Starborn Zero II: Tales of the Dragonmen

"You heartless guy." Gene couldn't help scolding him with a smile, "You've been here for at least ten years, even if you've been in the egg all the time, you don't feel anything at all?"

Mo blinked, and suddenly jumped up from the chair, without sleepiness, "This is my planet?!"

Gene smiled, "Do you want to meet your kind?"

Mo nodded vigorously, "I want to see you, I want to introduce Jin to them!"

Gene looked at the time and gave Rodney an order, "During the night, the crew will be on duty in shifts. Five hours later, at dawn, organize the mecha team to move in batches."

five hours later in the morning

The door of the mothership's mech opened wide, and the roar of the mecha resounded throughout the dense forest. The 12 mechas were divided into three groups, and after leaving the mothership, they roared in different directions.At the same time, a small airship also left the mothership.Because Mo can't pilot the mecha, Gene specially arranged for him, himself and Rodney to take the airship.Nightmare and Dragon Knight switch to the artificial intelligence driving state to accompany them, so as to avoid special situations on the way that require fighting.

airship

Mo pressed his whole face against the glass window, looking at everything below the airship with ecstasy.The endless dense forests, rivers, hills, and waterfalls are like the scene of the Garden of Eden.This is his hometown, although he has no impression of it, but he deeply likes this place.He couldn't help but imagine how wonderful it would be if one day he could live with his spouse in this beautiful nature.

"Command ship, this is Exploration Team 1, and no biological signs have been found yet. It's over."

"Exploration Team 1, this is the command ship, continue the cruise mission. Finished."

"Command ship, this is Exploration Team 2, and no biological signs have been found yet. It's over."

"Exploration Team 2, this is the command ship, continue the cruise mission. Finished."

The airship broadcasts the communication between each team and the Red Giant Star in real time, and the three exploration teams have not found anything.Gene and Rodney couldn't help but glance at each other.The teams are conducting biological scans. Even if they can't find the dragon people, they should be able to find traces of other creatures, unless this is the same as the previous B23-Beta asteroid.

"Captain, will the dragon people here also..." Thinking of the cannibalism he saw before, Rodney couldn't help but feel lingering fear.He deliberately lowered his voice so that Mo could not hear him.

Gene shook his head, "I once consulted Donald. He said that with the tiny degree of B23-Beta, cannibalism is due to the scarcity of resources caused by geographical restrictions, and it is a normal law of nature in that environment. The surface area here is wide and the temperature Appropriate, it stands to reason that there should be more species, and there will be no cannibalism."

"But last night and this morning, we explored for at least three hours and didn't even find a single ant. Isn't this too strange?" Rodney couldn't hold back his doubts.

Gene said nothing.Looking at the beautiful scenery outside like a landscape painting, he always felt that something was weird.He turned his eyes to Mo again, he was still looking out of the window with great interest, and didn't notice that Gene was looking at him.

"Captain, what are you going to do if we can't find the dragon people?" Rodney followed his gaze, and his eyes fell on Mo.

Jin understood what he meant, "Unless he finds his clan, meets his patriarch, and entrusts him to their care safely. Otherwise, I won't leave him here alone."

Rodney nodded after listening.Many people on board thought that Mo was an orc born in human society and accustomed to human civilization.If he was suddenly sent to another strange civilization, even if he was surrounded by the same kind, he might not be able to survive.But Rodney was not as worried as the others on the ship, because he had already felt Gene's feelings for Mo.

"Actually, it's good if you can't find the dragon people." Rodney obviously had something to say, "Now that Mo is not yet a real adult, wait a few years for a beautiful woman with a sign of completion, and it is estimated that someone will be beaten to death by then. Let him go."

Gene kicked the sofa he was sitting on, "Are you looking for punishment, you are on duty for the night shift in the command room this week!"

"Yes!" Rodney saluted exaggeratedly, "The captain has beauties in bed every day, and the night shift must be a bachelor on duty."

"Still shut up..." Gene pretended to be annoyed and wanted to beat him up.At this moment, Mo suddenly yelled loudly, pointing down not far away, "Look there!"

Gene stopped immediately, and Rodney and Rodney looked in the direction of Mo Zhi.A small hill appeared ahead, and rows of short trees with slender leaves hanging low to the ground were planted on the hillside.Many of the trees had something wrapped in their leaves, as if bearing fruit.This place is obviously different from other natural scenery. Each row of trees is arranged neatly and uniformly, which is obviously man-made.

"Go to the front and land!" Gene immediately notified the airship cab.

