Chapter 1470: Chapter 1471: Dark Clouds

After wandering through the night market, Feng Yuan and his group returned to the hotel they were staying at when a waiter handed over some documents to Feng Yuan and said something to him. Qi Chen looked at Dou Yanlan, who was standing and staring at Feng Yuan, and asked puzzled

“What’s the matter? Is there any problem?”

“That person doesn’t look like a waiter. This aura is more like someone from the military. But it’s not strange.”

Seeing Feng Yuan conversing with the stranger, Dou Yanlan whispered, aware that the person couldn’t possibly be a hotel waiter, as a military aura is hard to disguise. Considering the events of this afternoon, she wasn’t surprised to see Drochkar’s military personnel here contacting Feng Yuan.

After all, the shadow Tiraya City is indeed troublesome. Ignorance would be one thing, but now knowing about it yet unable to control the situation makes them more anxious, as nobody knows what might happen. If it were known to be harmless, they wouldn’t have pursued it so urgently.

After a while, Feng Yuan picked up the files and gently patted Xiao Ji on the back, signaling it to follow him back to his room. Dou Yanlan hesitated but decided not to follow him to inquire about the details.

She was naturally a bit worried about this matter, but she realized there were many things she didn’t fully understand, and using incomplete knowledge to analyze unknown matters was a major taboo. After thinking it over, she decided to abandon the plan to learn more about the situation.

“Whew, it’s really troublesome. This data only proves that shadow Tiraya City has a special significance, but it doesn’t help much in locating that place.”

Putting the documents on the table, Feng Yuan sighed and said. Long Boduo curiously picked up the documents, looking them over while asking

“Agunas hasn’t had much progress either; it can only confirm the entrance is not in its original location, but it doesn’t know which space it’s been banished to, considering those domains all cover Tiraya City.”

“I’m not sure if Kong Qing can sense it.”

Feng Yuan said, glancing at Kong Qing who was taking care of Pomiti. Hearing Feng Yuan’s words, Kong Qing hissed and shook its head. Feng Yuan understood without Long Boduo translating that it hadn’t sensed it either. However, thinking about it, Feng Yuan felt it was strange. Kong Qing, a Divine Beast specializing in managing various spaces, hadn’t sensed it. Did shadow Tiraya City not exist?

No, that’s not right. If it had already been destroyed, Data City wouldn’t be able to retrieve data. The limit for Data City’s data retrieval is that the entity must still exist in the current city or be less than a hundred years away from the current time point. After all, Data City is not a historical encyclopedia; it can’t retain too much historical data.

“Ah! My head hurts from thinking about it. I don’t want to think anymore!”

Throwing the dark ancient book aside, Feng Yuan lay on the bed and casually hugged the eagle-shaped Xiao Ji, who squirmed around uncomfortably in Feng Yuan’s arms. Long Boduo picked up the dark ancient book and placed it next to Feng Yuan, saying speechlessly

“You almost threw this thing out the window just now. If it had fallen outside and caused an accident, you’d be in trouble without needing shadow Tiraya City to cause problems.”

“How could that be! Not just anyone can use this thing. Can you use it?”

Sitting up, Feng Yuan casually handed the dark ancient book over, and Long Boduo took it and tried to open it, but found the pages stuck firmly together. No matter how hard it tried, it couldn’t open them.

After trying for a while, Long Boduo returned the dark ancient book to Feng Yuan. Just as Feng Yuan said, it couldn’t use it, though it still had some doubts, since Agunas could use it, right?

“It’s late. Aren’t you going to rest? There’s a racing event to participate in tomorrow, so don’t get up too late～”

Putting away the dark ancient book, Feng Yuan raised his eyebrows and said to Long Boduo, who gave Feng Yuan a strange look and said

“I think you’re more likely to oversleep. But anyway, I’ll go rest first. By the way, Agunas said it won’t be back tonight; it wants to investigate those things.”

