Chapter 4 A Sister Is What Kind of Strange Creature

The moonlight barely passed through the thick treetop.

In front of Neigher, the newborn baby, Yane, was climbing in a certain direction quickly. Neigher dragged his stiff and cold body and tried his best to keep up with her.

"Where are you taking me?" Neigher yelled at her, panting.

"Follow me." a sweet voice came from ahead.

Yane, who was running, turned around to look at him, but didn't explain anything.

Although the newly born red dragon was not ignorant, she didn't seem to be able to say many words. She was born with such a high IQ and physical strength. No wonder his inherited memory told him that the red dragon was a creature at the top of the food chain.

She had just been born, so she couldn't know the location of her lair. But she obviously knew where to go.

"Does she want to kill me and take the resources from our family?" Neigher thought. The inherited memory told him that the red dragon could indeed do such a thing.

However, he would definitely die in that mysterious forest alone if he did nothing.

But soon, he found that this seemed to be the right path.

The tree he had marked began to disappear, and the thick forest began to become sparse.

For a moment, Neigher felt that a ray of warm sunshine appeared in the night sky and shone on him. However, the next moment it turned into a dark forest, as if it was just his illusion.

Although the coldness in his body and the stiffness of his muscles were still getting worse, with the arrival of hope, Neigher's sleepiness was mostly eliminated.

At this moment, Yane, who was running ahead, suddenly stopped.

Neigher braked in a hurry and almost stepped on her wings.

"What's wrong with you?" Neigher turned around and asked.

But she didn't answer.

Yane looked up at him blankly for a few seconds. Then she closed her eyes and fell down.

…

"Hey, wake up."

He shook the falling baby dragon. But there was no response.

"Wake up. It's too dangerous here. We can't just pass out like this."

However, there was still no response.

The Dragon scales on Yane's belly were still fluctuating evenly, but no matter how hard he shook, she didn't wake up.

Neigher stood still, not knowing what to do.

He tried to carry Yane on his back, but even the newborn baby was too heavy for him. After a few steps, he was so tired that he knelt on the ground. It seemed that his cold and stiff joints could not support Yane's weight.

Feeling the invasion of the cold on his body, Neigher knew that he didn't have much time left. He even felt that his heart was beating slower.

He followed Yane for a long time in a straight line. He already knew where to go.

He looked at the sleeping Yane in front of him and realized that he should leave now.

In the darkness, a pair of eyes came from the depths of the forest. With malice, they were spying on the two little dragons. It seemed to be more ferocious than he had met before.

If he left Yane here, she wouldn't live long.

But he couldn't take her away. Although he could drag Yane out of the forest slowly, his body couldn't hold on until that time.

The image of her sister stabbing himself in the back flashed through his mind again.

"If I were in my previous life, I would have saved you now. But I'm sorry, I only live for myself in this life," Neigher said in his heart silently.

Without hesitation, Neigher made up his mind and ran towards the darkness ahead.

The newborn baby dragon was left behind.

In the darkness, countless shadows finally seized the opportunity.

They approached the sleeping baby dragon like hungry wolves, but she had no sign of waking up.

Those black shadows huddled together with huge malice, ready to devour all the living creatures they met.

The newly born red dragon in front of them was their target.

When the darkness was about to engulf Yane, they seemed to be frightened and suddenly trembled.

After a few seconds, they scattered like a flock of fish meeting natural enemies. Because of panic, the black shadow could no longer care about the easy-to-get prey.

At this moment, in the distance, with the evil-dispelling slate on his back, Neigher staggered back!

The darkness instantly dispersed.

Neigher returned to the side of the sleeping Yane. He pulled out the vines wrapped around his back, and the heavy stone engraved with spells of his previous life fell to the ground.

Then, he used his clumsy forelimbs, which had been frozen to death by the coldness, wrapped the horse-sized Yane with cane vines onto his back.

Then he used all his strength to rush to the darkness ahead. Because he removed the heavy object, his joints and muscles barely supported Yane's weight.

"I will start my life only for myself next time. This time is an exception," Neigher said to himself.

"I took her here not because I felt guilty or because she helped me find a way out. I'm afraid that my mom will blame me for not protecting her egg. She might twist my head off in anger."

At this time, the pair of peeping eyes behind them saw the heavy slate, and they also found that what they were afraid of was no longer on the two red dragons.

Therefore, the group of black shadows found their targets again and rushed towards the running Neigher at an incredible speed.

Neigher had expected this. He knew that the moment he put down the slate on his back, he had to compete with these things. According to his previous observation, this group of creatures was stronger than the ghost that made his body freeze.

At this time, the coldness almost spread all over his body, and the joints of his limbs were clumsy and difficult to control.

Yane was not light at all behind him, and he had to tighten the vines wrapped around his body from time to time to maintain balance. Otherwise, he would fall down at any time when the baby dragon shook left and right on his back.

He began to regret saving this little guy.

However, the black shadows behind him were approaching at a fast speed.

At this time, his mind was extremely dizzy. He was running by instinct. His stiff muscles and joints kept warning him, but he still used his willpower to order his stiff body to move.

At this time, some black shadows touched Neigher's body.

For a moment, Neigher felt that his body was frozen and his muscles were no longer under his control. He was about to lose the ability to run.

