106: Chapter 106 Accident_1 106: Chapter 106 Accident_1 “So many people!”
Looking at the long queue in front of the venue, Feng Yuan couldn’t help but feel surprised.
Qi Chen, looking at the lengthy line, whispered,
“I hope we can still make it…”
Feng Yuan glanced around fiercely and said,
“If we can’t make it, we’ll sneak in from another place!”
“Don’t do anything crazy!
If we can’t make it, we can go have fun somewhere else.”
“But that just feels like it would be a regret, and sneaking in might also be fun, you know~”
“If you really do that and get caught, I can’t help you.”
Yang Hongzhi said to Feng Yuan with a speechless expression, and Feng Yuan, surprised, glanced at Yang Hongzhi and said,
“Aren’t you coming with me?”
“No, if I really did that, the academy would punish me.”
Feng Yuan pouted, looking somewhat dissatisfied at the crowd ahead.
He patiently queued up, but just as it was nearly their turn, a commotion erupted in the crowd upfront.
Qi Chen, a bit helplessly, pressed down on Feng Yuan’s shoulder and said,
“Let’s go have fun somewhere else.”
“Imitating Big Cat’s voice won’t help, it’s obviously full up.”
“Such a pity, but no choice, there are inexplicably more people this year…”
Qi Xiaoshuang, hearing the front announcing it’s full up, spoke somewhat helplessly.
Feng Yuan, a bit dissatisfied, looked at the staff ahead and said,
“If it’s full, then why let us queue at all, just to waste our time?”
“Maybe there was some problem.
Yang Hongzhi said and walked to the front with Najia and Xiao Hei to talk to the staff.
Feng Yuan picked up Xiao Ji, who had curiously climbed onto his shoulder, and brought him into his arms, massaging Xiao Ji in an attempt to comfort himself.
Xiao Ji, feeling uncomfortable from Feng Yuan’s rubbing, glared at him with discontent.
Feng Yuan chuckled and tidied up Xiao Ji’s fur, which had gotten a bit messy from his own doing.
Perhaps because of staying up late to play cards with Feng Yuan, Dreaming Dragon Baby had fallen asleep atop Big Cat’s head, with its tail dangling down and swaying with Big Cat’s movements.
Feng Yuan, looking at the still lively Big Cat, poked him with some confusion and said,
“You are quite spirited.
Could it be that you have an insomnia talent?”
Big Cat looked at Feng Yuan with a puzzled tilt of his head.
A moment later, Yang Hongzhi, holding Najia, came back and said to everyone,
“It seems a part of the stands suddenly collapsed, so they can’t fit as many people inside.
They’re checking to see if they can fix it before the show starts.”
Yang Hongzhi finished speaking and looked at the crowd held back by the police behind everyone.
Feng Yuan, a little puzzled, said,
“How can such a thing happen?
Is there no emergency plan?”
So do we wait or not?”
Feng Yuan looked around somewhat speechlessly, while the others also seemed hesitant.
Seeing a girl in a special robe walk by, Feng Yuan’s eyes lit up, and he quickly stepped forward and said to her,
“Hi, you’re one of the staff here, right?”
The girl looked at Feng Yuan coolly and sighed,
“Well, can the accident with the stands inside be fixed?
I don’t want to wait too long…”
The girl glanced skeptically at Feng Yuan’s clothes, and Feng Yuan, puzzled, looked back at the girl and said,
If there aren’t many of you, I can take you inside.
You can watch from the staff area.”
“Won’t that cause you any trouble?”
Hearing the girl’s answer, Feng Yuan, somewhat excitedly, turned and ran back to the others and said,
“Let’s go~ A kind person is taking us inside, we can watch from the staff area~”
“What did you do again?”
“I didn’t do anything, oh~ I just asked if we could wait~ Who knew the kindly person would just say she’d take us in~”
Qi Xiaoshuang looked at Feng Yuan with some confusion, glanced at the young woman with a cool face not far away, and whispered to Feng Yuan,
“You haven’t been fooled, have you?
She’s about our age, isn’t she?
How could she possibly have the authority to bring people inside?”
“No way~ Some things can’t fool anyone~”
“I’m warning you, there are often people pretending to be staff who scam others out of their money.”
Feng Yuan, with the vigilant crowd in tow, approached and saw the woman’s expression betray a hint of surprise before quickly resuming a calm demeanor and saying to Feng Yuan,
The young woman led them to the staff, who addressed her with some reverence,
“My lord, you have arrived.”
Seeing the staff behind her being stopped, the young woman told the staff.
The staff hesitated and after saying a few words to their colleagues blocking Feng Yuan and the others, let them in and worriedly cautioned,
“Don’t wander off once inside, be careful of the danger.”
Feng Yuan murmured in confusion, and upon seeing the staff member return to assist other staff in calming the somewhat angry crowd, he quickly followed the young woman into the venue.
Looking around at the rocky stands, Feng Yuan was somewhat astonished.
Those stands were marked with various strange patterns and a peculiar energy flowed between them.
The rocky stands enclosed the area, and they were standing in a circular pit, above which floated an ancient stone altar covered in the same strange patterns, with a mysterious red energy slowly flowing between them.
The altar was significantly higher than the surrounding stands.
“You can watch from here, just don’t run into the pit.”
The young woman pointed to a hollow carved out of the rock beneath the stands, and Feng Yuan nodded, leading the group into the cavern.
Qi Xiaoshuang, excited, took out her phone and started snapping photos,
“We’re actually in the staff area, yay~ They don’t even have this privilege~”
“But we can’t see the performance from here, can we?”
Feng Yuan looked up and realized they could barely see the altar floating in the sky.
Qi Xiaoshuang, undeterred and continuing to take pictures, said,
“The performances are all the same, but not everyone can enter the staff area~”
Feng Yuan shook his head with a smile at the excited Qi Xiaoshuang and noticed that aside from Yang Hongzhi, even Qi Chen and Dou Yanlan were somewhat thrilled.
He walked up to Yang Hongzhi who was talking to Najia and asked,
“That must be where the collapse happened, right?”
“No wonder they’re not sure, these stands are protected by a special barrier.
They couldn’t possibly set up temporary stands in time.”
“Are you planning to collect material?”
Seeing Big Cat pull out paper and pen and control them with telekinesis to quickly sketch the entire ritual venue, Feng Yuan asked with a smile.
Big Cat nodded and busied herself drawing on the paper.
Feng Yuan picked up Xiao Ji and started to play with him.
After a while, the ritual began, and seeing the woman they met earlier step lightly and ascend the altar, Qi Chen said to Feng Yuan in surprise,
“Did you know all along that she’s a Goddess?”
“The Goddess who serves the Dragon God!
You didn’t know that, did you?”
Qi Xiaoshuang looked at Feng Yuan with some speechlessness.
Feng Yuan imitated Big Cat and turned his head, looking at Qi Xiaoshuang with a blank stare,
“What’s the point of watching something you know nothing about?”
“If I knew everything, what would be the point in watching?”
“That’s just quibbling!
If you don’t even know the content, how can you appreciate anything?”
“Isn’t it just a Fire Dragon performance~”
Seeing Feng Yuan’s indifferent attitude, Qi Xiaoshuang covered her forehead in surrender.
Qi Chen said with some resignation,
“Every year at this time, it’s the day the Goddess calls the Fire Dragon to please the Dragon God.
What’s supposed to be a sacred ritual sounds utterly mercenary when you talk about it.”
Feng Yuan pursed his lips and said discontentedly,
“If it were so sacred, they wouldn’t open their doors to guests.”