Whispers of the Dragon

Chapter 18

"What, what?!"

Xuexian was taken aback and couldn't believe his ears.

Why did Rodo want to kill him and say he was dead?

Seeing his great reaction, Luo Duo squinted his eyes and asked vigilantly, "Why, are you a believer of the Son of God?"

Xuexian immediately shook his head like a rattle: "No, no."

His heart was beating so fast that he was afraid of being recognized by the person who wanted to kill him, so he justified himself indiscriminately: "I just heard that the Holy Son is a child given by God, who can alleviate the pain of all distortions, and has helped many People, these are all recorded, not fake. If you could—” He felt very guilty when he said this, “The Holy Son will definitely help you.”

The temple is indeed overcrowded with aberrants in need of help.

Xuexian had received more than 50 mutants in one day at most, singing the pure soul song was exhausting, and he had a high fever that night and talked nonsense.After that day, the temple stipulated the number of mutants that the Holy Son could receive every day, but Xue Xian never thought that even if they were dealt with urgently and slowly according to the degree of distortion, the number of places would be so short.

"A child given by God?" Luo Duo sneered, "Shit, it's just a piece of soft meat raised in a petri dish, and it's worthy of being a child of God?"

"He and the Holy Temple detained the mutants in the name of purifying the soul, and at the same time cooperated with the ruling party to send the mutants to Longyu. What they did was shameful!"

Xue Xian blurted out: "He didn't!"

"Don't get excited." Luo Duo said, "Whether you were a believer of the Holy Son or not, it doesn't matter once he dies."

Xue Xian was startled: "I don't understand what you mean."

Luo Duo noticed something and asked, "It seems that you don't know what happened yet."

Xue Xian waited for him to speak in a little confusion.

Luo Duo said: "It's a coincidence that you were sent away at the time, which made you miss the biggest news in Inhabit Continent since Chaos Day."

"A month ago, 'Mingmu' sneaked into the temple at a high risk and took pictures of the whole process of sending the Son to Longyu. The Son was dressed in holy clothes in his sleep and lay down like every severely deformed body. After entering the water speeding boat, the destination...of course is Longyu."

Luo Duo said with a hint of joy on his face.

"The video was posted on the Internet, and one stone caused a thousand waves. Tens of thousands of people were emotionally demanding an explanation, which almost caused a riot."

Sure enough, it was "bright eyesight" who did it!

Xue Xian clenched his fists.

"To my great satisfaction, they not only released the video on the Internet, but also placed Ghost No. 1 in the water boat, and sent it to Longyu with Shengzi." Luo Duo continued, "Through special communication technology, Ghost No. 1 It broadcast live the every move of Sheng Zi after he arrived at Longyu Island."

Xue Xian's complexion slowly changed.

what?

live?

Xue Xian knew that Ghost No. 1 was a drone with stealth function. It was less than the size of a palm and belonged to military equipment. However, there were many people selling it on the black market.

But he was completely unaware that something had come out of the water craft with him.

When he first woke up, he really wondered why the nightgown on his body turned into a holy dress, but he never thought that these had ulterior motives, let alone that everything that happened after he woke up was photographed.

"The live broadcast only lasted less than twelve hours, but it was wonderful."

Rodo said.

"The Son of God fell into the swamp before he woke up and didn't go far, scared the shit out of him."

Xue Xian: "..."

Luo Duo said: "His god not only failed to save him, but also caused him to attract a black dragon, which was captured alive by the dragon to fill his stomach."

At this time, Ross ate up all the jerky on the ground.

He rushed over to snatch Luodo, grabbed Luodo's arm and bit him.

Luo Duo didn't even look at it, and directly stuffed the half-eaten jerky into Ross's mouth, and continued to say to Xuexian: "It's a pity that Ghost 1 failed to keep up with the evil dragon, otherwise we might still be able to enjoy more exciting things." screen."

Xuexian stood mechanically, his heart was beating suddenly, and his mind was in a mess, so he could only answer twice indiscriminately.

