Chapter 687: Chapter 687: Trouble
“Alright, alright, let’s first tie up the mom of the kid who’s gone into so kind of frenzy and put her in the sa basket with Lilina, and then sort out the information from Yukari Yakumo.”
Fantasy Country had experienced a major accident, an unprecedented super anomaly: a continent had fallen from the sky, and, well, the information was quite detailed—it was hexagonal.
“What normally falls from the sky in Fantasy Country?”
I glanced sideways at Yukari Yakumo, who was deep in thought, and automatically categorized next to the corner recycling bin the incoherent mumblings of Boli Lingng, who was lanting, “This is it, this is it, it’s definitely going to be a busy and unprofitable anomaly, now it’s all over!” as re household decorations.
“What do you an ‘falls’ from the sky!” Yukari Yakumo imdiately looked at displeased, “Other than the occasional demon fighting and getting blasted down, the skies of Fantasy Country are much quieter than this place filled with flying ships!”
At that ti, I nodded knowingly and started to ponder.
A continent falling from the sky… what kind of divine unfolding is this? I know that historically, many things have descended from the sky—sotis it’s the soft girls of Sinapus, sotis the fire bricks used by Lord Lao Zi for alchemy, sotis Kratos coming down to sell muscles, sotis the Imperial Landing Pods when there are gunn present, a bunch of gunn might bring down a foolish Dragon God Girl, and even Lin Daiyu during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but a continent falling from the sky, from a botanical perspective, I think it’s impossible.
Scratching my head and getting nowhere, I turned my gaze toward the Demon Fox Girl, who was gesticulating and reporting to Yukari Yakumo, “Describe exactly what happened, where did the continent co from, what were the scenes like on it, did anything unusual like thunder and lightning happen in Fantasy Country before it fell—wait, you weren’t squashed by it the mont it arrived, were you?”
“Yes, there were indeed anomalies,” the Demon Fox Girl spoke in a soothing tone, seemingly the fact that I had just rescued her from the clutches of so mad fangirl had greatly improved her impression of , “The day Lady Zi and Lady Ling ng disappeared, a very dense fog rolled over Fantasy Country. In the following days, the demons were very uneasy, as if sothing big was about to happen. On the third night, a huge flash of light burst over Demon Mountain, but the demons living on the mountain claid they saw nothing. In the days that followed, the circumstances you ntioned occurred: dark clouds gathered, and there were flashes of lightning and thunder. So demons accustod to flying didn’t even dare to fly too close to the sky because… they felt it was dangerous, and after those clouds gathered, we also lost contact with the sky.”
“From my experience…”
Lin Xue, Miss Prophet, interrupted Yukari Yakumo’s narration, stroking her chin with a serious, contemplative expression. After keeping us in suspense for half an hour, she suddenly clapped her hands decisively, “There must be soone undergoing tribulation in your place, right?”
I quickly pushed her back into her chair: “Don’t add chaos if you can’t see the situation clearly. Fox, continue.”
Yukari Yakumo’s expression visibly twitched, “Fox… Alright, in honor of Lady Zi. Anyway, these were the anomalies previously, then, before the continent appeared, Fantasy Country, which had been cloud-covered for many days, suddenly cleared up the evening before. I clearly rember the sky’s clouds all disappearing, and the giant moon appearing in an instant—a blood-red moon, which was very unnatural. Instinctively, my attention was completely drawn to the moon, and then I noticed… in the center of the moon, a black spot was slowly enlarging.”
“That’s the foreign land.” I nodded, signalling Lan to continue.
“Yes, but at that ti, it was still very far from the ground, and even with the eyes of a demon, it was not clear. Therefore, I didn’t pay much attention. Besides, since Lady Zi suddenly disappeared, I was busy looking for clues. I didn’t think much about it until the next morning when cries erupted throughout Fantasy Country: an island visible to the naked eye had appeared in the sky and was rapidly descending.”
The Fox Girl paused, trying hard to recall the appearance of that in her eyes, magical Floating Continent, “It was an inverted cone-shaped Floating Island, hexagonal from below. The edges were very neat, I rember this clearly. From the first night, the island was just a small black spot, but by the next morning, it had enlarged to about the size of the sun (referring to the apparent size of the sun from the ground—I am sure this fox doesn’t realize the actual terrifying diater of the sun, which is just the size of a fist in her eyes). Oh right, there were many halos spreading around it, as if it had co into contact with ‘water’ in the sky.”
“Because Lord Zi had disappeared for a long ti without any news, I thought this suddenly appearing floating land might have so information about Lord Zi, so I wanted to go and take a look. At the ti, no other demons dared to approach that massive object, so I was the only one who flew over there. It was very high above the ground. I exerted a lot of effort just to fly to its bottom. As I got close, I discovered that the bottom of the floating land wasn’t all made up of stone and soil. There were also a lot of tal vines, uneven and extending out like the roots of plants, looking quite like sharp bamboo stakes. After getting close, I also confird that the land was indeed slowly falling toward the ground. At that ti, I wanted to go around to the upper layers of the continent to see if there were any inhabitants, but due to so unknown pressure and having flown for a long ti, I was almost out of strength. I found a curved tal vine below to rest for a bit when suddenly, a giant rock from above crushed down: the land had fallen.”
