Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers

"How could it be impossible to take them?"

Yu Yuan frowned slightly as he looked at the Virtual Light Screen.

"The Tree of Life and the Pillar of Knowledge actually can’t be modeled, this is troublesome!"

This surprised Yu Yuan. Previously he had been able to take Absinthe’s bathing pool, yet these knowledge systems couldn’t be removed. That was frustrating.

He drew a deep, foul breath and looked upward.

First he would go up and have a look. If he could find an item with world coordinates, that would be ideal.

If in the end it truly couldn’t be done, then he would just have to put Jiu Feng in an awkward position.

After glancing back once more, Yu Yuan walked up the stairs.

He entered the fifth level.

But the next moment the room lit up again. Hundreds, even thousands, of diamond-shaped life-crystals floated in the air, though only a handful still emitted light.

A pathway with scattered diamond sparkles appeared beneath Yu Yuan’s feet, leading straight to the next floor.

Seeing the diamond-shaped life-crystals around him, Yu Yuan recognized them as information storage tools.

He touched the nearest dim crystal, but there was no response.

Clearly those dim crystals no longer contained any information.

Then Yu Yuan’s gaze landed on another crystal that still glowed, and he touched it.

The room’s visuals shifted. The surroundings became a small room, only about ten square meters.

A gaunt man lay on the bed, wrapped head to toe in bandages.

Hum—

The door opened.

A fair-looking woman with emerald green hair walked into the room and frowned slightly as she looked at the man on the bed.

She glanced back.

"Hey, A-Yang, didn’t you say Xiao An would wake up soon? Why is he still unconscious?"

Another woman walked in. Deep exhaustion marked her face, with two obvious dark circles under her eyes, and her somewhat tousled golden hair stuck out in a mess.

"Ai, do you know I stayed up all night brewing medicine? Do you want me to drop dead from overwork?"

The woman named Ai gave a mischievous laugh, hugged A-Yang’s arm, and swung it back and forth.

"The problem is Xiao An still hasn’t woken up. Isn’t that worrying?"

A-Yang looked at Ai helplessly, then turned his gaze to the man on the bed, frowning slightly.

"He shouldn’t be like this! My diagnosis can’t be wrong… strange…"

After scrutinizing the man for a few moments, A-Yang’s mouth twitched. He glanced at Ai, then shook his head slightly.

He leaned close to Ai’s ear and whispered something.

Ai’s expression changed immediately—first surprise, then the annoyed realization of being toyed with. Her gaze toward the man on the bed turned dangerous.

Her mouth tightened. She grabbed a cane in the room and swung it down toward the man on the bed.

"Damn you, Xiao An, acting like that!"

Just as the cane was about to strike the man, he suddenly opened his eyes and hurriedly dodged the attack, grimacing from the pain but unable to spare the expression.

"Sister Ai, Sister Ai, I’m sorry, I’m scared you’d hit me! Don’t hit me, I’m a patient, I’m new here, I’m injured, you can’t treat me like this!"

But the cane still landed squarely on the man’s backside.

"Ah—"

A heart-wrenching scream echoed through the room.

The woman named A-Yang watched the interaction between the two, sighed helplessly, yawned, and turned to leave.

——————

The visual ended there.

Yu Yuan returned to the Place of Divine Rest tower.

Yu Yuan’s expression was complex. He had expected important information, but hadn’t expected to see memories from Mortarian’s youthful years.

The other woman named Ai should be Absinthe.

The woman called A-Yang was someone Yu Yuan could not identify.

However, he strongly suspected she might be one of the so-called Four Horsemen.

Hmm—could Mortarian himself also have been one of the Four Horsemen?

Right now, the only confirmed member of the Four Horsemen was Absinthe, so anyone connected to her was a prime suspect.

Yu Yuan then checked the other crystals in turn.

Almost all the memories were related to Absinthe. Other people rarely appeared, and when they did it was because of Absinthe.

They were early memories, too, since the two of them were extremely young. At that time they weren’t even Golden-tier elites.

But when Yu Yuan reached the penultimate crystal, things changed.

Mortarian was now a middle-aged man. His appearance was very similar to the statue in the hall on the first floor, also wearing a monocle.

But his features were older and more mature.

Mortarian’s state was off—weathered, bewildered, stubborn, painful, with a hint of madness crossing his face.

His mental state was unstable; exhaustion was obvious in his eyes.

This indicated damage to his heart meridian.

Mortarian seemed to be standing on a high tower, above the Morphis planet.

He stood by a crystal window looking out at the scene outside.

Yu Yuan walked to his back and also peered out.

This was indeed the Morphis planet.

And it was the time when the living-planet species Morphis was still alive.

Yu Yuan even saw a distant tower he recognized very well.

Yu Yuan could even see the Place of Divine Rest tower where he currently stood.

Mortarian looked at the landscape and murmured to himself.

His voice was soft, but Yu Yuan heard him clearly.

"Absinthe, wait for me! I will definitely resurrect you!"

"Morphis has already fused with Ether. Once it evolves twice more, it can cross that threshold and meet the conditions to resurrect you. Then Morphis can consume all of its life energy to reconstitute your remaining genes. Wait for me…"

"Do you know? The Abyss people are hitting us harder and harder. Some of our people have been corrupted by them. The situation isn’t great…"

"By the way, there’s some good news. Adran told me someone in the New World saw a miraculous creature that seems to have the ability to be reborn. I plan to go see it. Maybe it will help with your resurrection. Maybe we’ll be able to meet again soon…"

The visual cut off.

Yu Yuan’s emotions churned.

Mortarian had created the living planet Morphis for the purpose of resurrecting Absinthe.

At this period Morphis had already fused with Ether, so the threshold Mortarian mentioned must be the bottleneck that lets Morphis rise above Gold.

To resurrect Absinthe, Morphis would have to reach an above-Gold strength and then expend all of its life energy to recreate her remaining genes.

The difficulty of that task made Yu Yuan shudder just thinking about it.

"Judging from Mortarian’s condition, this timeline must be very close to the time of his fall."

"Who is this Adran Mortarian mentioned… Is Mortarian’s fall related to him?"

Yu Yuan’s gaze fell on the last diamond-shaped crystal.

A flicker of expectation appeared.

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