Chapter 74 What's Glowing
To be honest, Gao Wen neither guessed the beginning nor the ending-he could have thought that he had actually established a connection with a ball, and he could not have thought that this ball would be so ungrateful...
If it weren't for someone watching the scene and he had to maintain the image of a majestic ancestor, he might have immediately slashed the unlucky ball into half - although the Trail Blazers' Sword was not in his hand, this did not affect his idea...
After trying hard to calm down, Gao Wen resisted the urge to curse and adjusted the ball in front of him from "the frightened cub who needs help" to "a naughty child who deserves to be locked in the laboratory and asks for research", and then said patiently: "What are the benefits of me lying to you - the research facility used to detain you at the beginning has been abandoned for a thousand years, do you know that it has been a thousand years?"
The ball was silent for a while, as if thinking, and then replied firmly: "Don't lie to me to leave my shell!"
"I'll tell you the truth, I don't believe you..."
"Don't lie to me to leave my shell!"
Gao Wen's forehead was full of blue veins: "It's your business that you love to stay in this shell! You can let my people go first!"
In the consciousness connection, the ball made a curious voice: "Your person? Who?"
Gao Wen was stunned by the other party's curiosity that was not fake: "Can you suck my three soldiers on your body and want to deny it?"
The ball was silent for a longer time this time, and then was shocked: "So there are people on these steel plates?"
Gao Wen: "…"
"It must be the perception in the shell that was affected!" The unlucky ball actually admitted its mistakes simply. As it fell, there was only a sound of cracking sound. The three soldiers immediately untied their restraints and fell off the surface of the ball.
They looked nervous and terrified. The first thing they did after landing was to run away from the ball in a hurry, and then threw all their armor, weapons and other metal items on the ground.
Gao Wen suddenly felt that the strange ball in front of him might be able to communicate, so he asked, "Why did you want to suck these armor and weapons?"
The ball answered with confidence: "I can't find something to defend myself? God knows what bad tricks do you crazy barbarians have!"
"I said that the research facilities of that year have long disappeared. I don't know what the person who caught you back then..."
"Don't lie to me to leave my shell!"
Gao Wen: "…"
For the first time in his life, he lost so thoroughly when he was in a language confrontation with someone. What made the former keyboard strongman particularly frustrated was that he actually lost to a goal.
If this ball is really a dragon egg, he even lost to a fertilized egg...
No matter what he said next, the stone ball, which was suspected to be a dragon egg, would no longer respond positively. Even if he was forced to do so, he would only reply, "Don't want to lie to me to leave my shell." This even made Gao Wen wonder whether the essence of this ball would be a damn repeater.
No matter what its essence is, communication cannot continue.
Gao Wen took his hand away from the surface of the sphere with a gloomy and strange expression, and at the same time he ended his magical perception. He raised his head and saw Amber and Pittman looking at him with curiosity.
Amber just watched the three soldiers be liberated shortly after Gao Wen contacted the ball, and then Gao Wen's face turned pale and entered the Divine Travel Outer Mode, which made the half-elves think that this 700-year-old old Zongzi had excessive magic call, causing the power to lose control and was about to die again. She had been fighting against the gods and men in the past few minutes, and had been struggling for a long time. Should she run out and yell to part with her luggage immediately, or now she pulls away all the valuable things on Gao Wen and run away directly... As a result, before the inner struggle was over, Gao Wen "resurrected".
And he looks very angry.
This made Amber, who was guilty (not mistaken), immediately had a cold sweat, and even lowered his voice: "You... are you okay? I saw your face changing quickly just now, and I thought I was going to explode..."
"I have established an exchange with this ball," Gao Wen was a little bit gritting his teeth, so he didn't even notice Amber's abnormal attitude. "This thing... is actually sensible!"
"Spirit?!" The most surprised thing was not Amber, but the druid Pittman next to him. The old man almost rushed to the next ball, but hesitated and did not dare to press his hand on it - the legendary knight was fine. What if he, a druid who was at the highest level but level three, succeeded in killing him? "A dragon egg actually has sanity?! In other words... the dragon could think when it was still an egg? This is simply... the most incredible thing, a mystery that no scholar or druid in this world has ever discovered!"
"No, I can't be sure this thing is a dragon egg." Gao Wen quickly corrected the situation beside him. He still couldn't believe that such a trait would happen to him, but his correction was useless: Pittman had fallen into inexplicable excitement and had begun to plan to write this new discovery into a book and sell it to the Holy Dragon Principality in the north.
