Chapter 288: As expected of the Demon King, this is too much of a stretch!

One egg left in the fridge?

Hearing Hearing You You's call, Luo Yan was surprised and walked quickly into the next room.

When he passed through the open cabin door, he only saw Hearing You You's round body reflected on the smooth glass mirror.

That guy was currently floating back and forth around a streamlined metal box like a happy jellyfish.

A layer of faint frost was on the transparent glass cabin lid, and from the appearance alone, this thing looked somewhat similar to the life support pod in the next room.

It's just that what was lying inside was not a living thing, but an egg the size of a washbasin!

Luo Yan approached to observe, only to see that the surface of the pale gray eggshell was covered with dense scale textures.

His face changed slightly.

There could be no mistake—

This is a dragon egg!

Or to use the academic terminology of the Zeta Empire, this is a "D-7447 meat lizard egg."

"Incredible... this egg seems to be still alive!" Hearing You You circled around the hibernation pod, its voice full of excitement.

"Indeed... this hibernation equipment actually worked for 1000 years without power failure. It seems the technology of the Zeta Empire far exceeded our imagination."

Luo Yan nodded slightly, full of amazement.

Just as he reached out toward the interface suspected to be a touch screen, intending to lift the hibernation and recycle this rare magic material, Hearing You You beside him suddenly called out in surprise again.

"Wait a minute!"

"What's wrong?" Luo Yan subconsciously withdrew his hand and cast a questioning gaze at Hearing You You.

Hearing You You floated close to the dragon egg and flew around it twice, seemingly to see it more clearly.

After a while, it returned to Luo Yan's side, its voice revealing a trace of incredible surprise.

"Demon King... there seems to be a soul attached to this egg!"

Attached soul?

On this egg?

Luo Yan's eyes were even more surprised.

"Are you sure?"

"Mmhmm! Absolutely can't be wrong!" Hearing You You nodded its abstract head excitedly, chattering, "It's curled up inside the yolk, I almost didn't notice it!"

Luo Yan's brow furrowed slightly, a cautious expression rising in his eyes, staring at the pale gray egg and falling into thought.

This is indeed a bit strange.

According to the theory he learned at the Demon King Academy, "nascent souls" often form gradually during the growth process after birth, and are not there as soon as they are born.

The specific time node is usually after learning to speak, and there are very few before that.

After this time node, people's memories become continuous, like code written in the brain being activated, humanity begins to outweigh animality, and the soul and flesh are completely grown together, and only death can separate them.

This is the so-called first reincarnation, or first time being a human.

Such people often have strong "NPC attributes," the advantage is that there are no grievances from previous lives, they won't be entangled by the causality of reincarnation, but the disadvantage is also very obvious, such as not being skilled at being a human for the first time, such as having a weak sense of existence because they have just established causality with this world, and can only make up a decimal point in the army.

Whether it is the Empire or Hell, the vast majority of humans and goblins are actually reincarnating for the first time, and they only have this one chance to reincarnate, and only souls favored by Demon Gods, Saint Xisi, or other gods can reincarnate again.

And this brings us to the second situation—

That is reincarnation.

Compared to nascent souls, the situation of reincarnation is varied. Some souls have already grown together with the fetus while still in the womb, and some have the souls of the second reincarnation grow together with the nascent souls after birth before the nascent souls have grown up.

Luo Yan himself belongs to the latter.

And perhaps because of the subspace smuggling, he neither drank the "Mengpo Soup" on the Earth side, nor washed away his memories in the reincarnation pool of this world, but directly integrated into the new body with the memories of his previous life.

It seems Lin Te Isaac is also in this situation.

And the soul in this dragon egg, it is clearly belonging to the former—a reincarnated soul that has grown together with a fertilized egg that has not yet nurtured a soul.

This guy is not being a dragon for the first time!

But reincarnated!

"But are there giant dragons on the Gana Continent?" Luo Yan pondered, looking at Hearing You You and continuing to ask, "Or... is it a magical beast? Gustav's diary seems to have mentioned that giant dragons and magical beasts share a soul reincarnation pool."

Hearing You You, floating in the air, hesitated for a moment and said.

"Although that's what's said, but... are the magical beasts on the Gana Continent very weak? If they are low-level creatures, they shouldn't be able to reincarnate into fantasy species like giant dragons."

