Chapter 237: Pig Dragon
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Before the cataclysm, Yuzhou airport had been a huge spacious international airport, with great passenger flow.
After the Cataclysm, it had been refurbished to become an important flight base in the southwestern region. It was also listed as one of the two airports in Huaxia.
Actually, constructing such a spacious airport in mountainous Yuzhou had been costly. Refurbishing and reconstructing Yuzhou Airport had required a mass amount of manpower and material resources.
The silver-white hall stood tall in the airport entrance. Ever since the Cataclysm, the dangers of flying had risen, increasing the cost of flights and decreasing the frequency of arrivals and departures of planes, thus resulting in an originally high-quality, cheap transportation turning into a luxury.
Many high-class cars and luxury trucks stopped in front of the airport. Some passengers with luggage hugged their relatives and friends before they departed.
At the front of the airport security lane, soldiers armed with real rifles and ammunition were on duty.
The driver came down from the seat quickly and opened the door for Gao Peng, intending to carry his luggage.
“No, thank you. I can do it myself,” Gao Peng declined the driver’s offer. “I’ll stop here. You may go back now.”
The driver bowed to Gao Peng before driving off.
A big truck stopped behind them, and from the rear compartment a row of familiars walked out.
Carrying a bottle of fruit juice, Silly slowly drifted over, touching Gao Peng’s shoulder with its antenna stealthily. Noticing that its master wasn’t responding, Silly intended to move closer quietly, planning to…
Poh! Without turning his head, Gao Peng grabbed at Silly’s cool, soft body precisely with his left hand.
“Pu ji, pu ji…” Silly struggled with much dissatisfaction.
Beside the airport security check-in lane, there was a special lane for familiars.
Gao Peng let a few familiars go through the security check-in for familiars while he himself went through the human check-in lane.
The airport was extremely wide, and the ceiling was covered with incandescent lamps. The floor, made of hard, smooth basalt granite, was extraordinarily elegant under the light.
Some familiars were walking around the airport lounge, which was extremely spacious. Being at the airport showed that their status wasn’t ordinary. Correspondingly, their levels were also generally high.
“Oink, oink.” The sound of a pig echoed in the ear.
Lifting his head, Gao Peng saw a humongous monster gradually moving past him.
This monster was very weird. It was slender in shape, and it had thick and strong limbs. It looked like a monitor lizard, yet with a pig’s head.
A fat head with big ears, eyes smashed into a seam, big drooping ears as big as fanning leaves, and fleshy whiskers by the sides of its nose.
This monster was about 65 feet long and 20 feet tall. With its humongous size, It looked extraordinarily outstanding in the airport lounge.
Gao Peng was curious how such a huge familiar would be loaded onto the plane. Just this monster alone would take up the entire passenger cabin of an aircraft.
[Monster Name]: Pig Dragon
[Monster Level]: Level 38
[Monster Grade]: Excellent
[Monster Skills]: Fat Storage: Level 1, Visceral strengthening Level 1, Tough pigskin Level 1
[Monster Attribute]: Earth
[Monster State]: Healthy (Hungry)
[Monster Preference]: Eating/Watching Movies/Sleeping
[Monster Weakness]: 1. Wood types. 2. Not eating for a long time, as the strong stomach acid can rot the stomach sac.
[Monster Introduction]: Evolved from farm pigs, awakened from dragon blood, with a huge appetite, powerful digesting ability, it is categorized as an omnivorous monster.
Gao Peng was shocked. Its attributes and abilities were really in line with its introduction, since it had evolved from a hog farm.
Hopefully this hungry creature won’t just consume anything it comes across. At this thought, Gao Peng moved further away from the Pig Dragon.
Gao Peng found a place and sat down. Dumby, being in full skeletal form, attracted a lot of attention, but people change their lines of sight after a second look. Even though Ghoul-type monsters were rather rare in Yuzhou, they were still only rather rare.
After all, southeast of Yuzhou was Xiangxi.
Regarding the familiars under his charge, only Dumby had advanced to the Lord-tier. Flamy was second, having broken through to Level 34 just the day before.
Apart from this, Da Zi and Stripey were level 31, Silly level 26, and Goldie level 25.
These were the levels of the familiars under Gao Peng at that moment. To have upgraded to such levels within half a year was largely due to good nutrition, eating top quality ingredients every single day.
For example, Flamy hadn’t even managed to slim down yet… Its feathers were shiny and bright.
“Oink, oink.” The Pig Dragon stayed for a while in the lounge and finally stopped not too far away from Gao Peng. It became flighty in front of a man sitting opposite it.
Shortly after, a man shrieked, “How can you be hungry so soon? Didn’t you eat two cows just before coming to the airport?”
Gao Peng turned his gaze and stared at the size of the pig dragon, mourning quietly for this man.
That’s rather terrible…
Grandpa’s White Dragon could just feed on clouds and water every day to offset most of its daily energy consumption. Meat was optional, considered dessert after a meal.
In spite of this, his grandpa would transport a whole truck of fresh seafood as the White Dragon’s dessert. Well, the big truck used had 16 wheels.
A normal family could hardly afford this… Eating like this would cause them to go bankrupt.
Though the size of this monster was much smaller than White Dragon, its appetite was relatively big as well.
“I’m spending all the money I earn just to feed you, Pig Dragon.” The man was almost in tears. “The food in this airport is extremely costly. Just a bowl of beef noodles would cost 50 dollars. Can’t you just bear it?”
“Oink oink.” The Pig Dragon wasn’t responding. Half kneeling and half lying, it wriggled, all its fatty flesh surging like waves.
“Why don’t you just eat me. Eat all 100 pounds of me,” the man said hopelessly.
In the end, the man called the people in charge of the airport and told them, “This Pig Dragon of mine eats anything when it gets anxious.” The man looked like he wanted to cry, but no tears came out.
The staff workers of the airport suddenly became very nervous, cautiously looking at this giant beast.
“Relax, I’ve trained it. It doesn’t eat humans.” The man immediately waved his hands. “It’s just that when it gets hungry, it will eat tables, chairs… It will basically eat anything.”
In the end, the man and the airport negotiated and agreed to a deal—he spent around a million Alliance credits to have over a dozen tons of meat delivered to the airport through special means.
The Pig Dragon’s eye lit up as soon as it saw meat. It immediately ran towards the forklift carrying the packaged meat. Sounds of “pa, pa, pa” came from the body of the Pig Dragon as its rolls of fat slammed against each other.
“Isn’t that Gao Peng?” Far away, someone in the lounge of the airport raised his hand and pointed towards Gao Peng, who was seated on another side.
“Hey, it looks like it really is Gao Peng. So, he’s also at the airport.”
“But the thing is, why is he seated in the airport? I thought he already retired from the Alliance Monster Trainer Youth Competition?” someone asked, puzzled.
He was a member of the Yuzhou student association, and he was going to the capital specifically to watch the Monster Trainer Youth World Competition. After all, one wouldn’t want to miss the opportunity to view such a grand event.
At the same time, he also had the intention of going to support a member of the student association, Jun Moyi.
Initially, Gao Peng had also qualified, but then, Gao Peng had chosen to retire for the third round after the second round of the examination had ended. Under the hype and promotion of Han Yuanming, the incident became known throughout the entire Huaxia region, though many people still thought it was quite regrettable.
In the end, a person who shouldn’t have been there suddenly appeared.
“Is it because he regrets his decision and wants to go watch the competition?” someone asked in a whisper.