Volume 1 Poppy Flowers Chapter 01: Dragon Slaying Roar Appears
"No!" Ping Lili woke up from her dream, waving her arms and screaming, but she heard a "clang" sound, like the sound of glass breaking, clearly transmitted to her eardrums.
My consciousness gradually returned to my mind, and after a while I realized that I was dreaming.
Fortunately it was just a dream!
She let out a long sigh and gently rubbed her temples. Recalling the previous dream, she still felt a little palpitated.
It was a never-ending dream that had lasted for many years, ever since she could remember. There was only one theme in the dream, which was escape. She didn't know why, nor who was chasing her, but the fear in her subconscious made her run for her life, from the ends of the earth to the corners of the sea, always running away from a pale and slender hand.
I couldn't see clearly what the owner of the hand looked like, but I clearly remembered that there was a lifelike bird mark on the back of the hand.
At first, she could only vaguely see that it was a bird-like mark, but recently, the mark became clearer and clearer, and she could even clearly recall the red flame-like color of the bird. Later, she looked up a lot of information based on her memory and learned that the red pheasant-like bird was called Suzaku, and was one of the four legendary ancient beasts. The distance of the hand also developed from a few meters away at the beginning to within reach, and in this dream, the hand actually touched her shoulder!
The moment I was touched, my shoulder felt like it was on fire, and I could hear a male voice saying in a low voice, "Finally, I found you!"
Subconsciously, I touched the place that the other person had touched in my dream, and I actually felt a faint burning sensation. I suddenly had a bad feeling in my heart, and I slowly turned up the collar of my pajamas with some trepidation. The moment I saw my shoulder, I was stunned, and after a long while, I screamed again!
Oh my god! How is this possible!
How is that possible!
On her left shoulder, there actually was a scarlet Vermilion Bird faintly flashing!
But there was something different. The Vermilion Bird in the dream was dark black and spread its wings as if ready to fly, while the Vermilion Bird mark on his body was bright red with its wings folded.
What is going on? !
Coincidence, coincidence, absolutely a coincidence! Hurry up. He closed his collar, took a few deep breaths, and brainwashed himself to force himself to calm down.
Looking out the window, luckily it was already dawn. Ping Lili breathed a sigh of relief again, but she was no longer sleepy. After thinking about it, she decided that it would not be a bad idea to get up early.
She changed her clothes and washed up at an unprecedented speed and ran out of the door as if she was escaping for her life. For her, who was overly frightened early in the morning, it was probably purely out of human instinct of fear that she quickly found a crowded place to stay.
After thinking about it, I headed straight to the subway station, where probably the largest number of people who get up early gather.
She tried desperately to squeeze into the crowded place until she was squeezed into a dried fish shape. Suddenly, she felt much more at ease and an unprecedented sense of security surged in her heart. This awareness made her laugh.
Before this, Yinglili hated the subway in the morning. She was always scared when she thought about being squeezed like a dried fish. But today, she completely enjoyed it. She even began to think that since it was summer vacation, she might as well just keep changing subways and take whichever line was crowded.
Without realizing how perverted and boring her idea was, Ping Lili couldn't help but mutter to herself, "It turns out that I feel more at ease and safer when I'm surrounded by people!"
"Puchi." A low chuckle came from the side, and Pinglili realized that her mumbling seemed to be heard by someone. She glanced at the other person out of the corner of her eye embarrassedly. This glance was incredible, and Pinglili immediately perked up.
He was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, a straight nose, and slightly thin lips that seemed to be smiling but not smiling. He was a very standard handsome boy!
But a few seconds later, the smile that Yinglili subconsciously revealed froze because her eyes fell on the back of the other person's hand.
It was a hand that was somewhat inconsistent with the boy's sunny and handsome face. It was pale and slender. Most importantly, on the back of the hand, a dark red bird mark was faintly flying, lifelike.
Faintly, as if sensing the mark on the other person's hand, Pinglili's shoulders began to burn, as if something was about to burst out! Pinglili's heart immediately rose to his throat. How could it be possible? How could everything in the dream really happen?
Did the person in the dream really appear?
How is it possible? The smile froze on her lips instantly. Ping Lili subconsciously opened her mouth and was about to scream, but the hand covered her mouth even faster.
