Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 1921 - 1922: Serendipity and Arrangements

After walking around the department center, everyone found that there was practically no traditional clothing store without a queue, and Feng Yuan even noticed that quite a few of them were selling modern fashion. Feng Yuan couldn’t understand what they were all crowding for.

"It’s such a hassle, how about we go to that bespoke clothing store? At least there shouldn’t be many people in line there."

Back in the first-floor lobby, Feng Yuan suggested. Although they hadn’t been there before due to its slightly out-of-the-way location, Feng Yuan guessed it wouldn’t be crowded.

It wasn’t just because the store catered to a specific clientele and didn’t advertise heavily; the prices of the goods also meant that their customers wouldn’t be ordinary people.

Unfortunately, Feng Yuan misjudged one thing, and that was that there were more than just ordinary people looking to release some emotions during the festival. Because of the crowd getting involved in the Abnormal Space incident, many students were not in a good mood.

Even though everyone at Maomu Academy was safe, staying on campus throughout wasn’t exactly what they wanted, especially since the incident was solved by only one senior and a junior who had just enrolled some time ago.

This made them rather uneasy, of course. They could comfort themselves by acknowledging that Feng Yuan was very special and not to be seen as just another junior, but still, there was some discomfort lingering in their hearts.

In this situation, the festival in Maomu City became a good option for them to relieve their discontent, and indeed, that’s the original purpose of holding such festivities everywhere.

"Misjudged, so many people."

Seeing even the unassuming store had a line, Feng Yuan said awkwardly, and Veronia chuckled lightly, saying,

"Looks like we’ll have to queue here too~"

While Feng Yuan was pondering, he noticed someone passing by seemed a bit familiar. Thinking it over, he ran up to stop him and curiously asked,

"You... are you from Liantang Town?"

"... Is that you?"

The person who was stopped by Feng Yuan was stunned for a moment before recognizing him and looking at him in surprise. Long Boduo came over to inspect the person, saying,

"I remember you’re the tourism manager from Liantang Town, right?"

He wasn’t sure why Feng Yuan stopped him, was there something he needed help with?

"That’s right, you are... Long Boduo?"

The person tried to recall with surprise, the reason he remembered Long Boduo was entirely because last time Long Boduo had a great time eating and drinking in Liantang Town under his hospitality. So, he had some impression of the Divine Beast Long Boduo. As for Feng Yuan, it was because he occasionally ran into him at the Special Duty Team.

Apart from attempting to develop tourism, Liantang Town hadn’t abandoned its original aquaculture industry. As they began researching how to use Spirit Beasts to enhance aquaculture techniques, they inevitably needed to frequently seek help from the Special Duty Team.

After all, the Special Duty Team primarily dealt with tricky matters involving Spirit Beasts, and their experiments often led to unexpected situations, either attracting certain Wild Spirit Beasts or causing other troubles.

This made the people from the Special Duty Team not very fond of him since no other subordinate regions of Maomu City caused as much fuss as Liantang Town, especially because they were conducting collaborative research with Maomu University, making it necessary to dispatch personnel immediately to handle it all.

Liao Yu had complained about them to Feng Yuan on more than one occasion.

If it weren’t for this, Feng Yuan probably wouldn’t have recognized him, not that he lacked the memory; if he wanted to, he’d remember someone even from just a single meeting. But doing so wasn’t particularly useful, and he naturally wouldn’t do it.

But Yi Guanghua in front of him was different; as the other party frequently went to the Special Duty Team for help, even though Feng Yuan didn’t spend much time there, he had run into him a few times there, so he definitely recognized him.

Looking at Feng Yuan who stopped him, Yi Guanghua didn’t quite understand what he intended, so Feng Yuan pointed to a rest area nearby, saying,

"Care to sit over there? I suppose you wouldn’t want to chat in the middle of the road, would you?"

"Well, I do have some business to attend to, and if I’m delayed too long, it might not be ideal."

