Chapter 366 Harvest, and Crisis (7000, First Update~)

The young man's head was held high by the silver-haired girl, facing the distance.

Visible in the distant mountains, black poisonous gas soared into the sky. Amidst the blizzard and flowing clouds, a winding black serpent shadow coiled around the peaks, battling lightning storms and equally enormous beasts.

At that moment, as a slight rumble echoed from the earth, the entire Northern Land trembled due to the beasts fighting in the mountains. The increasingly clear roars of the dragon and serpent carried waves of fierce wind, howling from afar.

"Jormungandr...fighting another beast. Leviathan, perhaps?"

Narrowing his eyes, Su Zhou first revealed a 'just as I expected' expression, then frowned again: "Indeed, that prince isn't dead. But, it seems there's also Yinglong? Is this a three-way brawl, or..."

After a while, Su Zhou asked Aula to put his head down. The girl's hands were steady and elegant. Holding the young man's head didn't seem abrupt, but rather possessed a strange beauty, though it was very hard. After all, the android's body was made of extraordinary materials, harder than steel.

Considering the current situation, Su Zhou's condition was actually very simple.

Having fought Fafnir and Jormungandr, and then repeatedly ambushed by Gorgon and Yinglong, after a near-suicidal struggle, Su Zhou's true form was only a head that couldn't maintain itself. Even the self-spiritual energy circulation was incomplete.

To put it simply, if Su Zhou's true form was a robot, then he had damaged the energy core, energy transmission system, and a series of weapon modules. Although the most important thinking organ was preserved, if there was insufficient spiritual energy, the remaining dragon head would not be able to maintain activity, and would decay and be completely destroyed.

Although the human body and dragon body were independent, and the destruction of the true form would only temporarily result in the loss of this divine power, Su Zhou could restore it with time. But what the young man lacked most now was time—therefore, he transferred the energy core of his human body to the dragon body, providing energy to keep it active, waiting for the day he could obtain enough material to reshape his body.

Although it sounded like a child driving a big car, that was the reality. If someone could observe Su Zhou's spiritual energy space, then they would see countless blue crystal pipes resembling blood vessels extending from the neck of Su Zhou's human body, like willow branches, connecting to the neck of a huge dragon head, providing it with energy... Bizarre? Can the affairs of transcendents be called bizarre? This is called taking a different path!

So now Su Zhou only had a head left.

"Ah, Aula, your power isn't enough."

Now, hidden in an unmanned shed in a marginal village, Su Zhou was analyzing the current situation, waiting for a chance to recover, while habitually making a verbal pass: "If your magic was a little stronger, my recovery speed would be faster."

Su Zhou was just saying it casually, but the android replied very seriously: "My android core can accelerate its operation. I only need to input the nine-digit key from the Poin Workshop, and I can lift the processing restrictions. The nine-digit key is 84..."

"Let's save that for when it's necessary. It will deplete your lifespan. Let's see if we can find some food reserves first."

In response, Su Zhou shook his head, rejecting the other party's suggestion: "Or some magical materials. Even making a crude energy core would work, as long as it can maintain the activity of my true form. Then I can at least liberate the combat power of my human body."

The combat power of Su Zhou's human body was actually not weak, but against those divine dragons and giant serpents whose size was exaggerated, the destructive power was a bit lacking—look at the battle between Jormungandr and Leviathan in the distance. The mountains were collapsing, and it looked like they would continue to fight for at least half a day.

With this kind of vitality and defense, the destructive power of the human body was simply a tickle.

However, if he couldn't deal with the divine dragons, could he not deal with people? Soon, Su Zhou would transform into a berserker assassin, wielding a broadsword and spear, to assassinate those Dragon Ball holders, catching them off guard!

Thinking this way, Su Zhou also began to summarize the gains from this battle.

First, there was the hunter boy, Fendt, and the Dragon Ball that summoned Quetzalcoatl.

Because Quetzalcoatl had already retreated, the totem displayed on the Dragon Ball had begun to gradually dissipate, but Su Zhou still imprinted a part of the serpent god's power—although he didn't know what it was useful for now, he would collect it first.

Secondly, there was the dragon blood of the magic dragon Fafnir.

