The Whispering Verses Chapter 2896: Dragon and Man
Chapter 2895 Dragon and Man
In the year 308 of the Universal Calendar, it was another deep winter with heavy snowfall, just like the beginning of light and shadow. It’s just that the location of the dragon egg, eighty-one years later, is already far away from the original location.
Heavy snow buried the dragon eggs again. Deep in the uninhabited forest, the snow seemed unusually heavy.
But the wild wolf that came to look for food in the heavy snow still dug it out of the snow. Maybe one of its ancestors had done something similar.
The size of the dragon egg has not changed from the original, but the color of the surface is slightly pale. Granny Cassandra just said that this is a sign that the egg is about to break.
The wild wolf tried to bite it several times, but was unable to break the dragon egg, which was older than its age. So it tried to smash the egg again, and the collision caused the egg to stagger and roll in the snow a few times.
The wolf stepped on the snow and walked over to see how his attempt went, but the egg shook violently, and it was so frightened that it ran away with its tail between its legs.
The egg was indeed shaking because of itself in the snow. It probably felt that it had no chance of hatching, so it shook itself desperately at the last moment of its life.
The wolf happened to push it to the edge of the snow slope. Under the shaking, the dragon egg rolled down along the snow slope. Although the snowflakes are very soft, at the bottom of the snow **** is a big tree with a waist thicker than Shade. In its current state, if it hits it, it will probably break into pieces.
Due to its physical properties, the dragon egg did not stick to the snowflakes when it rolled down. Therefore, the egg rolled faster and faster and was about to hit the tree at an extremely fast speed.
Agelina held Dorothy's hand tightly because she was too nervous. Fortunately, a slightly raised stone on the snow **** made the egg fly up in a high-speed rotation.
It drew a parabola and fell into the bare crown of the big tree. After several collisions with branches, it fell back to the soft snow. The tree crown shook due to the impact just now, and during the shaking, in addition to the snowflakes accumulated on the branches falling, white mist also suddenly emerged from the snow.
"Is this what this tree hole originally looked like? Is that egg going to travel through time?"
Xi Wei said softly.
The dragon egg was wrapped in white mist, so the picture turned into a vast expanse of white and even a bit dazzling. But the fog quickly dissipated, and the egg was still located under the ancient tree. It's just that the tree looks taller and taller now, and the canopy is full of green and leafy branches.
The surrounding area is no longer the middle of winter with heavy snow, but the woodland in midsummer that is full of vitality.
The egg lay there alone, and the time beside it changed to 1457, which was 22 years before the second year 1479 corresponding to the tree hole.
After several days and nights of rapid changes, footsteps were heard, and a young man holding a cane and wearing boots pushed through the grass and passed by. In a casual glance, he saw the half-meter-high dome.
"Time stands still!"
Xia De pointed at the screen. Unexpectedly, the spell was successfully cast, and the floating light and shadow actually solidified. He heard a small complaint from someone unknown, so Shade pretended not to hear it and asked everyone:
"Does anyone recognize this face? It looks like it is the face of a northerner."
The frozen image showed the young man's face, and the witches shook their heads. Four hundred years ago, cameras had not yet appeared. Even if the oil painting was preserved, it would inevitably be distorted. Not to mention that not everyone could keep the oil painting, so no one knew who this person was.
"It looks very similar to the face on an oil painting at my uncle's house."
Only Agelina said so, but she was not sure.
Xia De released his thaumaturgy and allowed the screen to continue to flow. The young man who discovered the dome was startled and ran into the grass again. When he saw that the egg was motionless, he walked over carefully.
He seemed very interested in the egg. He touched it and knocked it a few times. Although he was frightened again when he found that the egg would shake slightly, he did not run away immediately this time, but studied it again. He left after a while.
Time fast forwarded, when the light in the light and shadow changed from noon to afternoon, the young man who left struggled to push a wheelbarrow commonly used by porters back. It took him a long time to successfully load the egg into the car, and then push the egg away from here.
The screen continued to move with the egg, and he transported the egg to a hut in the forest. The cabin looked less like a hunter's resting place and more like a temporary vacation spot built by wealthy people in the forest.
The egg continued to shake, trying to move towards the fireplace. After some strenuous "communication" with the egg, the man put it there.
