Found it!
Yue Wen was a little nervous. His heartbeat, which the golden ripples had just soothed, sped up again. This time, however, it wasn't because a monster was chasing him, but because of his apprehension at the prospect of seeing a precious treasure.
Without anyone activating it, it could drive away demons, monsters, and evil spirits deep within the Wasteland Zone and carve out such a vast sanctuary. It was certainly no ordinary object!
He approached the helicopter's shattered doors and windows step by step and scanned it with his divine sense first. Only after finding nothing unusual did he step inside.
The very next instant, his pupils contracted!
At his first look inside, Yue Wen saw a charred corpse lying beneath the rear seats. What startled him was that the corpse was actually golden!
It had clearly been burned so black that clothing and skin were indistinguishable, yet its surface looked as though it had been coated in gold dust. On closer inspection, those markings seemed to have been forged by fire.
And there was more than one such corpse. Another "charred gold" body sat in the pilot's seat. Apparently, it wasn't that one particular person had been special, but that the spiritual fire that burned them was extraordinary.
As he'd suspected, they hadn't died in the helicopter crash. They had first been burned by some kind of spiritual fire, and their deaths had caused the helicopter to crash here. Yue Wen scanned again and found a broken brocade box beneath the helicopter's front seat, with an ancient-looking brass little sword inside.
The sword was palm-sized. Its surface looked as though it had been forged from brass, but a faint luster flowed across it. Its material was certainly no ordinary metal. The ripples that drove away evil spirits