"Phew, it’s time to get some rest～"
After everyone had eaten dumplings and chatted for a while, Qi Chen’s aunt took Kang Ping to say goodbye to everyone. Qi Chen and Ah Mu had just returned from seeing them home to their place in the same neighborhood when he saw Feng Yuan sprawled on the couch in a state of utter fullness. Glancing at the empty snack bags on the table, Qi Chen said speechlessly,
"You, you didn’t eat that much at dinner."
"Well, there was less food at dinner. What would you all have done if I had eaten more?"
Shaking his head, Qi Chen took another look at Feng Yuan and asked,
"No need, I can take care of it myself."
Watching Feng Yuan deftly manage the sofa, Qi Chen thought for a moment before stepping forward to help Feng Yuan make the bed and said,
"All right, I’m off to bed now, don’t stay up too late."
Feng Yuan pouted and said disdainfully,
"It’s already past two, almost three in the morning. Any later and it’s an all-nighter."
With that, Feng Yuan turned off the light and cuddled into the blanket with Pomiti, while Xiao Ji burrowed into the covers, peeked out his little head, looked at Feng Yuan, then closed his eyes. The Dreaming Dragon Baby and Najia nestled in Big Cat’s wings, and Big Cat, sitting on the floor against the wall, had already fallen asleep. The surroundings slowly sank into tranquility, with the people who celebrated the New Year drifting off into dreamland.
"That guy really is..."
Liao Yu, understanding the reason, chuckled as he surveyed the quiet surroundings and spoke softly. Inside the duty room, many people just couldn’t keep awake and had laid their heads on the desks for a quick nap. To ensure that nothing untoward happened tonight, all personnel of the city’s special service teams, police, security guards, and guard squads were almost fully mobilized to keep patrolling continuously.
It seemed that because of the repulsion of a previous wave of attacks, the invaders didn’t have the energy to cause trouble for the time being; and the world, which normally was fraught with continuous incidents, had a rare moment of calm without any significant events occurring.
The higher-ups of the Divine Land Region also understood the reason behind this rare tranquility, especially during the New Year. While the leaders of other regions chose to silently offer sacrifices to Amitis, the authorities of Divine Land Region decided that all on-duty public officials would offer sacrifices to Amitis this New Year to thank her for her contributions.
"Where do you guys plan on going?"
The next morning, Feng Yuan, having changed into his clothes, curiously looked at Qi Chen and Qi Xiaoshuang. While packing her little backpack, Qi Xiaoshuang replied while arranging,
"Planning to check out the city department store center to see what new tricks they have this year~"
Every year the city department store center hosts New Year activities, and each year’s activities are always different. And these fresh and varying New Year activities have become something the citizens of Maomu City look forward to.
As they headed out with a group of Spirit Beasts, Feng Yuan curiously looked around. He saw that the normally empty streets were now packed with people. Despite several dangerous attacks having occurred in succession, people still chose to come out on the street on the first day of the New Year. The duty officers patrolling the streets gave everyone a great sense of security.
For the people of the Divine Land Region, the New Year of the Alliance Calendar was far less significant than their Dynasty Calendar. Nobody wanted to spend the important holiday hidden at home.
As Feng Yuan and Qi Chen were chatting and waiting for the bus at the stop, Feng Yuan’s phone suddenly rang. He answered the call with confusion and said,
"What’s up, you say! I’m warning you, don’t make trouble again! If anything happens, report it immediately to us!..."
Captain Yan’s shouting was so loud that even though Feng Yuan didn’t turn on speakerphone, Qi Chen and Qi Xiaoshuang standing next to him could barely hear it. Seeing Feng Yuan hang his head and listen submissively to Captain Yan’s scolding, Qi Chen secretly thought he deserved it, considering the current situation. It was lucky that they reported it in time, otherwise a citywide curfew might have been possible.
Now it was just the guards who had been stirred up, and ordinary people thought it was just a grand fireworks display in Maomu City, hence the scolding and nothing more. Otherwise, Qi Chen guessed that even with Feng Yuan’s contributions, he would still have to spend some time with the special service team.
"Was there really a need to go off like that..."
