Whispers of the Dragon

Chapter 44

Until his body was submerged in the slightly cool sea water, with the venomous Teya light on his head, and his arms pushing the raft forward, Xuexian still had the illusion that "he must be dreaming now".He must still be asleep in the nest, otherwise, how could he meet a living human being by such a coincidence, and be taken to the so-called base, and the other party is still two pure and lovely children?

However, when Daisy on the raft covered his palm with her small hand, she asked worriedly: "Your Highness, Son, are you really not coming up? We can swim very fast."

That feeling faded again.

Xuexian was in a trance, shook his head: "No, I'll come."

The raft he and Isar made was very simple, and it could only accommodate one adult.

Now Roger and Daisy are sitting on it, plus Xuexian's backpack, it is already very crowded.They couldn't cut down trees to make a bigger raft in a short time, and the strait was not too far away, so they decided to move forward like this.

Roger and Daisy were very sensible, and they were not idle. They used branches as oars to help the raft paddle along the way, so their forward speed was not bad.

After swimming for a certain distance, Xue Xian finally couldn't hold back to look at the small island where he and Isar had stayed, but it was too far away to see Isar's figure.

Xuexian was silent for a while, closing his eyes and trying to feel Yisar, but he could not feel it because of the sound of rushing water and the voices of children talking.On the contrary, his thighs and body, which were already sore and limp, began to ache even more, and his physical strength couldn't keep up.

It turned out that this is what it feels like to be in the water for a long time and push the raft to swim. So when Isar pushed him forward, would he also feel tired?

In terms of dragon's physical strength, maybe not.

Xuexian comforted himself.

After finally reaching the other shore, the small islands turned into small dots. He picked up things and followed the children.

According to Roger, their base is not far from the sea, in the valley.He and Daisy are good at water, and it is also because they have been driving and diving in the sea with adults since they were young.Speaking of the base, Roger said that he has lived there since he was born, and that he and Daisy are older than Xue Xian thought, being 12 and [-] years old respectively, so the two children seem to be somewhat nutritious bad.

Xuexian asked: "Are you born in the base?"

Both Roger and Daisy nodded.

Daisy said: "My father came here with my mother, and now my sister is born, and my mother's health is not good."

When it was Roger's turn, he said, "My dad is a pilot, a soldier, and he's here on a mission. Mom came later."

Xuexian immediately thought of the flying boat found in the woods, and wondered whether Roger's father might be one of the scouts.He was a little excited and asked, "Then are they all at the base?"

Roger's small body pushed aside the branches and walked forward: "They are all dead."

Xue Xian froze for a moment: "I'm sorry."

"That's all right," Roger said casually. "They've been dead for years."

The terrain in the valley is complex and overgrown with weeds, and the two children are very familiar with the route.But after walking for a long time, Daisy couldn't walk anymore, and she hasn't eaten much since they left for the island.Xuexian imitated Yisaer, carried the backpack on his chest, and then took the initiative to carry Daisy.

Daisy is not heavy, but it is not easy to walk with a heavy load both front and back.

Xuexian gritted his teeth and persisted, sweating profusely, panting lightly, and remembered some pictures of himself lying on Yisar's back and joking.

The three of them walked in the valley for a long time, stopped and ate some wild fruits on the way, and then succeeded in arriving at the base they mentioned under the leadership of Roger.

"Molton—"

Roger spread his feet and ran in.

Xuexian put down Daisy on his back, looked at the scene in front of him and did not speak for a long time.

Before coming here, he thought it would be another place similar to a supply station. Alina once said that it could accommodate up to eight people, managed it properly, and had a good time.There are more than 30 people here. In Xuexian's imagination, this place should be well-organized, self-sufficient and calm and stable, but in fact it is not like that at all.

This is a hill in the valley, and there is an open space in the center where people walk, and some firewood is piled up.A soil hole was dug on the mountain bag, and there were several people standing at the hole, all of whom were moderately or severely deformed.They were dressed in rags, with haggard faces and dark bodies, and when they saw strangers coming, they only focused on Xue Xian, their expressions numb.

"Do you live in...a cave?" Xue Xian asked.

"Yeah!" Daisy said with her small face up, "the one who built the house before was on the other side of the valley, and was burned by the dragon later, so Moulton brought us here."