“I only rember feeling a lot of pain and then I passed out. When I woke up, I was here, and Lord Zi was by my side. She told all that had happened here, and also said that the manager here was a very kind and good person. She and Lady Ling ng are waiting for you to help them get ho.”
How very kind and good…
I twitched the corner of my eye and glanced at Yukari Yakumo. Would the duo of indentured girls from Shadow City really describe a tyrannical emperor, who rides on the backs of laborers extracting their sweat and blood, as good? Heaven knows how this Demon Sage had spoken of us before we arrived. Yukari Lan was quite clever, detecting the change in her boss’s status, but oh fox, as clever as you are, do you know what a ‘Good Person Card’ is?
Facing my amused gaze, Yukari Yakumo was completely nonchalant, unbothered, while the demon fox girl noticed the subtle change of atmosphere, her fluffy ears quivering without understanding, instinctively sensing she had misspoken.
“Cough cough, alright, we understand the situation now,” Big Sister interjected, “Rest easy, we need to discuss this.”
After speaking, Big Sister pushed us out the door, leaving ti for the long-missed Yukari and Lan to catch up, even dragging Lady Ling ng, who had wanted to stay and watch the excitent, out with us: We needed to find soone who understood the situation in Fantasy Country in order to figure out what had actually happened with this unexpectedly appearing continent.
Leaving the dical center, we gathered several experts from the Ti-Space Administration at the research institute. A large group cramd into an office, beginning to analyze the situation reported by Lan.
“First, let’s clarify one point,” Big Sister took out a laser pointer and began drawing on the holographic interactive projection in front of everyone, “The ordinary land of Fantasy Country has no oceans. Above it is Heaven, where the Heavenly People dwell—Ling ng, stop scratching off the gilding from the table. Look at this. Is Fantasy Country’s Heaven really just a piece of land in the sky?”
The unprincipled fellow trying to sneak so extra benefits suddenly startled, then looked troubled at the irregularly shaped holograph, “Heaven is indeed up in the sky, but it’s not simply a land floating in the sky, nor could it fall down. Also, what exactly did you draw there?”
Just then, a “snap” was heard, and Big Sister’s laser pointer broke. We all instantly broke out in cold sweat: Ah, sister’s tragic drawing skills – she had never accurately drawn any pattern with more than two strokes; better to stick to drawing circles!
“Hexagon, inverted cone, tallic structure, Floating Island,” Sandora summarized the descriptions from Yukari Lan, “Ling ng has already ruled out that this land piece is sothing from within Fantasy Country. As for those abnormal weather conditions prior to the appearance of the Floating Island—fog, flashes, dark clouds, and lightning—they seem to have no significant aning. Many natural phenona could cause such conditions, but the most likely reason is that the barrier of Fantasy Country was broken, causing sudden conflicts between the internal and external environnts.”
“Uh—Ling ng imdiately laid her head on the table, clutching the butterfly knot at the back of her head, moaning in anguish.
The Floating Continent described by Lan was likely from outside of Fantasy Country, this was Sandora’s initial assessnt. However, it was still uncertain whether it was a visitor from another world or an anomalous phenonon suddenly erging from the World (Outer World). With insufficient intelligence, we could not analyze further. The second issue we were concerned with now was:
“Under the impact of this airborne land, has Fantasy Country already suffered severe damage?”
When Big Sister seriously threw out this question, even the continuously moaning Ling ng instantly tensed up, revealing a very nervous expression.
After all, it was their ho, and even the unprincipled girls cared…
“It’s over! The shrine is definitely wrecked! That’s going to cost a lot to fix!”
Damn! Red and White seriously need a thorough patriotic education!
“Maybe it’s not that bad,” Sandora waved her hand, reassuring us, “according to the fox, the land wasn’t descending fast initially. It only started to fall at full speed when it was close to the ground. Secondly, the floating continent clearly has self-controlling floating capabilities; it might have had a chance to slow down before hitting the ground, assuming soone was there to manage it. Thirdly, the location where the floating island fell is on Demon Mountain, according to Baidu, the highest point in Fantasy Country. The impact should be less severe, and even if it’s not, the demons on the mountain have excellent physical strength and could have had enough chance to escape—Ah Jun, what do you want to say?”
I shook my head with tears in my eyes, “Nothing, just stomachache.”
As the window to understand the world through alien technology, Baidu, you truly rock!
“What’s the conclusion of your discussions? Is it possible that it’s a fragnt from another world appearing in Fantasy Country?” Big Sister asked the group of Imperial Scientists across the table.
