Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 787 - 788 Journey_1

Chapter 787: Chapter 788 Journey_1

"Phew~ I made it~"

Just as he rushed onto the train, Feng Yuan turned to look at the two people behind him, took a breath, and then took out his ticket and checked the carriage number, saying,

"Is this carriage number 9? Good, it’s not too far."

Dou Yanlan looked at the door behind her with some confusion. She felt that something was not quite right. As she led Qi Chen and the others to their seats, Feng Yuan said proudly,

"I told you there was no need to rush here so early~"

"Who knows who’s to blame for almost missing the train..."

Qi Chen glanced at Feng Yuan with a speechless expression and said irritably. Dou Yanlan curiously surveyed Feng Yuan and asked,

"Did you do something? Why hasn’t the train departed yet?"

She was absolutely sure that it was past the scheduled departure time. At this moment, the train’s patrolling officers had gotten hold of Feng Yuan’s photo and were searching through the carriage. Unfortunately, the train was full of students heading to Dao Lake City, and Feng Yuan just happened to be dressed like an inconspicuous student, which greatly increased the difficulty of their search.

"It seems like they’re looking for someone?"

Qi Chen looked at the patrolling officers coming from the front carriage and looking around with some confusion. Feng Yuan thought for a moment, then stood up from his seat, holding Xiao Ji and Pomiti, and said,

"I’ll go ask."

"Is something special going on?"

Upon being questioned again, the patroller said somewhat helplessly,

"Have you seen three people who rushed onto the train just before departure?"

"We... checked in normally..."

Feng Yuan paused, trying to recall. He wasn’t sure as everything happened in such a rush and he didn’t really pay attention to any irregularities, but he thought there shouldn’t have been such a big fuss.

"Ah! It’s you!"

The officer exclaimed with surprise. Tilting his head, Feng Yuan felt a bit puzzled since it didn’t seem like the officer was looking for trouble. Taking out a device, the officer hurriedly said,

"Please scan your ID through the machine; otherwise, the train can’t depart."

"Why?"

Although he didn’t understand, Feng Yuan still took out his ID and placed it on the device. The next moment, the warning signal to depart rang out, and the train, delayed by several minutes, began to close its doors and slowly start.

"What’s going on? Why does the train need my ID to leave?"

Feng Yuan was stunned. Naturally, he guessed that the departure signal was related to his scanning of the ID, but he didn’t buy a ticket using any special privileges, so theoretically, this shouldn’t have happened.

"Because the way you hurriedly charged through the ticket gate triggered an emergency protocol. We needed your ID to cancel it..."

The patroller explained with a bit of amusement. Blame wasn’t really the issue, as the protocol existed to ensure that during certain special tasks, the targets they needed to capture wouldn’t be on the train or miss it by a minute due to other urgent circumstances.

While incidents like Feng Yuan’s accidental trigger did happen occasionally, most of the time, this system greatly assisted the special task force in their operations, so nobody really argued for its removal.

"What did you do this time?"

As soon as he returned to his seat, Qi Chen gave Feng Yuan a look of speechless exasperation. Feng Yuan’s actions had let him guess that the delay in the train’s departure was definitely related to him. After retelling the patroller’s explanation, Feng Yuan said with a hint of amusement,

"I had no idea such a thing even existed, let alone that it could happen like this."

"Why do it this way? Can’t they just contact the station?"

"Communicating takes time, and it’s not possible to arrange a special train, is it? As for using a Space Gate, it’s not impossible, but there aren’t many Spatial Spirit Beasts within each city’s special forces capable of opening Space Gates, and most can only travel to a few nearby cities."

Feng Yuan explained. He had previously thought there would be Spatial Spirit Beasts specially designated for opening gates during emergencies, but Ye Hanlei told him that was a fantasy. The Maomu City special forces only had three Spatial Spirit Beasts, capable of opening gates to just several nearby cities, and they rarely did so since the beasts would lose their combat abilities for a period after opening a gate.

Only once or twice had there been relay teleportations between cities within Great Xia to rapidly transport special operations teams for dealing with crises that severely threatened Great Xia’s security.

"That’s strange; why is the fog outside getting thicker?"

