Chapter 117

Shameless! The same thought flashed instantly through the minds of Lu Se and Flash: if Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si hadn't died, he would be thirteen thousand years old by now, older than any Huang Tong Dragon, yet he was actually pretending to be someone else's son?

Several elderly people widened their eyes in shock: "Lady Nai Aili has a child? Didn't she say she had already reached menopause? Oh, oh, dragons would say 'stopped laying eggs,' but why is there such a small child?"

"Nai Aili? Such a familiar name. Let me think. Dragon names are all very long, with hundreds of syllables. To take one syllable as a name and translate it into human speech—I have to go through the full name to know which one Nai Aili refers to." Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si muttered to himself, taking quite a while before he finally remembered.

"It's her!? Heavens, is it such a coincidence?" Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si was deeply shaken, but immediately hesitated: "That can't be right. If it really is her, then calculating carefully, she is over ten thousand years old this year. Has she lived even longer than me?"

The normal lifespan of a Huang Tong Dragon is about ten thousand years, but in reality, Huang Tong Dragons that can live to eight thousand are already very rare, and those that reach ten thousand are extremely few.

If this Nai Aili is truly the one he knows, she would be about ten thousand and several decades old this year, having lived even longer than Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si.

Hesitating in his heart, he said aloud: "Yes, yes, yes, it is her. May I ask where she has gone? I have been looking for her."

Hearing that he was Nai Aili's child, the elderly people felt a great increase in intimacy and responded enthusiastically: "Lady Nai Aili doesn't come here often, and we don't know her whereabouts, but she does come by occasionally. If you wait here, you should be able to see her. Oh, Nai Aili's child is so cute."

Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si felt so awkward. He, a thirteen-thousand-year-old ancient dragon, was being called cute by a few five- or sixty-year-old little kids, and Lu Se and Flash heard it too. If they were skeletons, they would surely have laughed their heads off.

He hurriedly changed the subject: "Why are there only you and the children? Where are the adults?"

One of the elderly people said: "They went to work. Now is the most suitable time to work; it gets too hot after the sun rises, and it's impossible to work."

"Oh, oh, very reasonable. Early morning and evening are indeed more suitable for work. You should get up first; the ground is cold. How is your daily life usually? Can you get enough to eat? How is the harvest this year?" Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked in a chatty tone.

This tone of voice quickly narrowed the distance between the two sides for the elderly people who didn't have much experience, and coupled with Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si's appearance as a young Huang Tong Dragon, he easily gained their trust. Very soon, they spilled everything like beans from a bamboo tube, and everything was completely revealed.

According to these elderly people's accounts, Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si realized he had misunderstood. This was not a place with strict hierarchies; rather, these elderly people had misunderstood, thinking they were noble guests from the outside. Having heard that people from the outside were very fierce, they were afraid, which was why they appeared so reserved.

"So it turns out we scared them."

The Hope Oasis is very large, with a big lake in the center and a total population of thirty to forty thousand. They mainly plant green date trees, which are their primary food source.

Oases like this, which have water and food and can be self-sufficient, are the places sand bandits love to raid the most. However, the Hope Oasis is protected by a Huang Tong Dragon, so no sand bandits dare to come and offend it.

Huang Tong Dragons like shiny things. Next to the oasis, there is a mineral vein where magic crystals and quartz coexist. It produces magic crystals and quartz year-round. The people of the oasis use the magic crystals to trade with passing merchant caravans and offer the quartz to the Huang Tong Dragon. They also raise several thousand camels and tens of thousands of sheep for riding and as offerings to the Huang Tong Dragon.

The oasis's own military strength is not bad either. With an adult population of thirty to forty thousand, everyone is a soldier, and they can easily raise a force of over ten thousand warriors. However, because the number of camels is too small, they can only organize about five thousand camel cavalry.

But in the desert, this is already a very powerful force, and coupled with the protection of a Huang Tong Dragon, the Hope Oasis has always been very peaceful.

