In the evening, Lin Xiaodong, Chen Hongyu, Qin Huayue, Wan Xuefeng, and Zhang Wenrui sat around to eat.
The escape was so hasty that there was not even a table, so everyone had to carry rice bowls to eat. The diet of the Dragon Clan was mainly seafood. Fortunately, the sea was rich, so they would not starve.
Chen Hongyu said apologetically: "My dragon clan has suffered such a catastrophe, and we did not provide good hospitality. Please forgive me, Elder Lin."
Lin Xiaodong waved his hand: "I am a Taoist, and I have long been used to eating bran and vegetables."
Wan Xuefeng asked Lin Xiaodong: "Elder Lin, have you really been to the Deep Sea Dragon Palace?"
Lin Xiaodong looked embarrassed after hearing this, thinking that not only had I been there, but I also "took" something, thinking that no one would want this thing in the sea.
"I've been there."
Chen Hongyu looked fascinated and asked: "What is the Dragon Palace like?"
Lin Xiaodong wondered: "As a dragon girl, you don't know what the Dragon Palace looks like?"
Shaking his head gently, Chen Hongyu said helplessly: "I have lived under the sea since I was a child and have never been out, so I don't know what the Dragon Palace looks like."
Lin Xiaodong nodded and said: "The Dragon Palace is very gorgeous and well-preserved, just like brand new. Even Princess Xiyun of the human race couldn't help but scream when she saw the Deep Sea Dragon Palace."
After hearing this, Wan Xuefeng said proudly: "That's natural. Our dragon clan was also prosperous thousands of years ago!"
"But I have a question. The Dragon Palace is so well preserved, why did people leave?
Not to mention people, not even a corpse, not even the princess’s dowry.”
Lin Xiaodong said.
Chen Hongyu's eyes were lonely and she said: "My Dragon Clan was once strong and powerful, but then it fell into war. Maybe they fled, just like us, they left in a hurry, so they didn't have time to take anything with them."
Qin Huayue thought thoughtfully and asked: "I also heard that the Dragon Clan was once extremely prosperous, so why did it suddenly decline later?
And you are obviously not extinct, so why are you hiding in the sea and not coming out?"
After thinking for a while, Chen Hongyu raised her head and asked, "Miss Qin, have you ever heard of mirages?"
Qin Huayue nodded: "I've heard that big shells in the sea blow into the sky, which is a mirage."
Lin Xiaodong curled his lips and waved his hands after hearing this: "Those are just legends, mirages are just natural phenomena."
"Of course mirages are natural phenomena, but mirages are real creatures."
Chen Hongyu said.
"oh?"
Lin Xiaodong tilted his head and raised his eyebrows, but if he thought about it carefully, dragons were real, let alone big shells.
Chen Hongyu added: "The mirage is huge, lives on the bottom of the sea, and can spray poisonous gas. People who inhale the poisonous gas will have hallucinations and see mirages."
"Oh..." Lin Xiaodong raised his head.
Qin Huayue was puzzled: "But, what does this have to do with the Dragon Clan?"
Chen Hongyu smiled and said: "How big is the mirage?
Aren’t you curious about where the underground cave where our dragon clan lives comes from?”
After thinking about it, Lin Xiaodong suddenly stopped, took a breath, and said in surprise: "The dragon clan lives in the mirage body!"
"good.
An adult mirage can accommodate tens of thousands of dragons in their body, but the place we live in can only accommodate two to three thousand people, and they are still minors."
Chen Hongyu nodded.
Qin Huayue was also shocked and said blankly: "It's so amazing!"
Lin Xiaodong asked: "Does that mean the mirage you live in is still alive?"
Chen Hongyu explained: "Yes, this is a very special symbiotic relationship. Although the mirage is huge, it does not move on the seabed, so it eats very little. It only needs some dragon family garbage, and the mirage provides us with
Without shelter, we and the mirages are interdependent.”
Qin Huayue was puzzled: "But the ancient dragon clan has already lived on land."
As if mentioning something sad, Chen Hongyu looked sad and said: "This is also the reason for the decline of our dragon clan."
"The dragon clan was too powerful and fought everywhere. With its ability to transform into a dragon, it occupied a large area of land and left the mirage life."
"But we didn't expect that the dragon's ability to transform is related to the mirage. If the mirage has sufficient spiritual energy, the dragon can grow into a dragon body. Without the mirage, if the spiritual energy is insufficient, it can only be a human body."
"The combat effectiveness of the dragons who cannot transform into dragons is not as good as that of humans and monsters. They gradually lose their land and are driven back into the sea."
"After learning the lesson, the Dragon Clan began to reflect and decided to return to the mirage life, but it was already too late. Those mirages abandoned by the Dragon Clan could not survive alone and died one after another, and the Dragon Clan also lost their home."
Sighing slightly, Chen Hongyu's breath trembled slightly, and then continued: "In order to fight for the surviving mirages, the dragon clan broke out again and civil war broke out. They were divided into pieces, and the number of mirages was further reduced. The dragon clan living among them were afraid of being robbed of their survival home, so they all chose to hide themselves.
, no contact with the outside world.”
"Thousands of years have passed like this, and the dragon clan has completely disappeared from history. We don't know if there are other dragon clans besides us."
"There are still some dragon tribes who have lost their homes and can only wander on the sea. That is today..." "The Shark tribe..." Zhang Wenrui, who was listening in rapt attention, suddenly realized.
"We, the Shark Clan, are actually the Dragon Clan?"
Chen Hongyu nodded: "Yes, we were of the same race thousands of years ago."
"So I can turn into a dragon?
Hahahaha! It turns out we are all brothers!"
Zhang Wenrui spread his hands and laughed.
Lin Xiaodong thought of another concern: "But if the mirage will die if it leaves the Dragon Clan, then the mirage in the Deep Sea Dragon Palace must be dead already?
Then how will you live after you leave?"
Chen Hongyu smiled and called to Wan Xuefeng: "Go and show it to Elder Lin."
Wan Xuefeng nodded, went to the tent, and brought out a crystal fish tank.
Lin Xiaodong turned around and looked around. There were clams inside.
"Elder Lin, this is our dragon clan's last hope."
Stretching his neck to look, Qin Huayue said in disbelief: "Mirage, was it only this small when you were a child?"
Chen Hongyu smiled and nodded: "When we were little, we raised him, and when he grew up, he raised us."
"Since we can raise them, why are there fewer and fewer mirages?"
Lin Xiaodong asked.
"Because among a group of clams, only one can grow endlessly. When one of them is obviously much larger than the others, the rest will stop growing. And the only one wants to grow as long as
It would take thousands of years to accommodate tens of thousands of people.”
Qin Huayue asked: "Then what should you do now?"
Chen Hongyu smiled bitterly and said: "The death mirage can also live, as long as there is no leakage, but there is no spiritual energy in the death mirage, and the dragons born in the future will no longer be able to transform into dragons."
"It's not like the ancient dragon clan can't live if the mirage dies. Their civil war is to compete for the ability of the living mirage to transform into a dragon.
Thousands of years have passed now, and all I have to consider is to find a place for my people to live. As for whether I can transform into a dragon, so what, the era of the dragon clan has passed."