"Uncle Luo?"
Shen Yun Yao was very surprised, "Is it Uncle Luo from the City of Arcane?"
"Mm!"
Shen Bo Tian nodded, glanced at the chain of the crystal pendant on Shen Yun Yao's neck, then turned his head and began to write text on the magnified interface of the arcane yuan coin script.
...
For the next few days, Ye Feng did not continue to spar with Shen Yun Yao. Instead, he, or rather, Shen Yun Yao and Xiao Xiao together, led him to tour the Mech City. He admired the local sunrises and sunsets, enjoyed various scenery, and tasted a lot of local delicacies, especially the fruits that Ye Feng was interested in...
To Ye Feng's surprise, Xiao Xiao navigated the Mech City with ease, as if she had grown up there. This was all thanks to Shen Yun Yao...
...
One morning at ten o'clock,
At the city gate on the outskirts of Mech City,
"Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, are you sure you won't stay a few more days?"
Shen Yun Yao, who was speaking, had obvious reluctance in her eyes.
Beside Shen Yun Yao, Shen Bo Tian also nodded, hoping Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao would stay a few more days.
"Uh... we've already been here for over a month... it's time to embark on our journey again!"
Ye Feng smiled slightly at Shen Yun Yao. Although he quite enjoyed the peaceful life in Mech City, he always felt something was missing.
"Alright then! Take care!"
This time, Shen Yun Yao did not try to persuade them further.
Because she had said similar things many times in the past few days, and Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao had also postponed their departure multiple times to stay...
"Ye Feng, here are some gifts I've prepared for you. They are your and Xiao Xiao's favorite foods, and some other things!"
As she spoke, Shen Yun Yao handed Ye Feng a spatial rift fragment bracelet.
"Okay! Thank you!"
Ye Feng did not stand on ceremony and accepted it.
At the same time, his hand flashed with light, and a spatial rift fragment bracelet and a letter appeared. "Yun Yao, when cultivating arcane runes, 'enlightenment is enlightenment.' Don't be too fixated on fixed forms... The letter contains some of my understanding of fire seeds and arcane runes. Take a look when you have time, it might be helpful for your cultivation!"
"Okay... okay..."
Shen Yun Yao seemed to understand, yet not entirely. She took the letter and the spatial rift fragment bracelet that Ye Feng handed over in a daze.
"Ye Feng, this old man wants to offer some unsolicited advice~"
"Your current strength is Mithril, but some Golden-level or even Diamond-level powerhouses will hide their strength, making themselves appear to be at the Mithril level!"
"Even when you become a Golden-level powerhouse in the future, never underestimate Mithril!"
"On the path of cultivation, it's best to proceed steadily and cautiously, and try to rely less on external forces!"
"What is not yours, will never be yours!"
Shen Bo Tian said to Ye Feng with heartfelt sincerity.
"Thank you, Senior Shen!"
Ye Feng thanked him sincerely.
"Then, we shall meet again if fate allows!"
Ye Feng glanced around and said to Shen Yun Yao and Shen Bo Tian.
"We shall meet again if fate allows!"
"Goodbye!"
"Bye bye, Sister Yao Yao!"
"Goodbye, Grandpa Shen!"
...
Amidst their farewells, Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao got into a Hummer and drove off into the distance.
Ye Feng could not drive the solar-powered armored off-road vehicle he came in because it had been damaged during the incident in Mech City...
Shen Bo Tian and Shen Yun Yao stood in place, watching the Hummer carrying Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao disappear from view before slowly turning around.
"Hoo!~"
Shen Yun Yao let out a sigh, her expression filled with sadness.
"Ah!~"
Suddenly, Shen Yun Yao cried out.
"Yao Yao, what's wrong?"
Shen Bo Tian stopped and looked at Shen Yun Yao with confusion.
"Grandpa, look at what's inside this spatial rift fragment bracelet!"
Saying that, Shen Yun Yao handed the spatial rift fragment bracelet Ye Feng gave her to Shen Bo Tian.
Shen Bo Tian took it and looked, his face filled with astonishment, because inside the spatial rift fragment bracelet was the Xuan-grade third-class mech, Silver Phantom.
With a thought, Shen Bo Tian's spatial rift fragment bracelet glowed, and a mech, over 2 meters tall, much shorter than ordinary mechs, and entirely silver-white, appeared on the ground before them.
Seeing the mech his son had piloted when he went missing again, Shen Bo Tian was momentarily lost in thought...
"Grandpa, about that Earth-grade fire seed you mentioned earlier, I might have some ideas now~"
While Shen Bo Tian was lost in memories, Shen Yun Yao mumbled to herself after reading a few pages of Ye Feng's letter.
"Wh-what?!"
...
Around three in the afternoon,
The weather was extremely hot.
"What a nice Hummer!"
Ye Feng drove the Hummer under a large tree to take shelter from the heat and prepare to rest for a while.
He was in a very good mood at the moment because this Hummer was no ordinary Hummer. It was a specially modified one, powered by arcane energy, and its outer shell had also been specially treated to be very tough.
While driving on the road earlier, Ye Feng had tried inserting the survival coin given by the system into the energy slot and found that it also worked, which made him very happy.
After all, the survival coin given by the system had a daily quota of 2500 after multiple upgrades, and there was still plenty left after buying items from the [Shop], which could be used for the Hummer...
Afterward, Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao comfortably ate lunch inside the Hummer, with the gentle breeze from the air conditioner...
...
"This bizarre apocalypse... I suddenly feel like finding a place to just lie down and do nothing..."
After lunch, Ye Feng looked at the supplies almost filling his spatial warehouse, and then at the outside where even insects were hiding in holes from the heat, and couldn't help but mutter.
"Big brother, what does it mean to lie down? Lie on the ground? I want to too~"
Saying that, the full Xiao Xiao directly lay down on the long bench inside the Hummer.
Ye Feng: "..."
...
On the other side,
Very, very far from Ye Feng and the others,
As far as the eye could see was a cluster of blood-red ancient castle buildings, filled with an eerie atmosphere. Even under the bright sun, it appeared gloomy. This was Brad Base!
Bones were visible everywhere in the ancient castle complex, many of them human skulls...
In a room within one of the most dark and eerie blood-red castles,
There were no windows or electric lights, only the faint glow of some gems, vaguely illuminating several figures in the room.
"The operation failed!"
A tall figure moved and spoke.
"Is that so?!"
Another figure replied, his tone very flat, as if he was not surprised or particularly concerned.
As he spoke, the person opened his eyes, which emitted a blood-red glow, appearing extremely eerie in the dark room.
"It's not surprising. Shen Bo Tian is extremely powerful, and as the sole survivor of Taixing City back then, he must possess some very special things!"
"Even with the Blood Ancestor's power and Wang Batian as a disposable pawn, it's normal for them to fail."
Another figure chimed in, his eyes also blood-red, but he only had one.
"It wasn't him!"
The tall figure who spoke first replied.
"What?"
As the tall figure finished speaking, the figures in the room trembled, and several voices were heard, filled with surprise.
...