How did you get so big?"

Chapter 38

Soon, Wen Yao arrived with a medical team.

At the sight of Shi An in Mu Hang's arms, she was slightly stunned - although she knew that the officer wouldn't be cruel enough to leave Shi An unattended in the snowy waters, the fact that he actually picked up the other woman himself was something Wen Yao hadn't expected.

After a brief moment of stunned silence, Wen Yao quickly regained his cool and professional demeanor.

She stepped forward quickly to take the sleeping teenager from Mu Hang's hands, but the other woman spoke calmly as if she hadn't seen her outstretched hand and asked, "Where's the medical tent?"

Wen Yao stagnated for two seconds, and subconsciously replied, "In, outside the cave ......"

"Uh-huh." Mu Hang nodded and walked straight out the door with Shi An in his arms.

Wen Yao stared at the man's slender and upright back, and did not look back for a long time.

Wait a minute. Isn't physical contact a very real turn-off for the officer?

...... But why, just now, did the officer seem to reject her takeover?

It's an illusion, isn't it? It really is an illusion, isn't it?

Mu Hang brings Shi An to the medical tent, but meets with great resistance to "putting the other guy down".

The teenager's seemingly thin body somehow contained so much strength, but no matter how it could not be pulled out, shaggy short hair rubbed against Mu Hang's chest, just pulled out a few points, and then arched back in the twinkling of an eye.

Mu Hang's clothes were torn and disheveled, exposing the black lining of his body, and the firm, muscular lines of his chest were faintly visible as he moved about.

The picture got bad.

Paramedics: "......"

They froze in place, gazing at Mu Hang's cold side face with a flickering expression, and for a moment they were at a loss in their hearts as to whether or not they should continue to go up and give them a hand.

More importantly, is it really something they can look at?

Mu Hang's face was still without much expression, and he raised his eyes, his voice indifferent and low:

"Get out."

The paramedics were amazed and rushed out of the tent, disappearing in front of Mu Hang almost in the blink of an eye.

It's as if if if you're even one step too late, you'll be silenced outright.

Mu Hang and Shi An were the only ones left in the medical tent.

Mu Hang looked down at the teenager in his arms and frowned with a slight headache.

It was the same thing the time before at the hospital, the other guy wouldn't let go no matter what, and he had to take his own jacket off to get out of the way.

Strange enough, if Mu Hang had been so intimately entangled with someone, he would have felt extremely disgusted, but surprisingly ......

This time, it wasn't annoying.

Mu Hang paused and, expressionless, reached down and unbuttoned his coat, one by one.

He then skillfully Shi An a wrap and tucked it into the single medical bed in front of him.

Another coat folded in the other's hand.

The teenager frowned slightly, looking as if he wasn't quite at peace.

Mu Hang paused slightly as he turned around.

He thought for a moment and pulled the fire gem from his pocket that he had picked up earlier outside the blocked passage.

In the palm of his hand, the gemstone shimmered with a pale red lustrous luster, emitting a constant and steady heat from its source.

Mu Hang bent down and gently tucked the gem back into Shi An's pocket.

He then casually carried a jacket from inside the medical tent and draped it over his body, turned and walked out.

The medical officer was probing his head toward the tent when he heard the footsteps and hurriedly and hastily withdrew his sight, standing upright, with his eyes on the ground, pretending to be a wooden man who couldn't hear or see.

As for why the jacket changed on the officer?

We don't know and we don't dare to ask.

Mu Hang swept a glance at them, his eyes pale, "Go inside."

After saying that, he took long strides and walked quickly towards the previous cavern.

He passed through the passage that had been violently broken open earlier and came inside the innermost cavern.

The formerly scorched ground had been re-covered with a thick layer of snow that crunched underfoot, and the light of day was already dawning and spilling in.

Mu Hang gathered pace in the center of the cavern.

He tilted his head, the muddy, pale sky reflecting in the distance within his blue, icy eyes, and looked in the direction from which the snow had drifted.

Where did the dragon go?

More importantly, why does it avoid engaging humans?

Wen Yao walked over, "Sir, you're here."

"Uh-huh."

Mu Hang withdrew his gaze and nodded calmly, his timbre cold and deep with an unapproachable undertone:

"What did the tech team find out over there?"

Wen Yao reported, "According to the preliminary tests now, this cave is very old existing for at least ten thousand years, it should be a product left over from the Fantasy Species Era, there are obvious traces of the abyss on the stone, it should have entered the continent during the expansion of that previous abyssal rift, and there are traces of the dragon's flames left behind on all four sides, not only the most recent ones, but also the ones from ten thousand years ago, it's very possible that it has long time ago has become a dragon's cave ......"

She was summarizing methodically when suddenly, one of the technicians in the outer caverns let out a gasp:

"It's, it's--!"

Wen Yao was stunned and turned his head in the direction the voice came from.

The technician who seemed to have found something gathered his instruments and hurriedly ran in their direction, saying hurriedly, "Chief, sir, look at this-!"

Mu Hang lowered his silver-white eyelashes toward the instrument in the other man's hand.

"Just now, I detected nothing but traces of human activity there!" The technician, who was slightly out of breath from his anxiety, took a well-breathed breath, fixed his mind, and continued, "It's not recent, it should have been a while, but it must have been left behind only when this cave came above the ground, or else it would have been impossible to be detected by the abandonment."

Wen Yao : "So you're saying ......"

