Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 1129 - 1130 Identity Issue

"I can’t possibly resolve this through invasion, can I..."

Feng Yuan poked at the mechanical cube in front of him with a bit of a headache. The touch, glass-like as expected, didn’t surprise him. After giving it some thought, Feng Yuan looked at the mechanical cube and asked,

"Can you take us to the city hall?"

"That facility is not available."

The mechanical cube answered in a very rigid tone. Then the red mechanical cube turned back to sky blue. After thinking for a moment, Feng Yuan asked,

"Then where should I go if I want to obtain a map?"

"The city hall is not open to the public and needs to be activated."

"What the hell... Not open?"

Feng Yuan scratched his head, somewhat at a loss for words. Could it really be like a game, where you need to complete some task to activate certain features? But that isn’t right either, where would this city get NPCs from, unless...

As he scrutinized these mechanical cubes, just when Feng Yuan was wondering how to get a task from this thing, Big Cat came over meowing something. A photo of Big Cat appeared on the cubic panel of the mechanical cube along with a progress bar. After a while, a yellow exclamation mark and an error message popped up,

"Recognition failed, target cannot take over Data Maomu City, request rejected."

Hearing this prompt, Feng Yuan paused, seemingly understanding something, and turned to Liao Yu, saying,

"Do you have a way to contact the Data Spirit Fox?"

As the first Data-based Spirit Beast, Feng Yuan had a fairly vivid impression of that Data Spirit Fox, but he didn’t know how to find it. After all, it wasn’t one of the Divine Beasts and wasn’t part of the Divine Beast intelligence network. Agunas and the others definitely couldn’t make contact with it.

"What do you need it for? To contact it, I have to go back to the real world and ask the team."

Looking puzzled at Feng Yuan, Liao Yu spoke, although he was also skeptical about being able to find the Data Spirit Fox, since looking at the current situation, it’s feared that all the Data Lineage Spirit Beasts in the team would be activated to quickly figure out the situation of this city... Wait a minute! Data Maomu City?!

It was only now that Liao Yu realized what the little cube had meant and also understood what Feng Yuan was attempting to do. Looking curiously at Feng Yuan, Liao Yu said,

"Why not let Yu Xian’er come over?"

"I suspect that it wouldn’t pass the test either, as it’s not a Data-based Spirit Beast. Looking at the situation, it seems like only Data-based Spirit Beasts can take over the Data City. However, it’s probably not that simple. There might also be some special conditions required."

As he spoke, Feng Yuan scratched his head. If any random Spirit Beast could take over a Data City, that would be too odd, but Big Cat was declined right from the beginning. He didn’t know if there would be any special conditions afterwards, but it seemed that the Data Spirit Fox would probably be the most likely candidate to meet the standards.

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"Yo, just in time—did you, Agunas, use some kind of wish-fulfillment ability?"

When Captain Yan approached, Feng Yuan spoke with a bit of surprise; he couldn’t help it, the Data Spirit Fox happened to be following close by him. Noticing that Feng Yuan was continuously staring at it, the Data Spirit Fox looked slightly perplexed and made a few noises. It didn’t quite understand why Feng Yuan was looking at it like that.

"What’s up?"

Sensing Feng Yuan’s somewhat unusual gaze, Captain Yan asked puzzledly. It’s not like the other hadn’t seen the Data Spirit Fox before, and considering the cluster of Divine Beasts around him, he shouldn’t be having any special notions about the Data Spirit Fox.

"Come here, apply for the Data Maomu City management authority from it."

Without giving an explanation, Feng Yuan directly pulled the Data Spirit Fox over and spoke. Somewhat perplexed, the Data Spirit Fox looked at the mechanical cube and hesitated before calling out to the mechanical cube a few times as Feng Yuan had suggested.

Upon receiving the command, a photo of the Data Spirit Fox appeared on the glass surface of the mechanical cube along with a progress bar. After a while, the progress bar completed, and a form appeared.

"Identity verification passed, you may now take over the management of Data Maomu City. Permissions from the following personnel are required, and these personnel must be within Data Maomu City to grant permission, according to the management rules..."

