Chapter 194: Dragon Valley (27)

It was a very cute little dragon's head, with thin milky white scales and small horns with light red tips that looked soft. Its eyes were very big and a very clear blue.

The little dragon looked so fragile when it broke out of its shell that Su Yue was worried that it would die if it got wet in the rain.

He immediately took up his sleeve to shield Xiaolong from the rain, but when he raised his hand he suddenly realized that the rain had stopped.

It’s raining so hard, and it just...stopped?

Su Yue's thoughts paused for a moment. He looked up and saw that the sky had cleared up and was as blue as translucent glass. The night turned into day in an instant, and even the raging wildfire had stopped.

He seemed to be standing suddenly in the early morning jungle, the pink morning mist with a thin layer of dew reflected the rainbow light and reflected in his sight.

Su Yue:?

Su Yue:? ? ?

Even though he had traveled through many worlds and seen many things, this sudden change in weather still shocked him. He turned his gaze back in disbelief to the dragon egg in his hand and the little thing that had just emerged.

The dragon boy said that the dragon cub in this dragon egg has the "power of purification". Is this "power of purification" really so powerful?

The dragon cub sensed Su Yue's gaze and looked up at him. Its big blue eyes were as transparent as sea water. Su Yue met its gaze and suddenly felt dizzy.

Just like the two previous times he fell into memory, he fell without any warning.

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This time, Su Yue finally saw the truth of the whole world, just like watching the CG after completing the game.

The thing called "black afterimage" in the description of the dragon boy is actually a magical beast that can cause illusions, called a "barrier beast". The illusion of a naked beauty that Su Yue saw when he first entered the cave was this kind of thing.

The power of the barrier beast itself is very weak. Although it can capture prey with illusions and use some magic, its lifespan is short, its limbs are weak, and its half-real and half-fake body makes it impossible for it to move.

Therefore, the barrier beast set its sights on the most arrogant and powerful race, the dragon clan.

Through illusions, the barrier beasts bewitched the then-leader of the dragon clan into mating with them. The offspring were no longer pure-blooded dragons, but the barrier beasts lacked any physical presence, so their bloodline rarely manifested in the next generation of hybrid dragons. New barrier beasts then continued to seduce these hybrid dragons and mate with them. Over time, the dragon clan became imbued with the barrier beasts' bloodlines, becoming their hosts.

This "host" relationship is a bit like the strangler vine and old tree in plants. Although the vine is only thinly wrapped around the tree trunk at the beginning, as if absorbing a little nutrition and light is enough, but after a long time, you will suddenly find that the vine has sucked the trunk dry, leaving only an empty shell of the tree, and the vine has taken its place and become the real master.

However, not all dragons have the blood of the barrier beast. Many dragons would be tempted by the erotic illusions created by the barrier beast, but not all, so not all dragons are controlled by the barrier beast. However, because the leader of the dragon clan at that time was completely controlled by the barrier beast, it was useless for other dragons to have opinions.

But if this continued, naturally, two positions would emerge within the dragon clan: the controlled dragons and the uncontrolled dragons. Then came the scene that Su Yue saw in the dragon boy's memory:

A fierce civil war broke out among the dragon clan. The battle lasted for seven days and seven nights. By then, many dragons had been disintegrated by the barrier beasts. They retained the appearance of dragons on the surface, but their bones were corroded black. In fact, apart from the appearance, they were no different from the barrier beasts.

The dragon clan was defeated in this battle.

After the defeat, the dragon clan was cursed and suppressed here. Only the most powerful deputy leader at that time, the dragon god hovering in the sky, escaped.

If Su Yue had not rescued the young dragon that was suppressed deep in the formation, the dragon clan would have been trapped in this town forever.

It must be said that the "obstacle beast" was quite clever, using seduction to manipulate a race that was several times stronger than itself.

It's just that exterminating other races for the sake of one's own race is indeed immoral, so it's normal that it can't succeed.

Now that the curse has been lifted, the hidden mission of "helping the dragons escape" has been completed. So...

Su Yue was thinking, when suddenly he felt dizzy again and the picture began to spin rapidly.

According to previous experience, he should be leaving his memory and returning to reality, so he was prepared.

But this time when his vision regained clarity, what Su Yue saw was not the scene in the Dragon Clan game world, but a lush farmland.

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Su Yue:...?

What is going on?

Did he see another dragon's memory? The CG hasn't finished yet?

But if it was the memory of the dragon clan, this piece of farmland was quite outrageous. There couldn't be farmland in this town, and the dragon clan didn't look like they could farm. What made Su Yue even more puzzled was that this piece of farmland looked somewhat familiar to him.

What is going on?