Feng Yuan sighed after getting off the bus and the call from Captain Yan had finally ended. Qi Chen gave Feng Yuan a helpless glance and said,
"Don’t you think it’s a bit like asking for trouble to do that kind of thing during such a tense time?"
"I just forgot to report it... Who knew they wouldn’t recognize fireworks."
Feng Yuan snorted and said. Qi Xiaoshuang looked at Feng Yuan speechlessly and remarked,
"That thing you did, was that fireworks? Even if you transformed it to look like fireworks, wouldn’t the energy monitors still detect it as special energy? Special energy covering the entire city..."
This was also why fireworks were traditionally made with gunpowder, and not that no one could make the kind of energy fireworks that Feng Yuan did. It was just that the deployment of energy fireworks required reporting, otherwise the instruments responsible for monitoring for anomalies inside the city would misidentify them and cause trouble for the duty officers.
Feng Yuan, with a dismissive curl of his lips, said
"It’s clearly their problem, considering such low-energy things as attacks."
"Guessing the food based on the spirit beast’s performance?"
Feng Yuan looked at the event scene with some confusion. The New Year’s activities at the city’s department store center were divided into several areas, and the activity in the area where Feng Yuan was involved guessing what food was on the board based on his own spirit beast’s performance. Although there were various rules and restrictions, Feng Yuan scratched his head, raised his hand, and looked towards the presenter on stage.
"The kid over there, what’s your question?"
The presenter saw Feng Yuan raising his hand and asked with curiosity, without using a microphone, Feng Yuan directly used a voice amplifying technique to ask,
"How do you prevent ’mind transmission’ and other ultimate moves? Even the Psychic Bone Spirit can’t completely detect all the psychokinesis series ultimate moves, can it? Moreover, the Psychic Bone Spirit is only of Rare Level, so it wouldn’t detect them if the opponent was of Legendary Level, would it?"
The presenter smiled awkwardly and said,
"I believe the friends here definitely wouldn’t stoop to such trivial mischief, right? And kid, legendary-level spirit beasts aren’t something you can encounter just by chance~"
"That’s not necessarily true."
Hearing a rather strange voice, everyone looked puzzledly towards the source, the people at the back of the crowd tiptoed or even jumped up trying to see who was causing the fuss.
Seeing the Big Mushroom that had spoken, Feng Yuan smiled and said; the latter glanced at Feng Yuan and said in confusion,
"What’s the situation with you?"
Scratching his head, Feng Yuan said with a beaming smile,
"Had a little mishap, no big deal. Are you here to shop?"
Big Mushroom kicked a can at its feet and said,
"No, patrol was too tiring so I’m resting for a couple of days."
"You’ve joined patrols too?"
Seeing Feng Yuan chatting with the Big Mushroom, the presenter who had been contradicted grinned awkwardly and said,
"This is... indeed a bit unexpected..."
"But I believe Tabimos wouldn’t make trouble, right?"
The citizens of Maomu City could mostly recognize the Big Mushroom Tabimos, who was a genuine Sacred Beast Level in strength. People envied Feng Yuan, who was chatting so amicably with Tabimos.
Tabimos nodded and said,
"I’m not interested in this activity, but if you want to..."
Hearing Tabimos’s words, the person in charge of the event immediately broke into a cold sweat, afraid that he would be in trouble with his boss afterwards, for he had not considered the problem of high-level spirit beasts when designing the event.
Feng Yuan glanced back at the virtual shadow of Agunas and said,
"How about you come with me to win that Ball Whale doll?"
Glancing at Feng Yuan, the virtual shadow of Agunas flicked its tail and said,
"You might as well ask for it directly; I’m sure they’ll give you one on the spot."
After all, the event was ranked, and the Ball Whale doll was part of the first-place prize. If Feng Yuan dragged it into participating, there would be no suspense about who would win first place. It didn’t think that a spirit beast of merely Rare Level could stop Feng Yuan from cheating.
"Kid, do you doll? Here, it’s yours; come back when you have your own spirit beast, okay?"
Feng Yuan, happily accepting the Ball Whale doll, was just about to say something when he was quickly pulled away by the quick-reacting Qi Chen.