novelraw Chapter 269
Chapter 269
Chapter 269: The Great Evil Dragon Summoning Technique!
After passing through customs, Xia Li exchanged enough cash and bought two SIM cards from the locals.
One for himself, and one for the internet-addicted dragon girl.
When the preparations were almost done, he set off for his accommodation.
The itinerary here was arranged by a travel agency, and the money Xia Li paid included airfare and hotel.
He would stay in the country for two weeks as a free traveler.
Because he had spent a considerable amount of money, the travel agency even thoughtfully arranged airport pickup and drop-off for Xia Li.
As an island nation, Dominica was quite developed, and the prosperity of its capital looked similar to that of a third or fourth-tier city in China.
In fact, modern civilization had almost unified every part of the continent, and apart from differences in culture, language, race, skin color, and historical sites, there wasn’t much difference between going abroad or not.
In Xia Li’s opinion, at least it wasn’t as big of a difference as between Earth and Azure Continent. The car stopped and went.
The driver, who looked Asian, enthusiastically introduced Xia Li to the local scenic spots.
Unfortunately, the other party’s accent was a bit strange, a strange mixture of English pronunciation and Spanish, and Xia Li couldn’t understand a single sentence even after piecing it together.
His English proficiency had completely regressed after he passed the CET-4 exam and graduated from university.
After about an hour’s drive, they finally arrived at their destination.
The accommodation booked by the travel agency was an apartment-style hotel.
A three-story building was divided into six rooms, which could accommodate six families at the same time.
Xia Li liked this kind of mixed environment.
He could easily sneak Lucia in.
If it was a one-on-one, or a homestay with a local family, he would probably have a headache for a while.
He checked in without stopping.
Xia Li came to the room on the second floor and closed the doors and windows.
It was only a few hundred meters from the sea, and the surrounding buildings were not very tall. Even on the second floor, he could see the line where the sea met the sky in the distance, and the air was filled with the faint salty smell of a seaside city.
Compared with an inland place like Qingcheng City, the scenery here was indeed beautiful and made people sigh with emotion.
But without Lucia present, Xia Li was not in the mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery.
He took a shower and rested for two hours. The blue sky outside the window gradually dimmed.
Estimating that it was about nine o’clock in the morning in China, Xia Li took out the magic scroll and crystal stones from his bag.
Following Lucia’s previous instructions, he slowly unrolled the scroll and spread it on the floor.
Normally, this high-level magic scroll didn’t require additional magic power consumption, but because the magic content in the Earth’s air was almost zero, Xia Li needed to place enough pure crystals on it to make the magic circle on the scroll successfully rotate.
The two-way magic teleportation scroll was about the size of an A2 paper when fully unfolded, and the weight of the pure crystals was close to that of steel.
Although this small bag of pure crystals didn’t look eye-catching, it gave Xia Li a hard time when he went through customs.
Dominica’s customs almost questioned him as some kind of cult wizard. Later, after testing it east and west, they found that the words on the scroll were not Earth characters at all, and that the pure crystals were just ordinary translucent stones, so they let him go.
“Creak—”
In order to prevent Lucia from bumping into things after landing, Xia Li moved the tables and chairs in the apartment together to make enough space.
After turning off the lights, Xia Li took out his phone, turned on the camera, and checked all the places in the room where cameras could be hidden.
He made sure everything was safe.
After doing all this, he wiped his sweat and sent a message to Lucia.
Lucia couldn’t wait any longer.
As soon as Xia Li took a picture and sent it out, she sent over a long string of exclamation marks.
Girlfriend: I’m ready, I’m ready!!!
Probably bored from waiting in the morning, Lucia changed her profile picture to a picture of a small calico cat sleeping on a blanket.
Xia Li found this photo very familiar. When he looked again, he found that the cat was his own Little Cotton.
This dragon should be very homesick. The calico cat at home was the first pet she had ever raised.
Girlfriend: 『Looking forward to rubbing my hands.jpg』
Summer Dawn: Is Zhou Anqi out?
To make sure Lucia’s disappearance wasn’t seen by anyone, Xia Li had to make sure there was no one around her.
Girlfriend: She’s been out for a while!
Girlfriend: I told her I was leaving today, and she told me to be careful on my own!
Summer Dawn: Okay, get your things ready.
Girlfriend: Reporting, sir, ready!
Immediately afterwards, Lucia also sent a picture identical to Xia Li’s.
In the picture, a complex sheepskin scroll was spread out on the ground with more than a dozen coin-sized magic crystals on it.
Xia Li was very cautious about this matter. After making sure everything was ready, he asked Lucia to turn off her phone’s location and turn on airplane mode.
Lucia was connected to the mobile WiFi and could receive his WeChat messages normally.
Summer Dawn: Count down three seconds.