Speaking of this, Hearing You You also felt strange.

From this perspective, it is absolutely impossible for a soul to reside in a dragon egg on the Gana Continent.

Under normal circumstances, only after this dragon egg hatches can it slowly accumulate faith power based on the Ankylosaurus tribe's faith in the Dragon God on the Gana Continent, eventually becoming a giant dragon in mythology...

And given the thin extraordinary power on the Gana Continent, it doesn't exclude the possibility that its soul can never grow to match the flesh, eventually becoming a meat lizard with the title of giant dragon.

Luo Yan frowned slightly, carefully observing the dragon egg suspected of nurturing a soul.

And just at this moment, an unbelievable possibility flashed through his mind—

"It's not impossible."

Hearing You You looked at him quickly.

Luo Yan paused and continued.

"If the soul attached to this dragon egg is Gustav's own, everything makes sense."

"Ah?!" Hearing You You widened its abstract eyes, "This... is such a thing possible?!"

The Dragon God reincarnated into a dragon.

No—

Hearing You You suddenly stopped.

Just as the Demon King said, it's not impossible.

Personality and divinity have never been unified, but can be separated... it seems the Dragon God is also like this.

The one who became a god is the Dragon God.

The one who died is Gustav.

And all the Dragon God's believers believe that the Dragon God is the father of all giant dragons, and even the Dragon God Himself claims to be so.

When His divinity ascended to the sky, the remaining humanity naturally returned to the reincarnation pool He created with His own hands. He couldn't become a lizardman, and the only place He could go seemed to be this one!

Luo Yan's mouth couldn't help but raise a strange smile.

From Gustav's diary, he could clearly feel the guy's dislike for "meat lizards" between the lines, and now this guy has reincarnated into the thing He disliked the most, having to replay the game He played to death in His previous life as a chess piece in the game.

What an irony.

Luo Yan had no intention of mocking a guy he had never met, just purely felt that this matter was ridiculous, and its drama was like someone who had eaten pork all his life turning into a pig.

I don't know if this guy has memories of his previous life like him.

Obviously thinking the same as Luo Yan, Hearing You You, who loves to watch the excitement, was full of enthusiasm and excitedly instigated.

"Demon King! Let's hatch it! Hatch the Dragon God, this, this is a once-in-a-thousand-year opportunity!"

"You don't need to tell me that," Luo Yan raised a belly-black smile, "I'm just short of a mount that can fly."

Captain of the research ship from the Zeta Empire... there shouldn't be a cooler mount on this planet.

He swore.

He definitely wasn't doing it because he was curious about the expression on Gustav's face when he saw his new body, so he planned to hatch this dragon egg.

The only problem now is that he hasn't hatched an egg, and doesn't know how to hatch this thing.

But it shouldn't be a difficult thing.

The library of the Padriqi family has enough rich knowledge for him to borrow, and if it really doesn't work, he can ask Professor Lilith or Lady Aidonia.

"This archaeology is really a big profit... but I don't know how to hatch this thing either, let's take it back first, and ask someone when we return to Hell."

"Mmhmm!"

Hearing You You circled around the dragon egg happily, seemingly unable to wait to see the little dragon break out of the shell.

Luo Yan shook his head with a smile, fumbled on the hibernation pod for a while, and finally started the defrosting program through "Dragon language," taking the dragon egg that had been frozen for a thousand years out of the hibernation pod.

The Dragon God's faith bestowed upon this egg a vitality far exceeding ordinary carbon-based organisms, which hadn't decayed at all even after a thousand years.

Luo Yan could feel the surging life force beneath the eggshell, which was stirring.

Holding the dragon egg in his arms, he looked up and scanned the surroundings, confirming that there was nothing left, and finally turned and left this room full of mysteries, walking toward the outside of the landing module.

And at the same time, outside the cabin door of the landing module.

Arakdo was pacing back and forth impatiently, looking into the door from time to time with his six eyes, but didn't dare to get too close, only muttering in his mouth.

"What on earth did the Demon King go to do... why hasn't he come out yet?"

Looking at the pitch-black cabin door, he always had a bad premonition, but couldn't say why, and could only be anxious by himself.

As a spider, his sixth sense had always been very accurate, far exceeding his intelligence.

