Do you believe me when I say I’m not a dragon?

The retreating steps hit the ground firmly, and the hunter let out a loud roar, turning his retreating strength into a counterattack. He thrust his spear forward and penetrated the beast in front of him.

After killing it, the hunter took a breath, took back his weapon, looked at the beast 15 meters in front of him, and then looked in the distance.

After judging the distance, the hunter nodded, directly picked up the body of the beast and walked out of the forest.

Outside the forest was the sea, but when the hunter pushed through the grass and came to the seaside, what he saw on the sea level was a huge island.

He put the body on the boat on the shore and rocked the boat towards the island.

Logically speaking, the sea is filled with a large number of ferocious sea beasts. It would be suicide to go to the deep sea alone in a small boat like this.

But the hunter showed no fear and walked slowly through the sea. He even had time to stop and play with the body on the boat to prevent the seawater from getting wet.

After a while, the hunter came to the island, docked the boat, and carried the body to the island.

He raised his head and looked at the scenery on the island.

——The ground of the island is extremely flat, but there are no so-called trees, mountains or streams. Instead, there are workers coming and going, large construction tools, etc.

From the mouths of people passing by, you can still vaguely hear things like "Floating Island No. [-]" and so on.

Many factors have contributed to the fact that the island beneath their feet is not natural, but an artificial floating city.

Looking around, you can also see high-rise buildings that have been built not far away.

The hunter carried the beast's body to the port and came to a special window.

"I'll submit the task." The hunter said to the staff inside, and then threw the beast's body to the ground.

Upon hearing this, the staff immediately sent someone to check:

"A complete carcass of a Greentooth Beast... is a commission from the Institute of Ecology. It has been confirmed and the body is well preserved. We will pay you now."

The expressions of the staff members changed and they showed professional and friendly smiles. At the same time, the body of the Green Tooth Beast was also carried into a box and headed to a high-rise building.

The staff pushed the cart to a gate, inside which was the building of the Institute of Ecology.

Just as the staff was about to enter, the guard at the gate stopped him: "Wait a minute, what are you doing in there?"

"The Hunter's Guild is a commission from your Ecological Research Institute." The staff showed their certificates and gave them to the guards for confirmation.

"The body of the Green Teeth Beast...is the client Luo Er?" The guard looked through the documents stored in the post box and asked after confirming the information.

"Yes."

"I understand. She is in a meeting right now, so she can't pick it up in person. Just put it here."

"Okay, please stamp here."

After completing the procedures, the staff left, and the guard also sent someone to put the box in the icehouse, and he returned to his post.

——At the same time, on the other side, a meeting in the Sky Island Federation building had just ended. Various executives from Sky Island left one after another. At the same time, many senior executives walked side by side, and the discussions after the meeting were whispered. Continuous.

"How is morale lately?"

"No, since we learned the news that Floating Island No. [-] was attacked by a black dragon, many people have become depressed. Not just the workers, it is said that some in the management of the Federation have lost hope."

......

"How's the work going in the nearby mountains?"

"We have arranged an extraction station there. The surrounding beasts seem to feel the breath of natural disasters in the floating island, so they dare not act rashly."

"That is indeed very convenient. The aura of natural disasters can avoid wild beasts. We should also use this advantage effectively."

......

"Sir, Mr. Lore."

Among the crowd's voices, some people walked forward quickly and came up behind a young woman and stopped her.

The woman called Luo Er turned around and looked at the person in front of her calmly: "What's the matter?"

"The president wants to see you."

Hearing this, Luo Er subconsciously showed a serious expression, but then asked doubtfully: "What did he ask me to do?"

"I don't know, it's the order from the president himself."

"......I see."

Luo Er nodded after pondering for a moment, no longer heading outside the building, but went deep into the Sky Island Federation.

——Soon, she followed the man to the door of an office, and the latter knocked on the door:

"President, the people have been brought."

"I see, let her in."

Rachel walked into the office and found that in addition to the president of the Sky Island Federation, there were other senior officials sitting in it.

