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Hadn't he always treated dragons as a combination of several animals? Seeing that, Lin Jin could not help but smile.

He closed the page and looked at other websites.

However, when he pulled downwards, most of them were some kind of dragon net, some kind of dragon brand, and so on. Or was it just an ancient dragon? Dragon novels or anything like that, there was no mention of this species called 'dragon'.

Lin thought that since the ”dragon” could not find anything, then what about the ”real dragon”? He should be able to find out something, right? Therefore, he typed in the words ”True Dragon” into the address bar. He didn't want to see any kind of ”True Dragon Gift”, ”True Dragon Cigarette”, ”True Dragon Company” and other messy business information.

Infuriated, he typed in ”Dragon of Reality” and drove the car back. A line of eye-catching words appeared in front of his eyes: ”Why would dragons appear in the Twelve Birds when dragons appear in other animals?”

Lin Jin immediately felt a strong sense of recognition in his heart.

That's right! In the zodiac, all the other animals are real. Why is only the dragon fictitious?

Some said that the dragon was a symbol of royal power; some said that the dragon was the totem of the nation; others said that the dragon represented the spirit of the Chinese … but since the dragon was such a divine object, why was it ranked in the middle, like an ordinary animal, and not in the first place? Are rats stronger than dragons?

As he pulled it down, a passage of text that shocked him appeared before his eyes:

”...” According to the records of Lin'an Mansion, a giant dragon was found in the isosaurus lake in the southeast of Shiping County, Yunnan Province, in the last four years (Xiyuan 1631). The dragon was found in the dragon lake several times, such as in the dragon mountain and in the isosaurus lake. ”This place is called 'Dragon Mountain' and 'Unique Dragon Lake' …”

”...” According to Tang Nian's Record, one day in the last year of Tang Xiantong, an Azure Dragon fell into the Tong Cheng County, and due to a wound in his throat, died on the spot. The dragon was over a hundred feet long, and its body and tail took up half of it. The tail is flat. ”Its scales are about the same as a fish's, and it has two horns on its head. Its proboscis is two zhang long, and it has feet beneath its abdomen. There is a red film on its feet …”

”...” According to Lang, a dragon fell on a beach in Xinhui County, Guangdong Province, one day in the late Ming Dynasty, and was beaten to death by fishermen. ”This dragon is about the height of a person, dozens of meters long, and has a red belly. It looks very similar to the dragon in the painting …”

These records were all clearly recorded in the ancient books. With a single check, one would be able to tell the truth. There shouldn't be anyone in this world who would be so bored to create such records!

And if it was, it must have been made up by the ancients. From the superstitious point of view of the ancients, the appearance of a divine beast like a dragon represented the appearance of good fortune. If this was a fiction, then it must have been deliberately fabricated by the ancients to win over the hearts of the people!

But since this was a fabrication to win over the hearts of the people, why not make the dragon seem more mysterious than it is, and instead make it come down from the top of the altar? The first recorded book, ”The Records of Lin'an Prefecture”, was not too bad. The dragon had only appeared for a moment. But the second and third records clearly depicted the death of a living dragon!

What is a dragon? Even the Emperor called himself the Son of the True Dragon. If it was fiction, then in an imperial society like ancient times, wouldn't the death of a dragon mean the death of an emperor? Didn't the person who invented this make himself uncomfortable? The third one was that a dragon, a divine being with magical powers, was beaten to death by a group of fishermen! This was way too unbelievable for the superstitious ancient Chinese …

After a series of pondering and shocking events, Lin Jin was even more sure of his own thoughts. The firm belief that dragons were made of several animals that had been in his heart for more than ten years had finally produced a shocking reversal …

But most people seem to have such a consciousness. That was the truth of the legend. If one did not see it with their own eyes, they would not believe it.