Chapter 663: NO．32：Xiao Lin Li Qi: I I I I really can come!

NO．32：Xiao Lin Li Qi: I I I I really can come?

Such a topic shift is effective for the vast majority of people in that team.

But it is ineffective on that human investigator who is clearly familiar with her.

True friends always seize your embarrassing moment and press the advantage, trying to turn a momentary awkwardness into a deeper shared memory, but before that person's teasing voice could sound, they instead saw an expression of disbelief on the other's face, as if witnessing something shocking.

"Team... Team Captain, this is what you and Trainer Linton mentioned..."

"Ren Dragon... Actually I'm not too sure..."

Gazing at the massive dragon head emerging from the pool water, with countless streams still flowing down its sinuous form, the leader of the geological survey team also showed a similar expression of astonishment and shock.

This led Aomo to guess that she perhaps had little interaction with 'people' like Nian, Xi, and Miss Yela, and that the 'Duoli' she mentioned had also never demonstrated any such power.

But even though the shocked expression lasted only two seconds, she had already turned her head to look at the three assistants of the science expedition team, while shouting:

"Mr. Linton!"

This is for Aomo to fulfill the duty of academic advisor, to make a judgment on that distant object.

"It is indeed a dragon, but it may not be a Ren Dragon, because its appearance differs from the entity I have in mind, at least..."

Upon noticing the other's outline, Aomo, who had closed the book *Evolutionary Biology of Organisms*, gazed at the long neck and dragon head resembling a plesiosaur, and slightly narrowed his eyes.

Comparing with the leather suit style retrieved from the memory folder, he easily reached a conclusion: "The facial features and double horns of that dragon head show clear differences, only the dragon jade above the brow is the same, and strictly speaking, Ren Dragon should also have eight long tails..."

Seeing that the face remained dignified, but the horns were not like the metallic upright double horns in his memory, instead resembling more the deer-antler-like forked dragon heads of the Dongyan Dragon in his impression, Aomo had not finished speaking when he heard the sound of rushing water.

The empathetic first-person AR even simulated the suddenly laid water droplets as blue light points, causing him to close his mouth on the following words.

"Um, you said the tail is..."

"That's correct," Aomo raised his hand—not to push his glasses, but to pinch the bridge of his nose—gazing at the eight differently shaped dragon heads protruding behind the other's massive dragon head, "It seems that the appearance of Ren Dragon nurtured in different dragon veins will also vary."

——

Ren Dragon, first appearing in *Gaia Ultraman* as an ancient monster.

On its head is a dragon jade symbolizing majesty, and on its legs are auspicious cloud patterns—on Gaia's set, four monster suits have similar patterns designed, corresponding to the Four Sacred Beasts in Dongyan mythology.

Ren Dragon is clearly occupying the position of the Azure Dragon, and in the actual setting, it was once an ancient deity worshipped, its power drawn from the aid of the earth veins, its appearance due to humanity's overdevelopment of groundwater severing the earth veins, and it thus had two appearances.

The first was as a warning, severing the so-called lifelines of Tokyo humans (referring to water, electricity, coal, communications) and forcing the earth veins to recover.

The second was when humans, without any remorse, attempted to attack it underground with weapons, whereupon it became utterly enraged, surged to the surface, and drew up groundwater to flood all of Tokyo.

It is a monster that Gaia Ultraman finds hard to match in strength (at that time, SV had not yet been unlocked), with eight tails ending in dragon heads behind it, capable of flexible attacks, biting, and even spitting fireballs and beams.

It can also release powerful psychic force to immobilize opponents, even levitating them in midair, and its own scale armor shell can withstand Gaia Ultraman's beams.

Moreover—it will also deploy shields!

Using a water-wave-like barrier to cancel out the opponent's attack, just this one act of consciously deploying a shield has already won against many Ultramen (x).

Ren Dragon is such a uniquely positioned monster, coming for the protection of the earth veins, and likewise like an incarnation of the earth veins.

The way it retreated in that battle was not Gaia's victory through combat, but rather being soothed by a human woman who could communicate with it, entrusted with the task of guarding the earth, and given to Gaia.

Worth mentioning is that this shaman-like human woman is a Feng Shui Master.

It is undoubtedly an incarnation of the earth veins, and likewise another kind of will of the earth, ultimately once standing shoulder to shoulder with Gaia Ultraman and Aguru Ultraman against external foes, possessing the ability to command other native earth monsters.

Therefore, its name in human records is: LandEmperorMonsterMizunoenoDragon.

Land Emperor Monster Ren Dragon, also known as the Great Monster Emperor Mizunoeno Ryuu.

MizunoenoRyuu/MizunoenoRyuu, in Dongyan grammar corresponding to Dongyan characters: 'Ren' and 'Dragon', plus an unwritten 'no'.

Few know that Ren Dragon was originally conceived by the screenwriter as a squid-like monster.

But because the theme of that episode was dragon veins, it was changed into a dragon upon the special effects director's proposal, and the design of eight tails once led many to speculate it also contained elements of the Yamata no Orochi.

However, in fact, Ren is the ninth heavenly stem, so Ren Dragon actually refers to a nine-headed dragon.

And the above are all its data from *Gaia Ultraman*.

But when such an existence appears in the north of Dongyan, at the beginning of the dragon veins at Changbai Mountain, how will it be?