Although in mythology, there weren't many descriptions of Fafnir's abilities, simply speaking, it was basically getting slashed by the holy sword, blood flowing all over the ground, and then granting the hero immortality after death... But when Su Zhou fought it, he keenly sensed that Fafnir's dragon scale structure was extremely dense, and even had nano-structured anti-impact rune patterns on it. If he hadn't used the Blade of Nirvana to break its defense, it would truly be immortal. It would be difficult to break the defense even with ordinary commander-level attacks.

In this regard, there were too many things to learn from. Su Zhou could completely use this to modify and upgrade his own Immortal Dragon Scales.

This process would definitely be accompanied by countless failures and even rejection reactions, but after all, Su Zhou held Immortal Blood. This kind of failure was almost non-existent for him.

Next, there was the dragon blood of Yinglong.

Although Su Zhou himself possessed Yinglong blood before accepting Yala's Immortal Blood, it was not pure after all, and only the wind and water assistance survived.

In the process of his growth, these two innate divine powers had also undergone corresponding evolution, and the blood of Yinglong might be able to strengthen this aspect of power again in some way, or grant some new divine powers—for example, Su Zhou could try to grow wings, and then hang vector nozzles on the wings?

Anything was possible, after all, Su Zhou's true form was so casual.

"These gains alone are enough."

Sorting through things to this point, Su Zhou also felt very satisfied. With these two dragon blood harvests, if his true form recovered, the strength would definitely be even higher. If he could get the blood of the other six divine dragons in this Dragon Ball War, it would be a great harvest.

As for now, he would hide first and observe the situation.

So, Aula took Su Zhou's head and quietly hid in the corner of the shed, beginning to rest.

The next day.

The battle between Jormungandr, Leviathan, and Yinglong continued throughout the night. The thunder in the northern Koberl Mountains never stopped for a moment. Half of the mountains were surrounded by black poisonous clouds. Countless magical beasts in the mountains didn't even have time to escape, and were turned into corpses in the ice and snow by the aftermath of the divine dragons' battle. Lightning and thunder flashed across the sky, and one could even hear war songs that sounded like ten thousand people rising up and roaring angrily.

Before the battle in the distance ended, most of the residents of the small towns fled the Northern Land overnight—if the previous battles could still deceive themselves, saying that the battles of transcendents had nothing to do with ordinary people like them, but after seeing the scene of even the mountains collapsing, no one dared to gamble with their lives.

With the android's keen hearing, Aula also learned a lot of news from many transcendents passing by.

For example, the black serpent devoured a mountain peak, fought fiercely with the beast all night, but was finally killed by the beast and the Dragon of Heaven working together. The corpse was wrapped around the main peak of the Koberl Mountains.

For example, Lord Mya's bodyguard had been fully mobilized, searching everywhere for a 'silver-haired, red-eyed girl, about ten years old'. He even offered a high reward, and many transcendents, thinking 'Since I can't get the Dragon Ball, I might as well earn this money', accepted the reward and were searching everywhere.

"Su Zhou, what are we going to do next?"

Raising her hand, the silver-haired, red-eyed girl gently wiped away the ice crystals that had condensed on her long eyelashes. Her tone was calm, and she was not at all panicked because she was being wanted.

Although the tracker in her body had been eliminated, there was no way to change her size. The Mya family's purpose was also very obvious, which was that they knew the news of Su Zhou being seriously injured, and wanted to take the opportunity to recover the Dragon Ball—not just one, the Quetzalcoatl's Dragon Ball was also in Su Zhou's hands.

"You should be afraid, and then try to hide."

In response, Su Zhou still gave the same old advice. He was also a little troubled after learning this news.

Now, there were divine dragons watching from the outside, and Lord Mya was searching from the inside. There were many transcendents searching in both towns and villages. Although the wilderness was vast, it was an endless plain, and the possibility of being discovered was not low. As for the mountains, they were even more dangerous. Su Zhou guessed that Matvey's or the Second Prince's lair was there.

Although most of those hired foreign transcendents, or Lord Mya's bodyguard, were not transcendent, or were not strong even if they were, even if Su Zhou only had a head left, he could kill them with a single breath—but now was not the time to act. Once he acted, as long as the force was a little stronger, then the other divine dragons would probably come.

