Chapter 97: Experiments with groups of mice
"The people on the boat? Oh oh oh! Look at my memory, I can't believe I forgot that you came by boat and those guests are still starving up there! How apologetic for the dragon."
Rand said and shook his wings, and the huge amount of gusting wind blew several people over at once, and they just, watched as the dragon flew away.
Then the faces looked at each other.
There was some uncertainty.
"President Aru? Do we ... want to escape first?" Someone asked cautiously.
But President Aru was secretly glancing at the two dragon cubs, these two guys, flying in mid-air, unable to stop hovering and staring at them with dead eyes, where was the chance to run ah?
After all, if they just ran away like that, wouldn't that dragon, who just looked like a five-coloured dragon, be angry?
President Aru had been in business for many years, what kind of people had he seen, and he always felt that this evil dragon, although he was acting civilized, had not been harbouring good intentions.
Also, what did he mean by the experimental material at the beginning?
He didn't dare to say anything for a moment, but just waited.
A few moments later, he suddenly heard a loud wind whistling in the distance, looked up and was almost stunned!
He! What did he see?
Hundreds of metres above.
The huge dragon that had just left, flapping its wings, had actually embraced the entirety of the cargo ship he had parked on the beach and was flying towards it!
The god of fortune was on board again!
This was a cargo ship that was nearly twenty metres long, eight metres wide and weighed between one hundred and two hundred tonnes!
He actually just flew in with it in his arms?
On board, the shipwrights let out heart-rending cries that could be heard even from a distance!
As big as this giant dragon was, it was actually nowhere near as huge as the cargo ship.
From head to tail, he would have been around sixteen to seventeen metres long in comparison to the cargo ship.
But that was it, and it was actually even able to hold the freighter and fly?
This sense of vestigiality was like a human child, walking while holding a rock bigger than himself.
It was full of shock.
"My God!"
A group of guards muttered, their legs swaying uncontrollably.
They were somewhat unable to control their bodies.
Pang!!!
The dragon landed on the ground and the whole ground shook several times, after which he grinned and said.
"All of you on board! You must be hungry after waiting for so long? Come on down and try my specialties! Come!"
Then the dragon turned the ship upside down, and the crew fell like dumplings!
Boom boom boom ...
"Ooohhh!!!"
"Legs! My leg! My leg is broken!"
"AHHHHH!!! My hand! My hand is broken too!"
"Help! Help! Somebody help me!"
The group of crew members cried out, nearly collapsing.
Chiron held the boat backwards several more times, and one after another quite a few more fell off.
Only then did he lower the boat.
At a rough count, there were more than twenty more people.
The others on the other side looked at this scene and a cold feeling went straight to their heads, indeed! This five-coloured dragon, not a good one!
And the two young dragons looked at each other, that's right! That's the evil dragon they know, the one who likes to play with the living!
"Come on, come on! Taste it! My specialties here!"
The dragon enthusiastically placed a stream of mushrooms and weeds that these people had plucked earlier in front of these people, instructing them to eat them quickly.
But these guys just kept moaning and howling for a while without moving.
This caused the colour in the dragon's eyes to shift, and suddenly he raised his claws and dropped them again with a jerk!
When he lifted his claws again, there was an additional puddle of bloody mud on the ground.
This instantly stopped the cries of the crew who had been crying.
"Quick! Don't dry scream here! If you're hungry, you have to eat quickly, okay?"
The dragon barked again, his voice as gentle as ever.
But it sent chills down everyone's backs, and the crew trembled, grabbing mushrooms and weeds and devouring them like hungry ghosts.
"Very well! That's good! That's it! See how hungry you all are for it!"
The dragon roared low.
On one side, Aval had not expected at all that the dragon would fix a group of people until their arms and legs were broken and slap them to death without a word like this, which was not at all what he had thought and made it a little difficult for him to accept the reality.
He could not help saying.
"Mr. Rand, you have just ... killed someone, and that is not right."
"Kill someone? I didn't! I just gently lifted my foot and dropped it again, and he happened to sit there and be trampled to death, and you must know that there are times when people accidentally step on bugs, and dragons do the same.
I meant no harm, my friend!"
A very plain statement coming from the dragon's mouth, but it was one that gave way to an unspeakable malice!
Even the stupidest of Aval knew that the dragon before him, did not take them seriously!
This silenced him.
"That's all for lunchtime, you can go back to the ship and rest, and if you eat at night, remember to eat on time, and don't wander off, my eyesight is not very good, so if you get confused with other beasts out there and I accidentally eat you, I'll be sorry."
With these words, the dragon flew slowly back into the volcano.
The two dragon cubs also quickly went back.
As soon as they were lying in the lava pool again, the little black dragon Ed couldn't help asking, "Rand! Do you still want to catch the beast?"
