"So I'm directly at my destination now?"
I was immediately overjoyed, feeling the excitement of finally realizing my daydream of watching money fall from the sky and my supervisor generously announcing that I wouldn't have to submit any assignments and would pass the exam.
Then, his dream was shattered with a single blow: "If your destination is the city at the foot of the sacred tree, then unfortunately, that's unrealistic. Even if I could construct a passage to allow you to travel through the shallow void for a short time, thus shortening your journey by taking a shortcut, the long distance would not be shortened in the slightest."
She landed on the small table, casually picked up her teacup, and took a big gulp: "Anyway, the person who made me wait here told me that I would meet someone here who could help me solve the troubles of the fairy clan."
"But I waited for a long time. Although I noticed people moving around in the distance from time to time, I never saw them pass by here. On the other hand, that Thunder Wolf Dragon that wandered into the vicinity for some reason came over several times. It not only trampled and gnawed on a lot of trees and plants, but also chopped down a lot of plants that served as extensions of my senses."
"So the Thunder Wolf Dragon is actually active nearby?" Shenxue's first concern was indeed this. "You said that no one has passed through the place you were staking out for a long time, which obviously contradicts what I know. I know that at least a dozen teams have taken this road to the Holy Tree Stronghold, not to mention that we have already met many fellow travelers on our way here."
"That silly dragon ran away a long time ago." The flower fairy crossed her arms and pouted. "It probably sensed something, right? Anyway, these creatures are more sensitive to danger than the plants I control, otherwise I would have been planning to fight it a few more times. As for those people you mentioned, I haven't encountered any of them."
"Then you finally lost your patience and thought about capturing everyone you met afterward and finding out why they did what they did," I added. "And then we came along."
“That’s right.” The flower fairy nodded.
“That’s strange. What she said doesn’t match my understanding.” Miyuki narrowed her eyes dangerously. “Maybe she dragged those passersby into this strange realm early on, killed them, and then lied that she had never seen them before to deceive us and gain their trust before striking them deadly when we were most relaxed.”
"You wicked woman! It's clearly your own thinking that's flawed, why do you always think so badly of me!"
The flower fairy yelled angrily and lunged forward, baring her teeth and claws, but Shen Xue flicked her finger and sent her flying. She fell to the ground in an arc and rolled several times before finally shaking off the ice crystals on her thin wings.
"However, what she said might not be impossible."
I analyzed, "Do you remember the monsters we saw in the Dark Zone before? Logically speaking, there shouldn't be such a large number of monsters waiting to be awakened in the edge areas, not even when the clearing was unsuccessful a few years ago. And we also know that the closer to the core of the impact, the more monsters will be spawned."
"If such an exaggerated idea comes true, and we double the count based on the postwar statistics of the past two years, and then make an estimate with appropriate relaxation... perhaps the scale could even be comparable to the legendary Kuroshio Current."
I paused, letting them process this information: "And Miyuki, do you remember? On the way here, we also saw many fresh, half-eaten corpses, as well as small teams being besieged."
"If it weren't for our excellent teamwork and minimal errors in decision-making, we might have ended up among the skeletons in the monster's belly after a fierce battle, exhausted."
Miyuki nodded and remained silent for a long time, seemingly deep in thought. When she spoke again, her voice trembled almost imperceptibly: "...In other words, perhaps even more monsters were awakened by the unexpected disturbance and, while wandering outside, attacked those who were traveling?"
"Very likely."
“But that doesn’t mean that no one will be able to pass through this road in the end, does it?” She questioned first, then shook her head to deny the idea. “No, if everything is really as you think, and many monsters in the Dark Zone have indeed been disturbed and awakened, then the idea of wiping out those scattered small groups with varying strengths may not be a hypothesis.”
"This means that the beast tide impact this year may have an earlier outbreak, and may even bring disasters no less severe than those caused by the Kuroshio Current."
The flower fairy's cold conclusion weighed heavily on the hearts of everyone present.
We looked at each other, speechless.
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