metal empire

Chapter 67 Heizi is a cheapskate

Yang Ming clapped his hands, very satisfied with today's labor results.

"Ow!"

Heizi turned his head to Yang Ming and let out a low growl, then vacated his whole body and headed towards the back of the waterfall. Yang Ming knew that it was the black dragon's lair, but he had never entered it.

The black dragon, half of its body submerged in the waterfall, looked back at Yang Ming, saw that Yang Ming hadn't moved, and growled in a low voice, as if to signal Yang Ming to follow.

"Heizi, you're so unkind. We've known each other for so long before you thought of inviting me to your house."

Yang Ming waved his silver wings and appeared in front of him. He carried Yang Ming straight to the waterfall. After passing through the waterfall, he saw a huge hole in front of him. Water curtain hole.

Yang Ming jumped into the cave lightly, and put away the silver wings. Heizi saw that Yang Ming followed and floated forward. Yang Ming followed behind and walked forward slowly, looking at this thing curiously cave.

This cave is not deep. There is a corner, which seems to be to block water vapor. After passing the corner, the ground starts to dry out, and the cave has reached the end. It is only about ten meters long, wide and high, which is not too big.

Heizi landed on a pile of shiny things in the cave and rolled over, lying there comfortably. Yang Ming glanced at the pile of shiny things and couldn't move.

"Holy shit, Heizi, you are a rich man!"

Among the shiny things under the black dragon's body, there are diamonds, the ones as big as pigeon eggs, and all kinds of colors; there are crystals, there are agates, as long as they are gemstones that can emit light, there are almost everything here.

According to legend, dragons have a habit of collecting shiny and shiny things. At this moment, Yang Ming has confirmed that this legend is true, and Yang Ming also thinks that this habit is very good, really very good.

Looking at the luminous objects piled up all over the floor, it probably took Heizi a lot of time to collect them, but what Yang Ming was thinking at the moment was how to trick these objects into his hands.

Yang Ming sat cross-legged on the ground, picked up a fist-sized pink diamond, and observed it carefully. If this thing were put up for auction, it would be worth astronomical prices.

"Heizi, look at this month I have worked hard to buy cooked food for you every day, and now I have to brush your teeth and dragon scales for you. There is no credit but hard work. Why don't you just give me this pink diamond as a reward? Sample."

Before Yang Ming finished speaking, Heizi snatched the pink diamond back from Yang Ming's hand and hid it under his body.

"Heizi, you petty dragon, it's useless for me to love you so much. Since you like that big pink diamond and don't want to give it to me, how about this assembly?"

Yang Ming picked another diamond, the colorless one, which was a little smaller than the pink diamond, but it was not too small, and the price must not be much lower.

This time, Heizi's movements were faster, and he snatched it back in an instant, and hid it under his body again.

"Heizi, you are too stingy. You are not willing to give me anything. I declare that you will run out of food tomorrow. You eat hundreds of kilograms of cooked food a day and I can't afford to feed you. From tomorrow on, you will continue to let the queen bee Send your little brother to hunt for you."

Yang Ming deliberately turned around to ignore the black dragon, but he was snickering in his heart, I can't cure you yet.

Sure enough, the little dragon seemed to understand what Yang Ming meant. After eating cooked food for a month, he was already addicted, so he would not eat raw flesh and blood again.

Heizi tilted his head and looked at Yang Ming for a while, then rummaged through the pile of gems, found a yellowish-looking stone, put it in his mouth, and touched Yang Ming's body.

"Why, I don't want to be friends with cheapskates."

Seeing that Yang Ming didn't turn around, the black dragon flew in front of Yang Ming, and put the yellow gem in his mouth into his hand.

A smile appeared on Yang Ming's face. He wondered if this black dragon was quite enlightened. He knew that he had given gifts and bribes. Yang Ming looked down at the gemstone in his hand, and suddenly felt his face turned green.

"Heizi, you cheapskate, I want to break up with you."

What Heizi put in Yang Ming's hands is not a gem, it's just a piece of amber, he doesn't know where he found it, and Heizi doesn't seem to like this strange thing very much, so he gave it to Yang Ming as a favor .

"Small Air Dragon!"

While muttering, Yang Ming carefully looked at the amber in his hand. It was bigger than a palm. Inside the amber was an insect that looked like a gadfly, but its shape was several times larger than today's gadfly. Amber turned over and took a look at the gadfly's mouthparts. It was six to seven centimeters long and exuded the luster of metal. It was extremely sharp at first glance.

Yang Ming knew that mosquitoes and gadflies were blood-sucking insects that had existed since the time of dinosaurs, and at that time both were obviously much larger than they are now, just like the gadfly in front of him.

Yang Ming vaguely remembered that the dinosaur gene in the sci-fi movie Jurassic Park was extracted from the ancient mosquito in amber. Since the gadfly is a blood-sucking insect like the mosquito, it is not known what age the gadfly in the fossil lived in. Does the body still have the blood that was sucked back then?

Judging from its body shape, it should not be modern, so if blood is found, it is possible to extract the genes of creatures that were extinct in ancient times.

Yang Ming smiled and took the amber. The gift Heizi gave him seemed pretty good. If he had better luck and could gain something from it, it might be worth more than the huge pink diamond. a lot of.

Yang Ming glanced into the shiny pile of things. There seemed to be a few pieces of amber mixed in, and he didn't know what kind of creatures were inside.

"Since you don't like this stuff, can you give me the rest? Tomorrow I'll give you a whole roasted lamb. It's delicious."

Xiaolong tilted his head and glanced at Yang Ming, as if he was yearning for the roasted whole lamb he just mentioned, and he really didn't like these little things that were not very bright.

So Heizi personally picked out all the amber one by one and handed them to Yang Ming. There were spiders, small beetles, dung beetles, and a giant mosquito. More than a dozen amber.

"Heizi, I have something to do, so I'll go back first. I'll come see you tomorrow and bring you a whole roasted lamb."

Yang Ming hugged more than a dozen ambers in his arms and walked out.

The little dragon whined, and Yang Ming stopped and looked back, only to see Heizi picking for a long time, picking the smallest gem and putting it in Yang Ming's arms, and looking at it seemed to be terribly distressed.

"Haha, you are really a petty dragon. Cheng, I will accept this diamond. Your rations will be guaranteed for a while in the future. I will come back tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)