“Hmm, there are indeed a lot of messy things in Tiraya City, but oh well, should I just stay up all night? That way there’s no issue of waking up late tomorrow～”

“And then you’ll be exhausted tomorrow.”

Long Boduo said while leaving Feng Yuan’s room, placing Xiao Ji back on the ground. Feng Yuan yawned and chatted with Kong Qing, while Big Cat, hearing Feng Yuan, took Pomiti aside to take care of it. Little Ice Cream unwittingly approached, only to be brushed aside by Kong Qing’s tail, grumpily sitting aside.

Agunas and the people sent by Tiraya City wandered through the gradually sleeping ancient city. By now, the tourists on the streets had returned to their accommodations to rest, and the old streets felt somewhat inexplicably quiet. Despite visiting several suspicious locations, Agunas hadn’t sensed the presence of shadow Tiraya City.

Is it really a city in shadows? Yet it already communicated with Veronia, who didn’t sense any special spaces in this area, even instructing Long Boduo to ask Kong Qing. To avoid mistakes, it specifically returned to the past to leave an entrance mark.

However, the mark has now vanished, or rather, over the long span of time, the hidden mark near the entrance has completely disappeared.

And what about that suspicious Spirit Beast that looks a lot like itself? What is it? Agunas felt as if shadows were gradually shrouding this ancient city.

Though Agunas and Tiraya City’s people busied themselves tirelessly, Feng Yuan slept soundly holding Xiao Ji, who had turned into an Eggshell Chicken in its dreams and felt displeased as someone poked it.

“Wake up, it’s time to get ready to go out.”

With amusement, Feng Yuan rubbed Xiao Ji’s belly and said. Hearing Feng Yuan’s words, Xiao Ji suddenly sat up and sleepily gazed at Feng Yuan, who picked Xiao Ji up and called Big Cat and the others to go for breakfast together.

Seeing the line outside the restaurant, Feng Yuan decided not to eat out and to have breakfast in the hotel instead.

“Judging by that serious look, did you not find anything?”

Noticing Agunas drifting nearby deep in thought, Feng Yuan said. Agunas looked at Feng Yuan and nodded

“That’s right. Neither the Spirit Beast that turned into me nor shadow Tiraya City yielded useful clues. I suspect there’s some connection between them.”

“You mean, the Spirit Beast that took your shape, and its mastermind, forcibly severed Tiraya City’s historical continuity? Or conversely, shadow Tiraya City’s affair is an artificial insertion into their false history from the past?”

“It’s possible, considering this evidently existed in the past but can’t be found in the modern era; it’s indeed peculiar.”

Looking at Feng Yuan, Agunas said with a slight frown. Feng Yuan pondered a bit and said

“Here’s what we’ll do. I’ll have Xilnais and Eclipse investigate. If there’s no information from them, your suspicions might be confirmed. If there is, then perhaps you’ve misthought it.”

“Will they really be unaffected?”

Agunas doubtedly asked Feng Yuan. The two lurking in the shadows gave it an uncomfortable feeling. Hearing Agunas’s question, Feng Yuan chuckled lightly and said

“If they too are affected, do you think there’s any point in resisting? It’s no longer an entity you can contend with. It’d be better just to see what he actually wants to do.”

“That doesn’t feel right…”

Flicking its tail, Agunas felt a bit agitated. Veronia glanced at Agunas and said

“This matter can only be this way, after all, we aren’t omnipotent beings. If this is truly beyond our capabilities, the only option is to abandon it.”

“I… just feel dissatisfied, after all…”

“Think positively; don’t forget, we’re currently living peacefully amidst the siege of multiple worlds～ compared to us, other worlds might be even worse off～”

Feng Yuan said with a smile. Although he suspected that due to Abyss being released, it might not be possible to trigger frequent world wars like before, this nearly foundational world surviving so freely could be considered a miracle, couldn’t it?