Lucius put down the phone, his mind filled with bewilderment and confusion. Before long, one possibility occurred to him.
A possibility that made his blood run cold.
Steadying himself, Lucius solemnly took a yellow talisman folded into a triangle from inside his robes and lit it as instructed.
At the foot of Dragon-Tiger Mountain, Zhang Chengdao stopped packing.
He turned to Li Qingshu and said, "My dear, Lucius has contacted me. I'll go see what he needs."
After leaving the courtyard, the Young Celestial Master picked his direction and stepped into empty air. With that single step, he seemed to walk into nothingness. When he reappeared, he was already several miles away, at the Flying Immortal Platform on Upper Dragon-Tiger Mountain.
It was Shrinking the Earth to an Inch, which Zhang Xiao called an "ultra-long-range blink."
Zhang Chengdao walked out of the Flying Immortal Platform and found a secluded spot before taking out his Satellite Phone.
Phones could not be used on Upper Dragon-Tiger Mountain. To make a call, he had to come to the mundane world's Dragon-Tiger Mountain. It was the only workaround available.
The call connected almost the instant he dialed. Lucius certainly seemed to be in a hurry.
Zhang Chengdao pondered that.
Sure enough, as soon as the call connected, Lucius dropped a bombshell.
"What? Fudge wants to ban East-West Trade? And make it a Ministry of Magic monopoly?"
Zhang Chengdao was speechless.
All this over such a trivial matter?
Lucius said anxiously:
"Yes. The information we've received was deliberately leaked by the Ministry of Magic to give us time to respond-and negotiate.
Everyone in Britain is waiting to hear from us."
Zhang Chengdao fell silent for a moment, but he could not contain his curiosity.
"Can the Ministry of Magic actually ban it? It's not as