Courtship Period

Pinellia slid down the mountain wall along the vines.

Steadily landed on the grass, Ban Xia didn't leave in a hurry, first looked for some ferns on the ground by the starlight.

It's not hard to find, there are everywhere around here.

In the jungle where I met the long-haired beast, Banxia saw the long-haired beast eating this kind of fern that was as tall as a person, and now I saw it under the black dragon's lair, which shows that this kind of fern is widely distributed.

Cut off a piece of fern with a dagger, Banxia dragged the cut fern to the stone pile not far away.

Ban Xia squatted down, picked up a piece of gravel, hammered the fern out of the juice, and then smeared the juice on her body.

He wasn't sure how sensitive the black dragon's sense of smell was. Ban Xia didn't dare to take it lightly in the face of such a powerful creature that he knew nothing about.

Quickly dealt with the traces left by him, Banxia activated the optical brain, released an electronic eye to explore the way, chose a direction opposite to the direction when the black dragon flew away, and walked into the forest.

Walking in the dark and quiet jungle, Ban Xia didn't dare to leave the electronic eye too far away from him, so he controlled it to explore within [-] meters around him.

There are a total of five electronic eyes in his space bracelet, and the first three that were released to record the map are still in the jungle where the long-haired beast was encountered. The distance is beyond the control range of the optical brain and has lost contact.

Now he only has two electronic eyes left to use, and he has to rely on them to find human settlements, so he can't lose them anymore.

It is late at night.

The night map sent back by the electronic eye appeared on the monocle, and the existence of warm-blooded animals was particularly obvious in the night-time heat-sensing camera.

According to the map, Ban Xia carefully avoided the nearby beasts.

On the other side, a huge black dragon grabbed a silver fish and rushed out of the lake. It was about to fly back to the nest, but it suddenly paused.

It turned its head, and its bright golden vertical pupils looked at somewhere by the lake, where stood an exceptionally white object, like an egg of some race.

The black dragon flapped its wings and flew over, landing next to the white "egg".

There is no life in the "egg", it is an "egg" whose shell has been broken.

The black dragon lowered his head and sniffed the "egg" carefully.

It smelled the males it had brought back to its nest, and some small long-necked birds.

The eggs of long-necked birds are pink, which is not the case.

This is the "eggshell" of its male beast.

The tentacles on the top of the black dragon's head swayed, and it lightly rubbed the surface of the "eggshell" with its scaled cheeks, and a tentacles protruded out to wrap around the "eggshell".

With the "eggshell" of the male beast and the still struggling whitebait, the black dragon flapped its wings again and returned to the nest.

A huge black shadow passed over the forest, and the forest was dead silent. It was not until the black shadow was far away that the chirping of insects and birds sounded again.

boom--

The black dragon retracted its wings and fell heavily into the lair.

There was a set of military uniforms strewn about the mouth of the cave, and the black uniform fell on the white rocky floor, which was particularly obvious in the starlight.

The black dragon noticed the darkness, it turned around, lowered its head and sniffed, its bright golden vertical pupils moved.

Its male beast has already shed its skin.

When huddled in a corner alone, the black dragon found that the male beast it brought back was shedding its skin.

It originally wanted to watch the male beast shed its skin secretly, but after it licked the wound for the male beast, it could vaguely perceive the male beast's emotions, and it received the hunger from the male beast's spirit.

The beast is hungry.

The molting stage is a vulnerable period for many beasts, and after a molting, they often need a lot of food to supplement their energy.

The black dragon does not have the habit of storing food in the lair. In order not to let the courtship starve, it can only leave temporarily to find delicious food for the male beast.

Now it's back with food.

"roar~"

The black dragon put the silver fish and "egg shells" it brought back into the cave, and called the male beast with a low growl.

The tenacious whitebait bounced and turned over, other than that, there was no sound in the cave.

The black dragon looked around the cave, and there was still the smell of a male beast in the cave, but it couldn't locate the other party accurately.

After the male beast shed its skin, it seemed that even the smell had faded, as if it was not in the lair at all.

The black dragon crawled to the depths of the lair, where there were several smaller caves, and at the end was the lair where it usually slept, and the male beast probably hid in it.

The male beast has not yet entered the courtship period, and is not ready to lay eggs with it, so the male beast does not accept its closeness, and always avoids it, trying to stay away from it.

These are nothing, it can wait until the male beast is willing to mate with it, but...

Its male beast is gone.

"Roar--"

The black dragon that searched the entire lair let out an angry and desperate roar.

There was no smell of other beasts around the cave, and the male had left by himself. This discovery made the black dragon extremely uncomfortable.

It climbed to the entrance of the cave and looked at the "skin" that the male beast had cast off. The pieces were so small that even its claws could not cover them.

A tentacle stretched forward and touched the "skins" lightly. They were so thin that they were easily pierced by the sharp tip of the tentacle.

The black dragon carefully moved the tentacles away.

The original "skin" of a male beast is so thin, and the new "skin" that has just grown must be more fragile. Such a fragile male beast will die if it is alone outside.

It has to find the male beast.

The black dragon spread its wings and jumped out.

……

Ban Xia vaguely heard something, like the roar of some kind of beast, he subconsciously turned his head to look at the sky behind him.

There are no huge black shadows or golden vertical pupils above the jungle, only bright and dense stars, shining brightly.

Ban Xia breathed a sigh of relief, and rubbed his forehead wearily, "Is it an auditory hallucination?"

When he was in the dragon's nest, Ban Xia was tired and hungry, now he is not only tired and hungry, but also sleepy.

