The Heartbeat of the Cruel Elves

"Forget it," the blue dragon was silent for a while, and when he saw that Li Yin did not respond, he skipped the topic. Of course, maybe because he knew he was in the wrong -

"I'm not wrong!" The giant dragon suddenly lowered its head, and with an angry roar and a storm-like breath, blew Li Yin several meters away, forcibly interrupting his thoughts.

"I just..." It raised its head and said majestically, "I don't want to bother with you two little bugs who are about to be crushed to death."

"You lowly and ignorant ants, you have rashly trespassed into my territory, disturbed my rest, destroyed my soldiers and property. Are you ready to pay the price for this?" Its already loud voice was high-pitched and suddenly rumbled in the air like a huge bell, declaring death to them like a god.

"Wait," Li Yin suddenly caught a blind spot.

"We didn't mean to disturb you," his tone suddenly became respectful, "The information we received is that this is an abandoned ancient city with no one living here."

"If we had known that this was an owned land, we would never have rashly set foot here without the owner's permission."

The dragon stopped roaring, lowered its head, and looked at Li Yin suspiciously with its pupils twitching.

"You lowly insect," it said in a flat voice mixed with a hint of disdain, "you are still quibbling."

"I'm not quibbling." Li Yin continued solemnly, "Your Excellency the Great Dragon, our mental activities are completely defenseless in front of you. You can tell whether it is true or false at a glance."

"That's right," Du Feiya also responded hastily. Like Li Yin, she suddenly realized that the dragon in front of them was not a beast that could not communicate. Although it was somewhat unreasonable - Du Feiya forced herself not to think about such a stupid topic at this critical moment, but once this thought came out, it was too late -

But the dragon did not get angry immediately. It seemed that it had become accustomed to the two people's slander.

In short, it was a communicable being, and it did not kill them immediately. Therefore, if they seized this brief gap between life and death and tried their best to communicate, perhaps things would turn around.

While her mind was racing, she didn't pause much, and spoke out what she wanted to say fluently and smoothly: "Respected Lord Dragon, the information we received is indeed that this is an uninhabited ruin."

"I am deeply sorry for the offense we caused you, but it was not intentional. So I hope you can show your great heart and forgive our sins."

"If," she paused, "we can return to Nevre alive."

"I swear on the honor of the Second Family of Nevre, and ask the Spider Goddess to be my witness. We will double the compensation for all the losses we have caused you during this period, in gratitude for your generosity."

"Moreover," she paused again, gritted her teeth, and seemed to have made a very difficult decision, "I will also give you endless gold, silver and jewelry to match your brilliance."

The moment Du Feiya blurted out the word "jewelry", Li Yin suddenly saw that the dragon's azure eyes suddenly became brighter.

But... it was silent for a while, stretched out a claw, and scratched its forehead with a crown of thorns.

"Did I hear correctly?"

"You cunning little bug, are you swearing to the Spider Goddess?"

Li Yin and Du Feiya's expressions changed at the same time. The dragon's puzzled and teasing tone was self-evident.

The Spider Goddess is the goddess of intrigue, trickery, and betrayal.

Swearing to her was like caressing a hungry newborn lamb in front of a hungry wolf...

"Yes, I'm sorry," Du Feiya said in panic, and hurriedly tried to make amends, "If you don't believe me, I can swear in the name of my family."

However, the dragon's wide eyes turned, and the confusion became even stronger.

"From what you said, it sounds like you don't have much respect for your goddess."

"How can I trust the promise of a bug that can easily abandon the gods it believes in?"

Du Feiya stood there in silence, dumbfounded.

Even Li Yin, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but feel a little worried for her.

Swear to the goddess, the other party says your goddess is a liar.

If you don't swear to the Spider Goddess, she will say that you can even betray the gods, so how can you have any credibility?

"Why don't you let me do it instead?" Li Yin said suddenly after thinking for a while, "If you must swear."

"I am not a believer in the Spider Goddess."

"So whose believer are you?" The dragon turned his head and looked at him.

"I am a non-believer." Li Yin blurted out as a matter of course. However, the next moment, he suddenly felt something indescribable and strange.

Sure enough, the dragon's huge eyes did not blink, staring at him with an even more surprised and astonished look than when it looked at Du Feiya just now.

"So, you don't believe in anything, but you ask me to believe in you?"

Chapter 171: Dragon's Forgiveness

"So there's no need to swear an oath."

