Chapter 188 Earth Dragon Country

Beside the operating bed, the man in puppet makeup pulled off the blood-stained gloves on his hands, revealing a pair of hands that were obviously carved from wood.

Countless thin black threads emerged from the tips of the fingers and wrapped around the limbs of the girl on the bed. Then the black threads began to slowly blend into the skin and finally disappeared.

When the black line completely disappeared, the man raised his hands gracefully, and while his fingers were dancing, the girl suddenly sat up from the bed, stiffly turning her head little by little, until she turned completely 90°, facing the man beside the bed, and then stopped.

Opening her small eyes, the girl had a pair of lake-blue moist eyes, and the corners of her light pink lips were raised, revealing a thrilling smile.

The moist lake blue eyes reflected the face of the man with puppet make-up. As the smile appeared on the girl's face, his closed lips also split, and the black gaps extended from the corners of the mouth to both sides of the ears, revealing There was an unfathomable darkness inside the mouth.

"All the birds in the sky,"

"Sigh and mourn,"

"When they hear the bell toll,"

"For the poor robin."

The man's lower jaw began to hit the upper jaw continuously. As the upper and lower lips collided, the clicking sound gradually turned into crazy laughter.

"Kaka...kaka...kaka hahahaha..."

“So this is the trial of the mockingbird.”

"But listen:"

"Attention all concerned,"

"This announcement says,"

"Next time the Bird Trial will be held,"

"The one on trial is a sparrow."

The man's crazy laughter echoed in the room along with the girl's beautiful singing voice. Even the pile of dozens of identical girls' heads in the corner of the room was trembling slightly with laughter.

A pair of small girls' eyes opened, and they were filled with endless lake blue.

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The Earth Dragon Kingdom is a landlocked country that is blocked on all sides. Its national strength is not very strong, and it does not even have any well-known powerful people or organizations. The only basis for its success is farming.

In this world, any existence that wants to maintain the national political system must have a certain skill to prove the value of its existence, so as to ensure that it will not be swallowed up and plundered by the surrounding countries.

The country of St is technologically advanced, the country of Xuanwu is powerful in martial arts, the country of Shendiao is outstanding in forging, and the country of Earth Dragon is unmatched in agricultural cultivation.

It is the granary of the western continent. It accounts for more than 40% of the entire continent's grain output as a single country, and sells it in large quantities to other countries at low prices, which ensures the stability and peace of all its citizens.

The ability to achieve the above feats relies on the terrain advantages of his large fertile plains on the one hand, and on the other hand it comes from a powerful creature-the earth dragon.

This is a creature similar to earthworms but more advanced. It is said that it has the blood of a dragon. They travel through the soil and while loosening the soil, they also continuously secrete various nutrients. These substances make the plants on the surface It grows like crazy and the quality will be greatly improved.

The ancestors of the Earth Dragon Kingdom discovered this creature at the beginning of the founding of the country, so they spent a long time carefully researching and cultivating the Earth Dragon, and finally realized symbiosis with this creature for thousands of years. , they regarded the earth dragon as the totem belief of the country, got close to it and worshiped it, and multiplied this originally rare creature to nearly every inch of the country.

The reward is that they have become the country with the most abundant food production in the entire world. No matter how remote the corner is, as long as the earth dragons can still survive and move around, hunger will never bother their citizens.

This stable and unchanging situation lasted for nearly a thousand years until fifty years ago. Perhaps due to the long development, the earth dragon finally reached its peak evolution, and the king of earth dragons who broke through the racial restrictions was born.

It possesses the power to drill through mountains and shatter the earth. Its body fluids can also nourish hundreds of grasses and grow thousands of trees. Even its size exceeds the biological limit of three meters at most for earth dragons.

The people of the Earth Dragon Nation were overjoyed. They sealed this limitless Earth Dragon as a divine beast that protects the country, and used the best resources to cultivate it, hoping that it would bring about changes in the entire Earth Dragon race.

At that time, they may be able to break the country's embarrassing situation of only developing agriculture and become a military power like the Xuanwu Kingdom, raising the country's status to another level.

Over the past fifty years, as the size of the guardian beast has continued to increase, from the first few meters to the current dozens of meters, the ambitions of the people of the Earth Dragon Kingdom have also expanded, and the beast's increasingly powerful Strength has given them sufficient, even close to blind confidence. In recent years, the price of grain they sell to the outside world has begun to increase year by year.

Soon, this behavior began to arouse the vigilance of the Xuanwu Kingdom. As a country of warriors, they have great demand for high-quality food. Their strong physical fitness also requires the intake of a large amount of nutrients to maintain. Therefore, the Xuanwu Kingdom will Importing a large amount of grain to the Earth Dragon Kingdom, although the Earth Dragon Kingdom has always maintained the lowest price for bulk grain trade with the Xuanwu Kingdom so far, signs of uncontrollability still inevitably appear.

