"Why did you leave?"

Shen Cong asked it plainly. The Snail Traveler could understand his meaning, and soon transmitted back its emotional fluctuations. "Eat... makes me grow bigger... draws me..."

Its emotional fluctuations didn't form a complete meaning.

But Shen Cong already understood. Through the form of Cicada Language, he could feel the significance these emotions contained. Roughly, it was a longing welling up from within—an instinct, like eating. The Snail Traveler didn't know what was drawing it; its response to the flutter was very simple—obey the inner heart.

Since the heart longed for it, then act on the longing. This was an animal's instinct.

It didn't think about what that was, nor did it care whether there'd be danger on the road.

"You can still sense that flutter?"

The Snail Traveler could; its emotions were reminding Shen Cong even now. "There... it's right there."

There was the northwest direction.

Comparing the dragon-claw pagoda tree's direction, the Snail Traveler's direction, and the direction the Siberian weasel had left in, Shen Cong sketched out, in his mind, a rough location.

"This location..." Shen Cong returned to the Great Vajra's cabin, called up the map, and sketched out the specific geographic position.

It lay on the edge of Tai'an City, in the northeast region of Mount Tai—roughly the area covered by the townships of Dajinkou, Huangqian, Xiagang, and Shankou.

A more detailed location couldn't be determined.

Looking at the map, at the Huangqian Reservoir that Huangqian Town bordered—the most central position among these townships was the Huangqian Reservoir.

"Could there be something wrong with this Huangqian Reservoir?"

It couldn't be answered for now; only after reaching the specific location could a judgment be made.

The Snail Traveler crawled a while, then was about to sleep, so Shen Cong didn't keep following the giant snail. Instead he swiftly turned the vehicle around and returned to the Diamond Park. Right now, besides working out the cause of the flutter, his most pressing matter was absorbing Vajra's blood and letting the Great Vajra evolve.

As of now, 28.7% of the Great Vajra's volume of metal-iron…