Chapter 333 Extra

This world is not normal.

This is the conclusion reached after long-term observation.

He was leaning against the window in the room, his eyes wandering around aimlessly.

This window had been in disrepair for a long time, and the glass had long been loose and shaky, ready to fall. Zhi Lan seemed unaware, and he leaned against the window. Soon, the glass on the window surface could no longer withstand the pressure of his body, and cracks slowly appeared.

“Crack.”

After a crisp cracking sound, the entire glass in the window shattered. Zhi Lan was caught off guard and fell off the edge.

"Bang--"

Just as Chi Lan had predicted, he fell on top of a thick patch of grass. The dense grass below provided a cushion for him, and he was not hurt at all.

But according to his observation just now, this place was originally an empty lot without any weeds.

The grass had suddenly grown as he fell.

Zhi Lan's pupils moved. The surroundings were empty and sparsely populated. He did not see any suspicious people. Zhi Lan frowned, slowly got up from the ground, and walked towards his castle little by little.

This is not the first time.

Almost every time... every time something unexpected happens to Zhi Lan, something abnormal happens in this world.

The sudden growth of weeds, the sudden strong wind, the inexplicable thunder and lightning...they will all help Chi Lan to avoid an accident.

This will keep Zhi Lan safe and sound.

Zhi Lan felt strange. He had lived here for a long time and rarely came into contact with people from the outside world. However, based on the offerings he had made in the past, the dragons from the outside world still regarded him as unknown and avoided him.

When did these strange phenomena appear?

Zhu Lan's head was heavy, and he slowly returned to his room and lay down. The window was wide open, and there was a big hole in the glass, so cold wind poured in from time to time.

He fished out a small shell from under his pillow. It was crescent-shaped and came from the distant coast of Santa Limia.

Zhi Lan stroked the surface of the shell, but he couldn't even remember when he had picked it up.

He often stayed alone in the castle, limiting his movements to a radius of 100 to 200 meters, and never went to the coast.

How did he come to have this shell?

Did he pick it up himself or was it given to him by someone else?

If it was given by someone else, then who gave it to them?

The more Zhi Lan thought about it, the more confused he became. He had many suspicions, but he couldn't remember anything.

He seemed to have had a serious illness, and just after recovering, he inexplicably forgot a lot of things.

Zhi Lan frowned, wrapped himself in the quilt, closed his eyes, and faintly smelled a hint of flower scent.

Gentle and delicate, it surrounds him tightly, like a long-lasting embrace.

"Who?" Zhi Lan opened his eyes in the darkness. He looked at the darkness around him and asked uncontrollably, "Who are you?"

As always, no one answered this time.

Zhi Lan curled up his body and sniffed the floral scent in the air, feeling it gradually fade from strong to weak and then slowly dissipate in the air.

Eventually disappeared.

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Zhi Lan decided to leave the castle the next day.

He has lived in this place for more than ten years. Due to the jealousy of the dragons from the outside world, he has never set foot on the land outside this sea.

But now...Zhi Lan was walking along the path in the woods. He turned his head and felt a pair of prying eyes quickly passing over him.

It's fleeting, so fast that it's almost imperceptible.

Zhi Lan stood there for a few seconds. He scanned the surrounding environment, the grass, the ancient castle, the river... He did not see any trace of human existence.

The gate of the castle was locked. Zhi Lan stood there in silence for a few seconds. He grabbed the suitcase with one hand and turned to leave through the path.

The forest road leading to the coast of Santa Limia is long and winding. Zhi Lan dragged his heavy suitcase and stumbled along the way, from dawn to dusk.

He stopped in front of a totem hidden in the grass.

Zhi Lan had not discovered the totem before, but he saw many charred snake corpses on the road, and then he followed the clues and found the totem hidden in the bushes.

Zhi Lan had seen this totem before. As a member of the dragon clan, he was familiar with all the totems related to his clan.

This totem...is the Dragon Slayer Totem.

