Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 1049 - 1050: Heading to the Core Area

The song whispered in everyone’s ears, filled with longing, and Liao Yu furrowed his brows slightly. He knew the tune, or rather, perhaps among all present, only Feng Yuan was not familiar with it.

"Where are you? I didn’t expect her to sing quite nicely~"

Feng Yuan’s muttering startled Liao Yu; although the song was a local folk tune of Maomu City, it had fallen out of favor over the years. Perhaps when Qi Chen and the others were kids, they might have heard it, but Feng Yuan... Hadn’t he only arrived in Maomu City during high school?

"Do you know this song?"

Qi Chen looked at Feng Yuan with astonishment. He hadn’t expected the other to know this song. Though quite beautiful, it was somewhat outdated for the younger generation. He had only heard it often at a very young age, and the song itself had originated just after the end of the Guardian War, a time when songs were either stirring or solemnly tragic, and not to their liking.

"Why wouldn’t I know it?"

Glancing at Qi Chen, Feng Yuan spoke with a puzzled face. Was it so strange that he had heard this song? Humming a small part of the tune that the woman hadn’t sung yet, Feng Yuan looked towards Qi Chen saying,

"See, I can even sing it."

"But, didn’t you only come to Maomu City during your high school years? How would you know such an old-fashioned song?"

Liao Yu eyed Feng Yuan with confusion and rolled his eyes, Feng Yuan said in exasperation,

"It’s not like the song isn’t available online, and besides, only those that can stand the test of time can be considered classics, you know? I actually quite like this song~"

"Weirdo."

Anernia glanced at Feng Yuan, muttering softly, then suddenly became aware, lowered her head, and cautiously sneaked a peek at Feng Yuan. Realizing he hadn’t noticed her, she shook her tail and quietly moved a little further away.

Guo Huai looked at Feng Yuan but said nothing, guessing that the other must have listened to that song because of its title. As for him? He wasn’t particularly interested in those old songs.

"Really, one after another, just causing us trouble—though I bet I could guess the reason."

Sighing in resignation, Feng Yuan said, while the Xiao Ji he held in his arms looked up at him, somewhat puzzled. It didn’t quite understand how Feng Yuan knew, just from a song?

"So you humans really are troublesome."

Gitalien spoke with a stern face, Agunas glanced at Gitalien, wanting to say something, but remembering there were others around, kept quiet. However, Veronia didn’t have such reservations. Glancing at Gitalien with annoyance, she said,

"If we’re being honest, isn’t it the same? All the trouble caused by that impossible goal, don’t you get headaches over it? Though... I really do envy that."

Saying so, Veronia looked resentfully at Feng Yuan and then at Agunas. If it weren’t for them, her new Mitradite would have been built long ago. Flicking her tail, Agunas said speechlessly,

"Even if we didn’t stop you, other Divine Beasts would clash with you. Do you seriously think the Divine Beasts of other countries would have no issue with your new Mitradite?"

Agunas received a glower from Veronia, who snorted coldly and turned away, not wanting to deal with him anymore. The rain started to grow heavier, and the visibility around them was rapidly decreasing. Feng Yuan looked to Qi Chen and asked,

"Do you still know the way?"

"I know, but I won’t be sure which way to go after we reach the intersection, after all, we came by car originally."

"There might be a bus, you know~"

Feng Yuan said with a smile, but everyone took it as a joke.

"No way?!"

Seeing the autonomous bus stopping in front of them, Qi Chen and the others looked at Feng Yuan in surprise. They hadn’t expected him to be so accurate; was there really a bus? Smiling, Feng Yuan said,

"That’s not abnormal, the other party must have fully simulated the environment of Maomu City from back then, otherwise, there wouldn’t be those unmanned farming tools."

Recalling their encounter with the autonomous farm tools while passing by the fields, Qi Chen and his party couldn’t help feeling helpless. After all, the sight of those tools working on their own in the pouring rain was unsettling, as if invisible people were toiling away. Had they not remembered that this was the Dream Domain and an exceptional area, they might have attacked them.

