Chapter 282 Mo Cheng "Midpoint..."
"midpoint……"
"midpoint……"
"Your Excellency! Your Excellency!" When Mihar arrived at the top of the tower, he saw Lin Xiao sleeping soundly in the shadows, and Sang Zhitao sitting on the window, leaning against the window frame with her eyes closed and her legs curled up, seemingly asleep as well.
Sang Zhitao's dangerous move frightened Mihar so much that he dared not lift her down rashly, for fear of scaring her. He could only lower his voice and call out softly.
"Hmm...?" Sang Zhitao yawned, turned her head to look at him, and only then did she realize that the sun had already risen and a new day had begun.
"Are you done with your work?" Mihar asked, seeing that she had stopped closing her eyes to tidy up, though he already had a guess in mind. He was still a little worried.
Sang Zhitao nodded: "Yes, the rules of Heaven have been organized."
"That's wonderful!" Mihar exclaimed in delight before Sang Zhitao could finish speaking.
Sang Zhitao waved her hand slightly: "It's not time to cheer yet."
She looked up at the sky, and under Mihar's puzzled and worried gaze, she explained softly, "The rules have been finalized, and for the time being, there will be no further spread of the memory plague, but..."
She sighed: "I can't attach the world puzzle to the rules. The memory plague on the continent won't disappear, and rules without a specific world to support them can't last long."
Mikhail didn't understand at first, but he knew that the crisis was not completely over.
Seeing his worried expression, Sang Zhitao jumped down from the windowsill and patted Mihar on the shoulder: "Don't worry, I already have an idea in mind."
"What do you need the Guardian Tower to provide?" Mihar had now regained his gentle and refined demeanor from their first meeting, and asked her with a smile.
After rubbing her fingertips together a few times, Sang Zhitao said, "I need to go to the center of the Sky Continent, and I need you to lead the way."
“No problem.” Mihar didn’t ask Sang Zhitao what she was going to do at the center point. He respectfully agreed and then woke Lin Xiao, saying, “Take him to the rest hall.”
Lin Xiao yawned, glanced at Sang Zhitao, his eyes filled with undisguised emotion and intense questions.
Sang Zhitao briefly repeated what she and Mihar had discussed.
Lin Xiao didn't understand either, but he realized that there was a solution to everything, and he breathed a sigh of relief, his face regaining some color.
At first glance, his wooden and indifferent expression cracked like an iceberg, revealing his true lively nature.
"Why did I ask you to take me away? You seem to know this place very well." Sang Zhitao finally had the mood to explore the secret behind Lin Xiao's drastic personality change.
Lin Xiao, who had her back to her, stiffened for a moment before finally saying, "I've been here many times."
"Huh?" Sang Zhitao was stunned, not understanding what "I've been here many times" meant.
"Your Excellency!" The teleportation array was still too fast, so much so that her many questions were interrupted by Aria's excited voice.
"I heard you've solved it?!" Aria seemed to have rushed back from a very far place. She was panting heavily and looked at Sang Zhitao with undisguised excitement.
Sang Zhitao shook her head: "Not entirely."
This time, she didn't continue explaining, but looked at Hailai who had followed her and said, "The sooner the better, I hope we can set off today."
“No problem, I’ll have Mikhail lead the team.” Hailey glanced at Lin Xiao and the other two. “Do they need to be led?”
Sang Zhitao looked at Lin Xiao, then at Mihar, before saying, "Yes, I need them to help me locate you."
Hailey nodded and instructed Mihar to arrange guards.
Sang Zhitao quickly stopped Mihar, who was about to step onto the teleportation array: "No need to bring anyone, just the few of us are enough."
Upon seeing this, Mihar subconsciously looked up at Hailey.
Seeing this, Hai Lai had no choice but to nod and agree to Sang Zhi Tao's arrangement.
Without lingering, the group ate breakfast and then teleported to Linhai City via the teleportation array.
In Linhai City, there are guardian towers that have arranged unicorns and beast-drawn carriages.
Sang Zhitao instructed Mihar to untie the animal-drawn cart.
"You can ride a unicorn?" Mikhail asked her worriedly.
Sang Zhitao waved her hand: "Don't worry, it's too slow to bring a car."
Upon hearing her say this, Mikhail said nothing more and quickly ordered people to unload the truck.
The tower guards moved quickly; in no time, the five unicorns were stripped of all their saddles.
Without delay, the five people mounted their unicorns and traveled through Linhai City until they reached another teleportation array.
Along the way, the five of them did not rest except for eating and lodging. They rode at full speed, constantly flipping and jumping between dozens of teleportation arrays.
“According to the map, the center of the continent is just ahead.” Mihar looked at the magic map in his hand. A red marker on the map kept jumping around, while five small blue markers were approaching the red marker at a steady speed.
Sang Zhitao lifted the veil covering her face, raised her hand to look ahead for a moment, and then asked, "There seems to be a small town ahead?"
Mihar zoomed in on the map before saying, "There's a small town called Memory City."
“Memory City?” Sang Zhitao frowned. “Are the unicorns related to the Memory Plague?”
Mikhail shook his head: "I've never heard of this small town."
