Sympathy

As soon as the fog rose, Anping sensed something was wrong. Skysea City was a coastal city, but it was impossible for the sun to shine brightly one moment and then be obscured by fog the next.

Moreover, the energy in the mist was extremely subtle, but it could not escape Anping's perception as a second-level wizard.

Anping's first thought was that someone was trying to harm him, but then he reconsidered. He and Gu Yuena had always lived a low-key life, and apart from the match at Sun Moon Academy, they had never attracted any attention.

To be honest, Anping and Gu Yuena were outstanding for their age, but in the eyes of outsiders, the biggest issue in that match was that Tang Wulin, who was only in the third ring, had forced the two soul kings to use their martial soul fusion skill to deal with him.

And if someone really wanted to trouble him, they wouldn't have waited until now. He and Gu Yuena had never hidden their identities. Such a huge disturbance didn't seem to be aimed at him alone.

After carefully sensing the energy properties in the mist, he realized that it was the work of an Dark soul master. For a moment, Anping couldn't figure out what was in Skysea City that would draw the evil soul master's interest.

When Anping returned to Skysea City, he used his perception spells as soon as possible. He was able to determine who was still in Skysea City. Besides the official staff who stayed behind, only some relatively high-level people were in the Spirit Tower.

Most of the others were very low-level people, or even ordinary people. Wu Zhangkong was considered to be one of the higher-ranking people among them. The rest had either left because their exploration had yielded no results, or they were still trying to search at sea.

Clearly, the person who created the mist had a target in Skysea City. Thinking of Tang Wulin, whom he had met before, Anping felt a pang of guilt. It couldn't be related to the few people from Shrek Academy, could it?

After thinking for a while, Anping decided to leave this place of trouble. He tried to activate his teleportation technique to leave Skysea City, but found that the nearby space had been distorted. If he used his teleportation technique now, he didn't know where he would end up.

After confirming that the teleportation technique was useless, Anping applied his invisibility technique to himself, and then used his flying technique to soar over Skysea City, hoping to see if the space above was also affected by anyone.

The fog engulfed the air in no time. As Anping took off, he could only see the roofs of a few taller buildings in the coastal area of Skysea City. The rest of the buildings were submerged in the fog. Only the top of the tallest auction house in this area was still visible above the fog.

After ascending to a height of 500 meters, Anping felt an invisible energy barrier. He realized that the barrier matched the range of the fog.

"What a grand gesture!" Anping muttered under his breath. He was curious about the intention of the person who did this, and he began to scan the area.

Through his sensing, he discovered that the one who released the mist was a low-level Titled Douluo, and the others with him were around level 70 or 80.

In Anping's perception, these people were not Dark soul masters. Their energy was no different from that of normal soul masters. They did not have the evil attributes of Dark soul masters. They released the fog with the help of a large soul device. They were injecting their soul power into it together.

He could not rule out the possibility that these people were related to the Holy Spirit Cult, but it was not very likely. If they were from the Holy Spirit Cult, they would be more reckless and attack directly, instead of covering an area to prevent the fog from spreading out like now.

At the same time, Anping also sensed the Shrek group moving towards the auction house, but he only observed them briefly before shifting his focus to another place.

In this fog-covered area, there was still a group of relatively high-level people. Judging from their level, it should be a Titled Douluo and a Soul Douluo with a group of people who were not very high-level.

These three groups of people were right in the center of the fog.

Anping nodded slightly. It seemed that the target of these people was either the Shrek Academy group or the other group of people, but he did not know what their purpose was.

Because Anping used soul perception techniques, he could clearly sense the pain and despair emanating from the ordinary people. Under the influence of this emotion, Anping couldn't help but frown slightly.

In his previous life, Anping was just an ordinary person. He felt that the destructive power of soul masters had such a great impact on ordinary people. If they were not careful, countless ordinary people might be affected and die by the battles between soul masters.

At the same time, an emotion called sympathy filled Anping's heart, and he couldn't help but have the idea of saving these ordinary people.

With that thought, Anping waved his hand and a Light spell fell into the fog, landing on the ordinary people who had collapsed on the ground one by one, dispelling the fog that had invaded their bodies, and forming a layer of light protection around their bodies. The membrane was used to prevent the fog from entering again.

Anping dared to do this because he could tell from his perception that the people who released the fog were not after the ordinary people, and they were not conducting any evil rituals. The ordinary people who had collapsed on the ground were clearly victims of an unjust calamity.

The dock rental company was close to the auction house. Even though Tang Wulin and the others decided to get out of the foggy area first, they did not change their direction. They soon reached the vicinity of the Skysea City auction house.

He had just left the auction house not long ago, so even though the fog impaired his vision, Tang Wulin could quickly locate the others and signaled Wu Zhangkong and the rest to stop.

After they stopped, Wu Zhangkong asked: "Did you notice anything?"

Tang Wulin shook his head slightly and said, "Teacher Wu, can you tell how high the fog is rising? Does it go beyond this building? If not, is it still spreading upward?"

"What are you getting at?" Wu Zhangkong was puzzled by Tang Wulin's thoughts.

Tang Wulin explained: "What I mean is that if the fog doesn't go above this building and it stops rising, we can wait on the rooftop while you go to an area without signal interference to contact the academy and the federal government for help."

Wu Zhangkong thought that Tang Wulin's idea made sense, so he nodded and said, "Alright, you guys stay here for a while, and I'll go up and check."

As he said that, he put Xu Lizhi on the ground, summoned his battle armor and flew upwards. When he reached the top of the building, he saw a large crowd of people on the roof of the auction house. At the same time, some people from afar also spotted Wu Zhangkong in the air.

The middle-aged man who was directing the crowd to move in an orderly manner heard someone exclaim, and turned around just in time to see Wu Zhangkong hovering in the air. As the person in charge of the auction house, he recognized him as a two-word battle armor master, and he said: "Dear sir, are you sent by the Federation to deal with the situation?"

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