Li Xian froze at those words, then quickly turned around to see his parents standing before the console.
The voice had belonged to his mother, Song Zhi. She was staring intently at the screen, her expression grave, while Li Yuanqing stood a short distance beside her, his head lowered as he repeatedly pressed the buttons on the console. He soon realized it was doing nothing and stopped.
Li Xian immediately realized he had fallen into a memory again. The code that had just flashed past quickly turned into inexplicable gibberish. Instead of scrolling past in sequence, it now flickered rapidly and chaotically across the screen.
The alarm continued for about a minute before gradually subsiding. Throughout that time, Li Yuanqing kept his eyes fixed on the gibberish jumping across the screen. In the end, he actually managed to catch something and turned to Song Zhi.
"Just now, while we were importing Li Xian's biological data... an anomaly happened to attempt an intrusion. The system successfully blocked it, but some of their information became tangled together."
"Can't we separate it?"
Li Yuanqing shook his head.
"What about deleting the data and importing it again?"
"The system probably won't give us a second chance."
Song Zhi clicked her tongue and paced restlessly around the room. Finally, unable to contain her temper, she slammed her fist into the screen beside her.
"Permission to enter this place isn't enough... we should leave something else for him."
After murmuring those words, she fell silent for a while. Then she suddenly looked up, shifting her gaze to the fist she had struck against the screen.
"...This is it."
So this was... how the Veil of Eternal Night came to be?
Li Xian's gaze followed Song Zhi's movements to the screen. The moment the idea took shape,