EDEH Chapter 89

The evil dragon tilted his head, his dark round eyes reflecting light, as if about to say something like “do you want to touch it?”

 

Huo Yanji quickly covered his mouth, forcing it shut, automatically ignoring the fact that evil dragons couldn’t speak human words.

 

“…”

 

A puff of hot air sprayed from his nose onto Huo Yanji’s face.

 

The little evil dragon stared at Huo Yanji mischievously, released his binding, grabbed the human’s hand in his mouth, and completely contained it.

 

Sang Jue was somewhat proud now.

 

He was finally bigger than Huo Yanji, becoming a qualified male mate who could bite down on Ji Ji’s entire hand, even his head.

 

The little evil dragon bit the human’s hand while looking at the human’s attractive face, appearing thoughtful.

 

Huo Yanji: “…Change back.”

 

The evil dragon refused.

 

Huo Yanji narrowed his eyes. Just as his other hand reached for Sang Jue’s tail, he heard coughing from the side.

 

“Cough cough…”

 

Hao Hui had just awakened, coughing for a long time before feeling better, having choked on quite a bit of water. He looked at the unfamiliar environment around him in confusion, unable to remember how he got to shore.

 

The sound of burning trees could faintly be heard, with flickering firelight reflected in his eyes.

 

His first glance fell on the unconscious Saiya beside him. He hurriedly tried to shake him awake, but his peripheral vision caught something unusual beforehand.

 

Hao Hui looked up, meeting the gaze of one dragon and one human who had turned their heads simultaneously.

 

Neither the two people nor the dragon made a sound.

 

In just a few seconds, Hao Hui’s expression went through multiple changes—

 

From the initial confusion upon waking, to shock at seeing Huo Yanji pinned under an evil dragon, finally discovering that Huo Yanji’s hand was being eaten, his face filled with terror, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.

 

The evil dragon tilted his head.

 

Huo Yanji’s eyes moved slightly: “They’re about to wake up, let go of me first.”

 

His tail instinctively coiled even tighter.

 

The domineering nature from his evil dragon genes made him want to snatch the person back to his nest and hide him away right now. But under Huo Yanji’s meaningful gaze, though unhappy, he still controlled his wild nature and released Huo Yanji.

 

Huo Yanji stood up and walked in a half circle, with Sang Jue following in a half circle as well.

 

“…”

 

When Huo Yanji lifted his leg, he lifted his claw, always maintaining a facing position.

 

Huo Yanji’s eyes darkened slightly: “Where are you hurt? Let me see, don’t hide.”

 

Given Sang Jue’s personality, if he wasn’t seriously injured, he shouldn’t be avoiding like this – he would have started unconsciously acting spoiled and complaining about pain long ago. But looking at the evil dragon’s condition, he didn’t seem seriously injured either.

 

The little evil dragon was rarely bashful, even letting out a “roar.”

 

He hesitantly lifted his left leg, claw raised high. The dragon bone was wrapped in beautiful, lean muscle, but on the inner side there was a long narrow wound with some scales missing, red flesh exposed to the air, looking quite terrifying.

 

However, it was no longer bleeding and didn’t look like a fresh wound.

 

This position was somewhat awkward.

 

Huo Yanji inevitably saw the two connected things that were exposed.

 

“…Does it still hurt?”

 

The little evil dragon shook his head, retracted his claw, and sat obediently on the ground, his closed hind legs blocking his private parts.

 

Logically, evil dragons wouldn’t be embarrassed by body exposure, but having lived as a human for over ten years, suddenly being naked with his body in direct contact with the wind felt strange.

 

Like shame.

 

The backpack was left at the dark pool, so there was no medicine to apply to Sang Jue’s wound.

 

Huo Yanji checked Saiya and the others – they were all unconscious from choking on water, and if not awakened soon, they might be in mortal danger.

 

But Sang Jue…

 

Huo Yanji’s eyes paused, turning back: “Sang Jue, move them somewhere else.”

 

Sang Jue knew what he meant, unhappily letting out a dragon huff, turning his head away and ignoring him.

 

The first thing upon waking shouldn’t be exploiting the dragon to work instead of comforting him.

 

Not a good person.

 

Huo Yanji said: “One gem per person moved.”

 

“!” Sang Jue immediately flew to Saiya’s side, bit his collar, hooked two others with his claws, and looked at Huo Yanji with round eyes as if asking where to move them.

 

“Carry them on your back, your injured foot shouldn’t bear weight.”