And now that the signs have appeared, they must be eliminated as soon as possible, especially since the intelligence organization in the Earth Dragon Kingdom recently detected a dangerous signal. A biogeneticist from the Ste Country was suspected to have appeared near the capital of the Earth Dragon Kingdom. , the information hidden in it is intriguing.

Thus, the assassination mission for the Dilong Kingdom's guardian beast appeared within the Shadow Organization, and was eventually taken over by Xu Yue. At noon today, he drove the Sun Chaser flying ship to the airspace of the Dilong Kingdom's capital.

In the sea of ​​clouds, Xu Yue stood at the bow of the flying ship, overlooking the large golden autumn plain below and the huge city in the center of the plain. He was playing with a black scroll in his hand, which recorded the specific location of the guardian beast.

Unlike the majestic landforms of Xuanwu Kingdom, which were covered with mountains and peaks, Dilong Kingdom seemed very open. About 80% of their land was plain and hilly terrain suitable for large-scale reclamation and planting, with a dense population and large cities.

Moreover, Dilong Kingdom was adjacent to the Chaotian Mountains of Mala Kingdom on the right. The tall mountains blocked the southeast monsoon blowing from the sea on the left. A large amount of water vapor accumulated here, and condensed in the cold at high altitude to form rainfall, which brought extremely rich water resources to the entire Dilong Kingdom.

The weather and location are perfect, and with the existence of special creatures such as earth dragons, the Earth Dragon Kingdom is basically in a state of fertile land, and the grain output can generally reach three harvests a year.

It happened to be the time of grain harvest at this time, so when Xu Yue looked down, it was a golden autumn wheat wave, and a large number of farmers like ants were scattered in between.

Xu Yue's vision passed over those busy farmers who bent over, paused for a moment on the prosperous and vast ancient city, and finally landed on a garden in the southern suburbs of the city, where the guardian beast of the country was located.

The flying ship slowly sailed over the garden, but it was still hidden in the clouds and did not fall. Before confirming the trace of the earth dragon, he would never act rashly. He was not afraid of this long worm in terms of hard power, but the other party's ability to drill into the ground was very troublesome. Once it ran away with all its strength, it would be difficult for Xu Yue to catch it again.

Unconsciously, he thought of the previous White Bird. Both of these missions were of the type where there was basically no second chance if the assassination failed once. The previous one could fly, and this one could hide underground. It was more troublesome than the other. Of course, this was also the reason why no assassin had been able to complete the two assassination orders.

At the bow, Xu Yue began to recall the whole process of the previous assassination of White Bird.

The last time he was able to restrict White Bird's actions, it was because he destroyed the Flying Bird Gate that White Bird had always cherished, which made it take the initiative to fall into the trap and fight with him driven by hatred, but when dealing with the Earth Dragon, this method was not so effective. Even the so-called guardian beast was just a beast after all.

He could not guarantee that if he destroyed the capital below with a single shot, it would usher in the crazy revenge of the Earth Dragon or a desperate escape. Moreover, there were too many civilians in the capital, and he was not cruel enough to do so.

Xu Yue looked at the crowds of people in the city behind him, and then he retracted his sight. A pair of high-power binoculars appeared in his hand. This kind of conventional tool is one of the wild survival packages in the small shop opened by workers. He always prepared a set when he was strolling in the park.

The sight was magnified by the telescope, and the scene in the garden above was presented in detail in his eyes. After scanning the garden inch by inch, he finally saw the trace of the guardian beast in the central pool.

"It's not small."

In the wide pool, a giant python almost as long as the Sun Chaser was constantly rolling and swimming, and its fine scales were shiny in the water. From time to time, fish several meters in size were chased by it and jumped out of the water, and then swallowed in one bite. When the body jumped up, it was clearly visible that there was a pair of black three-fingered dragon claws on its abdomen.

The living habits of earth dragons are similar to those of earthworms, but their external features are completely different. They have fine scales on their bodies, are large in size, and can secrete body fluids. They look the same as snakes, but they live underground and have no eyes. Their big round mouths occupy two-thirds of the head area. There are three layers of teeth inside, which are ring-shaped, sharp and interlaced, and terrifying. As for the dragon claws under the belly, this is the special feature of the guardian beast.

In short, this king of earth dragons is much uglier than the ancestral pythons encountered in the Snake Valley before.

During the observation, the Eye of Manifestation quietly appeared beside him, then left the flying ship and flew to the garden pool below the clouds. Before the battle, it was natural to find out the specific information of the enemy.

The Eye of Manifestation is a metal ball that is less than the size of an adult's fist. It is made of matte black material. It is not noticeable during the flight. It soon arrived at the corner of the pool. Although there are several guards scattered around the pool, they are all standing with their backs to each other.

