The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

"No, not at all." Yu Jin shrugged, as if it were none of his business.

"Damn it! Why didn't you take more pictures? Don't you know how good this is?!" Kutri's body began to twist erratically; he wanted to see how the dragon lizard would ravage the humans next!

This made Yu Jin wonder if Kutri would have started rolling around in pain if he hadn't been without legs.

"How much longer do you want me to film such a bloody scene? Just watch it for a bit and that'll be enough!"

The first scene was indeed very short, after all, it was too bloody and it wouldn't be good to film too much—mainly because Bloodthirst was too expensive, and if he used too much Ember, he was afraid the pink-haired fox would come and ask him for money.

Yu Jin stroked his chin, looking at Kutri with a surprised and suspicious gaze. Had this dragon developed a psychological problem after staying in the Dark Outer Sea for so long?

"Bloody? I didn't think so, I just thought it was absolutely amazing!" Kutri's eyes were still brimming with excitement, it seemed that he really hated humans.

"Amazing?" Yu Jin was even more certain of his thoughts. Because he knew that even a psychopath who truly enjoyed gore and violence would find this film amazing.

The reason is simple: the first thing Yu Jin directed was, apart from having enough props, the rest was simply indescribable.

"what!"

"Uh!"

"Cuck!"

The embers played again, and the soldiers' screams were so exaggerated that they made people want to laugh.

How good can you expect acting skills from a bunch of ordinary soldiers?

However, this worked very well for Kutri; as soon as Kutri heard it, he immediately straightened up.

His body was taut and straight, his skin trembling slightly, and combined with the serpentine shape of the Kutri and the cone-shaped head, it gave Ember a bad feeling.

"Yes, that's the sound, the screams of a human being, hahaha!"

"Human screams?" Ember looked at the sides of Kutri's body, wondering how to add two more bulges there.

That's what makes it perfect!

"What are you looking at?" After enjoying the human's "screams" for a while, Kutri suddenly felt a chill, so he relaxed and quietly retreated back into the sea.

"I didn't see anything." Yu Jin waved his hand, then picked up the phonograph and asked as if to confirm, "What's in here?"

"Human screams?" Kutri asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Oh~" Ember nodded in sudden realization. He understood now; Kutri must have been out of touch with humans for so long that he had forgotten what human screams sounded like.

That's better! It'll be much easier to persuade (or even trick) them!

Chapter 580 Appealing to Emotion and Reason

2024-04-01

"I'm asking you, what do you think humanity will do to the dragon lizards after this battle?"

The embers landed on Kutri's head and asked him a question. Then Kutri, with the embers on his head, stood up from the sea again.

He suddenly felt the chill that had just swept over his body dissipate. How strange! Why would a fire dragon feel cold?

After thinking for a while without finding a result, Kutri focused on answering Ember's question: "What else can we do? An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

At this point, Kutri's excitement subsided considerably. He had enjoyed the dragon lizard's fight against the humans, but he knew that ultimate victory would belong to humanity.

What the dragon lizard did to humans, humans will definitely repay in full. However, despite his disappointment, Kutri felt no sadness.

"Hmph, even so, we dragons will make humans suffer! Death is the end for humans, but for us dragons, it's just another beginning!"

As Kuttri spoke, he became excited again. He was happy as long as he could see humans get their comeuppance.

“I think you have some misunderstanding about humanity,” Ember said seriously as he jumped down from Kutri’s head.

"Misunderstanding? Aren't all humans a treacherous, cunning, and vicious bunch..."

Upon hearing this, Kutri immediately demonstrated to Ember what it meant to shift blame. He wanted to slap every derogatory term he could think of onto humanity.

“I admit you’re right about some things, but humanity has changed!” Ember waved his hand, interrupting Kutri’s incessant chatter.

“You’re just making things up. It would be a miracle if I believed you,” Kutri said, looking completely unconvinced.

"If you don't believe me, take a look at this." Seeing that Kutri had taken the bait, Yu Jin immediately took out the phonograph again.

"What? You found a new movie?"

"That sounds a bit odd."

Ember tilted his head, then seemed unconcerned. Kutri's large eyes darted closer, and Ember offered a timely explanation:

"Next, it will be humanity's counterattack against the dragon lizard."

"Then I won't watch it."

"You have to look, whether you want to or not!"

Ember grabbed the dragon whiskers and feathers flying from Kutri's head, afraid that he would escape.

"Stop, stop, stop! Let me see!" Kutri cried out in pain, then abandoned any thought of escaping.

He watched it absentmindedly, feeling depressed.

The pitch-black screen flickered, and then in Kutri, humans were once again seen fighting against the dragon lizards.

However, this time there were other things besides blood.