It turned out to be the case.

So everyone thought he was dead.

Rodo said: "So, don't you have any hope that the Son will save the people from the fire and water. After all, he can't even save himself."

Xue Xian could only nod passively, feeling very complicated.

Luo Duo didn't say much, and turned to ask Xuexian: "We are going to Xueyu now, and more people should take care of us. Do you want to come with us?"

Xuexian regained consciousness for a while, and quickly said: "No need, I'm going to the other side."

Luo Duo was a little suspicious, and looked him over: "The warmer you go, the more likely you will encounter a dragon. What are you doing there alone?"

Xuexian didn't know how to answer.

He had never lied in his life, but he knew he couldn't tell the truth to the man in front of him.

He completely dispelled the previous idea of ​​trying to find a way to return to the habitat continent with the other party, and instead said: "My companions are nearby, and I am going to meet them."

I don't know if Luo Duo believed it.

But Xuexian felt that it was better to say that he had a companion than that he was alone.

"Companions?" Luo Duo asked with narrowed eyes, "How many people do you have?"

"There are three or four." In order to make this reason more real, Xue Xian bit the bullet and continued, "There is a companion who is very serious. He got separated just now, and we are looking for him now."

Luo Duo nodded, no longer reluctant.

He grabbed Luo Si who was about to run away after eating the jerky, and asked Xue Xian: "By the way, what's your name? If I meet your companion, I can report to you."

name?

Xue Xian suddenly thought of two syllables: "Yuka."

Subconsciously, he used these two syllables as an alias: "My name is Yuka."

Ross got impatient and started screaming manically.

Luo Duo had to say: "Goodbye Yuka, thank you for your jerky. I hope you find your companion."

Xuexian: "Thank you."

Rodo took Rose away and disappeared into the depths of the woods.

The wind was blowing the tall grass next to it, and the fresh green grass was billowing, as if there were endless dangers lurking in it.

There was not much jerky left on Xuexian's body, and he was worried that some deformed body would come out of the grass, so he immediately picked up the bear skin on the ground and left there.

When he first saw the Tower of Babel and saw human beings, his joyful mood plummeted, and Xuexian suddenly realized one thing, that is, in the mainland, not only the "sighted" people hated him, but also the people he loved hated him.

And "Bright Eyes" is far more ruthless and direct than imagined.

Kidnapping, live streaming...

About the deformed body sent to Longyu, about the legendary extinct dragon, "Bright Eyes" revealed the truth through this incident, directly hit the pain points, and made people all over the world—including Xue Xian , were forced to wake up.

How is Habitat Continent doing now?

Are people in a mess and don't believe in the temple anymore?

Does the reappearance of the evil dragon plunge the habitat continent into fear again?

Xue Xian didn't really hate Luo Duo and Luo Si, nor was she annoyed that her embarrassing appearance was photographed the whole time.

He just felt uncomfortable, and there were many questions he wanted to ask, as if someone stuffed all the things he had never thought of into his mind at once, allowing him to really touch the other side of the light.

The world he knew was subverted, but why?

Why are they hiding all this?

Xuexian knew very well in his heart that he would not get the answers to these questions until he went back.

The desire to survive makes a person brave.

Having come to this point, having gone through untold hardships, Xuexian feels that no matter what, at least he has recognized the reality, at least he knows what he should do when he goes back, no matter what, he can't let what he experienced here Meaningless.

Xuexian walked faster and faster without stopping for a moment.

This plain is huge, and as Rodo said, it gets warmer the further you go.

He started to sweat, so he had to take off the snow wolf skin and wrap it with the bear skin and carry it on his back.

Before long, he encountered some deer.

Those mutated reindeer were tall, with six legs, and their running speed was several times faster than their ancestors. Coupled with the hard and complicated long horns on their heads, on this plain, apart from dragons, they could even encounter large beasts. It won't hurt either.

Groups of reindeer graze on the grass, and birds chirp on their horns, enjoying themselves in a leisurely way.

