Jian Luo felt that everything was a dream.

Just at this time yesterday, he was still in the warship thinking about who to distribute the specialties he brought back to, whether his younger brother had grown taller, and whether his mother would cry again when they saw each other after not seeing him for so long.

Will the baby be born safely? The second batch of the elves' dried fruits is about to start pre-sale.

He thought a lot at this time yesterday, but the only thing he didn't expect was that so soon, he didn't have to think about anything anymore, and now it was even a matter of his life.

The queen said, "Luoluo, come, I have prepared a room for you."

Jian Luo was a little surprised: "I still have a room?"

"Of course!" The queen spun around, her smile radiant, a stark contrast to her previous, well-behaved demeanor on that planet. "You're an invited guest, so why would we treat you unfairly?"

Jian Luo didn't know what to say, so he could only say stiffly, "Thank you."

The two of them walked in silence on the same corridor. While walking, Jian Luo could see the people coming and going around him, and without looking carefully, he could also tell which ones were dragons and which ones were people of other races. After staying with Lu Shifeng for a long time, he was very familiar with the breath of the dragon clan.

Whenever a dragon passes by, they will definitely look at him with respect.

The queen said briskly, "You have a lot of Dragon King energy in you. The Dragon Clan has a natural respect and admiration for the Dragon King."

Jian Luo didn't say anything.

"Of course, this might not just be because you're Lu Shifeng's son, it could also be because of the blood in your belly," the queen said. "You might not know this, but there are only two pure-blooded dragons left in the world."

This aroused Jian Luo's curiosity.

The queen deliberately asked him, "Guess which two they are?"

Jian Luo: "I don't know."

"Aren't you curious?"

"No."

“…”

The queen curled her lips, feeling very bored.

But Jian Luo was not really not curious, he could just guess it roughly, because he was too familiar with Lu Shifeng's aura, so he could distinguish people with a similar aura to Lu Shifeng. He had never met him before coming to this warship, but when he saw Yinhui, he felt it.

That kind of strong, burning feeling with a hint of danger.

Yinhui is more dangerous than Lu Shifeng, probably because he is unrestrained, while Lu Shifeng always restrains himself when facing him.

After walking for a while, I finally arrived at the agreed room.

Jian Luo walked in obediently and heard the queen say, "There are books on the table for you to read. The new bracelet you are getting can only be connected to our intranet. If you need anything, you can call me through the bracelet."

Jian Luo nodded.

“Crack.”

The door closed.

After the queen left, Jian Luo was the only one in the room. There was a double bed in the corner of the room. Jian Luo didn't care about anything else and just walked over and lay down.

He was too tired and had been keeping his emotions tense. Although he looked calm on the surface, his legs were a little weak. Now that he was finally alone, he collapsed. However, the bed was a bit hard, and no matter how much he tossed and turned, it was not as comfortable as the elves' beds. Jian Luo struggled for a while and gave up.

…

Outside.

The adjutant and the queen stood in front of the monitor and watched Jane rolling around on the bed, looking completely undignified.

Queen: "Is this a human's bedtime ritual?"

Adjutant: "Humans would give this behavior pattern a name."

"What?"

"I'm so bored."

“…”

The queen propped up her chin and looked at Jian Luo: "I'm warning you, be respectful to him. Not only is she the mother of the future Dragon King, but she might even be his future wife."

The adjutant said, "Isn't Silver Gray interested in these things?"

"He's always on the move." The queen lazily sat on the chaise longue, her red curly hair loose. "Didn't you see him rushing off to film a commercial with her on the first day? Then when he came back, he went out of his way to video chat with her and scare her. Now he's going to all this trouble to get her back."

The adjutant remained silent.

"So," the queen said, glancing at him slowly. "I'm warning you, don't have any bad ideas. The consequences are not something you and I can afford."

The adjutant sneered.

The two people were talking, and Jian Luo in the room had already fallen asleep. He had excellent mental quality and fell into a sound sleep in a short while. He even consciously covered himself with a small quilt.

After waking up, Jian Luo sat up and felt hungry.

"drop."

The wrist clicked.

Jian Luo answered the call, and the queen's voice came from the other side: "Are you awake? I'll take you somewhere."

Jian Luo didn't refuse. After all, it didn't matter where she went, as long as she had good food and drink. After all, the baby in her belly couldn't be hungry, right?

Coming out of the house, Jian Luo met the queen.

The queen smiled and said, "Because you are a human, I have prepared some food that humans like to eat. Come, you will probably like it."

Jian Luo was very curious.

