Chapter 637: The Ancestor's Gift (26)

This was the first time in Luo Qi's life he had been carried around like a sack, and he indignantly wanted to ask Du Zhengyi if he might as well just chain him up to make it more convenient, perhaps even engrave something on a collar, maybe the popular Taobao style: "Don't eat me, my dad is rich, call him to ransom me!" But the moment he opened his mouth, Du Zhengyi seemed to guess everything and made him shut it, leaving him no choice but to bury his head and focus on moving forward.

They were moving at a high speed, with the only human being carried on the back of Majiang. Liu Ziyi had likely used some sort of custom-made Magic, allowing her to keep up with the group in a strange, leaping posture while simultaneously busy using a large amount of Magic. Ten meters of Motion Capture Magic was indeed of little help to a Mage; Battle Mages had extremely sharp hearing, and Luo Qi suspected they could detect anomalies within that range using their own Perception Magic. If a Battle Mage couldn't detect something by instinct, Liu Ziyi's Magic probably wouldn't find it either; no wonder Du Zhengyi was unwilling to wait.

But regardless, no matter how Luo Qi felt inside, and no matter how Liu Ziyi kept up her... constructive complaining, they successfully passed through several corridors. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. There were no major changes in the places they passed through; the Seal Land along the way were awakened one by one by Du Zhengyi, but the decoration style of all the corridors seemed to be of a standard type, so everyone was no longer as shocked as they were at the beginning by the art exclusive to Mages.

Less than two hundred meters from their destination, Du Zhengyi suddenly stopped and loosened his grip on Luo Qi's collar. Luo Qi immediately wanted to stretch, but in the next second, the Magic of all the Battle Mages and a portion of the Lotus Burners surged together; Luo Qi smelled the scent of them being ready to unleash Offensive Magic at any moment.

"Don't stop!" Du Zhengyi suddenly made a judgment and moved forward quickly again.

Luo Qi was grabbed by the collar once more. He chuckled, finding amusement in his misery, and said to the other Mages nearby, "You see, in human terms, this is what I call a moving transfer."

Du Zhengyi did not understand his strange talk and completely excluded his mouth from his Yajian. They continued forward for less than a hundred meters when Du Zhengyi suddenly stopped again. Luo Qi didn't see anything, and specifically, he didn't hear anything either, but he smelled a faint scent of blood in the air. Someone sneezed, and Luo Qi's easily distracted brain even turned back to see who was so sensitive. Just then, a strange shadow appeared at the end of the corridor. His Yajian split in two, simultaneously seeing a sneaky, massive shadow and a sneezing Guan Xinyue. Luo Qi froze for a moment, unable to tell which side had caused his Yajian to pause in surprise.

Luo Qi didn't see clearly what that strange thing was; in an instant, he only vaguely extracted a few characteristics: a giant creature two people tall, its width blocking most of the corridor, and scales that didn't reflect much light. With such a massive size and heavy weight, it was surprisingly sneaky, and its movements were extremely agile. It glanced at them in the corridor and then flashed back around the corner to lie in wait. Luo Qi secretly hoped that this behavior was because it was naturally sissy, rather than because this thing actually had enemies, which had led to such a cunning behavioral pattern. Luo Qi hoped from the bottom of his heart that this was the one that had eaten the eight people, and that there wouldn't be any enemies of this thing that they needed to deal with.

"What is this?" Luo Qi couldn't help but ask in a low voice. "Have you seen it before?"

Yan Hao answered from the side, "No, I haven't seen this kind of Seal Beast in Qionglin. It feels okay; it shouldn't be harder to deal with than Qiongqi."

"This thing is several times the size of Qiongqi, right? How can you tell it's not hard to deal with?" Luo Qi asked, but at least for now, the thing didn't look crazy; it didn't have the desperate, reckless aggressiveness he was worried about. Some animals always think they are cunning, but standing in front of humans, relying on wits definitely won't work, especially when facing Mage humans who are as fierce as wild beasts. However, for the sake of safety, Luo Qi felt he should communicate more. He turned his head to ask the Lotus Burner, "Leader Zhao, you have extensive experience in this area; have you ever seen a Seal Beast like this?"

