Longevity Story

641. Brother, your eggs are not good, why is there such a low survival rate? (don't think crooked)

"Question, star carving, what is the most important thing for a race?"

"[Freedom] right?"

"So, question two, what is the most important thing for a race that is about to perish?"

"[Inheritance] chant."

"A little bit more specific?"

"[Inheritance] is a little more specific, isn't that the lineage of descendants, knowledge and culture, etc.?"

"So, question three, which one is more important, [inheritance] and [freedom]?"

"...Can't you have all of them? From the very beginning, I thought that choosing one of the two is destined to be the best of both worlds, right?"

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Looking at the blue-ball-sized eggs stacked in the soft sand in front of him, Xing Ke instantly understood what Lindell meant by "true foundation" and "freedom and inheritance".

There is no need to doubt, this is the safest and most protected underground hole in the Land of Dragons, a solid and comfortable egg that can be protected here. An egg of this size cannot always be Ostrich eggs.

These are dragon eggs, the superlative baby mounts that the protagonist will "accidentally" start from various places in some legends.And now their fate is...

"... These are the rewards you gave me?"

"That's right, there are a total of 24 unhatched dragon eggs in this generation in the Dragon Kingdom, and these are all yours."

Xing Ke couldn't believe it.No matter how you think about it, it feels a little wrong to pay your own children as the cost of repairing the building at home.

Is this not?Lindel's apprentice was too frightened to speak. The little girl was pulling on his master's sleeve and begging for an explanation with a panicked face.

However, if he calmed down and thought about it for a while, Xing Ke didn't think he couldn't understand Lindel's approach.

"Do you want me to go to another world and leave a bloodline for the dragon race?"

"No, I didn't say that, as long as you accept these 24 dragon eggs as a reward, what you want to do with them after that has nothing to do with the Kingdom of Dragons.

Even if you, as a wizard, use them as experiments, or change your bloodline, I won't say anything. "

Lindell replied calmly.

Afterwards, Lindell comforted the panicked Lottie a little, squatted down and stretched out his palm emitting a pale green light, feeling the state of the dragon eggs, and then carefully confirmed one by one——

"The incubation period of dragon seeds is very long. Generally, under the condition of sufficient magic power, it will take about a year to a year and a half, and the fastest one of these eggs may break its shell after a month. out..."

"Then, the young dragon before the age of three will gradually develop from the wisdom of a puppy to an ordinary ten-year-old child,"

"After the age of three, due to the awakening of the inheritance memory, the childishness will gradually fade away, and it will become a dragon who can really hunt and use innate spells..."

"From the age of three to 150, the body will gradually develop and complete, and the strength will gradually mature... Well, that's not exactly the case."

"According to the current environment of this world, it is the limit for the dragon species to grow to 150 years old. In the past, it may have been longer. For example, Nabin stagnated at the age of 380, and began to age at the age of 860. Returning to the earth at the age of seven... is enough for a lifetime."

"The lifespan of the dragon species will change according to the changes in the environment, but what kind of conditions and rules are they based on? I can only confirm that one item is the concentration of magic power in the atmosphere and the living environment..."

Taking advantage of the factory inspection of dragon eggs, Lindell talked a lot about the breeding of dragon breeds, and some necessary conditions for the growth of dragon breeds, and devoted himself to quickly cultivating Xingke 3 minutes into a qualified dragon breeder. Professional dragon breeding...

"Mouth!"

"Huh? What?"

"I said what nonsense are you talking about? I'm not interested in being a professional dragon raising household. If you dare to give me these dragon eggs, I might be able to eat a dragon egg tart with honey at afternoon tea today. ."

Xing Ke said that he has no plans to expand agriculture and animal husbandry, and the hundreds of hectares of land in the [Departed Garden] are still waiting for him to develop.

"Well, no problem. Although the eggs of other dragon species except the pterosaur eggs don't taste very good, I can guarantee their nutritional value?" But Lindel said indifferently.

"..."

what is this?It was as if he had eaten a lot of dragon eggs and was familiar with the eighteen ways of dragon eggs.Xing Ke seemed to know something incredible.

"...Well, it's true." Lindel sighed with a wry smile:

"In fact, the total number of eggs in this generation is 56, and until now there are only 24 left. If I have been taking care of them according to my traditional method, it is expected to survive in the end, and the number of successfully hatched eggs should be about three to five .”

Survive?Stealing dragon shepherd?Xing Ke did not think that Lindel had fallen to this level.

stillbirth?Or an infertile egg?This is Xing Ke's second reaction.But it doesn't seem to be, because the ratio seems to be too large.

"It's not death, but a phenomenon of [magic power loss]."

"From the time when the mystery began to decline, this happened occasionally, that kind of dragon egg that suddenly lost its magical response."

Dragon seeds are magical creatures, and dragon eggs naturally possess magical protection.

"And those dragon eggs that have lost their magical response, without exception, are not dragon species, but a completely different kind of creature, a ferocious beast without any wisdom and spiritual brilliance..."

"So, those eggs..."

"Of course it was eaten very deliciously by my staff."

"So that's the case, if you put them here, nine out of ten of them will turn into edible eggs, so it's better to give them to me, give me this one that may leave this world, or even make some strange things with them. The survival rate of wizards who are strange experiments is higher... You are quite good at planning."

