“You said you spend every day with Jinelle, how come you haven’t learned anything from her?”

These complex and unfamiliar nouns reminded Xia Ye of his geography teacher, and he couldn’t help but secretly chat with Karen from the side of his seat behind him.

“Who needs to remember these things when she’s around?” Karen shrugged with a look on her face saying, “I’m a bad student and I’m not afraid of anyone.”

“Look ahead.” At this time, Anke’s voice interrupted their chat, making everyone’s eyes look towards the front of the car at the same time.

A huge brass gear with a radius of five meters was inserted diagonally on the ground, and there seemed to be some unfamiliar words printed on the bottom.

“It’s hard to imagine how big a machine would need to be to use such a large gear, even if it’s used as a main transmission component…”

The group got out of the car and walked around the city to observe the gears, and Jinelle said in amazement.

“That’s because the technological level of Hill Continent has been suppressed by the development of rational elements…” Xia Ye thought in his heart and couldn’t help but take a few more glances.

But it is true that gears of this size are hard to imagine on the Hill Continent.

“It looks more like a road sign than a component with actual functions.” Then, he pointed to the unknown words printed on the bottom of the gear and said:

“Maybe it says something like Welcome to the Gear City?”

It can’t mean something like MADE IN XXX, right?

“It’s also possible…” Jinniel quickly wrote down the words in her mind and then looked further away.

Although it was already dark, a huge shadow could still be seen at the end of the horizon. That was probably where the main site of the Gear City ruins was.

“Should we stop here today and go deeper into the ruins tomorrow morning? Anyway, our progress is already half a day faster than originally planned.”

“I thought so too. According to what Canaanzi said, we may not have much chance to rest once we enter the ruins.”

Xia Ye nodded in agreement.

“That!” At this time, Fiti, who usually never participated in team decision-making, suddenly raised his hand.

Everyone’s eyes were drawn to her face at the same time, and the little nun suddenly became nervous.

“What’s wrong Fitty?”

“I want to ask, can we drive the car over there?” Fitty pointed timidly in a certain direction.

“Of course you can, but why?”

Anko raised an eyebrow in confusion.

“Intuition…it feels dangerous to stop here, it feels safer over there.”

The word “danger” made everyone feel a chill in their hearts.

As we all know, in a wilderness area like this where there is no Devil Beast around and there are countless products of unknown civilization, it is either peaceful or a life-threatening situation.

The highway zone is the best example.

“When it comes to things like luck, I think we can trust Fitty’s intuition unconditionally.”

After a brief thought, Xia Ye was the first to raise his hand and agree to Fiti’s proposal.

“Okay, then go over there.”

Seeing this, An Jian also nodded.

So the group returned to the car and, following Fitty’s instructions, stopped in an area surrounded by tall and short metal pillars and began today’s dinner time.

…………

Night gradually fell, but unlike usual, when the light in the wilderness almost disappeared, the metal pillars suddenly reflected a dim yellow light.

“This place is quite thoughtful. It’s a bit like the street lights in the city.” Karen said comfortably, leaning back in her chair as she looked at the beams of light coming and going outside the window.

“It emits light, which means there is a stable element field in this area, but we don’t know whether it is underground or in the atmosphere.”

Jinniel analyzed from a professional perspective.

As usual, Xia Ye would directly turn on [True Insight] to observe.

But after coming out of the highway area, he didn’t dare to do so.

My ability is strong, but sometimes it is too strong.

On the Hill Continent, seeing many things too clearly can be fatal.

“By the way, do you have a lantern festival in the Shia city-state? It looks a lot like this. If it were brighter, it would look even more like it.”

Karen curled her lips at Jinelle’s boredom, then looked at the other three people excitedly.

“Lantern Festival?” Xia Ye was not unfamiliar with this term, but it was a little hard to get used to hearing it on the Hill Continent.

“Phoenix City holds a lantern festival every year. On that day, special white lanterns light up the city all night long. There are also many vendors waiting for this day to come out and sell souvenirs and snacks. It is one of the few days when all the residents of the city celebrate together happily. It is said that this custom has existed since the founding of Phoenix City.”

“It’s a big city after all. How can they afford to squander resources like this… But speaking of this, I’m curious about another thing.”

“Phoenix City is named after the Phoenix. Is there any connection between this city and her?”

Xia Ye asked casually, imagining the long street illuminated by the white lights.

“We were curious about this, but the most detailed reason we got was that the Phoenix once helped this city a lot, allowing it to survive the natural disaster.”

“So the city was later renamed Phoenix City, and she also established her own office in the city. She stayed in the city for a long time as a guardian and regarded it as her base.”

Karen explained.

“So, the lord of Phoenix City is Phoenix?”

“Not really.” Karen talked about this with great interest.

“She almost never interferes with the operation and development of Phoenix City. Only when there are plans involving major urban transformation or political changes will the city lord come to consult Phoenix for her opinion. At other times, she is more like an independent entity above the city.”

“What a unique mythical species… It seems that it only regards Phoenix City as a temporary shelter.”

Xia Ye silently judged this powerful and mysterious potential ally in his heart.

Both she and Joey temporarily released their kindness to him, and Phoenix obviously looked much more reliable and normal than the latter.

