novelraw Chapter 207
Chapter 207
Chapter 207: The Brave Hero, Defeated! （4.3K）
A quarrel that lasted about ten minutes.
Xia Li was completely defeated by the dragon’s claws.
Literally under her claws.
Looking at the familiar ceiling, Xia Li was in a trance.
Beside him, Lucia launched the crumpled tissue into the trash can.
Then she got out of bed and went to the bathroom to wash her hands barefoot.
She shook the water off her clean dragon claws and sniffed her fingers before entering the room.
“…”
Xia Li’s mind heated up again. Lucia’s beautiful figure was bathed in the warm orange glow of the streetlights outside the window. The snow-white dress clung to her slender yet curvy body, and the sight of the girl’s graceful curves made Xia Li’s mouth dry.
He quickly sat up and put on his clothes and pants.
“Wash them cleaner.”
He took Lucia’s dragon claws and sniffed them too.
Making sure there was no smell.
At least his human nose didn’t smell anything.
Her dragon claws felt soft and moist in his hand, slightly cool to the touch, but unexpectedly hot against his skin, as if every nerve in his body was being plucked by her subtle movements.
Xia Li let go of Lucia’s hand.
Even the Brave Hero was a bit wary of the power of this dragon claw now.
“I can’t wash them clean,”
The evil dragon shook her head, her hair brushing against her cheeks.
She said in a casual but helpless tone, “They’ve already been tainted by Xia Li’s scent.”
Xia Li’s mind went blank with anger.
“Who taught you these words…”
“Self-taught!”
Lucia put her hands on her hips, feeling quite proud of herself.
She had always been curious about the anatomy of human males…
Today she had played enough, no, researched enough!
If she didn’t truly like him, who would be interested in this kind of thing?
On the other hand, if Xia Li didn’t truly like her, he probably wouldn’t have obediently surrendered like he did just now.
With a light snort, Lucia spoke again.
“I can’t beat you in a fight, and I can’t outtalk you… If I want to defeat the Brave Hero, I can only use those despicable human methods. And this is how dragons solve problems!”
Lucia had just said that dragons are stupid and better at solving problems with their hands.
So she just did it.
“…”
Xia Li was speechless and got out of bed to put on his shoes.
He calmly walked past Lucia, intending to wash his face in the bathroom, but as he brushed past her, he stopped.
He looked down at the white-dressed girl who was slightly shorter than him. The expression on her face had returned to calmness, and the red glow in her eyes had quietly disappeared.
Facing Xia Li’s gaze, she suddenly became nervous, clutching the corner of her dress and turning her head away.
Her small, soft earlobe was now dyed the same crimson as Xia Li’s face.
The girl’s blush spread from her ears to her neck.
Doing bad things to Xia Li wasn’t any easier for Lucia than it was for him.
Perhaps even she didn’t expect to suddenly make a move.
It was just that she felt a certain way at that moment, coupled with the subtle, honest reaction of Xia Li’s body.
So she just went with the flow.
Now that she thought about it carefully…
It was so embarrassing that she wanted to die.
“…”
Xia Li sighed.
“Teacher Lu, have you considered the consequences of doing this to me?”
“Teacher Xia wouldn’t listen to reason, so I had to use a little tactic.”
Lucia looked sideways at the window, not daring to look at Xia Li.
Xia Li turned his body sideways, wrapped his arms around her slender waist, and gently embraced her.
For a naive girl, especially for Lucia, who had just figured out her feelings, for her to do this for Xia Li, she must have made up her mind.
She wanted to calm things down this way, not escalate the conflict.
When she realized she was using magic, trying to solve the problem with dragon violence, Lucia suddenly came to her senses.
She didn’t want to force Xia Li.
So, at the moment she struck, she replaced violence with gentleness.
Very gently, she captured him.
And in this way, which neither of them had ever tried before, she expressed her feelings.
Xia Li understood why Lucia had done this.
This silly, stupid dragon who rarely used her brain to think… was also loving him carefully.
She had considered a lot for Xia Li.
Now, Xia Li had to think from her perspective as well.
“You win…”
Xia Li hugged the stinky dragon and took a deep breath.
There was always a faint fragrance in a girl’s hair, a fragrance different from shampoo and shower gel, more like the warm morning light, a warm and reassuring scent that enveloped him.
“It tickles…”
Lucia’s neck tickled as Xia Li sniffed her deeply.
The Brave Hero, like the pink-skinned pig on TV eating watermelon, pressed his nose against her and swept it around.
