I'm at the top of the food chain

It has been more than 20 days since leaving the imperial capital, and Lu Shaoyu feels a little subtle.

If it is said that I was quite nervous about this task at the beginning, but now I don’t know if it is because the journey has been too smooth. Lu Shaoyu feels that this tension has eased a lot. There was no movement as if they had disappeared. The trip to Ice Flame Valley went smoothly, as if they were traveling in mountains and rivers. Nelthario didn’t know what they talked about with Soinhiri. Anyway, after they left, Athea He will take part of the silver dragons to the imperial capital for reinforcements, while Suo Yinxili will lead the rest of the silver dragons to guard the Ice Flame Valley.

Ice Flame Valley is extremely cold all the year round, except for the Silver Dragon Clan whose dragon breath is originally a severe cold air, very few creatures can survive in this place, except for the rift valley, but the rift valley is limited and cannot play a big role at all. So Alsoos probably won't think about Ice Flame Valley for the time being. If he wants to attack the imperial capital directly, then Sky City, which is closer to Moonlight Mountain, is obviously a more suitable place, and the climate of Sky City is moderate. Whether it's orcs, as long as they have wings and can fly, they can live there, so after leaving Ice Flame Valley, their next destination is Blue Dragon's Sky City.

In addition to Sky City, they also have to go to the lava forest of the Red Dragon Clan, the Magnetic Forest of the Magnet Dragon Clan, the Thunder Castle of the Black Dragon Clan, and the most difficult to deal with, the Amber River of the White Dragon Clan, which is completely at odds with Neltharion. , and finally arrived at their last location, the lava sea of ​​the mermaid tribe at the other end of the Dolan continent, far away from the imperial capital.

These places are not many to mention, but you must know that Ice Flame Valley is the dragon group closest to the imperial capital, and it took them more than ten days just to come here...

Not to mention those ethnic groups that are far away from the imperial capital that cannot be described.

And this is not the most troublesome thing, the most troublesome thing is that they have to pass through the misty swamp of the green dragon tribe and the primitive jungle of the orc tribe in several places they are going to.

In other words, Ice Flame Valley is the first stop of their trip, and it is also the easiest stop. The road they are going to take next will get closer and closer to Alsos, and it will become more and more dangerous, regardless of Alsos What is he thinking now, but Ice Flame Valley is so far away from the Misty Swamp, he can find orc wizards to monitor them from a long distance, which is enough to show that he is not relaxed about Neltharion at all.

The road ahead is full of dangers and unknowns, and although he is a little worried, he is not nervous at all. Lu Shaoyu has no way to describe this weird mood, and in the end he can only let it go, anyway, no matter it is Nesario and his party. Whether it was the Silver Dragon Clan where Asea and Suo Yinxili belonged to, although they were all fully prepared, it seemed that no one took this matter too seriously. After Lu Shaoyu worried about it for two days, there was a kind of "The emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuchs are in a hurry".

So Lu Shaoyu was not in a hurry.

After flying for two days after saying goodbye to Asea, they were about to completely leave the range of Ice Flame Valley. Every time they flew forward, the feeling of cold became less and less. Lu Shaoyu once again experienced the cool feeling from winter to summer.

When Lu Shaoyu finally had to throw away the fur that had been with Lu Shaoyu for many days, Lu Shaoyu was very reluctant. It was specially made for him by Nesario, and it took a lot of effort.

And that huge white-haired dragon-toothed animal skin blanket, not to mention, it was not only made for him by Nelthario himself, but also carried his unspeakable first time, no matter how you think about it, there is no memory Meaning, he didn't want to throw it away at all.

Lu Shaoyu just looked at the blanket and clothes a few more times, and the black dragon had already sensed his mood swings, looked at him with his tail flicking and asked, "What's wrong?"

The weather is already very hot, and there is no need to wear animal skin clothes. Two days ago, they could be used to cover them at night, but now they can’t even be used at night. It will be a drag if you take them off, although it doesn’t matter if the black dragon takes them or not. Big, but there is no need to carry something that is not needed for the time being.

"Throw it away, I'm a bit reluctant."

Heilong still doesn't understand why he is reluctant, but it doesn't matter to him whether he wears it or not. Lu Shaoyu can just wear it if he likes it, "Then take it."

