The boy nodded:

"Alright, thank you, Dad."

"Oh, honey, look at how sensible our son is. Can the children of the Bielong Family speak so well at this age?"

The wife proudly patted her son on the shoulder:

"When you're not home, I take good care of the child."

"I can see that, Mom has a knack for educating the next generation. Today we must reward Mom."

"Haha, I'm benefiting from our son's achievements."

"Look at you, you and the child are equally important to me. Moreover, if he's so outstanding, it also means you've taught him well."

"I don't really know much about teaching children, it should be done by professional teachers. Hey, dear, the enrollment qualification you mentioned last time, can you apply for it for our son?"

"I've already asked Mr. Dunstan, he's a pureblood red dragon. He promised me that for just thirty thousand Kroner, he can get our son into Sodore Public School — it's a school personally founded by the Chief of Dragon Island, which used to only accept pureblood dragons, but in recent decades, due to insufficient new students, some spots have been allocated."

"That's great, son, did you hear? Once you get in, study hard, make friends with those pureblood dragons. After you graduate, you won't have to be like me, shooting arrows and hunting by day, weaving that elf silk by night, forever stuck in the elf's big forest, unable to get out."

"Don't worry, Mom, after I graduate, I'll open a textile factory on Dragon Island, hiring you and Aunt Imo and everyone as employees, so you can all come to Dragon Island to earn money."

"Oh, look, honey, this is our son, thinking about the family at such a young age."

"Uwa uwa uwa..."

"Dear, keep your voice down, Nini has been startled awake by you."

"Just as well she woke up, come, Nini, try this drink from the big city, it's blue-horned rhino milk, very nourishing."

Although not a wealthy family, their conversations revolved around very mundane and low-end domestic affairs, occasionally mixed with some crude jokes and incomprehensible silly laughter.

They didn't understand the law; for them, it seemed the only solution to a problem was to rely on personal relationships.

But for some reason.

Li Aozi looked at this family and felt like they didn't seem to lack anything.

"Sir, your food is ready."

The server brought his order to the table, but Li Aozi didn't respond.

He was watching the family at the next table, eavesdropping on their family chatter, as though stealing something from them.

The dining time arrived, the restaurant gradually filled with diners, and before long, the whole place was bustling, filled with the smells of smoke, alcohol, tea, and oil.

But more than anything else, it was filled with humanity.

Li Aozi sat by a round table near the window, outside was the bright sunshine, a playful little girl darted through the crowd with a balloon, inside was noise and clamor.

He used to find it annoying, but now, he felt a sense of comfort.

He listened to the diners at each table talking about their own affairs.

A troll migrant worker in plain camouflage clothing, wearing only a reflective vest, clearly just off a construction site, ordered some snacks and a beer, munching on peanuts, eyes glazed, boastfully recounting the glorious past of the Troll Empire with his workmates.

An activist carnivore of the Tree People burst into the store, protesting against eating vegetables, and loudly questioned: "If you saw plants being dug out of the soil, cut, washed, and cooked, none of you would be vegetarians. Stop eating vegetarian food, eating meat is the environmentally friendly and humane way."

But soon, he was caught and escorted out by a Dragonborn policeman just off duty, who grumbled while dragging the Tree Person out, "I just ordered the pickled vegetables and shredded meat noodles, haven't even had a bite."

Amidst the noise, there was also a student from the public school, wearing headphones, he ordered a simple meal, and started tackling 'Dragon Tax Practice Cases' diligently.

In the midst of the bustling city, still maintains a pure heart for learning.

But he didn't study for long, soon taking out a magic crystal to watch cartoons, which was quite a sight to behold.

"Sir, sir."

As Li Aozi was immersed in observing the surrounding cultural scenery, a series of calls from the waiter brought him back to reality. Turning his head, he saw the waiter apologetically saying:

"Sorry for disturbing you, sir, the restaurant's business is booming today, and many customers can only share tables. Can we seat a customer at your table?"

By his past habits, Li Aozi wasn't used to sharing his seat with strangers, he only associated with his familiar friends.

But now.

"No problem."

Li Aozi said, moving his personal belongings and clothes off the chair opposite him, draping his coat over his own chair's back.

"Thank you so much, we really couldn't refuse that customer — as compensation, we'll offer you a complimentary drink."

"Really? Then I won't need the receipt."

Li Aozi wasn't surprised.

This place had great food, even though it was just homemade dishes, they were quite exquisite and flavorful.

