Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 2195 - 2196: Interesting News
Unlike Feng Yuan and the others, who are visiting the entire Grotto-Rock Village with great interest, most tourists just take a casual look around and snap a few photos before heading to the next destination.
There’s no help for it; although the Grotto-Rock Village is open to the public, they haven’t done much in terms of planning for tourism, just a token gesture. For the Grotto-Rock Village, the Magma Channel and Fire Spirit Mushrooms are what they truly value, as for tourism?
The income from tourism is merely a trivial gain for the Grotto-Rock Village.
The reason why the Grotto-Rock Village opens up for tourism is simply because Cha Mu Town needs it, although they are doing well with the advantages of the Fire Spirit Mushrooms, they have not forgotten where it all comes from. The identity of the Goddess is not something simply elected by humans; it also represents the strongest force in the Tea Wood Town Area, the intention of the Yognot.
Anyone making a living in the Tea Wood Town Area has to give face to the Yognot.
Therefore, the Grotto-Rock Village directly established this self-guided tour system, and even the canteen that originally served only the Beastmasters has seen some changes.
Feng Yuan and Qi Chen only discovered this when they reached the canteen.
Perhaps knowing that this indifferent attitude might annoy tourists, the Grotto-Rock Village specially prepared a Fire Spirit Mushroom dessert for every tourist with a citizen identity, but only one serving per person.
After all, the entire Grotto-Rock Village doesn’t have many Fire Spirit Mushrooms, and it’s important to know that these things are quite valuable to Fire-Attribute Spirit Beasts.
Even though the improvement is limited, it is a boost in the upper limits, and Beast Tamers with Fire Attribute Spirit Beasts wouldn’t easily give up such a good thing.
After a tour around the Grotto-Rock Village, Feng Yuan’s group, following the directions on a sign, headed to the canteen located in a corner of the village.
Seeing the location of the canteen, Feng Yuan felt a bit strange. There’s no help for it; this canteen is in the corner of the village, right at the edge of the row of wooden buildings closest to the boundary between the village and the farms, on the right-hand side when looking inward from the cave entrance.
This location is undoubtedly not ideal; although it is close to the wooden buildings of the village, its edge is right against the stone wall of the cave, yet calling it bad is also not entirely accurate.
After all, compared to the inside of the village, this area is relatively open.
The canteen is a large two-story ancient building, with a large gate and high internal spaces that far exceed normal buildings. Similarly, outside the canteen, there’s a wooden railing as tall as a person, with ample space inside, enough to accommodate quite a few large Beast Tamers.
Feng Yuan speculated that this canteen’s location is probably for the convenience of Beastmasters visiting the Grotto-Rock Village. After all, apart from the area behind the main gate, only this part of the village can accommodate large Spirit Beasts, though elsewhere could barely manage, it would significantly obstruct traffic.
However, the interior of the canteen inevitably underwent renovation with spatial technology. No choice; originally, this canteen only served Beastmasters exclusive to Cha Mu Town.
Even though most tourists just skim through in a cursory manner, there are still quite a few, like Feng Yuan, who choose to thoroughly explore the Grotto-Rock Village after it opened this time.
This subset of tourists has already exceeded the canteen’s original capacity.
You see, not many Beastmasters visit here on a daily basis, and due to various reasons, these Beastmasters might not arrive exactly at meal times.
Nevertheless, with the use of spatial expansion technology, the small canteen can easily accommodate the tourists provided there’s no surge in visitors.
Feng Yuan’s eyes lit up upon seeing the Fire Spirit Mushroom dishes. Because each citizen can only receive one free portion, Feng Yuan decided to share some with Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound.
As for the Big Cat and others?
When they took out their Great Xia ID cards, the server was stunned, not expecting the Beastmasters, clearly students, to be accompanied by Spirit Beasts with independent ID cards.
Beastmasters are not permitted to have independent ID cards, so he could be sure that the Big Cat and others weren’t Feng Yuan’s Spirit Beasts. However, just looking at their number...
