Ice Dragon and his baby

There is a depressing atmosphere inside the elf's castle. A few lamps with candles are hung on the gray-black stone wall. When someone approaches, the elves residing on the candles will lazily light up a small flame , the small bright light seemed powerless in the long corridor with no end in sight.The smooth marble floor is painted with patterns of various demons. The lifelike portraits and the dim light give people the illusion that those monsters may be real.

Yuuri carefully stepped on a maggot with its mouth wide open, the chill came up from the soles of his feet, he couldn't help shivering, Victor, who had been holding him all the time, turned his head, showing a worried expression, Yuuri smiled at him, indicating that he was fine .

There were only footsteps of their group in the hallway, Victor and Yuuri at the front, Otabek and Yurio in the middle, and Michele at the rear.

Yurio looked curiously at the two walls of the corridor, and was surprised to find a series of pictures painted on the walls, a bit like murals in ancient caves.He stopped unconsciously, staring intently at the simple murals.Otabek, who was walking beside him, also stopped, and stood quietly aside, while the following

Michele accidentally bumped into Otabek's back.

"Hey! Why stop?" he asked in a low voice.

Otabek shook his head, pointed to Yurio, and said, "You go first."

Michele clicked his lips, shook his head angrily, crossed Otabek and Yurio, and was about to catch up with the pair of dragons in front, when he found that the corridor ahead was empty, he asked in surprise: "Hey, where are they?"

"Huh?" Otabek looked at the dark corridor with a solemn expression.Yurio also turned his head. He frowned and said, "What's the matter? They were still there just now, those two idiots."

"Is there any mechanism?" Otabek stepped forward carefully, touched the two stone walls, and then knocked on the floor: "This is too strange."

"Hey! Victor! Fat pig! Don't hide!" Yulio took a breath and shouted loudly, his voice echoing in the corridors of the elf castle: "What time is it? What are you playing? Those two idiot!"

"Hey, keep your voice down." Michele said anxiously, "What if you wake up something strange?"

"Where did the strange thing come from?" Yurio looked at Michele with contempt: "Are you afraid? It's really useless."

"Who's scared?" Michele was provoked, and he raised his voice unnaturally: "What do you think this is? This is an elf castle more than 500 years ago. Does anyone know if there are some ancient monsters raised here? ?And, if those elf myths are true, then??

"Okay, be quiet." Otabek squatted on the ground and said calmly, "Let's see this."

He pointed to one of the marble floors. There was a delicate hand-painted drawing on the off-white texture. It painted a vivid black dragon. It was tied to a big tree, and its body was covered with iron nails and hemp rope. His blood-red eyes stared resentfully at the person standing on the floor, and his black scales revealed a gloomy coldness.

light.

"Is this the dragon?" Yurio also imitated Otabek and squatted on the ground, carefully observing the ominous black dragon.

Otabek knocked on the floor with his hand and said, "It's empty below."

"Did it fall?" Yurio snorted. "You're so stupid. Can this thing open?"

"I don't know." Otabek grunted, and continued to try to knock on the nearby floorboards, and tried to pick at the seams between the floorboards, but nothing happened.

"It must be cursed." Michele stomped his feet uneasily, "It cannot be opened without a key."

"The key?" Yurio asked, narrowing his eyes.

Michele shrugged and said, "Don't look at me, I don't know."

Otabek stood up suddenly. He patted his dusty hands and said, "What should we do now? Stay here and wait? Or keep going?"

"Leave them alone." Yurio said, "It's not a child, it will find a way to come back on its own."

Otabek nodded, and continued walking with the other two.Yurio seemed to be very interested in the murals on both sides. He walked and looked at the two walls with the faint wax light. Suddenly, he pulled Otabek to stop him.

"What's the matter?" Michele, who almost bumped into him again, couldn't bear to cry out.

Yurio ignored him, he was staring at one of the paintings in a daze, and Otabek also noticed the content of the mural, which was a continuous mountain range with a large lake under the mountain range and a round moon above it.

