432: See Quetian again, group jump, unknown space (two in one)

"Lin Yang, I want you to be one of the first exploration team members to enter the Unknown Space for investigation," Song Qingfeng said.

Lin Yang's expression remained unchanged, not showing much surprise.

When Director Song had him look at those top-secret files, he had already guessed that Director Song wanted him to enter the Unknown Space, and now his guess had been confirmed.

Song Qingfeng continued, "Although being part of the first exploration team to enter the Unknown Space for this incident is extremely dangerous, similarly, once you find something, the merits and contributions will also be the greatest."

"Even though you exposed this incident of the Foreign race genetically reorganizing and modifying our Human race, your current merits and contributions are still far from the goal I hope you achieve. This investigation, if fruitful, will undoubtedly earn you first-class merit as a vanguard member. I hope you can accumulate enough merit during this investigation."

This time, Lin Yang was somewhat surprised: "Director, what goal do you want me to achieve?"

"You'll know when the time is right," Song Qingfeng merely glanced at him, not answering directly.

..."Alright," Lin Yang was speechless and asked no more questions.

"So, are you willing to be a member of the first investigation team for this incident, entering the Unknown Space to investigate the activities of the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan?" Song Qingfeng asked seriously.

"I don't seem to have the right to refuse, do I?" Lin Yang spread his hands, exasperated.

Song Qingfeng had even risked violating regulations to show him top-secret files.

He couldn't refuse.

Song Qingfeng wouldn't allow him to refuse either.

This was truly a bit redundant to ask.

"Haha, the necessary procedures still have to be followed. It has to be you confirming your joining personally," Song Qingfeng chuckled, handing Lin Yang an agreement.

"I confirm my joining," Lin Yang signed the agreement directly, then looked at Song Qingfeng: "When do we depart?"

"No rush. This investigation will be carried out solely by our Human Alliance; there will be no help from experts of other racial alliances. So, we still need to prepare as much as possible to ensure the safety of the investigation team members."

As Song Qingfeng spoke, he casually sent a file to Lin Yang: "This contains the basic information of this investigation team. Take a look first."

At the same time, he explained to Lin Yang:

"Based on previous multiple investigation experiences in the Unknown Space, this investigation team will be divided into ten groups of five people each, totaling fifty people as a vanguard. They will enter the Unknown Space from different directions to investigate. There is no upper limit to the investigation time, until they are forced to withdraw due to irresistible danger, or until they locate the Mingye Clan's area of existence."

"Once the situation in the Ten Thousand Universes eases slightly, the Alliance will also continue to send more personnel to investigate."

Lin Yang immediately opened the file and browsed it. Combining it with what Song Qingfeng said, he quickly grasped other relevant information about this investigation mission.

The reason five people formed a team for the mission was that their objective was merely to conduct reconnaissance within the currently explored areas of the Unknown Space by the Human Alliance, not to explore new areas of the Unknown Space, so the danger was relatively lower.

Therefore, a slightly larger number of small groups would make the reconnaissance more efficient.

All their groups could directly flee if they encountered any danger, without needing to engage in any direct combat.

They did not need to conquer dangers or analyze encountered dangers to enrich the database and understand the risks in unknown new areas, like when exploring new regions.

The focus of this operation was on screening all explored areas, not on combat.

The Human Alliance Headquarters would also provide relatively safe routes and various ways to deal with dangers encountered.

The investigation team neither needed to explore new areas nor analyze data on encountered dangers. Coupled with the severe shortage of personnel, the teams were dispersed into as many small groups as possible to screen more areas simultaneously.

To put it bluntly, these team members did not possess the strength or qualifications to explore new areas.

When exploring new areas of the Unknown Space, it was always truly powerful Extraordinary Warriors and Alien Management Bureau experts who personally led the way, often in conjunction with top experts from other Foreign races.

These fifty people currently only needed to screen within the previously explored range.

"Director, within the explored range, does the Alliance here have a complete understanding of all existing dangers?" Lin Yang asked.

"Of course not."

Song Qingfeng shook his head, then explained:

"It's impossible to have a complete understanding of all dangers within the Unknown Space, even in areas that have been explored."

