Chapter 105: Dragon Palace Banquet (Part 2)
Lu Ren was hesitating outside the office door of Combat Group 2.
He didn't know whether it was appropriate for him to disturb Yinglong's sleep at this moment, nor was he sure whether Yinglong would be irritable after being woken up. After all, if Yinglong got angry because his sleep was disturbed, Lu Ren, who was so weak, might not even have a chance to run away.
However, with the help of many times of self-psychological construction, Lu Ren finally walked into the office of Combat Group 2 with caramel pudding and stood next to Yinglong's seat.
The dragon race has a very keen sense of smell.
Almost the moment Lu Ren stood still, Ying Long noticed the change in the air. Then he instantly opened his slender eyes, quickly raised his head from the pillow, and looked at Lu Ren beside him.
This is a unique skill that Yinglong learned during his long years of slacking off. He can pretend that he is working seriously when the leader comes to inspect him.
But maybe because Yinglong had just woken up, he was unable to control his original form this time. The moment he opened his eyes, Yinglong's eyes were like lizards with vertical pupils, looking cold and cruel, with murderous intent from the wilderness. That was the instinctive reaction of the awakened dragon, the desire for killing engraved in the blood.
When he met such a pair of eyes, Lu Ren was suddenly frightened and he couldn't help but take a step back.
"Isn't he going to have a tantrum after waking up?"
Fortunately, Yinglong only looked scary and did not make any further moves. Yinglong, who was between wakefulness and sleepiness, was staring at the caramel pudding in Lu Ren's hand with the eyes of a prey.
As his senses returned, Yinglong quickly blinked his inner eyelids and successfully transformed his eyes back into human form.
He heard Lu Ren holding the caramel pudding and saying to him: "Can you do me a favor?"
Then, Yinglong realized that the change in the smell in the air was not due to the leader's inspection, but because the unit's cleaning staff, who had no business to come to him today, came with tributes and asked him for help.
Yinglong had eaten all kinds of human tributes, but this was his first time to eat caramel pudding. He moved his nose and sniffed the sweet smell in the air. Yinglong decided to give this human who wanted something from him a chance.
Yinglong was not shy and naturally took the caramel pudding from Lu Ren's hand.
People are always happy to receive favors from others. As someone who needed a favor from Yinglong, Lu Ren was of course happy to see Yinglong eat the caramel pudding. He even considerately handed Yinglong the spoon he had prepared early in the morning.
Yinglong took the spoon handed to him by Lu Ren very naturally, and did not look uncomfortable at all.
The reason why Yinglong accepted Lu Ren's feeding so naturally was largely because he had been accustomed to human offerings since ancient times. The gods accepted offerings and listened to the wishes of mortals. He was very familiar with this business. At that time, the world was just beginning, and the division of responsibilities of various gods and beasts was not clear. Humans had not yet been educated and were unwilling to work hard for anything. Instead, they liked to waste the already scarce food and population to pray to the gods.
At that time, people liked to ask Yinglong for help with everything, such as family illness, poor harvest, or difficult childbirth...
At first, Yinglong was willing to take care of it, but as time went on, he became tired and stopped accepting offerings from humans and no longer provided help to humans.
Human beings are actually very selfish creatures, and their so-called piety is extreme loyalty to themselves. They believe in God not because God is so great, but because they know that as long as they maintain this attitude of faith, they can get the maximum benefit from God.
When a god begins to refuse to respond to humans, that is the beginning of that god being abandoned.
So slowly, Yinglong's name disappeared in the long river of time and was no longer mentioned by humans.
And now, Lu Ren's tribute reminded Yinglong of a group of humans from a long, long time ago whose faces had long since become blurred. The memory was so long ago, so long ago that even writing had not yet been invented.
Ying Long shook his head and drove all these vague thoughts out of his mind. He scooped a large spoonful of caramel pudding with a spoon, and while putting the pudding into his mouth, he asked Lu Ren: "Tell me, what's the matter?"
Yinglong's behavior seemed very casual, which eased Lu Ren's nervousness. Because he and Yinglong were not particularly close, Lu Ren was still wondering if asking him for help would be awkward for both of them. Now Yinglong asked without any shyness, which made it easier for Lu Ren to express his request.
So Lu Ren recounted what happened in the supermarket over the weekend: "This is what happened..."
Yinglong was eating the caramel pudding casually as Lu Ren told his story. After the first bite of the caramel pudding, Yinglong was somewhat surprised to feel a spiritual energy filling his body. He looked at the pudding in his hand in surprise, then squinted his eyes thoughtfully.