Feng Yuan looked out at the white expanse with some concern and said, to which Qi Chen, with his eyes closed, remarked,

"It’s always like this during this season, with frequent heavy fog. Aren’t you used to it yet?"

"But... what if the high-speed train turns into a steam train while traveling in the fog, and then..."

"Shut up!"

Qi Chen wordlessly opened his eyes to stop Feng Yuan from saying anything further, as he was genuinely afraid that the guy’s words would come true the next moment, and an accident would occur. That would be too much of a pitfall; he was not ready for a special adventure of this sort.

"There was a forecast for this fog before, so it isn’t anything special."

Dou Yanlan glanced at Feng Yuan and pointed to the middle-aged man behind him.

"Who made it be here, too."

Agunas swept a look at Gitalien and said, with a hint of confusion,

"It is indeed strange for it to appear on the high-speed rail..."

If it were a Divine Beast like Nagna, which doesn’t possess spatial abilities, that would be one thing, but a Space Divine Beast like Gitalien could open its own doors to go anywhere and didn’t need to use transportation.

"It shouldn’t be it, right?"

Qi Chen glanced at Gitalien and said with some uncertainty, as the other party, with its eyes closed as if in meditation, did not seem to notice people pointing at it. At this time, the little girl sitting next to him gently shook Gitalien’s hand in a somewhat frightened manner.

Gitalien opened its eyes, glanced outside the window, and showed a smile as if to comfort something. Agunas said with some confusion,

"That girl seems to be just an ordinary human."

"Hey! What are you daydreaming about?"

Feng Yuan looked at Agunas speechlessly, feeling that there was something not quite right with his words. Rolling his eyes, Agunas flipped through the book in his hand and said,

"I don’t know why it would specially bring along a human child."

"Can’t it just be a child of a friend?"

Feng Yuan said while looking at Agunas, but his eyes kept glancing toward Qi Chen and Dou Yanlan. Glancing at Feng Yuan, Dou Yanlan said calmly,

"It’s still too early for us."

"The Fool, Awakening, War, and..."

"The Underworld God?"

Gladys looked at the cards in her hand, puzzled. At that moment, only these four cards were shining with a mysterious luster, while the others scattered on the small tea table appeared ancient and old. She pondered for a long time and then, under the astonished gaze of her student, packed up her cards and looked out the window at the bewildering fog, murmuring to herself in a low voice.

"That... was that just now a divination technique?"

The student-like young girl sitting beside her asked with curiosity. The number of Spirit Beasts involved in destiny was not necessarily much greater than the Temporal Spirit Beasts, and without the assistance of such a Spirit Beast, mastering divination would be extremely difficult. Apart from a few people born with extraordinary talents, hardly anyone could possess divination abilities.

With a glance at the girl, Gladys smiled and said,

"What? Want me to divine your future for you? Unfortunately, I can no longer continue divining today."

"No, no, I was just very curious, this kind of card divination seems..."

The girl, as if she had opened a floodgate, continued to speak about something incessantly. She had a great interest in this matter in her daily life but had no one around her who understood it, so she was unable to obtain any useful information from other sources. Now that she had encountered a genuinely talented person, she naturally wanted to ask in detail.

The girl learned a lot of interesting things through persistent flattery and questioning, especially after finding out that Gladys was the same Diviner who had opened the Divination House at Maomu Academy on National Day, which only increased her admiration.

"By the way, may I ask what exactly you were divining just now?"

The girl asked somewhat embarrassedly, as the result was just too strange. Glancing at the girl, Gladys smiled and said,

"I wanted to know what we would encounter on this trip."

"Eh?!"

"Woo~ we’ve finally arrived~"

Feng Yuan stretched and said happily as he saw the thick fog outside. Dou Yanlan frowned tightly and tugged at Feng Yuan’s clothes,

"Are you sure there’s no problem with this fog?"

"At least I haven’t found anything wrong with it, although it seems to be quite extensive."

Feng Yuan also found it strange. They had traveled a long way, yet there was not the slightest sign of the fog dissipating; it was just that the concentration varied in different places, like in Dao Lake City where they were now, the fog was not as dense as in Maomu City.

"Let’s hope nothing goes wrong..."

Looking at Gitalien, who had placed the little girl on its neck, Feng Yuan said in a low voice.