The young dragon with golden scales lay on the root of the tree. The other two were clumsily trying to climb up the tree. When Luo Binhan and Yaleriga found them, the two climbers turned their heads at the same time. As a result, they forgot to hug the bark tightly and slid down the middle of the trunk.
They fell onto their backs, their four short legs kicking around wildly. Only the golden dragon resting on the root of the tree was safe and sound. It was stronger and fatter than its two companions, and glanced at them with a bit of contempt.
Luo Binhan stepped forward and poked its head: "Fat Tiger, what are you doing alone?"
The young dragon sneezed and bit Luo Binhan's finger. Luo Binhan yelled and quickly pulled back the finger with teeth marks. He grinned in pain, immediately took a few steps back, and scolded it from a distance of three meters. The golden baby dragon, which was obviously grown up, showed no sign of weakness and kept making a sharp inhaling sound towards Luo Binhan. It was completely different from the dragon roar that Luo Binhan had imagined. It was like a mixture of the sounds of puppies and lizards.
The cross-language quarrel between them ended with Yaleriga's approach. She picked up the three baby dragons one by one and inspected them. Finally, she held up the golden baby dragon with both hands and looked at it at eye level.
"You have received food from them," she said to the young dragon.
The young dragon exhaled and looked around as if he didn't understand. But that was of no use to Yaleriga. Still holding it up, she said, "Now they need a little help from you."
The young dragon lifted its stubby tail and listened intently. Luo Binhan never knew what its intelligence level was, but it obviously understood what Yaleriga meant.
"They need you to maintain the core of the earth." Yaleriga said, "Now that the two planets are covered by the same spiritual field effect, their geological activities will be consistent. You have to keep the sea of fire flowing and not let it Cool down, for decades, or a hundred years, until someone from outside the world comes to take over, after which you can be relieved of your duties as planet guardian."
The young dragon breathed out a breath of disapproval. So Yaleriga held it up with one hand, took out a golden fruit from the small bag on her back, and shook it in front of it.
It widened its amber eyes and took a bite. Yaleriga raised her hand in time to avoid it and raised it further.
"Deal?" she said.
The young dragon twirled its tail irritably, and finally let out a muffled cry. Yaleriga threw the fruit over, and it opened its mouth to catch it - Luo Binhan caught a glimpse of a row of baby teeth like bamboo shoots squeezed in its mouth - and then wrapped the fruit tightly in its mouth, making a crunching sound. . In just a few seconds, it straightened its neck and swallowed the pulp along with the chewed core.
Its two companions crawled over and stared longingly at its eating appearance.
"Is it so delicious?" Luo Binhan asked suspiciously. He always felt that something that looked like gold would taste bad.
The young dragon burped. Its golden scales suddenly glowed, shadows and colors flowing across the smooth, mirror-like scales. Luo Binhan unconsciously stared at those strange and abstract color blocks, and at that moment he thought he saw some patterns similar to mountains and rivers.
The halo is fleeting. The young dragon burped for a second time and pressed its short paws on the face of Luo Binhan who was approaching.
Luo Binhan opened the dragon claw that smelled of mud and asked Yaleriga seriously: "Can I have this special effect if I eat the fruit?"
"You don't have the ability to attune to the spiritual field of this planet." Yaleriga said, "Even if you did, it wouldn't be of any practical use. Because we won't stay here."
"Then what benefit can I gain?"
"It will help you suppress some diseases and extend your natural lifespan."
"That's it?" Luo Binhan said angrily, "Why don't I have special effects? Do I care about the lifespan?"
The three young dragons snorted at him contemptuously, and Luo Binhan responded with the middle finger without showing any signs of weakness. There was no reason for the three aliens to know the meaning of this gesture, but they all started to grab Luo Binhan's pants, trying to climb up and bite off his fingers.
Luo Binhan, who was covered in dragons, struggled hard, but Yaleriga had no intention of helping. She tied the tip of her tail into Luo Binhan's back collar and dragged him and the three dragons away.
They got into the aircraft and crossed the boundaries of the abyss. Luo Binhan was too busy dealing with the young dragons crawling and stepping on him that he didn't have the energy to care about how Yaleriga operated the spacecraft. He hid his fingers in his fists, and the three young dragons spat in his face. Luo Binhan was so dizzy by the smell that he vowed never to use fragrances related to "ambergris" again.
The aircraft fell to the ground. Yaleriga did not urge him to go out, but stayed on the boat typing something. As soon as Luo Binhan inserted his finger into the golden dragon's nostril, he felt the entire aircraft shaking slightly but steadily. Something protruded from the bottom, raising the aircraft's position.
He looked down through the window, but could not see the base of the aircraft.
"I brought up the laser drill generator." Yaleriga said.
"Do we still have this thing?"
"It's not that easy to control." Yaleriga said. "In the trap zone, going underground is more dangerous than space. Pressure changes will cause many accidents. We lack heavy equipment."
Only then did Luo Binhan realize what their drills were used for. Sitting in a drill and going deep into the ground was something he had never experienced before. It made him immediately forget about the water on his face, and strongly urged Yaleriga to turn on environmental visualization. At the same time, he also blamed Yaleriga for hiding such rich aircraft functions from him.
"Where did you get this thing?" he said, patting the seat beneath him. "And how many functions does it have?"
