To be honest, Gawain neither guessed 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 unpopular...
If there weren't people watching at the scene, and he still wanted to maintain the image of a majestic ancestor, he might have immediately struck the unlucky ball in half with a champion chop - although the Sword of the Pioneers It wasn't in his hands, but that didn't stop him from having this idea...
Trying to calm down, Gawain resisted the urge to curse and adjusted the ball in front of him from "a frightened cub in need of help" to "You deserve to be whipped and beaten, you deserve to be locked up in a laboratory for research," and then he said patiently: "What's the point of lying to you - the research facility where you were imprisoned has been abandoned for a thousand years. It's been a thousand years, do you know?"
Qiu was silent for a while, seeming to be thinking, and then replied firmly: "You can't even try to trick me into leaving my shell!"
p>"I'm telling you the truth, if you don't believe me..."
"You can't even try to trick me into leaving my shell!"
Gowen had blue veins popping up on his forehead Come out: "It's your business whether you like to stay in this shell! You can release my people first!"
During the connection between consciousness, the ball made a curious sound: "You "Who?"
Gawain was confused by the other party's unpretentious attitude: "Is it possible that you still want to deny it after you sucked three of my soldiers into your body?" /p>
Qiu was silent for a longer time this time, and then he was shocked: "So there are still people on these steel plates?!"
Gowen: "..."< /p>
"The perception inside the shell must have been affected!" The unlucky ball admitted his mistake simply, and as it finished speaking, there was only a clicking sound. , the three soldiers immediately released their restraints and fell off the surface of the sphere.
They looked nervous and frightened. The first thing they did after landing was to run hurriedly away from the ball, and then threw all their armors, weapons and other metal objects on the ground.
Gawain 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?"
The ball answered confidently : "Can't I find something to defend myself? God knows what other nasty tricks you crazy barbarians have!"
"I said that the research facilities back then were long gone. How could I have known that the How did you catch the person..."
"You can't trick me into leaving my shell!"
Gawain: "..."
Life For the first time, he lost so completely in a verbal battle with others. What made this former keyboard master particularly frustrated was that he actually lost with a ball.
If this ball is really a dragon egg, he even lost to a fertilized egg...
No matter what he says next, the stone ball suspected of being a dragon egg no longer refused to respond directly. Even if it was pressed, it would only reply, "You can't trick me into leaving my shell." This even made Gawain wonder whether the essence of this ball might be... Damn repeater.
Regardless of 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 the magic perception. He raised his head and saw Amber and Pitman looking at him curiously.
Amber just watched helplessly as the three soldiers were liberated shortly after Gawain made contact with the ball, and then Gawain turned blue and white and entered the fugue mode, which made these soldiers The half-elf lady once thought that this seven-hundred-year-old old rice dumpling was about to die again due to excessive use of magic power and loss of control. She spent the past few minutes fighting between heaven and man. She struggled for a long time whether she should run out immediately and shout to break up and divide the luggage. Or should we take away all the valuable things from Gawain and run away... As a result, before the inner struggle is over, Gawain "comes back to life".
And he looked very angry.
This made Amber, who had a guilty conscience (no doubt), immediately break into a cold sweat on his forehead, and even spoke an octave lower: "Are you... are you okay? I saw your face changed so fast just now, I thought you were going to Self-destruction..."
"I have established communication with this ball," Gawain gritted his teeth quite a bit, so much so that he didn't even notice Amber's abnormal attitude, "This thing... actually has Sane!"
" Sane?" The most surprised person was not Amber, but Druid Pittman next to him. The little old man almost jumped to the ball, but he hesitated to take his hand. Press it up - it's okay for the legendary knight to touch it. What if his druid, whose highest level is no more than level 3, succeeds in trying to commit suicide? "A dragon egg can actually become sane?! In other words... the dragon is still there..." Can you think when you are still an egg? This is simply... the most incredible thing, a mystery that no scholar or druid in the world has ever discovered!"
"No! , I’m not sure this thing is a dragon egg yet,” Gawain quickly corrected from the side. He still couldn’t believe that such an extreme thing would happen to him, but his correction had no effect: Pitman. He has fallen into an inexplicable excitement, and has begun planning to write this new discovery into a book and sell it to the Holy Dragon Principality in the north.