This question, unlike those present at the scene who are not very calm geological survey personnel, for Aomo, who faces no pressure behind a screen, was answered in a book of *Folklore Transmission*.

"Good afternoon! Guinea Pig! What are you busy with?"

Even having flipped for a while, the horse girl who was originally waiting has already waited long enough, now curiously leaning over his open book, after Aomo glanced at her, she immediately closed the anti-peeping mode.

This allowed Ailisuzhi to also see the magnificent scene before the Tianchi of Changbai Mountain—or rather, simply just like the early rumor of the 'Changbai Mountain Water Monster'.

A colossal beast with a long neck is soaking its body below the head in the water, if not for the dragon head being too overt, one could almost promote it as a new tourism slogan: 'Prehistoric Plesiosaur Restored'.

But frankly speaking, Changbai Mountain has always been one of the highlights of Dongyan tourism, especially Tianchi, which always draws many visitors.

But this time, Aomo saw nothing from their perspective...

"Ah, because the climate of Changbai Mountain has been abnormal recently, the local Environmental Management Bureau already closed the tourism window two weeks ago, by the way, is this your subordinate's horse girl?"

"Hello~ I am Ailisuzhi." She unexpectedly made a normal greeting, Ailisuzhi's reaction causing Aomo to glance sideways slightly.

He then met the gaze of the former's slightly shifting eyes, bound by the light grid, dark red pupils.

The horse girl's face still bore the smile from greeting, quite dangerous.

But on the other end of the screen, seemingly unaware, it responded seriously: "Hello, I am Adel. Naumann, trouble your trainer to accompany us in the investigation, hoping not to hinder your training."

"Small matter~ Anyway, Guinea Pig's recent training arranged by you is all boring," saying this made Aomo raise his eyebrow, while Suzi also glanced at Aomo's reaction at the same moment, then immediately looked back at the screen, "Then are you researching that monster?"

"Um... Lord Ren Dragon is Duoli's friend, we are also not monster researchers, we study volcanic lake conditions."

"Oh oh, you are measuring that guy's bathwater?"

"... Yes."

"I see, then what are you responsible for, Guinea Pig?"

"Responsible for calling you to do a demonstration, you and Bourbon, Chazuo are all interested in monster power, right? You can remotely view the real thing." Aomo handed over a book *Archaeology* to the other, expressionless.

He then immediately turned back to the book still resting on his legs, and resumed explaining to the 'little lamb' on the screen:

"In Feng Shui, there is the saying of the Nine Dragon Forms, used to explain the nine postures in the dragon veins: Returning Dragon, Outgoing Dragon, Descending Dragon, Arising Dragon, Flying Dragon, Coiling Dragon, Hidden Dragon, Soaring Dragon, Leading the Group Dragon—in Feng Shui, dragon refers to mountain, dragon vein refers to the mountain's orientation, the above roughly correspond respectively to the nine heads of Ren Dragon's dragon vein."

"And each head should have a different temperament… Actually, I think it's better to observe the condition of those dragon heads—it seems they're communicating with each other. If you have the courage, you can try to communicate directly with It, find the head that looks easiest to talk to."

"Uh… why don't you come?" the investigator who had already transformed into a burly werewolf form asked.

The bristling appearance was enough to prove the pressure from Renlong before.

Although Renlong actually didn't pay much attention to them.

The fields of vision of all nine heads only glanced over at the beginning, then easily retreated back.

"I think it won't work."

"Does Trainer Lin Dun also find it arrogant?" someone asked in a lowered voice.

That was the merfolk-hybrid investigator, who had just withdrawn his hand holding a test tube from the water, cautiously gazing at the distant dragon head that was snorting, then stepping slowly toward this side's camp.

"I just feel It is probably wary of me, because I've always had the sensation of being watched by It."

"Now? It's probably an illusion. It isn't looking this way with any of Its eyes."

"Not an illusion," the official assistant who had been drowsy all along suddenly interjected, "It is even watching us, with Its third eye on the main head."

"That dragon pearl?"

"Exactly, the dragon's pearl and beads are Their source of power."

"Indeed, but why would It look at you?"

"Because…" that person fell silent for a moment.

Aomo spoke up: "I think it's due to negative energy, or resentment, or evil qi—whatever it is, it's a kind of energy. Any sensitive living being wouldn't like it, and deities naturally even less so."

"If that's the case… should we try turning off the communications, then ask the three to retreat a bit?" Adele clearly followed the words from this side, and also possessed extraordinary decisiveness.

This also left Aomo somewhat speechless:

"... I think you shouldn't personally go forward to communicate."

"If this could clarify the cause of the abnormal situation at Changbai Mountain, I can summon the courage to try. I also want to speak with Doli's friends."

"A friend's friend doesn't necessarily become a friend…" Gazing at the other's earnest gaze, Aomo sighed, raised a hand to adjust his forehead, then raised a hand to draw a line on the light screen beside him, "Like this, give me ten minutes—I'll try to contact a suitable person, hoping not to delay her class."

"Who? It couldn't be Xiao Lin Li Qi, could it?"

Although unfamiliar with Renlong, having just heard Aomo mention feng shui, and when mentioning this, Ailisuzhi recalled her roommate mentioning that morning's commotion caused by the feng shui guinea pig.

"Without a doubt."

"You don't even ask her if she wants to come, and just worry about what class?"

"I guess, I guess she wouldn't not want to come."