Previously, as long as Xue Xian passed by, even a wolf would immediately turn around and walk away.

Now that he was far away, the herd of reindeer raised their heads one after another, stopped grazing, but did not leave.

It turned out that without the cover of snow wolf skin, the human aura on Xue Xian gradually spread in the air of the plain, mixed with the smell of wolf skin and bear skin, which made the reindeer feel puzzled.

Theia star has long been above the horizon, and the weather is getting hot, and those thick furs can no longer be worn.

Reindeer are herbivores, Xue Xian is not afraid, but he understands that he will no longer be safe if he continues like this, and the snow-white holy clothes are too conspicuous on his body.

Fortunately, he quickly thought of a way.

There were plenty of swampy areas here, and he could dig some silt and stick to himself—that's what he had learned with the baby dragon.

Occasionally, a young dragon will roll in the snow before setting out to hunt.

That snow can hide some of the apex predator aura on the baby dragon, helping it get closer to its prey.

Xuexian bent down, and as soon as his hands picked up a lump of mud, he smelled a foul stench. The mud on his hands was pure black and extremely viscous, like some kind of glue, with an extremely stinky smell.

He quickly shook off the mucus.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the black mucus touched the blades of grass next to it, the grass withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Xuexian was shocked, and when he looked up, he found that there were still many small wet puddles like the grass, and there were such pure black liquids everywhere.On closer inspection, some fabric and leather remained in the wet puddle.

So in an instant, he understood what was going on—not long ago, some severely deformed bodies were burned here.

After the death of a severe deformity, the pollution will still erode the soil, and it cannot be completely purified except by dragon fire.

The reason why those in power send all the severely deformed bodies to Longyu is that, as "Mingmu" said, they are helpless against the severely deformed bodies, and they do not hesitate to use expensive water boats to send the deformed bodies away. In order to avoid higher follow-up investment, it also avoids polluting human land.

The black mucus left on his hands seemed to have life, and he wanted to drill into Xue Xian's skin.

He moved his fingers without panicking.

The black mucus failed to find an entrance on the Son's skin, and it fell off in a ticking manner after a while.

Birds chirped in the distance.

Xuexian looked up and saw that some reindeer accidentally stepped on the wet puddle and fell to the ground one after another.When they climbed up again, their bodies were already covered in black air, and they became dry and terrifying.

The green plain full of vigorous vitality suddenly became colder than the snowy land.

The world is vast, Xue Xian didn't know where to go for a moment.

He looked up and saw that the Tower of Babel was not far away.

The road is not easy to walk.

Xue Xian stumbled and spent nearly half an hour before arriving at the foot of the tower.

The huge and towering tower was right in front of him, Xue Xian had to raise his head until his hat could fall to the ground, in order to see the top of the tower.

Thousands of years passed, and the tower was covered with moss and vines. Xuexian turned around several times before he found the entrance covered by vines.

The long fishbone that he carried with him finally came in handy. Xuexian spent a lot of effort to cut through the thick and long vines with the fishbone, and successfully saw the rusty iron gate under the vines.

Theia fell into the sky, and the golden light was blocked by the clouds in a radiating pattern. Through the furry moss on the spire, it sprinkled orange light.

Xue Xian pried open the iron door, coughing unceasingly due to the dust and musty smell blowing at his face.

It has been dusty for so long, and the air inside is not good.

Xuexian retreated a little further away, waiting for new air to pour into the tower.It took some time, and he didn't go inside the tower until Theia had completely disappeared.

With the faint light in the twilight, the dark and damp interior of the pagoda appeared before Xuexian's eyes.

The elevator, which only allowed one person to enter, was broken and stopped in mid-air.There is nothing in the tower other than a straight ladder attached to the wall for climbing up to the spire.

Perhaps he could spend the night here tonight.

Xue Xian thought.

So he closed the tower door and groped for the ladder to climb up.

The tower was nearly [-] meters high, and Xuexian climbed it very hard, carrying all the necessary belongings for the night.