Then, a low male voice whispered in her ear: "Shh! Shut up if you want to live!" Then the hand exerted a little force and pulled her to the side!
But everything happened in just a moment. Just when she felt her body shifted due to the other party's strong pull, the burning sensation in her shoulder instantly intensified.
No, this time it wasn't just my shoulders, the skin on my entire back felt like it was about to be torn apart, along with a suffocating atmosphere, and it felt like the air in the entire car had condensed.
At that moment, another hand with the dark red bird mark came into view! And this time it was almost exactly the same as the scene in the dream !
A hand stretched out from behind, and the faintly flying dark red bird mark on the back of the hand! Even the burning sensation after being touched!
Although I have dreamt of this kind of scene thousands of times, when it really appears before my eyes, it still makes me feel terrified from the bottom of my heart!
Who can tell her what is going on?
Yinglili suddenly felt that her brain had completely lost the ability to think. At that moment, the subway arrived at the station. In an instant, the completely panicked Yinglili was dragged out by the young man from before, and disappeared outside the subway door like lightning...
And at that moment, something even more bizarre happened. A strong white light flashed before her eyes, so bright that she could hardly open her eyes. When the white light faded away, she looked around and was completely dumbfounded!
Where is this? Didn't they just exit the subway? They were clearly in a crowded crowd just now, but why did the surroundings look more and more like an elevator? Could it be that two living people suddenly disappeared in the subway station and no one noticed?
But the scene at this moment reminded her again and again that she didn't seem to be dreaming. The boy who had just "held her hostage" in the subway didn't even bother to explain to her. He looked around nervously, frowned and cursed: "Damn it, I can't teleport too far with people! That guy might catch up soon!"
Before he finished speaking, he stretched out the hand with the Vermillion Bird mark and gestured something in the air. In an instant, the Vermillion Bird mark seemed to have life, flickering and almost spreading out from the back of his hand. Then a faint inky light shield rose out of thin air and spread to every corner of the elevator.
Ping Lili watched all this in amazement, with only one thought left in her mind: Had she been abducted by aliens?
"It's safe for now! Fortunately, I found you earlier than him!" This was the first sentence the other party said to Gong Lili after performing this series of thrilling actions.
At this moment, he let out a breath as if relieved, and slowly slid down to the ground with his back against the inner wall of the elevator.
After being stimulated by so many supernatural phenomena, Yinglili's brain had basically stopped working, and even her tongue was not very flexible. She struggled to utter a sentence: "You, you, you, you, are you an alien?"
"You're an idiot!" Ping Lili felt that if she hadn't misunderstood, the word "idiot" was clearly written on the other person's face.
But what is going on?
The hands that had been chasing him in the dream suddenly appeared in reality, and there was a buy one get one free offer. The owner of one of the hands now claimed that he had saved him.
OH MY GOD! What on earth is going on! Is that dream real? Or is it a prophecy? Is there really someone who wants to kill me? Then who is the person who is hunting me? Ping Lili felt like her brain was about to explode...
"However, you are really a bit magical. Even at this age, the power of the mark has not awakened yet!" When the other party looked up, stared at Ping Lili with excited eyes, and said these confusing words, Ping Lili felt that his brain had completely gone on strike and he could only stare at the other party stupidly.
"You also felt the murderous aura on the subway just now, right? Someone wants to kill you, and I want to save you." The other party was silent for a few seconds and simply uttered a nonsensical sentence, which made Ping Lili even more confused.
"Oh, I'm sorry that my comprehension is limited. I'm afraid I can't expand my imagination on my own. Can you explain it in a little more detail?" Ping Lili tried to calm herself down, although what the other party said seemed to have dropped a heavy bomb in her heart.
"Do you believe in the theory of past lives and present lives?" The other party's thoughts were so jumpy that Ping Lili couldn't react for a moment.
After about a minute, when her brain slowly digested the words, she shook her head: "I am an atheist."
Before he finished speaking, the young man who was sitting on the ground just now looked stern, stood up quickly, and his eyes changed suddenly!
"He's caught up with us! Damn it, this guy can actually break through the barrier I set up!" Before Ping Lili could even digest his nonsensical words, she was picked up by him around the waist, and then another dazzling white light flashed.
