Chapter 454 Tracing History
Let’s get back to the point. I came to Xianshui City Park not to play a trick on Zhu Shi with Ma Zao, but for serious business.

A month ago, the reason why I didn’t go with Ma Zao to investigate the ruins of the Humanitarian Department’s headquarters was that I wanted to use that place to “fish” and see whether the unknown blessed monk would be unable to resist going there to cover up some important clues in order to avoid being investigated by Ma Zao.

During this period of time, the unknown blessed monk has not shown any signs of appearing. There are many possibilities. Maybe he is not smart enough and did not expect that he might be found out. Or maybe there are no clues worth paying attention to there and he thought it was not worth covering up. Or maybe he had already dealt with it quickly before we realized the importance of the ruins of the Humanitarian Division headquarters…

In addition, there are also possibilities that he used his stealth ability that we cannot detect during this period to clean up the remaining clues, and that Ying Lingyun, who was alive, had already completed the final work without any leaks when he transferred the Humanitarian Division headquarters to an independent reality space. Most possibilities point to a bad fact, that is, even if we really go to the ruins of the Humanitarian Division headquarters to investigate, we may not be able to find any useful clues.

In any case, this is not a reason for us to neglect that place. Since the Unknown Blessed Monk is not going to show up for such a long time, I don’t have the patience to continue wasting time on “fishing”. I will take the hemp over there first and lick all the nutritious parts first.

After explaining why I was there, I took Ma Zao’s hand and took a step forward.

With just one step, the surrounding scene changed dramatically, just like when entering a time-space travel scene in a science fiction movie, the surrounding scenery suddenly became colorful, as if entering an incredible passage.

This “passage” appeared for only a blink of an eye, and we were transported from a remote corner of the park to a desolate island.

The ruins of the Humanitarian Division headquarters stood in the center of the island, looking like a large industrial park of a pharmaceutical company. We quickly entered it. It was now deserted, and had been searched inside and out by Luoshan’s forces. In addition, it had not been cleaned for a long time, presenting a deadly atmosphere like a haunted house.

Since countless cruel experiments had taken place here, many empty rooms were still filled with blood stains that had not been cleaned up in time. When Ying Lingyun ordered the headquarters to be moved to an independent reality, some researchers probably simply treated this site as a garbage dump, dumping some dying low-value experimental subjects and their removed organs and limbs here.

Some rooms were filled with a foul stench, flies flying everywhere, maggots crawling all over the floor, and even a few small and medium-sized scavengers lingering around.

Speaking of cruel and bloody scenes, I have seen many in the secret base of the Humanitarian Department before, but this is the first time I have come into contact with such a rotten and smelly scene. I just feel very nauseous. This is not a psychological problem, but a physiological problem. It is the same as many people who challenge canned herrings and most of them will vomit after opening the can. If I can’t adjust my body that is camouflaged by fire, I am afraid I will not be able to control some physiological reactions.

On the contrary, Ma Zao had a very common expression on his face. He just frowned slightly, then continued to hold my hand and observed the surroundings calmly.

She is indeed a survivor who has experienced many challenges in the doomsday era. I have to admit that she is better than me in some aspects of mental quality. Her soft but steady little hands actually gave me a strange sense of security.

Ma Zao slowly closed his eyes, as if sensing the history of this place.

I waited for a while, then asked, “How about it, Ma Zao, can you trace back the historical information here?”

“…”

Ma Zao opened his eyes and exhaled as if he had just emerged from a diving state. Then he said, “The historical information here has indeed been processed very carefully. There is a very mysterious force that obscures my perception…

“Is this the power of the Divine Seal Fragment? In terms of strength, it is no different from the Great Power of Impermanence, but its nature is even more mysterious than the Great Power of Impermanence…”

I asked, “So… there is no going back?”

“I need to take another look.” Ma Zao said, “It is very complicated to process the historical information of an entire region, unlike just processing the historical information of one person. Even if it is a great impermanence, there may be some parts that are missed. It’s like using a broom to sweep the dust on the ground. It looks like it has been completely swept away, but in fact there may still be some dust that slipped through the net.

