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Chapter 512 - 299: The Son of Heaven’s Ability_1

Chapter 512: Chapter 299: The Son of Heaven’s Ability_1

Mu You and the others walked on the city streets.

The layout of this city was very orderly, divided into countless areas by the main, block-shaped streets. Each area was further divided into many rectangular streets that crisscrossed each other. If viewed from above, all the streets and buildings were neatly arranged into squares. No matter how you looked at it, it seemed like the work of a geometry-obsessed designer.

Furthermore, the most eye-catching features in the city were the numerous humanoid sculptures distributed between the buildings.

These sculptures were not of deities or heroes, but of the ordinary residents who had once lived in this city. They were depicted in various forms of work, wearing either simple or extravagant clothes, giving off an earthy atmosphere.

The only commonality was that every sculpture was accompanied by a statue of a flying mount.

This wasn’t hard to understand. After all, this was a city in the sky, perpetually floating high above the ground. Every resident living here was bound to have a flying mount.

"Boss, which way should we go?" After a short rest, Little Ya’s seasickness had significantly improved. At this moment, she was curiously looking around and asking Mu You.

"According to the map’s orientation, we should head west... but this is the Mirror World, so let’s head east first..." said Mu You, after a moment of thought.

In theory, this world was a ’reflection’ hidden in the Star Spirit World. Since the map of Dawn City aligned with the normal direction of the Evil Spirit Sea Area in the Star Spirit World, the order on the map should also be reversed after arriving in this upside-down world.

The three of them headed straight down the main road to the east.

However, after not walking for long, they quickly noticed something amiss.

"Have we been here before?" Little Ya looked around at the familiar environment, uncertainly.

The buildings here seemed to be cut from the same mold, so there was a sense of déjà vu. Little Ya was unsure whether the overly similar scene in front of her was the same place they had just passed through.

"We have been here before, and the layout of the buildings ahead has changed." Lin Xue confirmed Little Ya’s guess and added some more information.

"It seems that the buildings here are constantly changing... no wonder we need a map..."

Mu You sighed, he had also realized that the terrain here was like a moving maze, with each block continuously changing. Therefore, if you walk in one direction, you will only be spinning in place within a certain range and never get out.

This was the significance of the map: one could only escape the maze by moving in the specific order indicated by the buildings marked on the map.

Without a map, one would have to try one road after another until learning the pattern of shifting blocks. If you’re unlucky, it could take more than ten times longer.

Of course, more troublesome than the map was the no-fly zone overhead.

Mu You had tried it; the Flight Spell could not be used here, and summoning flying creatures like the Battle Eagle would result in them being instantly killed by a strange energy.

This ruled out the possibility of observing the terrain from above.

"Let’s stop here and wait for a while." Mu You shook his head, decisively giving up the idea of continuing on.

Instead of aimlessly wandering around like a headless fly, it would be better to wait here for the Son of Heaven’s men to appear, and then follow them. This would allow them to pass through more quickly.

The two had no objections, so the three of them found a hidden spot near the lake at the entrance and hid.

About ten minutes later, the lake water ahead began to churn, and a variety of ships surfaced one after another.

The exteriors of these ships were all ragged, and the structure of the ships was maintained solely by magic; they would have fallen to pieces in minutes otherwise.

Soon, a large number of people disembarked from the ships and gathered on the shore.

"Wow, there are so many people..." Mu You murmured in astonishment.

At least six or seven hundred people had appeared on the shore at this moment, and judging by their patterns of movement, at least two-thirds of them were not mirror images but originals who had entered through the gate themselves.

This didn’t surprise Mu You.

According to data from an analysis post on a forum, the existing ’gates’ on Earth were essentially evenly distributed by region, with about 50 gates per 10 million square kilometers.

Using this pattern, the total number of ’gates’ on Earth should be around 2500. However, since many of the gates are located in the ocean and have not yet been discovered, the actual number of gates known to humanity is only about 1000.

However, the various powers in the world have publicly confirmed the existence of only about 300 ’gates’.

This means that quite a number of gates have not been publicized. A few of these are in the hands of private individuals like Mu You, but most are kept secret by the major powers.

For example, Dragon Group openly claims to have only two gates, but the actual number is certainly far more than this. Plus, they can also ’borrow’ gates from allied forces in emergencies. Mu You believed that, if the country truly needed it, gathering a double-digit number of gates would not be difficult.

This was why Mu You had previously revealed to the Blood Emperor that he had a gate, yet the Dragon Group and the Bureau of Paranormal Investigation did not question him about it. On the one hand, the binding mechanism of the gate basically locked the identity of the person entering. On the other hand, to the real top powers, gates were not exactly a scarce resource.