Lu Shaoyu stared, feeling that Heilong has become more and more like him recently, and he will say what he says, without asking the reason and without refuting. This feeling makes him satisfied, and also makes him feel awkward being pampered as a woman.

It felt like he had to find some chance to pamper him, otherwise he would always have an indescribably subtle sense of psychological imbalance.

"But there's nowhere to put it, and it's too troublesome to carry it all the time if you don't need it."

Heilong still didn't understand why he was so obsessed with a piece of animal skin clothing. Although he made it himself, he didn't think it was a gift for Lu Shaoyu when he made it, but regarded it as an ordinary and necessary item. Things, so even if Lu Shaoyu is so fond of animal skin clothes now, it makes him mistakenly think that he has a special hobby for these things.

"Put it in the foggy mirror world. If you like it, I can make it for you at any time."

Lu Shaoyu rolled his eyes, "Why do I need so many clothes? It's still winter clothes. We're going to enter summer soon."

Heilong tilted his head to look at him suspiciously, "Don't you like it?"

"I just can't bear this..." Lu Shaoyu almost blurted out, and then held back with red ears, "It's okay, just put this away, I don't want any more."

Then turned around and went to Nesriel.

The black dragon stood up suspiciously, and after turning around the animal skin clothes for a few times, he suddenly understood, and was instantly excited as if he had found some rare treasure, his eyes lit up.

He was very happy to transform into a human form, stretched out his hand to draw out the enchantment of the foggy mirror, and then happily put the things in it.

Heilong doesn't like much excitement and socializing. Before he met Lu Shaoyu, he seldom stayed in the imperial capital. Most of the previous days were spent in the foggy mirror world, but now from him and Lu Shaoyu. After Lu Shaoyu left the foggy mirror world and went to the imperial capital, this was the second time he entered.

Everything in the foggy mirror world remains the same, even the marks left by Lu Shaoyu after he burned a fire by the lake have not changed. The black dragon walks around those marks one by one with excitement and joy, and then puts the ordinary beast The leather clothes and the huge animal skin blanket were solemnly placed in his lair. Among the glittering gold, silver and jewels, those two things looked out of place, but the black dragon didn't care at all.

When the black dragon came out, Lu Shaoyu was enthusiastically preparing the barbecue. Although he was not busy two days ago, Lu Shaoyu had no intention of making food for them. Barbecue is just perfect.

When he was on his way, although Lu Shaoyu had time to stop and cook, he ate very perfunctorily. As long as it was not raw, it would be fine to cook it together, and he would not care too much about it. Well, of course he can make it as delicious as possible.

He didn't dare to use the box of sea crystal salt that Audrey gave him too casually, but even so, there are not many left now. Lu Shaoyu asked Audrey before and knew that this thing is only available to the orcs, so he used it I am more careful when I look up, and the orcs are also very big. I don’t know what Audrey is talking about, but no matter where it is, it’s not worth taking risks for a box of salt.

The food this time was not caught by the black dragon, but the meat of a four-legged beast strongly recommended by Klein. This kind of beast has hard thorns, except for the belly, almost all of which are protected by thorns. Let's start, but it is precisely because it is covered with hard thorns that it moves very slowly, so its meat contains some fat, especially the meat on the belly, which is fat and thin. It looks like pork belly on a pig.

It's not too good for barbecue.

Especially after Lu Shaoyu discovered a lot of weird seasonings.

Before leaving Ice Flame Valley, Lu Shaoyu went to the rift valley with the black dragon. Last time, he and Kelian didn't go through the trip thoroughly because of those annoying Yijiao beasts, which made the black dragon jealous, so the itinerary only He and Heilong were two people, but Heilong was a guy who didn't know anything about plants. If he hadn't brought a plant-eating Dubimon, the two of them probably wouldn't even be able to tell what they could eat and what they couldn't.

But even if you bring Dubimon, you can only distinguish between what you can eat and what you can't.

The plants that Dubimon is familiar with are limited to those in the fog mirror world, but the plant species in the Rift Valley are much more abundant than those in the black dragon fog mirror world, so many plants can only be smelled and are not poisonous and can be eaten , but I don't know if it tastes good or not, and what taste it tastes like.

This led Lu Shaoyu to personally taste a lot... all kinds of strange and indescribable tastes.

