Brass Dragons in the Dragon World

Unfortunately, it didn't take into account more subjective factors.

"But Elder Lu, how can you be so sure that Odin will definitely pull this car into the Nibelungen?"

Ander narrowed his eyes, revealing a sly smile.

"I have bait, I'm not worried that he won't take the bait."

Although he didn't know Odin's pattern of capturing people, Ender did know what attracted Odin the most: the cocoons of powerful dragons.

As a fake dragon king, or rather, a controlled Deadpool, this imposter Odin also yearns for a powerful bloodline; he wants to devour his own kind and evolve.

This deduction by Ander, based on his years of experience and the plot of the original work, has some basis.

Although Ender didn't have the Dragon King's cocoon, he could still produce a cocoon from a secondary species.

Just pick a typhoon day, drive on the highway with your cocoon on, and you won't have to worry about that fake Odin not taking the bait.

This plan is probably only something Ender can carry out. Such a crazy plan would be fatal for anyone else, but for a dragon, Ender can survive the explosion thanks to his mobility and magical defense.

After thinking for a while, the mechanic decided to make a major change to the plan, using the synergy between multiple bombs to minimize the blast radius and cause greater damage.

Looking at the engineer's solution, Ander returned to the teahouse satisfied and refreshed. To be honest, he wasn't a fanatic about explosions, but what male dragon could resist a massive explosion?

"This is the romance of a male dragon."

Back at the teahouse, most of the seats were still empty. A few old men were sitting around a mahjong table, playing mahjong. Among them was Old Hu, the owner of the antique shop next door.

"Eighty thousand!"

"eat!"

Old Hu was clearly on a winning streak today; judging from the playing cards beside him, he had obviously won quite a bit.

"Boss Lu is back."

Old Hu greeted Ande. Summer vacation had just ended, and tourism was in its off-season, so his shop wasn't very popular. He decided to come to Hexutongli to freeload.

Ander, who was not fond of meddling in things to begin with, was happy to see this happen, so he simply entrusted the shop to Lao Hu. He trusted the old man quite a bit and wasn't worried about him taking things.

"You're back. You can continue."

Ander returned the greeting, turned around and went behind the counter, carefully examining a wooden carving of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea.

This wood carving is naturally the one that Qian Sichuan had in his study, which Ande bought from his wife for a small amount of money.

This wood carving is quite exquisite. Eight deities, each with a different appearance, are arranged on a small flat boat. The wood grain reveals that it was hand-carved.

But what interested Ander was not this, but a phone number engraved on the bottom of the boat, and a symbol resembling the letter F next to the numbers.

Ander recognized the symbol; it was the rune "Ansuz," meaning mouth, and also representing a chief god in Norse mythology.

Odin.

The numbers were engraved very discreetly, and Ender only discovered them after he got his hands on them.

It seems that Qian Sichuan's matter is not so simple. This matter has come full circle and returned to Odin.

Ander went back into the house, picked up the landline, and dialed the number on the wooden carving.

"Hello, welcome to call..."

A mechanical, electronic voice came from the other end of the phone. After reciting a URL, the voice hung up.

After jotting down the URL, Ander walked to a computer connected to the internet, entered the URL, and a very simple forum popped up.

The forum's logo is a rune, and even more interesting are the moderators' names.

His name is Nido, which is Odin's name reversed.

"We've got you!"

Chapter Ninety-Eight: Hunter and Prey

As Old Hu and his friends played cards in the teahouse, Ander browsed the forum.

Like most forums of this era, it was filled with inappropriate jokes for children and stark social realities, with everyone complaining about the unfairness of fate and taking these complaints to an exaggerated level.

But what Ander saw wasn't just those guys sharing pornographic content; there was something else very important: the website's interface looked strangely familiar.

Where have I seen this before?

Looking back on the websites he's visited over the years, even abroad, he hasn't frequented many similar forums. Ander enjoys chatting, but he doesn't like to inquire about other people's parents.

So the brass dragon, who wanted to have a proper chat online, was always tormented by delays and all sorts of vulgar language, which prevented him from posting on the Night Watchers forum at Kassel College for a long time.

Later, Ender found the supercomputer Norma and launched several rectification campaigns on the Night Watchers forum, finally suppressing the strange and unhealthy trends.

"Not a forum in Kassel, but Tianya? Mop? Renren?..."

After eliminating one website or forum after another that he had seen before, Ander finally found the answer he was looking for: it was that hunter website.

The Hunter website is a bounty hunter platform hidden on the dark web, belonging to the lawless zone of the internet, where many bounty hunters accept bounties.

Norton, the unawakened King of Bronze and Fire, is also a hunter on this website, but he has just dropped out of high school and probably hasn't yet come into contact with this hidden world.

Once he grasped this meaning, and looked at these posts again, Ander discovered something entirely different.

For example, some film links are completely broken, Japanese films contain Chinese place names, and the film codes are excessively long.