Su Zhou could interrupt the connection and return to Earth at any time, but Aula couldn't. Once she encountered other divine dragons, the android girl's outcome would be certain death.

"So, you always tie your hands because of other people. It's really not refreshing."

In response, Yala in the personal space couldn't help but shake his head and complain.

"But you like me like this, don't you? I can act for the ordinary people of Qiming, the Divine Wood World, and the Samsara World, and for Aula, which means that in the future I will also fight for you."

And Su Zhou replied indifferently, his words simple and sharp: "You must like my personality the most."

In response, the Serpent Spirit also laughed, nodding in satisfaction: "That's right, you are the person I value."

In order to ensure safety and to disguise themselves, Su Zhou asked Aula to put on the exoskeleton armor made of his own dragon scales again, preparing to let her hide in the snow around the town with this camouflage, avoiding the biggest storm during this period.

However, before Aula, who had put on the exoskeleton armor, could act, a team of guard warriors wearing powered armor patrolled to this place at the village exit.

The powered armor of the Kerbal Empire looked very similar to the exoskeleton armor of the Zheng Nation, but they were not the same in essence—the former was just a modern metal armor equipped with powered movement, while the latter was an armored vehicle worn on the body, integrating many functions.

But even so, this was a pure killing machine, extremely powerful.

The guard warriors did not disperse to search the entire village. The captain took out a crystal ball-like magical device and input magic power.

This crystal ball-like magical device had the Poin Workshop's trademark, and its function was also very simple.

That was to directly display the signals released by all android cores within a radius of fifteen kilometers.

Originally, this inspection was just a routine matter. Even the guard warriors didn't expect that they could really find their target—so when they realized that the signal was real, they were first stunned, and then ecstatic. Then, everyone took out their weapons and began a carpet search of the entire village.

"Exposed?"

Su Zhou also sensed this. He murmured to himself, preparing to instruct Aula to act and avoid this group of searchers.

But the android girl, who also understood the current situation, began to shiver after thinking for a while, becoming a look that seemed very scared.

——This kid, the way she shivers, is really a bit like Li Hanshan's.

Although a rather strange piece of information flashed through his mind, Su Zhou was more helpless: "Aula, what are you shivering for?"

"Su Zhou taught me. At this time, I should be afraid, so that I can ensure survival."

The android girl's answer was methodical, her expression very serious.

She held Su Zhou's head. Although her body was shaking, her tone was calm: "I am very afraid of being discovered. I really want to hide, or run away, so I should shiver."

"That's wrong. You only learned the surface, not the essence."

In response, Su Zhou's evaluation was a bit like 'hating that iron cannot become steel': "Moreover, I am now going to teach you a more profound aspect of human nature—"

"In times of crisis, it is certainly necessary to be afraid and urge yourself to take action, but also to learn to go all out."

"In other words, be 'reckless'!"

Saying so, Su Zhou used soul communication to transmit a route map and action plan for how to quickly leave the town and then hide in the snowy wilderness to Aula. He instructed earnestly: "For example, at this time, no matter how afraid you are, you should risk being reckless—since you have been discovered, there is no use in being afraid. It is better to muster the courage and rush out!"

"Reckless..."

In response, Aula opened her small mouth slightly, her big red eyes full of confusion, and her face was even more dazed, obviously not understanding for a moment.

But at least, she understood the action instruction 'muster the courage and rush out'.

So, in the next second, the girl raised her leg, magic power infused into her feet.

And so, Aula, wearing the dragon scale exoskeleton armor, holding Su Zhou's head, directly turned into a phantom in the wind before all the guard warriors could react, and ran rapidly towards the distance.

"Humans are truly contradictory creatures."

While running, she muttered to herself, quite puzzled. Aula's tone carried a hint of emotion: "Many of the things Su Zhou said contradict each other. It's hard for me to understand."

In response, Su Zhou didn't care: "Actually, it's not contradictory. It's precisely because of the fear of death that sometimes you have to desperately do certain things—if you don't do it, you will definitely die. If you do it, there is still a glimmer of hope. This is also a choice made out of fear of death, and what drives some courage is fear itself."

And just as Aula had left the village for more than four hundred meters, the guard warriors finally reacted.

"The target is there!"

"Chase!"

