Dragon Clan: Starting with the Azure Dragon Fruit

Since neither he nor Nono recognized him, they had no choice but to call for outside help.

Before we set off, my useless roommate confidently declared that no matter what puzzle-solving problems we encountered, we should just ask him for help.

Lin Yuan took out his phone. Logically, there shouldn't be a signal underground, but because the dome had been split open, there were two bars of signal on the screen.

He made a video call to Fingel, and after the phone rang for a long time, a sleepy-eyed face finally appeared on the screen.

"Senior brother, we've run into some trouble and need your help," Lin Yuan said bluntly.

Upon hearing Lin Yuan's voice, Fingel immediately slapped himself twice across the face without saying a word, his somewhat dazed eyes clearing up.

Lin Yuan looked at Fingel's flushed cheeks on the screen and felt a phantom pain.

Ever since my senior stopped pretending to be a loser in front of me, he's become more and more reliable.

"What trouble have you run into?" Fingel asked seriously.

Lin Yuan turned the camera around and aimed it at the alchemy array on the ground.

Fingel brought his large face closer to the screen: "Get closer, I can't see it very clearly..."

Holding his phone, Lin Yuan moved around the magic circle as Fingel instructed, trying to capture every corner of the circle in his photos.

After observing for a while, Fingel concluded: "This looks like a magic circle used to amplify mental signals."

Lin Yuan immediately thought, "Is this the signal amplifier used to spread 'Duart's Dream'?"

"That's probably it," Fingel nodded in agreement.

"Who in their right mind would go to such lengths to build this thing, and then deliberately hide it... Hey, junior brother, where are you guys now?"

“Underground in Sakala,” Lin Yuan answered truthfully.

Fingel on the screen looked completely incredulous.

"Underground? There can be a signal underground? And how come the lighting over there is so good? Did someone install searchlights underground?"

Lin Yuan decisively interrupted Fingel's endless questions: "None of that matters. Just tell me, if we destroy this magic circle now, can the curse be lifted?"

Fingel shook his head: "At most, it can interrupt its spread, but the source of the curse is still at work."

"Can we use it to trace back to the exact location of the source?"

"Okay, give me some time." After Fingel finished speaking, the sound of typing came from the other side of the screen.

Lin Yuan ignored Fingel and went to Nono's side, taking out some water and dried meat: "Would you like to eat something first?"

Nono looked at the food being handed to her but didn't reach out to take it.

"I really have no appetite." She spoke with even less strength, and pulled an adrenaline injector from her pocket.

"I feel like I can't hold on much longer than I'm eating, so I need to get an injection sooner rather than later."

Lin Yuan was startled. It shouldn't be this fast. Angers had clearly said that mixed-race people could go about ten days without sleeping. Only two days had passed, and Nono had actually offered to get an adrenaline injection.

On the other side, Fingel heard what Nono was saying, and the voice came through the phone.

"Junior brother, there's more bad news. I haven't been able to get in touch with you, so I haven't had time to share some information with you."

"What bad news?" Lin Yuan's right eyelid twitched slightly, and a bad premonition arose in his heart.

"This 'Duart Dream' seems to have been upgraded. Anyone who sees the pictures will become very tired. The victims of the Secret Service's purge back then could last for more than ten days, but this time they can probably only last for 2 to 3 days at most."

"Furthermore, because mental energy is being rapidly depleted, the effects of adrenaline will be greatly reduced. The school medical department has conducted calculations and found that even if all three doses are administered, the cursed person can only remain conscious for a maximum of 6 to 8 hours."

Lin Yuan didn't want to show too much anxiety in front of Nuonuo, so as not to increase her psychological burden.

"I understand. How long will it take to derive the coordinates?"

“It’s all better now,” Fingel replied.

"So fast?" Lin Yuan was a little surprised. He thought that things involving derivation were measured in hours.

“Of course, I wasn’t doing the calculations myself; I was just transmitting the data to Norma,” Fingel explained.

"The location is another suspicious spot you previously speculated about, below the Valley of the Kings."

"By the way, the school's support has already set off. Sergei, the president of the Lionheart Society, and Chu Zihang will arrive in Egypt in about 10 hours."

Before Lin Yuan could speak, Fingel himself rejected the idea of ​​having backup.

“But I know you definitely won’t just wait around. Given your junior sister’s current condition, by the time they arrive, it’ll be too late.” Fingel scratched his messy hair and quickly offered a backup plan.

"So if you plan to push through the Valley of the Kings yourself, the fastest route is to head back to Cairo right now. The principal's private plane can get to Luxor in about an hour."

Fingel sighed, "This is already the limit of human transportation, but for my junior sister, the time is still too tight..."

"Don't worry, I have a way," Lin Yuan interrupted him.

Now that it has been confirmed that this is a signal relay station, the "Wing of Mayat" naturally cannot remain here; there is no point in staying any longer.

Lin Yuan thanked Fingel and hung up the phone.

Chapter 103 Dragon Knight

Nono heard Fingel's words clearly during the call, which was on speakerphone.

While Lin Yuan was on the phone, she had already injected adrenaline into her thigh.

I feel better now, and even my breathing is much more stable.

Lin Yuan had expected to see panic, anxiety, or fear of death on her face.

But her expression was calm, as if she had already accepted her fate.

"I heard everything." Nono met his gaze.

"All things considered, I only have eight hours left, right?"

"Don't talk nonsense, you still have 80 years!" Lin Yuan said with a serious expression.

Nono gently shook her head: "The academy is unaware of our situation, but we know that to resolve the 'Dream of Duat,' we need to confront a second-generation descendant of the White King's bloodline."

