area51novel Chapter 228 Return to Shrek
Chapter 228 Return to Shrek
Guangming knew that the Iron Warrior's speed was too slow. Although he was afraid that this probing might cause some side effects (such as the soul beast tracking and counterattacking), if Longyou didn't want to waste an entire afternoon, he had to go and "greet" him.
Fearing a domino effect, Long You moved rather slowly. A full two hours later, Long You finally detected the "Bright Iron Warrior" using his soul-guided device. Looking at the high-definition image on the soul-guided display screen, Long You was unsure what expression to wear.
The "Bright Iron Warrior" underwent a complete deformation, becoming much more rounded from its original angular shape, and also experienced significant fading.
"Well, things are getting tricky. Our future neighbors are pretty tough! Seriously, is there any possibility of peaceful coexistence with neighbors who can guarantee their safety?"
After muttering a habitual remark to himself, Long You began exporting the information stored within the Bright Iron Warrior. Up to this point, Long You still didn't know what species his future neighbor was. Regardless of whether they could ultimately get along, he at least needed to figure out who his target was.
Guangming knew that the Iron Warrior had only been underwater for half an hour, and even if the entire recording was high-energy, it wouldn't take Longyou too long to watch it all. However, after watching the whole video, Longyou seemed somewhat confused.
“Bourne, Twilight, do you two recognize what kind of species this is? Judging from its appearance, these neighbors had already shown up when we were on the lake shore, but our detection soul guides didn’t react at all.”
"Tell me this is an illusion! With the current detection coverage of our soul-guided devices, there shouldn't be areas that are completely undetectable, right? But to say that all the giant turtles in this video are 100,000-year-old soul beasts, I absolutely cannot believe it."
"Sir, in my personal opinion, if everything that just happened was an illusion, then things would only be more terrifying."
"You... never mind, let's retreat. Regardless of why these turtles were so wary when the Iron Warriors retreated, now is not a suitable time to continue exploring. In a situation where the strength and methods of our opponents are completely unknown, taking risks is definitely not the right choice."
"Awoo, let's get out of here quickly. I just searched my inherited memories and there was no such giant tortoise. It's probably a unique soul beast species from the far north ice plains. You can go back and ask the Ice Emperor; he might know something."
“That makes sense. Let’s retreat. I’m afraid I can’t build this base by myself alone. I need help. It’s time to go back to the academy and take a look.”
Since he didn't intend to linger in the far north ice plains, Long You had no interest in continuing to travel on foot. With the soul-guided power mecha's engine at full power, the massive metal body rapidly ascended into the air under the fierce thrust. The outstretched soul-guided wings caught the fierce winds of the far north ice plains. Long You was already tired of this desolate ice plains where he currently had no sense of belonging.
After giving a brief explanation to the members still stationed at the family's new base, Long You set off on his journey back to Shrek Academy. Based on his conversations with Huo Yuhao over the past period, things seemed relatively peaceful at the academy, and the Holy Spirit Cult certainly wasn't in the mood to cause trouble near Shrek Academy.
With his ever-increasing reserves of soul power and the "high-capacity battery" equipped in his soul-guided power mecha, Long You traveled from the far north ice plains to Shrek Academy in the central part of the continent in just one day.
The enormous, yet highly stealthy, soul-guided powered mech, carrying the Lumber Lens, traversed Shrek City's forward reconnaissance positions and then landed in front of Shrek City.
You may not fly over the city without a valid reason.
This is a rule that has existed since the founding of Shrek City, so even though Long You's soul-guided power mecha is equipped with the Longbo Lens, which can distinguish friend from foe, he cannot fly directly into the academy. Since he cannot fly, Long You decides not to wear the cumbersome mecha and instead uses the anti-gravity soul-guided skateboard to reach his destination more quickly.
As was his habit, he sprinted towards the dormitory building of the outer college on his skateboard, but the location information that suddenly appeared on his soul-guided tactical glasses forced Long You to step on the brakes, and at the same time, he had to pull back Xiao Muyang, who was speeding away.
"It's a strange feeling. What seemed like an ordinary departure from school has led to me having a different identity when I return."
Following the location shown on the navigation, they glided directly into the Sea God Lake. Watching Xiao Muyang struggling to tame the anti-gravity soul-guided skateboard under its limbs, Long You's mood became increasingly strange.
Long You felt a deep connection to Shrek Academy. As the current leading academy on the continent, it was undoubtedly a powerful ally. However, the academy's close ties with the God-King of the God Realm made him somewhat uneasy. With his growing influence in this world, Long You had begun to experience unexpected resistance.
"I will definitely go to that place, but I'm afraid I need to prepare more to develop the ability to not follow the crowd!"
"Hey, hey! What are you spacing out for again! Hurry up!"
Long You's soft mutterings didn't quite reach Xiao Muyang's ears, but the Flame Crystal Jade Tiger, which had barely managed to control its limbs, couldn't resist the allure of speed.
"Alright, life should definitely be more about focusing on the present! Little Twilight, are you ready?"
After quickly composing himself, Long You didn't wait for the little tiger to react before flooring the accelerator and speeding towards Poseidon Island in the center of Poseidon Lake.
Like a prank, it spun its tail on the shore, drenching Beibei who was waiting there. Longyou felt his mood improve considerably. He had originally planned to turn around and admire Beibei's gloomy expression to further enhance his cheerful mood, but when Longyou turned around, all he saw was a little tiger, its fur soaked, unable to stop and crashing into Beibei.
"Ha, this kind of scene is really enjoyable! But I'd better take this opportunity to get ashore quickly, otherwise I'll probably be facing a sniper attack once Beibei comes out!"
