Would You Be Willing to Be My Messenger? (Four Thousand Words)

"We're going to a mysterious valley about three thousand kilometers from Qinggang."

"It's near the western Sleeping Mountains, close to the range where the mountain nomad tribes are active."

"The original Crimson Moon Research Institute was built there.."

"It was said to have once held the greatest number of lunatics. There were also rumors that the first lunatics had appeared there."

"Besides that, many strange legends were carried by the surrounding nomad tribes to all corners of the world—for example, dead Buddha statues, hanged corpses wandering beneath the red moon, mysterious shepherds herding souls, and so on. It was the most mysterious and dangerous forbidden zone in the world."

"..."

Just before they were due to set out, Dr. An found Lu Xin and frankly told him the basic information.

"Only legends?"

Lu Xin looked at Dr. An curiously, making no attempt to conceal the suspicion in his eyes.

The Research Institute did not seem like a place that treated rumors as data. If such a mysterious and unknown place truly existed, and was connected to his previous identity in countless ways, Lu Xin did not believe they would have left it alone all this time...

"Yes."

Dr. An nodded calmly. "However, for more than a decade, the Research Institute has been trying to observe that place."

"In fact, we've sent at least a dozen teams there over the years."

"They included highly trained professional intelligence agents, well-informed researchers, controllable Ability users, and so on..."

"We even sent quite a few Infiltrators."

She looked to the side, especially at the red-hatted member of the Infiltrator team who had been waiting to set out for quite some time.

Then she shook her head. "But all of them returned empty-handed."

"Every observer we sent there disappeared mysteriously, without exception."

"Furthermore, virtually no