"President, are you looking for me?" Luo Er found a chair and sat down. The secretary beside her poured scented tea for her. She picked it up and smelled it, then frowned and put it down.

"Yes, Mr. Luo Er - you were originally a forest man living in the forest and once worked as a hunter. After being attacked by the gray mist called the Gray Scale Dragon, you came to the Floating Island to be with your companions. Living together and giving up being a hunter, going from being a scholar's assistant at the Institute of Ecology to where you are now, right?"

The president looked at Luo Er in front of him and asked in a polite tone.

In this regard, Luo Er frowned: "Can this kind of thing recorded in the file be false? If you have something to say, just tell it."

"——It's about the black dragon." The director of the Institute of Ecology on the side said, looking at Luo Er whose face suddenly darkened, "After you joined the floating island, you have never stopped researching the black dragon. I I think you are the only one who knows the black dragon best among all the people."

"What are you planning to do?" Hearing this, Luo Er asked with a stern face.

"Understand it and understand its capabilities - for example, its scale powder, this should be the thing you know best." The president of the Sky Island Federation said with a bitter smile: "For another example, understand How did it grow from a young dragon that even had to avoid your pursuit to this level?"

"Yes." Luo Er agreed decisively without much hesitation: "But I have a condition."

"——Find a way to rescue your people, right? If we can find an opportunity, we will go out as soon as possible."

"This is one of them." Luo Er pursed his lips and said: "There is no material about black dragons, how can we study it?"

"The top priority now is to solve the problem of the black dragon's scale powder. According to the information we have received, the black dragon's scale powder can transform people into another kind of monster. We have collected part of the scale powder it released a few years ago. Now we need to Find out the principle." The director of the Institute of Ecology said in a calm tone: "Although the black dragon's scale powder has changed greatly, by tracing its origin and comparing it with the original scale powder, we may be able to understand how strong it has become. How much."

He paused and looked at Luo Er: "Speaking of which, the first infected person of Black Dragon Scale Powder, her heir is by your side, right?"

Chapter 3: Xiyin

——As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Er stared at the director of the Institute of Ecology for a long time before slowly saying: "She is dead. She has been dead for a long time."

"... Are you dead? I'm really sorry." Hearing this, the director showed an unexpected look and said regretfully.

"You said when you invited me to take this position, you did this because you couldn't bear to see Bell being tortured."

Facing Luo Er's serious expression, the director's expression did not change: "There have been too many things recently, and I have forgotten things."

"That's it..." Hearing this, Luo Er sighed and looked at the president's indifferent tone: "Let me think about this matter and give you an answer in a few days. Now I have to go back and do it. Experimented.”

"Please."

...After watching Luo Er close the door and disappear from his sight, the president of the Sky Island Federation sighed: "It's a pity that without the initial scale powder of the black dragon, our understanding of it will not progress." I’m afraid it won’t go that smoothly.”

He listened to things like taking office, but he didn't care about the details of the matter - it was just a matter of interest.

"That's not certain," the director said, "I heard that the descendant of the infected person acted wildly. Maybe she still has heirs left behind."

Hearing these words, the president of the Federation was stunned for a while, and then laughed: "Are you saying that a person who is infected by the black dragon's scale powder and suffers pain will have the energy to give birth to an heir?"

"——To be honest, I have a little understanding of the descendant of the original infected person." The director said lightly: "She understands her physical condition, and her mental state is very unstable, sometimes crazy, sometimes normal. In my opinion It seems that she doesn’t care about what’s going on around her, she only cares about herself, or her body.”

Facing the president's frowning and confused face, the director pondered for a while and said: "If I guess correctly, the descendant of the infected person has lived in the world of able-bodied people since he was a child, and regards his body as a curse - —What do you think is the most extreme choice she would make in such a situation?"

"...passing the curse to others?" After the president finished speaking, the director of the Ecological Research Institute smiled as if this was indeed the case.

......

"......my child."

"——I hope you will not be understood by others and be alone; I hope you will be betrayed and deceived; I hope you will never be able to integrate into the group and will always be an alien."