"Don't even mention that the academy only sent two people this time. Even if Principal Angers himself came, he might not be able to defeat that monster. Besides, by the time reinforcements arrive, I'll probably be asleep forever."

Lin Yuan did not respond to her.

He silently walked up to Nuonuo and squatted down.

Meeting the girl's surprised gaze, he affectionately pinched her cheek.

A slightly cool sensation travels through my fingertips.

This bold move startled Nono, who opened her eyes wide.

In her eyes, Lin Yuan was a killer with explosive combat power, but he was frustratingly oblivious when it came to matters of the heart.

She did have feelings for Lin Yuan; otherwise, she wouldn't have taken the initiative to invite him to dance the first dance at the banquet on her day of freedom, and even used the "privilege of confessing to a girl" to test him while dancing.

After the banquet ended, he deliberately created an opportunity to be alone with Lin Yuan, asking him to walk back to his dormitory. However, the guy just kept his head down and walked without saying a word.

You can't expect the girl to confess first, so that night, the two of them just spent it in silence.

The next day, Lin Yuan went on a field mission, and they met again at that banquet.

He saw Lin Yuan dancing with a beautiful woman and being kissed by her.

This left their already vague feelings stuck in an awkward, unsure of how to take the next step.

But there's no need to worry about that now; I may only have a few hours left to live.

Being able to walk to the end by his side is actually quite good.

I never expected that this usually dull guy would actually dare to pinch my face.

Do you feel you don't have much time left and won't hold it against him?

Nuonuo forgot to dodge for a moment and let Lin Yuan pinch her for a while.

The two were so close that they could hear each other breathing.

After a while, Lin Yuan let go of the girl's hand and looked at her:

"Are you awake now? I'll say it again, you'll be alright. Neither the next generation nor time will be a problem, trust me!"

Feeling the lingering warmth on her cheeks, Nono rubbed her face, her expression gradually softening.

"You don't need to comfort me like that." She chuckled softly and leaned back against the stone pillar.

"I don't want you to take risks because of me. Let's leave it at that, it's actually fine."

The girl patted the empty space beside her: "Spend this last bit of time talking to me. By the way, weren't you always curious about what I saw in my hallucination during the 3E exam?"

Before he could finish speaking, a sudden change occurred.

The entire underground hall began to shake violently without warning, and a visible ripple spread through the air. Lin Yuan, who was squatting in front of it just a second ago, vanished into thin air.

"Lin Yuan?"

Nuonuo was startled and quickly stood up, holding onto the stone pillar. She looked around, but the empty hall was completely deserted.

The crack that had been split open above their heads also darkened, as if something was covering it from above.

A deep roar came in.

Following the sound, Nuonuo looked up and saw a green dragon, tens of meters long, with its head lowered, calmly watching her.

The two, one human and one dragon, gazed at each other across the void, with Nono looking into those dark golden vertical pupils.

It felt strangely familiar; an absurd thought flashed through my mind.

"Lin...Lin Yuan?" she called out tentatively.

Even Nuonuo herself thought this guess was crazy. How could Lin Yuan possibly turn into a dragon? But looking into that gaze, her intuition compelled her to call out that name.

"it's me."

A familiar voice emanated from the dragon's kiss, carrying a strong sense of tremor.

When her guess was confirmed, Nono was even more astonished, stammering, "You... how did you turn into a dragon?"

This question is difficult to answer in a few words, so Lin Yuan didn't answer her directly. Instead, he said, "Come on, I'll take you to Emperor Valley."

As soon as she finished speaking, a strange cloud of flames appeared beneath Nono's feet.

Its shape is fluffy, with flames and flowing light constantly emerging from its edges.

It was clearly a burning cloud, but it didn't emit any scorching heat. Instead, it carried a gentle lifting force, lifting Nono's body up and sending her straight towards the dragon's head in the sky.

While suspended in mid-air, Nono's heartbeat calmed down. As an elite of Kassel College, she knew that pure-blooded dragons had various forms, but they were often violent and bloodthirsty.

But right now, she couldn't sense the slightest bit of violence from the Azure Dragon that Lin Yuan had transformed into.

Instead, she felt a sense of profoundness and peace, which finally relaxed her tense nerves that had been taut for the past few days.

Yan Yun sent her to the top of the Azure Dragon's broad head. The area here was exceptionally flat, with two towering dragon horns standing in front of her, just enough to block the direct sunlight.

Nono had just settled into her seat when Lin Yuan's deep voice came from below: "Are you settled?"

Nono nodded subconsciously, but then she realized that Lin Yuan's eyes were in front of him, and since she was on the dragon's head, he couldn't see her movements at all.

Because she was in the air, the girl swayed and instinctively reached out to firmly grasp the two thick dragon horns in front of her.

"Hold on tight?" Lin Yuan's deep voice rang out again.

Nono took a deep breath, and, afraid that Lin Yuan might not hear her, shouted at the top of her lungs, "Hold on tight!"

The giant dragon beneath him paused noticeably.

"No need to shout so loudly." Lin Yuan's laughter carried up the scales.

“My hearing is very good, and you’re right next to my ear right now.”

Nuonuo blushed and realized that she was riding on someone's head. She felt a little ashamed of the position.

Unaware of Nuonuo's thoughts, Lin Yuan carried the girl deep into the sea of ​​clouds.

High in the sky, based on her past experience flying, Nono thought she would encounter a fierce hurricane, so she subconsciously closed her eyes and gripped the dragon horn in front of her.

But after a while, the expected storm did not appear.

She opened her eyes and saw those orange-red flame clouds swirling all around her.

The flowing flames intertwined to form a warm barrier, blocking all the air currents from the upper atmosphere.

The giant dragon beneath my feet flew very smoothly, and I couldn't even feel any turbulence.