novelraw Chapter 55
Chapter 55
Chapter 55: Evil Dragon Roar!
“Gulp, gulp, gulp…”
Next to Xia Li stood an automatic drinking machine and an automatic eating machine.
Two bottles of orange juice with pulp were finished in no time.
And as it was approaching noon, Lucia repeatedly emphasized that it was almost time to eat, so Xia Li had to buy her two more grilled sausages.
Turning around, the two grilled sausages in the evil dragon’s hands had turned into two bamboo skewers.
She fumbled with the bamboo skewers as if they were chopsticks, finally managing to pick up a leaf from the ground and show it to Xia Li.
“Xia Li, open your mouth~~”
Xia Li: “…”
He always felt a sense of returning to his childhood when he was with this evil dragon. After spending a long time with her, Xia Li even felt that his mentality had become younger.
People on Azure Continent often said that evil dragons were ignorant and evil, but Xia Li now thought… that this guy was purely innocent and romantic.
However…
Who wants to eat leaves?!
I bought you grilled sausages, and you’re feeding me leaves from the ground?!
Xia Li glanced at Lucia on the ground, finished the last bite of his sausage, and threw the two bamboo skewers in a perfect arc, landing them steadily in the trash can.
“Let’s go, there are still a few more areas left.”
“Oh…”
Lucia clapped her hands and quickly followed.
Actually, Lucia wasn’t very interested in the animals in the zoo.
Although there were many species here that she had never seen before, she had seen more species on Azure Continent.
With one flap of their wings, dragons could fly for dozens of kilometers. Even if Lucia flew and stopped intermittently, she could still soar thousands of kilometers across Azure Continent in a day.
She had seen too many animals. In comparison, the zoo that Xia Li took her to was much less diverse.
And, more importantly…
These animals could only be looked at, not eaten, which made Lucia lose most of her interest.
“Primate area, herbivore area, amphibian and reptile area…”
In the end, Xia Li gave up on the paper map and switched to the more convenient mobile phone navigation.
There were only five areas in the North City Zoo, and they had already visited most of them in the morning.
Based on the reactions of these different animals to Lucia, Xia Li came to a conclusion.
Lucia had a suppressive effect on most animals.
He didn’t know if this suppression was bloodline suppression or simply a suppression of aura.
Anyway, as long as Lucia appeared within the animals’ field of vision, they would show an inexplicable sense of fear.
This situation was consistent with the reaction of wild beasts to dragons on Azure Continent.
“Animals that lack intelligence survive on ‘instinct,’ and they also react on ‘instinct’… Your appearance should be similar to them seeing a natural enemy, so they are all afraid of you.”
Xia Li said to Lucia beside him as he walked towards the predator area.
Lucia was still drinking the last of her orange juice with pulp.
This evil dragon seemed to really like orange-flavored things.
“Oh…”
Lucia responded to Xia Li perfunctorily, shook the orange juice bottle, and managed to shake out a drop, which she dripped onto her little tongue.
“…” Xia Li was helpless.
It made sense. This ability to exert pressure on all things was innate to Lucia.
So even if Xia Li found it amazing, Lucia would just take it for granted.
“We’re here, the predator area.”
Arriving at the zoo’s grand finale area, Xia Li seemed even more excited than Lucia.
It was as if Xia Li was the one who wanted to play, even though he had come to the zoo to take Lucia out.
“Come, come, this way.”
Xia Li pulled Lucia to the display case.
Most of the beasts in the predator area were felines. They had absolute jumping ability and aggressiveness, so they were no longer suitable for the same breeding methods as monkeys and elephants. Instead, they were kept in separate small rooms.
Three walls of the small room were made of tempered glass. These glasses were a bit old and looked dirty on the surface, but it didn’t affect the tourists’ view of the animals inside.
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“This is…”
“I know this.”
Teacher Xia Li was about to introduce the animal to Student Lucia, but Student Lucia spoke first.
“This is a gas tank.”
To make her description more accurate, Lucia added, “The snack stalls outside the zoo just now had gas tanks of this shape.”
As Lucia spoke, she looked at the fat leopard with an envious look, as if to say, ‘It’s so good. It must be eating very well to be so fat.’
Xia Li looked at the fat leopard inside the glass room and fell silent.
To be fair, Lucia was indeed good at learning and applying what she had learned. She immediately used the new words Xia Li had taught her today as a metaphor.
This evil dragon wasn’t stupid, she just didn’t have enough knowledge.
If Lucia had received nine years of compulsory education in modern society since she was a child, maybe Student Lucia’s grades would have appeared in the top students’ column.
“This gas tank… no, this snow leopard is a first-class protected animal in our country. It’s quite rare, so take a good look.”
Although Xia Li told Lucia to take a good look, he actually grabbed her wrist and couldn’t wait to take her to the next display case.
“Lucia, scare it.”
“Eh… Huh?”
Under the glass wall, an adult lioness was lying on the ground taking a nap.
Lucia was still chewing on the empty bottle in her mouth when she was suddenly pulled by Xia Li to stand in front of the lioness, a little at a loss.
“This lioness likes to suddenly pounce and open its mouth when tourists take pictures.”
Xia Li recalled the childhood shadow of his youth.
When Xia Yuanjun took him to the zoo before, it wasn’t a glass cage but an iron cage. The lion inside the iron cage was very wild and would pounce from time to time, randomly scaring a passing child.
As one of the tourists who had been scared by the lion, Xia Li had a deep impression of the lioness in this zoo.
However, it shouldn’t be the same one.
After all, according to the lifespan of lions, the lion that liked to scare children should have already died of old age.
“It tried to eat my head, although it didn’t succeed.” Xia Li explained.
“Oh…” Lucia turned her head and looked at the lioness.
Compared to the fat leopard just now, Lucia envied the lion even more.
To bite the head of the Brave Hero in one bite!
Even she, a silver dragon, had never done that!
“Clap, clap.”
Lucia squatted down and patted the glass wall in front of her with her small hands.
The lioness, who was sleeping soundly, lifted her eyelids tiredly.
It rarely paid attention to the two-legged beasts outside. If it hadn’t been for the fact that it had just slept well today, it wouldn’t even bother to lift its eyelids.
However, when it saw those amber eyes less than five centimeters away through the glass, it suddenly stood up.
Its intuition told it that what appeared in its eyes was not a human girl, but… a giant beast as tall as a mountain!
“Roar… Roar!”
The startled lioness roared and retreated.
Because it ran too fast, it stumbled and rolled on the ground.
“Hahaha…!!”
Xia Li laughed so hard that he bent over.
He didn’t expect that after more than ten years, he could still get revenge for his childhood self in this way.
Lucia looked at the lioness cowering in the corner, then looked up at Xia Li.
Xia Li was actually… smiling so happily.
Just scaring a little cat could make him laugh?
When he saw her before, he clearly rushed up with a weapon in his hand.
Humans weren’t that hard to understand after all…
Lucia also smiled.