When the Quicksand Council was busy doing good deeds.
The academy received a message.
As everyone knew, transmitting information across the wasteland was incredibly difficult. Not only were there no modern electronic communications, even the ancient classic method of carrier pigeons had disappeared in this desert. As a result, most city-states received news from outside extremely late.
For example, news from the Promised Land only spread after Frostheart's expedition returned to Utopia. By the time the other city-states learned of it, a month had usually already passed.
There were a few extremely unusual Transcendents who could hear sounds from a hundred miles away or communicate telepathically with their twin siblings. There were also some saints who possessed extraordinary traits that allowed them to observe what was happening in specific locations. They were the wasteland's clairvoyants and clear-hearers.
The academy, however, relied on insects.
They bred insects, selected special individuals from among them, and spread them across a range of several hundred miles around the city-states.
These insects usually lurked underground, emerging from their shells only when stimulated by vibrations of a special frequency.
The sound of their wings would then be heard by a large insect that specialized in preying on this kind of insect. Thus, these insects formed a system resembling radar. Anyone riding an insect into the vicinity of Utopia would be detected.
That was the information Utopia received.
"There's a sizable group heading toward Utopia?"
Lu Ban pondered after hearing Du Danping's words.
"Not only that, the humidity in the air is rising. A torrential storm is about to arrive."
Du Danping gazed out the library window. At the point where the sky met the horizon, a swath of white had occupied the place where the rosy sunset should have been. Clouds that the people of the