Chapter 2

Not knowing how long he had slept, Lei Xihuan woke up.

The sky was already dark.

The moonlight spread over the peach garden, casting sparse shadows of the peach trees on the ground.

Lei Xihuan stretched lazily, wondering why he had fallen asleep.

It wasn't until he stretched that he realized something was wrong—why weren't the wounds inflicted by Gu Biao and his men hurting at all? Not only were they not hurting, but he also felt full of energy.

Strange? What was going on?

He still held the peach pit in his hand, but Lei Xihuan rubbed his eyes, thinking he might be seeing things.

The originally black walnut had turned white?

On the way home from the peach garden, Lei Xihuan kept thinking about two questions:

First, how did his injuries heal completely? Did a fairy come out to heal him and then go back? Second, the walnut was clearly black, so why did it turn white for no reason?

Even when he got home, he still couldn't figure out the answers to these two questions.

His stomach growled in protest, so he put the walnut on the dining table.

He needed to find something to eat. He washed the rice and plugged in the rice cooker. After searching the house, he found three eggs, a bunch of vegetables, a small piece of cured meat, and a bunch of garlic.

Lei Xihuan had taken care of himself since he was young. When he was a child, seeing others eat delicious food, his grand ambition was to become a chef so that he could eat whatever he wanted in the future.

During his summer breaks in his first and second year of college, he even worked in a small restaurant, secretly learning the chef's skills whenever he had the chance.

Although it now seemed that his dream of becoming a chef was unattainable, his cooking skills had greatly improved.

In no time, he had stir-fried the garlic and cured meat, and the aroma quickly filled the house.

The walnut on the dining table suddenly moved...

The stir-fried vegetables with cured meat were also done, looking oily and delicious.

Hmm? Why did the top piece of cured meat seem to be half gone?

He really needed to check his eyesight.

Strange.

Forget it, maybe he was too tired and got it wrong.

He made a bowl of egg drop soup, two dishes, and a soup, to reward himself.

But when Lei Xihuan brought the egg drop soup back to the table...

The half piece of cured meat was gone!

It wasn't an illusion! Absolutely not an illusion!

It was a ghost!

A rat? But that would be a very smart rat, wouldn't it?

"What else should I make?" Lei Xihuan seemed to be talking to himself, turning his body.

"One, two, three..."

He counted silently to three and then turned sharply.

Lei Xihuan was stunned.

A white worm, about an inch long and as thick as a chopstick, was lying on the vegetables, and a piece of the vegetable had already disappeared.

This worm looked like... a silkworm!

Yes, it looked exactly like a silkworm.

Once it realized it was exposed, the "silkworm" quickly turned around...

"Don't run!" Lei Xihuan blurted out reflexively.

He must be crazy, talking to a silkworm?

But something even stranger happened—the "silkworm" seemed to understand Lei Xihuan's words and stopped running, turning around.

This time, Lei Xihuan saw clearly.

This "silkworm" was too strange, completely white, and under the moonlight, its body was almost transparent.

Even more bizarrely, if you looked closely, you could see two small bumps on its head.

Its eyes, the size of sesame seeds, seemed to be looking at Lei Xihuan pitifully.

Heaven, Lei Xihuan had grown up in the countryside and had never seen such a strange worm.

"Where did this come from?" Lei Xihuan muttered to himself.

This time, he was sure that the "silkworm" could understand his words. As soon as he spoke, the "silkworm" turned its head toward the walnut, as if telling Lei Xihuan that it had come from the walnut.

Heaven, a worm that could understand human speech!

Lei Xihuan still couldn't believe it was real.

"You, you, don't move, I won't hurt you," he stammered, overwhelmed by the shock.

The "silkworm" indeed stayed still.

He carefully picked up the "silkworm" and placed it in his palm. It was so transparent and obedient, feeling soft and plump, lying still in his palm. Its sesame-sized eyes even blinked, looking at Lei Xihuan for a while, then at the food on the table, with a reluctant expression.

As soon as he touched the "silkworm," a deep blue light flashed, and Lei Xihuan's mind was immediately filled with a series of fragmented words...

Before the ancient times, dragons soared in the sky as the totem of a nation, gaining great power from human faith. However, with the progress of society and the development of technology, humans began to disbelieve in myths and legends.

Once they lost human faith, the dragons' power began to fade, and their ultimate fate was extinction.

In the end, only the last dragon king remained, and it was about to die. Before its death, the dragon king sealed its youngest child, hoping to avoid the disaster...