If he really dared to sell this fictitious "research results" to those fanatics who worship dragons, he might have to hire a new druid. Fortunately, Pittman did not have the money to print books, nor did he have the money to travel through the entire Ansu and the mountains in the northern border to go to the Duchy of Holy Dragon to conduct sales.
Given that Shiqiu had refused to accept any contact, Gao Wen had to choose to continue throwing this thing here. However, in order to prevent the "dragon egg" that can control metal and affect the flow of magic to a certain extent, he changed his original "containment measures": he moved all the metal items within and outside the tent dozens of meters; placed a circle of obsidian slabs around the sphere to block the magic; tied the sphere layer by layer with a strong rope, and fixed it to the ground with thick wooden stakes; told Shiqiu that he planned to buy a few oranges...
No one understood the last step.
While arranging all this, Gao Wen also told Hetty, who had been waiting outside, about 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 other world?
"This 'dragon egg' was probably stolen by the magicians of the ancient Gondor Empire," after listening to Gao Wen's description, Hedy said his inference, "I heard that the dragon did appear on the continent a thousand years ago, and the Principality of the Dragon has recorded this - although those who fanatical worship of dragons have always seemed to be divine when and where the dragon appeared, they are indeed the most reliable recorders of when and where the dragon appeared. This time point is consistent with the construction time of the ruins.
"According to the attitude of the 'Dragon Egg' towards humans, the mages of the Gondor Empire obviously took not-so-minded measures in the process of obtaining this egg - and were not very friendly in the process of treating the roar egg later."
"That's right, it's all thrown on the lab bench. How friendly can it be," Gao Wen curled his lips. "I suspect it has been in a state of sleep since then. It was probably because the magician of the Gondor Empire used some way to suppress its activity, because that 'egg' has no memory of the passing of thousands of years. And let's take it out of the ruins... I'm afraid it will destroy the ban left by the magician a thousand years ago."
"What are you going to deal with it?" Hetty asked cautiously, "If it is really a dragon egg... we can't do anything about it easily. The legendary dragon is a very revenge race and attaches great importance to its own eggs. The Gondor magicians a thousand years ago may not be afraid of the dragon's revenge. Today we are different. And in those dragon eyes, I'm afraid we can't tell the difference between us and humans a thousand years ago."
Almost no one has seen the true body of the dragon, but there are no shortage of descriptions about the dragon. Regarding their temperament, categories, preferences, and even recipes, there are countless professional books on this continent that are seriously introduced. Some of them are records of folk dragon experts from all over the world, and the other is from the Holy Dragon Principality in the north. The latter is the Ice Field noble who claims to be descendants of dragon blood. They use many gorgeous and scary words to describe the "dragon ancestor" in their minds, and Hetty chooses to believe the most dangerous part of it.
Gao Wen touched his chin: "It's the same... let's put it there for a few days first, don't disturb him, let it believe that no one is coming to it for experiments, and then I will find a way to build trust."
After saying this, he yawned a long yawn uncontrollably. The sleepyness caused by being woken up in the middle of the night and the fatigue caused by high concentration suddenly came up: "Yawn... let's do it today. Everyone is tired after making trouble in the middle of the night. Except for the one who is on duty on the night, everyone will go back to rest."
The gathered people dispersed, and Amber also yawned and disappeared from everyone's sight with a shadow step. Gao Wen finally looked back at the "Dragon Egg Tent" staring at the distance by the soldiers, shook his head, and turned around to his tent.
After entering the camp, he sat on the bed but did not sleep immediately. Instead, he habitually focused his attention and called out the "magic image" looking down from the air in his mind.
After confirming that the energy distribution on the magic imaging map did not fluctuate much. There was no high-energy reaction nearby, especially near the "Dragon Egg", and the satellite did not send a new alarm. He breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to go to bed.
But just the moment before he lay down, the light from the corner of his eyes suddenly caught a glimmer of light from the dark tent.
Gao Wen rubbed his eyes and confirmed that this was not an illusion, and that the glimmer of light came from the big basket next to the desk.
Those are waste products refined during Rebecca's "burning cement" process, and some clotted substances that cannot be seen.
Gao Wen came over curiously and saw a little glimmer of light shining in the clotted matter.
Chapter completed!