Courtship Period

Ban Xia's eyes widened, his expression was full of horror and disbelief.

When the dragon man touched him again, he raised his hand and pushed away the dragon man in front of him.

"Roar——" the dragon man growled in surprise, its body fell backwards under the thrust, the black dragon tail hung down from the side of the long-haired beast, and it fell with its whole body.

The dragon man frantically stretched out his claws to grab the long-haired beast's fur, but it was in vain.

Looking at the dragon man who failed to save himself, Ban Xia couldn't help but think, if he fell from such a height, he would be injured if he fell to the ground, and if he fell, he would be trampled to death by a herd of long-haired beasts.

Seeing that the dragon man was about to roll off the long-haired beast, even though Ban Xia knew it was just a dream, he reached out and leaned over to grab the dragon man's arm.

The slender fingers clasped the black dragon's arm, and with this pulling force temporarily held the black dragon, the black dragon reacted quickly, one paw grabbed the male beast's arm, and the other claw firmly grabbed the long-haired beast's side. hair.

The black dragon's eyes fell on the male beast's arm.

The male beast's arm was not as thick as a fingernail when it was in dragon form, and the black dragon quickly transferred the weight of its body to its own arm that was holding the long-haired beast's hair.

The male beast is so weak, how can it hold it.

Ban Xia noticed the small movements of the dragon man, his eyes flickered, and he didn't say anything. He exerted force on his hand and pulled the dragon man up.

After all, he was the one who pushed the dragon man down just now, so he can no longer ask the other party to trust him wholeheartedly and give everything to him.

Pulling the dragon man onto the back of the long-haired beast, Ban Xia took the initiative to back away and distanced himself.

"Roar?"

The dragon man still leaned over, as if he had forgotten that he was almost pushed down by him.

This time the dragon man didn't try to lick him again, but buried his face in his chest, let out a low growl, revealing a little grievance, and... Please touch?

Banxia's body was slightly stiff because of the closeness of the dragon man, and at the same time she was surprised by the thoughts she perceived.

He seemed to understand the meaning of the dragon man's roar?

Ban Xia forgot to pull the dragon man away from his chest for a moment, lowered his head and asked: "Is this the way your family communicates? Spiritual communication?"

He was also able to discern emotions from the dragon man's eyes and roar before, but this time it was a little different. The dragon man's roar changed from a completely unfamiliar foreign language to a language he could understand.

"Hey..." Why don't you touch me?

Ban Xia paused to confirm that she understood correctly, then raised her hand hesitantly, and caressed the top of the dragon man's head.

The long black hair is extremely smooth to the touch, Ban Xia doesn't want to feel it too much, he just wants to show his friendliness, and then find out whether the dragon people have a way to go to the human alliance, and why they want to court him.

Heilong narrowed his eyes: "Hey~" This time the touch is so high!

Has he touched it before?

Ban Xia concentrated on recalling, and vaguely recalled that in a certain dream, he once hugged the other party, it should be... touching, right?

One by one images flashed through my mind, Ban Xia's breathing suddenly stopped.

This dragon man is a foreign race that can enter dreams, not a product of his dreams, that is to say, in his twisted dream, did he really do that kind of thing with the other party?

No, no, even if the other party is not the product of his fictional dream, but this is indeed his dream, and their current forms are just their own thoughts.

There is no physical handover at all, it's just a deeper spiritual exchange, it's nothing.

Ban Xia tried hard to convince herself, and suddenly felt that the tip of her tail was gently hooked.

He looked down and saw that the tip of a long black tail was entangled with his, and the tip of the black tail was still rubbing against him.

Ban Xia: "..."

He was not going to have another in-depth spiritual exchange, Banxia slowly pulled out his tail, and pulled the dragon man out of his arms.

Facing the confusion in the eyes of the dragon people beside him, Ban Xia returned to the right track, "Why did you court me? What is your race?"

The dragon man just looked at his hand with regret and let out a soft roar.

"Hey..." Has he stopped touching?

Ban Xia stared at the dragon man silently, and the dragon man's expression changed from downcast to a little reserved, as if he didn't understand why he was staring at it so much.

Ban Xia asked the original question: "Do you not understand my words?"

The dragon man blinked his eyes, seemed to think seriously for a while, and then said:

"Roar?" Are you hungry?Want to eat woolly beasts or those little birds?

Hearing Long Ren's answer that had nothing to do with his question, Ban Xia frowned.

Why is this happening?

"I can understand your roar, but you can't understand my words?" Ban Xia was puzzled.