"The Unknown Space is not like within the Universe, where once explored and confirmed safe, you can establish a base and proceed with subsequent development. After exploring an area, you can only say you have a general understanding of the conditions within that area."

"Furthermore, not encountering danger in a certain area during exploration does not mean that area is absolutely safe. There's a high probability that the timing for the danger in that area to appear simply wasn't met during the exploration."

"Currently, we can only say that within the explored range, the Alliance can provide all intelligence on dangers encountered, trying its best to avoid threats in some fixed areas, but it cannot eliminate various random dangers."

After Song Qingfeng finished speaking, he specifically and seriously warned: "Therefore, this screening still cannot be taken lightly!"

"Understood," Lin Yang nodded, then said gravely: "What if no traces of Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan activity are found in the explored areas?"

"Heh heh, then there are only two possibilities. Either that Foreign race woman lied, or the Mingye Clan received support from High-Dimensional Universe Life and built their base outside the explored areas," Song Qingfeng said lightly.

"But the former is not easy to prove. So, if you complete the exploration of all explored areas and still find no traces of Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan activity, then the Alliance will reorganize experts to conduct another exploration of the unexplored areas, as long as possible, until they reach the upper limit of current capabilities."

"If even then their existence cannot be found, then we can only tentatively conclude that the Mingye Clan woman deliberately lied."

Lin Yang couldn't help but nod: "I hope we can successfully locate the bases of their two clans this time."

He thought it unlikely that Qing Ti would intentionally lie.

"Alright, go prepare. As one of the vanguard team members this time, your group will use your Level 9 battleship to enter the Unknown Space. Currently, not only are we short on personnel, but the number of high-level battleships is also a bit insufficient, so no additional ones will be assigned."

Song Qingfeng glanced at the time, telling Lin Yang to go directly to the battleship to wait for his team members, and informed them that he would be their group leader.

"Okay."

Lin Yang immediately turned and exited the office.

Song Qingfeng's words also made him feel the seriousness of this incident again.

Even the number of high-level battleships was somewhat insufficient; this sounded a bit absurd.

But it also sufficiently indicated that there were now Foreign races disguised as humans in almost every Universe within the Ten Thousand Universes, all requiring the Human Alliance to hunt them down and suppress them.

Although the number of humans was undoubtedly the highest in the Ten Thousand Universes, most were ordinary people and ordinary, weak civilizations.

In such cross-universe incidents, basically only civilizations above Level 7 or 8 could play a role.

Although the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan did not have a huge number of members, their individual strength was strong. Now that the two clans had united, their total number, while still not matching humans, was not far behind.

The Human Alliance was indeed under immense pressure now.

"I hope everything goes smoothly."

Lin Yang sighed again and walked to the Level 9 battleship docking point.

At this moment, his Level 9 battleship had already been fully refueled.

As for the weapon system... the weapon system on his battleship had never been used, so it didn't need replenishment at all.

Lin Yang didn't have to wait too long before the other team members arrived one after another.

Upon seeing one of the team members, Lin Yang couldn't help but exclaim in surprise:

"Que Tian?"

Yes, that's right!

Among his team members, there was actually Que Tian!!

Que Tian of the Taixuan Ancient Dynasty!

Lin Yang even wondered if he had seen wrong.

"It's me."

Que Tian nodded calmly, seemingly unsurprised by this. He even pointed to another person accompanying him and said, "He is Yuan Hao, Yuan Mo's younger brother, and he's in our group."

"Yuan Mo's brother?" Lin Yang subconsciously looked over and indeed saw some resemblance to Yuan Mo in this person.

This is... "Cough cough, what a coincidence," Lin Yang didn't know what to say, so he could only greet them first.

However, Que Tian spoke in a serious tone:

"It's not a coincidence. This grouping is mainly based on strength. Each group has at least one member with relatively outstanding strength, and stronger members are placed together as much as possible to increase their chances of escape and gain more investigation time when danger is encountered. So, my being grouped with you is, in a sense, inevitable."

