"Goodbye!" Ling Lan saw Ling Xiao's lips move, leaving behind these last two words. Then, she was expelled by a strong force — Ling Xiao had chased her out once more...
Before Ling Lan could regain her senses, Little Four's expression changed drastically. "Not good! Dad's legacy space is disappearing!"
Ling Lan was shocked at these words. She tried to enter the legacy space once more, but was stopped by the legacy space. Even Little Four, an almost omnipotent god in the virtual world, had been forcefully expelled by some terrifying force from the legacy space, unable to get close at all...
At this moment, Ling Lan's mind rang out with Ling Xiao's voice, "Goodbye, my child. Please forgive this irresponsible father of yours. Please take over my responsibility and protect your mother well!"
Following the disappearance of this voice, Ling Xiao's legacy space disappeared from the Scout Academy's virtual world, leaving not a trace behind. It was as if Ling Xiao's legacy space had never existed.
"Boss, Dad has really disappeared..." Little Four abruptly appeared by Ling Lan's side. In the virtual world, Little Four could change into any image he wanted. Thus, a five to six-year-old child clutched tightly at the hem of Ling Lan's clothes, his eyes filled with grief and tears.
Little Four was so sad because he had not had the chance to introduce himself in front of Ling Xiao, to call Ling Xiao 'daddy'...
Ling Lan held back the tears that threatened to fall from her eyes. Patting Little Four's head, she said comfortingly, "Dad hasn't disappeared. He will always remain in our hearts, won't he?"
Ling Lan's words reminded Little Four of something. He held back his waterfall of tears, and was just about to speak when he noticed a message from the virtual world. His expression changed involuntarily as he said, "Boss, let's get out of here quickly. There are hackers and spectres approaching..."
Little Four hurriedly led Ling Lan away from the scene. In a few flashes, they had rushed back to the recovery pod. As Little Four fled, he did not forget to wipe away all traces of them in the virtual world. Little Four believed that with an intelligence entity of his level, the average person would not be able to find any problems. However, Little Four was still very cautious. After sending Ling Lan back, he returned to his original spot. He had thought about it — if someone accidentally discovered any traces of them, he would completely destroy the virtual world of the Scout Academy and destroy all the data inside. He absolutely could not bring any danger to his boss.
Just a few seconds after Little Four had fled with Ling Lan, five people suddenly appeared where they had been. Four of them were wearing uniforms, while one of them was wearing a black robe that covered his entire body. His appearance could not be seen at all — this was the standard equipment of a spectre evolved ability user.
One of the uniformed men, who was obviously of higher status, said to the others, "It should be here. You guys hurry up and check if there are any abnormalities here."
Hearing the order, the other four men began to move. Not long after, they reported the results of their search to the leader.
"Colonel, we can no longer sense the existence of the legacy space here, nor can we find any traces of it being moved..." said one of the uniformed men with a cryptic expression. He knew very well who that legacy space belonged to. Once it was lost, it would be an incalculable loss to the entire Federation.
"Colonel, I've already successfully recorded all the students who have approached this place within the past three hours. This is the name list..." As another uniformed man spoke, a piece of white paper appeared in his hand. The paper was densely filled with the names of the students, and he handed this information directly to the colonel in the lead.
The colonel reached out to take the name list, but did not look at it. Instead, he turned to look at another black-robed man on the other side and said, "Lieutenant Colonel J, did you find anything?"
Lieutenant Colonel J had been specially deployed by military headquarters from a special forces team to support them. As for the other's information, the colonel did not know. He had not even seen the other's appearance before. The colonel was not displeased by this, because he knew that for any spectre, other than their direct commanding officer, no one else had the right to know the other's true identity. All of this was a necessary measure to protect the spectre.
No matter which country it was, they would all put all their efforts into monitoring their spectre, especially the spectre of an enemy country. Once they knew the other's true identity, as long as there was a chance to kill the other, they would choose to make the move even if they had to pay a terrible price.
This was because the current human society was unable to completely break away from the virtual world, and spectre evolved beings were the equivalent of death gods in the virtual world. No matter how strong a person was in real life, once they entered the virtual world, as long as they were targeted by the other party, there was almost no chance of escape. It should be said that spectre were a balance-destroying existence in the virtual world. This kind of ability that was akin to death gods made the rulers of all countries extremely wary and fearful...
Lieutenant Colonel J indicated for the colonel to wait patiently, and then he spread out his spectre power to sense the chaotic energy around them.
Meanwhile, the colonel took the opportunity to quickly scan through the name list in his hands. He did not see anyone worthy of suspicion, so he tossed the list to the uniformed member standing beside him and said, "Have the control room pull up the information on these people for me. Investigate carefully. Don't let go of any suspicious points."
"Yes, Colonel!" The uniformed member took the information and quickly left.