Su Yue's mind was almost a mess. Just as he was racking his brains to figure out what was going on, a young man appeared on the ridge of the field in his sight. The young man was wearing white clothes, carrying a bamboo box on his back, and wearing a straw hat. He was strolling on the ridge of the field. He looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old, with picturesque eyebrows, red lips and white teeth.

The first time Su Yue saw the young man, he was frozen in place.

Although the memory is already fuzzy, there is no doubt that this face, which was carved out of the same mold as his...

The young man in front of him is Su Yue himself when he was still a mortal.

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Su Yue has a very vague memory of the time before he became a god. He only knows that he was once a human being and that he fell in love with Cang Zhi at first sight. Apart from that, he can't remember anything else.

Qi Wujiu said that it was because on the day he ascended to godhood, the Lord God happened to be leading a group of divine soldiers and generals to fight against the ghost realm. Perhaps the scene was too spectacular and the battle was too fierce, which shocked his brain.

Su Yue was furious at the time: "Are you saying I'm stupid?!"

Now he recognized that the protagonist in his memory was Xiao Suyue, but Suyue was even more confused. Isn't this a game about dragons? It's normal for him to see the CG of the dragons, but why is he seeing himself?

Su Yue suddenly realized it was probably the protective shield around the eggshell that was causing the problem. If there hadn't been a bug, the power of the fruit would have allowed the dragon to hatch. When he looked into the dragon's eyes, he would have seen only the past of the dragon race. But to help the eggshell hatch, he had injected divine power into the dragon egg.

Most likely, this divine power merged with the young dragon, so that when Su Yue sank into his memories, he even sank into memories related to himself.

I've forgotten it anyway, so I'll just take a look.

Human Su Yue was walking on the ridge of the field. It was a very peaceful scene, but suddenly, six or seven strong men rushed out from the field and ran towards him.

When the human Su Yue looked back and saw the group of farmers, his face changed. He wanted to run, but looking at his physique compared to those tall and strong men, he knew that he could not outrun them. Sure enough, he was soon stopped. The leader pulled off the bamboo box on his shoulder and threw it into the mud in the field.

With a loud splash, pills, powder wrapped in oil paper, plasters... all fell out of the bamboo box and were half-sunk and half-floating in the black muddy water between the ridges of the fields.

The human Su Yue's expression changed, "You..."

The burly man in the lead sneered, revealing a mouthful of large, dark yellow teeth. "Didn't I tell you not to go to the seven villages near the water and do your free medical practice?"

The human Su Yue hesitated for a moment and said, "But the elderly people in your village have chronic illnesses. If I don't go, their illnesses will flare up every time it rains, and they'll suffer terribly."

"If they're suffering, let them come to us and buy medicine!" The farmer's eyes widened and he shouted, "You don't even want to buy the medicine, and you're expecting to be cured? How can such a good thing fall from the sky?"

"But there are always people in dire straits who can't afford to spend the extra money," Su Yue said. "I... I promised you that I wouldn't interfere with the medical services of anyone who has money to see your doctors. But do you think I'll just ignore those poor farmers? I'm just treating these people, so does that bother you?"

The sturdy man's face changed and he pushed Su Yue's shoulder hard. Su Yue when he was a human was far less capable of fighting than the God Su Yue. He staggered back a step, his center of gravity unstable, and he sat down on the ground with a "bang".

It must be very painful, Su Yue frowned slightly.

"That ridiculous fee you charged is no different from nothing! Everyone knows there's a free doctor in Linshui Village 7, so who would still come to us for treatment?" the burly man angrily asked. "You're a barefoot doctor, and you're going against this clinic? Or are you banking on this reputation to profit from it?"

Su Yue seemed to flinch for a moment, but finally said, "A plaster that sells for eight coins in Jianghuai City is sold ten times as high here, at eight coins. Furthermore, you have people guarding the village roads, forbidding anyone from going to the city for medical treatment. Villagers desperate for medical attention have to sneak out of the village through the pond in the dead of night."

At this point, Su Yue's face was filled with a hint of disgust: "Even without me, you still can't sell the medicine that you can't sell."

This sentence completely infuriated the strong man. He cursed "Fuck you" and punched Su Yue in the face.

Su Yue did react and quickly blocked the punch with his arm, but due to the difference in strength, he was still knocked to the ground by the punch.

The big man smiled grimly, revealing his teeth blackened and yellowed by smoke. "You're a stubborn person, aren't you? Then I'll send you to hell today!"

As soon as he said this, the strong men who were watching from behind surrounded him and were about to start a flurry of punches. But at the moment when the first man's fist hit Su Yue, the man suddenly screamed and flew backwards like a sack, somersaulted several times, and with a "bang", he fell firmly into the mud in the field, right next to Su Yue's small bamboo box.

Su Yue opened his eyes wide in surprise, not knowing what was going on. The strong men were also stunned. They hesitated for a moment, feeling that it was the attacker's own fault, so the second man punched him again.