Glancing at Sarah standing at the door, Arakdo tried to instigate the latter to go in and take a look with his eyes.

However, he obviously overestimated the cross-species tacit understanding between spiders and cats, and underestimated Sarah's loyalty to the Demon King.

Since the Demon King had said that no one was allowed to enter, she would definitely not take a step toward the door.

Ignoring Arakdo's winking, Sarah standing at the door looked unmoved, closing her eyes slightly, standing quietly with her arms crossed.

She was of course not asleep.

It was just that her ears were far more sensitive than her eyes, and closing her eyes made it easier for her to immerse her five senses in the surroundings and pay attention to the movement behind the door.

This is definitely not out of curiosity.

It was purely for the safety of the Demon King, after all, no one could guarantee that there were no strange things worshipped inside this silver "shrine."

At this time, a breeze of decay blew over the rubble pile outside the silver landing module.

Accompanied by the rustling sound of thorns growing, a light footstep stepped over the crushed sand and approached from not far away.

The visitor was Blanshia—the Lord of the Desolate City of the Great Graveyard, one of the four Demon Generals under the Demon King.

Looking at the silver "shrine" standing in the rubble, a trace of obvious surprise rose on her pale face, and then her gaze fell on Sarah standing at the door.

"Where did the Demon King go?" Blanshia raised her chin slightly, her voice carrying a hint of command.

Sarah opened her eyes, looked at her calmly, and answered concisely.

"Inside."

Blanshia raised her eyebrows and walked straight toward the door.

The next second, a sharp short sword was held in front of her, blocking her way.

"The Demon King said, no one is allowed to enter." Sarah's voice was calm and cold, without any intention of retreating.

Blanshia narrowed her eyes, looking at the "toothpick" blocking her chest, a mocking and cruel arc hooking at the corner of her mouth.

"A mere wild cat, dares to block my way?"

Although she said so, she still stopped.

After all, you have to look at the owner before beating a dog.

Beating a cat too.

Just at the same time she stopped, a voice with obvious mockery drifted from not far away, Thanos, who was leaning against a boulder with his arms crossed, revealed his figure at some point.

"Tsk tsk tsk... even a steel-level little girl can bare her teeth at you, someone is really living backward."

Anger rushed to her brow, Blanshia quickly turned her head and glared fiercely at Thanos.

"If you don't want this mouth, I can sew it up for you."

The thorns twisting on her body were like pythons spitting letters, approaching in the direction of Thanos.

Looking at Blanshia who was pissed off, Thanos just smiled lightly, the shadow beneath him twisting like a centipede, wrestling with the twisting thorns in the invisible.

The two's auras collided fiercely in the air, forming an invisible sense of oppression, so that the surrounding flames weakened a bit.

Arakdo standing on the side was shivering, and couldn't help but take a few steps back. And the High Priest Ze'er waiting on the side was even more terrified and held his breath, until he was almost suffocated before he gasped for a few breaths.

His backbone and style had long been shattered the moment he offered the scepter to the Demon King... the old lizardman standing here now was just an ordinary one.

Do the Demon King's subordinates usually act like this?

In addition to fear, a trace of fanaticism couldn't help but float in Ze'er's eyes.

No wonder they are so strong!

It turns out they are fighting each other every day!

At this moment, he had forgotten how he once looked down on humans on the Ancient Continent with the same set of reasons.

He said both the right and wrong things himself.

"... This is the Demon King's order, I'm just doing as told." Sarah replied fearlessly, the blade in her hand not retreating a bit.

"Shut up! I know it's the Demon King's order, but it's not your turn to order me!"

Not expecting this stinky cat to not be afraid of her at all, Blanshia was so angry that her teeth itched.

Thanos on the side was hugging his arms, arching the fire with that playful look, looking like he was watching the excitement without fearing it was too big.

However, suddenly, his expression changed slightly, and he quickly restrained his playful expression, and the twisted shadow returned to normal.

Blanshia hadn't reacted yet, when a majestic voice came from the silver-white "shrine."

"What are you doing?"

Everyone turned back quickly, only to see Luo Yan stepping out of the cabin door unhurriedly, his gaze sharp and calm.

"Demon King..." Looking at Luo Yan coming out of the door, Sarah's expression was like melting lake water, immediately softening.

