Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible

Beside the operating bed, the man in puppet makeup pulled off the blood-stained gloves on his hands, revealing a pair of hands that were obviously carved from wood.

Countless thin black threads emerged from the tips of the fingers and wrapped around the limbs of the girl on the bed. Then the black threads began to slowly blend into the skin and finally disappeared.

When the black line completely disappeared, the man raised his hands gracefully, and while his fingers were dancing, the girl suddenly sat up from the bed, stiffly turning her head little by little, until she turned completely 90°, facing the man beside the bed, and then stopped.

Opening her small eyes, the girl had a pair of lake-blue moist eyes, and the corners of her light pink lips were raised, revealing a thrilling smile.

The moist lake blue eyes reflected the face of the man with puppet make-up. As the smile appeared on the girl's face, his closed lips also split, and the black gaps extended from the corners of the mouth to both sides of the ears, revealing There was an unfathomable darkness inside the mouth.

"All the birds in the sky,"

"Sigh and mourn,"

"When they hear the bell toll,"

"For the poor robin."

The man's lower jaw began to hit the upper jaw continuously. As the upper and lower lips collided, the clicking sound gradually turned into crazy laughter.

"Kaka...kaka...kaka hahahaha..."

“So this is the trial of the mockingbird.”

"But listen:"

"Attention all concerned,"

"This announcement says,"

"Next time the Bird Trial will be held,"

"The one on trial is a sparrow."

The man's crazy laughter echoed in the room along with the girl's beautiful singing voice. Even the pile of dozens of identical girls' heads in the corner of the room was trembling slightly with laughter.

A pair of small girls' eyes opened, and inside they were filled with endless lake blue.

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The Earth Dragon Kingdom is a landlocked country that is blocked on all sides. Its national strength is not very strong, and it does not even have any well-known powerful people or organizations. The only basis for its success is farming.

In this world, any existence that wants to maintain the national political system must have a certain skill to prove the value of its existence, so as to ensure that it will not be swallowed up and plundered by the surrounding countries.

The country of St is technologically advanced, the country of Xuanwu is powerful in martial arts, the country of Shendiao is outstanding in forging, and the country of Earth Dragon is unmatched in agricultural cultivation.

It is the granary of the western continent. It accounts for more than 40% of the entire continent's grain output as a single country, and sells it in large quantities to other countries at low prices, which ensures the stability and peace of all its citizens.

The ability to achieve the above feats relies on the terrain advantages of his large fertile plains on the one hand, and on the other hand it comes from a powerful creature - the earth dragon.

This is a creature similar to earthworms but more advanced. It is said to have the blood of a dragon. They travel through the soil and while loosening the soil, they also continuously secrete various nutrients. These substances make the plants on the surface It grows like crazy and the quality will be greatly improved.

The ancestors of the Earth Dragon Kingdom discovered this creature at the beginning of the founding of the country, so they spent a long time carefully researching and cultivating the Earth Dragon, and finally realized symbiosis with this creature for thousands of years. , they regarded the earth dragon as the totem belief of the country, got close to it and worshiped it, and multiplied this originally rare creature to nearly every inch of the country.

The reward is that they have become the country with the most abundant food production in the entire world. No matter how remote the corner is, as long as the earth dragons can still survive and move around, hunger will never bother their citizens.

This stable and unchanging situation lasted for nearly a thousand years until fifty years ago. Perhaps due to the long development, the earth dragon finally reached its peak evolution, and the king of earth dragons who broke through the racial restrictions was born.

It possesses the power to drill through mountains and shatter the earth. Its body fluids can also nourish hundreds of grasses and grow thousands of trees. Even its size exceeds the biological limit of three meters at most for earth dragons.

The people of the Earth Dragon Nation were overjoyed. They sealed this limitless Earth Dragon as a divine beast that protects the country, and used the best resources to cultivate it, hoping that it would bring about changes in the entire Earth Dragon race.

By then, they may be able to break the country's embarrassing situation of only developing agriculture and become a military power like the Xuanwu Kingdom, raising the country's status to another level.

Over the past fifty years, as the size of the guardian beast has continued to increase, from the first few meters to the current dozens of meters, the ambitions of the people of the Earth Dragon Kingdom have also expanded, and the beast's increasingly powerful Strength has given them sufficient, even close to blind confidence. In recent years, the price of grain they sell to the outside world has begun to increase year by year.

Soon, this behavior began to arouse the vigilance of the Xuanwu Kingdom. As a country of warriors, they have great demand for high-quality food. Their strong physical fitness also requires the intake of a large amount of nutrients to maintain. Therefore, the Xuanwu Kingdom will Importing a large amount of grain to the Earth Dragon Kingdom, although the Earth Dragon Kingdom has always maintained the lowest price for bulk grain trade with the Xuanwu Kingdom so far, signs of uncontrollability still inevitably appear.

