Chapter Ninety-Four: The Situation Turns Grave (Second Update)

After receiving feedback from the faithful and hearing that the men had fled, Ji Yu’s mood was nothing short of unbearably heavy.

Clearly, for them to be so wary and leave in such a hurry, something was definitely amiss.

And their behavior was increasingly matching Ji Yu’s suspicions.

The influence of the Azure Moon over the world was growing ever stronger, and those higher-ranked Azure Moon beings were already beginning to lure humankind with gentler means.

For Ji Yu, and indeed for all humanity, this was far from good news.

Yet a new question now arose in his mind.

How had these people come into contact with a high-ranking Azure Moon being?

A boundary realm? A boundary realm the authorities had not yet discovered?

Suddenly, as though his thoughts had found a breakthrough, that answer emerged.

He took a deep breath.

Ji Yu could now almost conclude that the three of them had very likely come into contact with a boundary realm.

And if he dared to think in an even worse direction, perhaps an entire region had already become a monster stronghold.

There, because monsters were using bewitched humans as cover, the authorities had failed to notice the presence of the boundary realm in that area.

The formation of boundary realms was bizarre beyond measure; in many places, there might not even be any especially obvious sign.

Their only shared trait was that when they appeared, the local geography would produce an overlapping phantom image.

Beneath the night sky, without any clear marker, and if that phantom image was seen only with the naked eye and from very close range, then so long as no one reported it, it could naturally be concealed with ease.

The world itself was already vast enough, and with the western federation’s sparse population, the odds of such a thing occurring in a remote town or village were quite high.

An entire town or village of humans who worshiped monsters.

At the thought of this, Ji Yu’s mood could hardly improve.

How long could the authorities keep this hidden now that the world was growing more and more unstable?

Ji Yu understood why the authorities concealed the true situation of the Azure Moon.

It was very simple.

People had to eat. Society and the nation needed a stable economy.

The moment the truth about the Azure Moon was made public, the world would be thrown into chaos.

It was entirely possible that humans would swarm supermarkets and supply depots in frenzied looting and far more extreme behavior.

This was no joke, because the world’s past epidemics and many regional disasters had already shown exactly how people behaved.

Under dire necessity, no country wanted to see such a situation unfold.

A recession of decades was absolutely no laughing matter.

If the current world’s economic system collapsed into chaos, many countries might even face famine.

The number of deaths then could be even worse than the disasters caused by the Azure Moon’s corruption.

Would the whole society have to be placed under military rule?

Do soldiers not eat? Do soldiers not drink? Once military rule truly arrived, given the pampered lifestyles modern people had grown accustomed to, one day of hunger might be bearable, but if it dragged on, regional unrest could erupt in an instant.

Under the chain reaction, who knew how many people would die.

The official governments of every nation had their own hardships as well.

Those not in power would naturally not understand the psychological pressure borne by those at the top.

Ji Yu had come into contact with enough of it, and over these past two months he had learned even more, so he could naturally understand some of the difficulties the authorities faced when dealing with the Azure Moon incident.

Thus, he understood why the true situation of the Azure Moon had been kept hidden.

Moreover, the official governments of various countries had not done nothing over these three years.

Many nations had already quietly begun constructing large underground shelters.

But that was still only a drop in the bucket; with so many people, by the time humanity truly had to enter those shelters, the world might already have become a real apocalypse.

The shelters were merely the final option, and right now all countries were still actively searching for a way to break the deadlock.

And precisely for that reason, when dealing with Little Deer, why had the Kingdom of Leon chosen such a peaceful approach at the first parliament session?

The appearance of Little Deer, and even the appearance of the Oak, had given every nation a sliver of hope.

But beneath that hope, their hidden anxieties remained: they feared all effort would come to nothing, and even more feared raising a tiger only to suffer for it later.

In short, the situation today was this complicated.

In times like these, I can only do my utmost.

Ji Yu did not wish to dwell on matters too complicated.

As for how humanity would coexist with avatars, at least for now things remained relatively peaceful, and that was enough.

The future could wait until later.

As for the situation with those three, Ji Yu would naturally have Adam relay all of his conjectures to Fannie Campbell.

Whether they believed it did not matter. What mattered was that, as a human being, Ji Yu had already done what he could with a clear conscience, and that was enough.

With that thought, Ji Yu finally steadied his mind once more and began to meditate.

The Oak’s growth had already nearly reached its limit, and he could not afford to slack off.

In addition, he had also begun to wait with growing impatience for the third avatar.

[Oak Status] (Expanded)

[Good]

[Life Level: 2]

[Vitality: 87.29 (Maximum 100)]

[Tree Height: 421.47 meters (Maximum 500)]

[Age: 392 years (Maximum 30000)]

[Attribute 1: Size Doubling (Medium)]

[Attribute 2: Sacrificial Enhancement (Medium)]

[Attribute 3: Powerful Absorption (Medium)]

[Attribute 4: Vigorously Life Force (Medium)]

[Attribute 5: Resonant Guidance (Low)]

[Attribute 6: Sturdy Toughness (Low)]

[Attribute 7: Regional Radiation (Low)]

[Attribute 8: Solid-State Activation (Low)]

[Attribute 9: Negative Resistance (Medium)]

By now, the Oak’s growth could already be called quite impressive.

Its attributes were even a whole string of them. Compared with Little Deer, although the Oak did not possess the trait of life grafting, in terms of the sheer number of traits, it was by no means inferior.

Moreover, after more than a month, nearly two months, of radiative influence, the tropical rainforest had long since been transformed into something entirely different.

All around were towering trees, many of them already reaching sixty or seventy meters in height.

At the same time, the changes in the birds and the tribal people among them had also faintly approached a limit.

Many birds and humans had entered the threshold of the peak of first-level lifeforms.

The birds’ intelligence was gradually awakening. Under the Oak’s influence, and through the friendly treatment of the people of the Simon clan, many birds had already formed a tacit symbiotic relationship with these tribal people.

The most典型 example was Little Hughes.

By now, after half a month of a certain kind of growth, many birds had already begun to take him as their center.

Whenever he went out, a mere wave of his hand would summon dozens of birds to flutter down and circle around him.

Among them, one of the four eagle hawks, with a wingspan of nearly three meters, had also been captivated by Little Hughes’s charm and formed a close bond with him.

Little Hughes had now truly become the holy son of the Simon clan.

Everyone placed great hopes in him, and at the same time showed him even more concern in his growth.

Yet Little Hughes did not take pride in his special treatment. Instead, after enduring the last Azure Moon crisis, he had become even more mature than the other children of his age.

Little Hughes had no other wish. He only hoped to earn the recognition of Lord Oak and to devote everything he had to the Oak and to the safety of the tribe.