Summer Dawn: Three
Summer Dawn: Two
Summer Dawn: One.
The moment the message was sent, Xia Li placed his palm on the circle symbol in the center of the magic circle.
Guided by the use of magic on Azure Continent, traces of magic power were drawn from the transparent pure crystals.
More and more magic power gathered, and the vast magic power stored in the pure crystals was awakened. The dim room was instantly lit up with colorful pure white light.
The two-way teleportation scroll was suddenly activated.
The scroll was engraved with special magic circuits, and even if it was tens of thousands of kilometers away, it could instantly teleport the things on the other end of the scroll.
This kind of two-way teleportation magic had a certain volume limit, and the volume of the teleported items could not exceed the range of the scroll itself.
It was easy to teleport Lucia, such a small girl.
“Buzz…”
The buzzing sound gradually dissipated as the white light faded.
The pure crystals disappeared, and the patterns and symbols on the magic scroll became fainter and fainter like melting ink until they disappeared completely.
At the same time, at Xia Li’s feet, the girl was wearing a light blue plaid dress and slippers, holding her oversized sheep plush toy in one hand, a cat toothbrush cup in her palm, and carrying her daily necessities and change of clothes in the other hand.
Lucia’s hair had been specially combed, and she had long braids on both sides of her head. The braids were divided into sections, which looked like two strings of candied haws on a stick.
Cute, want to love.
Lucia exclaimed after landing and sat down on the floor with a thud.
The sudden unfamiliar environment didn’t attract her attention, and at this moment, only Xia Li was in her eyes.
The moment she saw Xia Li, she dropped the cat toothbrush cup and the oversized sheep plush toy in her hand and rushed over without hesitation.
Xia Li thought this dragon would say something mushy like ‘I miss you so much’.
He opened his arms, ready to welcome the evil dragon’s coquettishness.
As a result…
“Dragon Collision!”
A passionate hug, carrying a powerful impact, directly pushed Xia Li onto the bed behind him.
“Hee hee hee!”
Lucia’s smile was brighter than flowers. The whole dragon firmly pressed Xia Li under her, hugged his waist with both arms, buried her face in his chest, and took a deep breath.
Xia Li’s energy was replenishing.
10%, 20%…
Replenishment complete!
“You smell so good!”
After Lucia finished smelling Xia Li, she raised her head and exhaled.
“I just took a shower. ”
Xia Li rubbed the dragon’s head, lifted her up from him, and smelled her in return.
“You smell good too. ”
“I also took a shower!”
A big dragon tail stuck out from under Lucia’s long skirt, swaying from side to side smugly.
After hugging Xia Li for a while, Lucia sat up and began to look around.
The room they were in was very large, a standard one-bedroom apartment.
The whole space was decorated in a log cabin style. From the ceiling to the walls to the floor, it was all dark brown wood.
Hmm…very serious and ordinary.
There was no “exotic atmosphere” that Lucia had imagined at all.
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“Wow~~”
It wasn’t until she pulled open the curtains and saw the scenery outside the window that Lucia truly felt the difference between coming from inland to the seaside.
The waves crashed on the beach one after another, and the breeze brought not only the sound of the waves, but also a faint salty smell.
In the dark night sky, the vast starry sky made people feel inexplicably peaceful. The sparkling sea surface was like a broken mirror, reflecting the starry sky above.
Lucia had stood on the vast beach countless times, looking out at the sea.
The loneliness of the dragon would become concrete at that moment, and the bright moon above her head was like a spotlight, focusing all the loneliness on her, and there was nowhere to escape from the loneliness.
In contrast, the sea here seemed to come alive.
The surroundings were filled with laughter, and in the distance, she could still see naked human cubs running happily on the beach.
Speaking of which, this was the first time she had come to the beach with Xia Li…
Withdrawing her appreciation of the scenery, Lucia pulled Xia Li’s hand and couldn’t wait to go to the beach to play in the water.
“Xia Li, Xia Li, let’s go swimming!”
“It will be very cold at the beach at night…”
“I’m not afraid of the cold!”
It was already nine o’clock in the evening.
The government center for immigration procedures had long been closed. Xia Li thought that since there was nothing else to do, he might as well take Lucia out to play.
He took two jackets, hid the Demon Repelling Sword in the wardrobe, and took the evil dragon out for some fresh air.
The place where they lived was only about 20 kilometers away from the city center, and the surrounding area was quite prosperous, with many shops open even at night.
Perhaps because of the local cultural customs, most of the shops here were bars, and it was not uncommon to see all kinds of small shops for drinking and dancing on the street.
Xia Li took Lucia for a stroll along two streets before finding a fast food restaurant and ordering some fried chicken to fill their stomachs.
Surprisingly, the prices here were actually lower than in China, and the two of them only spent less than 50 yuan for a meal.
Of course, this was also related to the fact that the restaurant Xia Li found was very ordinary.
