Chapter 586: Chapter 465: Something’s Not Right
In fact, it wasn’t just Long Yi and his companions who shared a bed. Wesley and his two brothers also slept in the same bed last night. This bed was so large that it was almost like sleeping on the floor. The three of them discussed several tactics, even considering what cool phrases they would utter if they appeared in the final round—an entirely impractical matter. Then, as expected, all three of them ended up with insomnia.
After getting up early and finishing their morning routines, Wesley ran over to knock on the door. Little Zi came to open it, and once the door was opened, three sleep-bleary girls filed out of Long Yi’s room in succession.
"Morning... Wesley... chef... mosquito..." Ai Lin yawned as she said.
"Morning... morning..." Wesley and the chef, Mosquito, were utterly dumbfounded. This... isn’t this just too exaggerated?!
Once they walked into the room, they found Long Yi just getting up. He thought he wouldn’t be able to sleep well at all, but to his surprise, he slept soundly. The three brothers came over and looked at Long Yi with unhappy expressions.
"Brother Long, this isn’t quite proper, is it?" Wesley approached, grinning cheekily at Long Yi.
"What’s not proper?" Long Yi, still in a daze, didn’t understand Wesley’s mocking tone.
"Spending a night with four girls on the same bed, this will seriously affect your combat power." The Chef said, with a face full of envy.
"Wrong, it’s five, you left out Lingling." Mosquito corrected him.
"If we’re counting that way, we should also add Little Zi’s thirteen avatars." Wesley added.
"Damn it! Brother Long, you’re too strong! Please teach us some techniques!" The Chef lamented with grief.
"Yeah, yeah, Brother Long, you’re like my real brother, please teach us some. Otherwise, I feel like I’ll definitely be no match for the Dandi sisters in the future!" Mosquito hurriedly chimed in.
"Damn you two! What about me, the poor single guy?! Are you trying to piss me off to death?" Wesley roared.
"Okay, since you’re so earnest about it, I’ll teach you a few tricks." Long Yi had fully woken up by now, his expression becoming serious.
"Okay!" The three immediately put on a studious expression.
"Look, this is a piece of steel plate." Long Yi retrieved a steel plate from his personal space.
"What next?" Wesley asked innocently.
"You’re so slow, the master leads you to the door, but self-improvement is up to you. I have nothing else to teach you, so work hard on your own!" With a look of a wise hermit, Long Yi turned around and went out to freshen up.
The Chef and Mosquito, the two brothers, looked at each other, stared at the steel plate, tapped it with their hands then left with pale faces. Wesley picked up the steel plate, suddenly his face turned grim, he took the steel plate and left the room.
Over a thousand people came to participate in the competition, they were divided into five large groups. As seeded players, Long Yi and the others didn’t need to participate in this stage of the competition. However, Long Yi didn’t see any Celestial Clan warriors. He didn’t see him riding a Flying Dragon, or have a place to stay, having no idea where he had gone.
However, the competition still needed to be watched, the scenery on Dragon Island was ordinary, dragons were everywhere, there was nothing interesting to see aside from the competition. Of course, watching the contest would also give them a chance to learn about their opponents.
All of the more than a thousand competitors were concentrated on one island, which contained an extremely large arena. It looked more like a large standard stadium rather than a martial arena, Long Yi even saw lanes separated by different colored stones. Probably because of the massive space here, it was inevitably the most appropriate place for an arena.
All the competitors’ Mount Dragons were concentrated together; it was said that Dragon Clan healing dragons needed to inspect each dragon’s body. As for the contestants, they sat around the arena, grouped by their respective nations.
The White Dragon Empire and the Black Dragon Empire had the most people. Next came the Blue Dragon Empire, followed by the Red Dragon Empire. Out of the seven major empires, the dwarves completely ignored this competition, the Yellow Dragon Empire symbolically sent a representative, who wasn’t a Dragon Knight, stating that he came to observe the event.
Surprisingly, among the competitors, Long Yi saw six elves!-
Contrary to the elves they encountered in the shop, these elves wore tight-leather armor, with a long and short sword hanging from their waists, and a giant bow on their backs. However, the bows were without strings and arrows.
Almost no one in this world has seen elves fight. People only know through historical records that elves should be strong, but exactly how strong they are, no one knows.
The crowd at the venue was largely divided into the White Dragon Empire and Black Dragon Empire camps, sitting on opposite sides of the arena. Despite the vast distance, making it almost impossible to see each other’s faces, the dragon knights of the White Dragon Empire maintained a tense and alert state. On the other side, the Black Dragon Emperor, Yake, was staring at Long Yi. His objective was clear: he wanted to kill Long Yi in this battle!
Because the venue was so large, it was divided into four areas for the competition. The giant matchup chart projected from a floating island onto the sky left people in awe of the Dragon Clan’s remarkable technology.