Zhao Jiaozhu shook his head, his expression somewhat grave, "Never seen one."

"Tch."

An impatient sound came from the crowd. Luo Qi saw Guan Xinyue poke her head out from behind Majiang, looking at him sarcastically, "Give it a rest, Luo Qi, are you blind? They don't recognize it, and you don't either?"

"What?" Luo Qi said in surprise, "Is it a relative of mine?"

His wit didn't improve Guan Xinyue's foul mood; her eyes narrowed, "That's a dinosaur, for God's sake! Don't you recognize it? Have you been assimilated by ignorant Mages? They don't recognize it, and you don't either? Don't tell me you're not a Jurassic Park fan; you'd practically want to sleep while hugging it!"

Luo Qi was stunned. Those characteristics surfaced in his mind again, piecing together an image, and he felt somewhat confused. Something he had never imagined encountering suddenly appeared—something he had only seen in concept art, where there is always a gap between the buyer's show and the seller's show—suddenly appeared. He hadn't even considered that possibility.

"Lord Ye loves dragons," he heard Guan Xinyue say. "Which of you Mages is going to pull the monster? Fighting a dinosaur that can't breathe fire shouldn't be hard, right? It's not particularly huge; maybe at this size, it's still a baby, and its teeth haven't even grown out yet."

Majiang, who was still keeping her safely on his back, suddenly said, "Wait, Xinyue. What are you saying? What did you see? How could you see it? Even Luo Qi didn't see it clearly, and he is a Mage; his eyesight is much better than yours. You... you must have seen it wrong."

Guan Xinyue closed her mouth, and Luo Qi didn't speak either. He looked confusedly at the end of the corridor; it was empty now, and that cunning beast hadn't shown itself. Everything did indeed feel a bit like Jurassic Park. That thing—he knew Guan Xinyue was right—that thing should be a dinosaur, or... to take a step back, a creature extremely similar to a dinosaur. Now that creature was cunningly waiting at the other end of the corridor; that empty area was like its hunting ground, and everything felt eerily ominous.

Du Zhengyi was beside him, also frowning at Guan Xinyue, but he didn't say anything. Yan Hao didn't like this atmosphere and was the first to break the awkwardness he didn't care much about, "I'll go; no matter what that is, I'm sure I'll have no problem."

Wen Lin also stepped forward, fearless, "Add me to that; I'm so curious about this brand-new Seal Beast. After all, we Mages who follow Venerable Fan have seen our fair share of Seal Beasts."

Perhaps not wanting to be outdone, or perhaps to prove their stance on this matter, the Lotus Burners also had a Mage step out. Luo Qi stood silently beside Du Zhengyi, waiting for what was about to happen.

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When reading the comments today, I saw that some friends were confused about the inconsistent descriptions of Luo Qi's appearance. So, let me explain: it's actually like this. Luo Qi's appearance is not outstanding among Mages. The setting is that almost all Mages are bug-like in their tall, well-proportioned, and handsome appearance, while Luo Qi's height is below average, and his looks are not remarkable among Mages. The later descriptions of Luo Qi's appearance are mainly from the perspective of the human girl who has a crush on him; from her perspective, Luo Qi is not short and is very good-looking. Du Zhengyi's perspective of him is one of favoritism, thinking he is very cute; this is his subjective evaluation. Other Mages turned a blind eye to him before he became famous, and their perspectives after he became famous have a utilitarian character, and the dashing image of him acting recklessly after breaking his shackles makes him more charming than before. In the setting, there are many Mages who are better looking than him, including Du Zhengyi, and Wusu, who is so beautiful it's unbearable.

(End of chapter)