After another hard work of lighting the fireplace, when the flames began to lick the eggshell, the egg finally stopped shaking. The flame was slowly injected into the egg as if it was absorbed by it. The curious man stayed by the fire all night.
When dawn came the next day, the originally fragile skin of the egg had returned to its thick appearance.
After that, time moved forward again quickly. The man could not stay here forever. After he suddenly disappeared one day, he did not appear the next day, leaving only the solitary egg lying alone in the ashes of the fireplace.
But when autumn came this year, a man in a hunting suit opened the door of the cabin again. He was surprised to see that the egg was still here, so he lit the fire again. After going hunting, he sat in front of the fireplace that night, eating the prey and telling the egg about his life.
Because time flows very fast, he speaks at an alarming speed. However, except for Agelina, everyone present is at least a middle ring level, so the people at the table also heard that he is indeed from the Jindel family. member.
At this time, the Jindel family had already bred a generation in Ximu Town, so the young man was born in Ximu Town and did not know his distant hometown in the north.
Time continues to move forward. Starting from 1457, men will come to the woods to live alone for a period of time every spring and autumn. Even in 1459, he temporarily hid the dragon egg, then hired workers from the town to renovate the hut and added a stove that could burn for a period of time even if the owner was away for a long time.
Because of the careful care of the dragon egg, signs of hatching started to appear in the fifth year after it was picked up by a man. This is almost impossible in the eyes of Granny Cassandra who is familiar with strange creatures:
"The egg was so badly damaged in the early stage that it should theoretically have no chance of hatching. Maybe it's really a miracle."
But the egg that seemed to be hatching since 1462 never actually hatched. Year after year, time flashed quickly in the light and shadow. The appearance of the dragon egg had not changed, but the man was getting older and older.
From the perspective of the people in the banquet hall, only five minutes have passed, but the young man has turned into middle age. He still maintained the habit of going into the woods every spring and autumn, and had long since adapted to caring for the egg and telling it his troubles.
The accelerated time finally stopped again in 1479. At this time, 22 years had passed since the dragon egg was picked up by a man. The dragon egg itself had experienced 103 years, and it had already passed since it first appeared in the middle of winter. 1252.
In the spring of this year, the man who had already shown signs of aging came to the woods alone as usual. On his third night here, the sound of clicking woke him up from his sleep.
He woke up from the bed in the wooden house and walked towards the fireplace where the sound came from. He saw cracks on the dragon egg that was shaking violently.
The surprised man subconsciously wanted to retreat, but immediately stepped forward:
"Can I help you?"
He asked, over the years he has mastered the ability to judge the meaning of the other party through the shaking of the dragon egg. After determining that the egg did not need help, he sat down in front of the fireplace with his clothes on, and then continued to put charcoal and firewood into the fireplace to make the flames of the fireplace more intense.
He waited expectantly, just like the night he picked up the egg. But he was no longer young after all, and soon fell asleep in the light of the fire.
At dawn that day, as the little claws tore the eggshell apart, the dark "little dragon" was finally truly born into the world.
In the light and shadow, the dragon beast that emerged from the eggshell was not as deformed as Shade had imagined. Although it is not very good-looking, at least it is not ugly from a human aesthetic point of view, and it is at the level of ordinary street cats and dogs.
The hatched black dragon beast, still covered in mucus, fell into the fire. The man who was awakened was so frightened that he hurriedly got the fire tongs to rescue it, but found that it was not injured in the fire.
The wings attached to the back finally opened with great effort, and then it flew up unsteadily, and then crashed into the man's arms. The man hugged the newborn little guy with a look of surprise:
"I knew you would be able to hatch. Look at what you look like now. I'm going to give you a name. How about Kingsley? Kingsley Kindall! My eldest son who died young was named that, but You will definitely thrive!"
"Oh~"
Agelina at the table looked at this scene and sighed softly:
"At least up to this point, this is really a beautiful story. But think about how this little dragon will turn into something so crazy and disgusting in the end"
Then she didn't dare to continue talking because the witches at the table all looked at her. Of course everyone knows the ending, but no one wants to hear Agelina say it again at this time.
The hatched dragon beast looks very similar to a real baby dragon, and the bloodline it inherits from the other parent is not obvious. The man was just an ordinary person, but he also understood that this thing might be a dragon, so he prepared fresh meat and fruits for "Kingsley" to fill the little guy's stomach.