"Of course I do, I was having a bit too much fun with a bunch of cuties and I actually forgot about something so important!"
Rand, somewhat stunned, responded with a tap on the head.
The two little dragons immediately flew off again.
That said, outside the volcano.
Aru and the others were all ashen, how could they not hear that the last dragon's words were a warning to them!
Looking at the bloody puddle of mud, these people didn't dare to make any rash moves at all.
They could only obey the dragon's orders honestly.
In the evening, there were several more beasts in the area, two ordinary forest sheep, two ordinary rabbits, two ordinary forest wolves, and a ferocious tiger with a demonic bloodline.
All these beasts were tied with ropes to the edge of the freighter and howled continuously.
It made for a bad night's rest for all.
The following day, Rand's experimental log began in earnest.
All men and beasts eat mushrooms and wild grasses, or not!
The second day, the third day, the fourth, the fifth and even the tenth day, it was all the same.
There were no boats outside and people were afraid to go to the outer forests at will, they had to stay on the boats all the time.
Aval had had the experience of building his own raft to escape before.
But he didn't dare to escape alone, not to mention the time it would take to build a raft.
The dragon had said that if one person was missing! He would have to take one of all of them and throw them into the volcano!
This made them even more afraid to act rashly, and even to spy on each other.
They were no longer in the same boat.
So it was, on the thirtieth day.
Rand found that all the people here, to varying degrees, had been alienated, though not exactly the same as Avar; seventy percent of their hair had begun to alienate towards black, and their skin had begun to faintly darken.
The other thirty percent were the same as Avar.
This alienation actually made many of them feel happy, as they felt that their strength, stamina and endurance had become much stronger.
It also made them feel a lot less resentful about being imprisoned here.
Several of the beasts did the same, their bodies growing stronger and stronger, their fur turning red or black.
However, when the days came to forty.
Then the unexpected happened!
Two of the rabbits, one after the other, lost their body functions and began to suffer from anorexia.
On the forty-third day.
The two rabbits fall to the ground, unable to do anything.
On the forty-fourth day.
The two rabbits were swollen and swollen like a flesh tumour, spilling blood all over and dying.
It was numbing to watch, but thankfully the humans did not appear in this state.
But on the forty-sixth day, the first human began to show the same symptoms as the rabbits.
Everyone was in a bit of a panic about this.
They knew that this human was supposed to be dying.
On the forty-seventh day, they force-fed the human, but he kept vomiting.
On the forty-ninth day, the human followed in the rabbit's footsteps.
Many of them even had thoughts of escaping, but the cruel rules were binding them, and as long as one of them did not agree, then none of them could escape.
On the fifty-second day, another person was in this situation, and it seemed that it was not some accident, but a phenomenon of no less probability.
Rand calls these guys losers, losers on the road to evolution!
On the fifty-fifth day, a third Failure appeared.
On the fifty-eighth day, the fourth loser appears.
On the sixty-ninth day, the tenth loser appeared, a goat and a wolf who also failed to evolve and died as losers.
On the seventy-fifth day, there were no more failures of man or beast, and all of them showed extremely good changes in their bodies, just like the Avalanche, except that they were of a different colour.
The change in Aval, who had been feeding on mushrooms and weeds for the longest time, was equally striking.
This guy's forehead actually bulged with two small pouches, his skin became redder and at the same time extremely hard, he wouldn't feel much pain if someone hit him with an ordinary wooden stick ...
At this point, there were still thirty-two of these humans remaining.
All the animals changed greatly in appearance, their limbs began to grow thicker, their tails became longer, and their personalities became extremely violent, howling louder at night.
On the hundredth day, Aval's body grew from about one metre nine when he was originally near the island to two metres long, and the little bundle on his head ruptured and two small horns burst out.
Rand felt that he had changed, somewhat in the direction of a dragon, a sort of dragonification.
Therefore, these red-scaled ones were called [Red Dragons], and as for the others, [Black Dragons].
The ferocious tiger began to shed its hair and some scales grew out of its body.
The length of the body grew from the original three and a half metres to about four metres.
In the middle of the night, it broke free from the ropes used to bind it and bit the goat and the wolf.
However, it did not continue to attack the other Red and Black Dragons, and seemed to be hostile only to the dragonised beasts?
This is not certain and remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, the mushrooms, the weeds, have also taken on a new dimension over time.
Especially the ones growing inside the crater.
The mushrooms are becoming clearer and clearer, appearing to be a dragon's head, which Rand called [Dragon's Head Mushroom].
The scaly markings of the wild grasses became more and more distinct, or rather, had become entirely composed of a single scale-like piece, and were known as [Dragon Scale Grass].