Long Yi, heavily influenced by modern technology and devoid of any interest in such optical tricks, immediately began searching through the thousands of names for familiar faces.
He quickly found the names of the Chef, Mosquito, and Wesley in his line of sight.
At the same time, Long Yi briefly scanned the opponents of the Dragon Knights from the White Dragon Empire and discovered that over eighty percent of them were either their own people or from the Black Dragon Empire!
Damn it, the arrangement of this match schedule has to be rigged. Would the Dragon Clan even be so blatant? This bastard is really brazen, isn’t he?
"Brother Long, I feel like something is not right." Wesley said from the side.
"You feel it too?"
"Yes, is it just my imagination? This match schedule from the Dragon Clan, it gives me the feeling that they want us all dead here." Wesley explained.
"It’s not an illusion." Ai Lin chimed in from the side. "This match schedule seems casual, but in reality, it is meticulously planned."
"Look at the competitors from both the White Dragon Empire and the Black Dragon Empire and their opponents. I’ve calculated roughly and no matter who loses or wins among these competitors, the end result will either be a wastage within the Empire itself, or they will be in a fight with the enemy kingdom. The eventual victors will almost always face competitors from the Black Dragon Empire."
"Could it be, that the Dragon Clan is unhappy with us?" Suolin asked, looking at Long Yi.
"Brother Long, you are definitely hiding something from us." Wesley stated. Long Yi is not one to lie, and Wesley is very astute. When they first arrived at Dragon Island, while others marveled at the island’s grandeur, Long Yi’s eyes held only contempt. When speaking with the old dragon, Long Yi may have seemed to back down verbally, but his subtle expressions told Wesley that Long Yi was only showing disdain for this old dragon.
Just now, when looking at the match schedule, Long Yi clearly showed a brief moment of unease. It was hard to escape Wesley’s keen eyes.
"In summary, you are definitely hiding something from us." Wesley concluded.
Long Yi couldn’t help but smirk: "Damn, you’re sharp! Alright, alright, there actually is a small matter."
As Long Yi spoke, Little Zi suddenly circled around him with a smile on her face.
Seeing Little Zi’s appearance, almost everyone understood that not only was Long Yi hiding something, but what he was holding back was dangerous.
"Here’s the deal." Long Yi began, "I suspect that this competition hosted by the Dragon Clan might be related to their so-called ’Re-balancing Strategy’."
"Re-balancing?" Wesley wore a confused expression, but when he noticed Ai Lin was just as clueless, he realized that Long Yi hadn’t even told the closely-related Ai Lin, indicating the confidentiality of this matter.
"Yes, the so-called re-balancing means that the Dragon Clan needs to maintain a tense atmosphere worldwide while keeping the peace. This way, they can continuously uphold their status as the top battle-enhancer among humans." Long Yi explained.
"You mean to say, right now the Black Dragon Empire and the White Dragon Empire have gone too far, and have disrupted the balance!" Wesley said, frowning in thought.
"Yes, that’s basically what I’m saying." Long Yi confirmed.
Wesley didn’t ask how Long Yi knew this, and he didn’t press him on the authenticity of it. Long Yi isn’t fond of lying, and there’s no need to lie about such things.
The news was shocking enough.
"Brother Long, you really weren’t being fair. Why didn’t you tell us about this earlier so we could be prepared!" The chef was somewhat disgruntled.
"Because once he tells us, our dragons would know too." Wesley quickly came up with an answer for Long Yi.
The chef’s eyes widened. That’s right, Long Yi mentioned that this is the Dragon Clan’s ’Re-balancing Strategy’! That indicates that any member of the Dragon Clan would be implicated!
"But..." The chef looked at Bajie and Xiaoyou, who were beside Long Yi.
"They are different." Long Yi smiled.
"But, you didn’t tell us..." Ai Lin softly interjected.
"Because, this plan, is actually fundamentally targeted at Yake and I." Long Yi stated.
"What!"
"Yes, the Dragon Clan identified Yake, Tilian, and me as the culprits who disrupted the current balance. So their re-balance strategy is primarily targeting me. If everything goes as planned, one of us, Yake or I, will likely become the champion. Then, the so-called warrior from the Dragon Clan legends will emerge, and no one knows what the final result will be." Long Yi shared.
"Even so, you should have told us!" Ai Lin said urgently. She wasn’t afraid of danger, as long as she was with Long Yi, there was nothing to fear. But what she dreaded the most was Long Yi facing danger alone!
"Because this matter doesn’t seem to be a big deal to me at all." Long Yi chuckled, pulling Ai Lin into his arms. (To be continued. If you like this story, please vote for my book on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users can read on m.qidian.com.)