As for the earth dragon, it was busy playing in the water and would not care about a small ball in a remote place. Invisible ripples emanated from the front of the Eye of Manifestation, and reflected back after touching the earth dragon in the pool. After the investigation, the metal ball slowly rose and returned to the Sun Chaser in the clouds.

Putting down the binoculars in his hand, Xu Yue turned his head to look at the Eye of Manifestation beside him, and a large information screen was projected in front of him.

[Comparing the intelligence attributes of both parties..., comparison completed, our intelligence is 1.4 times that of the enemy's intelligence, and 100% of the enemy's information is obtained]

The information is as follows:

Name: Protector of the Nation Dragon Abyss (leader-level creature)

Category: Earth Dragon

HP: 100%

Demon Power: 988/1000

Strength: 35

Agility: 30

Stamina: 40

Intelligence: 20

Charm: 10

Skill 1: Leader Creature (Passive): HP increased by 700 points, Strength +18, Stamina +18

Skill 2: Guardian Beast (Passive): Within the range of the Earth Dragon Kingdom, health points increase by 50%, and health and magic power recovery speed increases by 200%.

Skill 3: Breaking through mountains and hills (passive): Long Yuan's demonic power has a strong crushing property for soil, rocks and other materials with earth attributes. In underground and rocky environments, it moves very fast like a dragon entering the water. Its sharp claws have a strong crushing property for materials containing gold elements.

Skill 4: Devouring with sharp teeth (active): Long Yuan's teeth are arranged in three rings. Once it bites the prey, it will produce a great suction force. Those who fail the physical strength judgment will be completely involved in the rotating strangling gums until the prey is minced and swallowed into the stomach.

Skill 5: Dark perception (passive): Losing vision makes Long Yuan's skin extremely sensitive to vibrations, and can accurately perceive things based on media such as the earth and water.

Skill 6: Advanced self-healing (active/passive): Long Yuan's limbs except the brain can quickly heal themselves by digesting demonic power or health points.

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Long Yuan should be the name of this earth dragon. After reading the various skills discovered, Xu Yue has already constructed its ability characteristics in his mind.

Although this guardian beast has powerful attributes, its intelligence and attack power are not outstanding. It only has one active attack skill, which is Devour. As for the pair of dragon claws on its abdomen, it should not be difficult to dodge.

Earth dragons are relatively docile creatures, otherwise they would not be tamed by the Earth Dragon people who are not outstanding in martial arts. They just look a little more ferocious. After all, they are species living in the dark, and everyone grows casually.

In short, it is not difficult to defeat it, but it is difficult to kill it. With its extremely fast movement speed in the earth, keen skin perception in the dark, and almost immortal self-healing ability, he only has one chance to kill it. Once he fails, he doesn't know when he will have the next chance. He can't keep wasting time in the Earth Dragon Country.

On the deck, Xu Yue retracted the Eye of Manifestation beside him, and looked at Long Yuan who was still swimming in the pool below. He suddenly felt a headache and pinched his eyebrows. This thing must be killed with one blow, or at least it must be severely damaged with one blow to make it lose the ability to escape quickly underground, otherwise it cannot be killed at all.

The only thing he could do to this extent was the Sun Chaser's main gun, but the main gun's firing speed was too slow. With Long Yuan's perception, as long as he drilled underground when he sensed the threat from the sky, the power of the main gun would be greatly reduced under the barrier of the earth.

And the best way to shield Long Yuan's perception was to make the sky full of dangers to cover up the movement of the main gun's activation.

While thinking, Xu Yue looked at the boundless sea of ​​clouds beside him, and what came to his mind was the heavy rainstorm he caused above the entire Snake Valley after burning it.

Perhaps he could use a similar method to cause a huge rainstorm to cover up the attack of the Sun Chaser.

The living habits of earth dragons are very similar to those of earthworms. They all like to rest underground and usually leave the ground only when eating and playing.

Moreover, earth dragons do not have organs such as nasal cavities. They also rely on their skin to breathe. Before, even when swimming, they would let part of their limbs float to the surface.

Therefore, as long as a heavy rainstorm occurs at night, when a large amount of water flows into the ground, the soil will become damp, the air permeability will become poor, and the oxygen underground will gradually become scarce. In this case, even if the sky is full of a sense of crisis brought by lightning and thunder, Long Yuan will inevitably drill out of the ground to breathe. At this time, it is the best time for the Sun Chaser to attack.

Thinking of this somewhat whimsical plan in his mind, Xu Yue lowered his head and looked at the huge royal hunting ground near the capital, where there are rich vegetation and towering ancient trees.

A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. This plan is not impossible to realize. In any case, it is more reliable than forcing it.