To be honest, Gao Wen didn't guess the beginning, nor the ending—he didn't expect that he actually established a connection with a ball, let alone that the ball would be so underdrawn...
If it wasn't for someone watching at the scene, and he had to maintain the image of a majestic ancestor, he might have cut the unlucky ball in half with a champion strike immediately—although he didn't have the Trailblazer Sword in his hand, but This doesn't affect him from having this idea...
Trying to regain his composure, Gao Wen resisted the urge to swear, and adjusted the ball in front of him from "a frightened cub in need of help" to "a brat who deserves to be locked up in a laboratory for research" and then patiently He said temperedly: "What's the benefit of me lying to you—the research facility that was used to imprison you has been abandoned for a thousand years. Do you know that it has been a thousand years?"
Qiu was silent for a while, as if he was thinking, and then replied resolutely: "You don't want to trick me out of my shell!"
"I'm telling you the truth, I don't believe you..."
"Don't you try to trick me out of my shell!"
A vein popped out of Gao Wen's forehead: "It's your business that you like to stay in this shell! You let my people go first!"
During the consciousness connection, the ball made a curious voice: "Your person? Who is it?"
Gao Wen was taken aback by the curious attitude of the other party who didn't seem to be fake: "You sucked three of my soldiers on your body, do you still want to deny it?!"
Qiu was silent for a longer time this time, and then was shocked: "So there are still people on these steel plates?!"
Gao Wen: "..."
"It must be that the perception in the shell has been affected!" The unlucky ball admitted its mistake without hesitation, and as its voice fell, only a rattling sound was heard, and the three soldiers immediately released the ball. It was bound and fell off from the surface of the sphere.
They looked nervous and frightened, and the first thing they did after landing was to rush to a place far away from the ball, and then threw all their armor weapons and other metal objects on the ground.
Gao Wen suddenly felt that the strange ball in front of him might be able to communicate, so he asked, "Why do you want to absorb these armors and weapons?"
Qiu replied confidently: "I can't find something to defend myself? God knows what evil tricks you crazy savages have!"
"I said that the research facilities back then have long since disappeared. I don't know how the person who caught you back then..."
"Don't you try to trick me out of my shell!"
Gao Wen: "..."
For the first time in his life, he was so completely defeated in a verbal confrontation with a human, and what made this former keyboard powerhouse particularly frustrating was that he actually lost to a ball.
If this ball is really a dragon egg, he even lost to a fertilized egg...
No matter what he said next, the stone ball suspected of being a dragon egg would never respond positively again, even if it was forced to rush, it would only reply "You don't want to trick me out of my shell", which even made Gawain suspicious of this ball Is the essence of it a damn repeater
And whatever its nature, communication cannot continue.
Gawain took his hand away from the surface of the sphere with a gloomy and strange expression, and at the same time ended his magic perception. He raised his head and saw Amber and Pittman looking at him curiously.
Amber just watched the three soldiers being liberated shortly after Gawain made contact with the ball, and then Gawain's face turned green and pale and entered the fugue mode, which made the half-elf lady think for a while that this The seven-hundred-year-old Zongzi is about to die again due to excessive use of magic power, causing her power to go out of control. In the past few minutes, she has been fighting with heaven and man. He picked up everything he had and then ran away... As a result, before the inner struggle was over, Gao Wen "resurrected".
And looks very angry.
This made the guilty (unmistakable) Amber break out in a cold sweat immediately, and she even lowered her voice by an octave: "You... are you okay? I saw your complexion change so fast just now, I thought you were going to blow yourself up..."
"I've established communication with this ball," Gao Wen said with a bit of gritted teeth, so that he didn't even notice Amber's abnormal attitude, "This thing...is actually sane!"
"Sane?!" The most surprised one was not Amber, but the druid Pittman next to him. The little old man jumped to the side of the ball almost at once, but he hesitated and didn't dare to put his hand on it—it's okay for the legendary knight to touch it, he What if a druid with the highest level three succeeds in killing, "A dragon egg can be sane?! That is to say... a dragon can think when it is still an egg? This is simply... It is simply the most incredible thing, a mystery that no scholar or druid in this world has ever discovered!"
"No, I'm not sure that this thing is a dragon's egg." Gao Wen hurriedly corrected beside him. He still couldn't believe that such a routine thing would happen to him, but his correction had no effect: Pittman has fallen into inexplicable excitement, and has already started planning to write a book about this new discovery and sell it to the Shenglong Principality in the north.
