Immortal

"Is there some kind of mission?"

Hearing Changze's voice from the side, Yun Yu asked curiously. He had just moved a stack of bricks onto the pile of rubble, dusted off his hands, and turned to look at Changze with a hint of inquiry in his eyes.

Although the specific content was unclear, judging from Nagasawa's suddenly serious expression, there must be a new task assigned.

Upon hearing Yun Yu's words, Chang Ze nodded, indicating that he did indeed have a mission.

He took the headset off his ear, hung it back around his neck, stretched his shoulders that were sore from carrying logs, and his expression changed from relaxed to the composure characteristic of a CEA combatant.

"Do you need my help?"

Yun Yu is the smartest kid. He had already decided to go and see for himself. The origin of that Blazing Steel Dimaga is still unclear. The CEA's investigation is definitely related to monsters. Going with Changze might allow him to find out some first-hand information.

Instead of directly saying "I want to go with you," he insisted on asking "Do you need any help?" thus positioning himself as a helpful volunteer.

But clearly, as a combatant, Nagasawa would never allow ordinary people to get involved in a crisis, not even a simple reconnaissance mission.

CEA's discipline is clear: non-combatants must not participate in any potentially dangerous operations. This is to protect ordinary people and to be responsible for the mission.

So Nagasawa shook his head and said sincerely but firmly, "Thank you for your kindness, but this is what I should do."

He then smiled and patted Yun Yu's shoulder with his large hand, the force neither too light nor too heavy, carrying the encouragement of a senior to a junior: "Besides, this is just a normal reconnaissance mission. Trust the CEA's ace pilot."

He didn't know why he was talking to this young man like that, but for some reason, he felt a strange sense of familiarity with this boy who still looked like a student. It was as if they had fought side by side many times, and were comrades who could entrust their backs to each other.

This feeling was strange, but Nagasawa didn't think much of it, simply assuming that the young man had a friendly demeanor.

Upon hearing this, Yun Yu paused for a moment, then nodded to indicate that she understood.

His expression was calm, even a little regretful, as if he genuinely felt sorry for not being able to help.

But could Yunyu really be that obedient?

You know, Yun Yu didn't train his skills in following aliens for so many days for nothing.

What? You're asking how Yun Yu managed to stalk when her stalking skills weren't very good at first?

Yun Yu stated that if she were discovered, she would eliminate the alien on the spot, then learn from the experience and follow the next alien.

Anyway, there are plenty of extraterrestrials on Earth. Just grab one and practice with it, and your skills will improve over time.

Therefore, thanks to Yun Yu's superb tailing skills, even ace pilot Chang Ze did not realize that Yun Yu was tailing him.

Nagasawa left the town and headed northwest along a winding dirt road.

He walked quickly and steadily, stopping from time to time to observe the surrounding terrain and jot down notes in his notebook.

Yun Yu trailed far behind, using the roadside trees as cover, following like a shadow.

His footsteps were very light, barely making a sound as he stepped on the fallen leaves, and his breathing was extremely steady, blending his entire aura into the surrounding environment.

After walking for about ten minutes, Nagasawa finally found the steel plant.

To be precise, it is the site of a steel mill.

What appeared before Nagasawa was a gray-black rocky plateau formed by the cooling of magma.

Sixty years ago, a volcanic eruption swallowed the entire steel plant and the surrounding land. After the lava cooled, it formed a rugged steel rock landscape.

The ground was exposed with a large number of twisted steel beams and half of a chimney sticking out of the rock, like a black finger pointing to the sky.

The factory's perimeter wall is long gone; only a few broken walls remain, covered with withered vines and overgrown with weeds at their base.

Looking at the dilapidated steel plant, Nagasawa first reported the location and situation to Captain Sato through his earpiece, then tidied up his equipment and went straight inside.

As Yun Yu watched Chang Ze walk in, he was about to follow when a peculiar energy fluctuation suddenly attracted his attention.

The fluctuation was very weak and subtle; if his senses hadn't been sharp enough, he wouldn't have noticed it at all.

He looked over there, only to find a solitary stone tablet.

The stone tablet stands on a high ground at the edge of the site, backed by Qingyan Mountain and facing the steel plant ruins.

The stone tablet is not tall, only about half a person's height. Its surface is pitted and grayish from wind and rain erosion, making it look particularly lonely in the twilight.

Yun Yu glanced at Chang Ze, who had already ventured deep into the steel mill ruins, and then at the stone tablet radiating strange energy, before hesitating for a moment.

In the end, Yun Yu felt that the strange energy emanating from the stone tablet was more attractive. He gently walked around a piece of steel rock and silently approached the stone tablet.

Upon closer inspection, it became clear that some words were faintly engraved on the stone tablet, but due to the erosion of thirty years of wind and rain, the words on the tablet were no longer clearly visible to Yunyu.

The handwriting was severely weathered, the strokes were blurred, and only a few radicals could be vaguely discerned, making it impossible to form a complete sentence.

A ring of wild grass grew around the base of the stone tablet, some of which had withered and swayed gently in the wind.

Yunyu squatted down, stretched out her finger, and gently brushed away the dust on the surface of the stone tablet, trying to see the words on it.

Just then, a white shadow swept past Yun Yu.

The white figure moved with incredible speed, like a gust of wind or a wisp of smoke, drifting out from behind the stone tablet and brushing past Yun Yu's nose.

Yun Yu was startled by the white figure.

Ever since the Ghost Festival incident involving Meng Lan Jia, Yun Yu has become very sensitive to such supernatural phenomena, so he almost released a cross-shaped light dart directly.

Fortunately, Yun Yu was able to see the white figure clearly and discovered that it was actually the long-lost Lolita Mother. Therefore, Yun Yu quickly stopped the cross-shaped light dart that was about to be launched.

Even after so long, Lolita's mother still had the same unyielding sorrow in her eyes, like two bottomless ancient wells.

"Why have you been gone for so long?" Yunyu looked at her long-unseen little girl mother and had a lot of questions to ask.

He wanted to know where she had gone, what exactly the Burning Steel Dimaga was, and what the current situation on Earth was like, but when the words reached his lips, he could only ask this one question in the end.

I don't know if it's because the dungeon difficulty has increased, but the little girl's condition has not improved at all; on the contrary, she has become even more listless.

She didn't speak, or perhaps she couldn't speak.

She simply stood there quietly, gently raising her hand to slowly stroke the surface of the stone tablet.

The moment her fingers touched the stone tablet, something incredible happened.

Suddenly, time on the stone tablet began to flow backward.

The potholes eroded by wind and rain were filled in at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The blurred handwriting reappeared stroke by stroke, becoming clear and neat.

The whole process took less than three seconds, and the stone tablet, which had been eroded beyond recognition by wind and rain, was restored to its original state almost instantly.

Yun Yu stared blankly at this scene for a moment, her gaze falling on the words on the stone tablet that had become clear again.

At the very top of the stone tablet are four large characters: "Eternal Glory".