Lucia was so ticklish that she wanted to shrink her head into her neck.
She stood on tiptoe and, seizing the opportunity, nibbled on the Brave Hero’s face, leaving a row of wet teeth marks.
“Stop sniffing.”
“Wife, you smell good.” Xia Li chuckled.
Lucia blushed, sniffing herself suspiciously, but she didn’t think she smelled strange.
“If I pull you to bed now, will you sleep?”
Xia Li held her small hand and asked.
Lucia hesitated for a moment, then asked shyly, “Sleep in the literal sense?”
“What else could it mean?!” Xia Li choked and said, “I have a cooldown too, those two shots just now will take a long time to recover!”
“Two shots… is the limit for humans.” Lucia mused.
“Stop talking about this!” Xia Li panicked.
Xia Li didn’t know the limit of a few shots, nor had he tried, but now was not the time to discuss this.
Lucia pursed her lips and smiled, finding Xia Li’s flustered expression amusing.
“…If you tell me to go to sleep, then I can only obediently go to sleep.”
The sweet smile on Lucia’s face widened a bit more, then turned into helplessness.
When there was a disagreement between the two, someone had to give in.
If that person wasn’t Xia Li, then Lucia was willing to be that person.
Trusting Xia Li’s decision…
This was also one way to solve the problem.
However, her dragon intuition made her uneasy.
“I like this kind of life… These past six months with you have made me fall in love with this land too. When I first arrived, I always dreamed of the sky of Azure Continent, but now, my dreams are only filled with you.”
Lucia hugged Xia Li, pressing her head against his chest.
‘Thump, thump.’
The Brave Hero’s strong and steady heartbeat could dispel that sense of unease.
Lucia closed her eyes and felt it for a few seconds, then decided it was enough and rolled over to sleep.
The bed had no legs, only a wooden board and a mattress. Lucia felt uncomfortable with the height and rolled over, hugging the oversized sheep plush. Then she said to Xia Li, who was standing still.
“I’ll warm the bed for you!”
Xia Li looked at her and gently hummed in response.
After taking a shower, the evil dragon on the bed seemed to be asleep. Xia Li sat alone by the bed and turned on his phone.
The light from the screen was a bit harsh in the darkness. The first message Xia Li saw was from Fang Xia.
Mrs. Fang: Son, are you asleep?
Mrs. Fang: The weather forecast says there will be heavy rain today. Your dad said there’s some once-in-a-decade typhoon that might last for several days. Try not to take Little Lu out these days. She’s so thin, I’m afraid she’ll be blown away by the wind.
Staring at these messages, Xia Li was lost in thought for a long time.
Droplets of water dripped down from his short hair.
Xia Li grabbed a towel to dry his hair. The hairdryer was too noisy, he was afraid of waking up Lucia, so he decided to let his hair air dry.
“Buzz…”
His phone vibrated again.
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This time the message was from Xia Yuanjun.
Old Xia: Close the doors and windows when you sleep tonight.
Xia Li closed WeChat and let out a long breath.
Many questions surfaced in his mind again.
He could hide Lucia, but what about his parents?
What about his grandma? His aunt?
And his grandpa, grandma, aunts, uncles, and his friends…
Many things couldn’t be avoided.
If someone with supernatural abilities really went berserk, no one could escape.
Once order was broken, tomorrow would become hell.
Outside the window, a sudden gust of wind blew the trees in the community into distorted shapes, their ghostly shadows dancing wildly under the streetlights.
Torrential rain poured down, quickly turning the concrete road into a different color.
Xia Li went to the balcony to close the window, returned to the room, and opened the post that Lucia had been talking about all night.
Scrolling down, he saw the latest replies from netizens.
【With your abilities, destroying the world would be a piece of cake. 】
【Why don’t you just kill yourself?】
【Didn’t you say, death rewind?】
【Isn’t that how it works in all kinds of anime and movies? The protagonist dies, and then time rewinds. You should try it too. 】
Looking at these comments, even though he couldn’t see the faces of the netizens through the screen, Xia Li still felt a sense of disgust, even loathing.
When someone was so down and desperate, the only cry for help he sent to the world was met with such mockery and abuse.
They told the black avatar user to die.
They called him a clown, an idiot, a world-weary chuunibyou.
They also said that instead of ranting online, he should be more filial to his parents, and then they added a few “greetings” to the user’s parents.
The overflowing malice almost spilled out of the screen.