Black Dragon: "Hooo..." If you don't eat long-haired beasts and small birds, I can still catch fish for you, don't be unhappy.

what on earth is it?

Pinellia no longer pays attention to it, and carefully recalls the previous events.

In the first few messy dreams, he couldn't perceive the emotions of the dragon people, and even in some dreams he himself was not awake, just sinking into them.

After the few dreams in the caves on the cliffs and on the beach by the sea, he could clearly perceive the emotions of the dragon man, and he could understand the unreserved trust and attachment in the eyes of the dragon man.

Finally, in this dream, he even began to understand the meaning of the dragon man's roar.

It was as if...some kind of uncontrollable change was gradually taking place in him.

This change should be related to this dragon man. The strange thing is that the dragon man can't understand his words and can't communicate with him.

Ban Xia glanced at her inhuman tail, feeling a kind of palpitation inexplicably.

He has an intuition that if he can't get a way to return to the alliance from the dragon man as soon as possible, and can't stop this change, he will also be affected in reality.

Ban Xia tried to be calm, and said to Long Ren: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, I can understand your words, take your time, and you can always communicate."

It's a pity that I can only understand it, but I can't speak it.

Ban Xia has been brewing in her heart for a long time, but she can't make a "roar" sound that is consistent with the dragon man's pitch.

The black dragon's pair of golden vertical pupils obediently watched the male beast, while the hand hanging by his side was uneasily grabbing the long-haired beast's fur.

The male beast has never barked at it so many times in a row before, and it still looks at it barking so seriously.

The male beast must have said something very important to it, but it couldn't understand.

"Start by introducing yourself."

"My name is Banxia, ​​what about you?" In order to let the dragon people understand, Banxia pointed at himself and then at the dragon people with the body language that he would only use when communicating with the black dragon.

Seeing that the dragon man was still looking at him puzzled, Ban Xia pointed at himself and slowed down his speech: "Ban Xia."

The black dragon couldn't even breathe, it could feel the male beast communicating with it.

The male beast said... Ban, Xia.

The black dragon opened his mouth, wanting to repeat the cry.

"Hooho-"

The black dragon closed his mouth, it wasn't this one who made the sound, the male beast's cry was completely different from his.

For the first time, the male beast expressed his intention to communicate with it in such a serious way. In the past, the male beast said it himself, and then guided it to do it with actions.

But not only could it not understand the call of the male beast, it could not even repeat the call of the male beast, which made it extremely at a loss.

What should it do?

In order to become smaller and hug the male beast, it has been restraining itself from eating and reducing energy intake during this time.

But now the reduction in size alone can no longer meet its needs, and another strong desire arises from the black dragon's heart.

——It wants to know what the male beast said to him, and wants to use the male beast's cry to communicate with the male beast.

Ban Xia only saw that the dragon man's gaze became inexplicably firm, and then, white light flourished in his vision.

Is this dream ending?

In the light, the dragon man rushed towards him in a panic, and they were engulfed by the white light together.

……

Ban Xia woke up from the dream, and received a black dragon's lick as usual.

"Dragon..." Banxia's eyes gradually fell on the huge scales-covered head on his body, and he cheered up and said, "Good morning."

The black dragon sensed that the male beast was not in a high mood, so it raised its head after carefully licking the male beast, and no longer dared to pester the male beast to pet it.

Is the male beast unhappy because it failed to understand him?

The inheritance memory engraved in the bloodline let the black dragon know what he has to do to communicate with the male beast.

In this case, there is a solution in inheritance memory.

The first method is to devour a male beast's former siblings and inherit the opponent's language library.

However, it has only seen a beast like a male beast, and cannot find the same clan as the male beast before.

The second method is to mate with a male beast. During copulation, it can share emotions and thoughts with the male beast.

But the male beast is not in the courtship period, and the sex pheromone of the male beast is always very little, even if the male beast enters the courtship period, its reproductive cavity may not be able to open.

And it can only be shared when mating, once separated, it is gone.

The third method, metamorphosis, turns every structure of the body into an appearance similar to that of a male beast.

Metamorphosis is different from shrinking the body, shrinking only needs to stop absorbing energy, while metamorphosis requires a huge amount of energy intake on the contrary.

That is to say, it needs to leave the male beast for a period of time and eat a lot of things until the energy is critical and the crust is transformed.

The fourth way is to open the spiritual domain of the male beast and connect with its spiritual domain.

Once connected, the emotions and thoughts of it and the male beast can be transmitted through the connection, which is no worse than the effect of mating, and unless one party disconnects, it will always be valid.

But this is also the hardest part. The spiritual domain connection requires the complete trust of both parties, willing to show everything about themselves to the other party.

