Transmigrating Into a Dragon

"Mmm..."

Li Hao's consciousness awoke from the darkness, feeling as if his bones were scattered. The pain was unbearable, and he couldn't help but groan.

What happened?

Right!

There was a girl jumping from a building in the neighborhood. I ran to help, holding up a safety net, and was looking up when... her butt came down from the sky.

Recalling the perfectly rounded, split shape encased in jeans, he shivered and felt annoyed.

This bone-deep pain, could I have been paralyzed by the impact?!

Opening his eyes and looking around, Li Hao was stunned.

What greeted his eyes was not the modern hospital he had imagined, but a crude cave dug by hand.

Within the hemispherical space, the rough, dark red rock walls were covered in ravines. The ground was roughly leveled, and he was lying on the slightly warm surface. Golden beams of light, shining through a narrow ventilation opening, illuminated the space in front of him, with dust motes dancing in the light.

Even more terrifying than waking up in a cave was the fact that he wasn't the only occupant. Around him lay about twenty giant lizards, coiled up. These giant lizards had horns on their heads, bat wings on their backs, and were covered in scales. At first glance, they looked like Western dragons from movies.

Upon closer inspection, they were indeed dragons!

"What's going on?! Am I dreaming?!"

He doubted his life. He raised his hand to touch a nearby dragon to test if it was real, but was horrified to discover that his outstretched hand could no longer be called a hand. It was a claw covered in dense, scarlet scales, with sharp talons!

???

Memories surged like a tide, flooding into Li Hao's mind and playing out rapidly, like a video on fast-forward.

"I... I transmigrated?!"

As the memories played, he realized he had indeed transmigrated to a bizarre fantasy world and had become a young red dragon named Jose.

Like most of the Five-Colored Evil Dragons, Jose was born in his mother's lair.

"Evil dragon, truly an evil dragon!" Li Hao exclaimed in his heart.

At the young dragon stage, equivalent to a human two or three years old, the original body's owner was kicked out by his own mother.

Deprived of parental protection, Jose and his brothers and sisters, born from the same clutch of eggs, banded together to survive. They preyed on the weak and avoided the strong in the wilderness until one day, they themselves became prey.

Witnessing his sister being devoured alive, the surviving young dragon brothers made a firm decision. They signed a Protection Contract and pledged allegiance to a powerful fellow dragon, who was the fearsome Red Nest Matriarch.

Seeing the Red Nest Matriarch's glorious achievements in slaughtering cities and destroying nations, Li Hao felt confused.

"With such a powerful backer, why is my body injured?"

He tried to process the memories. It turned out that a year after pledging allegiance to the Red Nest Matriarch, the Dragon Slaying War broke out, with a multi-national coalition, mainly composed of humans, launching a large-scale invasion.

The situation was critical, and potential assets like young dragons, who couldn't yet be converted into combat power, were also pulled onto the battlefield. The last image in the young dragon's memory was a burning meteor falling from the sky.

Li Hao could roughly guess what happened next. The severely injured young dragon was carried back to the lair after the battle but died due to the severity of its injuries. As for himself, he was crushed to death by Lin Meimei's backside, transmigrated, and took over the body.

"I guess I died under a peony blossom," Li Hao felt utterly defeated.

Self-pity and lamenting would do nothing for his current predicament. He tried his best to adjust his mindset, forcing himself not to think of his grieving parents, and hypnotized himself, accepting and adapting to his new identity.

"I am Jose. I must live well."

Encouraging himself, Jose faced reality and checked his body's injuries.

Shrapnel from the meteor explosion had hit his side, leaving a burn mark the size of a washbasin. His Dragon Scales were cracked, and several ribs were broken.

"I need healing," he thought to himself.

In his previous life, even with scientific treatment, a fractured bone injury would require at least a month of recovery. But in this magical world, all it would take was a high-level Priest casting a Greater Healing Spell to be perfectly fine immediately.

After a moment of thought, Jose dismissed the idea of seeking help from a high-level Priest. The Red Nest had limited healing resources, and he had no power or background, thus no right to them.

With no other options, there was only one unconventional solution: to consume large amounts of food to supplement his nutrition and accelerate wound healing.

"Thank God, food is not a problem."

Jose tried to stand up but found that his broken shinbone could not support his massive weight. Forcing himself to move would only worsen his injuries.

He felt a sense of foreboding and glanced at the other dragons around him.

Perhaps he could ask his "roommates" to help bring him food, but... these roommates didn't look reliable at all.

Right, I still have a brother.

He turned his neck, searching the surrounding dragons for his brother.

Found him!

"Baren!"

Not far away, the red dragon Baren, resting with his head on the ground, glanced at his younger brother, who was the source of the sound, without lifting his head, and then closed his eyes to sleep.

The plea that was about to leave Li Hao's lips was swallowed back. In those eyes, he saw no familial affection, only contempt and disdain.

After a moment of thought, he understood the reason for Baren's indifference. The Five-Colored Evil Dragons were naturally cold-hearted, and strength was paramount. The injured him had become weak in the eyes of the other dragons, and the weak deserved only to be bullied!

Understanding all this, Li Hao's heart turned cold, and his body trembled. At the same time, he realized that seeking help from other dragons would only bring him humiliation.

What to do?!

He felt boundless fear at the thought of dying in agony from both pain and hunger, his corpse to be thrown out of the cave like garbage by other dragons.

No! I absolutely cannot die like this!

A flash of inspiration struck him. He remembered the gold coins the previous occupant had hidden while cleaning up the battlefield, and he had an idea.

"Baren!"

Baren suddenly stood up and walked over menacingly. His massive head loomed close, his nose wrinkled as he bared his sharp, saw-like fangs, with strands of bright red meat still clinging between them. "Twice! Twice! You'd better give me a satisfactory explanation! Otherwise..."

"I want to hire you. The payment is thirty-two gold coins."

"What kind of dragon do you take me for? Trying to buy me off with a few gold coins? Wait, did you say gold coins?!"

"..."

Not long after, a flayed ox, its red muscles and white bones exposed, was placed before Jose. To survive, he couldn't afford to be squeamish about eating raw meat. He simply closed his eyes, buried his head in the flesh, opened his mouth wide, and tore at the meat and bone with his sharp teeth, chewing and swallowing.

Huh?!

After the first mouthful of mixed meat and bone, Jose, who had braced himself for nausea, was surprised to find that while the food wasn't exactly delicious, it was acceptable. This was likely a change brought about by his physical transformation.

He was overjoyed and began to devour it greedily.

In a whirlwind of eating, the entire ox disappeared into his belly. Under the powerful digestive juices of dragons, both flesh and bone were converted into nutrients and transported by his circulatory system to all parts of his body.

His wounds tingled slightly with a mild itchiness. Jose felt his body slowly recovering and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

Then, keeping his promise, he told Baren the location of the hidden treasure.

Dragons have similar eating habits to snakes. An adult dragon can go for several months after a full meal. Young dragons growing up consume more energy, but even they can go for ten days without eating after a full meal. After ten days, he should be able to take care of himself.

"You don't have to worry about your injuries worsening."

Full and warm, one thinks of... safety.

After all, it was wartime. Judging by the situation before he lost consciousness, their side was at a disadvantage. The outsider couldn't help but worry about his future.

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