This answer was not surprising—or rather, it was only to be expected.
Jiang Qiao had merely asked offhand.
Unable to buy the secrets of the "Secret Building," Jiang Qiao shifted his attention back to the file.
[Ascension Incident]
"April 30, 2035."
"Location: Caomiao Village."
"Possibly related area: Wild Dog Ridge."
"On April 15, 2025, after multiple attempts, Caomiao Village ended its exploration of Wild Dog Ridge and officially declared it a failure."
"Throughout the exploration, outsiders estimated that more than three hundred people from Caomiao Village had died, while the explorers it hired to travel to Wild Dog Ridge may have suffered an astonishing six thousand casualties."
"April 30, 2035."
"Noon."
"Twenty residents of Ping An Street in Caomiao Village suddenly became rigid while walking. Their muscles and bones tensed completely, and they lost control of their bodies."
"After the rigidity set in, their body temperatures rapidly dropped, and livor mortis appeared on the surface of their skin. They then began floating uncontrollably toward the sky. They disappeared upon passing through the clouds two thousand meters above the ground."
"At the time of the incident, witnesses saw someone waving inside the clouds, after which the figure vanished from sight."
"Based on witness descriptions, the Caomiao Village investigation team reconstructed the figures' appearances and confirmed that the people seen in the clouds were explorers who had disappeared in Wild Dog Ridge ten years earlier."
"The incident was given the provisional code name—Ascension."
"May 30, 2035."
"The Ascension Incident occurred again. Unlike the first incident, which involved twenty people, this time one hundred residents became victims in succession."
"According to information from the investigation team."
"Several witnesses were close to the victims and personally witnessed the entire incident."
"Resident Ms. Zhang Jia stated:"
"At the time, the victim, Wang Quan, was