Starborn Zero II: Tales of the Dragonmen

Gene's heart moved when he was surprised. Could it be that this patriarch knows someone from the dragon tribe?

There were whispers all around.The patriarch walked up to the two of them, his tall figure almost covering the fire behind him.Mo let out a wow in surprise, and raised his head to look at the old man in front of him curiously.

The patriarch sized Mo up and said affirmatively, "It's really rare, why are you here?"

Before Mo could speak, Jin couldn't help but speak first, "Do you know the people from the Dragon Race? Do you know where they live?"

The patriarch looked at Gene, "Are you...?"

"He is my spouse." Mo interrupted proudly.

The patriarch was obviously shocked again, and looked at Gene carefully, "You seem to be just an ordinary human race. Could it be that this dragon man was sacrificed to you?"

Genn understood that he must know something, and his tone was rarely polite, "I'm looking for his planet, please tell me what you know."

The patriarch stroked his white beard and hummed, looking up at the starry sky, as if he was looking for the memory of his long life.

"That happened when I was young, about 150 years ago. I drove the spaceship alone for the first time, and left the home planet to exchange items on other planets. At that time, the navigation of the spaceship was not a three-dimensional holographic system, but relied on I used the interstellar map and coordinates to navigate. I arrived at the destination according to the coordinates on the interstellar map, but found that there were two planets at the destination, but there was only one on the interstellar map.”

"It's because the interstellar map is too old, so it hasn't been updated?" an orc man couldn't help interjecting.

The patriarch smiled kindly, "I thought so too at the time, so I landed on one of them casually. After landing, I immediately felt that something was wrong, because I was going to a trading port, and that planet was full of dense forests. I saw commercial signs. I got out of the spaceship and walked around the vicinity without finding anything. I was about to return to the ship and leave. At that moment, loud voices and faint fires suddenly came from the depths of the dense forest. I was suddenly curious , took the weapon and walked over."

The orcs sitting around the campfire all stared wide-eyed, listening to the old patriarch's story.Mo also listened fascinated, completely unaware that he was talking about his own people.

"I walked to an open place deep in the dense forest. There were countless burning torches erected on the open place, and 3 to 40 Lizardmen were holding some kind of ceremony around there. They all had long silver hair and beautiful appearance, and the scales on their tails were even more beautiful. It is shiny silver and white, completely different from other lizards. In the center of the open ground, there is a huge door frame made of stones. Inside the door frame is a black bottomless space, which seems to be a portal."

"Use primitive stones to build the door frame, and there is a portal in the door frame. Is this backward or advanced?" The snake people around Gene couldn't help interjecting.

"I thought so too. It was an incredible sight. I quietly walked up to the two dragonmen standing in the back row. They seemed to be a couple. One of them saw me, but he didn't act xenophobically, just He motioned to me to be quiet. I asked him who they were and what they were doing here. He said they were dragon people who were offering sacrifices to a higher civilization."

"Sacrifice to a higher civilization?" Gene frowned, thinking about something secretly.

The patriarch hummed.

"After the ceremony lasted for a while, several dragonmen lifted out an egg. The egg was almost two meters high and looked no different from an ordinary reptile egg. They carried the egg into the portal, and the next moment, the egg disappeared into the In the black space. As the egg disappeared, the portal also disappeared, leaving only the door frame of the stone pile."

Everyone made a surprised sound.Mo was stunned when he heard it, and couldn't help raising his hand and asking loudly, "Where did the egg go?"

All eyes turned to Mo, as if saying, don't you know?Seeing that everyone was staring at him, Mo shrank back into Gene's arms in a panic.The patriarch cleared his throat and brought everyone's attention back.

"I also asked the dragon man the same question. He said that the egg was a person with an outstanding appearance and a gentle personality selected by the patriarch. If he married him to a high civilization, he could get the protection of a foreign race. From his tone, I heard that They sympathized with the people who were sacrificed but had to do so.”

The snake people couldn't help but glance at Mo in Jean's arms.He didn't seem to understand that he was also the one who was sacrificed, and he still snuggled into Jean's arms and listened fascinated.Genn listened to the patriarch's words, not letting go of the details in his words.

"You said that the patriarch chose a clan member with outstanding appearance and gentle personality. But that person is still in the egg, how can the patriarch know his future appearance and personality?"

The patriarch nodded, "You've got the point. I didn't think of it at the time, and later I felt something was wrong."

"And what happened?"

"At that time, I was afraid of being discovered by them, so I didn't dare to stay long and returned to the spaceship. When my spaceship left the planet and was about to go to the destination, I realized that it had deviated from the course by nearly [-] light-hours. I didn't have much supplies on board. So I dare not delay and fly desperately to the destination. When I fly to the destination, there is no difference between the vicinity and the interstellar map, there is only one planet."