When he arrived at the restaurant, he was shocked by Yinhui's extravagance again. This was truly a restaurant made of real gold and silver. No matter whether it was the dining table or the chairs, they were almost all made of pure gold. It was sparkling everywhere, it was so dazzling that it was blinding.

Jian Luo said, "Has the decoration here always been like this?"

The queen explained, "I swear this isn't my aesthetic. It's all the fault of that vulgar SilverAsh. Of course, isn't that the case with all dragons?"

Jian Luo choked up, "But the dragon clan's warships aren't like this, right?"

The queen smiled and said, "Because Lu Shifeng is a freak."

…

Jian Luo was silent for a while before he said, "He is not."

The queen looked at him.

"Everyone has their own preferences." Jian Luoyou refuted her seriously: "He also has the right to choose his own preferences. He is not a freak."

The queen looked at Jian Luo for a while, and a meaningful smile appeared on her face: "Oh~"

Jian Luo felt uneasy when she looked at him.

When he arrived at the restaurant, he finally knew what the so-called "human-pleasing" ingredients looked like. They were actually some home-cooked stir-fries, and most of them were what he had made when he was on the Industrial Star.

The queen behind said: "I stayed with you for a while, didn't you teach me how to cook? I made these myself, don't worry about eating them, they are not poisonous."

Jian Luo nodded: "Thank you."

Seeing him eating so freely and without the slightest hesitation, the queen became curious: "Aren't you picky at all?"

Jian Luo said, "What's so picky about prison food? It's good enough to have something to eat. Besides, even if you want to kill me, poisoning me would be a waste. My life and death are in your hands now. Is there any need to beat around the bush?"

The queen was silent for a while, then smiled.

Jian Luo finished his meal quietly and even made a request: "I want to take a walk to help digest my food."

The queen agreed.

The silver-gray warship was enormous. At first, Jian Luo hoped that he could find an escape route and planned the way for himself in his mind. However, there were so many twists and turns that he forgot about it as he walked.

The queen saw his intention and said, "Don't waste your time. This place is full of traps and mechanisms. You may not know that SilverAsh is the number one mechanism master in the galaxy. Otherwise, why do you think your man has tolerated him for so long?"

Jian Luo: "Silver Gray is so powerful, why does he have to be a bandit?"

After all, he is a dragon, and he also has strong strength. No matter what, he can be reused anywhere. Why would he engage in such a dangerous job?

The queen took Jian Luo to the door of a room and said to him, "So what if he's powerful? Lu Shifeng is so powerful, but can't he still only be the Dragon King?"

“…”

Jian Luo was speechless for a moment.

He thought this sentence was a bit strange, but he couldn't tell exactly what was strange about it.

The door of the room was opened, and the entire hall was very spacious. On the throne at the top, Silver Gray was sitting there with his legs crossed.

"Here we are," said the Queen.

Silver Gray glanced at Jian Luo and asked, "What do you usually do when you're free at Lu Shifeng's place?"

Jian Luo said honestly: "Read a book, go for a run, surf the Internet, and do business."

Silver Gray was a little shocked.

Inexplicably, Jian Luo felt a little offended, because from the silver-gray eyes, he inexplicably felt that he was like a country bumpkin, the kind of insignificant person who had no entertainment activities.

Silver Gray waved at Jian Luo, his mask gleaming coldly under the light: "Come."

Jian Luo didn't want to move.

"Hurry up." Silver Gray was impatient: "Don't let me find you by myself."

“…”

The queen comforted Jian Luo: "It's okay, he just likes to scare people."

Jian Luo didn't feel comforted at all, but he still took a step forward and finally sat down next to Yinhui. Yinhui pressed some button, and the curtains in the entire hall dropped and the lights dimmed a lot, as if they were about to watch a movie.

Jian Luo was very curious: "What do you want to see?"

Silver Gray leaned lazily in his chair: "Look at something interesting."

After just a few moments, something appeared on the screen. It looked like a documentary. The figure on it was blurry at first, but gradually became clearer.

There were a few old men standing in front of two dragon eggs.

"This is the last batch of replicas."

"We have already paid too much to make these pure-blood dragon eggs. We cannot make any more sacrifices..."

"What's the big deal? Everything is for the future of the dragon race. Sacrificing some people is to allow more people to live well."

Behind these old men, there is a densely packed wall, which is divided into many small grids. Inside, there are many dragon eggs floating, and these eggs are pierced by a straw to provide nutrients to the two dragon eggs in the middle.

A general's success is built on the bones of thousands of soldiers. The birth of the Dragon King was full of sin from the moment he was born.

Silver Gray said, "Hey, guess which one is me?"