If he really dared to sell such non-existent "research results" to those fanatics who worship dragons, Gawain might have to hire a new druid, but fortunately, Pittman didn't have the money to print the book , and no money to travel across the entire Ansu and northern mountains to the Principality of Shenglong to do sales.
Since the stone ball has refused to accept any contact, Gawain had no choice but to continue throwing this thing here, but in order to prevent this "dragon egg" that can manipulate metal and affect the flow of magic power to a certain extent from doing anything wrong, he The original "containment measures" were changed: all metal objects within tens of meters inside and outside the tent were removed; obsidian boards were placed around the sphere to block the magic power; the sphere was tied layer by layer with strong ropes, and thick Stakes secured it to the ground; told Stone Ball he was going to buy some oranges...
No one understood the last step.
While arranging all this, Gao Wen also told Hetty who had been waiting outside the whole process of communicating with the ball.
Surprisingly, Hetty, who has always been mature, steady and practical, also suspected that the ball was a dragon egg.
Is this way of thinking so popular in this different world
"This 'dragon egg' was probably stolen by the magisters of the ancient Gondor Empire," Hetty said after listening to Gawain's description, "I heard that the dragon did live on the mainland thousands of years ago. It has appeared on the Internet, and the Dragon Principality has recorded it-although those guys who fanatical about dragons have always seemed to talk about dragons, but they are indeed the most reliable when and where dragons appear. The recorder. This time point is consistent with the construction age of the ruins.
"And according to the attitude of the 'dragon egg' towards humans, the magisters of the Gondor Empire obviously adopted unscrupulous means in the process of obtaining this egg—and they were not very friendly in the process of treating the dragon egg afterwards."
"That's right, it's all thrown on the experimental table. How friendly can it be?" Gawain pouted, "I suspect it has been in a dormant state since then, probably because of what the magisters of the Gondor Empire used. The method suppressed its activity, because the 'egg' has no memory of the passage of thousands of years at all. And we took it out of the ruins... I am afraid that it will destroy the ban left by the magister a thousand years ago."
"What are you going to do with it?" Hetty asked cautiously, "If it's really a dragon's egg... we can't do anything to it lightly. Legend has it that dragons are a race that can hold grudges very well, and they treat their own eggs especially Pay attention, the magisters of Gondor a thousand years ago might not be afraid of the dragon's revenge, but we are different today. And in the eyes of those dragons, I'm afraid we can't tell the difference between us and the human beings a thousand years ago."
Almost no one has seen the real body of the dragon, but there is no shortage of descriptions about the dragon. About their temperament, classification, preferences, and even recipes, there are countless professional books on this continent. One part is the account of folk dragon experts from all over the world, and the other part comes from the Holy Dragon Principality in the north. The latter is an iceland nobleman who claims to be a descendant of dragon blood. ancestors," and Hetty chose to believe the most dangerous part of it.
Gao Wen rubbed his chin: "That's right... let's put it there for a few days, don't let anyone disturb it, let it believe that no one has come to it for experiments, and then I will find a way to build trust."
After saying this, he yawned uncontrollably, and the sleepiness caused by being woken up in the middle of the night and the exhaustion caused by his high concentration suddenly overwhelmed him: "Yawn... Let's do this for today, sir. Everyone is tired after tossing around in the middle of the night, except for those who are on duty at night, everyone else should go back and rest."
The gathered people dispersed one after another, and Amber also yawned and disappeared from everyone's sight with a shadow step. Gawain finally looked back at the "dragon egg tent" that was stared at by the soldiers from afar, shook his head, and turned to walk towards himself camp tent.
After entering the camp, he sat on the bed but didn't fall asleep immediately, but habitually focused, and called out the "magic imagery map" looking down from the sky in his mind.
After confirming that the energy distribution on the magic imaging map did not fluctuate too much, there was no high-energy reaction nearby, especially near the "Dragon Egg", and there was no new alarm from the satellite, he was slightly relieved and prepared to sleep.
But at the moment before lying down, the corner of his eye suddenly caught some faint light in the dark tent.
Gao Wen rubbed his eyes and confirmed that it was not a hallucination, and that the faint light came from the big basket beside the desk.
Those are waste products from Rebecca's "burning cement" process, some hardened substances with no visible effect.
Gao Wen leaned over curiously, and saw a little shimmer of light shining in the hardened material.
The light is faint, but like stars.