Blanshia's expression changed slightly, and she hurriedly put away her hostility, lowered her head to salute, and said softly: "Demon King, I, I was just worried about your safety, and wanted to go in and take a look..."

Luo Yan looked at Sarah.

The latter nodded lightly, not adding fuel to the fire.

"That's how it is."

A trace of approval appeared in his eyes, and Luo Yan nodded and said.

"You did well."

A shy and soft smile appeared on Sarah's face, her boots tapping the ground lightly, her heart jumping, but she was too embarrassed to show it too obviously.

Luo Yan then turned his gaze to Blanshia, his eyes becoming sharp.

"If there is a next time, I won't remind you like this."

Hearing that stern voice, Blanshia's shoulders trembled slightly, her heart filled with both fear and grievance, but she didn't dare to say another word.

Thanos didn't dare to make a sound, fearing that the Demon King would stare at him.

However, just at this moment, his gaze suddenly fell into Luo Yan's arms, seeing that pale gray giant egg covered with scales.

In an instant, his expression changed, and he said in shock.

"Demon King, what is this in your arms..."

Following Thanos's gaze, everyone's eyes fell on the giant egg in Luo Yan's arms.

In fact, he didn't need to remind them at all.

Including Arakdo... everyone standing outside the landing module had long noticed that the pressure comparable to a giant dragon was radiating from Luo Yan's arms.

There was no doubt—

That was the aura of a giant dragon!

Looking at the shocked crowd, Luo Yan's mouth couldn't help but raise upward.

He knew what his subordinates were thinking.

But they still underestimated him.

Pausing for a moment, he said the highly impactful words in a calm tone.

"This is the Dragon God."

Silence all around.

Even the slowly burning flames stretched out the sound of crackling in the silence.

Sarah was the calmest person, but her face still showed a surprised expression, her open mouth completely turned into an 'o' shape, as if it could fit a bottle of mineral water.

Not to mention Blanshia and Thanos, both of them had constricted pupils, their shock hard to hide.

As for Arakdo, because he was a spider, there was no human expression on his face, but the trembling spider legs exposed his awe and fear.

So that's it—

No wonder he had felt uneasy since just now!

However, the shock in the hearts of these Great Graveyard employees was much less than that of the only lizardman present.

Ze'er, the High Priest of the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom, had originally just stood respectfully on the side.

When he heard the words in Luo Yan's mouth, he was like being struck by lightning, his eyes full of shock and disbelief!

"Drag, Dragon God?!"

Complex expressions squeezed into a ball on his face, and he finally raised his head, looking at Luo Yan with eyes full of trepidation and shock.

"This... how is this possible?"

The Dragon God was the supreme deity they had worshipped for generations, how could He appear in such a... such a weak posture?

And—

In the secret ancient books of the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom, it was clearly mentioned that although the Dragon God Gustav was considered a dragon race, He was not a giant dragon, but a lizardman similar to the Ankylosaurus tribe!

Thinking of this, Ze'er was furious.

This group of abominable humans!

Conquering their flesh was one thing, but they even distorted their history... truly a great humiliation, intolerable!

However, when Ze'er met Luo Yan's determined and playful eyes, he felt inexplicably panicked, and his originally firm faith wavered unconsciously.

It seems...

It's not that impossible.

It wasn't out of fear of the conqueror, he was seriously thinking, if explained this way, many contradictions in the secret ancient books of the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom could be explained.

Luo Yan appreciated the struggle on Ze'er's face with great interest.

To be honest, he didn't care much whether this reptile could figure it out. After all, with the lizardmen's ability to justify themselves, even if he said he was the reincarnation of the Dragon God, they would eventually believe it.

However, thinking of the Dragon God's end, he pondered for a while and finally decided to maintain his persona, telling half truth and half lie.

"I took a turn in the Dragon God's tomb and found some interesting things."

Ze'er swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"What... did you find?"

Luo Yan's gaze swept across Ze'er's face lightly, his voice carrying a hint of teasing: "Mr. Gustav died a thousand years ago—at the hands of the first king of your Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom."

Gustav...

Dragon God?!

Killed by the first king of the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom?!

This sentence was like a thunderbolt, exploding in Ze'er's heart, his face suddenly pale, his eyes even becoming hollow for a moment.

"No, this is impossible! The Dragon God is the deity who bestowed upon us life and the Holy Land... we have no reason to do so!"

