Near the Abyss, all living creatures soon withdrew to the Sky Cities.
Then, before the Mirage Qi could approach, all eleven Sky Cities rose high into the air one after another and drifted away in the opposite direction.
The Mirage Creatures had shown no aggression toward the Fools earlier because they shared a common enemy in the Mechanical People, and the Mirage Tapir had deliberately controlled these companion creatures' actions.
But shortly after the Mechanical People defected to the Fools, the Mirage Tapir immediately sensed the change and lifted the restrictions it had placed on the Mirage Creatures.
So now, the Mirage Creatures treated the Fools just like any other creatures, attacking them on sight.
Several City Lords gathered at the edge of Dawn City.
Watching the Mirage Qi surge toward them below, Solomon couldn't help saying, "If we'd known, shouldn't we have kept the Mechanical People from returning to the furnace so soon? They could've stayed to help us drive back the Mirage Qi before leaving..."
Mu You shook his head. "It wouldn't help. That would only treat the symptoms, not the cause. We need more than just getting the Mirage Creatures out of the Star Spirit World. We need the Mirage Tapir to retreat and leave the spawn point outside our Number Two Server. Otherwise, the players still on Earth won't be able to explore the True World anymore.
"Besides, sending the Mechanical People against the Mirage Tapir would inevitably cost us a lot of them, which would also mean losing our vaccines. That isn't in our interests," Son of Heaven added.
"That's true..."
While the City Lords discussed the matter, the Mirage Qi beneath the Sky Cities quickly spread over the Abyss.
Compared with the vast tide of Mirage Qi, the Abyss's two-thousand-meter-wide entrance was like