“@#￥%*…”
Listening to the messy pronunciation of the surrounding languages, Lucia curiously leaned close to Xia Li’s ear and asked in a low voice.
“What are they saying?”
Although everyone was talking, Lucia could understand the tone and context of the speech, but when those strange syllables entered her ears, they turned into a garbled mess.
At first glance, it sounded like English, but when she listened carefully, she found that the pronunciation didn’t seem to be like that.
“I don’t understand. ” Xia Li shook his head.
When he bought food just now, he communicated by gestures.
If he really couldn’t communicate, he would use the universal translation software.
It was actually very convenient to go abroad now. In the past, you had to bring an interpreter as a guide when you went abroad. Now, you could travel the world with just a mobile phone. Mobile phone maps and translation software were definitely great tools for communicating in modern civilization.
“Huh? Even you don’t understand…” Lucia was surprised.
“They speak Spanish, which I haven’t been exposed to. ”
“Oh! Banya!”
Lucia had her own understanding.
She took a bite of fried chicken and scooped another spoonful of rice into her mouth.
The food combination here was quite strange, with a kind of Chinese-Western fusion aesthetic. At least Lucia had never eaten this kind of fried chicken with rice in China…
It was quite novel to try it once in a while.
It was a pity that her chopstick skills were useless.
She had practiced chopstick skills for half a year, but when she came here, she found that she couldn’t use them at all.
Everyone here ate with spoons and forks. How could she eat slippery rice noodles with these…
Lucia thought about all kinds of things.
After finishing the meal, Xia Li went to the store to buy Coke, and Lucia waited quietly outside.
“The prices here are really cheap. ”
Xia Li also bought a bottle of juice for Lucia.
He didn’t know what kind of juice it was. When he used the translator to take a picture and translate it, several fruit names came out. It should be a mixed fruit juice.
“According to the real-time exchange rate, Coke is less than three yuan a bottle. ” Xia Li opened the juice and handed it to Lucia, sighing with emotion.
Also an island, Xia Li thought of the Coke in the Maldives that cost 150 yuan a bottle.
The prices in Dominica were indeed touching.
When Lucia heard him say this, she instantly felt a good impression of this place.
It was worthy of being the place she chose.
Cheap!
Any place with cheap food was a good place. It would be best if one yuan could buy a ton of rice, so that she only needed to work for a month and could lie at home and do nothing for more than ten years.
The ultimate dream of an evil dragon.
“Good place!”
Lucia took a sip of the juice, and the sour and sweet taste stimulated her taste buds.
Although it was already late at night, Lucia was full of energy.
For her, it hadn’t been long since she woke up, and even if she had to adjust to the time difference, she couldn’t fall asleep.
Xia Li also took this into consideration and took her through the small streets with island style, and finally the two came to a beach.
As time went by, the crowd on the beach had long since left, leaving only footprints.
The sea water at night was as thick as ink, and the sea and the sky were the same color. Only endless darkness and diamond-like stars dotted the view.
It was said that the sea view here was even more stunning, but it was a pity that it was pitch black at night and nothing could be seen.
It just so happened that this kind of “nothing can be seen” environment was most suitable for walking a dragon.
“Go and play, but don’t go too deep. ”
Xia Li stood barefoot on the beach and let go of the evil dragon to play on her own.
If he didn’t consider Lucia’s race, Xia Li really wouldn’t feel at ease letting his girlfriend go swimming in the sea alone.
But this guy was a dragon.
This dragon loved to play in the water, and her water skills were no less than those of professional divers.
As long as she released her dragon tail, the thrust generated by the dragon tail swinging in the water alone could leave swimming champions several blocks behind.
After receiving Xia Li’s instructions, Lucia bent down and pulled her feet out of her shoes. The beach here was cool, and the sand was unexpectedly fine and soft.
She pursed her lips impatiently, handed her slippers to Xia Li, and suddenly thought of something before entering the water.
“Will…you be very tired?”
“I’m not tired. ”
“Have you slept well these two days?” Lucia asked with her head tilted.
These two days, she had been unilaterally sharing her life with Xia Li, and Xia Li had kept his mouth shut about his own affairs.
Lucia didn’t even know if Xia Li had been eating and sleeping well.
Xia Li smiled.
He thought to himself that this dragon’s thoughts had become really delicate, and she even knew how to take care of people.
“I’ve been sleeping all the time, I slept for two days, and I haven’t adjusted to the time difference yet. You go and play, we’ll sleep together later. ”
“Okay!”
Lucia pinched the hem of her skirt, looked at Xia Li, and then at the alluring dark sea.
Then she gave Xia Li a sweet smile and suddenly ran.
The moment her feet stepped on the shallow beach and were immersed in the sea water, she took a running leap and flew out.
“Dragon Launch!”