Imdiately afterward.
Pei Jing and Su Qi walked out of the City Lord's Mansion, standing in mid-air as if divine spirits overlooking the earth, their vast Spiritual Power covering the entire Fourteenth District.
However.
In their perception, everything in the city seed normal; even the fierce beasts that had wreaked havoc earlier were nowhere to be found.
The crowd was continuously gathering, the tense yet orderly great migration was proceeding smoothly.
At this mont, Su Qi also sensed sothing was amiss.
"It's too quiet, entirely contrary to common sense."
Indeed, during the previous night he and Pei Jing had subdued over thirty strange creatures in the district, but they only managed to destroy their physical forms and disperse the mysterious power.
According to their expectations, the dispersed mysterious power should not be able to reconvene quickly, thereby not impacting the real world, which would buy enough ti for the great migration.
However.
They were also prepared for sudden events.
Because.
The dispersed mysterious power hadn't truly disappeared; it still existed within the Fourteenth District.
While it might not cause widespread destruction like the previously combined strange creatures, it could easily affect so ordinary people.
Yet now.
The whole city was peaceful everywhere.
If not for the ashes still drifting in the sky, one might even believe the catastrophe had been repelled.
But they were well aware.
This was completely different from what they had predicted.
Pei Jing coldly observed all of this and said, "According to our hypothesis, the strange creatures in the Fourteenth District are not independent entities but split from a certain mysterious source. We initially thought this source might be in the Thirteenth District..."
"Now I suspect, there is also a source in this city!"
"The mysterious source we encountered in the Mysterious Tomb of the Thirteenth District aid to devour the Life Force of fierce beasts and Transcendents, accelerating the world's grand fusion."
"However, the strange creatures we encountered in the Fourteenth District, after forming partial physical bodies, did not extensively consu life. Instead, it feels like..."
"It feels like they're keeping the city's populace as resources for their revival."
Hearing this, Su Qi's expression tightened, knowing that Principal Pei's conjecture was not without reason. Such different rules of action suggested they likely were not from the sa source.
Realizing this now.
It's not necessarily good news.
If there truly is a hidden mysterious source in the Fourteenth District, it's unlikely to let the populace migrate easily.
All indications point to the current tranquility...
As more like the calm before the storm.
"Let's hope our conjecture is wrong. The great migration is already on the arrow's string; it's impossible not to proceed. We can't rashly halt the migration because of such speculation."
"Even if our prestige could achieve that, if we're wrong and miss the best ti for the migration, we'd regret it. Besides, making a sudden change at such a critical juncture could incite greater panic."
Su Qi slowly said, if the source of the mysterious forces in the Fourteenth District feeds on people's negative emotions to complete its revival, then the Fourteenth District becos even more unsuitable for a prolonged stay.
Pei Jing agreed: "Yes, no matter what, it's best to first locate the source of the mysterious forces."
"Whether it is brewing greater terror, or like others say, hiding in fear of our Power, we must understand it clearly."
"However, I believe that the forr is more likely!"
"Strange creatures and fierce beasts fundantally differ. Fierce beasts may flee before an unbeatable existence, whereas strange beings have never been known to behave similarly."
After their analysis and conjecture, the two agreed that the mysterious source in the Fourteenth District, sensing their presence, was displaying such anomalies, most likely to brew enough power to annihilate them.
Otherwise.
This would be the ti to unleash more mysterious events and gather resources, as would be expected.
Thus, Pei Jing's gaze flowed with the Power of Space-Ti, seemingly able to pierce through endless space-ti, attempting to find the trace of the mysterious source, while Su Qi similarly unleashed his Spiritual Power fully, vaguely evoking the Spiritual Great World to survey every corner of the Fourteenth District from a supre perspective.
If the mysterious source in the Fourteenth District is after them, that would be less concerning.
Given their strength, while it might not be possible to completely annihilate the opponent, ensuring their safe retreat poses no issue.
The real fear is that the mysterious source might bring forth greater power and hinder the great migration.
After carefully searching for a while, Pei Jing shook his head, seemingly having found nothing.
At this point, Su Qi's perception gradually shifted from the corners of the Fourteenth District to the populace preparing to migrate, dragging their families along.
Soon.
The nearby populace also noticed Su Qi and Pei Jing in the sky.
Soone stopped, sighing in admiration, "Lord Pei and Lord Su are truly our role models; even at such tis, they vigilantly guard us. If all Transcendents possessed such pure hearts as them, wouldn't we have worried less about disasters."
Among them, a Transcendent responsible for maintaining order couldn't help puffing his chest out a bit, seemingly wanting to proclaim, "You're right; I'm such a person too."
Suddenly.
Su Qi moved in mid-air.
With an instant teleportation, he appeared in front of a slightly plump man whose face bore a smile.
The slightly plump man saw the ethereal visage of Lord Su Qi descend before him and trembled with excitent, nervously saying, "Lord... Lord Su Qi, thank you for your relentless efforts to give us hope for survival, I, I..."
His words were sowhat faltering, a normal reaction for an ordinary citizen.
However.
Su Qi noticed that in this excited state, the man maintained that smile, which seed rather discordant!
Could it be that the mysterious source...
Had already influenced a significant number of ordinary people without anyone noticing?
He slowly scanned his surroundings.
He found that there were quite a few people with such smiles on their faces!
Appearing as if crafted from the sa mold, and unwavering by personal emotion, firmly fixed.
At this point, Pei Jing also descended, realizing there was sothing off about the atmosphere, yet unable to imdiately pinpoint what it was.
Su Qi stared directly at the man's face, asking, "Did sothing happy happen to you? Why are you smiling so brightly?"
The slightly plump man paused, then cautiously replied, "This... Finally leaving this godforsaken place, isn't it sothing to be happy about?"
When he uttered this phrase.
Pei Jing finally realized what was off.
This man's expression was completely inconsistent with his words!
Like an actor with terrible dubbing!
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