It was these smells that allowed him to find many things: sour and vinegar, some with a strange and indescribable taste, grass like lemongrass, and sweet as honey secreted by trees that grow like pine trees "Milk" is a sword bean-like but bitter bean, a golden fruit that tastes extremely spicy and looks like a kumquat...

Well, the ups and downs are all together.

It's not in vain that he ate so many messy things.

Lu Shaoyu has long discovered that this continent is extremely rich in both animal and plant species, and many things that look very similar have completely different tastes, such as the female and male fruits of red wood fruit, and the one that resembles red wood fruit A fruit of unknown origin that I can't even eat.

Most of the time that day was basically spent in the Rift Valley. Lu Shaoyu also collected a lot of edible and usable plants and fruits. Put it in a sack and eat it slowly, but even if many things can't be stored for a long time, Lu Shaoyu still chose a lot of things that are more durable in it, and filled a small half animal skin bag, including soaking them in hot water After cooling, the "lemongrass" that tastes almost like vinegar, and the spicy kumquat pepper.

Now these things come in handy as well.

The fat and thin pork belly was cut into thin and consistent slices, put sea crystal salt and dried red grass, and then Lu Shaoyu squeezed the juice of a dozen small kumquat peppers and marinated it together. The world is close to the barbecue on the earth, and Lu Shaoyu is so happy that he can laugh when he looks at those bacon.

Although he is not a person who doesn't like spicy food, he still prefers heavier dishes, but when he first came here, he didn't even have salt. How could he ask for anything else? Now he has salt Now that there are peppers, he feels that life is almost more perfect.

The thing for the barbecue was the huge stone plate that Heilong made for him. It was laid flat on the laid stones, so that everyone could sit on the floor and there was still room for several people.

From the moment he knew that Lu Shaoyu was going to start cooking barbecue again, Ke Lien sat in front of him motionless and guarded the whole time, watching the black dragon very anxious.

After the first piece of meat was put on the baking tray, it was quickly scorched by the scorching temperature and curled up with a "squeak". Lu Shaoyu pressed it with wooden chopsticks, and the oil of the pork belly was roasted little by little, and quickly filled the entire stone plate. The aroma began to permeate in an instant, and after Clariant shrugged his nose and inhaled forcefully twice... he sneezed twice.

"What's this smell? Why is your nose so uncomfortable?"

Klein was caught off guard by the pungent smell, and immediately stepped back a little bit unbearably, and then looked at Lu Shaoyu with a hurt expression.

"Fish, what do you add to the barbecue?"

Lu Shaoyu took two small kumquat peppers and twirled them in his hands, and said, "Hey, your nose is quite good. This one, do you want to try it?"

Kelian squinted his vertical pupils to look at the things in his hand, and then yelled again, "Why put this kind of thing in the barbecue, this kind of thing is not delicious at all! No, it is not edible at all."

Before Lu Shaoyu could speak, the black dragon stood up impatiently, "You don't need to eat."

Clariant: ...

Nasriel twitched his lips gloatingly at the side, and said with a smile, "Haven't you understood the truth yet? As long as it's made of fish, you can choose not to eat it, but you can't say it's not delicious."

Lu Shaoyu: ...

Heilong squinted his eyes and flicked the knife over.

Nasriel shrugged, "But I think this tastes good, if you don't want to eat it, give me your share."

Clariant: ...

Facts have proved that the food on the earth can really capture all creatures, including these dragons who never eat chili.

The grilled charred meat is paired with appropriate spiciness and enough salt, and the delicious Klein almost swallowed it with his tongue.

He couldn't understand how Lu Shaoyu thought of putting the golden cone fruit that no one ate with barbecue meat at all, and he couldn't understand why the combination of golden cone fruit with such a strange taste and barbecue meat was so good eat.

If it wasn't for Lu Shaoyu who had clearly become Nelthario's exclusive, he would have wanted to keep Lu Shaoyu in his own home just for this.

But it is destined to only think about it. If Nelthario knew that he had such an idea, even if it was only in his mind, Neltharion would probably find a way to make him look good.

In fact, it wasn't just Kelian who was amazed by the barbecue this time, even Nesario, who didn't care about eating, was completely amazed by the barbecue made by Lu Shaoyu this time.

Although he doesn't know much about Lu Shaoyu like Kelian, but even if he knows Lu Shaoyu well, Lu Shaoyu is constantly surprising him in various ways, no matter what it is.