"Why don't these humans have any weapons? They're all carrying forks and nets?" Kutri looked up, his face full of surprise.

Upon hearing this, Yu Jin immediately adopted a deeply moved expression and said in a heavy tone, "Because humans know they were in the wrong and don't want to hurt the dragon lizard."

"They're carrying pitchforks and nets; they're trying to capture the lizards alive!"

"..."

Kutri looked at the pounding embers, his face practically overflowing with suspicion.

"It looks a bit fake, let me take another look!" With a skeptical mindset, Kutri bent down and looked again.

The more he looked, the more alarmed he became, because in the images, no matter how the lizard attacked the humans, the humans always retaliated with steel forks and nets.

In the footage, he even saw many other people with blood on their bodies, which made Kutri begin to doubt himself.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Kutri exclaimed in disbelief. How could such a cunning species as humans be so magnanimous?

“Nothing is impossible! Look at this!!” When Ember saw Kutri shaking his head vigorously, he immediately pulled out the Blood Coral he had gotten from the Fools.

Kutri was instantly drawn to the spot. He quieted down and squinted at the blood coral floating on the surface of the sea.

Soon, Kutri roared, "Who dares to use my people as meat cauldrons? I will make sure they are reduced to ashes!"

Large flames suddenly erupted from Kutri's dark body, and scalding lava seeped from his outer rocky shell, making him look like a walking volcano.

"Calm down!" Seeing Kurt's furious state, Ember immediately stepped in front of him.

He flew to the surface of the sea and picked up a piece of blood coral, from which strange bits of flesh still dangled.

“Take a good look at how old this thing is.” Ember threw the Blood Coral over, and before the crimson coral even touched Kutri, it turned to ash.

"What's so interesting about drawing upon the accumulated sins of my people over hundreds and thousands of years!"

Kutri looked down at the blood coral floating on the sea surface; each one represented thousands of years of suffering for a dragon lizard.

"That settles it. This thing was dug out of the ground by modern humans. It must be the result of experiments conducted on dragon lizards in ancient times."

"As expected, it's a human again!"

The lava hissed as it evaporated the seawater, and amidst the rising white smoke, two fiery red dragon eyes stood out vividly.

"The present is the present, and the past is the past, specifically ancient times. I ask you, can humans live for hundreds of years?"

Upon hearing this, Kutri calmed down somewhat: "Human lifespan is no different from that of cordyceps; they will die in an instant."

"It's good to know. The person who did this back then is long dead, and their grave may not even be there anymore."

Yu Jin breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Kutri had finally calmed down. He hadn't expected Kutri to react so strongly; he had miscalculated.

"That was done by humans, they can't escape responsibility!" Kutri said, but the lava flowing from his body stopped. If you looked closely, you would find that Kutri's body had "swelled up" again.

"So, they sent this to you, so you can do whatever you want with it!"

Yu Jin pointed to the blood coral swaying on the sea with the wind and waves, and couldn't help but feel a little tired.

He was extremely worried about the relationship between humans and dragons.

But what could he do when Ember had connections with both humans and dragons? To avoid a future scenario where he punched humans and kicked dragons, he felt it was best to ease tensions as quickly as possible.

As for why it was Ember who punched the human and kicked the dragon lizard, it's because if humans and dragons got into a conflict, it wouldn't be good for him to side with either side.

For this kind of problem, Ember has only one answer: beat both sides up!

"Are humans really that kind?"

"It's been ten thousand years, it's time for things to change, isn't it?"

Kutri stopped talking after hearing this. He looked at the blood coral undulating on the sea surface, and then flames burst into flames on the surface of the blood coral.

The flames were huge and fierce. When the flames disappeared again, there was truly nothing left on the sea.

"And let me tell you, humans eventually found even more ways to deal with dragon lizards, but they didn't use any of them..."

"Alright, you don't need to show it to me anymore."

Kuttri blew a breath, sending the embers that had flown over to show him another scene flying away.

“You’ve been in the mainland for a long time and you’re very powerful. Let me ask you, can I get in now?”

Kutri gazed into the distance, where the boundless sea surged. The dark sea seemed infinitely vast, but Kutri knew that at the edge of his vision lay the continent where he once lived.

"Absolutely no problem! I'm telling you, as long as you don't threaten the basic order and functioning of the world, you can even go up there and become a god yourself!"

"So, how about it? Interested in settling down there?"

Yu Jin immediately began to coax Kutri slowly.

"Settle down?" Kutry pondered for a moment, then shook his head.

"Forget it, I'm an old man from the last era, I've been out of touch with the world for too long, the Dark Sea is fine enough."

But then he changed the subject and said, "However, it's still okay to go there for a trip once in a while."

"Lead the way, show me what that island is like?"