It really is like this!

Since seeing the Dragon God Temple fly into the sky, he had been suspecting this possibility!

"Don't get excited, the one who died was Gustav, not the Dragon God. Rather than saying you killed the Dragon God, it's better to say you liberated his soul, letting him truly change from a weak mortal into an omnipotent god, gaining true eternity."

Luo Yan paused for a while and shrugged his shoulders lightly.

"I know I can't reduce your guilt by saying this, but I still hope you look at what happened a thousand years ago objectively... even if you owe him some things, the people you blood-sacrificed for a thousand years are enough to pay the debt, right."

Ze'er shook all over, his knees almost kneeling on the ground.

"How could this be..."

Looking at Ze'er who was on the verge of collapse, Luo Yan didn't continue to bully him, just coughed lightly and changed to a serious tone.

He always used a joking tone when saying serious things, smart people naturally understand, and stupid people don't need to understand.

And when he wanted to say something seriously, he was talking nonsense with a straight face.

"I said, you don't have to be so sad, Gustav is very gratified by your choice, He said in His last words... He succeeded."

Ze'er looked at him blankly.

"... Succeeded?"

This sentence seemed to be an inch of candle flame, reigniting the hope in his heart, burning the spirit that was on the verge of collapse back together.

"That's right, He used His final power to open the Great Barrier, protecting the Ankylosaurus tribe for a full thousand years, allowing you to survive the catastrophe a thousand years ago."

"But this is not enough. He promised that He would lead you to run toward the starry sky, lead you to embrace civilization, and find the Zeta Empire hidden on the other side of the star sea... and a child who cannot complete the patricide in spirit will never be able to walk out of the father's embrace, you will only stay in His embrace forever and become smaller and smaller. In order to fulfill your future, He used His own blood as a sacrifice to complete the final offering. From then on, you are all giant dragons."

Luo Yan gently stroked the dragon egg in his arms, feeling the warmth through the dragon scale eggshell, and continued in a gentle tone.

"Now, He has been liberated from His mission and can finally go live His own life... I mean dragon life."

The confused expression faded from Ze'er's face, and tears were already streaming down his withered scales, and his knees hit the ground together.

"Dragon God... why are you... suffering like this?" He muttered to himself, his feelings from the bottom of his heart, unable to help but sob.

It hurts too much.

He felt sorry not only for the Dragon God, but even more for the countless young guys of the Ankylosaurus tribe who had sacrificed themselves for blood sacrifices for thousands of years... it turns out they didn't have to die.

There was still hatred in his heart.

Damn Parr family—

For their own selfish desires, those guys who called themselves Holy Kings generation after generation not only fooled themselves, but also fooled everyone, and even wanted to drag everyone to be buried with them in the end!

That beast completely failed the Dragon God!

Fortunately, the Dragon God is good, and finally shot that heinous guy into the sky!

Thanos looked at the lizardman who was crying with tears in his eyes in surprise, then looked at the Demon King, then looked at the dragon egg in the Demon King's hand, and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

Could it be...

This thing is really the Dragon God's egg?

He almost believed it!

Looking down at Ze'er who was kneeling on the ground with a tragic face, Luo Yan changed to a majestic tone, continuing to hold Gustav who was still an egg.

"Ze'er, the Great Barrier has protected you for a thousand years, and now its mission has ended. The Dragon God entrusted you to me in His last words, instructing me to lead you to set foot on the land He once left again. And from now on, what you need to do is to offer loyalty to me."

"I understand..."

Ze'er's voice was incomparably devout.

"The Ankylosaurus tribe will offer eternal loyalty to you... we will follow you forever, until the end of the star sea."

Luo Yan nodded with satisfaction.

"Get up."

"Now you are also a member of the Great Graveyard."

Sarah and Blanshia and others who were watching on the side also showed awe and worship on their faces. Arakdo was the same, but in addition to awe, he was also a bit uncomfortable—what if that dragon egg really hatched a giant dragon, and the respected Demon King didn't ride him anymore, what should he do?

Although the bloodline suppression of the giant dragon made his eight legs tremble, the look in his eyes toward the dragon egg was still sinister unconsciously...

It had seen the complete log.

It had read the complete diary.

"As expected of the Demon King..."

This is too much of a stretch!