Seeing Melita in such a hurry, Carador instinctively shouted from behind. "Your injuries …"
"I'm fine. It's just a short flight after all." Melita moved her wings and looked back at the red dragon behind her. "I feel much better after removing the faulty nerve boosters, and the healing spells are very effective. I'll leave this to you guys, I'll go check on Noretta. By the way, which direction is she in? "
Having known Melita for so many years, Calador knew her personality very well. He knew that he could not persuade her at this time. After confirming that her aura had recovered a lot, he said helplessly, "Take off from here and head south to Industrial Highland No. 22. Most of the area there has been razed to the ground. Only a tower remains. You should be able to find Noretta's tracks easily."
Melita spread her gigantic dragon wings as she listened. Invisible magic gathered and lifted her gigantic body into the air. "Thank you. I'll set off now. I'll be back within three hours whether I find them or not!"
Accompanied by a sudden gust of wind, the blue dragon rose into the air and soared into the sky again.
After leaving the temporary shelter, Melita immediately felt weakness and discomfort all over her body, and pain from several wounds that had not fully healed. The pain was actually bearable, but the pervasive sense of weakness was extremely unbearable. It felt like her muscles, bones, and organs were filled with lead, and no matter what she did, she needed more strength than usual, and her body's reflexes were not as good as before. After this feeling lasted for a few minutes, Melita finally realized where the feeling of weakness came from.
It came from her nervous system that had gotten used to the implants and the boosters, and from her thousands of years of physical memory.
A part of her dynamic muscles had been removed, and the nerve boosters near her spine had also been removed. More than half of the implants in her body had been shut down or partially shut down as the Omega system went offline. Only the low-level implants that did not need to be connected to the network and provided basic strengthening or health support functions were still running. At the same time … she had not taken in any boosters for a long time.
"I thought I didn't rely on these things …" Melita felt the heaviness in her limbs and could not help but mutter self-deprecatingly. "After all, I'm also Tarlonde's dragon …"
She looked up and looked into the distance in the gradually dimming sky. The outline of Industrial Highland 22 was clearly in her field of vision. She felt a little uncomfortable, and this discomfort had been going on for a long time. It had been bothering her since she woke up, and now she finally figured out the reason for this discomfort. In her field of vision, she could not see the current time, direction, coordinates, wind information, undulating magic curves, and advertisements or communication windows that kept popping up from the edge. There was nothing, not even a basic filter. She looked into the distance, and all she could see was the natural sky and earth.
She could not remember how long it had been since she last saw such a clean and clear world … or perhaps, she had never seen anything like it since she was born.
If even she had so many inconveniences, how long would it take for her compatriots who had undergone deep modifications to adapt to this' empty 'field of vision?
Melita could not help but feel a little emotional. Almost at the same time, she caught a flash of white in the corner of her eye. She almost missed it because now her visual aid plug-in could not automatically lock on to the active/interesting information in her field of vision. But when the figure was about to pass by the edge of her field of vision, she finally noticed it.
She finally understood why Noretta did not notice her when she flew across the sky. It turned out that without the help of the implant, it was so easy to search for things with the naked eye.
Melita quickly lowered her altitude and swooped down toward the white figure. After confirming that the white figure was still active on the ground, she could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. Noretta was still alive. She was lying in the middle of a pile of ruins, digging for something with her head down.
"Noretta!" Only a few hundred meters above the ground, Melita hovered and shouted at the ground. "What are you doing here? Why didn't you report back to the camp? Are you digging for something? "
"Melita?" The white dragon, who was busy digging on the ground, only then noticed the shadow in the sky. She looked up and was very surprised to see her friend hovering in the air. "Why are you here? Is your body alright?! "
"I removed some damaged parts and used healing spells to treat the wound. It's no big deal now," Melita said as she slowly lowered her altitude. She was very cautious because now her nervous system and muscle group were far less useful than before. "What are you doing? You've missed the reporting time for a long time. The camp is very worried about you. "
"What? I've missed the reporting time? " Noretta was very surprised as if she had just noticed the passage of time. She looked up at the giant sun that was near the horizon and said with surprise, "So fast … Sorry, my clock is not on time, and my visual aid is also down. I have no idea …"
"Well, I have a similar problem …" Melita shook her head and then muttered in a self-deprecating manner, "Without the Omega system, even the normal perception of time has a problem … We are really taken care of by those automatic systems …"
As she said, she noticed the big pit that Noretta had dug. There were many similar pits nearby. Apparently, the white dragon had been digging here for a long time. "Did you find something? Why are you digging with your claws? Where's your spell? "
"I'm worried that the power of the spell will collapse the structure below … Let's not talk about this first. Come and help me. It's right here. This time I'm sure I found the right place." Noretta just remembered what she was doing. Without explaining, she pulled Melita to help. "Come on, let's dig together …"
Melita went over in confusion and helped Noretta move the broken metal plates and heavy stones out of the big pit. Not long after, she heard her friend shouting, "Dug it out!"
"This is …" Melita was surprised to see Noretta's entire upper body reach into the big pit and carefully take out something from it. After seeing the appearance of the thing, her expression suddenly changed slightly.
It was an ellipsoid container. Its surface was full of scars but still intact. And in the center of the container, there was something lying quietly.
It was a dragon egg. However, it had been broken. The material inside flowed out and solidified on the inner wall of the container like flesh and blood.
