...The world of the rich is truly beyond imagination.
Mingyan casually asked, "How does it feel to raise a dragon?"
Xia Cheng laughed and said, "I used to go there often when I was a child, and my friends also liked to see these handsome and powerful beasts. However, the breeding environment is also very important. In order to maintain the wildness and pride that dragons should have, my elder basically let them roam freely. If you want to visit, you have to stand in a specific safe passage—which makes me feel like I am the human being visited by the dragons."
Although neither of these workaholics has much of a chance to actually visit that planet, we're already in the interstellar age, so experiencing it through remote communication and AR technology is still perfectly feasible.
While faster-than-light transport is a very expensive technology in the Chaoyang Alliance, the word "expensive" is practically irrelevant to the Xia family.
Xia Cheng greeted his elders, and the staff there quickly got everything ready.
The image projected via AR technology is first of a young silver dragon (Western dragon).
The young dragon appeared to be only half a person's height, with powerful forelimbs and hind legs, and a dangerous triangular head at the end of its slender tail. Its entire body was covered in a layer of beautiful and flowing light blue dragon scales, which were said to become closer to the color of liquid silver as it grew, making it extremely beautiful.
It's like an unweaned child—but much braver than a human child, peeking around to observe the surrounding instruments, occasionally bouncing and making gurgling sounds in its throat.
It hadn't learned the dragon roar yet, but it was extremely curious about the outside world, its pair of gray eyes still looking around.
Xia Cheng crossed his arms and looked the little guy up and down, saying, "I guess they were afraid you'd be scared by the size of the big dragon, so they brought out a little one to act cute first."
They are now standing in an empty experience hall—a huge venue from the Blue Star Carnival that hasn't been demolished yet, at least the size of a football field, and supposedly big enough to fit a small to medium-sized adult dragon.
The secretary next to her was overflowing with maternal love just looking at the little dragon, letting out a soft "woof" sound and clutching her heart, exclaiming, "It's so cute!"
Ming nodded in agreement and casually asked, "What will you be like when you grow up?"
A fully grown silver dragon was quickly projected over from the other side.
It was much more imposing and majestic than the little cub. The entire projection process took a full two minutes to display its full appearance in the blank venue.
Compared to baby dragons, adult dragons have long necks, broad wings, strong muscles, and beautiful silver scales that resemble alloy armor, just like moonlight. The length of their tails alone is enough to circle the entire arena.
It had to remain perched there, but its overall demeanor remained unruly, with many colors dappled in its light gray eyes, as if they contained a mysterious magic.
It's so captivating!
This time it was Xia Cheng's turn to drool; no man could resist something so majestic and beautiful.
He said, "This is the perfect combination of power and beauty. The Chaoyang Alliance has discovered tens of millions of alien creatures to date, but in terms of popularity, there is probably none that can compare with dragons."
Mingyan felt he could completely understand and asked, "How do they treat humans?"
Xia Cheng thought for a moment and said, "I don't know much about it, but I've heard it's closely related to the dragon species. Dragons are now mainly divided into colored dragons, metallic dragons, gem dragons, ancient dragons, spirit dragons, fantasy dragons... there are quite a lot. Generally speaking, colored dragons are more evil, metallic dragons are more benevolent, gem and spirit dragons are neutral, and I don't know much about the others."
While frantically taking notes, Mingyan asked thoughtfully, "What does 'fantasy dragon species' mean? Does it mean it possesses magical power? Is it the strongest kind?"
Xia Cheng smiled and said, "They are some dragon species whose life forms we still cannot understand. For example, the Alliance once discovered a memetic dragon that only exists in the consciousness of intelligent beings, and only appears when the latter think of a specific concept or simply dreams. We can only observe it through deep hypnosis, so we simply named it 'Dream Eater Dragon'."
Mingyan was a little disappointed and said, "So there's still no magic."
“If magic is a general term for unknown power systems, then it does exist,” Xia Cheng said. “Ancient dragons can probably directly fulfill your fantasies about dragon gods.”
Mingyan was astonished and exclaimed, "The Dragon God?"
"Ancient dragons, many people think they're just dragons without wings, let me show you..."
This time, however, there was no real-time projection, because even Xia Cheng's elders couldn't obtain an ancient dragon.
Xia Cheng called out a page from the encyclopedia and displayed a stop-motion 3D projection of it.
Inside the venue, one could see the half-body of a black ancient dragon. Its body was as long as a snake, but it had four limbs, each with four claws. It also had antlers on its head and a beard on its chin.
It has no dragon wings or wings, but it gracefully hovers in mid-air, its hair and beard flowing, giving it a unique and otherworldly beauty.
Mingyan was deeply shocked and said, "I might know... Isn't that Dongfang Long?!"
Everything in the universe exists in two dimensions: space and time.
It is said that the Elder Dragons have existed in this universe for tens of millions of years. They are highly intelligent life forms and once even had an Elder Dragon society.
Later, Mingyan thought about it and guessed that perhaps the ancient dragon species had once visited Earth and left a deep impression on Earth's ancestors, which even gradually evolved into a totem.
Xia Cheng continued, "Generally, we believe that ancient dragons are different from other dragon species because they are far more intelligent. Moreover, they possess 'magical powers' that we cannot yet explain, allowing them to change their appearance and fly freely without relying on aerodynamics. There are even historical records of them controlling weather changes. This ancient dragon in the textbook is said to be the prototype of a royal duke of the Galactic Empire, but unfortunately, only the upper body was photographed..."
He paused, seeing that Mingyan had been gazing at him with deep emotion for a long time.
Then, Mingyan took out his phone and started snapping photos like crazy.
Xia Cheng: "..."
"I suddenly feel an urge to finish the whole game as soon as possible!" Mingyan said excitedly. "And I've got a brilliant idea!"
Here it comes, the standard ending.
Xia Cheng followed Mingyan and jogged all the way to the desk.
While frantically sketching on paper, Mingyan said thoughtfully, "Let these beautiful creatures fill the Rising Sun Alliance! Everyone will have a chance to find dragon eggs! Raise the dragons, and then teach them to use magic..."
Before he could finish speaking, the secretary next to him exclaimed, her eyes practically gleaming with envy, "I want one! Boss, hurry up and do it, I want to raise a little silver dragon too!"
Games are naturally different from reality, and Mingyan needs to go into seclusion to do more detailed design work.
In particular, this is an augmented reality game.
The so-called "augmented reality" (AR) technology generally uses multimedia interaction, 3D projection and other virtual information simulation technologies to achieve a certain degree of integration between virtual information and the real world.
To give an example, real-time translation glasses already existed in the interstellar era.