There were at least a dozen burnt snake carcasses on the ground. Zhi Lan put down the suitcase in his hand, glanced at the scene around him, and vaguely smelled some strange floral scent in the air.

Zhi Lan withdrew his gaze, and when he no longer saw any other human figures, he suddenly stretched his foot above the totem.

[Buzz——Buzz——]

There seemed to be a sound of something vibrating in the air, and Zhi Lan immediately retracted his raised foot. He caught a glimpse of a dark shadow sneaking out from the side, and quickly turned sideways to hide.

The figure that was rushing towards him paused when he saw this. He changed direction and followed Zhi Lan into the bushes without thinking.

“Hmm!”

Zhi Lan didn't expect that this thing could change direction midway. He was hit by a hard object and his ribs were blunt and painful. He grabbed the hair of the thing with one hand and rolled into the deep grass with it.

"Who are you?" Zhi Lan reacted quickly. He had made sufficient preparations before leaving the castle. Now his body was half-dragon, and he used brute force to suppress the figure below.

[Buzz——Buzz——]

The sound of electronic vibrations continued. Ji Lan frowned and looked down, and was stunned when she saw the man's appearance.

This can hardly be called a person.

He had no hair, glass eyes, and his face was covered with a layer of skin made of an unknown substance, which was covered with black marks that were about to crack.

Chi Lan belatedly realized the touch of the "hair" in his hand: dry, stiff, and prickly. It turned out to be yellowed straw.

"you……"

Zhi Lan looked down and found that the monster had a long and heavy dragon tail behind it. The dragon scales covering it were incomplete, and the blood vessels inside were all wires.

Zhi Lan's mind went blank for a moment. He saw the monster struggling to escape, so he grabbed his tail and dragged him back from the ground.

"Who are you?" Zhi Lan bent his knees and pressed on the monster's back. He asked in a sharp voice, "Why are you following me?"

[Buzz——Buzz——]

The monster he was pressing down was not very tall. His hands, wrapped in thin wires, kept scratching the ground, making a mechanical vibration sound.

Zhi Lan felt strange. He pinched the monster's neck and forced him to turn his head. He saw that his mouth was tightly closed, and his lips seemed to have never been open, and were stitched together into a dead line.

"You can't speak?" asked Zhi Lan.

The monster's glass eyes looked forward and fixed on Zhi Lan's face.

The muscles in his jaw moved, but his lips still wouldn't open.

Zhi Lan had already guessed what was going on. He said, "You can't speak, but you can understand what I say, right?"

【Buzz.】

The monster's body shook twice.

Zhi Lan raised his eyebrows: "You are... a robot?"

As he spoke, he looked at the long black dragon tail trailing behind the monster and felt an inexplicable palpitation in his heart.

"I know you've been staring at me for a long time. Why are you following me?" Xi Lan threw the monster down and asked, "Did someone send you here? The dragon outside? Or someone else?"

The monster didn't say anything. He sat on the ground, looking up at Zhi Lan motionlessly.

Zhi Lan's communication with him was completely useless. The monster was unable to speak and could not provide Zhi Lan with any valuable information.

"Don't follow me, got it?" Zhi Lan didn't find the control device on him, so he picked up the suitcase again and pointed the gun at the monster's head.

"I'll give you three seconds now. If you can run away, I'll let you go. If you can't run away..."

The monster still looked up at him, its white glass eyes were empty, staring straight at Zhi Lan, no one knew what it was looking at.

Zhi Lan had no expression on his face: “One.”

The monster's eyes moved.

"two."

【……】

Seeing that he was completely unmoved, Zhi Lan narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Three."

Zhi Lan was about to pull the trigger, and the monster sensed it and immediately covered his head with both hands.

[Buzz——]

After a slight sound, a few small flowers bloomed in the straw on the monster's head.

Zhi Lan: “…”

The flowers are very small, with pure white petals, tiny golden stamens, and a slight fragrance around them.

Chi Lan looked at him for a while, then said, "Are you begging for mercy from me, or are you being coquettish?"

The monster had a blank expression. He plucked a bunch of flowers and plants off his head and hesitantly put them into Zhi Lan's hand.

