Chapter: Chapter 502
“Do you guys feel like the atmosphere here is strange?” Walking up to the entrance of the Cangying tribe, and looking at the black-robed divine officials who rushed out to greet him, the fox technician beastman whispered to his companions.
Without the fox beastman’s keen senses, the accompanying bird beastman guard scratched his head, “No, aren’t they quite normal?”
As he spoke, the beastman examined the divine official whose face was still painted with pigment. There was no difference from when they last met. If he had to say anything, perhaps his complexion seemed to have improved a bit?
In the past, this person always had a look of hardship, which made people feel quite tired. Now he looked much more cheerful than before, which should be considered a good thing.
“I don’t know if it’s my imagination, but I always feel like these people’s attitudes are a bit off, a little too enthusiastic.” The fox beastman muttered quietly. In the past, when he encountered these divine officials, they never gave him a good look.
Even though his brain was the most useful among these beastmen, and the network of sacrificial array nodes spread throughout the entire beastman territory was built under his leadership.
But these beastmen were very stubborn in believing that they, who ran on the ground, were inferior to those who flew in the sky. Although they wouldn’t make things difficult for him, a great contributor, openly, they would speak ill of him in private and subtly exclude him.
And now, these arrogant fools were so happy to come out and welcome him. Was that normal?
Not normal at all!
“Could it be that they caused the problem with that array node, which is why they are so guilty and came out to welcome me?” The fox beastman’s thoughts went astray. No matter how smart he was, he couldn’t have imagined that these beastmen had changed because they had seen Feng.
“Oh my, I didn’t expect the Holy Land to send you over!” The divine official, taking two steps at a time, strode up to the fox beastman and eagerly grabbed his hand. “You came too quickly, we haven’t even prepared a welcome ceremony!”
So solicitous, there must be something wrong! The fox beastman narrowed his eyes, revealing a look of having seen through everything. These simple-minded beastmen still didn’t know how to hide their inner thoughts.
Did you really think I would be fooled by your performance with so many flaws?
Hmph!
I’m telling you, it’s impossible!
“There’s no need to hide it now, I already know about your good deeds!” The fox beastman said to the divine official in front of him with a stern face.
The divine official’s expression immediately changed drastically. What? How did his plans leak out?
Impossible, this fox beastman only arrived here today, how could he know that I planned to use the toast at the welcome banquet as a signal to have him arrested?
Could it be that there is a mole on my side?
But only a few people I trust the most, and the three dragons subdued by the divine being, know about this. Where did something go wrong?
Seeing the divine official’s greatly changed expression, the fox beastman snorted again. These guys were really easy to trick, not steady at all.
“That… that, let’s go to the banquet first.” The divine official scratched his head with a somewhat flustered expression. He estimated the strength behind him, and if he made a move here, he should be able to take down this fox beastman and his bodyguard.
The attitude of the Cangying tribe had been investigated a few days ago. They would not interfere with their actions. The worst outcome would be to kidnap these two people directly here.
“You still have the mood for a banquet?” The fox beastman was almost amused to death. These beastmen were truly unbelievably foolish. The divine being was at a critical moment of revival, and you broke the array node, and instead of quickly repairing the node, you want to have a banquet?
It’s truly infuriating!
“Ah? Why would I not be in the mood?” The divine official was also dumbfounded. He felt like his conversation with this fox beastman was not on the same parallel line.
“You broke the underground array node, which greatly affected the divine being’s revival. Do I need to say it?” The fox beastman roared at the divine official aggressively. From his amber eyes, the divine official could clearly see the anger hidden within.
But, the array node? What is that? Did that thing break?
The divine official was a little dumbfounded. He truly didn’t know that the underground array node had a problem.
This was not because he was negligent, but because to monitor the state of the underground array node, one needed to stare at the array in the temple that could display the operating status of the array node.
But now the entire temple had been occupied by Feng. The only ones who could come and go freely were those three dragons. The divine official could only enter the temple when summoned by Feng.
When summoned, all his attention was focused on the divine being, where would he have the leisure to observe the small array hidden in the corner?
Besides, didn’t the divine being revive? What use is that array?
“Ah, this…”
“Are you perhaps going to say that you did it by accident? Do you think I would believe it?” The fox beastman glared with a threatening aura. “If you don’t want to be punished by the divine being, hurry up and lead the way. I need to repair the array node. We can talk about the banquet after the node is repaired!”
Although he was unhappy about being wrongly accused, his plan seemed not to have been exposed? The divine official’s expression looked a bit strange. He didn’t know whether to laugh or be angry. Since this fox beastman thought that he had destroyed the array, then so be it.
Being misunderstood, so be it. As for divine punishment?
Ha?
I’m still afraid of this?
I’ve already seen what the divine being looks like, and the divine being is very appreciative of my service attitude, even bestowing a blessing to enhance my strength!
You guys who haven’t even seen the divine being’s face to try to intimidate me with the divine being, don’t you look at what kind of virtue you are!
“Ah, yes, yes, yes, it was me, and it was an accident, hehe.” Rubbing his hands, the divine official put on a憨厚的 expression, indicating that it was also an accident. Who knew that the array node was so fragile that it broke with a touch? “I know I was wrong, really!”
This guy isn’t even denying it? The fox beastman looked at the divine official with some suspicion. Based on his understanding of these beastmen, they should deny it to the death at this time, and they wouldn’t openly admit it.
Could it be that the trouble they caused was too great, making them afraid to deny it? After thinking about it, the fox beastman could only come to this conclusion.
Forget it, no matter about these things, let’s hurry and repair the node and go back to report. The situation is urgent now, and we can’t waste any time.