In fact, Pinellia found a few fruit trees an hour ago. Some trees had oval red fruits, and some had spherical yellow fruits. They all smelled very sweet.

It was he who took two kinds of fruits and compared them with the alliance fruit information in his brain for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out the variety of the fruit.

In the end, I picked a bunch, didn't dare to eat any of them, and put them all into the space bracelet.

Ban Xia held down her protesting stomach.

He also knew that if he didn't find a human settlement or food he was familiar with tomorrow, he would have to try these strange fruits.

After all, it is not the last moment, and Ban Xia is not ready to test the poison.

Looking at the time on the monocle, two hours have passed since he left the dragon's nest.

He walked nearly [-] meters in the jungle. Even if the black dragon found out that he had escaped, he wouldn't go so far to catch him, would he?

Well, let's go here tonight and continue tomorrow.

After making a decision, Ban Xia found a fairly flat grass nearby, and found a military tent that hadn't been used for a long time from the space bracelet.

After installing and building the tent with the help of starlight, he took out a pack of snake-killing powder from the tent package and sprinkled it around, and then Banxia got into the tent with confidence.

Lying in the sleeping bag, Ban Xia brushed the brain several times without giving up.

But no matter what he did, the star network signal bar was empty, and when he tried to contact the alliance, it would only display [Star Network is chasing stars, please try again later].

For the first time, Ban Xia felt that this sentence was so dazzling.

Reluctantly turning off the optical brain, putting the monocle in his pocket, Ban Xia rubbed his temples with his hand, and slowly closed his eyes.

From time to time, there were a few birdsong outside, and after a while, the wind blew by, and the roar of beasts could be faintly heard along with the wind.

This is a completely unfamiliar planet for Pinellia, he has never seen anyone other than himself, and he can't help but think about the alien race mentioned by the light brain J03 before meeting the black dragon.

If it wasn't for the sudden appearance of the black dragon, he probably had already met that alien, and even obtained the location of the airport from him.

Ban Xia plans to search for a few more days by himself. If he can't find a human settlement, he will try to return to the lake where he woke up, to see if he can meet the alien who sent courtship pheromone to him.

Thinking of this, Ban Xia gradually fell into a deep sleep.

Ban Xia had a dream, in which he was split into two parts, one was floating in the air, seeing everything from the perspective of God, clearly knowing that he was in a dream, but he could not speak or move.

The other one is sitting on the cliff, stretching out his magnificent wings like huge butterfly wings, and his long pink-purple tail hangs down the cliff. He raised his head, narrowed his golden eyes slightly, and hummed an ancient and mysterious tune softly .

Soon, a man with black wings and tail flew over from a distance. The man had long black hair and a pair of particularly bright golden vertical pupils.

He hugged that man together, and the two long tails, one deep and one shallow, were tightly entangled.

The black-haired man leaned against him, staring at him with a pair of inhuman golden vertical pupils, and said clumsily, "I want to lay eggs."

He opened his eyes, and they were also a pair of golden vertical pupils as cold as a cold-blooded animal, without any human emotions.

Floating in the air, Ban Xia, who clearly knew that she was dreaming, saw another self with inhuman features slightly raised her lips, and said a word.

"..."

·

Pinellia was woken up by the cold wind blowing on the face, and the cool wind hangs on the face, and Pinellia got a faint fruity fragrance from the wind.

He is in the tent, where does the wind come from?

Ban Xia hadn't completely escaped from that weird dream, and opened her eyes in a daze.

At first glance, Banxia found that the sky was already bright, and only a skeleton remained of his military tent.

At the second glance, he saw a golden vertical pupil staring at him above him, which was very similar to the dream, but magnified by an unknown number of times. There were hard and thick black scales beside the eye.

"hiss--"

What's the situation? !

Ban Xia gasped and sat up from the sleeping bag in shock.

"roar~"

The black dragon lowered its head, and several tentacles wrapped around the frame of the tent.

There was only a "click", and the only remaining skeleton was broken.

Only then did Ban Xia fully wake up, and she was about to take out the gun from her bracelet immediately.

But the head of the black dragon has already come closer, it gently rests on Banxia's chest, Banxia hears a long and soft growl from its throat, it seems to be longing for something, and it seems to be urging something.

With such a big group in front of him, Ban Xia couldn't even touch his bracelet.

He endured the tremor in his heart, raised his head and looked at the black dragon, the white film of the black dragon's right eye completely disappeared, and two intact golden vertical pupils were staring at him.

The damn resilience.

The black dragon's eyes shone with tiny light, he stared at Banxia for a while, then suddenly stuck out his tongue, and licked Banxia's body, from chest to cheek.

Ban Xia: "..."

Ban Xia backed away calmly.

Before getting himself out of the sleeping bag, Ban Xia saw the black dragon slowly stand up, spread its wings slightly, and completely cover him under the wings.

The stars outside were just rising, and the morning light shone through the fiery red clouds on the black dragon's scales and feathers, making those obsidian-like scales reflect a reddish color.

The black dragon's breathing was a little short. It searched for the male beast with a vague induction. It originally wanted to bring the male beast back to its lair, but as soon as it got close, it smelled the pheromones from the male beast that belonged to the mating period...

This made it even more eager to enter the courtship period due to the smell of the male beast.

I really want to lay eggs... The male beast shouldn't refuse it this time, right?

Full of expectations, the black dragon's chest vibrates spontaneously, playing courtship music.

The author has something to say:

Dragon: Lay eggs, lay eggs, lay eggs~