If he really dares to sell this kind of fictitious "research results" to those fanatics who worship the dragon, I am afraid that Gawain will have to hire a new druid, but fortunately, Pitman had no money to print the book, let alone travel across Ansu and the northern mountains to the Holy Dragon Principality to promote it.
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 control metal and affect the flow of magic power to a certain extent If he did something stupid again, he changed the original "containment procedures": dozens of people were placed inside and outside the tent.All metal objects within a meter range were moved away; a circle of obsidian slabs was placed around the sphere to block the magic; the sphere was tied up layer by layer with strong ropes and fixed to the ground with thick wooden stakes; told the stone ball that he planned to go Buy some oranges...
No one understood the last step.
While arranging all this, Gawain also told Hetty, who had been waiting outside, the entire process of communicating with the ball.
What is surprising is that 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 magisters of the ancient Gondor Empire." After listening to Gawain's description, Hetty said his own deduction, "I heard that the dragon It did appear on the mainland thousands of years ago, and the Dragon Principality has records about it. Although those guys who fanatically worship dragons have always been talkative when it comes to dragons, there is no question about when and where the dragons were. In this world, they are indeed the most reliable recorders. This time point is consistent with the construction era of the ruins.
"According to the attitude of the 'Dragon Egg' towards humans, the Magisters of the Gondor Empire. They obviously adopted unscrupulous means in the process of obtaining this egg - and they were not very friendly in their subsequent treatment of the dragon egg. "
"That is, it was all thrown on the experimental table. How friendly can it be?" Gawain curled his lips, "I suspect that it has been sleeping since then, probably. The magisters of the Gondor Empire used some method to suppress its activity, because the 'egg' had no memory of the passage of thousands of years. And when we take it out of the ruins... I am afraid that we have broken the ban left by the magister a thousand years ago. "
"What are you going to do about it? Hetty asked cautiously, "If it is really a dragon egg... we can't do anything with it easily. Legend has it that dragons are a race that is very good at holding grudges, and they pay special attention to their own eggs. A thousand years ago The Magisters of Gondor may not have been too afraid of dragon revenge, but we are different today. And in those dragon eyes, I'm afraid they can't tell the difference between us and humans a thousand years ago. ”
Almost no one has ever seen the true form of a giant dragon, but there is no shortage of descriptions about the dragon. There are countless professionals on this continent about their temperament, classification, preferences, and even recipes. The book is introduced in a serious manner, part of which is the description of folk dragon experts from various places, and the other part is from the Holy Dragon Principality in the north. The latter is an ice field noble who claims to be a descendant of dragon blood. They use a lot of gorgeous and scary words. To describe the "Dragon Ancestor" in their minds, Hetty chose to believe the most dangerous part of the description.
Gawain touched his chin: "That's right... let it dry for a few days. , don’t let anyone disturb me, let it believe that no one is really coming to do experiments on it, and then I will find a way to build trust. ”
After saying this, he yawned uncontrollably and was called in the middle of the night.The drowsiness caused by waking up and the exhaustion caused by high concentration suddenly suppressed him: "Yawn... Let's do this for today. Everyone is tired after working hard in the middle of the night. Except for those who are on duty, everyone else Everyone, please go back and rest."
The gathered people dispersed, Amber also yawned and disappeared from everyone's sight. Gawain looked back for the last time and was stared at from a distance by the soldiers. He looked at the "Dragon Egg Tent", shook his head, turned around and walked towards his tent.
After entering the camp, he sat on the bed but did not sleep immediately. Instead, he habitually concentrated his attention and called out the "magic image" seen 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 there was no new alarm from the satellite, he relaxed slightly. Take a breath and prepare to sleep.
But just before lying down, the corner of his eye suddenly caught some glimmer of light looming in the dark tent.
Gawain rubbed his eyes to confirm that this was not an illusion, and that the faint light came from the big basket next to the desk.
Those are the waste products produced during Rebecca's "burning cement" process, some hardened substances that have no apparent function.
Gawain moved closer curiously and saw little bits of light shining in the hardened materials.
The light is weak, but like stars.