"I am the dragon king, leaving this message with my last strength..." At this moment, a series of words appeared in Lei Xihuan's mind:

"There will be no more dragons in this world, except for my only child, the last descendant of the dragon clan... Whoever can save my child will become its only family and will receive the eternal loyalty of the dragon... You will have the opportunity to use the dragon's power and eventually merge with it... Raise it well..."

At this point, the message became chaotic and then blurred.

Lei Xihuan was completely stunned.

Dragons? Are there really dragons in this world? Is the one in his hand a dragon?

This is too bizarre, and who has ever seen such a small and peculiar-looking dragon?

"Are you a dragon?" Lei Xihuan asked tentatively.

The "silkworm" nodded and moved to the edge of Lei Xihuan's palm, its tiny eyes fixed on the food on the table.

Lei Xihuan placed it on the dish of garlic and cured meat: "Eat, go ahead and eat."

How much could such a small body eat?

But Lei Xihuan soon realized he was wrong and truly understood the meaning of "sweeping away the leftovers."

Once Lei Xihuan gave permission, the dragon didn't hesitate—

Sweeping away the leftovers!

In a moment, the garlic and cured meat were completely gone, not even a leaf left.

Lei Xihuan swallowed hard.

Heaven, with a body as wide as a finger and as thick as a chopstick, how could it eat so much so quickly?

Looking at the dragon, its body was only slightly fatter than before.

But even so, it seemed not to be full. It leaped from the empty plate to the dish of stir-fried vegetables.

It was like a million soldiers crossing a river, or a thousand troops sweeping across a battlefield. The dish of vegetables was completely devoured in the blink of an eye, not even a drop of oil left.

A glutton, a glutton!

This is not a dragon, it's a glutton!

How could such a small body eat so much? Who has ever seen such a gluttonous dragon?

The dragon seemed to be full, lying lazily in the plate and even yawning.

Wait, this is a dragon, even though it's still in its infancy, it should have some special abilities, right?

"Dragon... shall I call you Little Fatty?" Looking at the round body of the dragon, Lei Xihuan thought of this name.

The dragon yawned again, seemingly accepting the name.

"Little Fatty, you eat so much, but I need to eat too, right? The food at home is all gone, and I only have... " Lei Xihuan dug out all the bills and coins in his pocket and counted: "73.5 yuan. We need to think of a way, right? What can you do to find a treasure or something?"

Little Fatty shook its head without hesitation.

Lei Xihuan didn't give up: "You must have some ability, right?"

Little Fatty nodded but then immediately shook its head.

"Hey, kids shouldn't lie," Lei Xihuan became anxious: "You must be able to do something, tell me quickly."

Four tiny feet suddenly extended from Little Fatty's body, and it lay in the plate in a big "H" shape, even closing its eyes.

This... A word suddenly popped into Lei Xihuan's mind:

Lazy!

This is a gluttonous and lazy dragon!

Heaven, why is my life so hard?

Lei Xihuan blinked and had an idea.

He reheated the egg drop soup that hadn't been served and added a few drops of sesame oil.

As soon as the sesame oil touched the hot soup, the special aroma spread.

Looking at Little Fatty, it had been resting with its eyes closed, but as soon as it smelled the aroma, it jumped out, sniffing around the empty plate, eager and restless.

Weakness, this is definitely the dragon's weakness.

Lei Xihuan picked up Little Fatty and held it in his hand, looking down. Little Fatty saw the bowl of egg drop soup and tried to leap into it, but Lei Xihuan quickly held it back, then laughed slyly:

"Want to eat? This is the elixir soup!"

Held down, Little Fatty couldn't move and nodded frantically.

"Tell me the truth, what can you do?"

Little Fatty's sesame-sized eyes were fixed on the egg drop soup. After a long time, it reluctantly looked away and focused on the walnut.

"What do you mean? Can you make a walnut? Or can you... " Lei Xihuan suddenly had an idea: "Can you grow peaches?"

Little Fatty nodded vigorously.

How can such a small body grow peaches? Lei Xihuan thought for a moment: "Let's make a deal. You help me grow peaches, and I'll treat you to soup, okay?"

Little Fatty first nodded, then shook its head.

"Okay, I'll make you a big pot of braised pork tomorrow, okay? It will be fragrant, and you can eat as much as you want, a whole big pot!"

Little Fatty finally nodded vigorously, looking eager.

Lei Xihuan never imagined that he would have a gluttonous and lazy dragon!

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