Some posts complaining about their bosses included the bosses' personal addresses, and some even contained very extreme content.

Although I only have a vague understanding of it, it is obvious that this is a hunter website hidden in China, and those seemingly ordinary posts are very likely some kind of bounty mission.

"Did Sichuan get the Ghost-Toothed Viper from here?"

Ander tried to find the information he needed from the vast amount of junk information on the forum, searching for information about the Ghost Tooth Dragon Viper in the aquarium and pet sections.

This forum is quite primitive and doesn't have a search function at all. To find clues, you have to search through them one by one.

However, it is clear that most of the items traded in the aquarium section are aquatic plants, with very few fish, let alone dinosaurs.

So Ander turned to other sections for clues. Skipping the heated political section and the contentious emotional section, Ander searched through the more serious sections of the forum, but found no similar information.

"Is there some kind of code?"

Based on Qian Sichuan's situation, he must have obtained similar information by chance and eventually came to this website.

So where can you find information about trading the Ghosttooth Viper?

"The Silver Dragonfish King contains dragon blood?"

Finally, Ander found the information he wanted in the humor section, where someone had written an introduction to the Silver Dragon Fish King in the style of a fantasy novel.

"It will live for 50,000 years, transform into a dragon when it encounters the wind, move from the clouds, and can stir up a thousand-foot wave that will submerge everything in the world."

In his description, the Silver Dragon Fish King is a demon that has cultivated for thousands of years: the Silver Dragon Fish King contains the bloodline of the dragon race, and placing it in the house can ward off evil spirits and protect the whole family.

According to the post, the seller is now a former immortal who has fallen to earth and has no choice but to sell his Silver Dragonfish King for money. He hopes that interested buyers will contact this banished immortal as soon as possible.

Interestingly, the picture he used to depict this silver dragonfish king featured sharp teeth, a streamlined silver body, yellow eyes, and a terrifying mouth.

It was the target Ander had been searching for all this time: the Ghost-toothed Viper.

Although this guy is exaggerating the supposed Silver Dragonfish King to be even more powerful than the Dragon King, it's obvious that this is just a listing for the Ghost Tooth Dragon Viper.

The so-called "immortals" should refer to hybrids mixed with ordinary people. From the perspective of hybrids, it is not an exaggeration to say that they possess great power and can be called immortals.

The poster's ID also confirmed Ander's idea; it consisted of two simple yet familiar words:

crow.

"These people are really going to be complicated. They want to buy fish from the comedy section. What's the aquarium section for?"

Later, Ander discovered that the aquarium section was actually used to sell illegal drugs, and the aquatic plants and fish represented different prohibited items.

As a dragon, Ender certainly doesn't understand computer programming, but that doesn't matter; tracking this raven is not difficult at all.

"Hey, Fingel, what are you doing?"

In China, Ander's status was a bit too high, making things rather dull. So Ander decided to meet this crow himself first, to add some fun to his life in China.

Hopefully, this time I won't laugh myself to death.

On the other side of the world in the United States, Finger was still fast asleep in the summer morning sun when he was jolted awake by a phone call and forced to get out of his messy dorm room.

“Principal Ander, it’s only six in the morning…”

Fingel's languid voice came from the other end of the phone; clearly, for him, the best time to get up was noon.

"Is Lu Li alright?"

"Okay, everything's fine, don't worry."

Fingel felt a little guilty. He had played games with Luli a bit late yesterday, and Ander would definitely cause trouble for him if he found out.

"Um, I need to talk to you about something. Log in to this..."

Although Ender didn't know how to track the raven, he knew very well who could.

Despite his seemingly idle lifestyle, Fingel is an undeniable hacker, and his favorite pastime is hacking into the school's servers.

Things were done faster than expected. According to Fingel, the website was like an unguarded stripper, completely different from the heavily guarded hunter website.

"This is too easy."

Fingel felt as if he had taken a decoction, received a buff, and equipped himself with the best gear to fight a boss, only to have the boss die after taking just one hit – utterly boring.

"This address is completely unprotected; it's located at No. xx, xx Street, xxx District."

"Principal, I want to go to sleep..."

The sound of a body collapsing onto the bed came from the phone. The call ended, and Fingel once again began to enjoy his precious nap. Ander, on the other hand, noted down the address and searched for it on a map.

"No. xx, xx Street, xxx District..."

To Ander's surprise, the crow's location was not remote; it was in an urban village within an old city district. Interestingly, the urban village was adjacent to a construction site.

If Andre remembers correctly, that construction site was managed by Qian Sichuan Company.

Chapter Ninety-Nine: Braised Pork Rice from Taiwan

Some things are just that strange. Ander could still recall Old Hu's smug expression when he left home this morning.

He had just made his first sale, selling a ridiculously fake bronze artifact to a sucker. Judging from his smug expression, he seemed like a marketing genius.