In this way, everyone chatted casually based on the bright lights of the surrounding metal pillars.

However, at this moment, An Ke suddenly interrupted and said:

“Do you guys… feel like it’s getting hotter?”

“Hot? I’m fine.” Karen has a very high tolerance to heat because his factor ability can bring high temperatures.

“I…seem to feel the same way.” Fiti nodded.

“Now that you mention it, I think it’s a bit too much…” Xia Ye muttered and opened the car window slightly.

“call!!!”

The sudden hot wind and the whistling sound of the wind rushing into the window scared him so much that he quickly closed the car window again.

Xia Ye realized later that his face seemed to be burned, and he quickly lit the healing fire and wiped his face.

“Just now…what was that?” He then looked at the other people in the car and asked in shock.

The other four girls also looked surprised and seemed to have not yet recovered from their shock.

Wasn’t it fine outside when we were having dinner? The temperature was only about 20 degrees Celsius, and there was nothing going on.

Why is it that there is such a strong wind suddenly blowing at night, and it feels like the temperature has soared to at least 45℃?

Not only that, it seems that the temperature is still rising.

Jinelle quickly looked out the window, and numbers began to flow into her eyes.

But these numbers soon combined into a bunch of garbled characters, and then Jinniel cried out in pain, covered her eyes and turned her head back with tears in her eyes.

“No! The fluctuations in the atmosphere outside are far beyond my observation range!”

“And it’s very chaotic. It feels like some kind of rational field that is expanding disorderly within a given range!”

“This is… a sign of a regional riot!”

Everyone’s heart sank at Jinelle’s words.

“Oh my god… I can’t be so unlucky…”

57. Metal Pillar Array

Except for the temperature that continued to rise and the beads of sweat that began to flow down everyone’s forehead, which was not sure whether it was hot or cold sweat, everything fell silent.

An uneasy atmosphere quietly rose in the car. It was the first time for the five people to be in the area of the Lisu riot in person, and for a moment they had no idea what to do.

“Should we drive away from here quickly, back off to the normal wilderness?”

Karen swallowed hard and said.

This is the question Xia Ye is considering.

The main thing is that he just couldn’t believe that he was so unlucky that the Lisu riot happened just when he arrived at the area where the Gear City was located?

And didn’t Jinniel just say that the luminous phenomenon of those metal pillars showed that the physical field nearby was stable?

He looked out the window and everything seemed normal.

The metal pillars still reflected a dim yellow light, standing in an orderly manner on the barren ground.

“Wait…metal pillars?”

At this moment, Xia Ye suddenly realized something and quickly looked at Fiti.

“Xia Ye, if we don’t leave now it will be too late. If you have no objection I will drive!”

Anke, who was in the same analysis domain as Jinniel, was also more sensitive to changes in the surrounding environment. She could hardly bear the high temperature and the chaotic elements that had gradually begun to penetrate the protective layer and into the car.

“Wait a moment!”

Xia Ye felt that An Ke was in pain, so he quickly reached out and released a ball of white energy to press on her body. The latter’s expression immediately eased a lot, and then he continued to look at Fiti and asked:

“Fetti! Why did you think it was safer here before?!”

“Didn’t she say it was intuition?” Karen said loudly.

Xia Ye suddenly mentioned this matter which made her a little confused.

“No! Fiti, think carefully about how your inspiration described this area!”

Xia Ye stretched out his hand again to stop Karen from speaking and asked further.

Even if it is intuition, there will definitely be some more concrete descriptions or manifestations, which is a characteristic of inspirational abilities.

“I… feel…” Fitty closed her eyes upon hearing that, trying hard to capture the intuition that flashed through her mind at that moment.

“At that time, I felt that… this place, where we are now… is protected by some kind of closed structure!”

“Yes! That’s right! That’s the feeling!”

“That’s it! Anke, don’t drive, we’ll just stay here!” After getting a positive answer, Xia Ye hurriedly said to Anke.

“But…” An Ke was a little flustered when he heard that.

If it really was a rational riot, the strength of this car alone would not be enough to stop it for even a second.

“Look around you!” Xia Ye pointed at the metal pillar outside the window and said:

“It was difficult to notice when they were scattered just now, but if you look closely, you can see that the metal pillars around us don’t seem to be arranged randomly.”

“It’s more like they form a symmetrical closed pattern that surrounds the area we are in.”

“I would venture to guess that the reason why Fiti intuitively feels that this place is safe is because this small area can remain relatively stable in the larger area of the rational field.”

“That energy wind pouring back in is proof that the energy field outside this area is far more chaotic than the one around us… Never mind, this is hard to explain to you.”

“Anyway, trust me!”

Whenever this happened, Xia Ye would be grateful that he had actually heard the lecture in high school.

After connecting everything together, he thought this conjecture was much more reasonable than just being unlucky enough to encounter an explosion of rational elements.

And if the conjecture is true, opening up now would be an absolute act of seeking death.

“But me, hurry up…” An Ke bit her lips, trying hard to resist the invasion of the high temperature elements around her.

In the car, she and Ginelle had the worst physical values and physical qualities. Their faces had become quite ugly, and Ginelle was about to faint because of the backlash of the factor ability she had just suffered.