"This is the Moonlight Mountains?" Yulio murmured, "Then, what you saw in the forbidden area of ​​Elven Island is indeed the monster." He turned his head, walked back a short distance, and then saw the painting on the wall. Women's patterns, and the sign of death.

"That's the myth of the elves." Michele didn't understand why they were so surprised: "Those white shadows in the forbidden area are like ancestral spirits to us."

"Ancestral spirits?"

"Uh...Elves are also mortal. People of the older generation believe that good elves will turn into elves after death and become part of the world, and those elves who die with resentment will become white shadows, created by the moon elves. Lead to the world of the dead." Michele said seriously: "The white shadow in the forbidden area has not yet come

and the guided undead. "

Yurio looked at the mural and said cautiously: "Then if this myth is true, isn't this castle, no, this ruin, full of resentful spirits killed by the Black Flame Dragon 500 years ago?"

Michele blinked, suddenly laughed, and said, "Are you an idiot? Aren't myths all deceptive things? If there was such a thing, Emile would have become a Is it a half-orc?"

"Orcs?" Yurio asked with wide-eyed eyes.

"Falling elves will turn into half-orcs. This is also part of the elf mythology." Michele spread his hands and said, "But isn't that guy living well when he mixes with the demons?"

"He looks like a goat," Yurio said thoughtfully. "Maybe he's changing already."

"That guy looked like this before." Michele rolled his eyes and strode forward: "Come on, didn't you say you were going to find the exit? I remember hearing the elders say that there are castles in the ruins. a secret passage."

"What?" Yurio cried, "Then why didn't you say it from the beginning?"

"I forgot."

Otabek listened quietly to the conversation between the two, and looked at the murals with some worry. He remembered that the white shadow monster would only appear under the moonlight. Although the castle was underground, why did he always feel a disturbing feeling? How do you feel?

Yuuri rubbed his butt that hurt from the fall, and stood up. He raised his head and saw that there was not a single crack in the ceiling tens of meters high. The floor that was suddenly opened just now was tightly closed without leaving any traces. He and Victor landed in a large room full of vegetation. Fortunately, with these plants, he did not fall to his death.full

There are several small windows on the vine wall, and a ray of moonlight quietly falls in this green room.

"Victor?" Yuuri brushed aside the leaves and dead branches on his body, stared blankly at the front, the big tree reaching the ceiling was covered by countless vines, those snake-like plants seemed to be tied to something, and slowly crawled on top.

"Victor?" Yuuri called softly, holding his breath, and hurried towards the big tree. With his movement, the lawn under his feet became agitated and turned into waves, trying to push Yuuri away.

Yuuri struggled to keep his balance, he scrambled over on both hands and feet, finally got to the big tree, he tore away the vines and saw Victor's pale face.Yuuri whimpered, and the vines whipped towards him like crazy, only then did Yuuri notice the thorns on the vines, and his scales naturally covered the skin, taking his place.

Fend off plant attacks.Yuuri took out his knife and cut open the vine holding Victor in twos and threes, pulling Victor out.

As soon as Victor left the big tree, the surrounding plants started to move, as if trying to catch Victor, Yuuri closed his eyes and let the heavy snow fall, the warm room instantly became icy cold, snowflakes fell on the branches and leaves , They trembled, shrinking back in fear, and slowly stopped moving.

Yuuri hugged Victor tightly, and found that the vines were probably too tight, Victor just passed out, he patted Victor's face, Victor snorted and murmured something " Yuuri, don't hug him so tightly" and fell asleep again.Yuuri sighed helplessly, letting him sleep on his lap.

What to do next?

When Yuuri was thinking about this, something moved in front of his eyes, he took a closer look, there was a white person standing under the window, it bit his finger, its big blood-colored eyes stared at Yuuri without moving, its mouth There was a strange hee hee sound.