"I have a few questions to ask you. I hope you can answer them honestly."
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuu"
"Stop crying. If you cry again, I will beat you again."
"Woah woah woah."
"Okay, then just cry. Do you want to have something to eat and take a break?"
"Woo. Well, what do you want to eat?"
The girl raised her head, with tears glistening in the corners of her eyes.
Jiangbei: "."
So the white dragon girl started to nibble on the chocolate.
Jiang Bei really didn't bring anything else edible with him. And Xiao Qi on the other end was not very satisfied with his decision, because it was supposed to be chocolate for Xiao Qi.
He agreed to bring her popsicles to eat when he went back, so he managed to coax her.
"This is so delicious!"
The girl bit the chocolate crisply, her eyes lit up at first, then immediately became sad, and tears began to well up in her eyes again.
Then she looked pitifully towards Jiangbei.
"It would be a shame to have something delicious like this before I die. But can I ask you one more thing?"
Jiangbei: "?"
"I beg you to hurry up and let me die before putting it in the pot, otherwise it will be very painful when cooking. Wow wow wow."
He burst into tears again and burst into tears.
Jiangbei: "???"
He couldn't keep up with this brain circuit again. Did anyone mention eating just now? Why did he go to the pot so quickly?
However, the white dragon girl looked confused at first, and when she started to cry, she became incoherent and even more confused. Many questions could not be answered. The most basic questions such as where did she come from, where was she, how to get out, etc.
not understand.
But what Jiangbei probably understands is that she has a very bad impression of herself - or seemingly all the outside humans she calls "surface people".
Insidious, cunning, full of lies, and will eat whatever he catches.
Uh, just looking at these descriptions doesn’t seem to be completely wrong?
"Where did you hear all this?"
"Arnold said that." The little girl shook her head, "I've never been out, he told me all that."
"Huh?" Jiang Bei felt as if he had finally found Hua Dian, "Who is Arnold?"
"."
After a while, Jiang Beifei returned to the palace, carrying the white dragon girl who looked confused but had chocolate in her mouth.
He landed in front of a stone staircase and saw the old dark yellow lantern she described.
"In this one?" Jiang Bei looked suspicious.
"Yes."
The girl stepped forward and banged the lantern shell a few times.
"Hey, come out!"
There was no movement.
The girl tilted her head and looked at Jiangbei innocently: "He refuses to come out."
Jiang Bei tried to see through the lantern, only to see chaos inside. He thought for a while and asked, "What if I smash this thing open directly?"
"Well, that seems impossible, right?" the girl said, "This is made of extraordinary obsidian from the deep sea, and it has a very powerful barrier protection. It was cast so that it cannot be broken."
"Let's give it a try. It doesn't cost any money anyway."
Jiang Bei said and already picked up the lantern.
The so-called indestructible shell immediately made a crunching sound, and the metal shell began to dent inwards from the point where his ten fingers touched it.
The girl could hardly believe her eyes.
Ah this
Facts have proven that nothing in the world is truly indestructible.
If so, it's just that it hasn't encountered a sharp enough spear.
The moment the sound was almost heard, a cloud of black mist erupted from the lantern like a lifeless sheet, churning and quickly condensing into the shape of a face.
"Stop, stop! Stop!"
the face shouted.
Jiang Bei stopped, but still pressed his hands on the pot, as if he would continue to operate if he disagreed.
The black mist known as Arnold had a grimace on his face and glanced dejectedly at the innocent-looking girl beside him.
It's like saying, Auntie, please spare me, why are you trying to attract the devil to my face?
But he seemed to feel that he couldn't lose his strength. After the black mist rolled into shape, he immediately turned cold and floated to a high place, speaking condescendingly with a deep and mysterious voice.
"My help is not priceless, every answer has its own price"
When Jiang Bei heard this, his eyes immediately lit up red, and red lines filled his eye sockets.
"Maybe it's okay without a price!" Heiwu hurriedly changed his words, "I just had enough to eat today and I'm in a good mood, so I don't have to pay a price. If you have any orders, just tell me."