“…”

Jian Luo was originally fascinated by what he saw and was in a very heavy mood. After being disturbed by Yin Hui's words, he didn't know what to say.

Silver Gray pointed at one of them and said, "That one."

Jian Luo looked at the red egg and subconsciously said, "Is that you?"

"no."

“…”

Silver Gray then pointed at the silver egg next to him: "That's me."

Jian Luo's gaze was still on the screen. This was the first time he had faced such cruelty. He didn't dare to count how many dragon eggs were on the wall behind him. The shock he faced made his whole heart tremble. What if those eggs were alive...

SilverAsh said, "This is just the beginning."

The film is still going on. It seems to be just a patchwork of images from some surveillance cameras. There is no story logic at all. It just plays whatever comes to mind.

Slowly, the camera changed again.

There were two boys lying on the cold hospital beds. The children were very young, probably only a few years old, and were surrounded by a group of people in white coats. The dragon was too small to retract its scales, so the medical staff wanted to take samples and just picked them off its body and took them away.

Only the dragon clan knew how painful it was to remove the scales, but the two children had no expression on their faces. They seemed to be used to it, or they knew that crying and struggling would not bring any help.

Silver Gray said, "Guess which one is me?"

Jian Luo had no expression on his face: "The one with white hair."

"Why?" Silver Gray asked excitedly, "Because he's so handsome?"

Jian Luo said honestly: "Because adults' eyes are red, the eyes of the black-haired person next to him are also red."

Silver Gray curled his lips, probably thinking it was boring.

The scene continued. After everyone left, the white-haired child wanted to get up from the bed, but finally fell. He began to cry and wipe his tears, while the little boy with black hair and dragon horns on his head just watched it all quietly.

Finally, the black-haired child seemed to say something, and the white-haired child stopped crying.

Silver Gray said, "Guess what he said?"

Jian Luo said without a second thought: "Crying is the most incompetent behavior of a coward."

?

Silver Gray was shocked: "You know all this."

"I know." Jian Luo said expressionlessly, "He also said that to me when I was crying."

“…”

Silver Gray choked a little.

The footage continued. In the surveillance documentary, the two children grew up slowly, and the medical staff became more and more disappointed in them. Various data showed that these two pure-blooded dragons were too weak and they were failures.

The more expectations people place on them, the deeper the disappointment they will receive in the end.

They even stopped avoiding it and discussed it face to face:

“Should we start cultivating it again?”

"There's no way. This is the last batch. The gene pool left by the old Dragon King is gone."

"Then..."

Someone turned around and looked at the two of them, and the meaning was very clear.

If the new Dragon King fails to meet their expectations, they can only take unconventional measures. To these people, this is not a child, but just a replica of a machine.

SilverAsh said, "Between him and me, I'm the weaker one."

Jian Luo felt a little complicated.

"They wanted to rebuild me." Silver Gray picked up the wine glass beside him. "Just the night before last, we ran away. We could have left together, but after I got out, he didn't leave. Do you know what he said?"

Jian Luo: "What?"

"He said the dragon race couldn't just disappear like this," Silver Gray said slowly. "He said he wanted to stay, to see his race through to the end."

Yinhui always thought that Lu Shifeng was a madman. He knew that if he went back, he might face death. He knew that the dragon clan would not treat him with any warmth. He knew that the extinction of this race was only a matter of time.

But Lu Shifeng would only say: "Someone has to take responsibility."

If it's not them, it will be someone else.

Silver Gray threw the wine glass aside and said, "I snatched you away for your own good. Do you know what Dark Star will be waiting for you?"

Jian Luo remained silent.

"I'm not investigating you right now simply because I'm afraid of hurting the child." SilverAsh pulled up DarkStar's current hospital surveillance footage. "The dragons can treat their own eggs this way, so how could they be so lenient with an outsider like you?"

Silver Gray sighed: "Not only you, but even the ones in your belly will be sent for research."

Jian Luo widened his eyes slightly.

Silver Gray's lips curled up in a sarcastic smile. "If they unfortunately inherit even a little bit of human fragility, they'll be greeted with endless disappointment and endless pressure. If you disagree, they'll use the fate of your race to morally blackmail you. If you agree, that's best. If you don't, there are other ways."

Jian Luo didn't want to listen to what she said. He didn't want to know about these things at all: "Don't say anymore."

The queen sitting below interrupted at the right moment, "Luoluo, I told you this a long time ago, but you didn't believe me. So, how about this? Let's play a game and make a bet. If you win, we'll let you go. If you lose, you'll just believe what we say. How about that?"