The temperature of those hands was much lower than that of ordinary people. Xi Lan glanced at the flowers in his hands and smiled inexplicably.

"Okay, I'll let you go." Zhi Lan put away his gun, picked up the suitcase beside him, and continued on his way. "Don't follow me, and don't let me see you again."

The monster stopped where it was, and after Zhi Lan turned and left, he also stood up.

Zhi Lan's steps were very fast, and soon his figure was submerged by the surrounding trees.

The monster watched him walk away, then staggered forward two steps. However, the dragon tail behind him was too heavy, and it prevented him from moving forward.

In less than a minute, all the flowers on his head had fallen off, and the falling petals mixed with the straw.

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Zhi Lan didn't make it to the coast in the end.

Not long after he left the woods, the sky suddenly became overcast and it started to rain heavily, destroying a bridge he had to cross.

Zhi Lan was soaked all over and had to turn around and rush back to the castle where he used to live.

Fortunately, the electronic products in the suitcase were not affected. After returning, Zhi Lan took a shower, wrapped himself in a bath towel and lay down on the bed to rest.

The air was filled with a strong floral scent.

Zhi Lan pinched the tip of his nose, frowned, and sat up in bed. It was pitch black outside the window, and no one else was visible within the surveillance range.

But the strange flower smell lingered in the house for a long time. Zhi Lan checked the house several times and saw a few small drops of wet water on the wooden floor.

Xi Lan narrowed his eyes and walked forward following the traces of falling raindrops, finally stopping in front of his closet.

"Do you want to come out on your own, or do you want me to pull you out?"

There was no sound in the closet, as if everything was just Zhi Lan talking to himself.

Zhi Lan sneered, and two or three seconds after he finished speaking, he opened the door of the closet.

As he expected, the clothes in the closet were in disarray, and his previously neatly folded shirts, trousers, short-sleeved shirts, etc. were all turned upside down. The rain mixed with mud stained his clothes, and the closet was filled with a pungent floral scent.

The pair of glass eyes were quietly hiding in the corner of the closet.

Perhaps it was because the light outside was too bright, he moved his eyes with a rare expression.

Zhi Lan's expression gradually turned cold. Without saying a word, he grabbed the little monster by the collar and dragged him out of the closet.

"What do you mean?" Zhi Lan stared at him. He was about to curse when he happened to notice that the clothes on this monster looked familiar.

He paused. "Whose clothes are you wearing? ...Mine?"

The monster held onto his belt with both hands to prevent Xi Lan from pulling his pants off. Xi Lan was as strong as the monster, and he used a lot of force to see a corner of the edge of his underwear.

Zhi Lan sighed: "Why are you following me?"

The monster remained silent. He couldn't speak, but just clutched the corner of his shirt, his eyes rolling upwards from time to time.

Zhi Lan looked at his dragon's tail. The tail was already badly cracked, and now it was washed by the heavy rain, and many of the scales on it were shaking and about to fall off.

...Is he a robot or a dragon?

Zhi Lan had a headache. He squatted down and said to the monster face to face: "I can take you in, but shouldn't you be reasonable? What is this about you now?"

The monster stared at Zhi Lan. He didn't know whether he understood what Zhi Lan said. Soon after, he reached out and touched Zhi Lan's cheek.

The freezing temperature froze him to the spot.

[Buzz——]

The contact lasted only a second or two, and the monster quickly withdrew its hand.

"What do you want to tell me?" Zhi Lan covered his right cheek with one hand. He looked at the monster with a complicated look for a moment, "I don't understand."

The monster didn't say anything else. He stood up and took two tentative steps forward. There weren't many things in Zhilan's room. He looked around aimlessly for a while, then suddenly bent down and crawled under Zhilan's bed.

Zhi Lan: “…”

"Come out." Zhi Lan stopped beside the bed, squatted down and said to the inside, "Hurry up, come out."

The monster had squeezed to the innermost corner, with its tail curled up, staring at Zhi Lan motionlessly.