“The probability is less than thirty percent, but it’s still possible,” a white-bearded old man stood up, “If it’s a world fragnt that smashed into Fantasy Country, considering the speed of void erosion on shattered worlds, it must be a world that has just been destroyed and hasn’t had the chance to revert to its primal state. However, the Space-Ti Managent Center hasn’t received any news about the destruction of any world, nor have they found similar world remains. But if that piece of floating land had a barrier installed to resist void erosion, or if it’s part of another intact world that was transported through sothing like the World Gate, then your speculation might stand … the problem is, no high-level civilization with such capability exists in the known worlds recorded by the Administration Bureau.”
So basically, it’s all just a bunch of fog.
A bit frustrated, I scratched my hair. Yakumo Lan brought a lot of information, which only added to the confusion. I had seen the normal historical process of countless worlds shatter before, usually due to our group of Imperial tourists irreverently passing through, but this ti, Fantasy Country was crumbling even before we got there, and it crumbled utterly, with a continent dropping from the sky… Damn, it couldn’t be that Sinapus’s service got cut off and dropped it, could it?
But it’s not entirely true that the news brought by the Demon Fox Girl was useless. Knowing that Fantasy Country was hit by a floating continent, we could direct the Avalon’s world scanning device to focus on energy spectrum ranges with a high probability of matching the incident, and also provide a focused point for Lin Xue’s predictions. Anyway, finding Fantasy Country might now be a lot easier.
Speaking of using “only” to describe Yakumo Lan, that should be fine, right?
After rearranging the search for Fantasy Country based on the situation reported by Yakumo Lan, another day almost ended. Upon reaching the street, seeing the heavy night and the brilliant lights outside, I suddenly felt extrely lancholic.
… The day was spent either reviewing troops or in etings, or analyzing how the Heavenly Descending Continent happened in Fantasy Country. Just when I finally had so free ti, it was already this late: the entire day’s celebrations were over, and I didn’t even get to enjoy anything at all?!
Seriously, this daily schedule totally doesn’t fit my role of feasting and loafing around! How is being utterly dedicated and loving to the people related to a generic-looking soy-sauce Emperor at all!?
Moreover, because the information carried by Yakumo Lan was so limited, the search for Fantasy Country had to continue. The beautiful tomorrow I had envisioned where I could skip all the parades, banquets, marches, speeches, and attending all official events went down the drain…
“Sigh—” I sighed heavily, turned around, and teleported ho. Qianqian, Lin Xue, Lilina, and a few other girls with nearly max energy were still planning to wander around the night market, but Big Sister and Sandora were already a bit tired, and I wasn’t in the mood to wander either, so I decided to go ho and get to bed early.
Thinking about the strange reports received from Yakumo Lan today, I wondered what excuse I should use tomorrow to ditch those god-awful official events, tossing and turning in bed like a pancake. My intuition kept telling that things in Fantasy Country weren’t as simple as they seed, but no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t rember which world the fallen continent might correspond to.
The Void was huge, and it seed a world I had never seen before had intruded.
Ti passed without knowing how long, and when moonlight filled the entire room, I suddenly heard a “clattering, clattering” sound from the corner of the wall, followed by a gentle “click” as the lock sounded. After deliberately slow footsteps, a small figure climbed onto the bed.
“rcury Lamp? Are you still awake?”
I was surprised as I looked into those slightly cold, athyst-colored eyes, and reached out to rub the little girl’s head. She had a sowhat indifferent but more vivid expression than before and whispered, “Stupid human, your rolling around in bed is too loud!”
I was taken aback, suddenly filled with inexplicable emotion, “You didn’t throw a whole box at this ti!”
She had a history of this; when I first t rcury Lamp, she was so hot-tempered. She couldn’t sleep comfortably at night without throwing large boxes around a couple of tis, and now she was so sensible? Woken up yet not making a fuss, instead sweetly coming close to care about her emotionally burdened adoptive dad?
Suddenly, I was filled with a sense of relief called “my daughter has grown up and beco sensible,” until I caught a glimpse of a mischievous smile at the corner of rcury Lamp’s mouth.
“Start smashing!~”
The silver-haired doll girl shouted mightily, and then suddenly shifted beside , pressing on my arm. The next second, five boxes rose into the air and smashed down towards from all directions.
“Letting you not sleep at night!”
“The guy disturbing a girl’s rest deserves to be smashed to death!”
“Sorry, but this is Big Sister’s idea.”
“No need for explanations, smash first, talk later!”
“Little demon Chu i, you hit my line!”
Damn, I was wrong, my daughter really had grown up, and she had even learned to team up with her sisters to bully her own dad!
A poignant realization suddenly crossed my mind, and I couldn’t dodge in ti (more importantly, these boxes really posed no actual harm to ; if I tried to dodge forcibly, it might even trigger dissatisfaction among the Rose Maidens, who knows how long they would keep this up tonight? I swear, with my rich dad experience, these little ones are the hardest naughty kids I’ve ever dealt with!), I instinctively grabbed the nearby rcury Lamp, shielding the miniature girl underneath , only to realize when the first box ca crashing down: Damn! Got used to it! She was the instigator, why the hell was I protecting her!
Then there was a series of rattling noises. Besides rcury Lamp’s box, I was hit by five boxes this ti! (
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