At this moment, the shadow group behind them had already caught up with them. They were only a few steps away from swallowing the two young dragons.

At this time, in the darkness of the forest, a steep slope appeared in front of Neigher.

Without hesitation, he twisted the muscles of his waist with his last strength and rolled down the cliff with the inertia of running just now. And the black shadow was almost one palm away from the scales of the two red dragons.

Neigher rolled on the steep slope at high speed. Although he couldn't even move a finger now, he could clearly feel the pain of being hit by rocks and trees.

The rapid rolling made him suffer a huge impact every time he fell on the slope. His head hit the stone on the steep slope, making him dizzy.

He swore that Yane's face behind him had definitely helped him resist many collisions.

A muffled sound was heard.

Neigher's head bumped into a tree, and the light spots produced by the collision gathered in front of him, which made his eyes black and he even fainted for a moment.

He felt that he had lost consciousness for two or three seconds, and then rolled down the slope again.

Fortunately, the slope finally began to flat.

The next moment, his eyes were lit up by a sudden light. He couldn't help closing his eyes.

When he adapted to the light and opened his eyes again…

He found himself seeing the sun!

Neigher took a deep breath. He had never praised the beauty of the sun from the bottom of his heart like now.

He found that those black shadows didn't chase after him anymore. They seemed unable to survive in the sun.

Although it was strange that it had changed from the dark night to the noon, it was not a big deal. Most importantly, he survived.

"Yane, we finally escaped..." Neigher said weakly.

The stiffness of his body was still not relieved, and he felt a burst of pain in his chest. He suspected that several ribs of his should have been broken.

With all his strength, he twisted his neck a little to see how Yane was. When the poor little dragon was rolling on the steep slope, she had already broken free from the vines on his back and rolled to him in a free fall.

However, Neigher saw that the little red dragon's neck was crooked into an incredible arc.

The little dragon's neck swayed back and forth powerlessly as if there was no bone supporting her shaky head.

Her eyes were still open, and her blue eye was staring at him next to her.

The scales on the little guy's chest no longer fluctuated up and down.

Although he didn't want to accept this fact, Neigher knew that—

She was dead.

The poor guy should have broken her neck when she just rolled down the steep slope.

He recalled the force of the impact just now. If the little dragon's body hadn't given him a buffer, he might have broken his spine and died here. The little guy might have saved his life again.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have made fun of your face in my heart just now," he said softly to the little dragon not far away.

However, the only response to him was her lifeless golden eye, and the silent accusation of her head shaking slightly.

"You can't blame me. I have tried my best." Neigher forced himself to look away.

But the next moment, he suddenly felt that his thoughts were blocked. The cold air almost extended to his head and froze his consciousness.

The coldness in her body did not dissipate with the appearance of the sun.

He felt sleepy again.

"Can't I escape the curse of death after going through so many ups and downs?" his mind began to become blocked and chaotic.

Just as he was about to lose his consciousness, he saw an incomparably huge figure appearing in front of him.

It spread out his huge wings, which were enough to cover the radiance of all the suns.

Then the figure said in a majestic voice.

"I order you to cure him in the name of Klais!"

…

After a long time, Neigher heard a voice shouting beside his ear.

"Wake up! How long have you slept? Get up!"

The owner of the voice seemed to have kicked him.

"Who dares to kick me..."

In a daze, Neigher subconsciously brought the temper of a leader in the previous life to this world.

However, the dirty words blurted out were stuck in his throat when he opened his eyes. What appeared in front of him was an incomparably huge red dragon.

Neigher found himself in a familiar cave. The sun shone down from the entrance of the cave above his heads, making the gold coins and treasures piled up in small mountains shining brightly. This was the lair where the original owner of his body had lived for five years.

Lava-like eyes were scrutinizing every inch of Neigher's body. The deterrence of the eyes and figure made him a little breathless.

This was his mother, Phinec Mars Klais.

He moved his body, and the coldness on his body had completely disappeared. The previous injuries caused by falling had miraculously healed.

"Look at yourself. You are such a great dragon. How could you make yourself in such a mess?" Mom shouted at him angrily. "I have told you not to stay in the forest at night. Do you have to remember the danger only when I throw you into the lava?"

A strong sense of pressure came along with the words of mom, which made Neigher barely stand firm with all his willpower.

He wanted to retort, but when he thought of the egg, he felt that he shouldn't irritate her anymore.

"About the egg... I've tried my best," he said.

"Well, that's the only thing you have done well."

The expression on her face softened a little.

"What?"

He was stunned for a moment, and then continued to explain, "Maybe you don't know that the egg hatched in the middle of the process, and the... the baby dragon inside..."

"Hatch? What do you mean?" she interrupted him. "Didn't you hold a complete egg when I found you?"

"What?"

In an instant, he felt numb from his spine to his head.

"Isn't this the egg in your arms? Look, it's about to hatch." Mom stepped aside, and a complete dragon egg lay quietly behind her.

Neigher took a closer look and found that the egg was exactly the same size as the one before Yane hatched and it even had the same cracks on it.

"Crack!"

In his shocking eyes, the egg slowly broke open from the inside.

The baby dragon slowly opened her eyes, one being golden and the other blue. She shouted out her real name to her mother.

"Yane Klais!"