Most of the population of Haiji Island live in the high areas on the edge of the island. Because the land here is farthest from Yuanxia Palace, its tendency to become holy soil is also the least.

As for the land in the center of Haiji Island, which is the closest to Yuanxia Palace, it became a “beautiful desert” without human habitation due to the consecration of the land.

So for Haiji Island, they only need to manage the land around the island well.

As for the basin in the center, there is no need to manage it, and there is no need to control it – no one is looking at such a barren land.

In terms of security patrols, the Haiji Island squad only patrols and stations in the highlands around the island.

Today, nature is no exception.

Tomohiro Ichikawa is an unremarkable soldier in the Kaiji Island resistance army. Of course, whether his identity as a resistance soldier can be retained is a question mark.

Because the shogunate suddenly stopped the war recently, followed by changes in various government orders, the most important of which was the surrender of Kaiji Island in the future.

Its importance was such that almost the entire top management of Kaiji Island went to the shogunate to negotiate. In various capacities, Kaiji Island came under the shogunate? Can the rebels still survive? These estimates all depend on this negotiation.

But these have nothing to do with Ichikawa Tomohiro, he is just a pawn on patrol now.

“It’s another leisurely day.” Standing on a high place, Ichikawa Tomohiro looked around. It was still a familiar scene, and it seemed that today was another incident-free day.

Just as he was thinking about when to change shifts, a faint roar sounded in his ears.

After hearing this, Ichikawa Chihiro picked his ears and looked around, but saw nothing. After closing his eyes and listening carefully for a while, he realized that the roar seemed to be coming from below.

Coming to the edge of the cliff, Ichikawa Tomohiro looked down. I saw a huge beast appearing on the cliff.

“What… is this?” Ichikawa Chihiro scratched his head. There are very few creatures on Haiji Island. They are just humans, Qiuqiu people, slimes, and the most annoying floating spirits. When did such beasts appear?

And judging from the size of this beast, it seems to be very big. Looking at the increasingly excited dragon lizard below, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Ichikawa Tomohiro’s head.

The basin in the center of Haiji Island is so barren, and this beast is so huge. Could it be… begging for food?

The dragon lizard below opened its bloody mouth and howled at Ichikawa Chihiro, but in Ichikawa Chihiro’s opinion, this undoubtedly confirmed his idea.

“Thank you for peace, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to give this to you.” Ichikawa Chihiro said this as he took out the dry food in his arms, but there was still some reluctance on his face.

The war has just stopped, and the various aftermaths have just begun. Food is still scarce, but at least there is hope for the future, so Ichikawa Tomohiro will feed the dragon lizard his own dry food.

Haiji Island is so barren, but it can grow such a big thing. Ichikawa Tomohiro felt that this beast probably grew up eating dirt.

Otherwise, the basin in the center of Haiji Island would not be able to support any life form except elemental life forms.

This land is simply worse than the desert, and cacti can grow in the desert! Only useless coral and shellfish can grow here.

As long as he had spare energy, he was still willing to help this big guy digging in the soil.

“Take it.” Ichikawa Tomohiro broke off a piece of dry food and threw it into the dragon lizard’s big mouth.

“Roar…, hiccup!”

The big purple dragon lizard felt something go into its mouth. It swallowed subconsciously, and a hint of sweetness appeared in its mouth.

“Begging for mercy, accept it!”

The big purple dragon lizard thought about it a few times, and then opened its mouth wide again. It can accept human begging for mercy, but the benefits just now are not enough, it needs more!

“You want more?” Ichikawa Tomohiro frowned when he saw the dragon lizard opening its mouth again below.

Soon, his brows widened, because the dragon lizard below roared twice more after seeing his move to stop his hand.

This made Ichikawa Chihiro feel that this beast was very human. Remembering his previous experience of being hungry, he unknowingly fed another piece of food.

The feeling of being hungry is so uncomfortable!

Chapter 548 Short legs are a flaw

2024-03-16

“Hiccup! Not enough!”

“for you!”

“Hiccup! Not enough!”

“Is it so edible?”

On the edge of Haizhi Island, one person and one dragon lizard were talking nonchalantly.

Unconsciously, Ichikawa Tomohiro found that all the dry food he carried had been fed.

He looked at the dragon lizard below, which still had its mouth open, and sighed.

Unfolding the empty oil paper in his hand, Ichikawa Tomohiro waved several times at the dragon lizard below.

“No—, you go find someone else—”

The big purple dragon lizard below saw Ichikawa Tomohiro’s actions above him and understood that he had “turned over” all the delicious food.

So it raised its head and stared at Ichikawa Chihiro, memorizing all his appearance and features.

“Humans who surrender, remember!”

After muttering to himself, the big purple dragon lizard nodded. This made Ichikawa Tomohiro above even more surprised.

Could this beast really understand human speech?

“Boom!”

The surprise in Ichikawa Chihiro’s heart had not dissipated, but a more disorderly and noisy loud noise came from the distance.

The sound sounded like thousands of troops passing by.