When I opened my eyes again this time, I was already in an empty abandoned construction site.
Ping Lili looked around in astonishment, then looked at the young man, only to find that the young man's face was as gloomy as water.
He quietly put her down, his eyes slightly closed, and a mysterious dark green halo appeared faintly in the palm of his right hand. Suddenly, a dark green long sword about two feet long appeared in his hand as if it came out of thin air. There was a faint dark blue mark on the dark and simple handle, and the shape was vaguely a dragon pattern!
Before she even had time to marvel at this magic-like scene, Ping Lili suddenly felt thunder in her ears, and then she felt herself flying into the air again. No, to be precise, she was being grabbed by the collar and twisted into the air. It was not until the boy twisted her and jumped several meters away that she realized that the place where she was standing had sunk more than one meter deep!
Oh my god, what kind of terrifying power is this? It's even more terrifying than an excavator!
Only then did she notice that a young man of the same . He looked elegant and refined, but he exuded a suffocating murderous aura. On the back of his left hand was the Suzaku mark that had been entangled with her dreams for years.
That's right! Ping Lili was very sure that this person was the one who wanted to kill him on the subway just now. Did he really catch up with him...
Yinglili pursed her lips with difficulty, but in the end she couldn't utter a single syllable. Her hands subconsciously grasped the corner of the boy's clothes tightly.
The young man frowned, pursed his lips and said nothing. This man, who seemed to be a stranger to him, gave him an oddly familiar feeling. He looked at him carefully, but still could not find the corresponding appearance in his memory, so he could only move his body carefully to protect Ping Lili behind him...
Everything happened in an instant. The young man's cold eyes flashed, and he waved his left hand. A thunderclap exploded above the heads of Gong Lili and the knife-wielding boy! The thunder was so close that it seemed to be right next to their ears! Then, a shrill flash of lightning came with even more violent thunder!
Ping Lili screamed in fright, but saw that the young man in front of him did not even raise his head, but held the knife in one hand and gently raised it. A beam of ice-blue light drew a graceful arc from the tip of the knife and broke through the air. In just a flash, the ice-blue light beam went straight towards the thunder and lightning that came from the sky!
However, the moment the ice-blue beam of light met the lightning, it seemed to come to life, and instantly transformed into a giant dragon with bared fangs and claws, swallowing the surging thunder and lightning into its belly in one gulp!
The stormy clouds and flashes of lightning just now turned into dust in an instant, leaving no trace!
At this moment, a strange smile appeared on the other party's face: "So you are Mo Yi, the 'Dragon Slashing Song' is indeed worthy of its reputation!"
The young man remained silent and did not respond, which was equivalent to tacitly agreeing with the other party's speculation. The other party raised his eyebrows and changed the subject: "Since you have obtained eternal life, just live your carefree life and don't bother with such trivial matters!"
"I was the first one to discover her, so she is my prey. I will take care of this matter. You'd better look for someone else!" The young man called Mo Yi suddenly spoke, with a firm tone that could not be refused.
This made Ping Lili's heart, which had just risen to her throat, relax a little. As if she was afraid that the boy would suddenly change his mind, she increased the strength of her hand that was holding the corner of his clothes.
For no reason, at this moment, Ping Lili felt a little more trust in this young man who was still a stranger in front of her. In fact, apart from trusting him, she had no better choice.
“Although you are a well-known genius in the clan, if you try to protect her, you may not be able to defeat me…” Seeing that the negotiations were unsuccessful, the other party began to resort to psychological tactics.
"Even if I carry a bag, you may not be able to gain much advantage from me. However, are you sure you really want to try the power of my 'Dragon Slashing Roar' which has not seen blood for a hundred years?" The young man raised his eyebrows and spoke in a somewhat unfriendly tone. At this time, he gently raised the dark green long sword in his hand. The blade with a cold and shimmering light looked even colder and clearer in his hand.
There was a moment of silence, and the other party's expression seemed a little difficult to understand. Finally, after weighing the pros and cons in silence for a while, he looked at Gong Lili coldly and said, "Mo Yi, I won't give up! Her head will eventually belong to me, Zhuo Wei!" After that, he disappeared from sight in an instant.