Would the beast be willing?

Every time the male beast falls asleep, the dissipated mental threads will form a small spiritual domain. As long as it also falls asleep, some of its spiritual threads will enter the male beast's small spiritual domain.

There, it will be transformed into a shape that the male beast likes by the spirit domain of the male beast, and the male beast will also assimilate with it to a certain extent under its influence.

But even if it becomes what the male beast likes, the male beast still rejects it, the male beast will jump out of the lair, walk into the sea, and shut it out...

The male beast would never want to connect with him.

Black Dragon analyzed the feasibility of the next four methods and found that he could only choose to transform.

However, it takes a long time to be away from the male beast for transformation. Without it, will the male beast be hungry?Will it be cold?Will it be taken away by other beasts?

……

Ban Xia lay on the military cloak for a while, thinking about the things in the dream.

When he was making those gestures while talking, the dragon man looked at him very seriously, and the other party should not resist communicating with him, which is good news.

But it is also obvious that the dragon man's voice is different from his, and he can't speak his language either.

Maybe you can only try body language, and let the dragon people understand the meaning of body language.

After making a plan, Ban Xia sat up from the military cloak and saw the black dragon bring out a large fish several meters long from the lake.

The black dragon is well aware of his food intake, and generally would not catch such a big fish for him, so the black dragon caught it for himself.

Ban Xia suddenly felt a little relieved, like seeing the raptor he raised with his own hands, and finally learned to hunt by himself, no longer waiting for him to feed him hungry every day.

Of course, he didn't raise the black dragon, he only fed it for two days.

The black dragon took the big fish in its mouth and put it on the open space beside Banxia. The black dragon watched Banxia quietly for a few seconds, then turned and went back into the lake.

Banxia looked at Huilong's back, then looked up at the bright stars in the sky, he got up and shook his military cloak.

The general spread his cloak on the grass to receive the sunlight, and Ban Xia went to the jungle by the lake to pick up some branches.

When he came back with the branches in his arms, there were already many big fish piled up by the lake shore.

Big fish are not suitable for grilling. Pinellia set up the dry branches, picked up the sharp branches from yesterday's fishing, and went to the shore of the lake far away from the black dragon.

Over the past few days, Banxia's spearfishing skills have reached full strength, and soon he forked a small fish that was not too big or small, just big enough for him to eat a meal.

After finishing the fish with a dagger, Ban Xia took the fish back to the woodpile.

The black dragon also just landed, and this time it didn't bring back any big fish, and each of its tentacles was stuck with a fish similar in size to that of Banxia.

The black dragon put the fish down beside Banxia, ​​and opened his mouth to spit the transparent liquid into the fire.

When the flames ignited, the black dragon lay down on the grass, and a pair of huge golden vertical pupils stared at Banxia without blinking.

"Do you want to have some grilled fish too?" Ban Xia put her own fish on the fire, and took the fish that the black dragon put down to the lake for disposal.

The sound of the black dragon getting up came from behind, Banxia turned around and saw the black dragon following him, and said with a smile: "You can eat those big fish first."

The black dragon had no intention of leaving, those huge golden pupils stared at him deeply, as if wanting to remember every hair on him.

Today's black dragon... why does it feel weird?

Pinellia handled the fish with doubts, and then roasted and fed it in one go.

It's just that when Banxia first fed the grilled fish to the black dragon, the black dragon didn't accept it, but pushed the fish to him with its tentacles.

Banxia could only use gestures to show the black dragon that one fish was enough for him, and the black dragon was willing to eat the fish he was feeding.

After breakfast, Ban Xia also fed the big fish to the black dragon.

Putting away the military cloak, Ban Xia climbed onto the back of the black dragon and led the black dragon back to the dragon's nest.

Now that he has learned that the foreign race is the dragon man who entered his dream, there is no need to search any further, since the other party will come to his dream every night anyway.

Returning to the dragon's nest, Banxia looks at the high cliff and prepares to weave a ladder with rattan.

He should still live in the black dragon's dragon's lair for a long time, and some daily necessities should also be prepared.

Ban Xia was busy, while Hei Long slipped out quietly.

With the size of the black dragon, no matter how to reduce the sense of presence and walk lightly, the word "quietly" cannot be achieved.

Hearing the loud noise made by the black dragon's wings flapping outside, Banxia slowed down the speed of weaving the rattan ladder in her hand.

With such a huge black dragon, there should be no beasts that can threaten it, so there is no need to worry about it.

As soon as Banxia weaved a three-meter rattan ladder, the black dragon came back.