The black characters jumping on the white background of the screen looked like distorted smiling faces, making Xia Li feel sick.
Xia Li’s gaze finally landed on the upper right corner, on the prominent red notification icon.
【I want to go back. 】
The sender was that familiar black avatar.
Perhaps he felt that only Xia Li would communicate with him normally, or perhaps he wanted to send out one last cry for help.
He didn’t edit the post anymore, but sent a short four-word message to Xia Li.
Xia Li quickly typed on his phone: 【Where are you?】
After sending it, he waited for a minute, but there was no reply.
Xia Li suddenly felt his heart racing, and even his hand holding the phone began to tremble with nervousness.
He started searching for information about Chongqing.
Short video websites, Weibo forums, Tieba…
On various platforms, there was a lot of live news about Chongqing.
【Holy crap, it’s raining so hard today!『Picture』『Picture』】
【A mountaintop collapsed in my hometown, and a lot of rocks rolled down, crushing the cornfield!】
【Oh my god, storm + heavy rain + power outage, could it be the end of the world??】
With pictures and text, Xia Li looked at this content, his black pupils constricting under the bright light.
After going around in circles, he finally replied to his parents.
Summer Dawn: Mom, you guys go to bed early.
After sending it, he clicked on the black and white, sassy cat selfie avatar and opened the chat window.
Summer Dawn: Wuqi, assemble.
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Two minutes later.
A cat, drenched by the rain, appeared in the living room of Xia Li’s house.
He was soaked, his fur matted together and dripping water.
Even though he looked disheveled, he still sat there gracefully licking his paws.
“So fast?”
Xia Li was a little surprised.
『Nonsense, I’ve been waiting for you downstairs!』
『I knew you would call me. 』
Wuqi had an “I knew it” expression.
Xia Li put on his clothes in the living room, took his car keys, and went to the balcony to retrieve the long-sealed Demon Repelling Sword.
Peeling off the old clothes wrapped around the sword, the indigo blade was revealed.
Xia Li put on the scabbard and then skillfully strapped it to his back.
It had been a long time since he had carried the Demon Repelling Sword on his back.
This weight on his shoulders reminded Xia Li of his time as the Brave Hero in Azure Continent.
The clash of swords, alchemy and magic, evil monsters, tyrannical dragons, and greedy humans…
“Meow?”
Seeing that Xia Li was about to go out, Wuqi looked back repeatedly, making a puzzled meow.
『What about Dragon Sister? Aren’t you going to call her?』
“She’s asleep, I won’t call her.”
“Meow?!”
『Dragon Sister is our strongest fighter, how can we not take her with us!!』
“You and I are enough.”
Xia Li thought for a moment, took the golden bell hanging from the Demon Repelling Sword, and put it back on Wuqi’s neck.
This artifact hadn’t been on Wuqi for a long time. Wuqi’s eyes lit up, and he reached out his paw to play with the little bell.
Wait a minute…
Brother Xia meant…
That he was also considered a fighting force?!
But he was just a harmless little kitty!
Wuqi never thought that he, a little kitty with no strength, would actually become a member of the main force.
This kind of thing, he couldn’t do it.
“Meow!”
“Xia Li…”
The man and the cat were secretly discussing at the door.
Before they could say two words, the bedroom door was pushed open.
The girl had already put on her sweater and coat, holding an umbrella in her hand, looking ready to go at any moment.
Xia Li’s eyebrows twitched, and he quickly walked over and pulled Lucia back into the room.
“Go back to sleep.”
“No…”
Wuqi followed behind Xia Li, curiously peeking into the room.
When he saw the collapsed wooden bed in the room, he was stunned.
『Holy crap, meow?!』
Wuqi took two steps back, not daring to speak.
Dragon Sister is mighty.
Finally, the dragon and the human engaged in a battle of words.
Lucia stuck to her point of view, refusing to budge.
If Xia Li chose to hide, she could hide with him for a lifetime.
But if Xia Li was going, she had to go too.
They were an inseparable whole.
“You definitely can’t do it without me!”
“Meow!”
『That’s right, that’s right. 』
“I’ve saved up so much magic power, it’s for using in emergencies like this!”
“Meow!”
『Agree, agree. 』
“I’ll go and instantly kill him, it’ll be quick!!”
“Meow meow wow!”
『Dragon Sister is right, I support her!』
The dragon and the cat made Xia Li completely speechless.
Xia Li couldn’t argue with her, so he had to pack up the stinky dragon and take her with him.