Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder-Chapter 381 - 356: Mechanical City Conspiracy

Li Cunxu stayed on Fertile Island for another month, not to wait for the Ten Thousand Treasures Rice to mature, but to trade Spirit Pearls.

The Spirit Pearls traded with the Ice Body Pearl this month were enough for Li Cunxu’s spiritual domain to break through to ten thousand meters, reaching the peak of Lord Nine.

Originally, Li Cunxu planned to get the Mechanical Diagram first, and then enhance his spiritual domain to ten thousand meters, but as Jiang Lingyun packed her bags, she said.

"Boss, I have a bad premonition about this trip, let’s prepare more stuff."

Li Cunxu was very attentive to a foreboding from someone blessed, and prepared many things, with Spirit Pearls being just one of them.

Fortunately, Jiang Lingyun didn’t say she had an extremely ominous premonition. Otherwise, no matter how important the Mechanical Diagram was, Li Cunxu wouldn’t go.

Setting off for Mechanical City, Fertile Island was left in the care of his grandfather, Li Shiji.

Li Shiji was pleased with this arrangement; he saw hope of rapidly growing stronger on Fertile Island. Under his careful care, the Tree of Laws showed new changes daily, with more green leaves, fewer yellow ones, and increasingly vigorous branches.

Moreover, just yesterday, a thumb-sized immature fruit appeared on the Tree of Laws.

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The teleportation array brightened.

In the blink of an eye, Li Cunxu and Jiang Lingyun arrived at Mechanical City.

Walking out of the teleportation center.

Jiang Lingyun looked at the city before them and exclaimed, "What a beautiful city."

Over the years, Mechanical City had seen earth-shattering changes, turning very sci-fi and clean, with white-coated buildings, wide streets, pools, flower beds, and many floating white smart robots providing high-tech services to visitors, along with blue skies and white clouds, resembling a futurist city.

Li Cunxu gazed at the sky, looking at the clear, clean blue skies, and shook his head.

"Don’t look, it’s a false utopia."

"Huh?"

Li Cunxu pointed to the towering technology skyscraper ahead.

"Once you pass those buildings, you’ll understand."

Passing through those technology skyscrapers, Jiang Lingyun rubbed her eyes several times, looking ahead and then back.

"Is this two cities?"

"One city, but it’s divided into an inner city and an outer city."

The inner city was clean and tidy, full of sci-fi elements, as if it were a city where future people lived.

Mechanical City’s outer city was still the same, steam roaring, machines throbbing, industrial pollution’s thick smoke rising like black dragons straight into the sky, visible dust particles in the air, seemingly the entire city soaked in smog.

People coming and going either wore thick masks or kept coughing, hurriedly passing by, not willing to stay outside for long.

Jiang Lingyun looked toward the sky, one side was blue sky and white clouds, the other was a realm of gloomy clouds, as if an insurmountable dividing line split the city in two.

"Why is it like this?"

"Don’t bother questioning, questioning won’t help us."

Li Cunxu didn’t want to discuss this topic more, pulling Jiang Lingyun along.

Mechanical City became polarized this way because of the Evil God Sect’s Pope—Mechanical Emperor’s deliberate actions.

He secretly guided the creation of the outer city environment that brought despair and then made the inner city appear beautiful, yet fundamentally icy and despairing, all to make people constantly feel hopeless.

Thus they would more easily fall into the embrace of one of the Four Gods, the Crowned Evil God, embracing the belief of the Crowned Evil God.

Indeed, the inner city isn’t a good place for ordinary people either.

It seems beautiful, but in reality, it’s more despairing than the outer city.

The population is similar between the inner and outer city, yet the inner city is only one-sixth the size of the outer city, with its streets wider than those in the outer city.

The inner city is small, with large streets, so where do all those people live?

The answer is capsule rooms.

Capsule rooms, particularly cramped spaces where turning over is difficult, living in them is extremely oppressive.

People barely manage to move in from the outer city, only to find that besides fresher air, there’s nothing else better than the outer city, even much worse.

Want to return? It’s already too late.

Before entering the inner city, people signed electronic contracts—wanting to return to the outer city requires paying a huge breach fee.

Even if they were bankrupt, they couldn’t afford it.

Imagine escaping from one land soaked in despair, thinking you’ve entered a safe and happy place, only to find it’s another even more despairing land—how much people would break down.

Emotionally breaking down, the Evil God Sect would exploit the situation, easily gaining more evil followers.

Hasn’t anyone exposed the truth?

Those entering the inner city, having signed electronic contracts, even if they returned to the outer city, can’t tell the real situation to others.

What about outsiders like Jiang Lingyun?

It’s futile, the white smart robots monitoring the entire inner city would prevent outsiders from knowing the truth, and if necessary, they would physically eliminate them.

Even if some slipped through the cracks, exposing the truth online, it would be deleted by the Mechanical Emperor the next second after posting.

The Mechanical Emperor is quite cunning, manipulating the Mechanical City Alliance’s upper echelons to handle this secretly, so even if a scandal arises, it has nothing to do with him.

Perhaps fortune was at play, Jiang Lingyun did not dwell on this matter, but still felt forlorn.

Li Cunxu said, "Don’t be downcast, I have a way to improve the situation." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"What way?"

"Shh! If I say it, it won’t work."

Li Cunxu’s plan was simple, giving big brother a tip-off.

If others reported, it wouldn’t have much effect, involving the Mechanical City Alliance’s upper echelons was too complex!

However, Li Cunxu’s report differed; he could complain to the Shendu Principal, and with the Shendu Principal aware, it equated to the old President knowing.

The old President, with his heart set on humanity, wouldn’t tolerate Mechanical City becoming a breeding ground for Crowned Evil God’s followers, certainly not.

So this matter would be resolved.

However, Li Cunxu wanted to be some distance away from Mechanical City before lodging complaints, as any information sent within Mechanical City could be monitored by the Mechanical Emperor.

One hundred kilometers away from Mechanical City, Li Cunxu took out his phone to report, his little hand stopped suddenly and handed the phone backhand to Little White Spider.

Let Little White Spider report on his behalf to the Shendu Principal, thus granting the credit of saving citizens of Mechanical City from the daily deeper turmoil to Little White Spider.

Saving citizens from deeper turmoil influenced numerous people’s destinies, undoubtedly allowing Little White Spider to gain an abundant destiny point.

[Respected Principal:

I am Li Cunxu’s pet, Little White Spider. Recently, I followed my Beast Master to Mechanical City and discovered the citizens of Mechanical City were living very strained and harsh lives, despair permeating the whole city, the air filled with various chemical gasses...

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... I suspect high-level betrayal of humanity in the Mechanical City Alliance, having turned to the Evil God, intentionally making Mechanical City a breeding ground for Evil God followers.

Hope for your serious attention.

——Little White Spider.]

After Little White Spider finished writing the report letter, Li Cunxu immediately changed direction, returning to Mechanical City.

He had been too preoccupied with tipping off Big Brother, forgetting there was another task to complete in Mechanical City, a regret from his last visit.