Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 187 Death of the Black Swan (VII)
There was unspeakable sadness in Asashio's eyes. If she were to rank the eight monarchs, she might be an outlier in another sense.
As the first Dragon King to discover the secret of the Black King, she first thought of a way to fight against the Emperor of Words, which was to forcibly suppress her own bloodthirsty desire, which was similar to the opposite of the blood-exploding method in the hands of humans.
But this is equivalent to going against one's own nature, which not every Dragon King can do easily. Chao Chao first taught this method to his sister, and then to Li Wu Yue. These Dragon Kings became the most threatening characters who contributed the most in the betrayal.
They are different from their other brothers and sisters. Their original intention of participating in this rebellion was not to seize the power and authority of the Black King, but to redeem themselves. Because once the only Black King dies, nothing can restrict them. Freedom is the most desired thing for any race.
But some people have changed now. Time is often a chronic poison. Chao Chao can't help but think of the past Li Wu Yue. Although he couldn't be said to be lovely and amiable, he was at least a romantic boy who would occasionally take out a dandelion and hand it to him like a magic trick, and then blow them away with the wind. But now there is no trace of the past in him.
"Will you kill all the dragons?" Asashio asked, "Like Nidhogg?"
There are very few Dragon Kings who call the Black King father anymore. After the betrayal, they have become sworn enemies. Calling the Black King by his name is more like a statement of stance.
"That would be even more boring." Li Wuyue smiled. "My purpose is to have fun. Killing desire is just one of the reasons. We have to kill others anyway, so why do we have to do it ourselves? It's fun to train some self-righteous guys and watch them feel smug when they think they are the chosen ones and end up with their hands splattered with blood."
He leaned closer to Chao Chao, a nonchalant smile on his lips, staring into her eyes, "If all dragons die, I will have no one to share the joy of victory. Do you understand? I want to see the shocked and unbelievable look in your eyes when you or other dragons around you learn what I have done. That is one of the few moments that make me happy. My happiness needs to be built on the pain of my fellow dragons."
Asashio saw a hint of amusement in Li Wuyue's eyes. He was indeed a winner and had been in control of everything from beginning to end. Even Asashio's only secret now was seen clearly by him.
After the life-and-death battle in 1909, Chao Chao urgently needed a place to recuperate. With her ability to control water, it was not difficult for her to find a suitable hiding place. But she went to great lengths, from the Mediterranean Sea to the northeast of Siberia, almost halfway around the world, just to retrieve her sister's egg. From the moment she woke up, she clearly felt that the egg was in the Arctic Ocean, but because she soon met Li Wuyue and found that the boy was no longer a comrade-in-arms as in the past, she lied and said that she had to go find her sister.
Her premonition was correct. It was difficult to communicate with Li Wuyue with common sense. He had become a chaotic villain. He was a rare antisocial personality among humans. As a highly intelligent and advanced creature, the dragon race had emotions as one of their few weaknesses. Li Wuyue abandoned his emotions and became this kind of dragon. His bloodthirsty desire for violence turned into a sadistic heart. He did not want to die. The pain, tears and despair of others made him laugh wildly.
"She's here, right?" Li Wu Yue gently stroked Chao Chao's right eye socket, which is the best preserved part of her body.
Chao Chao instinctively wanted to resist, but Li Wu Yue only gave her a little bit of blood, enough to wake her up briefly. The scale of control was very good. Although her upper body had regained some mobility, she was still as weak as a newborn baby in terms of strength. Li Wu Yue easily suppressed her terrified headbutt. He was able to make Chao Chao unable to move just by holding her in his palm.
"Don't worry, I won't do anything to her. She is your precious sister, my brother and sister, and the only Dragon King I can find right now. It will take thousands of years for you to recover from your condition. Those humans want to use your bones to do greater things. You won't live much longer, so I have to leave your sister behind so that someone will know what I have done and regard me as an enemy."
Li Wuyue said, "The worst thing in the world is that no one knows about your achievements. Even if you save the world, but die alone, it is the same as if you did not do it. No one will pay tribute to you. Being an unknown hero is disgusting, and being an unknown villain is even more boring. But I don't want to announce my existence to more people yet. I am only willing to choose a few special people... So I think you can try to say thank you to me."
He stretched out his wrist, and the Dragon King's high self-recovery ability had healed his wound. He had to squeeze his heart again to cut the wound, letting the blood drip into Chao Chao's right eye. When she opened her eyes that she had not seen for a long time, Li Wu Yue's past memories made her recognize at a glance that this marble-like right eye was a fake.
That was the egg of a dragon king, and now it was only the size of an eyeball. It would take a long time to revive it.
Li Wu Yue's blood came into contact with the surface of the egg, just like red water meeting a sponge. Intricate and delicate lines appeared on the surface of the egg, absorbing the precious blood of the Dragon King one by one. It only took a moment for the light golden egg to return to its original appearance from red.
In history, there are only a few ways to manipulate the bloodline of the dragon race, such as devouring each other, bathing in dragon blood, genetic modification, and the power of the Word Spirit. Using the Word Spirit to modify bloodline is the power of the Black and White Kings, representing the Word Spirit Emperor and the Word Spirit Oracle respectively. For a dragon king to do the same thing, he can only offer his own blood. Now Li Wuyue is far superior to Chao Chao and her sister, and he can do it.
“I put all the strength I got from you into this blood. The newborn will be stronger than before. This is a little compensation. Having a part of you is equivalent to you still being alive in this world. At least you can know what happened in the future.” Li Wu Yue said. The act of injecting blood lasted for half a minute. During this half minute, he lost a quarter of the blood in his body. Even a Dragon King became a little weak, and his speech was no longer so clear.