But in the end, Yinglong said nothing.
"...Then, the Dragon King said he would pick me up this weekend to attend a party." When Lu Ren finished the last word, Yinglong put down the spoon. The spoon accidentally hit the edge of the ceramic food box, making a "ding" sound. With this sound, Yinglong raised his head and looked at Lu Ren who was standing.
Yinglong's face still had pillow marks, and he looked a little unkempt. But his eyes looked arrogant, as if he had everything under control, but also concealed his indifference and disdain for the world.
At that moment, Lu Ren understood why, even though Yinglong had always been friendly to him, he never dared to interact with Yinglong. Because there was a subtle sense of separation in Yinglong's aura. He looked like a cold-blooded animal in human skin, which made Lu Ren, a member of a weak race, often feel as if he was being targeted by a predator.
Just when Lu Ren's thoughts were wandering, he heard Ying Long's calm voice: "I'll go with you this weekend."
Yinglong's answer made Lu Ren stunned. After all, his original plan was just to let Yinglong say a few words for him in front of the Weishui Dragon King so that he could be exempted from attending the so-called party on the weekend. He didn't want to invite Yinglong to accompany him.
In Lu Ren's opinion, being accompanied by Yinglong was a very bad idea. Not only did he have to attend the party, he also owed Yinglong a favor for no apparent reason.
But the dragons never listened to customer feedback. In their eyes, it was a great honor for humans to respond to them.
Therefore, during the time when Lu Ren was distracted, Ying Long, who had eaten and drunk his fill, lay back on his pillow and fell asleep again. When Lu Ren came to his senses, it was too late to wake up Ying Long.
After all, Lord Yinglong has made up his mind.
After work that day, when Lu Ren returned home with an empty ceramic lunch box and told Shan Gui the news that "Ying Long plans to go with me on the weekend", Shan Gui looked worried.
Obviously, the mountain ghost did not expect that Yinglong would be willing to show up in person to attend the party: "He is actually willing to come out of the mountain?"
Lu Ren nodded: "Yeah."
The mountain ghost was stunned for a moment, and murmured: "Isn't that the descent into the world?"
Then, the mountain ghost seemed to want to say something, but after hesitating for a moment, she first walked around Lu Ren and carefully looked at Lu Ren to see if he was injured.
After confirming that Lu Ren was fine, the relieved mountain ghost said to Lu Ren: "Fortunately, since he has eaten your caramel pudding, he should not take your kidney."
Lu Ren: "Kidney?"
??? Why didn't anyone tell him in advance that asking Yinglong for help would cost so much? Is it generally so dangerous to ask colleagues for help?
In fact, it was not Shan Gui's fault. She had heard Junfang say that it was normal for colleagues in their Foreign Household Registration Investigation Bureau to help each other. She thought Yinglong was at most just helping to pass on a message.
Unexpectedly, when Lu Ren came back today, he said that Yinglong planned to be there in person. You know, Yinglong, as a being close to an ancient god, had to show up, not to mention that he was on a mission at the Foreign Investigation Bureau.
Once an ancient god appears in the world in response to anyone's request, it is considered an act of incarnation, and in theory requires sacrifices to be prepared by priests.
In the days when Yinglong was still willing to accept the summons of believers, humans were very keen to pay . In the eyes of humans at that time, a living person has two kidneys, and if one is removed, there is still one left as a backup. If the summoning is unsuccessful, the remaining kidney can be used to prepare for the next summoning.
There is really no safer sacrifice than a kidney.
So, when she suddenly heard Lu Ren say that Yinglong agreed to his coming to the world on the weekend, the mountain ghost was really worried that Lu Ren would start to be impotent at such a young age. However, after checking around, she saw that Lu Ren had returned in good condition, and she thought that Yinglong should have changed his bad habit of eating human kidneys.
Although the mountain ghost was relieved, Lu Ren became even more worried. Because from the current situation, during the weekend party, he not only had to beware of the self-talking Dragon King, but also his fellow monster who could take away his kidney at any time.
Could there be anything worse in the world?
Lu Ren let out a long sigh.
But time will not stop moving forward just because no one wants it to.
Time flew by and it was the weekend. There was a bang on the door of Lu Ren's house early in the morning. Lu Ren, who had been sleep-deprived due to worry for a week, had no choice but to open the door with huge dark circles under his eyes.
Standing at the door were two men in black suits and ties, they were Crab Pot and Shrimp Burger.