Halfway through the climb, he looked down, and it was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything, which made him palpitate and dizzy.

It was dark, but there was still a shimmer of light on the top of the tower.

Xuexian was overjoyed, knowing that it might be a device still in operation, he regained his strength.

He gritted his teeth and climbed up to the top without stopping, his face was ashamed and his limbs were weak, but he couldn't care about those anymore.When he climbed to the top, he dropped his luggage as soon as his feet stepped on the floor of the equipment room, and couldn't wait to go straight to the equipment table.

Old equipment tables are gathering dust.

When Xuexian rushed over, he was choked by the dust and smoke and couldn't help coughing.

The large screen was pitch black, and the densely packed buttons on the countertop were also covered in dust. Only the huge signal transmitter in the center was still on, reminding visitors that everything was operating normally.

Xuexian anxiously pressed the green start button on the table, and when the "beep" sounded, he almost burst into tears.

Immediately afterwards, all the buttons and screens lit up "swish", and the operation of the machine produced a slight beep, which was like a fairy music to the ears.

The operation room at the top of the tower lit up instantly.

Xuexian quickly entered the operating system, entered the command, and let the bottom of the signal transmitter pop out of the receiving hole.He only needs to open the back cover of the bracelet to reveal the small plugs and let them link.

It's a pity that the updated iterations of technological products that have inhabited the mainland for thousands of years have long been unable to match the original equipment.

Xuexian had expected it a long time ago, walked around the operating room in a leisurely manner, and successfully found the toolbox.

The young Holy Son was carrying out the transformation in a strange and calm manner.

He was tired and thirsty, and hadn't had much water for almost a whole day.

But at this moment, he cheered up and sat on the floor, holding the disassembled small parts in his mouth, concentrating like never before.

The remodel took a long time and was more complicated than expected.

Fortunately, he used to study every subject very seriously, even if he was admitted to the highest institution in the mainland, his grades might be among the best.

After the modified wristband was finally inserted into the interface, he saw the circle representing the signal strength gradually increasing, so he rubbed his sore eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.

Successful.

The SOS positioning system in the bracelet can send coordinates to the temple at the fastest speed.

All he had to do next was wait.

Once the people in the temple receive his coordinate information, they will immediately connect to the Tower of Babel and get a call with him.

At first, Xuexian was so nervous that he didn't even dare to blink his eyes, for fear of missing the signal from the temple.

After waiting for a long time, he gradually relaxed and stopped to eat a piece of jerky.

After a few days of traveling day and night, eating and sleeping in the open air, even in such an old and cold operating room, he felt very sleepy because of the sense of security.

When did the jerky in his mouth stop chewing, he didn't know, but soon fell into a deep, very dark dreamland.

There was the sound of wind whistling again.

Below, a vast snowfield reflected in the cool blue light of the night sky.

Under the light of the actress, the snowfield is as bright as day.

Groups of snow rabbits were running in all directions, like countless falling snowballs, and the mountains, rivers, forests and frozen lakes he had walked through were all passing by in his field of vision at this moment.

Xuexian felt that he had flapped his wings and was hovering and gliding in the cold air.

He lowered his head slightly, his dark claws, silver scales and broad wings flickered out of the corner of his eye.

In his sleep, Xue Xian became a dragon again.

Moreover, it became the young dragon.

"Ow—"

He opened his mouth, and a high-pitched howl came out of his throat involuntarily.

The sound waves made the snow fall down, and he swept across the mountains again, wailing continuously, as if he was looking for something.

The cry kept echoing in the snowy area, appearing distant and lonely.

Four p.m.

Inhabit the mainland, the main city, and Central Avenue.

The giant screen outside the temple suddenly began to flicker, and two seconds later, the open monocular sign of "Mingmu" appeared.

Immediately afterwards, a message from the Ghost 1 drone filled the giant screen.

[It is detected that the signal of Shengzi Xuexian is online and connected. 】