"Some people say that giving birth is a mother's blessing to her child, but I want to tell you that giving birth to you is my curse to you."

"One day, you will understand me... In this world, we are the only ones of the same kind."

——On the way back, Luo Er vaguely recalled the whispers he heard in the ward.

At this time, Belle's face was filled with a sick look, her eyes were stubborn and it was impossible for anyone to understand her thoughts, which made Luo Er feel extremely strange.

She decided at that moment that she would never let the new child make the same mistakes.

All the news about the black dragon has nothing to do with the child. She should not know these cruel truths.

After Bell died a few years later, Lore concealed the child's true physical condition and decided that anything related to the black dragon scale powder had nothing to do with the child.

——This is also the reason why Luol left here quickly.

The child's birth record is not on this floating island, but even so, Lore would not rest assured.

Instead of going to the Institute of Ecology, she came to the nearby apartment and knocked on the door.

This is where she lives. Soon, footsteps sounded, the door opened, and a young face appeared in front of Luo Er.

"...Instructor? Are you back so early?" Kulu looked at Luol's solemn face and asked with confusion.

"There is something important." Luo Er looked around and whispered, "How is Xiyin?"

Bell's child, Lore chose this very different name in order to prevent others from associating her with Bell, trying to use this method as a symbol of difference from the first two generations of infected people of Black Dragon Scale Powder.

"She fell asleep and was crazy in the house all morning. She even wanted to play with my bow. Fortunately, she fell asleep when she was tired."

Saying that, Kuroo glanced at the room behind her.

"Really..." After hearing this, Luo Er also breathed a sigh of relief, and then solemnly said: "Take her away from here and stay away for a while."

"what happened?"

Facing the confused Kulu, Lor told her everything about what happened in the office.

"——I don't want Xiyin to stay in the laboratory and become the subject of research, so you take her to live outside for a while and come back after things calm down, okay?"

"it is good."

For Kulu, it doesn't matter whether she lives on a floating island or in the outside world. She is no longer the immature hunter she was a few decades ago.She nodded decisively and packed her luggage.

"I know a hunting group that is planning to go hunting recently. They are still on the floating island. Go tell them that you can leave here on their spaceship." Lohr said, taking out a business card.

"Yes." Kuru nodded, slung his bow, which was always leaning against the wall, behind his back, took the business card, turned around and walked towards the house.

......

"Hmm...Kulu, Morito, 64 years old...you look really young."

On the spaceship, a female hunter looked at Kulu's hunter card and said unexpectedly.

Then she looked at the yawning child beside her and frowned: "Although you are Mr. Luo Er's disciple and have been introduced by her, you'd better take a good look at this kid. Last time, a big boss gave him a ride. The car, not paying attention to my family, almost caused the child in his early ten years to fall off the boat."

"do not worry......"

Before Kuroo could finish speaking, the girl next to her legs muttered, "I won't be so stupid."

"Oh?" Hearing this, the female hunter squatted down with interest and looked at her level: "What's your name and how old are you?"

"My name is Xiyin! I'm seven years old!" Xiyin said to her with a bright smile.

"Really."

The female hunter raised her head and looked at Kulu: "Why did you bring such a young child out?"

"...please allow me to keep this a secret."

Seeing Kulu, he didn't intend to reveal anything. The hunter didn't ask any more questions. He patted Xiyin's head and stood up: "Okay, you guys can stay here. We have to go on a mission and it will take a long time. Mr. Lore said you would help us, right?”

"Of course." Kulu nodded calmly and replied.

Chapter 3: Giant Python

......

"Lord God, we have discovered a spaceship of a hunting group. After contacting them, the leader of the hunting group showed strong vigilance towards us."

Rachel put down the document in her hand and looked at Mercer, who was concentrating on the side with his eyes closed. After a pause, he tentatively called out: "...Lord God, Lord God?"

"Hmm -" Rachel could clearly feel that the breathing of the black dragon opposite was disordered for a moment, and then calmed down: "...what's the matter?"

"Are you hibernating? If so, do you need me to report back the next day?"