Xue Xian looked around, there was indeed no house here, not even a straw shed.

"Don't worry." Daisy misunderstood Xue Xian, holding his hand and said, "Now there is no evil dragon here, it has already left."

Xue Xian nodded.

Roger had disappeared, and Daisy led Xuexian into the cave.

Although the entrance of this cave is not big, there is a cave inside.There is a long passage from the entrance of the cave. After walking about four or five meters, the two sides began to expand, forming several small caves. There was faint light in the soil caves. It seems that some parts of the mountain were chiseled for ventilation. holes.Most places are very dry, only a few places are dripping water, and people put some utensils below to accumulate domestic water.

Those small holes are several rooms, some of which are filled with people, and some of which are not.Most of the people were like the people standing outside, when they saw Xue Xian's arrival, they just cast their eyes silently and didn't speak.The smell in the cave is not very pleasant, there are whispering voices in the depths, I don't know if it is Roger.

Daisy walked in front, and Xuexian, who was carrying a bag, walked behind.

When passing through a cave, an old man suddenly knelt down to Xue Xian, prostrated himself on the ground, and muttered some words that Xue Xian could not understand.

"This is Grandpa Marlon! He is your believer just like Doris and me!" Daisy introduced to Xuexian, "He was very happy to see you and said that the temple came to save us!"

Xue Xian paused, and heard that the old man spoke the common language.

The old man's actions made Daisy even more excited, making Xuexian walk faster: "Moulton! Moulton!"

They turned a small corner, and a large hole with a size of more than ten square meters appeared in front of them. A ray of skylight shone down from the top, illuminating the twinkling dust in the air.

It looked like a dining-room, with a wooden table in the center, and Roger was sitting at it.Standing beside him was a young black-skinned man, which was quite different from the image of a leader Xue Xian thought. This man looked to be in his early 20s at most, tall but thin, like a bamboo pole.

That's Morton.

Moulton has already educated Roger about taking Daisy away without permission and putting himself in danger. Roger looked a little depressed, but his eyes were still bright.

As soon as Daisy brought Xuexian here, she turned and ran away, not knowing where she went.

Moulton asked, "Are you the Son of God?"

Xue Xian nodded and introduced: "Hi, my name is Xue Xian."

Moulton didn't care what his name was, and the next sentence was: "Put down your backpack."

It seems that the other party is going to check.

Xuexian put the backpack on the wooden table, remembering that whenever believers came to the temple, the guards would check their belongings in the same way, but things changed, and now he was the one being checked.

Moulton searched Xuexian's bag for clothes, cooking utensils, sunglasses, bottles and cans, sabers, etc. Every time he took out something to check, Roger exclaimed, as if he had never seen it before, and took out snow Xian's mirror looks at himself.The light reflected from the mirror surface jumps on the cave wall, and the atmosphere is a little tense.

"What is this?" Moulton took out the audio transmitter in Xuexian's bag.

"A tool for simulating high frequency." Xuexian said truthfully, "It can simulate the same kind of dragon, and it can also simulate lethal high frequency. I picked it up in a flying boat."

Morton: "Pick it up?"

Xue Xian said yes, seeing Moulton take out the electronic notebook, and added: "That one too."

Roger also flipped through the electronic notebook, and whispered to Moulton, "I have this notebook too."

Roger's father is a pilot, so it's not surprising that he has an electronic notebook. Moulton obviously knew about it. He only looked at the logo from the military on the notebook and said "hmm".

Xuexian didn't lie, Moulton relaxed a little.

"What about this?" Moulton picked up another object and asked, "What is this for?"

This time Morton picked up Isar's scales.

There are two scales in total, similar in size, silver, thin and hard, and slightly shiny.

Roger said, "Like dragon scales. Do dragons have that color, Morton?"

The tall and thin Morton had never seen a silver dragon before, and raised one eyebrow to look at Xuexian.

Xue Xian: "..."

These people have shadows about dragons, have been bullied, and hate dragons.

Although Isar was different from those dragons, he had no way to explain it, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "I picked it up on the beach of the small island across the strait, and I thought it looked good, so I kept it. I don't know what it is. "

Moulton held the scales in his hands and rubbed them for a while. Although he was suspicious, he couldn't tell what they were, so he stuffed them back into his backpack.