Living in dugout huts is not because they are being abused, but because supplies are not abundant and bricks and tiles are scarce. Dugout huts are the most suitable buildings in this natural environment; they are warm in winter and cool in summer, and apart from being low and dark, they have no other drawbacks.

The Hope Oasis is not just one oasis, but a cluster of oases. Surrounding the large lake in the center, there are hundreds of large and small oases within a radius of several dozen kilometers. As long as plants can grow, people live there. The place where they are now is a small settlement on the outermost periphery of this oasis cluster.

Just as they were chatting, human voices came from afar. Some adult men and women walked back, all of them dejected and listless, until they saw Ang and the others.

With strangers suddenly appearing in their home, everyone became alert, emitting several warning sounds of unclear meaning, and ran over quickly. Some even subconsciously gripped their weapons.

But when they saw Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si, their running footsteps couldn't help but hesitate.

"It seems Nai Aili has a lot of prestige here." Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si thought to himself, and simply took the initiative to greet them: "Hello everyone, I am Nai Aili's child, and I am here to find my mother."

Shameless! Lu Se and Flash cursed in their hearts.

"Ah? You are Lady Nai Aili's child? Lady Nai Aili has a child?" Everyone was in an uproar. Their protector actually had a child?

When a young dragon claiming to be a dragon's child suddenly appears in a place where dragons are worshipped, the sensation it can cause is unimaginable. Some people quickly spread the news, and by noon, these oases were crowded with people who had come to watch.

Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si didn't mind everyone watching, because the onlookers basically didn't carry weapons, and there weren't many experts among them. Even if they had bad intentions, Lu Se could protect everyone and escape. As long as they entered the desert, relying on Flash's speed, it might really take an ancient dragon to catch up.

Isn't that exactly his goal?

An ancient dragon without offspring, hearing that her child has come to her door—whether out of curiosity or for the sake of her own reputation, unless she is lying on her deathbed, she would have to come out and see, right?

Very soon, the people in charge of the oasis arrived.

"Storm-born, Queen of the Oasis, Dragon Speaker Sha Fei Ya has arrived!"

A team of elite soldiers in leather armor surrounded a young and beautiful girl, pushed through the crowd, and walked over. Pointing at Ang and the others from afar, she shouted loudly: "Capture them! These are deceivers; Lady Nai Aili has no child!"

The onlookers were in an uproar, some stunned, and after reacting, they felt extreme anger. The elite leather-armored soldiers pushed through the crowd and ran quickly toward Ang and the others.

Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si, however, was not panicked at all and said loudly: "Then ask Nai Aili if she still remembers the dragon egg that was sorrowfully buried on the Zero Yangdao back then? That dragon egg did not go bad, but under the catalysis of elements and temperature, it successfully hatched."

"Ah? Zero Yangdao? It seems I have heard of it." A hesitant expression appeared on the face of Dragon Speaker Sha Fei Ya.

But on second thought, she immediately said firmly: "Impossible. Lady Nai Aili has said that dragons have bloodline resonance. If you really are her child, you would definitely be able to resonate with her."

Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si smiled slightly: "Look at my current state. I am smaller than a dragon egg, belonging to premature birth and poor development. Do you think I can awaken my bloodline?"

"Ah? This... don't make a move yet, let me think." Sha Fei Ya was successfully bluffed, her small face twisted into a knot of conflict.

Lu Se and Flash were laughing their heads off inside. This is some God of Knowledge; this is the God of Fraud. In just a few words, he made the other party's Dragon Speaker lose confidence. Hey, with this skill, why can't he bluff Ang?

"What do you need to think about? Shouldn't you go and ask Nai Aili? Tell her my name is ￥%#@; this is the name she gave me herself."

￥%#@ is Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si's name in the Dragon language; the Dragon Speaker should be able to understand it.

Sha Fei Ya hesitated, wavered, struggled, and was in a dilemma, finally making a decision that went against her ancestors.