“The shogunate army is coming?!” Chihiro Ichikawa, who had experienced the baptism of the battlefield, was immediately frightened and jumped three feet high.

He hurriedly picked up the weapon on the ground and prepared to run away!

Just kidding, if he didn’t run away, who would send the information to the Coral Palace? So this was a strategic retreat, definitely not an escape.

However, Ichikawa Tomohiro watched for a long time, but the expected crowd did not arrive.

He patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief, “It turned out that I was scaring myself. I said…”

Ichikawa Tomohiro was paused when he spoke, because he saw that underneath him were densely packed with the kind of “beasts” he had just seen.

Countless dorsal fins floated up and down due to the breathing sounds of the dragon lizards. Viewed from a height, it looked like the earth covered with spikes was floating.

“Help! Someone…no, a beast is coming in!”

Ichikawa Tomohiro no longer hesitated, immediately turned around and ran away screaming, this time without even picking up the weapon on the ground.

This shows how shocked he was by the group of dragon lizards.

“Huh…, human, are you crazy?” The dragon lizard below saw the howling Ichikawa Tomohiro, and felt a little familiar inexplicably.

But they quickly shook their heads to expel this outrageous idea from their minds.

How can humans and dragon lizards be similar!

“I don’t know.” The big purple dragon lizard shook its head, but it didn’t care about that.

“The person just now, beg for mercy and pay tribute, you can be forgiven!” It turned around, vomited a few times, and spit out a pile of dry food from the ground.

“Tribute.” The big purple dragon lizard pushed the food forward with its claws and shared it with its kin.

The dragon lizards were not polite and directly shared the dry food. There are many dragon lizards, and the number of food each one receives is almost negligible, but it is enough to let them taste it.

“Yummy! Agreed!”

“If you hand this over, you can be forgiven!”

“Aren’t we looking for a dragon?”

The unknown dragon lizard wise man spoke, causing the dragon lizards to fall silent again. Yes, didn’t they come out to find dragons? Why did you get into trouble with humans?

“Looking for the dragon! I want revenge! I want it all!” In the end, the two leading dragon lizards set the goal of this trip.

So the dragon lizards started to howl again, but soon, they found a problem lying in front of them.

The dragon lizards looked up. The nearly vertical cross-section was cut by knives and axes, making it impossible for the dragons to start.

Not only that, because the land of Haigi Island is barren, the vegetation on the cross-section is pitifully sparse, which makes it even more difficult for the dragon lizards to climb up.

“Find a way up!” The leader of the dragon lizards roared, and the group of dragon lizards dispersed in twos and threes, looking for a way up the mountain that they didn’t know existed.

……

Narukami Taisha Shrine…no, it should be called the castle tower now.

Every time I see Narukami Taisha Shrine turned into a castle tower, I feel like I am in another world. Why are Narukami Taisha Shrine and castle tower reversed?

Not only her, but even though the others here didn’t say anything, the slight discomfort could still be seen on their faces.

So it turns out that the General likes the witchcraft culture so much? Why couldn’t I find it before?

“Everyone in the Coral Palace, what do you think of the conditions offered by the shogunate?” In the pink hall, there is a long table.

On one side of the long table were Shinkai, Goro and other senior officials of Kaiji Island; on the other side were naturally Kamisato Ayato and Yae Kamiko and other senior officials of the shogunate.

Yae Kamiko sat on the chair, feeling that everything in front of her was so familiar and pleasing to the eye, that she wanted to move in directly.

Xinhai looked at the thick brick document in his hand. The conditions offered above were very generous, including aid to Haiji Island, tax exemptions, and industrial development…

But Xinhai’s brows did not soothe at all, because she understood that there is no free lunch in the world, and you have to pay a corresponding price for whatever you get.

Finally, after turning to a certain page, Xinhai’s frown finally relaxed a lot. The fox tail of the shogunate cannot be hidden after all.

“At this point, the places enshrined in all shrines and shrines will be replaced by thunder gods.” Pointing to a certain page in the document, Xinhai shook his head.

“Oh? Is it unacceptable, or…” Kamisato Ayato skillfully turned the document to a specific position and read the terms carefully.

There are dozens of various clauses, but they can be summed up in one sentence – Haiji Island is not allowed to establish another god, and there is only one god, Thunder God.

“Forgive us that we cannot accept it. The Great God is in our legends and in our lives all the time.”

“He has become our brand on Haiji Island. Even if we accept it, the angry people will never do it when we go back.”

Shinkai raised his head and looked at Kamisato Ayato, who was supported by the old god. He used to be a partner of Kaijijima, but now he has become a tit-for-tat opponent.

I have to say, the times are confusing.

Kamisato Ayato nodded when he heard this, and then he looked at Yae Kamiko, who was holding pink hair.

Noticing Ayato Kamisato’s gaze, Kamiko Yae stopped her movements, sat up straight, and the laziness in her eyes disappeared.

At this time, the Yao Shenzi seemed a bit like a palace minister.