 」

Xiao Zhu said, "Can't the mage grow something that will only eat ants at most? I kept telling my dad to sell that one, but he just didn't want it. 」

"It's not a mage to plant something so safe...... Master said that I can take the license for a single magic subject, and the license can be used as a substitute for a license. But the registration fee, one subject and one order, has to be paid once, and it is very expensive. Master said he could sell dragon fur to make money. 」

"During the moulting season, there is also a small amount of money accumulated every day of combing. 」

Xiao Zhu said, "The most expensive thing is the hair from the belly, right? Dragons don't like to shave, and they will never shave without a good reason. 」

"...... Before, I wanted to recreate the ancient potion, but it blew up, and the whole person turned purple, and the master actually licked it with his tongue......

"I thought I could lick it off. 」

"...... I burned the cup you're using now, and we built a kiln in the backyard and burned it with a magic fire, and by the way practiced controlling the temperature...... When I go out with Master in winter, it's so warm under his wings...... On a cloudless night, Master would sing, and that voice sounded like an ancient bell, very rich and pleasant. As long as the people in the neighborhood heard Master singing, they would bring their families and their families to listen to it, and the people in the buildings on the left and right would also run out......

I don't know when the cabbage in the big bowl was all empty. After the dessert was finished, Xi Ke took Xiao Gu to visit the house.

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The interior of the dragon's earth mountain is divided into four layers, and the space becomes narrower the higher you go. The studios are located on the ground floor, and the library is on the second floor. The scene in the library is the same as what Xi Ke said, there are very, very many books. There is only one room on the second floor, and the whole room is lined with log bookshelves, leaving only a passage that can barely be walked through head-on. The shelves are placed vertically, horizontally or inside and outside, and the piles are full of books.

"I used to stay here all day. Rick's eyes lit up when he said this, and it was a beautiful memory for him.

Xiao Zhu pulled out a book with a blue cover and flipped through it. Although he was not a mage, he was a member of the mage family, and he could tell by looking at the words that most of these were magic books that had been circulated for a long time.

He tried to stuff the book back, but he didn't know what was stuck in the back, and he couldn't get it in two-thirds of the way. At this time, there was a musical performance on the open-air stage of the Art Square next door, and Xi Ke called Xiao Ji to go to the window to watch. Xiao Ballast let go of his hand, let a third of the book be exposed, and went over to look at it. When he came back and tried to take the book out and replay it, it was already in good shape.

Xiao Zhen wondered if there was a spell to automatically organize the books here, but it was impossible to see that these books were stacked in such a casual way, showing the personality of the owner.

Then Xi Ke took the ballast to the third layer. There is an apprentice's room and utility storage room on this floor.

Rick opened the door to show Xiao Ballast the potions studio. As soon as the door opened, the bitter and cold smell rushed out.

Xiao Zhu turned his back to the door and commented to Xi Ke: "You will definitely be asked by your family to move the studio out of the house in the future, just like my father. 」

"It smells good. Nick said reluctantly. For him, this natural smell smells pleasant. On the contrary, the chemical aroma will make him run away even if it is not strong. I went to the department store next door to see the free exhibition, and I met a woman who sprayed perfume in the magic ladder box, causing him to take the magic ladder until he had motion sickness. After that, as long as there are many people, he will definitely take the magic escalator.

There is no difference between natural taste and chemical taste for many people, but it is a world of difference for him. The Dragon's Nest never uses any products with artificial scents. He will eliminate the taste, but he will not overshadow it with another flavor.

Ballast's perception of taste belongs to a different group: "Only a potions master would think so. You try to hang a handful of dirty grass on your body to go on a date and guarantee a breakup. My eldest brother went straight to a date without putting his things home after buying the materials before, and he was dumped in only ten minutes. 」

"Do humans hate the smell of plants?"

"Not every plant tastes like it. 」

Xi Ke crossed his chest and thought seriously, the risk that Xiao Ji said was really difficult to ignore.

"Otherwise, you're going to have to find a woman with big nerves who doesn't care about weirdness, like my mother." She could eat with a strong appetite within a meter of my dad's pot. 」

Rick definitely didn't want a wife of the kind that Ms. Lyernott was: "I'd better leave that to your dad." 」

"I don't think he'll give it to you. Xiao Gu said with a smile. He turned around to close the door, only to find it closed.

Auto-close magic? No, Xiao Zhen really feels weird this time.