"Did the Vermilion Bird not ask for help?"
Feng Yuan looked towards Agunas and asked, although he guessed probably not, he still wanted to confirm once more, Agunas nodded and said
"At least there has been no public request for help, I don’t know what the situation over there is like."
"The situation with Devine seems similar."
Agunas flicked his tail, at first, he didn’t think anything was wrong, but with Featherwood City in such a state, and the Vermilion Bird not seeking their help?
"Is Lorraine Tower available? Let’s have it accompany us to take a look."
"You suspect there’s an issue?"
Agunas looked at Feng Yuan curiously and nodded as Feng Yuan said,
"Do you think you wouldn’t ask for help if you really encountered this kind of situation?"
"It’s hard to say, besides Gitalien, other Divine Beasts don’t have spatial authority, so going might not necessarily be of much help."
Agunas pondered for a moment before speaking. Although seeking help isn’t a bad choice, the premise is that the help must be effective. What can Divine Beasts like Nagna do in such times?
"How about you contact the Vermilion Bird and see what the situation is like over there?"
Agunas did not object to Feng Yuan’s suggestion, if they couldn’t make contact, it would definitely mean something had happened with the Vermilion Bird. Although he professed indifference, he still harbored some apprehensions; Hunters have a certain ability to restrain Divine Beast’s power, though the impact is weaker on top-tier Divine Beasts like them.
"Is it just a large-scale appearance of relics? That seems to be no big deal."
A moment later Agunas muttered to himself, seeing that Liao Yu hadn’t left, Feng Yuan smirked and said,
"Didn’t you say you were leaving? Why haven’t you gone yet?"
"I... I’m just concerned about Featherwood City, what’s the situation?"
Shaking his head, Agunas flicked his tail and said,
"There’s no big problem, although the inside of the Tower of Oblivion descended on a large scale, but that’s all, the monsters inside those spaces are still restricted by their spaces and haven’t left them. As long as people are careful not to mistakenly enter those spaces, it should be fine."
"That’s quite troublesome too, they don’t have that many people there."
Liao Yu said with some headaches, knowing full well that Great Xia currently almost completely relies on the Special Duty Team and ordinary police to maintain order. As for the defensive teams, most have been dispatched to the border, leaving only a small portion to maintain order. He also knew about the size of the Tower of Oblivion inside Featherwood City; if it manifested in reality, the local defense teams and Special Duty Team alone wouldn’t be able to control so many places.
"How about we bring Little Green Snake over?"
Feng Yuan asked Agunas, thinking of Little Green Snake’s authority, Agunas nodded and said,
"That could work, now?"
"Let’s go back and ask for its opinion first."
Feng Yuan said decisively, he wouldn’t decide for Little Green Snake, but he figured the latter would probably agree, given that this was the responsibility that came with their Divine Beast authority. Yang Hongzhi asked somewhat puzzled,
"Little Green Snake can handle this kind of thing?"
Feng Yuan smiled mysteriously and said proudly,
"That Little Green Snake is quite special~"
"Like Xiao Ji? Why are all the Spirit Beasts around you so weird..."
Qi Xiaoshuang said somewhat speechlessly, she always felt that the Spirit Beasts around Feng Yuan were a bit abnormal, Xiao Ji deviated from normal attributes, Big Cat who liked to play games, now there was a spatial attribute Little Green Snake? Why did she feel none of them were normal? As for Pomiti? That one had such a low presence, Qi Xiaoshuang had already ignored it.
"You’re going out again?"
Qi Chen looked at Feng Yuan with some confusion, nodding and zipping up his backpack, Feng Yuan reached out to Little Green Snake and said,
"Let’s go, I need your help."
Little Green Snake looked at Feng Yuan with some confusion and coiled around his arm, Veronia landed on Feng Yuan’s shoulder playing with her phone by herself, Agunas waved a small paw, and a Space Gate opened. Looking at the rustic stone walls emitting a soft glow on the other side, Feng Yuan said with some speechlessness,
"Where did you open the gate to?"
"I don’t know, my positioning was for the suburbs of Featherwood City, how did it turn out to be this?"
Agunas said puzzled, that didn’t look like a normal area at all. Feng Yuan thought for a moment and said,
"Could it have opened into one of those covered spatial areas? If so, let’s change location."
