novelraw Chapter 67
Chapter 67
Chapter 67: The Evil Dragon Absorbs Humans
The afterglow faded, and the sunset left a layer of orange-red gauze on the old brick walls.
In the sparsely populated streets, elderly men and women hobbled forward, leaning on their canes, and the last leaf fell from the ancient trees, swept down by the wind.
“Achoo—”
The temperature seemed to drop a few degrees again.
Xia Li rubbed his nose and took his hands off the keyboard.
This kind of slow-paced lifestyle unique to the old city made it easy for people to calm down and focus on their own things.
In just two days, the serialized word count of this record of experiences had reached 50,000 words.
Looking at the dozens of positive comments in the comments section, Xia Li felt a sense of accomplishment.
He used to make up short stories on this platform, purely out of thin air. But this time was different. This time, the stories all came from Xia Li and Lucia’s personal experiences, their sights, sounds, and thoughts… As long as Xia Li could present these contents through words, then it would be more real than any story.
“Still no income.”
Xia Li looked at the donation of only a few cents in the background and sighed.
However, this matter could not be rushed.
Now was the time to accumulate readers.
He had to wait until at least 100,000 words before considering making money.
The serialization of the record of experiences had to be done slowly.
Finding a hobby for Lucia had to be done slowly, teaching her Chinese characters had to be done slowly, and everything needed to be baptized by time before one could see the harvest…
The same went for the most complicated emotion between humans, which also needed time to settle.
Rubbing his sore shoulders, he returned to the living room. Lucia was holding Xia Li’s phone with both hands and lying on the sofa like a salted fish.
She didn’t like watching TV, but she liked Xia Li’s phone.
There were many more things to watch in it than on TV.
“The study materials will arrive tomorrow. From tomorrow onwards, you have to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and Chinese pinyin, got it?”
“Uh-huh.” Lucia nodded like a pecking chick.
Xia Li could tell at a glance that the evil dragon wasn’t listening seriously. She was holding the phone with both hands, her eyes almost glued to the screen.
Looking down, Xia Li found that the evil dragon was watching a TV series.
Could it be some kind of cheesy love soap opera?
Did this silly dragon understand what love was?
Not seeing anything special, Xia Li spoke again.
“Repeat what I just said.”
“Hehehe… Huh?”
Lucia was enjoying herself, but when Xia Li asked, the smile on her face gradually froze.
“Tomorrow I’m going to #￥%&*@…”
Lucia spoke extremely fast, trying to muddle through.
“Repeat it again.” Xia Li said sternly.
Lucia: “…”
With a plop, the phone landed on her face.
Lucia quickly got up and carefully recalled what Master Xia had just been nagging about beside her.
“I’m going to start studying tomorrow.”
“Good to know.” Xia Li’s expression finally relaxed.
As expected, he had become the person he used to hate the most.
Xia Li understood his old man and Mrs. Fang a little now.
“By the way, Xia Li, just now a girl… a female named Peach sent a message.” Lucia sat upright and returned the phone to Xia Li.
“Peach is a guy.”
“…Huh?”
Lucia recognized the character “Peach” and also recognized the character “Zi.”
No matter how you looked at these two characters, they seemed like the name of Xia Li’s girlfriend… a female friend, right?
“Peach is Taozi, Chen Tao, the one who lives downstairs,” Xia Li explained. “A few of us who are close friends gave each other nicknames. He calls me Boss Xia, and I call him Peach.”
“Oh…”
Lucia had originally imagined what Miss Peach looked like, but after hearing that it was Chen Tao, Miss Peach’s beauty shattered in her mind.
“Then what’s my nickname?”
Lucia sat down next to Xia Li with some anticipation.
She should be pretty good friends with Xia Li too.
After all, she was his only girlfriend, and it was a purely platonic friendship.
Xia Li unlocked his phone, opened WeChat, and looked up at Lucia.
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Lucia’s amber eyes blinked.
“I’ll probably call you Stinky Dragon.” Xia Li said casually.
Lucia frowned slightly, obviously quite concerned about the nickname.
She sniffed her clothes but didn’t smell anything bad.
Then she put her nose on Xia Li’s shoulder and took a deep breath.
“…”
Xia Li had seen people sniff cats and dogs.
But this was the first time he had seen a person being sniffed by a dragon.
“Then I’ll call you Fragrant Brave Hero.” Lucia concluded seriously.
Xia Li smiled, his lips curled up again by the evil dragon.
Thinking something was wrong, he wondered why he had been falling for the evil dragon’s charm recently, so he quickly flattened his lips.
“Chen Tao asked me to go out to dinner with them tomorrow, do you want to go?”
“Dinner… What kind of dinner?”
Lucia had a strong interest in food.
“They said they’re having grilled fish in the group.”
“Fish…”
Lucia suddenly remembered the bloody scene of the Brave Hero killing and scaling a fish in front of her that day.
If she was in her dragon form, she would love to eat fish, but in her human form… Looking at the fish with their scales scraped off always gave Lucia a phantom limb pain.
“I, I don’t eat fish.” Lucia shook her head repeatedly.
“Then you’re not going?”
“Are there any great humans I need to meet?”
Lucia asked, remembering the Brave Hero’s mother she had met on the phone that day.
“No, they’re all rough guys.”
Xia Li paused and added, “If you don’t want to go, then don’t go. With your current abilities, you can’t handle so many people.”
This clumsy dragon almost exposed herself just by talking to that goofball Chen Tao. If she faced so many people tomorrow, and each of them asked a question, with Lucia’s little brain, wouldn’t she just self-destruct on the spot?
Forget it, Xia Li was not in a hurry to let Lucia meet his buddies.
It was best if she didn’t meet them. He was keeping her hidden like a treasure, and Lucia was so pretty and well-behaved, it was best to keep her at home and not let anyone see her.
Thinking of this, Xia Li made up his mind.
“I’ll order takeout for you in advance tomorrow, you can eat when it arrives,” Xia Li said. “It might be cold by then, come here, I’ll teach you how to use the microwave.”
Xia Li took Lucia to the kitchen to learn about the new appliance.
The microwave was placed on the kitchen shelf, a bit high up. Lucia looked up and studied it carefully.
“Just twist it like this.”
“Why not wait until I’m hungry and then have the food delivered? That way it won’t be cold.” Lucia said cleverly.
“That way you’ll come into contact with male bunny ears… come into contact with the delivery person.”
“I definitely won’t attack them.”
“The point is not whether you attack them…”
Xia Li scratched his head, feeling that this matter was difficult to explain.
“When I’m not around, try to avoid contact with other humans… This is to protect those humans, and also to protect you.”
“So Xia Li doesn’t want me to have contact with other males…”
Lucia muttered to herself, then suddenly realized.
When a male dragon wanted to possess a female, they would do this.
Lucia didn’t understand human desires.
But from a dragon’s point of view, she could understand what ‘possessiveness’ was.
“Then will you have contact with other females?”
“Ah? It’s all guys on my side, no females.”
After hearing this, Lucia pursed her lips sweetly and nodded in satisfaction.
“Alright then, you go early and come back early tomorrow.”
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