He really likes this person who keeps surprising him more and more, what should he do?

At night they slept behind a huge rock as usual, and the black dragon curled up to protect Lu Shaoyu in his arms. In fact, the weather was so warm that there was no need for him to protect Lu Shaoyu from the wind and rain. He found that he seemed to have gotten used to it too. If the black dragon was not behind him when he was sleeping, it would take him a long time to fall asleep, and his sleep was always restless.

Lu Shaoyu always felt that this was not a good habit, but Heilong seemed quite satisfied with it.

After resting this time, they finally completely left the territory of Ice Flame Valley on the second day.

The scorching sun was still hanging high in the sky. It was the same sun, but the temperature was different by thousands of miles.

But even so, Lu Shaoyu felt sensitively that the temperature didn't seem to be as hot as before he went to Ice Flame Valley, and the sky was not as blue as before. Thick white clouds stretched to block the blue sky, as if even the clouds were worse than before. thick.

"Brother Long, the weather seems to have changed a bit."

Heilong looked up, and then said flatly "Yeah", "The rainy season is coming."

The sky will quickly accumulate clouds in the next ten days, and the clouds will become thicker and thicker, absorbing more and more water, until finally turning into gray rain clouds, rain clouds will cover the entire Dolan continent, and then on a certain day It starts to rain suddenly, although it is not a heavy rain, but it will remain cloudy and rainy with the mainland for one third of the year.

At that time, all the depressions on the continent will be filled with rainwater, and the water levels of rivers and lakes will rise in a straight line, and then gather together to form a larger ocean that is difficult to cross. In the concave places, into the highlands, the rain will completely wash away their homes, and then after the rainy season passes, they will start a new round of reconstruction.

The rainy season is coming, and all the trees and plants in the jungle will absorb water crazily during this period, grow tougher and bury deeper into the ground to resist the coming snow season, so the time for everything to grow wildly has come.

And the time that Alsos was looking forward to was coming.

The next journey will be full of real difficulties, and the black dragon looked down at Lu Shaoyu again, but no matter what, he would not allow anyone to hurt this person even a little bit, if he did not allow it, then no one would do it.

Lu Shaoyu thought about it for a while, and found that he had lived here for so many days without knowing it. The rainy season came, and then the snow season. Although he had seen the so-called rainy weather on the earth, but He still couldn't imagine what it would be like if it rained continuously for three or four months in a place.

Since he came to this continent till now, it may be due to good luck that he has not seen too many cruel scenes in this world, including the tragedy of the rainy and snowy seasons that the black dragon told him, but he is not too big in his heart. The concept, and now, these are about to really happen in front of his eyes, Lu Shaoyu felt a little depressed.

Not all animals or races on this continent have wings that can soar above the air like dragons, so what about those without wings?How will they survive this long and dark rainy season.

At that moment, Lu Shaoyu seemed to understand a little bit suddenly why, as the most populous but weakest orc race among the three races, he chose to cooperate with an ambitious man like Alsos at such a big risk, maybe it wasn't because of them Some of them have the same ambition, wanting to annex the entire continent, but want to give themselves a little more living space.

Thinking about it, Lu Shaoyu suddenly couldn't help but click his tongue. Before the battle started, he had already started to defend the enemy. This is not a good sign, so let it be enough.

After leaving Ice Flame Valley, they have to go all the way to the west. The Sky City of the Blue Dragon Clan is to the west, and there is still a long distance from Ice Flame Valley.

Sky City, this name has to remind Lu Shaoyu of an animation. It seems that the name is also called Sky City. He doesn’t remember when he watched it, because of what he watched. Anyway, he only remembers the gorgeous but still going to ruin in the end. The shocking castle in the air, and a robot that devoted itself to the last moment of its life, by the way, is it one or several?Lu Shaoyu couldn't remember clearly.

He didn't know that the Sky City of the Blue Dragon Clan was as different as he had imagined.

Is there really a castle that completely floats in the air defying gravity?Lu Shaoyu expressed doubts about this, he bent down and touched the black dragon's neck and said, "Brother Long, tell me about the sky city of the blue dragon clan, is it the kind of castle-like house that is completely floating in the air. "

Heilong was obviously stunned for a moment, and then a little smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but before he could explain anything, louder wanton laughter suddenly came from beside him.