Just as he was planning to continue observing the various patrons in the eatery, a cold female voice suddenly spoke:

"Is this Table 12?"

"Yes." Li Aozi said without looking up, "No one is sitting across, you can sit there."

"Thank you."

A woman with a hood nodded and sat across from Li Aozi. Without using the menu, she directly said to the server who had followed her over:

"The usual."

The woman's accent was a bit strange, not like the traditional Dragon Language accent but rather similar to the Haines accent of Dominating Universe.

This suddenly caught Li Aozi's attention.

He instinctively turned his head and met a pair of icy blue vertical pupils.

"...A White Dragon?"

Li Aozi said in surprise.

"Strange?"

The Dragonborn woman retorted.

"Not common, but there are some on Dragon Island."

Li Aozi replied casually without much thought.

The other party's power wasn't strong, not even reaching Cauchy Rank (14).

Just based on this, it couldn't be Irexis Sundace, as the latter was an absolute genius.

The woman also didn't seem very skilled with words, glanced at Li Aozi, and said:

"What about you?"

"I don't know what I am either."

Li Aozi glanced at the current [Hunter King] camouflage Dragonborn's original form:

"Deep Shadow Blood Dragon, probably."

The White Dragon Descendant woman nodded slightly upon hearing this:

"Pretty much the same."

"Is the status of the Deep Shadow Blood Dragon not high?" Li Aozi asked curiously.

"We're about the same level; White Dragons are Dragon Beasts, generally low intelligence, not good at Magic, Deep Shadow Blood Dragons are Beast Dragons, mostly lacking Intelligence, don't even know Magic but are very strong."

Perhaps because of their close ranks, the White Dragon Descendant spoke more relaxedly.

She had her hands in her pockets, the hood wasn't of a very luxurious brand, suggesting her economy wasn't great, like a university student in an unpopular major, graduating into unemployment, with clear eyes not naive, instead somewhat world-weary.

Li Aozi usually didn't have the habit of striking up conversations, but for some reason, today he was particularly enthusiastic about finding someone to talk to.

"You seem to eat here often?" Li Aozi asked.

"Cheap, fast service, tasty."

The White Dragon Descendant woman said:

"I like such efficient restaurants."

"I used to be like you, treating time as money."

"No, money can be earned again, but lost time is truly gone, even if you start over several times, the things you lose are destined to be lost."

The White Dragon Lady shook her head, seeming to have said too much:

"Sorry, I don't usually talk to people. I don't mean to argue with you, just think that efficiency is most important."

"It's nothing, we're just strangers crossing paths, no need to fear offending anyone."

Li Aozi smiled:

"But what you said is interesting—efficiency, efficiency is certainly important, but if the result is already inevitable, what's the use of efficiency?"

"Nothing is predestined. I believe everything can change."

The woman shook her head, her clear icy blue eyes reflecting Li Aozi's face, she said seriously:

"Even if I fail one hundred and one times, I will continue from the beginning, carrying out the one hundred and second challenge. As long as I can achieve the goal, I won't quit."

Li Aozi spread his hands:

"But what if everything is fated to fail? Even if you put in a great effort, you're just going from waiting to die to being killed by someone else?"

"Even so, I will continue to fight."

The White Dragon's gaze was like solid ice, cold and resolute:

"A high-speed flying star, even if during its flight, a slight angle deviation occurs, it's enough to avoid hitting its original target, sometimes it's these tiny changes that can save many people."

"So, I don't find the situation you describe so frightening—moreover, it should be a significant change."

Li Aozi looked at her and said:

"You must know: sometimes it's going against nature, defying fate, battling natural laws and objective rules, which leads to no good end."

"Once you walk the path against nature, does it matter how tragic your ending is? Which civilization, which narrative didn't struggle against natural laws, learn, and progress from nature to develop to now?"

"That's just a survivor's bias," Li Aozi shook his head. "Some things are predestined; it's fate. Fate is destruction, the end will come eventually. To destroy everything in the world."

The end of days.

This word fell into the White Dragon's ears, seeming to produce some subtle impact.

"...Aren't there enough extinct species and civilizations? In this process, there are certainly failures crushed to pieces. However, knowing you will fail and not resisting, that means you have failed from the start."

The White Dragon Descendant placed her hands on the table, leaning slightly forward, gazing at Li Aozi, and said seriously:

"I don't believe in fate or the end; I only believe: man can conquer nature, where there's a will there's a way."

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