Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Six

  Bohai Bay, China, outside the Port of Dalian, this beach is covered with reeds, and under the sea surface outside, someone has contracted this sea area for prawn farming.

  Liu Chuan is a Northeasterner who raises prawns, and today was the day for his regular inspection of the beach waters he had contracted. He was walking along the hardened mud road by the sea with several workers and technicians, heading towards the rows of buildings that jutted out of the water.

  Then they were stunned after turning a corner. The scene in front of them made their minds go blank, with only a sense of fear, and both legs and hands felt as if they had a thousand pounds of weight, completely numb.

  A dark, murky creature was thrashing about in the shrimp pool under the faint light of dawn. Its massive head had two lantern-like eyes that reflected a red glow. The huge horns on its head and the spines protruding from its body scratched against the concrete house, causing it to lean precariously. Its large claws easily tore apart the concrete boards separating the pools, reducing them to a pile of rubble. Its mouth was full of shrimp, chewing away contentedly.

  After these people stopped in their tracks, the strange creature seemed to have heard the movement and turned its head to look over.

  Liu Chong looked at the pair of red big eyes and the head that was very similar to the dragon he had seen in various paintings, movies, and online art works. His thoughts came back, accompanied by a series of hoarse and mournful cries: "Run!" He turned around and ran, and several small workers and technicians on the side also turned around and ran desperately, as if they had been struck by lightning. A few people even fell, but they seemed to feel no pain at all, scrambling up and running away. If it were an Olympic Games, I estimate that these few could win the 100-meter championship...

  A low and loud roar came from behind, these guys were even more frightened, and the frequency of their escape became faster.

  "Huh? Been seen by someone? These guys are really fast runners. Never mind, let's have a good meal of lobster first." Beru's roar carried this meaning, and then his body burst out with blue-white light, on the other side of the pool, a large group of cultivated flounder began to turn white, Beru's long neck stretched over again to start devouring.

  An hour later, several sedans with "CCTV" written on the outside sped over, ignoring traffic speed limits and disregarding whether the beach surface could support their entry. The cars hadn't even fully stopped when a group of jacket-clad men carrying huge cameras jumped out, ran a few steps, and set up their cameras facing the aquaculture farm in the distance. "They must be really disappointed..." A pair of eyes peeked out from under the water's surface, with the reeds perfectly covering the horns on its head. Baifu watched the crowd on the shore, its laughter stirring up ripples in the water.

  That night, the CCTV-10 program "Walking into Science" officially aired. The show started with a big title: "Chinese Dragon? Reality or Mystery? The Truth about the Dragon Bones in the Early 20th Century and the Sea Monster Sightings in the Early 21st Century". The host, surnamed Zhang, first broadcast the sensational sea monster sighting video that had been circulating online for days, repeating the news report with exciting language. Then he showed a photo from an old newspaper of a giant skeleton with two "horns" lying on the ground, surrounded by a crowd of people. "Our audience friends, in the early 20th century, there were rumors about 'dragon bones' in Bohai...". Blah blah blah. Finally, he showed a long video shot at a damaged aquaculture farm...

  "It is very likely that there exists an unknown creature in the ocean, our experts believe that some of the past sightings of sea serpents may have been real examples. Our ancestors may also have seen such animals during their marine production activities, and we look forward to further sightings."

  Bo Fu had no idea that his story was already on the famous "Walking into Science", but he could imagine the sensation it would cause after witnessing the incident. "To be honest, this image really looks like a Chinese dragon, but... ...the dragons I've eaten before weren't so mighty, and the body is much larger, unfortunately, it can't really turn into a hundred or even thousands of meters long sea dragon, otherwise... ...this world would have exploded."

  He has now entered the Yingkou sea area and landed near the outer seawall. His huge body curled up in a circle on the ground, with only his head held high to look around.

