Chapter 188: Dragon Valley (21)
When Cang Zhi walked past Su Yue, he seemed to want to say something, but in the end he was afraid of making Su Yue angry, so he didn't dare to say it.
When the two were about to pass each other, Su Yue said, "If you have anything, please contact me immediately."
After all, no matter how much you quarrel, the task still needs to be completed normally.
Zhao Shuo left, and the Duke and the other three also left. The remaining people were free to move around. Su Yue ignored them and walked straight to the town outside.
Su Yue saw in the library yesterday that as long as one drinks the same cup of wine containing bay leaves, jujube flower cores, snail fruits and ambergris as a dragon, one will have the ability to communicate with the dragon for a short period of time.
Su Yue has discovered that the place where the little boy often squats is the entrance of a tavern. This is an obvious hint, which means that his investigation direction is correct.
Now, as long as we can invite the dragon boy to drink the same glass of wine, we can find out the truth of the town.
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The sun was very strong and it seemed as if the weather in the town had always been scorching hot. The townspeople were all taking shelter in the shade of the trees.
When Su Yue came over, they were all alert and squinted their eyes to watch his every move.
This time I saw clearly that their eyes were different from those of humans. Although their pupils were brown, their pupils were vertical lines, which made it easy to think of animals like dragons and snakes.
Su Yue ignored these unfriendly townspeople and walked straight to the corner of the town's path. There was a very tall ancient tree there, which looked very old. The dragon boy often squatted on the stone platform under the ancient tree. Behind the ancient tree was the tavern that Su Yue saw.
The cabin looked quite shabby, with the doors and windows tightly closed. Logically, Su Yue shouldn't have been able to tell what the cabin was used for, but there was a tattered sign hanging outside the window with a picture of a wine glass on it, and the meaning was too obvious.
The dragon boy was still squatting on the stone platform under the big tree outside. He was thin and small, but his eyes were very clear. At this moment, the dragon boy looked at Su Yue with his eyes wide open, just like many times before.
When Su Yue walked over, the eyes of all the townspeople nearby were immediately focused on him.
In fact, the townspeople had also been looking at Su Yue before, but before it was more like indiscriminate observation, but now it was focused on him. It was like being stared at by countless flashing red cameras.
Facing so many gazes, any normal person would have their scalp tingling, but Su Yue didn't feel anything and just walked straight over.
The dragon boy kept looking at Su Yue with his eyes wide open until Su Yue stopped a few steps away from him.
Su Yue didn't understand what the dragon boy was saying, but the dragon boy understood him.
So Su Yue asked, "Want to go for a drink?"
If gazes had substance, the gazes of the other Dragon Clan townspeople would have pierced Su Yue like a sieve. Some had even stood up.
As long as the dragon boy showed any reluctance, there would be no doubt that they would attack immediately.
Su Yue pretended not to see anything, his eyes were only on the face of the dragon boy.
The young man looked at him cautiously. He was sitting on the stone platform, supporting himself with his hands, so his shoulders were hunched and his head was slightly tilted.
Even though he is in human form now, this action clearly has a "unhuman" feeling.
The boy stood up and followed Su Yue to the tavern.
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Inside the pub, the lights were dim, and the owner sat behind the bar, wiping the glass in his hand, his face expressionless.
Su Yue walked over: "I'd like a glass of wine, thank you."
Then he mentioned the four ingredients.
The boss neither nodded nor shook his head, his face cold as he turned back to mix the cocktail. Clear bubbles rose from the transparent bottom of the wine, and then he added light green leaves, pink berries, silver rock sand, and dark green fruit cores, and shook it up and down in the shaker.
What was poured out was a cup of mud-colored, viscous liquid with suspicious bubbles.
Su Yue: "..."
How is this done?
The sullen boss slammed the suspicious object down in front of Su Yue, causing his face to turn green. While he wasn't as particular as Qi Wujiu, he was also someone who looked at reviews before choosing a place to eat.
If it weren't for the task before him, he would never touch this cup.
Although his eyebrows were almost furrowed in his heart, Su Yue still looked calm.
He tilted his head back and took a sip of the wine, only to find that it tasted just as bad as he had imagined. If there was any special feature, it was that it was very refreshing.
But the more unpalatable the food was, the more gentle and polite Su Yueshen became.
He swallowed the wine gracefully and pushed the glass towards the young man who had sat down next to him at some point.
The young man drank the wine in the glass without hesitation. His pupils glowed with a faint yellow light.
Starting from the coolness in his throat, Su Yue felt a slight, pulse-like tremor. This feeling was quite familiar to him, similar to the feeling he had when he ate the fruit.
In a slight dizziness, Su Yue sank into the illusion of the dragon clan.
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On the devastated battlefield, dragons were fighting each other, just like the dragon bones seen in the tombs. They bit each other, their sharp claws digging into the scales and armor, fighting with flesh and blood.