The black dragon descended from the sky, holding a fruit tree in each of its two front paws, and holding a big orange-red bird in its beak. Unknown small animals, big mushrooms, ores, and other strange things were curled up on each tentacles.

The black dragon arranged everything in front of Banxia, ​​the tentacles on the top of its head shook, and a pair of golden vertical pupils looked at Banxia expectantly.

"What are you doing?" Ban Xia stepped forward to fiddle with the orange-red long-necked bird, and found that it was dead.

Black dragons rarely bring living creatures to him.

Then I went to the side and looked at the two fruit trees. The fruit trees were all broken in the middle, and the fruits all over the trees exuded an attractive fruit fragrance.

Isn't there a lot of fruit in the cave?Why do you get new ones?

Ban Xia looked over everything, probably understood that the black dragon was collecting items, or wanted to send something to him.

It is impossible for these things to be piled up at the entrance of the cave like this. Ban Xia picked all the fruits from the tree, made a bag out of vines, and transported them back to the cave one by one.

The big bird was put outside and roasted directly at night.

I don't know if the mushrooms are poisonous, so keep them away first, and the ore... probably because the black dragon likes shiny things, so keep them too.

Banxia packs up the things brought back by the black dragon, the sound of flapping wings resounds outside the cave, it is the black dragon flying away.

When the black dragon came back again, it brought back various things, in addition to the fruit mushroom ore brought back last time, there were also unidentified beasts with black manes, and several strange-shaped plants.

After repeating this twice, Banxia confirmed the black dragon's intention, the black dragon was asking him to choose his favorite food.

As long as it is something he puts in the cave, the black dragon will bring it back repeatedly, and the black dragon will not bring back things that he left in place like the big orange bird.

Why are black dragons suddenly collecting food on such a large scale?

Is the winter season coming?

Ban Xia looked up at the bright stars in the sky. Judging by the temperature in the past few days, it didn't seem like it was going to enter the cold season.

But the black dragon's frenzied stockpiling was because it was preparing food for the winter, Ban Xia couldn't think of other possibilities.

Although there is no sign of entering the cold season at all, Ban Xia still decided to believe in the black dragon who is a local beast.

Since it is necessary to prepare for the winter, it is not enough to store fruits and the like, and meat is a necessity.

The shelf life of meat is too short and needs to be cured with salt.

Even if he used up all the salt in the space of his bracelet, he still wouldn't be able to marinate a few pieces of meat.

So the next day, Ban Xia rode the black dragon and led the black dragon to the seaside again.

This time he brought back enough salt to pickle a dozen big orange-red birds.

In the days that followed, Banxia began to process the food brought back by the black dragon during the day, marinated and dried; made clothes and quilts with animal skins, oil tanned, and smoked; at night, he communicated with the dragon people in body language in dreams, and his life was extraordinarily special. full.

Soon, the caves below the cliff were filled, and the newly brought food could only be placed in the old dragon's nest on the cliff.

Ban Xia thought that such days would continue until the cold season came.

Suddenly one day the black dragon stopped going out and stuck to him all day long.

Ban Xia also gave herself a day off and took the black dragon to bask in the sun for a day.

I don't know how long the cold season of this planet will be. The food stored is enough for him to eat for a year, but if the black dragon is added, it can last up to 20 days.

That night, Banxia fell asleep under the wings of the black dragon as usual, but when he entered the dreamland, he found that he was alone for the time being, and the dragon man had not yet appeared.

In the dragon's nest, the black dragon slowly opened its eyes.

The bright golden vertical pupils stared at the small ball under his wings.

It got up as lightly as possible, and walked towards the entrance of the nest with three steps and three turns.

Walking to the entrance of the lair, the black dragon finally looked at the sleeping male beast, spread its wings, and flew out of the lair.

The male now has enough food and furs, neither hungry nor cold, and he has cleaned up all the big beasts in the vicinity, and no beast can take his male away.

When it transforms successfully, it can become the appearance that the male beast likes, can understand the calls of the male beast, can make the same call as the male beast, and can make the male beast happy. When the male beast enters the courtship period, they can also An egg with a nest...

The black dragon looked back at the lair that had already merged into the night, and wanted to be touched by the male beast...

The black dragon forced himself to turn his head and flapped his wings violently.

Ban Xia faintly heard the sound of the black dragon's wings flapping in his dream, and felt panicked inexplicably, and woke up with a start.

He opened his eyes, and with the light from the fluorite collected by the black dragon, he saw the dark top of the cave.

What about the black dragon?

Ban Xia looked around and tentatively called out: "Dragon?"

Silent.