Obviously, the intact outer container could not withstand the power of the shockwave.
"... It's already broken," Melita said in a low voice. She subconsciously exerted force on her feet and a lump of steel under her feet was torn apart. "Noretta, this is already broken."
Noretta also stared blankly at the container that she had dug out. She was stunned for two or three minutes before suddenly throwing the container aside. She turned and rushed into the big hole that she had just dug. "There must be something that hasn't broken! There are countless dragon eggs in here. There must be something that hasn't broken! "
Here?
Only then did Melita realize something. She looked up and saw a huge, spiral-mountain-like facility standing quietly in the glow of the setting sun. The pale golden sunlight shone on the melted and solidified outer shell. From the unrecognizable main structure, she could still vaguely make out the landing platform and conveyor pipes of the past.
She finally recognized it. This was the incubation factory, the largest breeding facility near Agundor.
"Melita! What are you waiting for? " The voice of the White Dragon Noretta came from the cave. She raised her head and looked at the Blue Dragon who was in a daze outside. She urged, "Come and help me open the gate below. My claws are injured, I can't move such a big thing … Speaking of which, why are these gates so sturdy …"
"We can't dig anything out with just the two of us." Noretta looked up at the scale of the incubation factory and immediately shouted at the hole. "The storage area below the incubation factory is too big. We may not be able to find the next isolation room even if we dig until tomorrow. We should go back and get more dragons to help!"
The digging sound in the hole finally stopped. A few seconds later, Noretta slowly poked her body out. She hesitated. "You're right, but … the camp has limited manpower. Carador may not be able to send many …"
"Let's go back with this." Melita picked up the dragon egg container on the ground with her front claws. Although the eggs inside were broken, she was still careful when she picked it up. "Carador will understand. He's a red dragon, and a very old one at that … He understands the meaning of dragon eggs better than other dragons."
…
In the temporary shelter, the Dragons once again gathered together. After distributing the supplies at hand, they had to start discussing how to survive in the ruins. Carador stood among his compatriots and listened to the thoughts of each member. He could not help but sigh in his heart.
Things were going in a bad direction. He had expected it, but there was nothing he could do.
More and more dragons were showing symptoms of the booster backlash. Some other dragons had various physical problems caused by the malfunctioning of the implants. Almost all of his compatriots were facing a huge "psychological void" after losing the Omega network. Physical weakness, pain, and psychological instability were constantly weakening the will of his compatriots. They had gathered here and had become a group of refugees in the truest sense of the word.
However … these were dragons.
Powerful dragons that once dominated the sky and the earth.
Carador knew that even if they lost the implants and the booster, even if they lost the Omega network and the automatic factories, these weak Dragons in front of him were still dragons. They were still one of the most powerful creatures in the world. On the other hand, after losing the implants and the booster, they had returned to their original appearance and returned to the "normal territory" of their race on the road of evolution. However … these words were meaningless now.
The dilemma of survival was the problem in front of them.
While sighing, he suddenly thought of Melita and Noretta who had left the camp for a long time. How were the two of them?
Just as Carador thought of this, he suddenly heard a whistling sound from the sky. He subconsciously looked up and saw two figures in blue and white approaching the camp from afar.
Melita and Noretta landed in the center of the camp. Their compatriots around them also looked over. After noticing that the atmosphere was a little strange, Melita first returned to her human form and then strode towards Carador.
"Carador, what's going on here?" Melita could not help but ask. "Is there a problem with the work or the distribution of supplies again?"
"We are discussing the expansion of the camp and the recovery of the resources in the collapsed area of the rift valley." A black dragon came up from the side. "But we lack tools and manpower. The land is now full of molten alloy and polymer layers. We can't just use our claws to dig out a new camp …"
Melita listened to the black dragon, but her eyes moved around the camp. Tired faces and scarred bodies appeared in her vision. Finally, she saw the white dragon Noretta, who was still standing in the open space in the form of a Giant Dragon, carefully holding a container with her front claws.
"Why can't we use our claws?" Melita suddenly raised her voice. She stared at the black dragon who just spoke, and then looked at Carador and the other Giant Dragons around. "Use your claws, your teeth, your breath, your magic. Aren't these very powerful? What the humans on the Lorien Continent can do, what can't the Dragons here? Just because the environment here is worse? "
A Giant Dragon nearby opened its mouth as if to say something, but Melita did not give anyone a chance to speak. She strode directly to Noretta, pointed at the thing that Noretta was holding with her front claws and said loudly, "This is what we just dug out with our claws!"
"That's …" Carador only then noticed the thing that Noretta was holding. His eyes widened subconsciously. "That's from the incubation factory …"
"It's a dragon egg. When we dug it out, it was already broken. But there are thousands of dragon eggs in the incubation factory, and there are many that have not been dug out yet. There must be eggs that can be salvaged," Melita said quickly. "This is what I want to say. We need help. No matter how many help comes, even if it's just one, help us dig out those dragon eggs buried in the ruins. Who's willing to go? "
The camp fell into a brief silence, and finally, there was a low discussion and commotion. One after another, eyes fell on the container that was full of scars and dust, and the broken dragon egg inside.
Melita looked at the owners of those eyes, and she finally saw some light and warmth in those eyes. She looked up and wanted to say something, but at that moment, she suddenly saw a bright arc in the distant sky.
A burning meteor suddenly lit up the dusk, and fell towards the northwest of Agundor.
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