The cold wind swept across the frozen Arctic ocean, rolling up balls of tiny ice chips. Although the temperature has risen to minus 56 degrees Celsius, the ocean in the extreme north is still dead and there is no sign of being alive.

Li Zhen and Kitagawa Kyumyung were walking on the ice.

They were walking north.

After walking for a long time, Kitagawa Kyuki said, "You said you borrowed some power from it. So, when will you return it?"

Li Zhen turned his head to look at her. His mouth and nose were covered by a thick scarf, blocking the cold wind and ice chips outside. The water vapor exposed from breathing formed a thin layer of ice outside the scarf, making the scarf a piece of iron plate.

So his voice became a little blurred: "No hurry. It's a long time later."

Compared to his "misfortune", Kitagawa Qingming seemed much more calm. She was not afraid of the cold, but there was a limit to that "no fear". Therefore, she always maintained a vacuum barrier beside her - the air inside the barrier turned into a warm layer after being heated, making her face always rosy.

Yes, she changed her appearance.

This look combines the youth of the shop owner Beichuan and the coldness of the ice king Beichuan, which makes her look more mature and more peaceful. She has become a normal person again, with black eyes and red lips.

In fact, she was a little confused - Li Zhen was making him froze himself.

He had at least three ways to make the environment around him warm as spring, but now he did not use that ability, and was slapping it with his body and the layer of clothing outside. So she suspected that Li Zhen was reluctant to waste the power he "borrowed", but he answered and denied his guess.

So she asked directly: "Why is this? You don't look good at all now."

Li Zhen pulled the corner of her mouth that was frozen stiff and smiled: "I'm doing low-carbon and environmental protection."

This is of course a joke, but the joke shows his attitude. Kitakawa no longer asks.

She felt that things were a little strange - since her recovery, Li Zhen seemed to be cautiously controlling his own abilities. He would rather use them when necessary.

At the moment, he looks a bit like those extremists who are over-developed in technology, but Kitakawa didn't understand the deep reason for his doing so. And she didn't know if Li Zhen has been like this all these years.

But she didn't think more.

Because at this time, they saw the huge cave not far away.

The cave has a huge mouth and appears on the ocean surface. It is a giant mouth as big as a basketball court. It is deep and bottomless. It leads to the bottom obliquely, with a slope of 45 degrees. Some ice and snow accumulate on the outer half of the cave, but it is clean and smooth inward.

This is because a faint airflow whimpered out of the cave, blowing away all the ice and snow.

"It should be here." Li Zhen said.

He smiled at Beichuan and jumped without hesitation.

So I experienced the long-lost feeling of riding on the slide. The cave is extremely smooth, which is also because someone has deliberately flattened it. Even the ice layer will block the sunlight as it moves downward. So a simple lighting device appeared on the wall of the cave. It was made of powerful fluorescent materials and was deeply inserted into the ice layer, illuminating the surrounding area to make it crystal clear, like a crystal palace.

The two people slid downward. At the beginning, they continued to accelerate under the action of gravity, but the resistance from the ice quickly formed a balance with this acceleration, so they fell at a very high speed.

The further down, the more you go inward, the "wow" wind became louder and louder. After the two of them slid down for three minutes, the "wow" sound had turned into a rumble. And the wind did not always gush outwards - it would blow inside. Whenever this happened, Li Zhen would feel the temperature of the cold air coming from the ocean from his back.

There is a huge creature deep in this cave. To put it in the words of Westerners, this is a dragon's cave.

However, this dragon is not another dragon. It does not have golden coins like a hill, and it is not sleeping - it is imprisoned.

Kitagawa Kyumyung followed Li Zhen closely, the sound of wind and the friction when it was falling made her voice a little blurred-

“Will this be its nostril?”

Li Zhen smiled because of these childish words: "It's a big deal, but it's definitely not. Because I'm sure Yinglong has two nostrils."

The wind formed by the dragon's breathing is long and warm. The warmth becomes more obvious as it reaches the bottom. After another three minutes, Li Zhen felt the chill in his neck. He reached out and touched it, realizing that it was the water from the top of the cave dripping on his neck.

Here, it's already zero.

Finally, the slope turned flat, and Li Zhen and Kitagawa Kyumyung stopped. After walking forward dozens of steps, what appeared in front of them was a thousand meters deep under the frozen Arctic ocean...

lake.

The lake as big as the two football fields is rippling with water waves due to the breathing of dragons. The area of ​​the lake is almost the area of ​​the hollow hole under the ice, and on the hollow ring walls, there are also powerful fluorescent materials. The light blue cold light emitted by those lighting instruments reflects the lake water and the ice layer clearly, making it difficult to tell which is the boundary of water and the boundary of ice.

Li Zhen soon realized that the lake should have been formed later. Because he saw some instruments in the very clear water. It seemed that those instruments were placed on the ground before, but at that time it was just an ice cave.

There was another deep darkness opposite them, which was an extremely huge cave. Warm wind gushed out of the cave.

There is no doubt that the dragon is gradually recovering and awakening. Its breathing brings temperature, and the temperature slowly melts the ice and snow in the ice cave and melts into this lake.

"We have to get over it," said Li Zhen.

Kitagawa Qingming understood what he meant. She looked reluctantly at the lake in front of her - it was difficult for you to find a body of water clearer than this underwater lake on earth - and then waved her hand.

So a click sounded, and an ice shell quickly appeared on the surface of the lake.

In fact, he could fly over. Kitagawa thought.

Li Zhen walked across the lake on the ice, and the breathing sound from the black hole became slightly lighter. He pulled off a fluorescent lamp from the wall and held it in his hand as a torch.

The cave behind the Ice Lake is so tall. If an ordinary person looks up, he will find that they can't see the top of the cave at all. With the cold light, Li Zhen walked forward.