With a pleasant maneuver, the anti-gravity soul-guided skateboard floated up slightly and landed lightly on the island that looked like an artificial island.
Speechless, Beibei finally stood up from under the flustered Xiaomuyang. Looking at Longyou, who had already taken out the drying soul tool from his storage soul tool, Beibei completely lost interest in disciplining his mischievous younger brother.
Dodging the tiger fur fluttering from Xiao Muyang's body and feeling the warm breeze on her skin, Beibei felt a strange sense of happiness for a moment. It was only because Longyou was busy adjusting the angle of the dryer that Beibei's current distorted expression would have caused an uproar in the reserve team's group chat.
After much searching, Long You finally found his own dormitory building with Bei Bei's help. It must be said that the inner court students' dormitories were several levels more luxurious than those of the outer court students. The entire two-story wooden building was his private property.
"Is it really that extravagant? As far as I know, there are quite a few inner court students in our academy. With such a luxurious room allocation, are there enough buildings on Seagod Island?"
"We are an exception. Normally, the dormitories for inner court students are two people per building. The fact that we are able to get a single room is, in theory, a reward from the academy to make up for our efforts in the competition."
Alright, enough chit-chat. Cai Tou is pretty busy right now. If you don't have anything urgent, go see him tonight. We brothers can get together then.
"Speaking of which, if you hadn't come back soon, I would have called you. The academy has already confirmed an exchange program with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. Junior Brother is part of this exchange trip to the Sun Moon Empire, and the delegation is leaving in a few days. As his older brother, you had to come back and see him!"
"Oh! I've been so busy lately, I completely forgot about it. Cai Tou, aren't you coming?"
"Of course Cai Tou can't go. Although the Holy Spirit Cult's ultimate target is Elder Xuan, you two are also valuable targets in this 'killing two birds with one stone' scenario. We can't just hand them over to them!"
"That's good. My matter is a bit complicated, but not urgent. We can talk about it tonight. Senior, if you have other things to do, go ahead and take care of them. I'll also take care of my own things. The matter I want to do this time is indeed a bit troublesome. I need to go to the academy's library to find some materials."
"A big move!"
"Let's see if it works out."
"Alright, I'll be going now. You might as well go to the library and reactivate your permissions."
After briefly helping Long You tidy up and familiarize himself with the dormitory, Bei Bei, clearly no longer a lazy person, left. Before leaving, Bei Bei told Long You to eat less at noon, as they were going to Shrek City for a big meal that evening.
At 5:30 PM, Long You emerged from the library, utterly exhausted. Although much of Shrek Academy's written material had been moved online after the Panlong Realm was released, the information available there was mostly ordinary. The hidden documents Long You sought required specific access and location to unlock.
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"Things are getting more and more complicated! The academy has indeed observed the existence of other continents through communication satellites, but the distance is really too far! With my current means of transportation, it is really difficult to complete such a long-distance exploration."
Do we have to come up with transportation from scratch? The only means of transportation that can support intercontinental travel are ocean liner and large airplanes, neither of which are easy to come by, and I'm not even sure if I can actually do it.
Sigh, forget it. I don't want to think about these upsetting things anymore. I have to find this continent, otherwise any base I set up will be nothing but a pipe dream. Even if I squeeze every last drop of resources out of the Sun Moon Empire, I still won't have enough rare metals to meet my needs.
Taking a hot shower to clear his throbbing head and give Bourne some time to organize the entire plan and create a presentation. This would make it easier for Long You to ask his reserve team teammates for alms during lunch later.
Yes, Long You is no longer planning to go it alone. Ever since he witnessed the swarms of magical turtles in the frozen lake in the far north, Long You has had no intention of building a base by himself. "A group fight is better than a one-man show" has always been Long You's motto. Besides, his current situation is completely one-man against a group. Even if he could use the charm of words to turn enemies into friends, Long You couldn't bring himself to start construction in their territory alone. Finding teammates is absolutely essential.
Shrek City was as bustling as ever. The residents here had a high resistance to Soul Masters and Soul Beasts, so Long You hadn't taken Little Twilight into his Luxury Ball, but instead strolled along with it. As for the reason behind Long You's decision—whether it was because he felt sorry for Little Twilight and couldn't bear to leave it alone in the Luxury Ball, or because he felt sorry for himself and didn't want to continue walking for the rest of the day—that was a question worth pondering.
Liufeng Hall, a restaurant whose name doesn't sound like a typical restaurant, is where the Shrek Academy reserve team members are having their dinner gathering tonight. Actually, this dinner was organized by Tang Ya. In the words of the current Tang Sect leader, it's a gathering to build unity and strengthen the resolve of the current Tang Sect members who are about to embark on their own journeys.
Okay, all of the above is nonsense. Tang Ya has no interest in ideological education. She's just bored from being cooped up in the academy. And now that Long You is back, she wants to see what's going on.
Every shop that thrives in Shrek City has its own specialty. Although the name Liufengtang doesn't sound like a restaurant, its signature dishes are indeed delicious. The lion's head meatballs, about the size of a baby's fist, have firm, chewy meat and a rich, flavorful sauce that makes you want to keep eating.
Logically speaking, the younger generation, including Long You, do not have the habit of "not talking while eating or sleeping." However, in the face of delicious food, any action that requires delaying chewing is disrespectful to the food, so there was no sound of conversation in the private room for a while.
Once all the pre-ordered dishes had been turned into empty plates, Tang Ya, sitting at the head of the round table, began to initiate the conversation, and the evening's dinner officially entered a conversational phase.