 

Sang Jue refused, directly dropping the soldier hooked by his left claw. He could make more trips, but absolutely wouldn’t let anyone ride on his back.

 

No one could ride an evil dragon, hmph.

 

“…” Huo Yanji said: “There should be an isolation barrier within five kilometers to the west, where the fire has been intercepted. Take them there, but not too close – leave them one or two kilometers from the isolation barrier.”

 

The little evil dragon carried Saiya in his mouth and made a muffled “roar.” He spread his dragon wings and flew up, maintaining a height of about five or six meters as he headed west.

 

His flying speed was quite fast. In less than half an hour, he had moved everyone over, with Huo Yanji being last.

 

The little evil dragon landed in front of Huo Yanji and hesitated.

 

After thinking for a long time, he spread his dragon wings, signaling for Huo Yanji to get on.

 

When facing Sang Jue, it was really hard to maintain a tense mood. A faint smile flashed in Huo Yanji’s eyes: “Didn’t you say no riding?”

 

Sang Jue made two “roar” sounds.

 

Huo Yanji: “Two gems?”

 

Sang Jue: “Roar.”

 

Truly barrier-free communication.

 

Huo Yanji walked to the side and stroked Sang Jue’s slender dragon wing: “Did you wake up Saiya?”

 

The little evil dragon: “Roar.”

 

Huo Yanji asked: “Did he see you?”

 

The little evil dragon: “Roar.”

 

Huo Yanji: “Change back, we’re not going with them.”

 

He still wasn’t clear how many days Sang Jue had taken to get from the main city to the underground city, or how he had left. If others rashly saw his dragon form, there might be trouble.

 

The best approach would be for Sang Jue to leave first, find a place to hide, wait for him to escape danger, then Sang Jue could change back to human form and find some excuse to meet up.

 

But not everything could be handled in the most rational way.

 

Leaving subordinates in an environment where they hadn’t escaped danger wasn’t Huo Yanji’s character, but he did it anyway.

 

Maybe he believed in Saiya’s abilities, maybe he couldn’t bear to abandon the injured evil dragon and separate again – even though the injury wasn’t serious.

 

The little evil dragon stepped back a step, refusing to change back to human form.

 

Huo Yanji’s eyes moved: “No clothes to wear?”

 

Sang Jue nodded his head. Perhaps because he had become an evil dragon, his behavioral logic carried some bestial nature. When his black eyes looked at you, there was a focused feeling of having only you in his eyes.

 

Huo Yanji couldn’t conjure clothes from thin air either. The fire around them was getting bigger, and both human and dragon’s eyes were dyed red by the firelight.

 

They had to leave first.

 

Sang Jue carried Huo Yanji and flew against the wind direction toward safety. The dozen-plus kilometers that would be extremely far for human legs, he could fly in no time, but because he maintained low-altitude flight throughout, he was attacked by contaminants along the way, delaying a lot of time.

 

“ROAR!!!”

 

The roar Sang Jue made when fighting was completely different from usual, perfectly inheriting the evil dragon’s imposing manner. His left wing pierced straight through a mantis that was ambushing Huo Yanji, his right wing directly knocked away a large snake lurking nearby – very violent.

 

The only difference from wild evil dragons was that Sang Jue didn’t use his mouth – he was an evil dragon with slight dietary cleanliness habits.

 

The only thing Huo Yanji still had on him was a long dagger. With a flash of cold light, the furious insects in front of him were directly disemboweled, falling straight to the ground and immediately eaten by hungry mantises.

 

“Sang Jue, let’s go!” he shouted coldly.

 

The little evil dragon still had some understanding. In one smooth glide, at the moment he brushed past Huo Yanji, Huo Yanji grabbed the dragon wing, and with a nimble flip, he leaned down and lay on the dragon’s back.

 

“ROAR—!” Genetic instinct made Sang Jue let out a threatening roar toward the contaminants below before leaving.

 

There were more and more contaminants below, impossible to kill them all. Whether they had gathered by accident due to chaos from the mountain fire, or were attracted by Sang Jue, was unclear.

 

With fires blazing everywhere, the surrounding creatures had lost their color under the firelight.

 

Sang Jue’s scales were thick and not afraid of being touched by fire, but to protect Huo Yanji on his back, he still tried hard to avoid all falling burning objects – still-burning leaves, charred falling birds, broken burning branches crackling as they fell…

 

The area close to the ground was almost occupied by thick smoke with virtually no oxygen. The little evil dragon tried hard to fly higher, afraid the human on his back would suffocate.

