My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 239 - 225: The Dragon Race Are Actually the Descendants of Dinosaurs...

"Is your infant mortality rate very high?" Xue Dili asked a beast-eared maiden who came to him for treatment.

On top of her head, she seemed to have ears like a lion's, yet in her pupils at the moment, there was no longer a lion, only an expression worn down to numbness.

"Very high..." she seemed to say numbly, "I know many people's children, they all died, many died soon after birth, many didn't survive the pollution of evil energy and died early..."

"And some are polluted so fast that they're unable to even bear offspring, probably over half fall into this category..." she seemed to casually state a number.

She lifted her clothes, revealing the simply wrapped side breast, and the entire left side of the breast along with the shoulder to the forearm where a black, pulsating, twisted tumor began.

"Over half the people can't even live to parenting age?" Xue Dili fell silent upon hearing this estimated figure, which was roughly the same as Obsidian's report.

In this world, less than forty percent live to adulthood.

"Yes, this is a world of suffering." She seemed to be consuming some kind of neural drugs to numb her nerves, "The sorrow of the earth, twisted cities, this endless, fated cycle..."

The woman's side breast trembled under the simple bandage, she seemed to be trying hard to hide her sorrow.

Xue Dili: "..."

He wasn't a psychologist, couldn't heal this sort of thing.

As per routine, he observed, discovering that the woman's entire arm was actually necrotic. She wasn't controlling the arm; it was the consciousness of the tumor.

Every time she thought she raised her arm, she actually sent a neural signal to the tumor, which then confirmed and executed the command.

Amputation was the only option...

But Xue Dili had seen many cases like this, he immediately began surgery, amputated, and completed the soul materialization.

She lost an arm, then Xue Dili said, "Try using this power."

In her numb pupils, a glimmer of light seemed to emerge, and the next moment, a cyan dragon's head grew on the severed arm, its slender, sharp snout seemed born to pierce squid.

At this moment, Xue Dili's mind was left with only one thought, this lion-like woman seemed to have obtained the protection of the "soft-bodied killer," just raising her hand would be enough to pierce any squid.

"Doctor, this..." she was stunned, the longstanding pain and numbness seemed to vanish at this moment. Even though she lost an arm, she seemed to feel the vitality of life once more.

"Rest more recently, use this ability less, eat more bread and drink more water, early to bed and early to rise with regular exercise, you'll recover soon. Now, next..." However, Xue Dili's words were interrupted before he finished.

The lion-like woman's pupils seemed to emit light, "Doctor, on the path I've walked, I've seen too many sacrifices, but I think... there are still many people walking in the dark wilderness, filled with confusion and hesitation. I want, in this world of suffering, to lead more lives..."

"Next patient!" Xue Dili called out expressionlessly towards the outside.

The lion-like woman left, looking back with every step, and at this time, the Old Demon Emperor in the Consciousness Space began to complain, "Are the people of this world so well-educated? Everyone is capable of speaking words full of philosophy and eloquence... but their words are a bit too abstract, everyone seems like a 'philosopher,' I've listened to so much I can even translate their words..."

"Actually, the woman just meant she wanted to sleep with you, and she wants children, not just one, many children, she wants to be a mother..." The Old Demon Emperor translated the woman's meaning and continued to complain,

"This is the 17th woman today to hint that she wants to be a mother with you..."

Xue Dili: "..."

You dumb AI translator should just go on strike, he'd rather listen to those vague, weirdly philosophical and nonsensical riddles than be harassed by you like this...

"What a wonderful group of people..." Suddenly, the Old Demon Emperor's demeanor changed, he seemed to look at the heavy snow outside through the door, "In such a world of suffering, these people still love life so much, they desperately want to live, want their descendants to survive..."

"But, this is reality... Without your treatment, that woman probably wouldn't even have the qualification to become a mother... The tumor and radiation would cause her to miscarry as soon as she became pregnant..."

"Yet even so, they are trying their utmost to survive, the people of this world, they are worthy of respect..." the Old Demon Emperor lamented.

Xue Dili: "..."

"Have you been listening to so much nonsensical, meaningless talk that you've become like the natives of this world, only capable of repeating verbose, wordy things? What's all this convoluted nonsense you're spouting, speak plainly, I don't have the patience to use my limited brainpower to decipher your hard-to-understand riddles." Xue Dili directly retorted unceremoniously.

This idiot Demon Emperor, maybe from listening to too much chatter today, has become more chatty himself.

The Old Demon Emperor's face twitched as his literary sentiment and sadness were interrupted by Xue Dili, after a long pause, he slowly said, "Actually, I wanted to say, if only these people could become my subjects, then I might even feel my peaceful plan could be realized."

