Chapter 1279: National Defender Badge, Diverting Attention

“Isn’t this thing somewhat absurd? Is it suitable for me to use it for now?”

“You are using it for rightful matters, what is there to be afraid of.”

Wen Yan felt that he might have slightly underestimated the Scorching Sun Department, or the foundation of the Divine Land.

He remembered going to the Scorching Sun Department’s warehouse and seeing those densely packed shelves.

Perhaps the items indeed exist, but there is no suitable person or corresponding matter to use them for.

It should be that ordinary people cannot handle those items, with the harms far outweighing the benefits, hence they’ve been left to gather dust.

After all, it’s still lacking people, lacking people with a certain level of strength.

Wen Yan put it all away and took out his phone, uploading the photographs and videos he had taken earlier to the Black Box.

“First find the corresponding items.”

The Black Box was searching, while Wen Yan made a call to the General Director.

On the other side, at headquarters, the General Director was still directing the Black Box to dig out information, and the Black Box popped up a message for him.

“Call from Wen Yan.”

“He’s back?”

“His phone connected to the signal three hundred and seventy-seven seconds ago.”

“Connect.” The phone connected, and the General Director said in a deep voice, “Wen Yan, are you alright?”

“I’m fine, I also brought Er Jingong with me, still alive, should be no problem, and I just sent something over, General Director, you’d better not look directly, it might be dangerous.”

“As long as you’re fine, next, you should rest well, as for me, you needn’t worry.”

“No, I already have important clues, I need to catch the person as soon as possible.”

The General Director spoke with Wen Yan, and let the Black Box open the photos Wen Yan had sent.

The Scorching Sun Department’s phone had captured photos of a temple, a small town, all related to the case.

Wen Yan also took a photo of a sandstorm, but he did not send that to the Black Box.

Originally intended to take a photo of his aunt, she sure looked splendid.

But worried it might trigger unknown risks, he only photographed the sandstorm as a lead.

He recalled that Huafu Dajiang said that the fragmentary scenes in the Ancient Dream, even if swallowed by the dark curtain, could still reassemble.

Wen Yan was unsure if he could find the true body of the statue outside, or what if the statue is no longer outside?

It’s all possible.

Since he found a way to walk out, then he pondered if the real world ceased to exist, does he have the slightest possibility to repeat the instance?

Anyway, various preparations must be made, considering all situations.

After all, the things from the Ancient Dream have ceased to exist in the real world, which should be a common situation.

The General Director, unaware of the strange thoughts in Wen Yan’s mind, looked at those photos.

The Black Box had already provided matching results.

The results matched the photo of the small town with images from more than twenty years ago, quite confirmed when compared with those old photos.

And the match results for the temple were out too, it was a hall in the Northeast, but that temple was demolished ten years ago.

It was a local government-led demolition project to build a reservoir and road, at that time the small temple’s people tried to apply as an ancient building to delay the demolition.

But the appraisal back then showed the temple was not ancient, built decades ago, and not intended as a temple when constructed.

The record at the time said that after the demolition, the people in the hall took the lead to prepare to first demolish, then use the original core materials to rebuild it elsewhere.

This was approved and compensation given, but after approval, there was no follow-up.

Records said after demolition, no one took away the bricks, tiles, beams, and the compensation beneficiaries have vanished.

Back then, there was a dispute among the hall’s people, deaths occurred, causing quite a stir.

The General Director focused on the photos and videos, sensing vaguely that some force seemed to be pulling.

However, the moment that force appeared, it directly dissipated, incapable of unsettling the General Director standing here.

After sensing it, the General Director continued to watch the real-time records Wen Yan had documented.

“Wen Yan, the thing you’re looking for was demolished long ago, but I have some impression of it.”

“Ah, really gone?” Wen Yan was greatly disappointed; where would he go for difficulty now?

“No, the temple was demolished, bricks, tiles, beams were not taken, but the true core thing, should have been taken, certainly rebuilt elsewhere, the follow-up Black Box will show you the materials, I can’t narrate it, once traced here, you will be informed, you might need to visit the Ancient Dream.”

“Okay.”

After hanging up, the General Director looked at the screen and continued.

“Record, trigger-able Ancient Dream, named as Hall. Risk level of falling, Level 1, Low. Under specific conditions, risk level of falling, Level 4, Medium-High. Power threat level, Level 3. Difficulty of escape from fall, fixed level 5.”

The General Director looked at the photos and recalled some of the incidents from back then.

This incident indeed posed some trouble, the unresolved problems from back then have extended all the way to now.

The Black Box’s sifting continued, and the General Director looked at the map on the screen, the number of light dots is becoming fewer and fewer, from densely dotting the map to now sparse.

As the Black Box here mobilized a large amount of computing power, the General Director received a report from the computing power center, saying too much computing power was mobilized simultaneously.