 

After more than ten minutes, the two finally flew to an area without mountain fires.

 

But they couldn’t stop. Countless contaminants were escaping from the raging fire below in chaos, with continuous roars and howls, and giant trees swaying from impacts from time to time.

 

If humans were caught in this, they probably wouldn’t even have a chance to be contaminated before being torn to pieces by these frantic monsters.

 

Huo Yanji’s eyes darkened, clearly feeling the dragon body beneath him tremble.

 

Sang Jue was afraid of heights – even the height when Huo Yanji held him in his arms before had made him somewhat afraid.

 

Fear of heights wasn’t a weakness that could be easily overcome. Sang Jue had obviously flown all the way from the main city, maintaining low-altitude flight throughout. It was hard to imagine how many contaminants had attacked him and how many dangers he had encountered.

 

Wind roared in their ears, dragon wings folded at his sides, charging against the wind. To the side were several huge towers with a silver pot in the middle, as big as a small district in the main city.

 

It was the solar base station.

 

Huo Yanji glanced down without telling Sang Jue to stop.

 

Only when they reached another mountain range of the Thousand Wolf Mountains did Sang Jue slowly descend. He tried hard to maintain stability as Huo Yanji got down, his claws gripping the ground still faintly trembling.

 

Huo Yan ji sighed and embraced Sang Jue’s somewhat large body.

 

Though called large, compared to other evil dragons’ size, Sang Jue could be called petite – one could tell at a glance he had just reached adulthood not long ago.

 

When the dragon wings were folded at his sides, Huo Yanji could actually embrace most of the dragon’s body, patting the dragon’s spine to gently comfort him.

 

Sang Jue rested his head on Huo Yanji’s shoulder. Being patted on the back and having his tail stroked, he quickly recovered his spirits, making comfortable purring sounds from his throat.

 

Huo Yanji: “Little dog.”

 

Sang Jue let out a low roar: “Awoo.”

 

Huo Yanji turned his head, his cheek brushing against the cold scales, saying: “Change back, hmm?”

 

The little evil dragon hesitated, staring at a cave not far away.

 

Huo Yanji followed his gaze and recognized it immediately: “That’s a spider queen’s cave.”

 

The little evil dragon: “Awoo?”

 

Huo Yanji curved his lips: “You can take it, but the spider queen isn’t easy to kill.”

 

For evil dragons, there was no such thing as “not easy to kill.” Like all males trying to court, he directly swooped down arrogantly, intending to show off his prowess in front of his wife.

 

When Huo Yanji entered the cave, he only saw spider corpses scattered on the ground. A huge figure slammed against the stone wall beside him – the disemboweled spider queen fell heavily to the ground, her eight long legs stiffly pointing up into the air.

 

Turning a corner, what met his eyes was a pool of water, with the spider queen’s enormous web woven above.

 

A wet figure pounced over. Huo Yanji instinctively caught him, his palm touching soft, delicate skin.

 

“Ji Ji, I washed clean, there’s no blood on me.”

 

“Mm.” Huo Yanji arranged some dead branches he’d just picked up on the ground and threw in a torch he’d conveniently grabbed. The dark cave was instantly bright.

 

He picked up Sang Jue and asked: “How did you hurt your leg?”

 

Sang Jue hummed for a while before saying: “I wanted to find you quickly. Flying too low, contaminants kept bothering me, so I flew a little higher…”

 

After flying intently for several hours, Sang Jue forgot the fact that he was dozens of meters “high” in the air, and unconsciously looked down. He was so frightened that he fell, getting cut on the inner back of his leg by the branches at the top of a mutated tree.

 

Broad palms spread Sang Jue’s legs apart to examine the wound.

 

Sang Jue looked up innocently. He wasn’t wearing anything, so sensitivity was normal.

 

Huo Yanji’s brow moved slightly: “In human form you have fangs, but not two?”

 

Sang Jue thought seriously: “If you like, I can have them too.”

 

He had perfectly replicated the evil dragon’s genes and could control their fusion with other genes. The reason he kept fangs in human form was for convenient eating – humans always had some foods that were difficult to chew.

 

Theoretically, if he wanted, he could have two in human form too.

 

But that would be a bit strange.

 

When feeling uncomfortable, wouldn’t that mean double the explosion?

 

Sang Jue secretly thought that his wife had two hands, which would be enough.

 

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