Chapter 1400: Several Hundred Thousand Water-Blue Planet Specialties

If Marshal Xu said anyone else was more responsible than Su Yang,

Su Yang would definitely have to sit him down and reason it out properly.

But if he said Su Yang's wife was more responsible than him, Su Yang would have a hard time arguing back.

He said goodbye to Marshal Xu, stepped out of the office, and returned to his own department's office.

The entire office held only three people: Su Yang, Liu Mengyun, and Xia Na.

Su Yang said to Liu Mengyun, "Sorry for the trouble, Mengyun!"

"It's nothing. I know you didn't want to go, and I should have time then anyway!" Liu Mengyun said to Su Yang. "But you—when you get to Qingluan Nation, be careful."

"Don't worry, I'll be careful!"

Meanwhile, in Qingluan Nation's Luanfeng City, a crisis had struck.

Starting a few days earlier, beast tamers had been trickling back from the Green Cloud Mountain Range, saying that while hunting fierce beasts inside the range, they had run into a powerful plant-type fierce beast.

At first, when they heard the rumor, no one paid it any mind.

After all, the Green Cloud Mountain Range was enormously vast, cutting across several nations, and rumors even said divine beasts roamed within it—so any kind of fierce beast wouldn't be surprising.

Plant-type fierce beasts were admittedly trash, but plant-type fierce beasts were also widely distributed across the continent.

Having powerful ones wasn't surprising either.

But soon, several more mercenary squads trickled back, saying that when attacked by blood-red plant-type fierce beasts, those blood-red beasts caught the attention of the mercenaries and adventurers in Luanfeng City.

Even so, it only roused the mercenaries' and adventurers' vigilance.

The Luanfeng City Guard, and the City Lord himself, hadn't thought much of it.

The City Guard only cared about its own small territory, and the City Lord was only responsible for public order within the city and the safety of the surrounding towns and villages.

What new powerful fierce beasts appeared in the Green Cloud Mountain Range was outside their jurisdiction.

It wasn't until they heard that those powerful plant-type fierce beasts were spreading near Luanfeng City that Luanfeng City's officials truly took notice.

They seemed to have discovered the hidden dangers those plants brought.

The Luanfeng City Lord directly ordered the City Guard Vice-Commander, Zhang Yong, who possessed Platinum-rank strength, to lead a team into the Green Cloud Mountain Range to investigate the situation with those blood-red plant-type fierce beasts.

But after Zhang Yong led his troops into the Green Cloud Mountain Range, he never came back.

Luanfeng City Guard Commander Xu Cheng reported to the City Lord: "My lord, Zhang Yong took his men out and hasn't sent word back in three days!"

"Could they have run into some kind of trouble?"

Xu Cheng said, "My lord, in these three days, not a single mercenary squad has returned!"

"This…"

The Luanfeng City Lord looked at Xu Cheng, a guess already forming in his mind.

Luanfeng City sat very close to the Green Cloud Mountain Range; it only took a few days' travel to reach the mountain range's middle reaches.

Many adventurers, mercenary squads, and hunting teams organized by various factions would all enter the Green Cloud Mountain Range through Luanfeng City.

Almost every day, beast tamers left Luanfeng City and entered the Green Cloud Mountain Range.

Almost every day, beast tamers returned from the Green Cloud Mountain Range.

Xu Cheng said that for two days now no beast tamers had come back from the Green Cloud Mountain Range—and that already said something.

The likeliest possibility was that some terrifying fierce beast had appeared inside the Green Cloud Mountain Range!

It was a fierce beast that had made those beast tamers go in and never come back.

Xu Cheng continued, "The Red Bird Mercenary Corps, the Battle Axe Mercenary Corps, the Eight Treasures Hall hunting team, the hunting team from the Xu family of Changcheng, and a whole bunch of other factions—none of their teams have returned within the scheduled time…"

Generally, before teams from major factions entered the Green Cloud Mountain Range, the squad leader would report their planned return time.

That planned return time was usually set with plenty of margin.

After all, dangers lurked everywhere inside the Green Cloud Mountain Range, and no one knew whether, when luck turned bad, they might run into a powerful fierce beast.

But like the situation in Luanfeng City—where for three days not a single beast tamer had returned from the Green Cloud Mountain Range—that was highly abnormal.

Luanfeng City Lord Yinshi asked, "Has Luanfeng City ever run into this kind of situation before? Could it be some powerful fierce beast?"