There was a louder scream, and the man flew farther away like a torn bag.

At this point, the strong men felt something was wrong. They screamed and scattered like birds and beasts, but even so they could not escape.

The strong man who was running suddenly screamed, as if he was punched by the ground. Then he took off directly, somersaulted several times, and fell with a "bang" between the first and second people.

Afterwards, there was a series of bangs and bangs. By the time Su Yue came to his senses, the group of strong men had collapsed on top of each other. They weren't dead, but they looked like they were beaten unconscious. It was likely that they would never dare to bother Su Yue again in their lifetime.

Su Yue was still sitting there, ignoring the pain in his arm. He was shocked and delighted. Although the strange power threw everyone next to him out, Su Yue could feel that the power was kind to him. He didn't know where the telepathy came from.

Only when those strong men struggled to get up and ran away howling like ghosts and wolves did Su Yue turn around and look back.

Cang Zhi, dressed in a black robe with only red trimmings on the cuffs and collar, stood quietly by the bamboo forest. His figure was straight and handsome, like an immortal stepping out of a painting. When their eyes met, he might have nodded to Su Yue, or maybe not, simply watching her quietly.

That was the first time Su Yue and Cang Zhi met.

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Su Yue couldn't remember how he later learned Cang Zhi was a god. His memories of his struggles to ascend from mortal to god were equally hazy, as he truly couldn't recall them, not even in his flashbacks. He only remembered the day he ascended to godhood. The moment he ascended into the sky, he was startled by the rolling clouds. It was a massive battle, but Su Yue's memory was of the moment the gods returned home.

The main god at the front of the team was wearing an inky black robe, with only the cuffs and collar edged with vibrant red. All the lesser gods lined up on both sides of the team to welcome him, cheering loudly.

Later, Su Yue became a Supreme God and a colleague of Cang Zhi. He really didn't know why, but many of his memories before that were very vague, and only after working with Cang Zhi did his memories become clear.

Together they traveled to the human world and the ghost world to suppress monsters that shouldn't have appeared and to put an end to disasters that shouldn't have happened.

Su Yue's memories were filled with fragments. Cang Zhi had saved him, just as he had saved him all those years ago, saving both humans and ghosts. Gods, though not selfish, held the principles of justice. It was precisely because of those moments that Su Yue's affection for Cang Zhi became clearer. He not only admired Cang Zhi's handsome appearance and strength, but also loved every moment when he intervened without having to.

Finally, they drank on the boat, and Su Yue, under the influence of alcohol, mustered up the courage to confess his love to Cang Zhi. What followed was a relationship that was a failure from every perspective.

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Su Yue suddenly woke up from his memories and found himself lying on the clean bed in the single room in the rest area. This was the small room he had set up for himself by taking advantage of his position. Whenever he left the game, he would appear here.

It seems that during the time he was lost in his memories, the game had already been settled and the mission was successfully completed.

Su Yue came back to his senses and finally closed his eyes.

The game itself doesn’t matter, but the memories of Cangzhi are too strong, so he needs to slow down.

He always knew that Cang Zhi was a good person. If he wasn't very good, he wouldn't like him. He was a very good colleague, the best partner, and an excellent god.

Su Yue's biggest mistake was that when Cang Zhi rescued him from the troublesome humans in that distant year, he fell in love with Cang Zhi in a way he shouldn't have.

He thought that after working together for so long, Cangzhi's obedience, responsiveness to his every request, and gentleness... were all responses to him.

But if you think about it carefully, is there anything special about Cang Zhi's treatment of him?

Even though Cangzhi said he liked her, he also said he liked her when they broke up, so she didn't feel loved.

Gods have no selfish desires, so why would Cang Zhi treat him in any special way?

"Boom, boom, boom."

There was a knock on the door.

Su Yue was stunned. His lounge was not accessible to everyone, and ordinary players couldn't even see it, so he immediately stood up and looked out through the peephole. He was stunned.

The person standing outside the door was Cang Zhi.

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Su Yue hesitated for a moment and wanted to run back and pretend to sleep because he felt that this was not right and he should not let himself fall into the same trap again.

But if he thinks about it carefully, working with Cang Zhi is inevitable now, so he should have more contact with her to desensitize himself.

So Su Yue opened the door anyway.

"What do you have—"

Su Yue's thought of "things" was blocked by the box that was suddenly handed to him. He stared at the necklace in the box in amazement.

This was a necklace he had loved in the prop shop. He would go check it out after every game, but he didn't have the points to buy it. Then one day, the necklace disappeared, bought by someone else, and Su Yue never looked at it again.

Su Yue looked at the necklace in disbelief, then looked at Cang Zhi who was standing in front of him with a serious expression.

He's a little confused.

"For you." Cang Zhi said.