460: Recalling the crisis, polluting the spirit (3k words)

Fifteen minutes later.

In a vast space far from the Alliance building.

Lin Yang and Director Song stood facing each other.

“Lin Yang, were you trying to say just now that you still had some hidden information about the ruins that you hadn’t reported?” Director Song seemed to already know what Lin Yang wanted to say.

Lin Yang nodded: “There is indeed some. Besides what I reported in the meeting hall earlier, there’s one more thing I haven’t mentioned.”

“What is it?” Director Song asked.

“On the planet adjacent to the Mingye Clan base, there are Heroic Soul Warriors,” Lin Yang said.

“Hmm? Heroic Soul Warriors? You mean…?” Director Song’s brows furrowed, already vaguely guessing.

“They are Heroic Soul Warriors, beings who died fighting for humanity in an unknown era.”

Lin Yang explained the situation regarding the Heroic Soul Warriors to Director Song.

After listening, Director Song’s eyes showed a hint of solemnity: “I haven’t heard of these things you mentioned, but the name Dingnan, I seem to have seen it somewhere.”

With that, Director Song frowned and fell into deep thought.

He was clearly trying to recall where he had seen the name Dingnan.

Lin Yang’s heart stirred: “Director, do you know about the Dingnan Star Region?”

“I don’t know,” Director Song directly shook his head, “I just vaguely remember seeing or hearing the name Dingnan somewhere before. Give me a moment to think.”

“Oh…”

Lin Yang was somewhat surprised by this.

One must know that a person’s memory improves as their strength increases.

When strength reaches a certain level, even the smallest details in memory, if there is any impression, can be recalled clearly and completely in an instant when one tries to concentrate.

But Director Song actually needed time to specifically recall it?

However, Director Song stopped speaking and focused on recalling, and although Lin Yang was puzzled, he couldn’t ask more questions and waited quietly for Director Song to recall.

And this wait lasted for a full five minutes.

Director Song then spoke again: “Lin Yang, I might need a bit more time to recall. You should first look at the information about the ruins that I just gave you.”

“Oh, huh?”

Lin Yang instantly froze, showing a look of disbelief.

He thought Director Song had already remembered.

But he didn’t expect that after a full five minutes of recalling, he still hadn’t succeeded?

This… “Director? Are you… alright?”

Lin Yang found it very incredible.

Given Director Song’s strength, taking five minutes to recall something was already exaggerated enough, but what was even more exaggerated was that he hadn’t succeeded in recalling it.

This made him somewhat worried about Director Song’s condition.

Director Song waved his hand: “I’m fine. This is indeed a bit incredible. It seems there is a very special kind of power that prevents me from searching for detailed memories about Dingnan.”

Director Song’s tone was also filled with shock.

He was searching his own memories.

However, when recalling information related to Dingnan or the Dingnan Star Region, he felt as if he was being interfered with by some unknown force, preventing him from fully remembering the detailed situation at the time.

“Ah?”

Lin Yang was startled again.

Recalling one’s own memories, and being interfered with inexplicably?

This was beyond his imagination.

Director Song’s expression became even more serious: “You wait a little longer. I want to see what’s going on.”

With that, Director Song actually sat down cross-legged, entering a meditative state, and even pressed his middle and index fingers together on both his left and right temples.

Watching Director Song’s solemn and focused demeanor, Lin Yang was immensely shaken.

Usually, even when meditating, he would at most just sit down and enter a meditative state.

But Director Song now even needed to press his middle and index fingers against his temples to recall.

This meant that the seriousness of the situation far exceeded imagination, forcing Director Song to stabilize his spiritual sea in this way to resist the interference of that unknown factor and recall.

“What kind of power could force Director Song to be so solemn just to recall his own memories?”

Lin Yang silently prayed that Director Song would successfully recall everything.

Then he quietly moved away a bit, so as not to disturb Director Song, and began to read some of the information about other ruins that Director Song had given him.

This part of the intelligence was not extensive.

It only recorded the situations in a few ruins.

Some ruins were also silent star regions.

While some interiors were chaotic and dilapidated continents stretching as far as the eye could see.

And some truly fit the description of ‘ruins’ more accurately.

Inside those ruins were various magnificent but somewhat dilapidated buildings.

But no matter what kind of ruin, immense dangers lurked within.

The strange red light that Lin Yang had seen before was recorded in this intelligence.

The record contained a short sentence describing the danger of that strange red light.

“Do not touch, it pollutes the spirit if touched!”

“Pollutes the spirit? Does that mean one will become mentally deranged, a lunatic, after being illuminated by it?”

Lin Yang’s eyes showed a strange look.

Those who could enter the ruins to explore and return successfully must be extremely strong, yet they could still have their spirit polluted?

One must know that killing a strong person is simple, but making a strong person go mad, that difficulty is much greater.

Could that red light’s power be so terrifying?

