"What are you thinking about?" Gou Jian suddenly patted Zheyu on the head.

"Ah? No... I'm just a little tired and in a daze." Zheyu rubbed his head, stood up and began to stretch his body and move his muscles.

His collapsed chest began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye, with subtle bones rubbing sounds coming from inside, until it completely grew back to its normal shape.

It's not normal...it seems to have become thicker.

The alveoli that had been punctured by the broken ribs gradually healed, and fresh air filled his chest. Zheyu slowly took a deep breath, and suddenly felt refreshed.

"You're not thinking about how to die next time, are you?" Gou Jian seemed to have seen through Zheyu's thoughts.

"No, no." Zheyu quickly denied.

"How can I not know what you are thinking?" Gou Jian couldn't help rolling his eyes, and then said, "Forget it, I was just asking you, what do you think of this lizard man, what characteristics does it have, and may it come from

where."

"Lizard people..." Zheyu packed up his tattered clothes, thought about the stone ax warhammer thrown by the lizard people when fighting with him, and said, "This kind of lizard people should be a species. After all, there are only

Only a small population can produce weapons with such similar specifications.”

"Weapons with similar specifications?" Gou Jian didn't realize for a moment what the relationship between weapons and species was.

In his opinion, if a sword is useful, use a sword, and if a halberd is useful, use a halberd. The attendants around him all use the weapons they are best at, and each one is carefully made by a famous craftsman.

Only those miscellaneous soldiers who are used as cannon fodder will use mass-produced swords and spears to fight.

"Because if the same specifications and standards are formed, then on the battlefield, if one's own weapon is lost, one can quickly pick up the weapon of one's comrades and continue fighting.

Everyone’s weapons are roughly the same, so there won’t be any inconvenience or unfamiliarity.” Zheyu explained, “And the appearance of weapons with standard specifications is proof that the other party has a clan.”

At this time, a soldier happened to be walking over carrying a huge stone hammer and several throwing stone hammers and axes.

"I see..." As a Yue king who came out of the army to fight, Gou Jian took one look at these weapons and instantly understood what Zheyu meant.

Compared with weapons of different shapes, weapons of the same specifications are of course more convenient to make, and this kind of weapon is also very suitable for use in large armies.

Not only that, he also saw several scales next to the handle, and he estimated that it was probably produced by a factory similar to that of a few years ago. His lapis lazuli dagger was like this, with engravings on the handle.

"What else?" Gou Jian suddenly became interested and continued to ask.

"According to the description of the fishermen, this lizard man seemed to be trying to communicate with the fishermen when he saw them." Zheyu recalled, "His tone has obvious syllables, and it should be some kind of language that we don't know.

.”

"Language? How does he speak? How can he speak while spitting out letters?" Gou Jian asked strangely as he walked towards the house where the light was gradually extinguishing.

Language can only be formed between groups. If it is just a single individual, the existence of language is actually not necessary at all.

If you don't have anyone to talk to, then why are you talking?

So since language has been formed, there must be a specific population.

Zheyu thought for a moment and said: "Well...actually, he doesn't speak in Xinzi. This lizard man is like a bird. He can speak directly through his throat. It seems to be an air cavity pronunciation. In some places, it sounds a bit sharp, and in some places it sounds a bit sharp.

A little rough and wild, just like the birds in the forest."

Is it like a bird's language? Isn't that just bird language?

"It's interesting. If you put one in a cage and listen to him singing every day, it would be quite interesting." Gou Jian smiled and then asked, "Is there anything else?"

"Also, fishermen reported that they could read his anxious mood from his scaly face, but it was obvious that the fishermen could not understand the lizard man's words. According to the fishermen on the coast, it should be coming from the sea.

It came from the other side, because no similar strangers were found in the entire coastal area, so it is very likely that it is the legendary Fairy Mountain Yingzhou."

The last sentence is Zheyu's reasonable speculation based on many signs, and it sounds quite similar.

"Fairy Mountain Yingzhou? This kind of thing to coax children... There are no fairy mountains in Yingzhou, only volcanoes.

Gou Jian said the last sentence to himself softly.

He walked to the roof of the house where the lizard man was pressed, and asked: "Then why did he launch a sudden attack? Why did he slaughter the people of the people? Those fishermen couldn't pose a threat to him at all, right? And the people of the people

The people...are always a little naive."

"I still don't know about this..." Zheyu lowered his head.

This was also the reason why the battle suddenly broke out. According to the surviving fishermen, they had no intention of attacking the lizard people at all, but only sent people to notify the local camps and troops stationed there.

When I saw such a monster, I was scared to death. Who dared to provoke him?

After the lizard man tried to communicate with no results, he seemed to become angry, so he started killing people. The entire small fishing village of 500 people was killed until there were only more than 100 people left. This was why Zheyu made up his mind to directly

The main reason for killing is not to capture.

"Are you not guessing at all? There is no sign at all, is it a sudden explosion?" Gou Jian asked, and then stretched out his hand to signal the soldiers around him to clean up the charred wood blocks and dig out the lizard men.

