Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 2114 - 2115: Separate Paths

"Whether it’s innovative snacks or the current decorative water balloons, these are all showcasing Liantang Town’s specialties. Tsk, they’re using the National Day festivities to advertise, huh~"

Feng Yuan carefully observed the ornamental fish inside those water balloons and said that, aside from the water balloons, there wasn’t anything particularly special about the ornamental fish being sold here. In fact, these ornamental fish were quite common and of little value in the flower and bird market.

Dou Yanlan said with a laugh,

"They plan to develop by focusing on aquatic products and spiritual medicine. If they succeed, the Beastmasters gathered here would likely mainly focus on water attribute beasts."

For these towns, aside from economic development, recruiting and retaining Beastmasters is also very important. Although the world is peaceful, there are still illegal organizations active.

Originally, Maomu City was frequently harassed by these illegal organizations, causing numerous incidents. However, as Feng Yuan gradually became more active, those illegal organizations slowly withdrew from Maomu City.

After all, even though they are illegal organizations, they aren’t madmen. While their methods are vicious, they do have their own objectives, whether it’s making a huge profit, conducting research, or something else. At least one thing is certain: an illegal organization that only aims to cause destruction doesn’t exist.

Nevertheless, the damage caused by these illegal organizations is not small. To prevent this, it’s naturally necessary to station Beastmasters.

Of course, that’s the public explanation. In reality, the true importance of Beastmasters in cities and towns lies in the competition for rare and uncommon resources.

In such times, only Beastmasters loyal to their community will truly step in to help. As for hiring others? That’s a joke, unless it’s a favor calling in some powerful Beastmaster, the main force in resource contention will still be its own Beastmasters.

This is why He Nanqing is also trying to retain and attract more Beastmasters to settle in Cha Mu Town. For them, Beastmasters, especially skilled ones, are never too many.

With the opening of Data City, the mayors of each town understand that if they don’t come up with strategies, their towns’ Beastmasters will surely be lured away by the big cities with Data Cities. As Beastmasters continually leave, small towns may gradually decline.

To prevent this, during this National Day celebration, each small town is doing their best to retain Beastmasters and expand their resources. Commerce and trade have naturally become very important.

After wandering around Liantang Town, the group bought some souvenirs from Liantang Town and then left.

"Hmm, although it’s already past 1 PM, we haven’t really had lunch yet. How about we wander around Cha Mu Specialty Town and grab something to eat?"

Checking the time on his phone, Feng Yuan suggested to everyone. Their plan for the day was to explore the specialty venues of those small towns. The reason they visited Liantang Town instead of exploring the venue in the city was entirely due to online information.

According to tourists who had been to the Liantang Town city venue, it only offered snacks and some souvenirs. As for performances, they only happened in town, leaving some tourists quite disgruntled about it.

There’s no help for it. If it weren’t for Agunas helping with the Space Gate, just the travel time would be over two hours. Therefore, many tourists only plan to take a quick tour inside Maomu City. As for its subsidiary towns?

They naturally don’t plan to visit, not everyone, at least. The established tourist destination Cha Mu Town is part of many people’s holiday travel plans, but as for Liantang Town, normally not many people would choose to go there.

The fact is, Liantang Town hasn’t developed its tourism industry much. It’s famous for aquaculture. Even if they are now improving and planning for tourism, this doesn’t mean they will abandon their original business.

For Liantang Town, tourism is more of a supplement to their existing industry. Abandoning aquaculture for tourism is out of the question.

With this mindset, the city venue of Liantang Town ended up looking more like a product showcase.

Compared to other towns, Cha Mu Specialty Town had already completed its construction in the city. Therefore, Cha Mu Town didn’t specially prepare a venue this time.

Even for Cha Mu Specialty Town, it only involved crowd control to avoid too many tourists affecting the experience. Planning special events?

Cha Mu Town didn’t do that, or it wasn’t necessary. For them, Cha Mu Specialty Town had already found its path, and holding more events might not achieve their expected goals and might even impact Cha Mu Specialty Town.

Although Cha Mu Specialty Town employed a reservation entry system during the National Day festival, Feng Yuan had some personal companionship with He Nanqing and also met the criteria for admission without a reservation. Helping Qi Chen and Dou Yanlan enjoy the same privilege wasn’t difficult.

"Other people come here to enjoy the festival atmosphere, but you seem to come just for the food~"

Veronia looked at Feng Yuan, covered her face and laughed softly. Spreading his hands, Feng Yuan helplessly said,

"What choice do I have? We haven’t stopped by here before, and now the crowd control is very strict."

Compared to the temporary festival, there obviously weren’t as many tourists now in the Specialty Town. Although there were quite a few tourists walking along the main street of the Specialty Town, the scene was much quieter than the bustling crowded stage.

With these numbers, tourists can perfectly enjoy the leisurely atmosphere brought by the Specialty Town without getting upset by the crowds.

"Just go to those famous shops. By the way, are you planning to visit Cha Mu Town next? They have a newly opened tourist route..."

Long Boduo started chatting about the revisions in the Cha Mu Town tourist routes. Now there are five routes, each corresponding to different villages and attractions. Traveling along these five routes allows for a different view of Cha Mu Town landscapes.

However, because each route is quite lengthy, each is expected to take about two days to explore, something specially designed during Cha Mu Town’s initial planning. Consistent travel times ensure no drastic disparities between the five routes in terms of rating.

Of course, for Long Boduo, even though the travel times are the same, each of the five tourist routes has different evaluations.

Feng Yuan looked at Long Boduo a bit surprised, saying,

"I didn’t expect you’ve been there already? I remember the new tourist routes opened not long ago, right?"

"Hehe~ I am a representative responsible for helping our Netherworld Divine Beasts seek high-quality tourist routes, after all. Not to mention, just when the new tourist routes were completed, Drudgeon invited me to experience them~" 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Scratching his head, Long Boduo said proudly. Hearing that Drudgeon invited him didn’t surprise Feng Yuan, as he had known about Drudgeon’s connection with Cha Mu Town for a while now.

Because Long Boduo could influence the Netherworld Divine Beasts regarding their evaluation of Cha Mu Town tourism, they had invited him first.

After all, according to Veronia’s information, Netherworld Divine Beasts now prefer to follow Long Boduo’s recommendations for traveling the real world. Of course, there would sometimes be incidents during their trips.

For those hosting them in tourist districts, this might not be a bad thing because the Netherworld is unique, and the Divine Beasts from there possess many spiritual medicines aimed at souls. To them, these items are not particularly valuable and are often used as tips or currency.

To humans, it’s different. Although they aren’t unable to enter the Netherworld, getting in and out requires the help of special Spirit Beasts, and most of the Netherworld is barren.

It’s not an easy task finding spiritual medicines there. However, for Netherworld Divine Beasts, this isn’t a problem. They patrol the Netherworld often, and even though these medicines are scattered and rare, they can occasionally grab some effortlessly.

At least for now, Feng Yuan knows that the Netherworld Divine Beasts hold quite a few spiritual medicines for the soul, which is an invaluable treasure for Beastmasters.

Because of this, even though they might cause minor commotions, compared to the value of the spiritual medicines they possess, it is indeed a small matter.

Tourist areas are very welcoming and even wish they would visit often. Unfortunately, those Netherworld Divine Beasts aren’t fools. Even if some places encourage other Divine Beasts to promote them, they regard Long Boduo’s travel recommendations as the most reliable and convincing.