And since the signs have appeared, they must be extinguished as soon as possible, especially since the intelligence organization in the Earth Dragon Kingdom recently detected a dangerous signal. A biogeneticist from the Ste Country was suspected to have appeared near the capital of the Earth Dragon Kingdom. , the information hidden in it is intriguing.

As a result, the assassination mission against the Earth Dragon Kingdom's national guardian beast appeared within the Shadow Organization, and was finally taken over by Xu Yue. At noon today, he drove the Sun Chaser airship to the airspace of the capital of the Earth Dragon Kingdom.

In the sea of ​​clouds, Xu Yue stood at the bow of the airship, overlooking the vast Golden Autumn Plain below and the huge city in the center of the plain. He was playing with a black scroll in his hand, which recorded the specific location of the guardian beast.

Different from the majestic landscape of Xuanwu Kingdom, which is full of mountains and peaks, Dilong Kingdom is very open. About 80% of their land is plain and hilly terrain suitable for large-scale reclamation and planting. It is densely populated and has vast cities.

In addition, the right side of the Earth Dragon Kingdom is adjacent to the Chaotian Mountains of the Mala Kingdom. The tall mountains block the southeast monsoon blowing from the sea on the left. A large amount of water vapor accumulates here and condenses when it encounters high altitudes to form rainfall. This gives the entire Earth Dragon The country brings extremely abundant water resources.

With perfect weather and favorable geography, coupled with the existence of special creatures like Earth Dragon, Earth Dragon Country is basically a fertile land, and its grain output can generally reach three crops a year.

At this time, it happened to be the time of grain harvest, so when Xu Yue looked down, it was a golden autumn wheat wave, with a large number of farmers like ants scattered among them.

Xu Yue's vision passed over the busy farmers, paused for a moment on the prosperous and vast ancient city, and finally landed on a garden on the southern outskirts of the city, where the guardian beasts were.

The airship slowly sailed over the garden, but it was still hidden in the clouds and never landed. He would never act rashly before confirming the trace of the earth dragon. He was not afraid of this long insect in terms of physical strength, but the opponent's ability to burrow into the ground was very troublesome. , once it escapes with all its strength, it will be difficult for Xu Yue to catch it again.

Unconsciously, he thought of the White Bird before. Both of these tasks were of the type where if an assassination failed, there was basically no second chance. The previous one could fly into the sky, and this one could escape from the ground. It can be said that each one is more troublesome than the last one. Of course, This is also the reason why no assassin has been able to complete the two assassination orders.

At the bow of the ship, Xu Yue began to recall the entire process of assassinating White Bird.

The last time he was able to restrict Baitiao's movements was because he destroyed the Bird Gate that Baitiao had always cherished, which made him take the initiative to enter the urn and fight for his life driven by hatred. But when dealing with the earth dragon, this method But it's not that easy. Even the so-called divine beast that protects the country is just a beast after all.

He couldn't guarantee that if the capital city below was destroyed with one shot, what would happen would be the crazy revenge of the earth dragon, or the people fleeing for their lives. Moreover, there were too many civilians in the capital city, so he was not so ruthless after all.

Looking at the crowds of people in the city behind, Xu Yue withdrew his gaze and saw a high-power binoculars in his hands. This kind of conventional equipment is part of the outdoor survival package in the small shop opened by the workers. I always keep a copy when wandering around the park.

Through the magnification of the telescope, the scene in the garden above appeared in his eyes in detail. Scanning the garden inch by inch, he finally saw the traces of the national guardian beast in the central pool.

"He's quite big."

In the wide pool of water, a giant python almost as long as the Sun Chaser was rolling and swimming. Its fine scales were shiny in the water. From time to time, fishes of several meters in size were chased by it and jumped out of the water. After being swallowed in one bite, when the body jumped up, a pair of black three-fingered dragon claws were clearly visible on its abdomen.

Earthworms only have similar living habits to earthworms, but their external characteristics are completely different. They have fine scales on their bodies, are huge, and also secrete body fluids. They look the same as snakes, but they live underground, have no eyes, and have a big mouth. It is round and occupies two-thirds of the area of ​​the head. There are three layers of internal teeth, which are ring-shaped and intertwined with sharp edges. It is terrifying and abnormal. As for the dragon claws under the abdomen, this is a special thing that belongs to the beast that protects the country. place.

In short, this Earth Dragon King is much uglier than the ancestral python encountered in Snake Valley.

In the observation room, the Eye of Manifestation quietly appeared beside him, then left the spaceship and flew towards the garden pool below the clouds. Naturally, he had to find out the enemy's specific information before starting the battle.

The Eye of Manifestation is a metal ball less than the size of an adult's fist. It is made of black matte material and is inconspicuous during the flight. It quickly arrived at the corner of the pool. Although there were several guardian soldiers scattered around the pool, But they are all standing with their backs to each other.