The place where they fought seemed to be a platform somewhere on the mountain, with a cliff next to it. Their thick tails hit the ground, causing the earth to tremble, and sand and rocks to fly everywhere. Any dragon that accidentally fell into a disadvantageous position would be pushed off the cliff.
Some dragons flapped their wings and flew up again, while others never came back.
Su Yue saw that the rock nest next to him was actually a dragon's nest, with two eggs in it.
The two eggs were both very beautiful pink-gold color, shining with a bright light. One was larger and the other was slightly smaller.
It is natural for all animals to protect their young, and they would fight where there were dragon eggs, which means that these dragons were fighting deep in their lairs.
So is it an internal conflict among the dragon clan?
A closer look revealed that they weren't dragons. Each time a dragon attacked, it left a black afterimage. The afterimage resembled some kind of ghost, carrying an unpleasant, decayed aura. In short, it was definitely not a dragon.
Su Yue recalled the dragon bones he saw in the cave. Some of the dragon bones had turned black. He suddenly realized that the black afterimages and the black dragon bones might have some connection, or that the dragons with black bones were the kind of dragons that would leave afterimages.
The dragons with afterimages gradually gained the upper hand in the battle, and the next scene was actually in the town.
The town seemed to have just been built at that time, with only a small path made of loess.
The townspeople looked at each other with anger and panic in their eyes.
In his peripheral vision, small houses and trees were constantly being built, and Su Yue's perspective suddenly turned to the little boy himself. He repeatedly looked in the direction of the black pillar, as if looking for something.
His vision suddenly became dizzy and Su Yue was brought back to reality.
He leaned back and found something soft. He bounced up in response and found himself pulled into a small room behind the curtain. He was curled up on a soft sofa bed. The dragon boy and the tavern owner were watching over him on his left and right.
It was as if they regarded him as the hope of the whole village.
Su Yue sorted out what he saw in the boy's memory, combined with the information he had previously obtained, he asked the dragon boy: "So you want me to go to the pillar to help you find something?"
The dragon boy nodded quickly, his eyes sparkling.
"What are you looking for?" Su Yue asked.
The boy couldn't communicate using human language, so he was also thinking about how to make communication easier.
After pondering for a moment, an idea struck him. "There are two dragon eggs in that battle scene. Is one of them you?"
The dragon boy nodded even harder.
"So what you are looking for is another dragon egg?" Su Yue asked again.
The dragon boy nodded so much that his neck looked like it was about to dislocate.
"...Don't get excited." Su Yue quickly comforted him. If the NPC really got into trouble because he was too excited and the task could not be completed, he would suffer a huge loss.
Afterwards, the dragon boy gestured and demonstrated, and relying on Su Yue's extraordinary understanding ability, he actually matched the content with the dragon boy:
That black afterimage was a curse, so all dragons except the Dragon God were transformed into human form and imprisoned in human bodies.
The dragon boy, or the young dragon, didn't know what the curse was. Considering that he was just an egg when the fierce battle began, it was surprising that he had so many memories.
As for the dragon boy's brother, the other dragon egg had not yet hatched, and that dragon egg was buried under the stone pillar.
The two brothers are the sons of the Dragon God, the only one who has not turned into a human form and is still throwing fireballs down every day.
The dragon boy himself possesses the power of stability, which means that with him the dragon clan can maintain the status quo. In addition, the unhatched dragon egg has the power of purification.
As long as the dragon eggs are hatched, the curse of the dragon clan can be lifted.
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"The dragon eggs are about to hatch, right?" Su Yue asked.
Got a positive answer.
No wonder the Duke wanted to strengthen the "fortifications" of the Sky Pillar. It should be to prevent the dragon eggs from hatching. The Dragon God's anger value is obviously related to this pair of dragon brothers. The dragon clan's anger value decreased on the day Su Yue and the young man spoke for the first time, and it was full again yesterday. It should be that they expected the Duke and others to prevent the dragon eggs from hatching.
So now, the task of "helping the dragon clan escape from trouble" has been simplified to "hatching the dragon eggs under the stone pillars."
It seems to have become simpler, but not much simpler.
"Why can't the dragon egg hatch?" Su Yue asked, "How can I help it hatch?"
The young man gestured again, and Su Yue understood it for a long time before getting the answer.
This means that the fragrance of the fruit helps the dragon eggs hatch. Unfortunately, Su Yue doesn’t have any fruit now, so it seems he can only find a way to get some more.
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Su Yue hesitated for a moment between going to the cave alone to collect fruits and going to the altar to meet Cang Zhi, but finally decided to find Cang Zhi.
Because the Duke said that one cannot enter the cave without ambergris. Even if he has supernatural powers, it is not easy to violate such a strict rule, otherwise he might suffer a great disaster.
So I should discuss it with Cang Zhi first.
It's just a mission requirement.
After walking out of the tavern, Su Yue realized that it had gotten dark again. He had actually spent most of the day in the memory of the dragon boy.
There are mountains and fields all around, and pink glow is floating in the distant sky, which makes the heart soften.
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