Qi Chen stood awkwardly to the side. Although he had long been used to Feng Yuan being accompanied by a group of Spirit Beasts, he hadn’t considered how intimidating it was for so many Spirit Beasts to possess citizen identities.
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t easy for the Big Cat and others to obtain independent ID cards; after all, it meant they would also receive the protection of Great Xia.
Generally, only Spirit Beasts who have made significant contributions to Great Xia are eligible for citizenship, but it just so happens that Feng Yuan himself has made numerous significant contributions, not to mention the identity of Divine Beasts like Agunas. This allowed the Big Cat and others to obtain their ID cards along with Agunas and the others.
Of course, Great Xia understands too that while ID cards might prove that the Big Cat and others are Spirit Beasts of Great Xia, they may not mean the same for Agunas and the others.
For Divine Beasts, the only thing that can prove their allegiance is their own declaration. An ID card isn’t particularly persuasive—at best, it signals some inclination toward Great Xia among them.
But even such leaning is enough for Great Xia to grant them citizen status.
However, none of this could be made explicit, so when the server initially saw the ID cards of Agunas and the others, he suspected there was a problem with the group and thought they might be using fake IDs to deceive, but upon verifying their authenticity, he was baffled about who these people really were.
Maybe it was this curiosity that led him, after attending to the last customer and confirming no one else would be coming for a while, to quietly approach Feng Yuan and whisper,
"Excuse me, sir, I have a small question, and I wonder if you could answer it."
Feng Yuan glanced at him, puzzled, and nodded, saying,
"What’s the matter? I don’t mind as long as it’s not too private."
"Well,..."
After hearing the server’s curiosity, Feng Yuan paused, amused, and explained the identities of Agunas and the others.
Although most people might not recognize them, to those who are interested, the identities of Agunas and others aren’t a secret, so when Feng Yuan introduced them, Agunas and the others showed no reaction to outsiders.
Upon hearing Feng Yuan reveal the identities of Agunas and the others, the server covered his mouth, fearing that any sound he made might disturb them.
He really hadn’t anticipated encountering such an extraordinary person, accompanied by three Divine Beasts, which is way cooler than the average Divine Pact Maker.
The server, naturally at ease, started chatting with Feng Yuan and the others. Initially, Feng Yuan was a bit impatient, but soon he realized that the server seemed to know quite a few interesting things.
For example, the Magma Babies—they would collectively come here for food in half an hour, but there were no announcements about this. The idea from the Grotto-Rock Village was that this was a hidden easter egg, and if visitors were just coming to check things off their list, especially those too lazy to do any homework, it wouldn’t matter if they missed it.
Similarly, due to the uniqueness of the Magma Babies, Cha Mu Town has requested assistance from the Alliance, asking that any freely accessible tourist guides strictly prohibit directly revealing the timing of Magma Babies’ appearances in the canteen, only suggesting that there may be a little surprise.
Moreover, the server brought interesting news to Feng Yuan and the others: the nearby Cloud Crossing Village would reportedly witness the Mist River Phenomenon in the next couple of days.
Just by the name, Feng Yuan could guess what the Mist River Phenomenon might be like, but that didn’t diminish his interest.
However, unlike the Grotto-Rock Village, Cloud Crossing Village is not part of the tourist circuit because, though they have the Mist River Phenomenon, it’s not present all year round.
In fact, the timing of the Mist River Phenomenon is uncertain; even the elderly in the village can’t confirm when it will occur just by the signs.
The only certainty is that the phenomenon, once it appears, will last for at least a week.
Such an uncertain attraction is naturally unsuitable for inclusion in a tourist circuit, so Cloud Crossing Village was not included in the new tourism plans developed by Cha Mu Town.
Of course, Cloud Crossing Village doesn’t mind this; or rather, not many villages rely heavily on tourism for development. Their inclusion in the tourism route planning is merely for the development of Cha Mu Town.