“Moreover, the person who manipulated the power of the divine seal fragment to conceal historical information should not be Da Wuchang. This person’s manipulation of power can be said to be meticulous in many aspects, but he is careless in some strange places.”

“It should be Ying Lingyun,” I said. “He is not only not the Great Impermanence, but he is not even a demon hunter. It is normal for him to have such small mistakes in details.”

Ma Zao nodded and said, “Because he didn’t specifically target my historical investigation skills, but rather my general divination skills, my ability should be able to better penetrate the parts of him that he is least prepared for.” Then, we went to other places in the ruins of the Humanitarian Division’s headquarters. Ma Zao repeatedly sensed the history of the land and space and collected a lot of fragmented information. After piecing it together like a puzzle, all he got was some useless intelligence.

Most of them are about the researchers’ experimental processes and trivial matters in daily life. A small part also contains the organization’s secrets communicated privately, but there is no part related to the unknown blessed monks that we are most concerned about, and there is not even any part related to Taoyuan Township.

For a secret among secrets like this, only a few people, including Ying Lingyun, should know about it. Especially the part related to the unknown blessed monk, perhaps only Ying Lingyun himself knows it.

On the way, we also visited Ying Lingyun’s office and laboratory at the ruins of the Humanitarian Division’s headquarters, as well as the huge metal room he used when trying to revive Silver Moon, but still did not achieve any decent results. There is a saying that even if it is just feces that is transported, if it is transported by a money truck with a large number of guards, it may attract the greed of the gangsters. When I wanted to hide the fragment of the seal before, I also considered whether I should just find a forest to hide it. The truly important treasures may not be hidden in seemingly important places.

At a certain moment, Ma Zao suddenly paused, then his eyes lit up, he looked into the distance and said, “——It’s right there.”

I realized that she might be about to dig up some incredible information, so I quickened my pace with her and moved to that place.

There was a laboratory located in a corner of the ruins of the Humanitarian Department’s headquarters. There was nothing special about it, either from its location or its interior furnishings. However, Ma Zao seemed very sure of its importance.

“It’s here… Ying Lingyun seems to be secretly talking to an unknown person here, and he has even set up a barrier to prevent external detection and divination backtracking. He is not using his own body, but has specially summoned a ‘possible clone’ to be responsible for communicating with this unknown person.” Ma Zao said.

“Can you trace back the information here?” I asked.

“Yes.” Ma Zao said, “Although he has taken thorough anti-detection measures for this location, through external information changes and the little information left inside, we can reversely restore what happened here at that time.

“It’s just that the details may not be very credible… Just like when people recall things that happened a long time ago, they may make up things that they don’t remember clearly without even realizing it. This approach has the same problem.

“In addition, since Ying Lingyun is good at using the power of the divine seal fragments, it is also necessary to guard against his counterattack in history.”

The power of the divine seal fragment has the property of penetrating the past and the future, so when we peek into this period of history, Ying Lingyun may be able to use it to lock on to and counterattack us in the future. This is very easy to understand.

If an enemy in the future peeks into my present self through divination or through abilities similar to Mazao’s, I can also sense that gaze and attack the enemy in the future.

Although the history that Ma Zao intends to investigate is a reconstructed deduction of information fragments, which may even contain fictional elements, this behavior may still alarm the Great Impermanence in history. Because even if you peek into history through a blurry or even distorted filter, it does not change the fact that it is an act of peeping. Perhaps it is not necessarily the same thing. In the past, when Ma Zao used historical investigation skills to investigate the head of the God Gun, he accidentally alarmed and summoned the incarnation of Fate Turbidity.

Although Ying Lingyun is not the Great Impermanence, we’d better treat him as the Great Impermanence in some places.

“In that case, let’s look at this historical information together. This way, I can help when danger arises,” I said.

“Ah.”

Ma Zao nodded and summoned the fake Moon in the Water.

The real fake Moon in the Water is still in my hand. This is the phantom fake Moon in the Water that she summoned with the power of return. She can summon the magic weapons and weapons that she has used herself. I heard from Zhu Shi that Ma Zao can even summon the phantom cast Yama Sword.

(End of this chapter)