Li Yin hesitated for a while, then spread his hands and looked helpless.

"Didn't I tell you that you... you have the ability to detect minds and can tell at a glance."

The dragon looked at him and grinned.

"Yes," it said with a hint of laughter in its voice, "In fact, I have already detected it."

“Your hearts show that what you say is true.”

"If you had known I was here, you would never have rashly come in to disturb me, let alone cause such destruction."

A smile appeared on Li Yin and Du Feiya's faces at the same time.

"So you believe it?"

Although they did in fact cause a collision with the dragon, as long as they could convince it that it was not intentional, given that it was so smart and... reasonable, things might turn out -

"——There is room for mediation." The giant dragon said what they were thinking. At the same time, a trace of arrogance flashed across his azure giant face. "Yes, yes, you can all realize that I am a reasonable dragon. This really makes me feel very relieved."

"But please note," it narrowed its pupils, its eyes becoming deep and sharp, "I said 'If I had known I was here'."

"There is a fundamental difference between not wanting to disturb the owner of this place and not wanting to disturb a master like me."

"In fact, along the way, haven't I already given you many hints to let you know that this is an owner's land?"

"But you still didn't stop advancing. You greedy little bugs destroyed the traps I set, entered my city, and fought with my soldiers with great fanfare. Until I showed up in person, destroyed your army, and spread the death and cruelty you spread along the way before you -"

It paused, and the crystal clear blue crystal head on its slender neck swayed slightly, leisurely and interested: "At this time, you suddenly became reasonable and polite, unwilling to offend the host's guests. And deeply repented for your rash behavior."

Li Yin and Du Feiya looked pale.

"So, deep in your hearts, you don't regret offending the owner of a piece of owned land, but you regret meeting a powerful, wise and majestic master like me, meeting a great dragon."

It spread its wings and flapped them slightly, creating a hurricane-like hurricane, like an angry person waving his arms vigorously.

"That is, can I make the following assumption?"

"Suppose, human bugs and elf bugs, you are not so weak. Suppose, your strength is greater than that of the great dragons - of course, this situation will never happen in the real world - but it does not prevent us from making such an assumption. Then, now, do you still regret your offense?"

"If the strong and the weak are out of place, am I still accepting your apology now, or - like in those vulgar fantasy novels shared by your two tribes, have I been skinned and ripped out by you, have my blood drunk and my flesh eaten, have my scales made into solid armor, have my bones and horns polished into rare divine weapons, and even have my head hung in the home of one of your two-legged bugs, passed down from generation to generation as a testimony to your 'bravery'?"

Wow, slaying a dragon, that is indeed the great feat that every human little boy has dreamed of - Damn, I shouldn’t think so, Li Yin was thinking so, but it was too late.

"I told you!" The dragon opened its mouth wide, roared towards the sky, then lowered its head. Violent wind pressure swept out of its mouth, and the invisible force field breath brushed past Li Yin's body. With a loud bang, another huge pit was created beside him.

The force field breath did not hit Li Yin directly, but the violent air pressure lifted him up into the sky. The strong wind scraped and crushed his bloody left half of the body like a sharp knife and a hammer, still making him scream in pain and unable to continue thinking about why the dragon's accuracy was so poor this time.

"Li Yin!" Du Feiya's scream came from far away on the ground.

Li Yin fell to the ground with a loud bang. His whole body felt like it was falling apart and he felt another wave of unbearable pain.

"You are wondering why my aim is so bad this time." After Li Yin's heart-wrenching screams subsided, the dragon described calmly, and then sneered, "I can't let a villain like you die so easily and happily."

"Besides -"

"Wait a minute," its voice was suddenly interrupted by Du Feiya.

The dragon turned around in surprise.

"Your Excellency the Great Dragon," Du Feiya said respectfully, "I admit that your conclusion about us dark elves is not wrong."

"For us, whether this place is an unowned land is not that important. What is important is the strength of the owner of this place."

"And if the owner here is not you, but some beings weaker than us, their ending will probably not be particularly good."

The dragon watched her quietly.

"Well, now you are finally becoming sincere." It opened its mouth slightly, but there was an obvious mockery in its tone.

"But what's the point?"

"You are being honest now. Are you hoping to impress me with your 'sincerity'? With the motives of your sinful actions?"

Du Feiya shook her head. She suddenly turned sideways, looked at Li Yin who was more than ten steps away, and pointed at him.