Yaleriga started the laser drill, causing the aircraft to begin to sink below the surface, and then pulled up a list of the aircraft's functions. Luo Binhan took a closer look and found that there were hundreds of items on it: aircraft, ether ships, variable-control buoyancy transporters, laser drills, cryogenic life-saving chambers, square-style sound and light theaters, and sterile pressurization treatments. Cabin, magnetic particle restraint cage, fixed spiritual field communication base station...
Luo Binhan scanned for a while, pretending to be calm and asked: "What is the self-cultivation instrument during the reproductive fluctuation period?"
"You don't need that."
"I know. I just want to see it."
Yaleriga looked at him with eyes as clear as a torch: "It requires complete debugging and data verification."
Luo Binhan couldn't help but feel a little regretful. At this moment, the three-headed dragon also felt that his fingers were boring and slept in a ball on his lap. Luo Binhan boldly touched them and got a few new teeth marks.
He rubbed his fingers and palms, completely gave up trying to feel the dragon, and instead observed the environment outside. Through the aircraft's environmental visualization system, he saw a bright purple light beneath his feet. It was not a cone-shaped "drill" like his common sense, but a rotating and spreading emissive beam, like an electric cleaning brush that continuously scraped the geological layer below.
The rocks and mud became as soft as mud under the illumination of the high-energy rays, peeling off layer by layer toward the side of the aircraft. They were trapped deep inside, airtight from top to bottom and front to back, and the only light source was the "drill" under their feet. Through the bright purple cold light, Luo Binhan saw how the liquefied geological layer rose upwards.
The loud noises they made when they moved were isolated outside the cabin, leaving only the hum of something similar to mechanical operation. The dark and silent atmosphere made Luo Binhan feel nervous. He felt that he was not drilling into the earth, but sinking into the deep sea, but he soon realized that his destination might be lower than the deepest trench in the world.
The drill moves forward rapidly, displaying the earth's crust layer by layer in front of the passengers. The geological fault sections are numerous and clear, and are as beautiful as the texture of jade, but the color and texture look more like the internal organs of living creatures under the light.
They seemed to be crawling inside the body of a giant beast. Sometimes it's a tight, firm layer of muscle, sometimes it's oily fat, and sometimes it's a dark cavity like a viscera. Under the huge pressure in the ground, colorful corundum and metal flow like body fluids, exuding psychedelic colors after being melted by lasers.
Luo Binhan was suffering in this beautiful and weird environment, and even began to miss the empty starry sky above his head. He even closed his eyes and fell asleep for a long time during the long and silent sinking, until a terrifying strange noise woke him up. The sound sounded to him like the howling of evil spirits from hell, but Yaleriga told him that it was just that she had lowered the sound insulation effect in the cabin, allowing part of the sound of movement in the rock formations to come in.
She warned Luo Binhan that the high temperature and pressure outside at the moment would be enough to squeeze them into pieces the size of a rubber ball the moment the extravehicular isolation field was cancelled, and then grind them into powder as the rock formations flowed. Adjusting the isolation field according to environmental changes requires some basic knowledge, so she would never recommend that Luo Binhan use the drill mode alone.
Luo Binhan agreed. He thought that this kind of strange journey was enough for him once, and he would rather stay on earth for the rest of his life, or even in heaven.
"But what about this thing?" He raised the golden dragon in his hand and asked, "Can it survive if I put it here?"
"It won't be afraid of light and heat." Yaleriga said, "There will be a suitable place for it underneath. When it grows big enough, it will find an easier way to leave."
Luo Binhan touched the dragon's head and was bitten again as expected. "Is this appropriate? Leaving a minor here all alone?"
Yaleriga looked at him for a while and said: "It is a dragon. It is its bounden duty to guard the world."
"How do I remember that its vocation is to rob princesses and beautiful treasures? If this thing doesn't plow fields or plant trees, what can it do to guard it?"
“It is not guarding the world for civilization; it is guarding the world for the world.”
Luo Binhan slapped his thigh and said angrily: "Why should we be treated differently! Isn't this world a world for the people?"
The three young dragons began to spit at him again, making Luo Binhan so flooded that he suspected that there was a bottomless reservoir hidden in their stomachs. The painful bath of ambergris lasted until they fell into a sea of steaming fire.
Luo Binhan was unprepared for this and was almost blinded by the extremely bright light. He screamed and covered his eyes, listening to Yaleriga explaining the situation while recovering his vision.
"We are very close to the core of the earth now." She said slowly. "Most of the energy here is absorbed by the mother butterfly, and the remaining inactive part is ignited by the captain. This sea of fire will penetrate the heat of the two star layers. , continue to bring geothermal and geomagnetic protection here, but if no successors intervene, they will cool down again soon."
Luo Binhan rubbed his eyes and said, "Young Master is so bad? Can't we get rid of it once and for all?"
"Then he must stay here."
Yareliga paused and added: "Forever."
At that moment, Luo Binhan decided to forget it. He asked Yaleriga to take the golden baby dragon away and get out of the cabin under the protection of the isolation field. To his surprise, the other two young dragons waddled out as well.
"Is this okay?" he asked Yaleriga.
Yaleriga didn't look so sure, but in the end she let them make their own decisions. They watched the three bright spots flowing down the current in the rising air waves and disappearing under the raging endless sea of fire. Luo Binhan hoped to see some special signs to prove that the three young dragons were still alive, but after waiting for a long time, there was nothing.
Yaleriga told him that it would take time, and that the way to change the world and to maintain the world were completely different.
"We can come back later," she said, "but now it's time for us to go."
So they left the sea of fire and returned to the stars.