The technician nodded affirmatively:

"That's right, we weren't the first humans to discover this cave.

Someone else has been here before us."

*

Shi An had a very scary nightmare.

He dreamed that he woke up one day and suddenly became a human with soft limbs, not only lost his original large and powerful body, but also could not even go back to the abyss, and the most horrible thing is that when he went back to his own cave after all the hard work, the cave was empty, and all the treasures were gone!

Shi An was startled awake.

The top of his head was pitch black, and he was surrounded by something warm and inviting, with some kind of nice odor lingering at the end of his nose, like the forest plains after the snow had fallen, biting and refreshing, and the warmth of the darkness gave him a comforting sense of security that made him drowsy once more.

Great, it's a dream.

He yawned, his eyelids drooping a little.

"My lord lord! You're finally awake!"

A familiar, somewhat raucous voice rang in his ears.

Shi An frowned and rolled over, burying her head inside the pillow to try and shut out the voice.

But the raucous voice circled around to the other side of the room and ghostly continued to bicker at him, "My lord? My lord?"

Shi An opened his eyes furiously.

All he saw was a beetle the size of a fingernail standing on the pillow in front of him, with six spindly legs and an ugly human face for a head, which was now smiling fawningly at him.

Shi An: "......"

In that instant, all the memories came back to mind like a tidal wave.

Residence, surprisingly, is not a dream.

All those horrible things just now actually happened for real!

The Demon Worm saw that the young man in front of him suddenly looked gray, his eyes lost focus, and his entire person seemed to have immediately fallen into the abyss of despair and sadness, being colored with a dark and heavy color.

It was taken aback by Shi An.

Magic Worm: "......"

It knew it wasn't as shiny and bright as Mu Hang, that horrible human, but at least save face!

Was it that disappointing to see it at first glance! Damn it!

As if escaping reality, Shi An slowly closed her eyes.

Would everything come back to normal if we slept again?

The devil worm's raucous voice sounded again, "My lord I saw you open your eyes, you must have woken up ......"

"......"

Shi An snapped his eyes open and sat up from the bed, reaching out and squeezing the Demon Worm, saying viciously, "Do you want to die!"

Suddenly, he seemed to have realized something, and with a slight start, he twisted his head and looked around:

"Eh?"

Shi An stared in disbelief, "Where is this place?"

The Demon Worm stomped his legs with difficulty, "Tokiya!"

Shi An: "...... huh?"

He blinked, then realized that he was now in the main residence of the Toki family, but the room that he remembered as being dusty and completely untouched by serious care had been cleaned up, and was completely unrecognizable from the first time he had seen it.

Shi An looked confused, "Why am I here?"

The Demon Worm gazed mournfully at Shi An: "Do you know how long you have been sleeping!"

Shi An : "...... don't know."

The magic worm broke free from between the other's stiff fingers, propped up its two wings, fluttered onto Shi An's quilt, and said with a serious look on his face, "Anyway, let's put it this way, school officially starts tomorrow."

Shi An's pupils quake, "You, you're not kidding?"

Devil Worm shook his head solemnly.

Shi An: "............"

He suffered two days of freezing not to mention, not only did not find and fight the legendary elf treasure, but also learned the great bad news that the treasure had disappeared, and ...... he himself also slept through the whole vacation, and even a game has not yet started to play!

Suddenly, Shi An seemed to have a sudden thought!

Right!

This time at least it wasn't unproductive!

He hurriedly closed his eyes and felt the power in his body.

--After each molting period, the dragon goes into a long period of weakness.

To make matters worse, the duration of this period of weakness gets longer as the number of times increases.

Therefore, most dragons will molt off their skin and eat it, as it contains a very powerful energy that can help dragons get through this difficult thing, so that they don't have to become overly weakened by a single molt and thus become prey to other species.

And Shi An is molting for the fourth time this time.

Perhaps a large part of the reason why he had remained in a weakened state for so long was that this crucial step was missing.

Shi An He patiently, little by little with his consciousness, polished the points of light in his body that had not yet been fully digested.

He felt a familiar energy rise warmly through his limbs and bones - like the three times before when he had molted, his strength was slowly returning.

Although those points of light were still seventy percent remaining, Shi An already had a metaphysical premonition.

In the dark, he felt his body slowly changing, the soft skin of a human being was replaced by indestructible scales, the wings and dragon horns were drawn out little by little, and the majestic exoskeleton gradually appeared.

Shi An opened her crimson vertical pupils.

The soul that had been imprisoned in a human body was finally given the most suitable shell, and that comfort of being restored to his original form spread from the tips of his claws to the roots of his wings.

He blinked incredulously and looked down at his paws.

Really, really changed back?

But before Shi An could get excited, he only heard the dry voice of the Demon Worm coming from not far in front of him, "Da, lord?"

What's the matter? Was he stunned by his huge, majestic body?

Shi An twisted her head in the direction the voice came from.

Shi An: "......"

He cocked his head in confusion, "How did you get bigger?"

The corner of the Demon Worm's mouth twitched, "No, my lord, my body has not changed."

Distant, dark moonlight poured in through the window, illuminating half the room.

A palm-sized Little dragon crouched on the soft bed, scales shining, tiny paws scrunched under a rounded belly, and a pair of crimson vertical pupils blinking, looking as if they were quite bewildered by their current situation.

"It's ...... you who has gotten smaller."