"Because among the temporarily assigned group members, others' strength is either a complete tier above or a notch below yours and mine."

"But the former are not numerous, and they also need to lead the weaker members. Therefore, you and I belong to another tier, and naturally, we will be arranged together to lead three weaker ones."

Que Tian's serious explanation left Lin Yang a bit dumbfounded.

Song Qingfeng hadn't told him any of this... "Director Song is busy with countless affairs. He naturally wouldn't mention these minor details. What he told you should all be important matters requiring special attention."

Que Tian spoke again, as if seeing through Lin Yang's thoughts at that moment.

Lin Yang's eyes flashed, then he slowly said, "It seems Your Excellency Que Tian knows a lot about this operation. In that case, we can save a lot of trouble."

Lin Yang was not surprised that Que Tian directly revealed his source of information was from Song Qingfeng.

It was no secret in the Alien Management Bureau and the Human Alliance that Song Qingfeng favored him.

After all, Song Qingfeng's repeated special treatment of him was very obvious.

What was that saying again?

Blatant favoritism!

That's probably it.

Song Qingfeng made no secret of his high regard for him.

Given Que Tian's status, he would know all this without even needing to inquire.

Lin Yang was just curious about how many secrets of the Unknown Space Que Tian currently knew.

Song Qingfeng had shown him some top-secret files.

But it was conceivable that the other members of this exploration team also knew more or less some secrets beyond their original authority, just to varying degrees.

The Taixuan Ancient Dynasty was powerful and must have explored the Unknown Space independently, and the secret data obtained from independent exploration would certainly not be shared with the Human Alliance.

Every powerful civilization or force has its own secrets.

They would not share all their secrets with the Human Alliance just because they were also members of the Human Alliance.

This was also almost common knowledge.

And now that they were in the same group, Lin Yang was considering whether to talk to Que Tian about sharing some classified information with each other to make this investigation smoother.

Just as Lin Yang was pondering, the other two team members also arrived.

One of them excitedly said, "Your Excellency Lin Yang, hello! My name is Cai Fei. I never imagined I'd be assigned to the same group as you this time. I'm so lucky!"

Cai Fei was very excited.

He was a fanboy of Lin Yang.

Many people from ordinary Universes admired Lin Yang, who came from an ordinary Universe but dominated the Cosmic Competition, defeating the seed players of various Universe Countries to win the championship.

Cai Fei was one of them.

Although they were both members of the Alien Management Bureau, Lin Yang had almost no time to meet other people after joining the Alien Management Bureau.

So Cai Fei had always regretted it.

But he never expected that in such an important mission, he would actually be assigned to the same group as Lin Yang!

This made Cai Fei excited as soon as he saw Lin Yang.

It wasn't just the excitement of seeing his idol, but also because in such a dangerous mission, having a powerful group leader would provide greater assurance for his own safety.

This surprised Cai Fei far more than meeting Lin Yang under other circumstances.

"Your Excellency Cai Fei, you too. You can just call me Lin Yang or Group Leader, no need to be so polite," Lin Yang extended his hand and shook Cai Fei's.

This was a young man who looked very sunny.

"Haha, okay, then I'll call you Group Leader," Cai Fei laughed heartily.

As for the last arriving team member, Ding Hui, he was relatively calm, merely nodding in greeting to Lin Yang and Que Tian individually before becoming quiet.

Clearly, he was someone not very good at, or perhaps not fond of, socializing.

After their initial introductions, Lin Yang wasted no time, immediately activated the Level 9 battleship, and warped to the Unknown Space.

Before the battleship warped, a robotic voice issued a reminder.

"The warp to the Unknown Space is different from warps to various Universes. During the warp process, battleships and spacecraft will experience severe turbulence and even anomalies. Please, team members, do not panic, and do not make any movements during the warp process, so as not to affect the accuracy of the warp."

"Additionally, the warp to the Unknown Space will take a longer time. This warp is estimated to take three hours and six minutes. Please, team members, be mentally prepared, or enter a safe cabin for a short period of hibernation."

"This warp will begin in thirty seconds."

"Warp countdown begins."

"..."

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