The ghost knows how many generations Lindell has experienced over the years, and Xing Ke can't understand what kind of mood Lindell is in when he cooks the dragon eggs that he cherishes so much.

But now that he has arrived, he can smile and give the dragon egg to Xing Ke as a gift, just so that more dragon eggs can be hatched, and some bloodlines can be left in a foreign country.

Xing Ke doesn't quite understand this old country farmer's behavior like killing economic animals.but……

"Okay, Brother Lindell, I will accept your shipment. I hope they can sell it for a good price on the [Wenjie Exchange Market]!~"

642. Life is long, youth is short, go out of your way, girl of singing! ~

remuneration?eat?Lost magic?Get a good price? !

What are these and what? ?

Lottie was bewildered by Xing Ke and Lindell.

Don't these eggs, they will all become cute baby dragons in the end, running and playing in the valley? !

Lottie Yangsen, as a girl who has lived in this valley for more than a year, she has long understood the fact that those giant dragons that may look terrifying, all of them have intelligence no less than that of humans, and some of them are young. Long she is treated as a friend of the same age.

They spent time apart from singing and studying together, chatting and basking in the sun together, together...

Now that it's time for Lottie to treat them as "animals", it's really embarrassing for this teenage girl.

Now thinking about the "egg dishes" that Master Master would make for him every once in a while, which he judged to be very unpalatable, Lottie felt a nameless fainting.

Why……

"It's a reward."

Why……

"Magic lost."

Why……

"Reduced to a ferocious beast."

Whenever Lottie couldn't help but want to intervene in the conversation between the master and the little sister professor, the master who knew his disciple very well would comfort his disciple just right.

It is precisely because the master knows very well that Lottie is usually very well-behaved and will explode once it is ignited, so in order to find an appropriate opportunity to tell the truth to Lottie, the master also wastes a lot of painstaking efforts.

These Lottie can be vaguely guessed, but...why, why did I only know now? !

Why have I never thought that there are only four or five young dragons of the same generation in the valley?Why have I never thought of sneaking into the cave where the master said "absolutely must not enter"?Why don't I want to be Arco full of the courage to break the rules?

If only I could have known earlier... At least, I would never have commented that egg dishes were very unpalatable, and I would never have complained about how ugly the chef's smile was when cooking egg dishes.

However, things backfired. When Lottie felt uncomfortable because of self-blame, the whereabouts of the only 24 healthy dragon eggs left in the Dragon Kingdom had already been decided.

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"[Wanjie Trading Market] As the name suggests, the detached people of many worlds will buy things there, and then bring the sold things to various worlds. Your [Dragon Egg] goods belong to the classification of fresh living things and intelligent species. , the value may be pets, familiars, mounts, etc., it should be able to buy a good price. You can rest assured."

Xing Ke, like doing his old career back when he made his fortune, squatted down and observed the dragon egg.Then he took out a small mirror from his arms and put the dragon eggs into the mirror one by one.

"Oh? Is there such a place? That would be great."

This guy is for the racial reproduction of the dragons here, and he has completely sacrificed himself.After the dragon egg was put away by Xing Ke in the soft sand, Xing Ke stood up again and walked first in the direction of the exit following the memory:

"I remembered. The purpose of my coming here today is to find a place to experiment with the fusion of elves. Lindel, I think your apprentice has something to say. You can talk to me first..."

"Understood, you can take it easy, don't dismantle me here."

In the dim underground space, the magic light representing the star carved away from the two and disappeared alone at the corner of the cave entrance.

And Lindell was finally able to face the little disciple who had condensed a layer of fog on the glasses lenses by himself.But before Lindell could react, a small blue spark emerged from the bronze lamp in Lottie's hand, which condensed into a chubby blue fire elf that jumped up with precision. The tears evaporated from the corners of Lottie's eyes and hid back into the fireball of the lamp.

Ah ah ah, this is a popular child.With a gratified smile on the corner of Lindell's mouth, he straightened his glasses for the disciple.

"Lottie, why are you crying? Is there anything you want to ask?"

"Well, um..." Lottie sniffed and asked sadly: "Master, I understand everything you say, I also understand, I believe more that you are for the good of Xiaolong and the others, Master, you There must be a reason for you...

However, I am really unwilling, why I don't know anything, why I can't help anything, I even try my best to understand the conversation between the master and Professor Cavendish..."

For a while, Lottie's eyes began to red again.

"Master, is there really nothing we can do? I don't want to see them lose the hope of being born before they are born..."

Lottie stubbornly tried to keep herself from crying, but Lindell, the big "Master Master", looked at Lottie like this with a smile on his face:

"Well, I see, Lottie's troubles.

But, I'm sorry, Master, I'm a very incompetent person. I've been a person who doesn't dare to appear in front of [people] because of my ability to heal miraculously from a long time ago.

So when I was hesitant to let you know about this, I hesitated all of a sudden, and then half a year passed..."

Therefore, procrastination is always a common problem for people who live for a long time.If you are not careful, you will miss the opportunity. After finally finding the opportunity, it is because of the by-products brought by outsiders... farewell, there is no help, wait to die.

"So, Master, I'm not necessarily right. Although I'm very powerful, I'm not all-powerful. And Lotte, your troubles are right. It's Master that I was exhausted and gave up after worrying with all my strength. The troubles!~" Lindell laughed to himself.