Despite what he said, Yi Guanghua didn’t hesitate to follow Feng Yuan to the resting area. Regardless of Feng Yuan’s identity, Long Boduo alone made it worth currying favor with them. After all, no matter what, Long Boduo was one of the eyes of the Divine Beasts hiding in the Netherworld, searching for tourist spots.

And thanks to his frequent visits to the Special Duty Team, he also knew one thing, which was that Long Boduo’s reviews had great influence among the Divine Beasts. After all, it was the first Divine Beast doing something like this, and while there are Divine Beasts with similar free time, most wouldn’t actively engage in communication with humans.

This made Long Boduo’s reviews of various tourist attractions very popular among the Divine Beasts, far more credible than a Divine Beast boasting about the country it shelters.

Just like last time, after Long Boduo’s visit, several Divine Beasts came to Liantang Town, attracted by its reputation. So, even if he doesn’t give face to Feng Yuan, he must give face to Long Boduo.

"It won’t take long; I just wanted to ask if there are any festival activities happening in Liantang Town?"

With a smile, Feng Yuan got straight to the point. This time, Maomu City’s festival, with all its main activities and venues concentrated within the city limits, prompted Feng Yuan to consider that, perhaps in other areas outside the city, there might also be activities.

Of course, it’s unlikely for the Cha Mu Town area because of the Cha Mu Specialty Town’s presence, which likely became their focus this year to attract more tourists and steadily grow the economy through it.

Compared to the Cha Mu area, the other subordinate regions weren’t as fortunate, as resource-rich Cha Mu naturally had the advantage.

Moreover, most other regions weren’t engaged in tourism, with Liantang Town only starting to develop tourism in these past two years, making it understandably hard to compete with Cha Mu.

However, this also piqued Feng Yuan’s curiosity. Compared to bustling crowded spots, exploring newly developed tourist attractions seemed pretty appealing.

"You want to attend? But as of now, we haven’t planned anything. After all, it’s not the time for aquatic products to hit the market, so holding an event forcibly wouldn’t be beneficial."

Yi Guanghua looked at Feng Yuan in surprise. Liantang Town’s tourism industry mainly focused on promoting local seafood, which significantly dampened their interest in participating in this festival.

There’s nothing they could do; although the festival appeared grand, everyone understood its sudden occurrence was because of that incident. Without that accident, they wouldn’t host this festival so hastily.

Even now, most places haven’t decided on their main performances, so naturally, Liantang Town had no plans to participate in the festival.

Since the target audience would primarily be locals, for Liantang, attracting locals to visit wasn’t particularly significant.

For Liantang’s shipment volume, the best choice remained those bulk-purchasing merchants. His presence here was merely due to a rare break, intending to shop a bit.

After all, National Day was just around the corner, and they’d be busy then.

"Not the time for aquatic products to hit the market? Hmm, a product promotion event?"

Feng Yuan, curious, glanced at Yi Guanghua and said uncertainly. The latter nodded,

"More or less. But it’s not just that. During the National Day period, we will prepare a batch of premium seafood as high-end ingredients for promotion, and by then, activities will revolve around those things. But considering there’s still some time, the plans haven’t been finalized yet."

"Some new delicacies?"

Long Boduo perked up with interest upon hearing it. Seeing Long Boduo’s reaction, Feng Yuan smiled, understanding his intention, and said,

"I see, you’re planning to attract Divine Beasts to participate?"

"Hehe, that’s the thought. Getting their agreement and permission would allow us to promote it, and gaining Divine Beasts’ recognition of our delicacies could help elevate our status, right?"

Scratching his head, Yi Guanghua beamed as he said, and Long Boduo unceremoniously remarked,

"And increase the price? But that’s fine. You provide delicacies, we help increase your pricing. It’s a fair exchange."

It didn’t mind being used for this purpose, since as of now, plans were still tentative. Moreover, they’d clearly inform the Divine Beasts participating in the event. Messing around in private? It doubted they’d be that foolish.