Although he was known as a wise man comparable to an encyclopedia, his knowledge was mostly limited to the various races and their histories. As for a small town that required zooming in dozens of times to see on a map, even the Guardian Tower, which was said to have the most complete information, had no record of it, let alone him.
Aria, who was standing next to her, suddenly spoke up: "Memory City has only three hundred permanent residents. It was also the last place on the Sky Continent to be hit by the memory plague. Later generations called it the Pure Land of Memory."
"The future?" Sang Zhitao glanced at her in surprise before frowning and asking, "Then why is it called Memory City now?"
Lin Xiao spoke up from the side: "It wasn't now, it was the name that was changed sixty years ago. Before that, it was called Mocheng."
Mikhail's expression suddenly changed, and he abruptly looked up at Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao's eyes were deep and her face showed a melancholy as she looked into the distance.
Not only him, but also Arya and Shadow looked bewildered, as if there were some untouchable sad memories ahead.
"Let's go." Sang Zhitao tapped her leg with her fingertip, and a faint message from the Heavenly Dao, which had regained a little of its remaining consciousness, entered her mind.
Mo City, also known as Memory City, is more like a small village than a city.
The village is circular, with a tall, domed house at the very center, surrounded by ordinary houses built of gray stone. It looks like a village with a somewhat peculiar layout but is quite ordinary.
"Why is nobody here?" Sang Zhitao and the others rode their unicorns down the street, surrounded by an empty and silent place.
"It seems they've left." Mikhail looked around warily.
Lin Xiao and the other two didn't seem surprised. They looked up at the sky and asked, "Is this the place?"
Mihar looked at Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao sensed the location and said to Lin Xiao, "You need to sense the location where the crack will appear."
Lin Xiao's face was somewhat pale, and his fingertips trembled as if he couldn't sense anything.
Arya gripped his hand with concern.
Lin Xiao took a deep breath and closed her eyes.
After a while, he opened his eyes and pointed in one direction: "There."
Looking at the spot he pointed to, Lin Xiao's face turned unusually gloomy.
Sang Zhitao didn't pay attention to any of this; she subconsciously felt that she needed to act quickly, as a crisis was imminent.
With that in mind, she didn't linger any longer and rode her unicorn quickly toward her destination.
Mikhail and the others hurriedly caught up.
The destination was a huge stone platform, surrounded by a group of people.
Sang Zhitao felt that the scene in front of her was somewhat familiar, as if she had seen it not long ago.
"Here?" Lin Xiao's voice was a little dry. He pursed his lips and subconsciously turned to look at Sang Zhitao.
Aria cautiously raised the mechanical arm, and gently brushed her other hand across it, instantly activating the magic circle on the arm.
Ying was no longer as lazy as before. He unwrapped the bandages wrapped around his palm and stared intently ahead.
The crowd surrounding the stone platform silently made way for it.
Mikhail asked in a low voice, "Shall we go in?"
Everyone turned their attention to Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but twitch her lips: "I feel like I've walked right into a trap."
Everyone fell silent instantly.
Sang Zhitao ignored their speechless expressions and directly unleashed her pressure.
Mihar and the others were completely unaware until they saw the others all lying on the ground, at which point they realized that Sang Zhitao had once again used the intimidating power she used in the courtroom.
"Let's go this time." Sang Zhitao waved her hand and walked carelessly through the crowd to the stone platform.
Lin Xiao and his companions did not relax their guard; instead, they continued to look around warily, fearing that the people on the ground might suddenly attack, although such a situation was extremely unlikely.
Looking at the stone platform that was even taller than herself, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but rub her forehead.
"What's wrong? Do you need to go up?" Mihar asked as he saw her standing motionless on the stage.
Sang Zhitao shook her head and pointed to the stone platform: "I don't want to go up, I want to go down."
Mikhail looked at her with a puzzled expression.
Sang Zhitao sighed: "I need to touch the earth at the center point, not the stone platform."
Looking at the massive stone platform, Mihar immediately cast a shattering spell.
Unfortunately, the stone platform remained motionless.
“The magic is ineffective?!” Mihar looked at the stone platform in shock.
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but click her tongue and gently tapped the stone platform with her hand.
The stone platform shattered into powder instantly, as if it had been squeezed by some enormous force.
A gust of wind blew by, and all that remained in front of them was a yellow open space. Only the clearly visible green grass outside the open space proved that there had been a huge stone platform here not long ago.
Mihar glanced at Sang Zhitao, unable to hide his fear, then quickly suppressed his panic, coughed lightly, and said, "What else do you need us to do?"
Sang Zhitao looked around before saying to them, "Each of you guard one direction for me while I begin repairs."
As she spoke, Sang Zhitao walked to the center of the open space and sat down cross-legged.
Upon seeing this, Lin Xiao and the other three quickly dispersed, each taking a direction to guard.
Sang Zhitao took a deep breath, gently placed her hand on the ground, and then closed her eyes.
The image of porridge reappeared before her, and she channeled her power into the earth with her hands.
The fragmented images, as if controlled by some mysterious force, began to float up onto the colorful threads in mid-air, and then gradually pieced together to form a picture.
From the outside, when Sang Zhitao placed her hand on the ground, an indescribable ripple appeared in mid-air, spreading outwards from Sang Zhitao to various places...
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