He only took Xuexian's saber.

This is the only weapon that looks threatening to them.

"How many people have come to the Continent of Habitat? Is there an army?" Moulton asked, "What is the purpose of your visit this time? As the son of God, why are you not with the people in the temple? Are you separated? What if You got separated, what are you doing on the other side of the island?"

Moulton asked many questions in succession, his tone full of suspicion.

However, based on what the crawling old man outside said just now, Xuexian captured a message from Moulton's question, that is-although Moulton is suspicious by nature, he is actually eager to get salvage.

The base was already riddled with holes, and it was almost at the end of its life, but the appearance of the Holy Son made them full of vigilance and at the same time mistakenly believed that there was hope.

Xuexian was about to answer, but Daisy ran back.

She did not know where to carry a little baby, wrapped it carefully in her arms, and came directly to Xuexian, panting and said: "Your Highness, this is my sister Bella!"

Xuexian didn't expect that the Bella Daisy was talking about was still a baby.

Startled, he carried the limp baby over and looked down at her wrinkled little face.

She was only a few months old, her face was dark, her eyebrows hadn't grown yet, her eyes were closed tightly, she uttered some hazy ravings, and her tender little hands were twitching unconsciously, which was a sign of illness.

She is a very serious, moderate distortion of at least three degrees or more.

Children born here have not received inhibitors, and the incidence rate is much higher than those living in the mainland. The baby's resistance is weak, and once it enters severe distortion, there is no way to reverse it.

Tears filled Daisy's eyes: "She hasn't eaten since yesterday, please help her, please."

Moulton was also less aggressive.

He asked Xue Xian: "Do you need anything? I'll ask them to prepare."

As soon as Xuexian looked up, he realized that the entrance of the cave was already full of people.

The people at the base are probably all here.

Big and small, men and women, old and young, dozens of faces that have gone through hardships and have different degrees of distortion.They all looked at the middle of the room, the handsome young man standing under a ray of sky, some people's empty eyes changed, and the old man took the lead, and a small half of them crawled on the ground. .

Daisy also lay at Xue Xian's feet, together with Roger.

Then there was a long silence.

Xuexian felt it was difficult to breathe, and a suffocated emotion with nowhere to vent hit his soul, making his tears slide down his cheeks.

"That holy son who pretends to be a ghost."

"Puppet. A lump of soft meat raised in a petri dish."

"The temple and the base colluded... the truth is revealed, and the temple no longer exists."

"The Son is no longer needed."

Countless noisy voices sounded in Xue Xian's mind, he could not open his mouth again, and confidently told people that he was a "child of God", and he could not even tell people that he was almost about to lose his faith, but at this moment, with his arms in his arms Holding the baby, his natural compassion finally got the better of him.

People need hope, true or false.

"No need to prepare anything." Xue Xian said.

He opened his eyes, kissed the little baby's forehead gently, and began to perform the duties engraved in his bones and blood.

"People of Blue Star,

Across the bright galaxy.

......"

The soft singing echoed in the earth cave, and the prostrate people gradually raised their bodies and surrounded them.They surrounded the young Son in the center, and touched the corners of the Son's clothes with their hands devoutly, revealing their deep-buried and aged sadness.

Many people cried, even Moulton, who had been standing by, calm.

Suddenly, Moulton wiped away the tears on his face, brushed aside the people, and strode out of the cave.

At night, Luo Jie invited Xue Xian to have dinner with them.

Most people in the base go to bed early, which can save some resources - they use a kind of oil from the fruit of trees for lighting, and each small hole is allocated, but the fruit matures for a long time, and the lamp oil is very expensive. tight.

A bonfire was lit in the open space outside the earth cave, where Xuexian saw the Doris they had mentioned before.Doris was a dark-haired young girl of Oriental descent, at least four and a half degrees of distortion, and missing a right arm, but she was bright and optimistic.

"I was bitten by a wild beast when I first came here." Doris casually told Xuexian, "Moulton rescued me and brought me back to the base."

Xuexian asked: "Does it hurt?"

