Chapter 762: Which Dragon

The Luo Yi, having lost all its senses, naturally couldn't provide any answer to Qi Xia’s question.

It couldn't even respond to whether what Qi Xia said was true or false; it just stayed in place, staring at Qi Xia, as if trying to make the other believe him.

"I still don't quite understand," Qi Xia said. "From the phrase 'escape from Long's hand,' it sounds just like telling someone 'you have to live,' which makes sense but is useless."

Chen Jun Nan and Qiao Jia Jin beside him also couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

Chen Jun Nan boldly walked up and patted the Luo Yi's shoulder: "Hey! Buddy! Let me get you some paper and pen so you can write it again!"

Before Qi Xia could speak, the Luo Yi was startled and instantly backed away, jumping down from the windowsill.

It seemed it thought only Qi Xia was in the room and was badly frightened by the sudden appearance of Chen Jun Nan.

"Hey! Don't go, buddy! Why so polite?! Come inside and have something to eat!"

Chen Jun Nan was about to climb over the windowsill when Qiao Jia Jin held him back.

"Jun Nan, Jun Nan!" Qiao Jia Jin said. "Look outside!"

Chen Jun Nan looked in the direction Qiao Jia Jin pointed and saw a large group of Luo Yi crouching on the distant street.

They were completely still, all facing the trio, as if ready to pounce at any moment.

Chen Jun Nan swallowed hard, relieved he hadn't gone out directly. Although he remembered these things had never attacked people, seeing so many gathered together was still chilling.

Qi Xia silently watched the Luo Yi in front of him, feeling that it probably had some important information left to convey.

The Luo Yi lifted its hollow eyes to look at Qi Xia, then raised its nonexistent nose as if sniffing, and reached down to feel around on the ground.

The three men slowly moved forward and stood at the windowsill to watch the Luo Yi. They saw it pick up a stone from the ground, just the right size to hold in one hand.

Then it raised the stone, as if displaying it to the group.

"Lao Qi, Lao Qiao..." Chen Jun Nan said, "this guy isn't going to throw the stone at us, is he?"

Before anyone could answer, the Luo Yi crushed the stone in its hand like foam.

"Ah?" Chen Jun Nan was stunned. "What's he doing?"

"So sharp..." Qiao Jia Jin murmured.

Then the three watched as the Luo Yi turned around and walked into the group of other Luo Yi in the night, looking back three times with every step.

The other Luo Yi immediately made way for it, and once it joined them, they all disappeared together into the darkness.

Only then did Qi Xia realize his earlier judgment might have been off.

These Luo Yi weren't drawn by his eyes and lurking as hunters; they were more like a group of guards.

They were protecting that special Luo Yi.

"Luo Yi has its own Luo Yi king...?" Qi Xia murmured to himself.

"Huh?" Qiao Jia Jin was taken aback. "Is that an 'Ant Queen'?"

Chen Jun Nan blinked. "You've got to hand it to you, Lao Qiao... 'Ant Queen' is spot on..."

Qi Xia shook his head. Unfortunately, all the Luo Yi looked so similar that now that they had left in a group, he couldn't tell which one had just "talked" with him.

"What's going on here...?" Chen Jun Nan whispered. "In the middle of the night, an 'Ant Queen' shows up, writes you a message, and then performs crushing a big stone with its hand? Lao Qi, what kind of constitution do you have?"

"I don't know," Qi Xia shook his head. "It seemed like it wanted to convey something to me, but the ambiguity made it hard to express clearly."

Thinking it over, this Luo Yi had written three words from the time it appeared until it left.

When it first noticed Qi Xia, the first word it wrote was "Who."

After Qi Xia stated his identity, it wrote "Escape."

When Qi Xia wrote a question mark, it answered "Long."

In other words, after being attracted by Qi Xia's eyes, this strange Luo Yi came first to confirm his identity. Once it knew he was Qi Xia, it wrote "Escape" and indicated it was "because of Long."

Did it want him to escape this place...?

But considering another angle, these Luo Yi knew this eerie place even better than the Earth-level Zodiac signs, so how could they suggest "escape"? They knew better than anyone that it was impossible to get out—the whole world was one massive deception.

So what was the real reason it came here?

Qi Xia, Escape, Long.

Qi Xia quickly pondered these key pieces of information, then slowly narrowed his eyes.

"Is there some misunderstanding?" Qi Xia touched his chin, feeling he couldn't grasp any other meaning.

"What's wrong?" Qiao Jia Jin scratched his head and said. "Qi Xia, if there's anything you don't understand, just bring it up—we can all think it through together."

After hearing that, Chen Jun Nan threw a punch at Qiao Jia Jin's rock-hard chest: "You must still be half-asleep, kid. You think you can help Lao Qi brainstorm? I wouldn't even dare to boast about that."

"Hey, there's strength in numbers," Qiao Jia Jin said. "Jun Nan, you said it yourself—we three have three different perspectives."

Qi Xia nodded after hearing this: "I just find that Luo Yi's motive really strange. Everyone here wants to 'escape,' but it went to such lengths to come to me specifically and write 'escape.' That leaves me completely baffled."

Qiao Jia Jin thought about it seriously and then said: "Qi Xia... maybe you're overthinking it?"

"Hmm?"

"My brain isn't as sharp as yours, so I can only think about what's right in front of us," Qiao Jia Jin said. "Those bug-people might be like me—they might not mean anything as profound as you're imagining."

Hearing Qiao Jia Jin's view, Qi Xia furrowed his brow.

Indeed, Qiao Jia Jin's way of thinking was very different from his own.

If he looked at it from another angle, the three words that Luo Yi wrote could take on a whole new meaning.

What if the "Long" in the Luo Yi's mouth wasn't referring to Qing Long or Tian Long...?

"I'm about to go with Chu Tian Qiu to find Di Long..." Qi Xia said quietly. "Is that what the Luo Yi was trying to remind me of...?"

"Di Long?" Chen Jun Nan and Qiao Jia Jin said in unison, both startled.

"It's warning me that Di Long is in danger," Qi Xia said. "If it weren't something so urgent, it wouldn't have risked coming at night to remind me. After all, they are Luo Yi—even without being aggressive, the sad truth is that everyone here attacks them on sight, since they're seen as 'monsters'."