Chapter 983 The Abandoned Dragon Cub
Li Ting only raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard her ask.
He was obviously not surprised that she would ask.
Or rather, he was waiting for her to ask.
"Xuan Xiao was not in Jing City from the beginning."
Li Ting, as the acting head of the Security Bureau and a member of the Dragon Clan, naturally had already investigated the half-demon dragon cub that suddenly appeared in Jing City.
"He was born in a remote mountain village in Bei Province."
Over the past thousand years, the demon clan has declined, and the dragon clan has not had a dragon cub born in the past thousand years.
Under such circumstances, every newly born dragon cub should be carefully cared for, even if it is a half-demon.
But Xuan Xiao was an accident.
Because the dragon clan is powerful and rare, it is easy for them to develop a self-centered personality.
Although Li Ting is a member of the dragon clan, there is no guarantee that every dragon is a good dragon.
There is such a dragon in the northern province. He is domineering and self-centered by nature, and he acts quite casually because he is not under anyone's control.
Because he accidentally met a beautiful woman in the mountains, he bullied her regardless of her wishes and took her for himself.
At that time, it was still the Republic of China. Although the status of women had improved, the status of women in the village remained the same, not to mention a woman who had her innocence ruined and gave birth to a child alone.
Losing her innocence, she was forced to have a child.
The woman was condemned by the villagers and was driven away to live alone in a wooden house near the foot of the mountain.
She didn't want to give birth to the child at first, but she tried many methods and failed to abort the child.
The child was still born.
As soon as the child with the dragon's aura was born, it naturally attracted the dragon.
He was very surprised at first.
After all, it was difficult for the dragon clan to have offspring, but he let a human give birth to his child.
He couldn't wait to bring the child back to the clan to show off, and even ignored the woman's pleas.
But soon, he found that the child was almost the same as a human in appearance and soul except for the faint dragon aura when it was born.
Normally, half-demons will have demon characteristics when they are born, and they can only restrain the demon characteristics when they can control their own demon power.
But Xuan Xiao was born a human, and as the faint dragon aura dissipated, the smell of dragon blood on him became so faint that it was almost imperceptible.
Long was very dissatisfied with this, but he still thought it might be due to the half-demon bloodline, so he decided to raise the child.
He took the child away by force regardless of the woman's crying and begging. After raising the child for ten years, the child grew up like a normal child.
But he was too normal.
He was no different from ordinary humans in appearance and aura, and any little demon could knock him down.
Long was unwilling to give up, and used some tough measures on the child, trying to force him to activate the dragon bloodline.
However, the result failed.
He was ridiculed by the elders of the tribe, and finally realized that this dragon cub was a "defective product".
Thinking of the last bit of blood relationship, he did not throw the child away casually, but sent the child who was almost half dead back to the woman.
To a dragon, ten years is just a very short time in a dragon's life, which can be passed in a sleep.
But to humans, ten years is too long, enough to change many things.
The woman got married and even gave birth to another child.
She had a normal child, and the feelings she had for the previous child had long been devoted to this child and the family.
As for Xuan Xiao, he was taken away at birth and was sent back dying when he was ten years old. Even though this was the first child she had conceived with great effort, it was difficult for her to love him again.
She simply could not raise him, and her current family would not allow her to raise him.
The woman threw him back to the wooden house at the foot of the mountain.
The ten-year-old child lived alone there.
He knew he had a father.
But his father tortured him and abandoned him.
He also knew he had a mother, but his mother didn't want him either.
He didn't even have his own name.
He grew up alone in that little house.
Occasionally, someone would secretly put two steamed buns for him in front of the house. He knew that they were left for him by his "mother".
There was her scent on the buns.
She did not abandon him completely.
But she did not accept him either.
The ten-year-old Xuan Xiao did not understand why.
The fifteen-year-old Xuan Xiao began to understand.
Because he was different from others.
The first people to discover this were the villagers.
Although they were far away at the foot of the mountain, there were still villagers who came.
The villagers initially sympathized with him, rejected him, and despised him, but as time passed, those people began to fear and hate him.
Because they found that he had not grown up.
I don't know if it's because of his dragon bloodline,
because his mother tortured him in the womb,
or because his father wanted to awaken his bloodline.
In short, he stopped growing.
The children in the village grew up one by one, and the adults grew old one by one, but he was the only one who always looked like a ten-year-old. The
villagers hated and feared him, calling him a monster and wanted to drive him away.
It was an old man in the village who had more experience who said that he had dwarfism, a disease.
He was just sick.
He had a disease called dwarfism.
He was not a monster.
Some people in the village accepted this statement, and the expulsion and bullying of him finally eased.
But there are still many villagers who express disgust and dislike towards him.
Not to mention the children in the village, they didn't understand what dwarfism was, they only knew that he was a monster that would never grow up.
The woman didn't care that he didn't grow up, she would occasionally come to see him secretly and leave him some things.
Later, her husband and another child died one after another, and she came to him with her bag.
He didn't have much affection for her, but he would ensure that she would not be bullied by the villagers.
He lived in the village like this for 30 years.
During this period, the old man died, the woman grew old, and only he still looked like a ten-year-old child.
He also knew long ago that he was not a dwarf.
He was a monster.
Later, the war broke out and their village was affected by the war.
The woman died in the artillery fire.
Obviously, they had only been together for ten years, and obviously he didn't think he cared much about this woman.
But after watching her die in front of his own eyes, he still went crazy.
He frantically killed all the dwarfs who came to the village to burn and rob. However
, he was also seriously injured and was dying.
He thought he would die with her, and with his last strength, he dug a pit and buried the woman first, and then dug a pit next to it to bury himself.
However, he still did not die.
The blood of the dragon clan was too strong. Even if he was only a half-demon, his strong physique meant that he could not be killed easily.
He survived and became a real monster.
Another thirty years passed. He walked alone in the war, and after liberation, he hid in the mountains alone.
He never stayed in one place for a long time.
Until he met Mr. Wen.
That time, he was seriously injured in a fight with a big snake and was almost eaten. Mr. Wen appeared and easily dealt with the demon snake that had developed intelligence but harmed people. He
also discovered him by accident.
A ten-year-old child with a soul of nearly a hundred years old.
He brought him back to Jing City, helped him learn to control his demonic power, and gave him a new name.
He also asked him if he wanted to send him back to the dragon clan.
Xuan Xiao refused.
To him, whether it was the dragon or the dragon clan behind him, they were all existences he hated.
They destroyed the woman and also destroyed him.
He said,
"Even if one day, I will go back as a dragon... that will only be when I am strong enough to step on that dragon under my feet."