As for the earth dragon, it was busy playing in the water and didn't care about a small ball in a remote place. Invisible ripples emanated from the front of the Eye of Appearance, and then reflected back after touching the earth dragon in the pool. The exploration was completed. , the metal ball slowly rose and returned to the Sun Chaser in the clouds.

Putting down the binoculars in his hands, Xu Yue turned to look at the Eye of Manifestation on the side, and a large screen of information was projected in front of his eyes.

[Comparing the intelligence attributes of both sides..., the comparison is completed, our intelligence is 1.4 times the enemy's intelligence, and we have obtained 100% of the enemy's information]

The information is as follows:

Name: Guardian Dragon Yuan (leader-level creature)

Category: Earth Dragon

Health: 100%

Demon power value: 988/1000

Strength: 35

Agility: 30

Physical strength: 40

Intelligence: 20

Charisma: 10

Skill 1: Leader creature (passive): HP increased by 700 points, strength +18, stamina +18.

Skill 2: National Protector Divine Beast (Passive): Within the range of the Earth Dragon Kingdom, the health value is increased by 50%, and the recovery speed of health and demon power is increased by 200%.

Skill 3: Passing through mountains and mountains (passive): Long Yuan's demon power has extremely strong crushing properties for soil, rocks and other materials containing earth attributes. It is like a dragon swimming in water in underground, rocky and other environments. It moves very fast and is very powerful. The claws have extremely strong crushing properties against substances containing gold elements.

Skill 4: Devouring with sharp teeth (active): Long Yuan's teeth are arranged in three staggered rings. Once he bites the prey, he will produce a huge suction force. Those who fail the physical strength test will be completely involved in the gums of the whirling strangulation until they are killed. The prey is minced and then swallowed.

Skill 5: Dark Perception (Passive): The loss of vision makes Long Yuan's skin extremely sensitive to vibrations, and he can accurately perceive things based on the earth, water, and other media.

Skill 6: Advanced self-healing (active/passive): Long Yuan's limbs, except the brain, can quickly self-heal by digesting demon power or health.

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Long Yuan should be the name of this earth dragon. After reading the various skills detected, Xu Yue has already constructed its ability characteristics in his mind.

Although this national guardian beast has powerful attributes, its IQ and attack power are not outstanding, and its active attack skill is only Devour. As for the pair of dragon claws on its abdomen, it should not be difficult to dodge.

Earth dragons are a relatively docile creature, otherwise they would not be tamed by the Earth Dragons who are not outstanding in martial arts. They just look a little more ferocious. After all, they are species that live in the dark, and everyone grows up by the way. .

All in all, it is not difficult to defeat. What is difficult is how to kill it. With its extremely fast movement speed in the earth, keen skin perception in the dark, and its near-immortal self-healing ability, he only has one chance to kill this thing. , once he misses, he doesn't know when it will happen next time. He can't waste time in the Earth Dragon Kingdom.

On the deck, Xu Yue withdrew the Eye of Manifestation next to him, and looked at Long Yuan who was still swimming in the pool below. He felt a headache and pinched his eyebrows. This thing must kill in one hit, at least one hit. Severe injuries make it lose the ability to escape quickly, otherwise it would be impossible to kill.

Currently, he only has the main gun of the Sun Chaser that can do this, but the launch speed of the main gun is too slow. With Long Yuan's perception, as long as he burrows underground when he senses a threat from the sky, under the barrier of the earth, the main gun will The power of the cannon will also be greatly reduced.

The best way to block Long Yuan's perception is to make the sky full of danger to cover up the activation of the main gun.

While thinking, Xu Yue looked at the boundless sea of ​​clouds beside him, but what came to his mind was the heavy rainstorm he caused above the Snake Valley after burning it down.

Perhaps he could use a similar method to cause a huge rainstorm to cover up the Sun Chaser's attack.

The living habits of earthworms have many similarities with earthworms. They both like to rest underground and generally only leave the surface when eating and playing.

Moreover, Earth Dragon does not have an organ like a nasal cavity. It also relies on its skin to breathe. In the past, even when swimming, it would let part of its limbs surface.

Therefore, as long as there is a heavy rain at night, when a large amount of water flows into the surface, the soil will become moist, the air permeability will become poor, and the oxygen in the underground will gradually become scarce. Under such circumstances, even if the sky is full of lightning and thunder bands, When the sense of crisis comes, Long Yuan will inevitably get out of the ground to breathe. At this time, it is the best time for the Chaser to attack.

Conceiving this somewhat whimsical plan in his mind, Xu Yue lowered his head and looked at the huge royal hunting ground near the capital, which was rich in vegetation and towering ancient trees.

A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. This plan was not impossible to realize. In any case, it was more reliable than force.