"The superiors said, whether dead or alive, attack!"

The leading warrior did not hesitate. They were professional killing machines. At an order, the sound of guns being raised rang out in unison. The magic power in the magical导 guns rapidly condensed.

Hundreds of thousands of magic missiles that spewed out drew trajectories in the air, striking towards the girl's back.

But how could these ordinary, industrialized magic missiles that had no special magic features tear apart the exoskeleton armor made of Su Zhou's dragon scales? Most of the magic missiles were absorbed and bounced off the moment they touched the scales, causing no damage.

However, after all, the girl's weight was too light. She was pushed forward by the impact of the magic missiles and fell. However, the android was, after all, a combat tool that had been manufactured. She didn't care, but quickly got up again and ran forward.

"Hold me up!"

The bullets were still spraying out. Su Zhou knew that if he allowed the warriors to continue attacking, Aula would not be able to run far. Therefore, he asked Aula to hold up his head, and the young man's head turned to face the direction of the guard warriors.

In his eyes, brilliant spiritual light was gathering, and then, it burst out!

If there was no body, he couldn't attack? Were transcendents such fragile beings? Long ago, he had visited the Zheng Nation's most advanced laser weapon base, and by the way, modified his eye structure into a weapon. Now, he only needed to fill it with spiritual power to use 'Pupil Technique' comparable to a laser cannon!

In an instant, a huge amount of heat was condensed into a small beam of light. Although laser beams were not easy to use in this snowy environment, the pursuing warriors were really too close. Even if the laser beam from the eye was scattered by the snow, the excessive heat ignited the air, melted the flying snow, and formed an amazing explosive shock wave, forcing back the numerous guard warriors who were chasing after him.

"Speaking of which, it feels a bit like déjà vu... If I get Gorgon's petrifying magic eye, isn't this scene Perseus using Medusa's head to fight the enemy..."

Although he was muttering something, this was indeed effective. Su Zhou did not stop, continuing to fire eye lasers—because it needed to cool down, he would open and close his eyes left and right to fire in a loop, blasting the pursuing guard warriors while feeling horrified.

No matter how much of a killing machine they were, they would be scared to see a human head shining brightly, blasting the surrounding area to smithereens.

"No, I can only use my ultimate move."

Soon, the guard captain understood that if this continued, they wouldn't be able to achieve great merit, and the entire team would be blasted and defeated by the other party—it seemed that the other party was deliberately suppressing the power in order not to attract the attention of others.

So he immediately made up his mind, took out a scroll, and tore it open without hesitation.

Boom! As the magic scroll was activated,激荡雷鸣 came from the guard captain's hand. Visible white shockwaves began to oscillate and converge, and then 加持 on a small silver metal ball, and then fired!

"Railgun?"

The moment the other party took out the magic scroll, Su Zhou used his profound attainments in Thunder Law to determine the specific function of this scroll. He immediately informed Aula and issued the order: "Aula, use my head as a shield to block this attack!"

In the next moment, the metal bullet was fired at supersonic speed.

But for some reason, the girl hesitated for a moment subconsciously, and did not follow Su Zhou's order to use his head as a shield to block this attack.

嘭——In an instant, Aula's right shoulder, the place connecting to her arm, was shattered—because the dragon scale exoskeleton armor contained self-destruction elements, so the railgun was deflected to some extent, and did not go deep into Aula's body along the direction of倾泻, but bounced off, failing to achieve full success.

And the android did not have real flesh and blood. After leaving the core, this slender hand immediately turned into fly ash and scattered in the heavy snow. Aula also had no pain. Knocked down, she rolled over and continued to get up and run, and her left hand had always tightly held Su Zhou's head.

"I'm a little afraid that Su Zhou will die." Regarding her actions, Aula opened her eyes wide and explained seriously: "If Su Zhou dies, I will also die. Thinking of this, my hand moved."

"I'm not wrong哦——fear made me do this, not myself."

She has not yet understood that fear is actually an emotion of her own, but regards it as an external thing of the mind.

"Alas, stupid girl, can't my skull block a railgun..."

Seeing this, Su Zhou had no choice. He couldn't blame the other party's hesitation. After all, the android was a machine that would unconditionally obey all instructions, but he didn't want Aula to really be a machine, without her own thoughts... This was also the contradiction of human beings. One moment, he hoped that a person could be like this, and the next moment, he hoped that she could be like that.

