Before the mountain gate, on the other side of Li Guanqi and his five companions, lay another secluded valley.
Xue Tingtao huddled at its farthest end, the Ring Straw in his left hand and Draw a Circle to Imprison in his right, his face deathly pale.
That pallor came from fear, but it was not the pressure of this Manager Mission that frightened him.
Perhaps it was the hints from the last Immortal Ascension Mission, or perhaps the sheer power of the Manager Mission, that had caused his erased memories to show signs of loosening.
A few scenes from the Fifth Manager Mission surfaced in his mind out of nowhere.
In one, he was trapped alone in a dark chamber on some floor, while a deep male voice guided him through the communicator at his ear.
In another, while he drifted in and out of consciousness, a tall, indistinct figure stood in front of him, engaged in some kind of negotiation with Ji Li.
Whether they were fragments of memory or false hallucinations, they sent waves of fear through Xue Tingtao's mind.
That sense of having lost something returned, and this time it took deep root. He could not remember who that blurred figure was, yet he could not shake him from his mind.
Xue Tingtao was no ordinary employee, after all. He immediately thought of one possibility—his memories had been erased.
And those memories concerned someone very, very important to him.
Likewise, this person's emergence made him begin to view the Sixth Manager Mission from an entirely new perspective.
Given Xue Tingtao's temperament, "giving up" was clearly the most sensible decision.
He could abandon the Sixth Manager Mission and the Fourth Puzzle Piece Fragment. Neither he nor Wei Guang had a yin body, and neither had ever died.