Chapter 534
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Chapter 534: Coordinates
Inside the car, there was an eerie silence.
The sounds of horns and engines from the street could be heard, but they failed to penetrate the car’s interior at all. With its almost abnormal noise-cancellation and shock-absorption capabilities, the cabin felt completely isolated from the outside world.
Lin Qiye and the others sat on the sofa, lost in silence.
“How is this possible…” Bai Li Pangpang frowned deeply. “He is the Sword Saint of Daxia, a being who can stand shoulder to shoulder with the gods. How could he…”
“Standing shoulder to shoulder with the gods doesn’t mean invincible,” An Qingyu, sitting nearby, slowly spoke up. “The situation beyond the fog is already beyond human control. Although the Sword Saint can take on a god one-on-one, who can guarantee… that there is only one god in the fog?”
“Are you saying he might be attacked by multiple gods?” Lin Qiye’s expression turned grave.
“Just my speculation,” An Qingyu adjusted his glasses. “After all, there aren’t many beings in this world that can threaten the Sword Saint. In a one-on-one situation, even if the Sword Saint can’t defeat his opponent, he can still retreat unharmed, unless there’s more than one god involved.”
“What should we do then?”
“There’s nothing we can do… at least, we can’t do anything…”
“Are we just going to do nothing?” Bai Li Pangpang grew anxious. “That’s the Sword Saint! He’s the one who helps us clean and wash dishes every day, the one who brought us all the way here!
He has done so much for us, and now he’s in danger, and we’re just supposed to wait here?”
As Bai Li Pangpang’s words fell, the entire cabin fell silent.
Lin Qiye remained silent for a long time before sighing. “But Commander Ye is right; we don’t know the location of that city in the fog, we have no means to protect ourselves in the fog, and that city is flying in the sky. Even if we ride the Earth Dragon, we might not be able to catch up to it…”
An Qingyu seemed to think of something, his eyes narrowing slightly. “Actually, we can find out the location of that city.”
Everyone turned to look at him simultaneously.
“How?” Lin Qiye asked.
An Qingyu adjusted his glasses again. “Qiye, do you remember the formation you drew with the blood of worker ants in the primitive forest outside Fengdu?”
Lin Qiye was taken aback. “The dimensional summoning formation?”
“That’s the one,” An Qingyu nodded. “While you were drawing it, I was using the ‘Only Correct Answer’ to analyze that formation. I found that it essentially serves as an ‘anchor point’ that can communicate with multiple spaces.”
“Exactly.”
Lin Qiye had inherited all the knowledge of summoning magic, so he naturally understood the principle of the dimensional summoning formation. That magical array essentially acted as an “anchor” for Lin Qiye’s soul. When his soul drifted between various planes, it connected his soul to his body. Only in this way could Lin Qiye wander through multiple planes and sign contracts with summoned entities, allowing him to recall their souls again.
In simple terms, that formation could serve as a “coordinate.”
“As long as we draw an identical formation somewhere else to resonate with the ‘anchor point’ in the primitive forest, I can reverse-engineer the spatial coordinates of that formation,” An Qingyu said calmly.
Lin Qiye’s brows furrowed tightly.
“But the problem is, these two formations must be exactly the same… When I drew that formation, the blood of the worker ants automatically spread outwards, causing slight deviations in the coordinates of the magical array. If we can’t perfectly restore these deviations, the two magical arrays won’t resonate.”
Lin Qiye’s expression was somewhat helpless. “At that time, I didn’t pay attention to those details…”
“I did,” An Qingyu smiled, his eyes behind the lenses glowing faintly gray. “I can perfectly replicate it.”
The hearts of the group stirred slightly.
“So, does that mean we can find the location of that city now?” Shen Qingzhu pondered. “But how do we get there?”
How to move through the fog and catch up to that city was a crucial question.
When this question was posed to Lin Qiye and the others, the cabin fell silent once more.
In the fog, modern electronic devices couldn’t function properly, and it was impossible to fly through the fog to find that city.
The Flame Pulse Earth Dragon could move underground, but once it emerged, the fog would envelop them again…
They… simply had no means to do so.
Just as everyone was deep in thought, Lin Qiye’s phone suddenly rang.
He glanced at the screen and saw an unfamiliar number. After hesitating for a moment, he answered the call.
“Hello?”
“…”
“Instructor Yuan?!” Lin Qiye exclaimed in surprise.
Hearing those three words, Cao Yuan, Bai Li Pangpang, Shen Qingzhu, and Jiang Er all turned to look at him.
“Yeah, okay.”
After a brief conversation, Lin Qiye hung up the phone.
He looked at the others and slowly spoke: “Instructor Yuan said to meet him for dinner soon.”
“Instructor Yuan is great! He knows we’ve come to Beijing and even specially invited us to dinner, unlike some people with the last names Ye and Zuo…” Bai Li Pangpang said lazily.
Originally, meeting with the chief instructor of the training camp and having a meal together was something to be happy about.
But with such an incident occurring, everyone’s spirits were not very high…
“Should we go?” Jiang Er’s voice came from the MP3.
“Of course! It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Instructor Yuan. Since we’re in Beijing, we should definitely go,” Lin Qiye paused. “Besides, he’s the chief instructor of the Night Watchman’s new recruits, which means he’s somewhat of a high-ranking official. He might be able to help us…”
Everyone’s eyes immediately lit up.
…
In the evening.
Lin Qiye and the others changed into casual clothes and walked to a bustling snack street.
“This is where Instructor Yuan is meeting us?” Bai Li Pangpang stood on tiptoe, looking into the distance. “Isn’t this just a snack street?”
“Yes, that’s right,” Lin Qiye confirmed the address again and nodded.
“What’s wrong with the snack street?” Jia Lan sniffed the fragrant air, her eyes sparkling. “I think it smells great…”
To avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, An Qingyu left Jiang Er’s body in the car. Fortunately, this snack street wasn’t long and was still within the coverage of the magnetic field, so Jiang Er hid on the MP3 at An Qingyu’s waist, secretly observing the surroundings.
The group walked along the snack street until they stopped in front of a small shop called “King of Barbecue.”
At the long table outside the barbecue shop, a familiar figure waved at them.
“Over here.”
This was the first time Lin Qiye and the others saw Yuan Gang in casual clothes. Even in a loose knit sweater, Instructor Yuan’s solid muscles were hard to conceal, and his upright posture made him easily noticeable in a crowd.