The red glow in Jiang Bei's eyes faded and he showed a satisfied smile.
Sure enough, after becoming Superman, I found that everyone is very easy to talk to and very reasonable.
There is nothing that cannot be negotiated through good communication.
"Who are you?" Jiang Bei asked.
The black mist named Arnold sighed quietly.
"They are just losers and lost dogs." He thought for a while and said, "It must have been more than ten years since the outside world. So, do you current surface people still know this legend?
A city that was sunk to the bottom of the sea in the past?"
Jiang Bei's expression changed: "Atlantis?"
"Oh, it seems like someone still knows about it." Arnold sighed, "Yes, that's where we came from. It was also where we lived."
"Are you people from the bottom of the sea?"
Jiang Bei glanced at the blinking little girl next to him, and suddenly realized that this statement might not be accurate enough.
".Undersea dragon?"
"That's right. The place where we once lived was also called the 'Dragon Palace City', a holy land dominated by the great sea dragon clan." Arnold said, "Atlantis never interfered in surface affairs, and has not done so for many years.
Coming and going. Therefore, for people on the surface, the Dragon Palace should have become nothing more than a legend.
Of course, now I am no longer an Atlantean. I stole ‘Extinction’, and since then I have lost the qualification to call myself a citizen of Atlantis.”
"Extinction?"
"This is the place we are standing at right now." Arnold said, "An artifact with an independent space is also a treasure in the kingdom.
I knew that there was no place for me in Atlantis, so I had no choice but to escape to the surface world.
Of course, the kingdom has always been chasing me. Until I accidentally activated the ‘extinction’ during a battle with the pursuers, and I accidentally activated the device. Then when I came to my senses.”
The face condensed with black mist showed a look of frustration.
"I'm already here. And I was too badly injured in the battle that I can't get treatment here. So I had no choice but to use the second piece of equipment I stole.
The 'Prisoner's Torch', this lantern-like creation, was originally designed as an inescapable cage, but now it has become the only thing that can keep me alive."
Jiang Bei thought for a while and glanced at the white dragon girl next to him: "What about her?"
The latter still looked confused as he couldn't figure out the situation.
"To be honest, I don't know much about this." Arnold shook his head, "She was already here when I came in. It seems like she was here when the 'Extinction' was stolen by me.
As for who she is and why someone would put her here, I don’t know. She doesn’t seem to understand even if I ask her.”
Jiangbei thought briefly.
Logically speaking, he originally planned to ask where the missing people were, but it was no longer necessary now. When he flew out during the battle, he took the time to look around, strengthened his vision, and saw through a red mountain range to see the town at the foot of the mountain.
.
Wangshan Town is located in this subspace area. He only took a cursory glance, and it seemed that all the missing people should still be there, and nothing happened.
He even saw fresh water and food.
"Did you send them food?" Jiang Bei asked.
"Yes, yes, of course." Arnold said hurriedly, "God is good at saving lives, and we underwater people have always been merciful. We also sympathize with these people who accidentally entered extinction."
Jiang Bei stared at him expressionlessly.
Heiwu was stunned by his stare and shrank his head: "Okay, okay, it was actually her idea."
As he spoke, he glanced at the white dragon girl next to him.
When he first heard that people from the surface were coming in, his first reaction was to kill them all as a precaution. However, the girl didn't agree, and he himself was trapped in the lantern and couldn't move freely, so he had to forget it.
Of course, he knew that he couldn't say that now, so he quickly added: "Of course, I strongly agree with her idea! Life is not noble or cheap, it is the same for people on the surface and under the sea. The life of the people under the sea is also life."
"Quiet."
Jiang Bei had something to worry about. After saying this, Arnold immediately shut up.
"Next question. How are we going to get out?"
When I heard the black mist, I immediately abstracted it and felt like crying.
"I want to know this too." Arnold said helplessly, "If I had known, I would have gone out ten years ago."