novelraw Chapter 95
Chapter 95
Chapter 95: Jealousy from Afar
“Me? What’s so interesting about my story?”
Xia Li sat back down at his computer and quickly jotted down an outline of the plot points he had just come up with.
Behind him, Lucia was still lying on the bed, looking at him expectantly.
“You said you were from Earth, not Azure Continent.”
Lucia had wanted to ask this question for a long time. When she learned that Xia Li’s hometown was on Earth, she was curious about this, but she wasn’t that familiar with Xia Li at the time, so she didn’t dare to ask.
“So why would you risk your own life to help the humans on Azure Continent?” Lucia asked curiously.
“…”
Xia Li was silent for a moment.
This was something he couldn’t explain easily. He helped the people there because he was human too.
As a fellow human, when Xia Li saw the evil dragons of that world, the burned villages, the destroyed kingdoms, the displaced elderly, and the children who had lost their parents…
He felt the same sadness as the humans there.
There was more than just Lucia on Azure Continent. There were many more dragons there, with worse personalities, some who even took pleasure in slaughter.
Xia Li was summoned to Azure Continent as the Brave Hero. He pulled the Sword in the Stone and was granted supreme power and honor.
He fought for humanity, but he also fought for himself.
Many things were beyond his control.
“Because I’m human,” Xia Li said softly.
Lucia sat up on the bed and looked gently into his eyes.
“But I think…” Xia Li added.
“There’s no right or wrong in this matter. There are good people among humans, and there are also good dragons among dragons. It’s too biased to talk about right or wrong in this matter.
The struggle for resources is the struggle for survival, it’s the law of the jungle. Even on resource-rich Earth, the law of the jungle is the basic rule. So the conflict between humans and dragons is just a conflict of positions and interests, everyone is right.”
Xia Li’s explanation made the dragon fall into a brief contemplation.
If it had been before, Xia Li definitely wouldn’t have reflected so much.
He was human, so it was natural to help humans, that was reality.
But there was no way around it.
Xia Li was now love-addled.
He was willing to think about this issue from the perspective of the dragon race, and the answer to this question was also obvious…
There was no right or wrong.
As a human from Earth, Xia Li was even less qualified to comment on right or wrong from the perspective of a bystander.
“…”
Lucia thought for a long time, but couldn’t come up with a reason.
However, she could understand Xia Li’s words, “I am human.”
If she encountered someone bullying a young dragon while she was out and about, Lucia would also step in to help if she was in a good mood.
To see injustice and cry out, humans and dragons were quite similar in this regard.
Lucia gave up on dwelling on this point and asked Xia Li from a different angle.
“So, being a Brave Hero must be very lucrative.”
“Why do you say that?”
“Because human kingdoms are all very rich. Every time I pry open their warehouses… not only are there enough gold coins for me to lie on, but there’s also enough food stored in there for me to eat for a long time, but I just don’t like to eat it.”
Lucia muttered, “There are so many humans starving, but the human kings hoard these things.”
“…”
Granaries were essential in the hands of every human ruler.
As for the practices of the kings and emperors on Azure Continent, Xia Li wouldn’t comment.
However, there was one point that Xia Li felt it necessary to correct Lucia on.
“Brave Heroes have no money at all.”
“Huh??” Lucia was a little surprised.
“High-ranking human knights are all rolling in money, why does a Brave Hero, who is a hundred times stronger than a knight, have no money?”
“Haha…” Xia Li chuckled dryly.
“I certainly don’t go hungry. Whether it’s the human rulers or the city lords and lords, when they know of my arrival, they all warmly entertain me… but…”
Xia Li’s face showed bitterness when he said this.
He couldn’t tell her that those people in the other world thought Xia Li possessed noble qualities, and when he successfully slew an evil mixed-scale dragon, those nobles only gave him honor, or rare magic items and scrolls, and never gave him money.
Because they thought it was too vulgar to give money to a Brave Hero.
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Human heroes should not be tarnished by such vulgar things.
Giving Xia Li money was simply an insult to him.
But Xia Li actually wanted to be insulted by money.
The penniless Brave Hero ended up borrowing money from his teammates for meals, and sometimes when he was really broke, he would even secretly sell those magic items on the black market.
It was truly a hardship he couldn’t speak of.
“You have food and everything you need, what do you need money for? It’s not like you’re buying a house or a car.”
Xia Li made an excuse for himself and said with a straight face.
Lucia thought about it and agreed.
She had been on Earth for so long that she subconsciously thought that money was an essential thing for human survival.
If there was no worry about food, drink, and shelter, money was just a decoration for both humans and dragons.
“Then continue with your story.”
Lucia nodded in agreement with Xia Li’s view, she wanted to continue listening to the story.
Xia Li didn’t want to talk and put his hand back on the keyboard.
Now Lucia was unhappy.
Her little feet stepped on the floor, she wasn’t wearing shoes, her sock-clad feet walked quietly over, her hips tilted, and then she plopped down on Xia Li’s lap.
“I want to hear stories about you and your girl… female friends!”
So that was the stinky dragon’s goal?
Xia Li wrapped one arm around the stinky dragon and used the other hand to move the mouse and look at the few hundred words he had just written.
“Those were just teammates.”
Xia Li said, “Just like you often see, human adventurers will form groups to act, my side is also acting in groups…
After all, I am a Brave Hero, a swordsman. My magic is not as good as the natives there, my reconnaissance ability is not good, and my knowledge of various species is not as good as theirs, so I have teammates.”
“And then?” Lucia didn’t hear what she wanted to hear.
“And then there’s no ‘and then’.”
“No one is just friends with you?”
“Just friends? I’m just friends with those teammates… no, it’s a real friendship.”
Xia Li was almost confused by the evil dragon.
What was this?
Jealousy from afar?
But was this really jealousy?
Lucia was just concerned about whether her “just friends” and “only girlfriend” status had been broken…
In this regard, Xia Li had a clear conscience.
Because he hadn’t thought about staying on Azure Continent for the rest of his life, so when he was there, he really hadn’t had any thoughts about love.
Besides, it was so dangerous at the time, every day was like walking on a tightrope with his life on the line, how could he have the time to be entangled with girls?
“No girlfriend?” Lucia frowned and looked up.
“No!” Xia Li said confidently.
“Why?”
“Why are there so many ‘whys’…” Xia Li said with a chuckle, “Because they’re not as beautiful and cute as you!”
“Oh!”
Seemingly finally hearing the answer she wanted, the little expression on Lucia’s face was very satisfied.
The evil dragon got off Xia Li’s lap contentedly.
However, Xia Li stretched out his arm and hugged the evil dragon around her waist.
“Don’t go!” Xia Li said.
“You just told me so many stories, I’m going to write them down in one go now, you’re responsible for accompanying me.”
Xia Li pulled the evil dragon onto his lap and raised the monitor so that there wouldn’t be a dragon head blocking his view of the screen.
His hands went around Lucia’s waist to type on the keyboard, and when he got tired after typing for a while, Xia Li would raise his hand and rub the dragon’s head, relaxing as if he were petting a cat.
This stinky dragon was simply a fatigue relief station.