Zheyu shook his head: "No... just in a moment, he suddenly burst out and hurt someone..."

"It's been such a troubled time..." Gou Jian sighed, like an ordinary old man, and seemed to be talking to himself, "Living corpses have appeared in Qi State in the north and Chu State in the west, and

There are strange people appearing in the Jin Kingdom again, and now there are things that look like lizard men on the sea. I don’t know if these are related to the big guy who just suddenly appeared.”

"The big guy suddenly came out? What is it..."

Just as Zheyu was about to ask, he suddenly seemed to sense something. He immediately stepped forward, stood in front of Gou Jian, and covered Gou Jian with his body.

Gou Jian's reaction was faster than Zheyu's. He pushed Zheyu's body away, stretched out his not very strong hand, and faced the shadow that suddenly jumped out in front of him.

——It was a lizard! A lizard! A human being whose limbs had turned into charcoal. He opened his bloody mouth, exposed his sinister white teeth, and launched a dying blow!

"Longwei..."

As Gou Jian murmured softly, the lizard man's huge figure seemed to be twisted by an invisible hand, and the whole body was twisted together like a rag that had been squeezed out of water.

The spine inside made a "click, click, click" sound, as if it had been twisted. Gou Jian withdrew his hand, and the lizard man fell to the ground completely paralyzed.

A pair of big eyes with vertical pupils were still staring at Gou Jian. The pupils were gradually dilating and becoming rounder. It looked like he would not live long.

Zheyu stared blankly at such a terrifying enemy. He was easily killed by an even more terrifying monarch, and his entire expression showed a dull expression.

"Oh! What an unexpected surprise! This is it!"

Gou Jian looked excitedly at the lizard man who was about to turn into a charred stick. He knew he could not delay it any longer. He immediately took out a bottle of "ambergris" from his arms and poured it directly into him, regardless of whether he wanted to drink it or not.

Go down.

"Your Majesty, it's a bit too wasteful..." Zheyu looked at Gou Jian's movements with a look of pain on his face.

"A living sample is better than a dead one. You don't understand what the emergence of a new intelligent population means." Gou Jian smiled happily and said excitedly.

"Uh...what does it mean?" Zheyu followed Gou Jian's words and asked curiously.

"It means slaves and cannon fodder! It means the formation of a slave economy, and it also means the prosperity of the entire country!" Gou Jian touched his chin, watching the lizard man's injury in front of him gradually improve, and continued,

"But before that, we still need to confirm whether this guy evolved from humans. Treating people as slaves and treating livestock as slaves are two different things after all. We are civilized people and we cannot engage in slave trade."

"Yes..." Zheyu lowered his head, not knowing what Gou Jian meant, so he just nodded in agreement.

"It seems that only the internal organs have been healed. If the limbs still need to be healed, we will need to add a bottle of ambergris. But this is enough." Gou Jian said, and asked the attendant who was following him to step forward and take out

Thick chains lock them tightly together.

Especially the limbs, which were already charred by the oil flames. Now that the limbs are strengthened and bound in this way, as long as the opponent struggles, the limbs will be broken, turning the lizard man into a bare human stick...

…

Ah, no, it should have changed from a lizard to a snake.

"Hoo coo coo coo..."

see myself trapped

Unable to struggle, the lizard man made a sound like some kind of cuckoo bird.

"Yes, that's the sound." Zheyu reminded, "It should be in some kind of language. Your Majesty, would you like to invite some alchemists to decipher it?"

Gou Jian naturally noticed what the lizard man was saying, and said with some curiosity: "Do alchemists understand this language?"

"There are some alchemists who can speak the language of birds." Zheyu said.

"Bird language?" Gou Jian raised his gray eyebrows slightly and said in a strange tone, "But this is not a bird man, but a lizard man."

"Uh... they all feel the same, don't they?" Zheyu scratched his head, "The timbre and tone feel very similar."

"Forget it, he's probably some guy selling health care products." Gou Jian waved his hands indifferently, looked at the tied lizard man, and greeted the soldiers cleaning the battlefield, "Move him to the dungeon, I will personally

Interrogate him."

"promise!"

A group of strong soldiers immediately surrounded him, lifted the lizard man up, loaded him into a cart, and transported him to the dungeon.

"You go down and adjust first. Tomorrow we will leave for Chu State to learn about the current situation of our 'old neighbor'." Gou Jian said, waved his hand and said, "Go on."

"Yes." Zheyu lowered his head and stepped away.

Gou Jian looked at the place where the lizard man was trapped before, looking thoughtful.

After a long time, he slowly raised his head and murmured to himself at a volume that only he could hear: "I didn't expect that he would be a fallen dragon... I didn't expect that I would be the Dragon King."

Deep in his heart, he let out a long, speechless sigh and picked up a "lizard man" scale from the ground.

This scale will reveal a wave-like pattern under the sunlight. Looking at it from different angles, you can even see that this wave pattern is surging, just like real ocean waves, which is quite magical.
To be continued...