Chapter 127: A Man’s Romance.
Just by observation alone, it should take a long time before the Ancient Dragon Person could communicate normally with the Investigation Team.
By that time, wouldn’t it be the moment the mystery is revealed?
Who knows, maybe he’d spill the beans first without any pressure at all.
While memorizing the few words he just learned in his mind, he jumped down from the branch, wagged his tail, and disappeared from their sight.
The diplomatic mission was successfully concluded as the investigation team and the ancient dragon person watched him leave, then stared at each other.
It wasn’t until a distant investigator called them that they waved goodbye to the ancient dragon person and left.
The flying bird looked down below, raised its head again, focused on flying, and arrived at the battlefield where it fought the Glittering Dragon yesterday. After confirming no one was around, it began scanning the surroundings.
The Slaying Dragon descended onto the ground and started munching on gold.
In the repeated transformations, the internal injuries caused by the Glittering Dragon’s face-washing and shoulder-crushing pressure healed faster than the external ones.
The cracks on the shell were still there, but some tissue fluid was already repairing them.
For the Slaying Dragon, eating minerals helps elevate the quality of the repaired shell.
The not-so-hard gold was bitten into pieces, crushed in the mouth into an easy-to-swallow shape, and then part of it entered the intestines for decomposition. The minerals were transported by body cells to the shell and incorporated into the repair tissue liquid as materials.
Another part entered the red flame sac, where it was heated into lava.
While chewing on the gold, he was also looking for charcoal formed by the Glittering Dragon’s scorching wind. This charcoal would also enter the red flame sac, much like adding firewood to a furnace.
“Truly like a biological machine.”
This biological machine admired itself, feeling wave after wave of heat surging within.
A large lump of magma surged up from the chest and rolled around in the mouth before being spat out.
The golden magma smeared on the ground, flashing with a light that made one’s nerves jump, then exploded.
“Eating gold, and the magma spit out has turned golden too, cool!”
Jié Jié marveled, with more space freed up in the red flame sac, allowing him to bite off another big chunk of gold—extremely extravagant.
Meanwhile, inside his body, the gold influenced by the special abilities of the ancient dragon was undergoing a special reaction with the body hosting a unique soul.
Perhaps, it could be called alchemy.
The golden magma kept rolling, just like the stirring needed during alchemy.
Stirring continuously, non-stop.
Until the red flame bag became a golden flame bag, an extremely small amount of special minerals would have a chance to flow back in the breath and take another path inside the Slaying Dragon, becoming part of the Slaying Dragon’s shell.
But Jie Jie didn’t know this; he only regretted the lack of progress in filling the Glittering Dragon Totem.
Upon reflection, the two ancient dragons he had encountered so far, the Steel Dragon and the Glittering Dragon, neither had been truly defeated by him.
His poison was merely a minor factor in the Steel Dragon’s demise; turning storms into water prisons was only a matter of time.
As for the Glittering Dragon, it seemed to have been repelled, but in reality, it hadn’t even reached its red rage state, hadn’t even finished stripping, much like a basement-dwelling girl scared away upon seeing the dangers above ground for the first time.
Facing ancient dragons, what he showed more of was courage.
This courage had already earned him the wind pressure of the Steel Dragon, and now allowed him to eat gold heartily.
If there were a real opportunity to defeat an ancient dragon, he wouldn’t have to keep yearning like this, right?
After all, ancient dragons are special.
Jie Jie thought about the long-standing rumors of ancient dragons transforming into humans. Could it be possible?
At least, it’s unseen in the New Continent.
Another lump of magma was painfully expelled, leaving a trail of molten gold on the ground.
The approaching heavy footsteps signaled the approach of the Savage Jaw Dragon, but Jie Jie simply roared and scared it away.
Boring.
Wait, the direction the scared-off Savage Jaw Dragon fled towards, if guessed correctly, should be the direction where the investigation team came from?
Jie Jie paused, spat out the magma in the red flame sac, bit off another big chunk of gold, and then ran off in the direction the Savage Jaw Dragon fled.
“The ground is trembling, could it be that the unknown ancient dragon from yesterday has reappeared?”
Approaching the last known location of the Golden Ancient Dragon’s traces, the slight tremors in the ground brought a delighted smile to the greedy compiler’s face, showing no fear even when suspecting it might be an ancient dragon.
Members of the New Continent Ancient Dragon Investigation Team always possess an adventurous spirit.
“No, you’re overthinking it, that’s a beast dragon! Hide!”
A companion slapped his shoulder and hid him behind a fallen log on the side of the road.
But it was too late; there was no monster feces here to interfere with its sense of smell. The Savage Jaw Dragon charged towards the two of them.
“What a big guy.”
There were many members of the investigation team nearby, including hunters.
The gunner unslung the folded crossbow cannon from his back, which landed heavily on the ground.
“Click.”
The heavy crossbow cannon was assembled, grasped by the crouching hunter.
As the bowstring was pulled, the preloaded crossbow cannon fired upon the hunter pulling the trigger.
Although commonly referred to as a heavy crossbow, this heavy weapon still uses the kinetic energy produced by gunpowder firing as its killing power; the pair of bows is merely its return spring and can also serve as a backup in case of running out of ammunition.
The ammunition, carrying the kinetic energy of gunpowder, exploded on the head of the Savage Jaw Dragon, causing it to pause, shake its head, and turn to look at the gunner.
“Cover me!”
Compared to the flexible light crossbows, the clumsy heavy crossbows have greater power but require more support from teammates.
“Already prepared.”
The female hunter carrying the katana shouted as she arrived at the battlefield.
The gunner relaxed knowing that reinforcements were on the way. The two unlucky ones had already hidden, the beast dragon was still some distance away, and he could fire another round of ammunition.
Shoot, shoot, shoot again.
The steel monster’s roar echoed under his hands, spewing flames, expressing a romance unique to men.
The ammunition gnawed at the monster’s skin, leaving expanding scars all over its body.
In the blink of an eye, the running beast dragon was already not far away.
“Hmm.”
Imagining a cigarette dangling from his mouth, the gunner casually loaded a new clip of ammunition into the heavy crossbow.
The New Continent has gunpowder grass, which allows the gunner to preserve his final dignity. This kind of extravagant romance has always been contrary to frugality.
Next time, try making cigarettes out of gunpowder grass and see if they can be smoked.
If they can be smoked, wouldn’t that mean tobacco freedom?
The beast dragon was approaching, but the nearest companion had arrived.
The huge katana gleaming with cold light lunged forward, accurately biting into the tendon of the beast dragon’s leg.
Before being carried away by the inertia of the running beast dragon, the serrated blade was horizontally dragged out, tearing through the strong tendons of the beast dragon.
The blade swung upward, and the length of the great sword allowed the blade to reach the base of the beast dragon’s tail, drawing a streak of blood.