Asashio stared at him blankly. She really couldn't understand this guy's train of thought. At one moment he seemed like a villain writing a script behind the scenes, and at another moment he seemed like a saint with compassion in his heart.
"Is this your bad taste?" Chao Chao said. She couldn't change it now. She just felt a little sad. It was a sad thing to see a person fall. Li Wuyue thought that she could be like Nidhogg by abandoning her feelings. However, she never thought that his current way of thinking was still influenced by his dragon bloodline, but the lack of feelings was a little different from before.
Nidhogg has been dead for many years, but the influence he has had on all dragons can never be erased. To this day, no matter whether they are half-bloods or proud dragon kings, there are still black dragons coiled over their heads, silently controlling the script to the result he wants. His return is destined to come true.
"Well, I'll create an enemy of equal strength for myself. I'll wait for her to find me with anger, and then trample her hard under my feet. I look forward to her stubborn and unyielding look. Just thinking about it makes me tremble with joy." Li Wuyue smiled wildly as if she had knocked something on him, and patted the egg that was hatching quickly. "You may not understand it now, but you can definitely hear it, Njord, it was me, Vida, who sent your sister Skadi to hell! This hatred has been deeply rooted in your heart since you revived. Come find me! I am everywhere in this world, and you and I are destined to meet again one day. I look forward to meeting you with swords!"
He was so arrogant that he was incomparable. His ferocious smile lacked the cold elegance of the past. At this moment, he was the most complete himself. The oath between dragons would not be addressed by human names. The Norse mythology was rewritten based on the history of the dragon clan. Those were the names they really had when they were born.
The night grew deeper, and Chao Chao's consciousness was slowly fading. Li Wu Yue calculated the time very accurately. Soon after he left, the blood used to support her recovery was almost used up. When it was all over, she would become the skeleton of the nailed Dragon King again.
It's not that there is no solution, such as taking out the sister's eggs and eating them. Li Wu Yue gave her sister enough blood and strength to speed up her recovery. This gift can certainly allow Chao Chao to return to his heyday in an instant.
But Chao Chao would never do that, and Li Wuyue knew that, so he dared to be so bold as to send back what he had already taken away. Emotion is the most deadly poison that Nidhogg gave to the eight dragon kings. Norton to Constantine, Fenrir to Jörmungandr, and Skadi to Njord, every pair of brothers and sisters have a good relationship, but only Vida and his sister Eden successfully cut off this connection. From then on, they were two independent individuals who had nothing to do with each other, and they also successfully created two dragon kings who were far better than other brothers and sisters.
At this time, light footsteps were heard in the frozen cave. It was not as silent as Li Wuyue's. Although she was very careful, the overly solid ice here created a surface as smooth as a mirror like the floor of a hotel, and the sound would be reflected and amplified.
Many things are just coincidental, like a phone on a desk, which may not ring for several days at normal times, but sometimes all kinds of things happen at the same time and it rings like crazy.
The footsteps only sounded a few times and then disappeared. This was because Renata took off her shoes and held them in her hands, walking barefoot on the ice. The soles of her feet were the best silencers.
Any adult seeing this scene would exclaim in disbelief, the ice layer has reached the point of permafrost, and it is unknown how many years it has been formed here. Even the most advanced excavators have to chip away at it bit by bit. It is both a perfect defense and an excellent warming facility, but the so-called warmth here is about minus 10 to 20 degrees Celsius, which will stick people's skin to the ice.
The temperature difference from the relatively warm room to such a deep place was astonishing, just like returning to the northern suburbs from early spring overnight, but Renata was not afraid at all. The nurses didn't know that Renata had such a high ability to resist cold, as if her skinny skin was born to be immune to the cold.
Renata herself didn't know that in her few vague memories outside of Black Swan Harbor, it was always very cold when it snowed heavily. She was shivering even when someone held her in their arms. She was very afraid of the cold at that time. But she didn't know when ice and snow had become her toys. She could grab the snow in the harbor with her bare hands without her palms turning red from the cold.
Renata held Zoro in one hand and carried her shoes in the other, and came to the depths of the cave. This was the route Zero told her, and it was said that it could lead to avoiding all patrolling soldiers and finding Asashio.
She did have a smooth journey and finally arrived at this place, but she did not see the gentle big sister here, but only an astonishingly large dragon skeleton.
She knew it was a dragon. Many people here knew it because the doctor was not so shy about it. Anyway, no one escaped from here, so the word written on the file was dragon. But the adults basically didn't care about it. In their eyes, the doctor was just a madman who studied superpowers. If he didn't often come up with some achievements, no one would believe him. Only those naive children believed that dragons really existed. At this moment, this half-dead skeleton was the best proof. Any child could blurt out its name if they were called.
Renata looked up at the skeleton and felt it seemed familiar. Her neck was sore from looking at it for so long. She shook her head and began to search around the ice cave, wondering if her elder sister was somewhere here. It looked like there were a lot of stored equipment and small doors to get in.
"Renata." The skeleton suddenly spoke. Chao Chao's consciousness was still on the verge of death. She had to spend some time to confirm who the child was, and then she showed a happy expression.
Renata was startled by the sudden sound and ran away because she thought it was a patrolling soldier or nurse who had spotted her. But after running a few steps, she realized that there were no hurried footsteps behind her. She turned back in confusion and saw that the upper body of the skeleton, which was still intact, was tilting its head to look at her, with a faint golden light flowing in its pupils.
"Do you know me?" Renata was not afraid because she had not yet learned to fear death. Instead, she was curious when she saw something that was supposed to be dead come back to life and call her name. The same was true for Zero, who called out her name as soon as they met. Tonight's adventure seemed to be destined.