Gene couldn't help shaking his heart, "So, their planets really move on the time axis?!"

The patriarch nodded, "I only stayed there for two hours, but I traveled a distance of more than a hundred light-hours invisibly."

Gene thought of Lear's experience.He lived on the dragon-human planet for 30 years, and he probably traveled hundreds of thousands or even millions of light-years invisibly, but he didn't know it.

"Did you see them again afterward?" Genn asked.

The patriarch shook his head, "I never saw their planet again after that. If I wasn't so impressed, I would really think it was a dream of mine."

After the patriarch finished speaking, he continued the monthly meeting of the orcs.Gene didn't listen to them, his mind running over his experiences.This also indirectly confirmed the rumors heard in the bar during the day that the martyrdom of the dragon people appeared in different galaxies.Because the universe is constantly expanding, all stars move positions at different times.And this kind of planet itself moves on the time axis, the moving distance will be more distant, and it may appear in different galaxies every few days.

When the moon meeting ended in the middle of the night, the person in Jean's arms had already sleepwalked in Duke Zhou.Jean had no choice but to carry him on his back and walk back with the snake people.On the way back, Jean heard from the snake people that there were some empty caves in this residential area.It was dug by the residents who lived here before, and it was empty when they couldn't hold it. This is a very common thing in nature.

Gene intentionally left Mo here, and instead of returning to the ship, he found a recently vacated cave with the help of the snake people.This was the home of a Lizard before, and the grass nest inside was still intact.Jin put Mo into the grass nest, took off his clothes and put it under his body, and slept like this all night.This night, Mo slept deeply as usual, but Jin didn't fall asleep much.Although he refused to admit it, but when he thought of leaving him here alone, he couldn't let it go.

However, it is his duty to protect the safety of the entire ship and carry out the mission of the empire.

dawn time

Jin had just closed his eyes, and the people around him had already woken up.When Mo woke up and found that he was sleeping in a nest, he was naturally jumping up and down with excitement.Gene closed his eyes, listening to Mo going out and coming back again and again, wondering what he was up to.After he recovered after a short rest, he was surprised to find that there was an extra grass nest beside him.Mo was sitting in the new nest, humming an unknown tune and tidying up the edge of the nest.

Seeing that Gene woke up, he pounced on him and kissed Gene first, then patted the new nest triumphantly, "This is Gene's."

"This is my nest?" Gene felt uncomfortable.

"Yeah!" Mo said naturally, "I really like this place. Before we leave this planet, shall we all live here?"

Gene had no way to answer, but simply hummed.He then stood up and patted the grass on his body, then took out some gold coins.

"Mo, are you hungry?"

Mo nodded vigorously, then looked at the gold coin in his hand, not understanding what he was doing with something he couldn't eat.

"From now on, you have to learn to exchange gold coins for food." Gene said and handed him a gold coin.

Mo looked at this heavy and hard thing with disgust, and he wanted to return it to Gene, "Jin, I'm hungry..."

"Take it!" Genn snapped.

Mo pursed his mouth and withdrew his hand, holding the gold coin and looking at him aggrievedly.

"Come on, let's change things."

Gene took his hand and they left the nest together.He took him to the trading house and asked him to exchange gold coins for meat and clothes.Mo was reluctant at first, flicking his tail and begging to hug him to death, but Jin decided to do it himself.In the end, Mo had no choice but to do as he said, and returned to the den with a bunch of exchanged things.When the two returned to the nest, the snake people just saw them from a distance.Seeing Mo Hong holding his things wrongedly and following Gene back, the snake tribe seemed to understand what was going on, and left quietly without going to say hello.

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Styler Galaxy, Santa Nata City

In the early morning, Kleedrich got up just after dawn.After the first week of estrus, his physical reactions have eased a lot.The reason for getting up so early is because today is the day when Rhine returned from a visit.In the past week, Rhine came back to spend the night almost every other day, which made Kleedrich both distressed and moved.

He changed his clothes after taking a shower in the morning, and then asked the housekeeper to wait for Rhine to have breakfast together.Only then was the butler informed that Rhine was called by the emperor to the palace to report on his visit.Kleedrich was a little surprised. Although the report on the visit was indeed a routine matter, he didn't understand why he didn't even return to the palace in such a hurry.The butler explained that the emperor wanted to have breakfast with Rhine before talking about family matters. Kleedrich had no reason to doubt, so he had breakfast alone and continued to use Rhine's study to digest some unfinished work.