Feng Yuan had no desire to step through the door and immediately run into a strange area. He wasn’t ignorant of the Tower of Oblivion. Inside, there was an assortment of spaces, filled with all kinds of peculiar mechanisms and rules, and he didn’t want to rush in.
"Strange, what exactly is going on over there?"
Agunas looked puzzled as it reopened the space gate. It hadn’t sensed anything unusual about the gate it opened just before. Normally, it would be quite challenging to open a space gate within such a special space.
"It should be fine now, let’s go--"
Agunas held back Feng Yuan, who was about to walk through the space gate, and looked at the dense forest on the opposite side with a troubled expression.
"It’s still not right!"
"What’s wrong with it? Isn’t this just the wilderness?"
Feng Yuan glanced at the trees, all of which conformed to Featherwood City’s geographical conditions. What specific trees were in the wilderness of Featherwood City, he couldn’t say—he wasn’t a walking encyclopedia, knowing everything.
"This space gate was supposed to open up within the city limits."
Agunas said with a grim face. It hadn’t expected that in such a short time, those abnormal spaces had already started to appear within the confines of Featherwood City.
"You should have seen the look on Agunas’ face then--it was really scary--"
Listening to Feng Yuan narrate with a laugh, Wu Feng said somewhat speechlessly,
"Aren’t you worried it will get angry?"
Flushing with anger, Agunas turned its back in a huff as Veronia, perched on Feng Yuan’s shoulder, watched Agunas mimic the expression it had at that time. Then she made a choking gesture as if to tease the other.
"It probably won’t, but what exactly is going on with you guys?"
Feng Yuan was also curious. A forest had appeared right in the middle of the city, and it wasn’t the kind found in a park’s green belt. Wu Feng gave a helpless shrug and explained,
"That’s because Featherwood City is planning to relocate. That area happens to be in the old city sector, which was already sparsely populated. Add the continuous relocation policies, and hardly anyone lives there anymore."
"Why would they want to relocate in the first place?"
Feng Yuan found it puzzling. He could somewhat understand the situation with Dao Lake City, after all, the relic under Lake Bai Dao had always been a ticking time bomb, and although it’s now confirmed that the relic has vanished, the calls for Dao Lake City to move out of Yongzhen Island hadn’t ceased.
"Because the old Featherwood City was entirely built around the Tower of Oblivion. The location was never that great to begin with. It developed back then due to some fortuitous circumstances, and now, if it wants to keep growing, it has no choice but to choose a location with better geographical advantages."
A young woman who bore some resemblance to Wu Feng said, addressing the question. Feng Yuan glanced at her, and the way she looked at Wu Feng immediately set off warning bells.
"What do you mean ’another one’?"
Wu Feng narrowed his eyes at Feng Yuan, sensing that it couldn’t be anything good. Shrugging his shoulders, Feng Yuan said helplessly,
"Another one with a sister, seriously..."
"You have a problem with that?!"
Wu Feng clenched his fists, looking a bit angry, but Feng Yuan took a few steps back, smiling and saying,
"Not at all, just a bit sentimental, that’s all."
Agunas swept a glance at Feng Yuan and said,
"I think you just want to stir up trouble. You’re not suggesting he and Mo Li are similar, are you?"
"How could that be? I’m just wondering why I don’t have a sister."
"What exactly are you trying to do..."
Agunas looked at him with exasperation. What kind of tricks was this guy up to now? The young woman came forward, looking discontentedly at Feng Yuan and said,
"Don’t you know that what you’re saying is quite rude? And Mo Li? Unless you have a friend with the same name, we’re probably talking about King Mo Li from the late Great Li Dynasty, right?"
"Why would you think that?"
Glancing at Agunas, the young woman retorted irritably,
"Do I even need to explain? The matter of Agunas being a Time Divine Beast is public knowledge. If it brings someone up, it’s either because they have a close relationship with you or they’re a historical figure. But Mo Li’s title is quite unique. There was only one during the late Great Li Dynasty, and no other historical figure with the same renowned name from other periods."
Locking eyes with the young lady, Feng Yuan gave a slight smile and inquired,
"Another fan of Chang Nianyun?"