But after walking for more than a dozen steps, he stopped - in the darkness ahead he heard the sound of metal rubbing.

It seemed as if countless thick, hard, and cold metal pieces were scratched together, and were slightly distorted and deformed due to their mutual effects, making a low but sharp buzzing sound. The buzzing sound was accompanied by the rustling sound of ice falling. The rumble vibration came from under his feet, and Li Zhen was a little worried that the cave would collapse suddenly.

Kitagawa Seiyaki also stopped beside him and whispered: "Is it..."

Li Zhen nodded: "Yes."

So in the faint cold light, a smooth, watery, golden wall appeared in front of the two of them.

The wall is like an enamel shell painted with a layer of water, transparent and clear. Under this shell, there is a thick black mark. The mark is two people wide, dozens of meters high and pure black. And many other things that are equally thick, golden, like long petals, spread radially around, covering this arc-shaped tall wall.

The next moment, the black mark expanded. So the golden petals around them also changed, becoming shorter and thicker.

Kitagawa Haraki covered his mouth in surprise.

Because she realized that this was an eye.

Li Zhen reached out and tried to touch the surface of the eyeball. Eyeballs of this size are not common. And that layer of transparent thing looks too magical - just like an extremely transparent jelly.

So the sound of thunder sounded in the cave, and the dragon said, "I feel it too."

Li Zhen then withdrew his hand. He smiled and said, "You woke up - I thought I had to spend some effort."

The dragon's slender pupils moved again, as if aiming at Kitagawa Harumaki: "You did it."

Li Zhen answered first: "Thank you for telling me that thing--you can use that gun to resurrect her. But I didn't expect it to be another way."

Dragon, silent for a while.

Li Zhen said again: "You are Yinglong, and that one is Zhulong. It can turn into a human form. Why do you always meet us in this way? I know that the eyes are the windows of the soul, but your window is too big. I am not used to it at all."

Beichuan blinked and went to see Li Zhen’s face.

The person next to her was smiling at this moment, but she realized that the smile was like a scarf around his neck, hanging on his face. The smile was fake, and she felt that it could be modified by the word "smile but not smile".

And the words he said from her seemed a little sharp to her.

She frowned slightly. According to what Li Zhen said, he was only resurrected by Ying Long's guidance. She thought Li Zhen brought her to thank the dragon. But now, it seems that things are not what she imagined.

The dragon still didn't say anything.

Li Zhen slowly wrapped the scarf between his neck. The temperature here was quite high. The thin layer of ice frozen on the scarf melted, and the scarf became **, and it was uncomfortable to stick to his neck. He held the scarf in his hand and sighed: "Then, you can at least become more than ten meters long, right? Just like the arm in Murmansk City."

Kitagawa Kyuami was about to stop Li Zhen from doing this slightly sarcastic words and asked them what was going on between them. But at this time, she heard a slight sound.

This was also the sound of metal friction, and she already knew that the huge metal sound she had heard before was the sound of Ying Long's scales rubbing against the scales on his body when he was turning his head. This time it was also the same sound, but it was undoubtedly much lighter.

The next moment she was surprised to find that a smaller Yinglong appeared in the cave.

The dragon, which is more than ten meters long, is also a giant compared to the two people, but compared to what it was just now, it is indeed a "pocket-small" one.

At present, the "pocket" version of Yinglong is like a snake in front of two people. He hangs his head and two golden flesh beards on his mouth hang down gently, as if they were forged with gold.

This is really a golden dragon. It sits solemnly, without any variegated colors on its body - it is full of golden light. Its scales seem to be made of gold, and its beards also seem to be made of gold. When it turns its head, it makes a clattering sound, and light golden spots float out of the gaps in its scales.

Kitagawa couldn't help but exclaim from the bottom of his heart: "...so beautiful."

Li Zhen raised his head slightly and looked at Long for a while, and said without thinking: "So, are you acquiesce?"

The dragon nodded silently.

Beichuan felt even more confused - she didn't understand what "default" meant by Li Zhen. She felt that five years was indeed a long time. The person who had lived with her for a while also became a little unfamiliar.

Maybe he became more mature and rational, but this made her feel a little distance.

Li Zhen turned his head, as if the dragon in front of him did not exist, and smiled at Beichuan: "Don't understand? I'll tell you slowly."

At the same time, he looked at Ying Long again: "You can also listen to me if I'm right."

"You know, we found a 'dragon' in Taiwan." This is what Li Zhen said to Kitagawa Seimei. "When the fishermen discovered it, it still looked like a dragon, but soon it died and turned into a rotten sea snake."

"At that time, we thought it was an alien species." Li Zhen said, "It's like an ordinary person who was polluted by species and became an alien species. A sea snake felt the power of species. It also changed. It just happened to be very similar to a dragon."

"I know this." Kitagawa Qingming nodded. So far, she still didn't understand Li Zhen's tone and how he did it. At least more than an hour ago, Li Zhen told her a lot, which mentioned Ying Long. So she knew that this unique species was actually firmly standing on the side of humans and selflessly helped Li Zhen.

Kitagawa Kyumyung thinks it is the "living Lei Feng" among the species. This makes her feel much more comfortable - after all, they have always called themselves "the descendants of the dragon". Now people find that the giant dragon they respect actually exists and belongs to the opposite of humans -

This feeling is not good at all.

In fact, it is even worse that people find that the dragons they respect are in the group of species...

Actually, it's not a powerful character.

But if you know that "Ying Long" is actually kind-hearted, at least it will make people feel better.

Li Zhen grinned: "Then you should notice one thing - that thing has been drifting for a long time. And at least during the period from the time the fishermen discovered it and were sent to the institute and then completed their transformation, it has remained in an alienated form."
To be continued...