Doris said: "It hurts. At that time, I thought I was going to die. Four or five years have passed, and occasionally I still feel that my right arm is still there, and the phantom pain persists."

Xuexian nodded.

Doris is a believer in the temple, and has talked about the temple to Roger and Daisy many times.She told Xuexian: "I had an illness when I was young, and you saved me. You just became the Holy Son that year, and I was the 235th patient you received. Do you still have any memories?"

At that time Xue Xian was only six or seven years old, how could he remember such a long time ago, so he shook his head.

"By the way, I also asked you to have a souvenir of your snowflake." Doris reminded, and said, "I always carried it with me, but last year one of our partners went out to find resources, so I gave it to you. He. I don’t know how he is now, and there is no news at all.”

Xuexian immediately remembered the corpses he had seen in the Gobi.

There was his memorial on that corpse... Could it be that person Doris was talking about?

He opened his mouth, but when he saw that everyone was quietly gathered around the campfire, he swallowed the words again.

There were some beans boiling in the cauldron, which Doris and other survivors sowed near the base, and the harvest this year was not very good.They can only rely on mountains to eat, and cannot go too far. At most, they can spend a day or two going back and forth to the sea to catch some seafood. They lack grains and crops, and their nutritional intake is not comprehensive. Therefore, although the physical fitness of the people in the base is not bad, but Everyone is thin.

But being able to survive is already good, and everyone has no extra desires.

The arrival of Xuexian brought some vitality to the lifeless base.

Most of these people were sent here a few years ago or more than ten years ago, and there are even people like Roger who were born here.Some of them have seen clearly what the government is doing, while others trust the government and often have differences.But what is unified is that since there was no "blind eye" at that time, they all still had a certain degree of confidence in the temple.

Faced with these expectant eyes, Xuexian couldn't tell the cruel truth immediately, only that he encountered an accident when he went to sea and lost contact with the habitat.

Everyone was a little disappointed, even Moulton, who was very calm, was no exception.

It was Roger who said naively: "But you are the Son of God! People living in the mainland will come to you, right? Then they will definitely save us together!"

Xuexian couldn't bear to be too deceitful, so he could only say: "I don't know, it seems that there is no water boat that can go back and forth now."

Even Doris was silent now.

Roger, who has never been to the mainland, is very yearning for it, and asked: "Then, if a water boat that can go back and forth is invented, they will come to pick us up, right?!"

Moulton said abruptly, "Of course."

He looked at Roger with warning eyes, and said, "Everyone is tired, brat, don't talk so much."

The taste of the beans wasn't very good, but Xuexian still finished his portion, he couldn't waste food.

After the meal, Luo Jie asked Xue Xian, "Why isn't your friend coming?" This made Xue Xian, who had been thinking about this, even more melancholy.He walked casually, but found Morton and Doris behind a mound.

The two whispered first, then they got closer and closer, their lips touched, and they began to kiss.

Sure enough, as Daisy said, they are a pair of lovers.

Yes, only lovers can kiss.

Dragons and humans can't.

No amount of intimacy.

Xue Xian's heart was beating very fast, and he walked to the side indiscriminately, but before walking too far, there was a burst of strong palpitations.

As if anticipating something, he looked into the woods.

Isar was standing there quietly, and the cold light of the actress happened to stop in front of him.The handsome inhuman creature was dressed in holy attire, standing under the dense leaves and branches, and its silver hair shone naturally.He lowered his eyelashes halfway, closed his golden eyes, and couldn't see the expression on his face clearly.

Maybe he was angry just like the last time he reunited with Xuexian in the Tower of Babel.

And Xuexian now has wounds like last time, and it's all over his body.

Thinking of this, Xuexian's whole body is about to burn again, what this dragon did to him...

The dragon has probably calmed down.

It should no longer want to pull humans to build nests.

As the day passed, Xuexian wanted to say a lot to Isaar, so even though her legs trembled a little after seeing Isaar, she still walked towards the woods.

Isar is too tall.

If they were close, Xue Xian had to raise his head slightly to meet his gaze.

Just when he opened his lips and wanted to say something to Isar, Isar clasped the back of Xuexian's head with his big hand, then lowered his head, and gently rubbed Xuexian's face with his face. Couples are no different.

Silent.