"However, this unmanned bus is indeed... quite unique."

Feng Yuan said with a hint of trepidation as he glanced at Long Boduo, the farm tools were bearable, but the buses... he still instinctively felt fear. Xiao Ji, held in Feng Yuan’s arms, looked at him with confusion, not understanding his fear. Nuzzling Feng Yuan with its head, Xiao Ji let out a soft cry and then scuttled into the bus. Feng Yuan vigorously rubbed Xiao Ji’s head before setting it down and said,

"Can’t help it, aren’t many of those bizarre stories set on a bus?"

Although it was a distant memory, with the constant low singing echoing in his ears, Feng Yuan began to wonder if he had entered into a nightmare. Upon entering the bus, Qi Chen glanced at Feng Yuan and said without amusement,

"Are you really afraid of that stuff? With your strength, they should be the ones afraid of you."

With his capabilities, would those oddities from urban legends even dare approach him? Wouldn’t they be annihilated by his sickle before getting close? And because humans in this world possess the power to borrow from Beast Tamers and have special abilities themselves, although Ghost Series Spirit Beasts are not particularly liked, they are also not feared to the same extent. The stronger one is, the more indifferent their attitude toward Ghost Series Spirit Beasts.

They knew that no matter what, those Ghost Series Spirit Beasts couldn’t harm them.

"Anyway, I’m afraid, is that not allowed?"

Holding Xiao Ji, Feng Yuan said discontentedly. Glancing at him, Qi Chen retorted without patience,

"And what about you always clamoring to go to haunted houses before?"

"Hehe~ That’s different, haunted houses are crowded and fun, this place is..."

"Is there a difference for you?"

Gitalien said in a speechless manner from the side. Qi Chen and the others might not know Feng Yuan’s situation, but did Gitalien not know? To those ghostly beings, seeing him might have been scarier than encountering Xiao Ji. Was he really scared?

"There is a difference!"

Hugging Xiao Ji, with his head resting on it, Feng Yuan appeared aggrieved. Sitting atop his head, Little Ice Cream hummed the song in imitation, but as it could not speak, the originally decent tune sounded rather comical with its voice.

The bus slowly traveled on the muddy road, and the rain kept pounding on the windows. Feng Yuan, embracing Xiao Ji, looked out the window and said,

"It’s really realistic, they didn’t just pull over some period of time, did they?"

"Probably not, at least I haven’t detected anything unusual with the river of time. There’s no pervasive sense of history here, maybe it’s just the World Clock shard using the past as a projection in this place."

Agunas observed the surroundings and spoke. They had already contacted Lorraine Tower, but they said that with Feng Yuan here, they wouldn’t come over. They were tracking a group of Hunters’ high-ranking individuals and were vigorously pursuing them.

Veronia, sitting beside the window, gazed out at Maomu City through the heavy rain, lost in her thoughts. Qi Chen and Dou Yanlan were whispering, while Liao Yu held the hand of a little boy, continuously scanning the surroundings. Although it seemed just a bit eerie, he dared not let his guard down too much in case something unexpected happened. It would be troublesome.

As the bus gradually entered the central district of Maomu City, the rain slowly lightened. Feng Yuan, holding Xiao Ji, looked at Anernia hanging on the seat back and asked,

"The central area is in this direction, right?"

Anernia, who was boredly swinging back and forth on the seat back, jumped onto the seat in fright upon hearing Feng Yuan’s voice. After a moment, she poked her head out and looked back at Feng Yuan sitting behind her and said, frёewebnoѵēl.com

"Of course, but who would be such a fool as to lead the enemy into the core area? Could it be they’re planning something?"

Saying that, Anernia’s face revealed a mischievous smile. It might not be so bad if Feng Yuan suffered a setback because of it—hugging Xiao Ji, Feng Yuan looked around the empty bus interior and said,

"That shouldn’t be the case; this is merely the environment here spontaneously operating according to pre-established rules."

He didn’t believe that the World Clock shard had the ability to finely control everything in this world, not unless it was the complete version.