Chapter 1202 — Unexpected News
Blade of Dawn · Page 2 of 5
Metzen's grave expression, held all this way, finally cracked. She had never imagined that such a serious matter could be derailed to this degree by a single interjection from a half-elf, and still less that Gao Yang Cecil, who always seemed so solemn, could be so wildly associative on this particular topic — how should she put it? These two before her were truly worthy of the title "caught-red-handed duo" of the grave-robbing world; on certain subjects, their trains of thought were invariably far removed from ordinary people's...
"You are overthinking this," the blue dragon lady said, waving her hand quickly. "We have not this time trespassed upon the tombs of any of the resting dead. We were out in the..."
"Lone graves out in the wilderness won't do either!" Before she could finish, Amber popped up again. "They are still someone's ancestors, after all — even I have stopped doing that sort of thing these past few years..."
"You be quiet!" Gao Yang had by now shaken off his initial confusion. Something had occurred to him, and he immediately reached out to pull Amber back a little, while looking at Metzen. "Wait — don't tell me you have found... Mojin Wilde, still alive? He is still alive?! And he has gone to Tarronde?!"
The moment the words left his mouth, Amber's eyes went wide — and what made the eyes of this shadow-assault goose go wider still was seeing the dragon ambassador before her give a slight nod.
"That is indeed the situation," Metzen said with a nod after two seconds of silence. "I know it sounds shocking, but we have in fact discovered an 'adventurer' who is highly likely to be Mojin Wilde himself. He is currently active in Tarronde, and our leadership has already made contact with him."
Here the blue dragon lady paused, and turned a curious gaze upon Gao Yang. "But I am a little curious — how did you leap straight to the correct answer? In theory, an ancient who died five or six hundred years ago suddenly reappearing in the world, and in the dragon kingdom no less — that is not something an ordinary person would think of."
"Because sitting right in front of you is an 'ancient' who was buried seven hundred years ago and is bouncing around alive today," Gao Yang said — then his expression turned serious again. "All right, that was a joke. The real reason is... apart from The Travels of Mojin, I truly cannot think of anything else that would make you dragons suddenly nervous and also involve the Wilde family. And you just said you found its author — finding an ancient's tomb would hardly call for the attitude you showed just now. On top of that, I have always had a vague feeling that there is far too much that is strange and tangled about that great adventurer of six hundred years ago. In my experience, in a world where supernatural forces exist, people carrying secrets that heavy do not usually lie quietly in the history books."
"People carrying secrets that heavy do not lie quietly in the history books..." Metzen's face took on a thoughtful look at Gao Yang's comment. She seemed to glance at him with some deeper meaning, and nodded slightly. "That makes sense."
"Your look just now was a little strange, but as an 'ancient' who is indeed not very quiet, I can only accept it," Gao Yang said with a wave of his hand, then regarded Metzen gravely. "Let us talk about that Mojin Wilde, then... To be honest, no matter what was said just now, I still find it a little hard to believe this is real. How did you discover him, and what is he doing on the continent of Tarronde now? Has he revealed his purpose to you?"