He couldn’t help but glance at Director Song, who was still in a state of recall, intending to ask this question later.

As for the terrifying mosquitoes that fed on dilapidated planets, this intelligence did not record them.

It should be that the strong individuals who explored those few ruins had not encountered such mosquitoes.

This intelligence was clearly recorded by the strong individuals of Director Song’s faction, and they had not shared intelligence with the strong individuals of the Old Monster Faction, so the information was not extensive.

At the end of the intelligence, one point was emphasized: among these ruins, the type of ruin with numerous dilapidated buildings inside had the highest danger level after entering.

It contained truly great and terrifying dangers.

But what specific great and terrifying dangers, the intelligence did not mention in detail.

“Is it unspeakable, or are they worried that this intelligence might also be leaked?” Lin Yang wondered.

After finishing all the intelligence, Director Song was still in a state of recall, and Director Song’s expression became increasingly solemn and serious, with no signs of successfully recalling.

“What kind of power is preventing Director Song from reviewing his own memories?”

Lin Yang looked at Director Song’s serious expression and furrowed brows. Although he was worried, he couldn’t offer any help, so he could only silently wish for everything to go smoothly.

Then he also sat down cross-legged in place.

Director Song’s recall could take who knows how long to succeed. He was now seizing every available moment to fuse the extraordinary characteristic material.

Bai Pang had previously prepared medium-quality spatial characteristic extraordinary characteristic material and a complete set of Life characteristic extraordinary characteristic material for him.

All of these would take a considerable amount of time to fully fuse.

Time flew by, and half a day passed.

Buzz!

Suddenly, a dull air explosion sound came from Director Song’s direction.

Lin Yang instantly opened his eyes and stood up to look.

Director Song was still sitting cross-legged, but a visible strong wind was swirling around him.

However, this strong wind only rotated frantically within a half-meter radius around Director Song, not spreading outwards.

As the strong wind’s rotation speed became faster and faster, Lin Yang quickly could no longer clearly see Director Song’s figure.

“This is… him fighting against that unknown power?”

Lin Yang’s gaze also became solemn.

Director Song merely recalling his own memories, yet it was so difficult, this was truly alarming.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

The strong wind quickly completely enveloped Director Song.

“Nothing bad should happen, right?”

Seeing this, Lin Yang somewhat wanted to call out to Director Song and tell him to stop recalling.

If he couldn’t recall it, he could just investigate it himself later.

But he was also afraid that speaking rashly at this stage would disturb Director Song’s mind.

In such a focused state of mental power confrontation, sudden external disturbance could easily cause trauma.

Just in this brief moment while Lin Yang hesitated whether to speak.

The strong wind grew larger and larger, no longer just swirling around Director Song.

It began to show signs of spreading outwards, and the speed of its spread was extremely fast.

In the blink of an eye, it formed a giant tornado.

“This… Director, Director, are you alright? How about you stop recalling?!”

Lin Yang finally couldn’t sit still. Seeing the tornado forming faster and larger.

He risked disturbing Director Song and called out twice.

At this level of confrontation, external interference might bring danger, but it was the best way to forcibly interrupt it.

Otherwise, if Director Song were to finish on his own, who knew what consequences would ultimately result.

Especially since the tornado showed signs of starting to move towards the direction of the Alliance Headquarters.

Once the people at the Alliance Headquarters noticed the commotion here, although nothing serious would happen, it would inevitably lead to extra trouble.

“I should have gone further away just now,” Lin Yang thought to himself.

Seeing that his calls couldn’t interrupt Director Song, he flipped his wrist and took out a bamboo slip.

This was given to him by Bai Pang, a token to notify Bai Pang at critical moments.

However, when Bai Pang gave it to Lin Yang, he told him that he also had very important things to do, and advised Lin Yang not to easily disturb him unless it was an emergency.

Usually, contact through messages would suffice.

Bai Pang would reply when he saw the message.

So Lin Yang had never really used this bamboo slip to contact Bai Pang.

This was for emergency contact.

But now, Lin Yang had no better option and quickly crushed the bamboo slip.

Director Song’s current state was somewhat dangerous.

Only Bai Pang had the ability to save him.

Buzz.

As the bamboo slip was crushed by Lin Yang, a somewhat illusory figure of Bai Pang materialized before his eyes.

“Master!” Lin Yang immediately called out.

“My dear disciple, have you encountered any danger?”

The somewhat illusory figure of Bai Pang responded, and then, as he was about to speak again, his expression suddenly changed, and he looked towards Director Song.

“This is…”

“Master, Director Song is trying to recall some things, but he’s in danger. Can you please help him?”

Without time to explain more, Lin Yang quickly called for help.

“Alright, my dear disciple, wait a moment. I, your master, will be there in a flash!”

Bai Pang didn’t say much, and his illusory figure instantly dissipated.

Then, his true self descended!