The group then rushed to the temple. To go underground, one could only pass through the hidden passage on the temple’s side.
Otherwise, if they dug it themselves, it would be unknown how long it would take.
When they arrived at the temple, the originally tightly closed temple doors were already open. Feng, who had been meditating in the main hall before, was also nowhere to be found. This made the divine officials breathe a sigh of relief, so they wouldn’t have to explain why a little girl appeared here… right?
A golden-haired girl in simple cloth clothes peeked out from behind a nearby pillar timidly. Her red eyes curiously observed the vast group of people. She had a white stick in her mouth and a look of confusion on her face, looking very cute.
“This child…” The fox beastman was stunned at first. Did the Cangying tribe have such a cute little girl?
It seems not, right?
“It’s a child from the Cangying tribe. She likes to come here to play.” The divine official quickly explained. “We can’t not let her in, right?”
They were here to spread the faith, could they drive away a little girl who seemed interested in the divine being?
“Besides, if we can get her to join us and be our ambassador in the future, wouldn’t that be a wonderful thing?” the divine official continued.
Everyone’s definition of beauty might differ, but cuteness is something everyone can almost agree on. And Feng looked undoubtedly cute. Having such a little girl as an ambassador would indeed be a perfect choice.
Even the fox beastman didn’t think there was anything wrong with this. At most, he would suspect that this little girl’s mutation was really powerful, having no trace of the beastman race’s characteristics. However, when bird beastmen mutated, such a situation could indeed occur, so it wasn’t something surprising.
These divine officials had experience in such matters. The fox beastman slightly approved of the divine officials’ explanation. “Since she’s one of us, we don’t need to worry about her. Let’s hurry to the underground and repair the array.”
As he spoke, the fox beastman also gave Feng a kind smile.
Seeing this smile, Feng took the lollipop out of her mouth and returned a sweet smile.
A warm current flowed from the bottom of his heart. The fox beastman felt full of energy. This little girl was indeed quite useful. Having her as an ambassador was definitely not a problem.
I believe the divine being will also like such a girl, he thought.
The group hurriedly ran into the interior of the temple. Feng put the lollipop back into her mouth and reached out to poke something beside her.
The white-haired girl revealed her figure from the air. She looked at the group who had already left with a complicated expression. “She really guessed it.”
As the culprit who destroyed the array node, Leticia had been waiting underground for the repairman from the Holy Land long ago. Feng’s escort work above fell on Miss Bai.
However, Miss Bai’s ability to take care of people was really not good. She only knew how to unconditionally satisfy Feng’s requests, which made Feng now prefer being with Bai Ling even more.
Leticia occasionally controlled Feng’s diet, but Bai Ling absolutely did not. As soon as Feng showed a desire to eat, Bai Ling would take out various flavors of mental power candies prepared by Leticia for Feng to eat.
Until the inventory was used up and she couldn’t take anything out.
“Sister Bai, hug.” Feng did not have many complex thoughts. She opened her arms and gently jumped up from the ground.
This little one… Bai Ling looked at Feng with a helpless expression and hugged her into her arms. “Let’s go for a walk outside. It will probably take Leticia some time to finish handling things.”
“Okay!”
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In the underground cavity, the fox beastman looked at the pile of energy-less ore on the ground, and the array above, which had been eroded by a strange black substance for more than half of it, his brow tightly furrowed.
This did not look like the result of natural wear and tear at all. It felt more like intentional destruction.
But there were no traces of combat here, which meant that the intentional destruction was beyond the detection range of the protective measures. This was not something ordinary people could do.
Was the energy transported from elsewhere problematic, causing this largest array node to be eroded?
This was the only possibility.
“By the time we discovered something was wrong, it was already like this, but we really didn’t do it!” The divine official muttered quietly. He also didn’t understand the current situation, only knowing that this should be the divine being’s scheme.
“If it were you, I wouldn’t be able to see you now.” The fox beastman sighed. These beastmen couldn’t do such a thing, his inference was wrong. “Come here and lend a hand, help me lower the entire array.”
As he spoke, he walked into the small temple and placed his palm on a stone slab inside the temple.
As the magical power was injected, the golden array outside gradually dimmed. The fox beastman temporarily shut down the core of this array.
Outside, the divine officials worked together to pull down the seemingly light array core from the sky. These divine officials all possessed divine arts bestowed by Huang. Pulling down a temporarily shut down array core from the sky was naturally not a problem.
“What exactly is this black substance? I’ve never seen it before.” The fox beastman, who had returned outside, observed the black aura that was eroding the array at close range, his doubts grew even stronger.
After thinking for a long time, he couldn’t come up with any reason, so he could only temporarily put the problem aside and start thinking about how to repair the array core.
This problem didn’t trouble him for long. On the way here, he had already prepared various methods, and even made the worst-case scenario. The current situation of localized damage was actually one of the better ones.
It was simple: just remove the damaged parts and redraw the array lines.
“Which of you has more precise operations? Come and help me cut off this part.” The fox beastman called out to the divine officials who were watching the show nearby.
As soon as he spoke, a short figure in a black robe emerged from among the divine officials. “Me, me, me!”
Is this a woman? The fox beastman was stunned, then waved his hand impatiently. “Hurry up.”
“No problem!” The short figure walked in front of the array core and began to disassemble the part eroded by the black substance with his bare hands.
Wait, what is this person doing? Is this how you disassemble an array? The fox beastman was stunned again. He had never seen such an operation.
“Am I ignorant?” Looking at the incredibly fast movements of the short figure, the fox beastman thought suspiciously.