"Sir Dragon, I said 'we', and 'we' does not include him."

"As you can see, he is a human, not a dark elf, not one of us."

"He is just our slave, a tool that cannot control himself. He came here at our behest. The violation and damage he caused to you were also forced upon him by us, the dark elves."

"So, if you must punish, please punish the real culprit, but don't let the innocent be wronged."

The dragon looked at her in surprise, as if it had never expected that this little bug was not begging for mercy for itself, but for another little bug. Moreover, she was willing to take all the blame on herself.

On the other hand, Li Yin was also shocked. He didn't expect Du Feiya to try to protect him by sacrificing herself. He was also very hesitant, whether he should accept his good friend's kindness and watch her sacrifice.

But his mind raced and he reacted quickly.

"That's right, Lord Dragon." He shouted at the dragon, "What the female dark elf said is completely true. As you can see, I am a slave, not a dark elf."

"I came here because of them. I had no intention of doing so."

"If you don't believe me, you can look into my heart and you will find that everything I say is true."

"In fact, not only am I not in the same group as these dark elves, I am their enemy!" he said passionately and rhythmically.

"As a slave, I have suffered all kinds of humiliation and oppression from them. Like you, I am a victim of their evil nature and have an irreconcilable hatred with them."

"As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

"So, far from being your enemy, I am——"

"Humble bug," the dragon stared at him with its cold vertical pupils, interrupting him with a rumbling voice, "You don't want to say that you and I are still friends, do you?"

Li Yin did want to say that - but he immediately noticed the dragon's face full of contempt and disdain, as well as disgust and anger as if offended, so he immediately changed his words:

"Of course not."

"How can a weak fellow like me be worthy of being a friend of a great being like you?"

"I... I just want to say that there is absolutely no need for hostility between us. In this incident, when facing the dark elves, my position and ours are the same."

"Not bad." The dragon raised its head, "At least you have some self-awareness."

Li Yin smiled angrily.

"However, I am curious. Since you keep saying that the dark elves are your enemies, you are a victim of their tyranny." The dragon turned its head and looked at Du Feiya beside him.

"Then why, at this moment, is your friend pleading for you?"

Du Feiya was slightly stunned, not knowing whether it was because of the dragon's questioning at this moment, or because of Li Yin's resolute and fierce words of the breakup just now.

"That's exactly what I'm going to say next." Li Yin hurriedly explained.

"Princess Dufia - the female dark elf in front of you. She just said 'we dark elves'."

"This 'we' does not include me as a human slave, but in fact, it does not include her either."

"Oh?" The muscles around the dragon's eye sockets twitched, as if frowning, and looked at Li Yin with confusion.

"Princess Dufiya, she is different from ordinary dark elves." Li Yin explained in a hurried but detailed tone, fearing that the dragon would be impatient to listen and afraid that it would miss even a word.

"She has not the same evil nature as her compatriots, nor does she have the same love of slavery and harm as them."

"In fact, she never treated me as a slave, but as a friend who was equal to her. That's why she was willing to take the blame herself and plead for me."

"In fact," Li Yin paused, took a breath, and continued, "Specifically speaking, there is a hidden story behind this matter."

"As early as when she found that the situation in the maze was different from what we expected, she had already planned to return home and not go on to offend you. However, in order to rescue another group of compatriots who were also lost in the maze, she had no choice but to continue moving forward and reunite with them."

"What I said above is absolutely true. You can detect my mental activities and get confirmation from her." Li Yin finally finished his words. He felt relieved and took a deep breath. Then he raised his head and looked at the dragon calmly.

The dragon narrowed its pupils and its nictitating membranes twitched, as if it was lost in thought.

The psychological activities of the tiny insect in front of it told it that he was not lying.

It also took the opportunity to scout the psychological activities of the female insect next to it and found nothing abnormal.

Indeed, how could there be a dark elf that would beg for mercy for a slave? According to its understanding, and the common sense its father and mother had taught it, the dark elves were one of the cruelest and most evil races underground, keen on enslaving or killing other creatures. To the dark elf bug, the behavior of this mother bug was indeed very abnormal.

"So," the dragon pondered for a while and said slowly, "I have wronged you?"

Li Yin and Du Feiya looked at each other, as if they couldn't believe that they had gained each other's forgiveness so easily. In the end, it was Li Yin who spoke first. He spread his hands and smiled: