Ten minutes later, Mu You set up a Teleportation Array inside the City Lord's Castle and returned to the Ghost Ship through it.
The Ghost Ship was much livelier than the empty Dawn City. The moment he returned, he heard peals of laughter coming from above the cabin.
Mu You left the Captain's Quarters and stepped onto the deck.
The Skeleton Crew were all dutifully at their posts. As for the Pandaren, perhaps because he had drunk too much last night, he was sprawled spread-eagled at the bow, nursing a hangover.
At the edge of the deck, in the glass tank prepared for Mermaid, she lay half out of the water, controlling a row of fish in the tank as they performed a "bubble-blowing" routine. The little girl beside her giggled at the show.
Only when Mu You's footsteps rang out did Mermaid and the little girl turn to look at him together.
"Mu You!"
The little girl called out brightly and ran over. Tugging at his clothes, she eagerly pointed at the sky and asked, "Mu You, did you make that 'big clod of dirt'?"
"Yes." Mu You nodded. The "big clod of dirt" she meant was, of course, Dawn City. From her angle, the Sky City really did look like a floating clod of dirt. It was simply so enormous that most people would never dare describe it with such a diminutive term.
"Wow! How did you do it?" The little girl looked at him with curiosity filling her eyes.
"It's simple. You just have to become the City Lord."
"City Lord?"
"The owner of that clod of dirt. Everything on it is under my control," Mu You said.
"Everything is under your control? Does that mean you know everything that happens on it?"
"Of course."
"Then why