"What? Floating in the air? Have you ever seen anything that can float in the air by itself? Just because it's called Sky City? Fish, your imagination is too rich." Nasriel couldn't stop the car with a smile. , even Irdan and Kelian showed some uncontrollable smiles.

Lu Shaoyu was annoyed all of a sudden, "What are you laughing at, if you don't float in the air, what kind of sky city is that?"

Seeing that Lu Shaoyu was annoyed, Heilong didn't dare to show the smile at the corner of his mouth. After adjusting his facial expression so that he didn't look like he wanted to laugh at all, he explained to Lu Shaoyu, "The word "floating in the sky" comes from the blue The place where the dragons live is the highest place on the Dolan Continent. There is an old saying that you can touch the sky with your hand, so it is named Sky City. Why do you think it is floating in the air? Nothing can be done without relying on anything And flying in the air, even mermaids who are good at magic can't do it at all."

Although the black dragon didn't show a smile at all, Lu Shaoyu felt that he was even more stupid after being explained in this way for no reason.

After all, in his opinion, such things as crossing can happen to him, what else can't happen, even if all the cave castles here are all floating in the air, he is not surprised at all, after a long time, it is just It's just that the price ratio is high. It's really boring.

By the way, wait... the geographical location is relatively high?Geographical location... relatively high? !

Lu Shaoyu straightened up suddenly, "Brother Long, won't it be covered by the rain in the rainy season if the geographical location is the highest?"

Heilong was stunned for a moment, and then nodded proudly with satisfaction. He knew that although he hadn't revealed anything to Lu Shaoyu, Lu Shaoyu had now figured it out based on just this one sentence.

"That is to say, the orcs are all staring at Sky City now?"

Black Dragon nodded again.

"Then don't we want to face them in the past now?"

The black dragon said "Yes", "Alsos may not come, but since the orcs agreed to join forces with him, Alsos must show some sincerity before joining forces, and the goal of the orcs is only Possibly Sky City."

In other words, not only might they meet the orcs, but they might also meet other green dragons.

This is really not good news.

Lu Shaoyu stroked his chin with his hand, and said to himself while thinking, "If the orcs reach the sky city before us, then we are likely to bump into their vanguard head-on, but in such a short time It is impossible for them to come with too many people, so if we cooperate well, we may be able to attack the people from Sky City inside and out. Once the vanguard is frustrated, no matter how much they are damaged at that time, it will definitely affect their morale. If the orcs catch up behind us, we can use the terrain of Sky City to take some defensive measures, so we probably won’t suffer, Brother Long, what do you think?”

The black dragon stroked Lu Shaoyu's calf twice with its tail in great satisfaction, relieved his excitement and said, "When I discussed it with Suoyinxili, he said the same thing."

Kelian widened his eyes in admiration. Although he also participated in the meeting, most of him was only responsible for listening and obeying. The profile is exactly the same as in the previous one, and I am almost in admiration.

Lu Shaoyu had no time to care about Clariant's star-worshipping eyes, and continued to ask, "Then what do you think? Which one is more suitable for insurance."

The black dragon pondered, "The second one is safer, and the first one is more suitable."

"reason?"

"You've said it. The battle hasn't fully started yet. We need an unexpected victory to dampen their morale."

Lu Shaoyu thought for a while and then clapped his hands excitedly, "Okay, then we don't have to hurry, we have a plan to delay the time, and we must let their vanguard go ahead of us."

"Well, but this time must be grasped carefully. If the troops are not the vanguard but the big ones, the situation will be a little troublesome."

Heilong explained that although this was a conversation with Lu Shaoyu, it was meant for Kelian and Nasriel. Kelian nodded solemnly, but Nasriel flicked his tail to indicate that he heard it.

"In this case, let's not hurry tonight and rest here."

Lu Shaoyu thought for a while and said, anyway, he was not in a hurry, so he didn't want to sleep on the black dragon's back so much at night when it was dark and windy.

Lu Shaoyu wanted to say something more to explain, but as soon as he finished speaking, Heilong agreed with a "huh".

Lu Shaoyu: ...

Although he was very happy that he didn't have to rush all night, why did he vaguely feel that the black dragon had been waiting for him all this time.

The author has something to say: Neltharion: The point is that I found two caves, and one of them has good sound insulation. ?(????ω????)?

Lu Shaoyu: ...(#‵′) Convex