Hearing the mechanical cube drone on about precautions and related explanations, Feng Yuan shook his head and stepped aside. There certainly were a multitude of rules, yet nothing unexpected. Acquiring administrative rights over Data Maomu City required the permission of all the main administrators of Maomu City. At that moment, Captain Yan grabbed Feng Yuan’s shoulder and asked,

"What’s going on here? What are these management rights? Could it be jurisdiction over this area?"

"I’m not entirely clear on this either, but it’s probably the administrative rights to this city. Let’s see..."

After pondering for a moment, Feng Yuan shared his conjecture with Captain Yan. He suspected that this area was somewhat similar to a main city in a game, except there wasn’t an NPC faction running things. But of course, that made sense as this wasn’t an actual game to have NPCs manage cities.

Additionally, judging by the situation, the management rights of Data Maomu City were probably not the highest level of authority, and couldn’t be misused for evil deeds. As for what to do after acquiring these permissions, that was a headache for Captain Yan and his team. How was it any of his business?

As long as he could activate the map and continue exploring the next area, who cared about who was in charge or how it was managed?

After listening to Feng Yuan’s explanation, Captain Yan silently observed the Data Spirit Fox. A panel appeared in front of him. Although Feng Yuan couldn’t see what was written on it, he guessed it was probably regarding whether to allow the Data Spirit Fox administrative rights. After a long silence, Captain Yan said,

"I can’t decide this on my own. It needs to be reported and wait for instructions from above."

"Ah?! No, come on, I urgently need that map!"

Seeing Captain Yan getting ready to leave with the Data Spirit Fox, Feng Yuan couldn’t help but cry out in protest. Without Big Cat’s map, there was almost no hope of finding the entrance to the next layer. The roads were everywhere; without a three-dimensional map, it would be impossible to make any sense of it.

Kong Qing hissed something to Feng Yuan, and Agunas glanced at him before saying,

"How about we go out for some food first? It can keep the spatial coordinates of that location, and we can head over there after lunch, too."

"Spatial coordinates? They exist here too?"

Taken aback, Feng Yuan replied in surprise. The Data Domain wasn’t a complete world, especially before, when there were no fixed spatial coordinates. Hence, although Kong Qing could open Space Gates, Feng Yuan didn’t pay it much thought, since even without spatial coordinates, they were not far from the ground level, and Kong Qing could fully sense the space here.

But if there were spatial coordinates, it meant the space here was quite stable, and not only Kong Qing, other Space-attribute Spirit Beasts might be able to use Space Gates as well.

"Virtual space coordinates? What are those?"

Hearing Kong Qing’s explanation, Agunas said somewhat puzzledly. There could be fake ones too? Feng Yuan understood something and expressed some disappointment,

"I see, virtual space coordinates are probably unique to the Data Domain, not pertaining to space but relative position coordinates. Wait a second?! With these... could it be that activation might also add a Spatial Transmission feature?"

Surprised, Feng Yuan scrutinized the mechanical cube and said with wonder. Virtual spatial coordinates, although normal Space-attribute Spirit Beasts wouldn’t be able to use them, were nothing special for Kong Qing. However, these coordinates, like the publicly available map information, were not the type to naturally exist.

Or rather, they should not appear unless necessary, and now that they existed, Feng Yuan couldn’t help but suspect it meant the city had Spatial Transmission capabilities. But that also seemed right; with such a large city, without this function, traveling to the deepest parts of the upper and lower districts would be a very long journey.

"A lot of functions?"

Captain Yan furrowed his brows slightly, now having cleared up his thoughts. It seemed likely that every city would have a corresponding Data City appear, and these cities were currently ownerless? That meant they should quickly report so that other cities could also start looking into acquiring management rights.

He turned around and left the city with the Data Spirit Fox. There was no other option; the situation was urgent. Although it seemed that gaining control of a Data City required the consent of the actual managers of the corresponding real-life city, he wasn’t sure if it was indeed impossible to circumvent this restriction.

Seeing Captain Yan leave, Feng Yuan sighed in resignation and said,

"Alright, then let’s go have lunch first and come back later."

"This matter, Captain Yan would not deliberately delay, it’s just... according to the rules, it’s indeed not something he can decide on his own..."

Glancing at Liao Yu, who tried to defend Captain Yan, Feng Yuan said with a slight chuckle,

"I know that, of course. It’s just a pity I can’t continue exploring the next area."