The airship descended steadily and finally stopped at the foot of the hill.The three got off the airship and immediately noticed a faint fragrance in the air.The fragrance smelled like the woody fragrance of trees, shallow and distant, and the source was obviously the trees on the hillside.They walked quickly along the mountain road, and when they arrived nearby, they couldn't help being stunned by the sight in front of them.

"This is...the place where the dragon people died for love?!"

What I just saw rolled in the leaves in the low sky is the mummified corpse of a member of the Dragon Race.Those corpses did not decompose, but lost their moisture and kept their original appearance.Most of those mummified corpses were obviously old, probably because their partner passed away when they were old, so they came here to kill themselves.Their expressions are very serene, some seem to have smiles on their lips, and they don't feel any fear of death.

"Captain, that one seems to have died not long ago." Rodney noticed something and pointed to a nearby tree.

There was a dragon man sitting under the tree.His appearance was vivid and he hadn't turned into a mummy yet, and he seemed to have been dead for a day or two.He sat under the tree with a calm expression, resting his head on the trunk as if he was asleep.He looked young for his age, and his handsome face was lifelike.Genn looked at the tree. Some of its leaves had reached the corpse's feet, but hadn't wrapped him up yet.

"Maybe these trees secrete some kind of substance, which acts as a preservative. After they die, the trees hang down their leaves to wrap them up, absorbing nutrients and water while drying the corpses." Jean speculated.

"These trees won't secrete some substance to induce them to die in love?" Rodney suddenly thought of a terrible possibility, and shuddered a little.

"But at least they should come here voluntarily." Genn shook his head.Although he didn't know whether this kind of sacrifice for love was due to biological instinct or ethnic culture, but it was still a bit extreme in his opinion to die for love at such a young age.Even if the imprinting behavior on the spouse prevents them from finding a new spouse, can't they live alone?

He breathed a sigh of relief, "Mo, you don't want to learn from him, in the future you will be... Mo?!"

Only then did they realize that Mo was not by their side.The two hurried back to search on the way back, walked all the way down the hill, and finally found him at the foot of the hill.This is the entrance to the Land of Sacrifice, and you have not stepped into the boundary of the Land of Sacrifice.Mo stood in front of a sheltered cave at the foot of the hill, staring blankly at it.

Gene and Rodney rushed to his side.Rodney was about to call him when Gene stopped him with a shh gesture.Following Mo's gaze, he saw that the cave was just a shallow stone pit, empty of nothing.But Mo was fascinated, as if he was looking at something they couldn't see.His expression was shocked and sad, and the tears were streaming down his cheeks without realizing it.

"Mo." Gene called him softly.

Mo didn't hear it, and there were still tears streaming down his eyes.

Genn gently lifted his shoulders and turned him around.When Mo saw Gene in front of him, he was obviously surprised.He looked from cave to Genn, as if for a moment he couldn't tell which was illusion and which was reality.

"Mo, what did you see?" Gene guessed that he might have seen something that would happen in the future, just like when he was in Murloc Harbor.

Hearing his words, Mo realized that what was in front of him was the reality.He grabbed Gene sharply and shouted in panic, "Jean, let's get out of here. I don't want to stay here!"

"Mo, calm down, what happened?" Rodney was even more confused, looking at him and asked.

"Jin, let's go back quickly, I don't want to stay here!" Mo left a word without thinking, and turned around and ran to the airship alone.The two looked in surprise at Mo, who even Jinn had left behind.Gene decided to leave a few locators nearby, and returned to the airship with Rodney.

The airship took off again and headed back towards the mothership.Along the way, Mo has been curled up in Jean's arms.Gene asked him several times, but he just hid his face and said nothing.Jean suspected that he saw something bad, and ordered the exploration teams to speed up their exploration, and to find a hidden place to leave a locator before returning to the mothership.

three hours later

Three groups of exploration teams returned to the mothership on time.Together, the three teams flew nearly one-fifth of the entire planet's area, but did not find any trace of living things.After learning the results, Gene and Rodney agreed that the most likely explanation was that the Dragonoids had foreseen their arrival and hid in a hidden location in advance.But how they managed to hide all living things in a watertight way, the two were puzzled.Gene looked at Mo beside him. After he came back, he kept hugging Gene tightly and didn't let go and didn't speak, as if he was frightened by something.He calculated the time again, and the red giant star had already stayed here for 12 hours.According to the experience of the elders of the snake clan, they don't know how far they have deviated from the route, and they may have been in another galaxy long ago.

"Set sail and leave here." Gene decided to end the exploration.

A few minutes later, the mothership lifted off, leaving the atmosphere and returning to the dark universe.After leaving the planet's atmosphere, Rodney prepared to reset the course on the interstellar map, but the positioning results made him unable to believe his eyes.

"Captain, not only have we not deviated from the course, the planet has not moved at all!"