"See, that's just one sentence, why did you ramble on for hundreds of words just now?" Xue Dili really couldn't stand this world's speaking habits.

Mouth full of "suffering," closing with "life," everyone seemed like a philosopher spouting some vague, verbose things, two sentences in and they'd diverge into some happiness of life and why birds yearn for freedom...

Nuts!

Xue Dili's worldview was completely out of sync with the people here. He had always thought that the people here were too abstract, so abstract that even looking at the Little Dragon Lady playing the magic stick biting game with a pale crow on the side felt refreshingly unique to him.

At least the Little Dragon Lady wouldn't say some nonsensical, nagging things. She was very simple, only wanting to eat, eat, eat, and eat, treating eating as more important than anything else.

If even the Old Demon Emperor were to become a master of nagging, Xue Dili might even feel the urge to open a Teleportation Gate and kick him back. He was afraid that after returning to his own world, he too would become a king of nagging, and that would be a disgrace.

Just as Xue Dili was voicing his complaints, the next moment, a young lady holding a doll in her hands walked in. Her one eye was covered by an eye patch, and Xue Dili immediately realized...

There were still people with tumors growing on an eye; truly the king of courting death.

"Lie down and expose the polluted area," Xue Dili said directly.

"Doctor, do you understand the meaning of life... why does life have so many hardships? For every living being struggling to survive on this land, what is the purpose of our existence?"

Xue Dili: "..."

Quack?

With the quasi-5th-tier full power, there is no regret in killing the tumor. With the Purest Realm, I can annihilate this meaningless tumor in a minute; Nagging Destroyer Punch, yeah!

...

With the day's diagnosis done, Xue Dili had collected enough data, having also heard countless spiritually polluting words.

Just like how now the Old Demon Emperor within him began contemplating the meaning of life, the meaning of civilization, and the meaning of existence...

He was clearly sick, probably driven mad by this world of suffering...

Pah! What nagging words, how have I also been affected by this nonsense?

He began summarizing today's surgeries which involved 27 people.

Among them were 4 Beast-footed types from the Tyrannosaur family, 4 from the Horned Dragon family, 5 from the Armored Dragon family, 2 from the Winged Dragon family, 2 Sea Reptiles... and 10 Giant Dragons.

Thus, he could finally conclude that the Dragon Race of this world had a connection to Blue Star. Otherwise, it was too much of a coincidence, and he did not believe in coincidences, that this world suddenly had species similar to dinosaurs.

If most intelligent species across the cosmos are convergingly evolving towards the Venerable King, then the mainstream of the Dragon Race should be "Dragon People." Yet now, although the sample size is small, it still sufficiently explains...

The mainstream of the Dragon Race is actually dinosaurs!

Although they seem to have undergone long-term evolution in appearance, enough to detach "dinosaur" into a standalone "Sub-dragon" category, many are not that different from Giant Dragons, especially the two from the Winged Dragon family.

At that time, Xue Dili nearly classified them under the Giant Dragon family too.

Yet, even with so many species, there is no essential difference in the molecular genetic structure of tumors between the Sub-dragon family and the Giant Dragon family, indicating a common origin...

He also recalled what the World Consciousness once said: if the dinosaurs on Blue Star hadn't gone extinct, Blue Star would now be a world of Giant Dragons, perhaps better called Dragon Star.

So, why could the Dragon Race in this world be related to the dinosaurs of Blue Star?

This was his current puzzlement, along with wondering why every land in this world is covered with single-celled organisms polluted by Dragon Blood.

In fact, these tumor-growing beastmen are also organisms polluted by Dragon Blood.

Put this way, their opening words of "the land of suffering" indeed make sense, as living here meant they couldn't escape the pollution of Dragon Blood.

However, there was one exception in this world.

"Uwa! Woo!" The Little Dragon Lady pretended to be fierce, puffing towards the Breadman Knight, as if she was a completely exceptional landscape, out of tune with this world.

Though she is a pureblood dragon, she no longer has the characteristics of other dragons, rather resembling a whole new kind of newborn life.

"Little Dragon, you're actually part of the Dragon Race... I've never seen this legendary race before." Nearby, the white crow seemed to get familiar with the Little Dragon Lady as they played together.

"Yeehaw!" The Little Dragon Lady put her hands on her hips, looking quite proud.

"But I've heard that members of the Dragon Race all seem to have horns. Are yours not grown out yet?" The white crow's next comment left the Little Dragon Lady dumbfounded.

She quickly pondered, and the next moment, small horns began slowly growing from her head. She then walked up to Xue Dili, joyfully pointing at her own head, "Papa... Papa..."

Xue Dili: "..."

Wait a minute, what are you messing around with?