"Now I will definitely be discovered by other divine dragons."

But it was not the time to sigh. Faced with the guard warriors who had succeeded with one blow and continued to pursue happily, Su Zhou could only sigh, and then let out a breath.

Then, the狂风呼啸.

With just a light breath, a thunderclap suddenly rose from the ground—under the super wind created by the Arashi seed, all the guard warriors, along with everything within a few hundred meters around them, were blown away. Beside them, a tornado was slowly forming, and the warriors who faced the wind directly were rolled into it, and then, in long screams, they did not know where they were thrown.

And just as Su Zhou showed this wind-type supernatural power, far away on the other side of the Koberl Mountains, Yinglong, who was recuperating on the top of the mountain, opened his eyes and looked in the direction where Su Zhou was.

"Zhuzhou has appeared! But this aura... is too weak, it's hard to catch."

But then, it, who wanted to attack immediately, and Matvey, who rushed over after hearing the news, looked in another direction.

"The other two sides are actually fighting... Yinglong?" The injuries on his face had been treated almost, and Matvey couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

And Yinglong shook his head: "According to your plan, Gorgon's side is obviously more important. Moreover, Zhuzhou's aura here is too weak. I suspect it's a decoy."

"That's right." Matvey didn't hesitate for too long.

His plan had been in preparation for twenty years. Now was the final moment. He would not give up the opportunity to succeed. In any case, Zhuzhou's current state was very poor. It was impossible to recover his combat power in a short time, and it would be a waste of time to find him. He could not be counted as the first-order target.

This judgment was very normal. Whether it was the thinking of normal people or normal divine dragons, they could not understand what it meant to have only one head. This was not surprising to Yinglong and Matvey. After all, even a dragon should die after walking on the Dragon Slaying Platform. How could it be possible to jump around with only one head?

On the other side.

After repelling the chasing team, Aula, hiding in a hilly cave somewhere, separated her legs to both sides and sat obediently in place.

This was probably the nest where a beast hibernated, but the beasts in the Northern Land had already陸陆续续 evacuated this land due to the divine dragon war some time ago, but they saved them a lot of effort.

At this time, it could be seen that the girl's right hand had completely disappeared, and her shoulder socket was completely broken. The wound was even showing signs of ash, which was constantly spreading, eroding the intact parts of Aula's body.

"You little guy, do I need you to protect me?"

Su Zhou suspended in front of her, his tone quite unhappy: "I am the divine dragon you summoned, I should be protecting you! I told you to use my head as a shield, you should have listened carefully."

"Next time, I will." In response, Aula nodded obediently and replied: "Next time, I will."

"Tsk, who taught you this? Oh, it was me, then it's okay... No, there is no next time!"

Looking at the obedient android girl, Su Zhou couldn't say anything harsh—after all, the other party was injured in order to protect him, although he didn't need protection at all... but he couldn't criticize too much.

"Shoulder wound closer."

Without saying much, Su Zhou said so, and Aula honestly put her broken shoulder wound closer.

Then, Su Zhou closed his eyes, and in the center of his forehead, a cyan-purple blood bead dripped down, sinking into the android's wound.

Suddenly, cyan-purple纹路 spread under the girl's white skin.

"Well, in a while, your hand will grow out... Remember to eat more."

Sharing a drop of精血, Su Zhou didn't feel anything, after all, his 精血 at its peak, was measured in thousands of tons.

Now was not the time to stay. Waiting for her to move her body, and indeed feeling that her肉体崩毁 phenomenon had stopped, Aula heard Su Zhou's words: "Continue to take me away... Now, Yinglong has probably come to find me, right? Then we will go in the opposite direction, to their possible lair."

"Go to the Koberl Mountains, there should be many magical beast corpses there that can help me recover my true form."

"Okay, Su Zhou."

Promising so, Aula picked up the young man's head with one hand.

The strange disabled combination was ready to set off again.

But, at this moment, Su Zhou's eyes suddenly froze.

In an instant, he seemed to hear the giant serpent's voice from the distant twilight beyond.

And, following that giant serpent's voice, came a large amount of information from the bounty hunters.