After sensing for a while, Lieutenant Colonel J said, "I don't sense any residual energy from other spectres." The energy of spectres could only be sensed by spectres. "The disappearance of the legacy space should have nothing to do with spectres."
Hearing Lieutenant Colonel J's reply, the colonel breathed a sigh of relief. If it had really been sabotaged by enemy spectres, he would probably have been sent to the military court. A simple charge of dereliction of duty would be impossible.
"But..." Lieutenant Colonel J's voice carried a hint of confusion, "The residual energy here makes me feel somewhat uncomfortable."
"Ah?" The colonel said agitatedly, "Do you feel anything wrong?"
Lieutenant Colonel J shook his head and said, "Not really. Perhaps some of the energy overflowing from the self-destruction of the legacy space has affected my spectre power somewhat." He could not put his finger on it either — this was just his intuition. It was not that there was any danger, but that the energy made him feel extremely uncomfortable, as if his spectre power was somewhat repelling it.
Hearing Lieutenant Colonel J's words, the colonel instantly understood. The legacy spaces left behind by god-class operators would definitely contain some of the god-class operators' spiritual energy forms. These energy forms were extremely powerful — if one were to say that spectres' only opponents in the virtual world were these god-class masters, their spiritual power was so strong that even these death gods were helpless against them, unable to do anything against them.
Having thought things through, the colonel tossed Lieutenant Colonel J's words to the back of his mind. He began to fret over how to explain the disappearance of Ling Xiao's legacy space to his superiors. Although he had escaped being sent to the military court, he still needed a proper reason to explain this strange phenomenon. Thus, he frowned and asked, "Then, Lieutenant Colonel J, in your opinion, what is the reason for the disappearance of the legacy space?"
Lieutenant Colonel J was silent for a moment, and then slowly opened his mouth to say, "Actually, there are many reasons for the disappearance of the legacy space. One is that external forces have wreaked havoc, most of which comes from spectres. Another is that the legacy space has already been inherited by someone else. Once the successor has completely mastered all the abilities of the legacy space, the legacy space will choose to self-destruct in order to ensure the uniqueness of the successor... "
The colonel's eyes lit up. "You mean, it is very likely that the legacy space that disappeared was successfully inherited by someone else?"
Lieutenant Colonel J nodded slightly and said, "Yes, this is one of the possibilities. Of course, another possibility is that the master of the legacy space had set a final deadline. Once this deadline was exceeded, regardless of whether the legacy space was inherited or not, the legacy space would self-destruct. "
The colonel had initially been overjoyed at the possibility of someone successfully inheriting the legacy space, but when Lieutenant Colonel J mentioned the deadline, his expression changed. He did not wish for Ling Xiao's legacy space to self-destruct because of the last reason. That would be too great a loss for the Federation.
Right now, he could only hope that it was the second possibility. As long as they could find Ling Xiao's successor, they would be able to obtain all the secrets of Ling Xiao's ascension to god-class operator status from Ling Xiao's successor. At that time, he believed that even if there was no way for the Federation to successfully ascend to god-class operator status, the Federation would still be able to mass-produce top-class mecha operators and shake the entire human society with their might. Then, the Federation's dream of becoming one of the top superpowers would be realized.
Having obtained the results of his investigation, the colonel no longer had any desire to stay in the virtual space. He immediately led the five of them away from the scene.
Not long after they left, Little Four's figure silently appeared where they had been standing. His little face was extremely solemn as he muttered softly, "Spectres, huh? As expected, he has some ability... "As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared once more.
Meanwhile, at this time, regardless of whether it was the virtual space or the real space, the news of Ling Xiao's legacy space's disappearance had already spread like wildfire. Because there had been no news of anyone successfully inheriting Ling Xiao's legacy space, the students had always maintained a great deal of enthusiasm for this mysterious legacy space in the academy's virtual space, paying close attention to it at all times. Thus, the disappearance of the legacy space had spread like wildfire among the students at first notice, catching the military, who had initially wanted to contain this news, unprepared.
The only thing they could rejoice over was that, other than some of the military's upper echelons and the academy's dean's faction who knew the true origins of the legacy space, the others were not clear on which master the legacy space had come from.
The military's investigation was thus carried out quietly. The upper echelons were inclined to believe that the legacy space had been successfully inherited by someone, so they had carried out strict surveillance and investigation on those who had come into contact with the legacy space in the past month. The moment any abnormalities were discovered, these students would be restrained and interrogated in secret.
For this reason, they had even borrowed hypnotists from the special forces to hypnotize these children in an attempt to find out the truth. However, these seemingly suspicious students had not received Ling Xiao's legacy. This greatly disappointed them, and also made them anxious. Their movements began to intensify, no longer as stealthy as they had been at the start.
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