The process of finding Exodus in the rental aircraft was unexpectedly smooth.
Perhaps it was because the shark series had not found Exodus' hiding place, or perhaps they could not do anything about it. When Lin Sanjiu drove Exodus out of the smog, circled in the sky, and headed straight for Fanjia City, she had never been so grateful for its existence. When fate pushed her away from her family and friends to drift into the dark and silent distant sea, at least she still had this spaceship that could carry her through the clouds.
Unlike when it went to the Summit of the Old Ocean, Exodus flew toward Fanjia City and plunged into a populated area.
Lin Sanjiu was no longer looking at the spaceship from afar. The gigantic, snow-white spaceship was cutting through all the major traffic lanes and traffic routes at a restricted speed. With Silas' control of the spaceship, he naturally wouldn't crash into any of the spaceships. However, if Lin Sanjiu poked her head out of the spaceship and looked behind her, she would see that she had left behind a trail of sirens, chaos, and paralysis in the sky, forming a path that she had walked through.
The funny thing was, after a while, Lin Sanjiu heard herself in the emergency traffic news of "Beacon Smoke". The female announcer described the appearance of Exodus and condemned the spaceship's owner for his "suicidal blind flying style". She also reported the places that Lin Sanjiu had passed through and her destination in detail. After two to three minutes, she suddenly paused and became excited.
"According to the news we have just received, the crazy spaceship has finally stopped! It is currently hovering above Fanjia City. Residents of Fanjia City, please be sure to … "
Lin Sanjiu slammed the announcement button.
She did not board the levitating pod. Instead, she walked through the spaceship, which was empty and quiet after the engine stopped, and arrived at the docking compartment at the bottom of the spaceship.
When she walked to the place where Peng Ping was trapped, she saw a small pile of glass shards and suddenly stopped. The glass cup that Yu Yuan used to trap Peng Ping had turned into a pile of rubbish after it was forcefully unsealed. Lin Sanjiu had forgotten to clean it up.
Lin Sanjiu stared at it for a while and suddenly took out her "Beacon Smoke" again.
This time, she took the initiative to search for the latest trending topics and news on Roaming the Clouds. After scrolling through several messages such as "Egg Fried Rice That Reveals the True Meaning of Life", "True Head Swapping Technique", "The Coming Flood", and so on, she saw a topic in the less popular ranking — "Dissecting Craftsmen Has Become One of the Popular and High-Paying Professions for Walking Above the Clouds?"
She clicked on the discussion topic and opened the relevant video. Among the hundreds and thousands of discussions, it did not take her long to find the photo of the artificer who had released Peng Ping. There was nothing special about the photo itself. It was just a scene of him reaching out to receive the money. It seemed to have been taken secretly. There was no one else in the photo except for him, and it was hard to tell where he was. If one had never been to Exodus, one would not be able to tell.
However, with just a glance, Lin Sanjiu recognized the black patch behind the disassembling craftsman. It was Exodus' docking bay. The hand that gave him the money was Cyrus's hand.
When the glass cup was first opened, Lin Sanjiu was busy suppressing Peng Ping. When she picked him up and was about to bring him into the airship, Lin Sanjiu turned her head to look at Cyrus, who was paying the disassembling craftsman.
As she turned her body slightly, Peng Ping, who was in her hand, also turned around. From his eyes, he should be able to see this scene.
Lin Sanjiu understood everything in an instant.
Peng Ping's ability, [Wildfire Prairie], had already been activated the moment he was released from the glass cup. The target of the ability was the only outsider who had a brief contact with Peng Ping.
That disassembling craftsman had become Peng Ping's channel to convey information to the outside world and to the shark faction.
With that, no matter how careful they were, no matter how much they tried to ensure that the disassembling craftsman was alright, it was pointless. With Yoo Willow waiting outside, when he realized that a message about the disassembling craftsman had suddenly become a hot topic in Roaming the Clouds, he understood that it was a signal from Peng Ping.
Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell what the message implied, but it was no wonder that Xie Feng said that she only waited at the rental shop for two days. If the [Wildfire Prairie] had spread the news immediately after the Disassembling Smith left the airship, Oui Ishii would have sent her to the rental agency to wait for Lin Sanjiu. It would have taken Oui Ishii one to two days to find Lin Sanjiu.
Lin Sanjiu heard herself chuckle. She closed her fingers on the white box.
A few seconds later, the "Beacon Smoke" personal terminal shattered into tiny pieces and fell into the pile of glass.
"Solas," Lin Sanjiu ordered calmly, "Open the entrance to the shuttle pod."
As the bottom of the shuttle slowly opened, Fan Jia City, which was covered in layers and layers of city roads, was revealed. Lin Sanjiu suddenly remembered that when she first came to Fan Jia City, the young man who guided her to Fan Jia City had told her proudly that even though this place was poor, he still liked living in Fan Jia City. Now, the entire city had disappeared along with that young man. All that was left was an empty shell and a soulless soul that kept wandering inside the shell.
Octadic Druid once said that all the places that people could enter and leave Fan Jia City had been sealed by the alternate dimension. However, the person who released the alternate dimension probably didn't expect Lin Sanjiu to have a way to travel through space.
"You have to remember the landing spot carefully," Mrs. Manas reminded her, "If you only use Sanskrit to travel through space once, I think your mental stability should be fine. However, if you make a mistake in your landing spot, you might not be able to return … "
"Don't worry," Lin Sanjiu replied, "I won't make a mistake in this step. I can feel it."
She stood at the edge of the opened shuttle pod, closed her eyes, and took a step into the air. Countless layers of space and universes, flowers and misunderstandings, tears and light … all of them opened up in front of her. They enveloped her, pushed her, and passed through her. Unlike the last time when she was in a daze, Lin Sanjiu didn't even pay attention to the thousands of worlds that passed by her.
Her destination was clear and stable. It was Fan Jia City.
It felt like a long time had passed, but at the same time, Lin Sanjiu felt her body stabilizing. Before she opened her eyes, she already knew that she had arrived at her destination.
However, when she opened her eyes, she was stunned.
She was indeed in Fan Jia City. The long, continuous, and overgrown building style was unique to Fan Jia City. However, what she saw was not the familiar city streets, brick walls, or stone floors.
It was as if someone had painted the interior of Fan Jia City with a layer of paint. The walls of the city were snow-white, and the floor was spotless. On the ceiling, there were rectangular white lamps that cast a cold but bright light. There were metal sealed cans that were half the height of a person, countless white pipes, and complicated metal racks … Her gaze extended along the walls of the city, and she saw many more equipment that she couldn't even name.
"What has Fan Jia City become?
Why didn't Octadic Druid mention anything about it? "
(End of the chapter)
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