  On a summer day, the sky brightened quickly, and human figures appeared on the seawall. However, those figures froze and immediately turned around to run away. Many people took out their phones to make calls or take pictures. Before long, TV station vehicles and police arrived, watching from afar as Bó Fú lay on the seawall. With cameras and guns at the ready, they snapped photos of Bó Fú nonstop. Some even lit incense and candles, kowtowing to him repeatedly... "Take your pictures! Take your pictures! Let you guys take enough! Hehehe, I'll leave some good stuff for you. It's definitely going to be interesting!" Bó Fú posed left and right, striking various poses.

  About twenty minutes after arriving at the TV station, Ba Fu suddenly let out a loud roar, and the crowd instantly dispersed with a "boom" sound, with many people trampling each other. Ba Fu turned his head, and several boats had already appeared on the sea surface. He sprang up, landed on all fours, and quickly returned to the ocean.

  "Look! That dragon is moving so fast!"

  "No! This crawling posture is not that of modern reptiles! It's more like those ancient early archosaurs!"

  “？”

  "It's dinosaurs!!"

  When the crowd was in a flurry, Ba Fu had only exposed his tail on the water surface, and with a flick of his tail, he disappeared into the sea.

  The police formed a cordon and several old men and middle-aged people walked to the place where Ba Fu was squatting to investigate.

  "Look! This paw print. Three toes in front and one behind, extremely huge."

  "Observations from the front indicate that this creature is approximately 33 meters in length, with an estimated weight of around 50 tons, which can be determined by the depth of its footprints on the ground."

  "What a hard claw, it even left such deep scratch marks on the cement floor."

  "These videos should be enough for us to classify and name this creature. It seems that the Chinese dragon will still be named by Chinese scientists first."

  "Who named it? You or me? Or shall we just write 'China' as its name?"

  An old man was whispering with his companions when he found a red thing on the sharp stones under the seawall. The old man, regardless of his age, got down from the seawall like a young man.

  "Be careful! Old Liu! Be careful!"

  "Really! This old man goes crazy whenever he sees this kind of thing! How many years has it been? Still the same temperament."

  The old man known as "Liu Lao" is a famous biologist, already over eighty years old. He came down to the stone strip here, and on the sharp angle of the stone strip there was a blood stain about the size of a palm print, clearly left behind by Bo Fu when he returned to the sea just now.

  Liu Lao stared at the bloodstain, which emitted a bright red glow. The old man stared blankly, then completely disregarded the rules for collecting specimens, stretching out a finger to wipe the edge of the bloodstain, and immediately a cluster of red light adhered to his fingertip. Liu Lao gazed at the red light on his fingertip, and inexplicably used his tongue to lick it once...

  The other old men and middle-aged people above shouted, "Liu Lao!", "Old fellow! Have you gone mad?!"

  But almost at the same time, Liu's slightly curved waist suddenly straightened up, and when he turned his head around, everyone was shocked to the point of being speechless - Liu's emaciated old face, which was over eighty years old, became plump, and the neck exposed by his collar obviously didn't look like an old man's skin with wrinkles.

  Several old men were shocked and immediately followed suit, also using their index fingers to dip in a bit and put it in their mouths.

  The guard above slowed down a step, with great urgency in his heart. If these famous biologists were poisoned to death, his own future would also be ruined.

  Never thought a miracle happened, the bloodstains on the stone slab became dull and colorless under everyone's gaze, while those old men who licked the glowing bloodstains suddenly became younger, but with white hair and white beards, they could be called "white-haired beauties".

  "Is it confirmed?"

  "It's confirmed! The physiological functions of all the old scientists who were licked have reversed! They've reverted to the physical functions of a robust man in his mid-30s! Even their white hair roots are starting to turn black!"

  "...Full force search for the trail of the 'Dragon'!" This news completely cannot be concealed, a large number of people on the seawall saw the old people's faces become young, superstition at this moment made it impossible to cover up this news - "The blood of the Dragon King can reverse aging!" This superstition unexpectedly conforms to reality... ...The whole world was shocked, and as a result, China naming this creature as Chordata Vertebrata Reptilia Sauria Drakonis Sinensis was completely overlooked...

  Many ships appeared in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea here repeatedly searching, other countries also made a request to China for joint scientific investigation.

  The first to make a move was Bohai, who had already left the Bohai Sea and arrived in the outer sea of Taiwan.