My Husband, a Marshal: Conquering the Stars with My Culinary Arts-Chapter 701 - 236 Returning Home_2

What the roar meant was naturally unknown to a human like Du Xixi, but there was no intention of keeping her there, and this Du Xixi could comprehend.

She took one last look at the two creatures lazily lying on the ground. Their fur was coated with dust and had turned grey, yet there was an indescribable adorable quality about them. Du Xixi smiled again and used the Light Computer to take some photos of the two.

After all, it would be hard to see them again in the future, so it was good to have a memento.

When going up, Du Xixi felt tired, but on the way down, her attention was absorbed by the scenery below. From her current position, she could clearly see all the beasts below, not just those by the pond, but also those inside it.

Du Xixi had keen eyes, and all the way down, she kept seeing a dark blue slender creature swimming at the bottom of the pond. However, the lake’s surface reflected a lot of shimmering light into Du Xixi’s eyes, making it hard to see clearly. Even when she was close to the green "curtain" and saw Ke Lian and the others waiting there, Du Xixi was still very curious about what the slender creature was.

Was the underwater creature some type of fish? Or perhaps a water snake? Du Xixi mused to herself, but was already about to step out of the "curtain."

One hand was held by Ke Lian, and 2569 carefully nudged her forward with its mechanical hand. Du Xixi wanted to look a bit longer but managed only a hurried glance, where she saw a bare, somewhat slippery-looking long tail.

Was it not?

Du Xixi squinted in disappointment. In Blue Star Time, her country always longed for a creature called a "dragon," with the body of a snake, the head of a pig, antlers of a deer, ears of a cow, beard of a sheep, claws of an eagle, and scales of a fish. Perhaps due to the unclear view, Du Xixi had a moment of whimsical thinking, wondering if it could be a dragon.

Thinking this, Du Xixi left with Ke Lian and others towards their previous direction, feeling she had let her imagination run wild. The dragon was a mythical creature from ancient times, and its existence was debatable. She felt a little crestfallen over such a trivial matter.

However...

If it truly were a dragon, would she not be ecstatic? How many in this world had truly seen a dragon?

Du Xixi and the others left swiftly. It was only after they had departed that the pond within the "curtain" suddenly surged with waves. Many beasts scattered in all directions, retreating at least forty to fifty meters away, before a low, resonant call echoed from within the pond.

This call seemed like a signal, causing the pond’s water to rise up in a curtain. This water curtain soared thirty to forty meters high, lingering briefly in the air before crashing back down with a "boom," like showers of rain from the heavens, soaking the surrounding land into a deep brown.

Such a wondrous scene went unnoticed by the beasts as though it were commonplace. They all lifted their heads, whether small like squirrels nesting in trees or coiled pythons on the ground, or gathered Iron-eating Beasts, all with eyes full of fear and reverence.

What were they waiting for with such anticipation?

After the water curtain fell, the waterfall continued to feed the pond, with no visible decrease in the water level. Yet slowly, it descended by more than a meter, at which point an elongated, several hundred meters long serpentine creature rose into the air.

A dense white breath exhaled from the creature’s nostrils, resembling two mighty little dragons that swirled and dissipated in the air, revealing the distinctively powerful body of its owner.

If Du Xixi were here at this moment, she could possibly, with the traits from legends, recognize that this enormous serpentine creature was precisely the dragon she had been wistfully thinking about.

Alas, the dragon did not continue to soar in the sky for long and soon returned to the pond for a period of rest. When Du Xixi felt something and looked up, the sky was serene, with no abnormalities, and she considered her inner tremors merely a coincidence.

***

The following days passed exceptionally quickly. Everyone exercised together daily, savored delicacies, and went out to search for any traces of the mammoth upon having leisure time. And indeed, on the ninth day’s morning, they successfully spotted a lone mammoth. Seeing that they were due to return to the Blue Star Empire the next day, they didn’t hesitate and immediately picked up their weapons.