Chapter 2237 - I (1/2)

Han Sen and his team didn’t receive any more missions. They suspected that Ice Blue Knight King was grounding them to ensure Bai Wei’s safety, but they couldn’t be certain. They were stuck in the base for two weeks, and they weren’t given a single excuse to leave it.

But for Han Sen, that was ideal. After what happened with Night River King, who knew if other assassins might be lurking outside the base with Ancient Warrior Statues, just waiting for their chance to kill him.

The tri-colored Demon Bug King Bai Sema had been heavily damaged. Only Han Yan’s gold Demon Bug King Bai Sema was currently usable. If the same thing happened to them again, they’d have nothing left to repel such a horrible attack.

Staying inside the shelter of the base under the constant protection of the knights was currently Han Sen’s best option.

These thoughts lasted until the Ji family returned the diary to him.

The Ji family’s code crackers were quite skilled. After they managed to decode the diary, they translated Night River King’s messages in short order.

The content started before Night River King came to the systems of chaos, and the early entries were rather boring. They were only a few words each, and they tended to be simple notes about his day. He probably only wrote them in code out of habit.

When Night River King arrived in the systems of chaos, however, he was attacked by xenogeneics while he was defending Ice Blue System. That was where the diary got interesting.

Night River King hadn’t been there for long, but in that time, he discovered something rather strange. Instead of telling the Ice Blue Knights, he began secretly investigating on his own.

Sixty-seven days before Han Sen began reading the diary, Night River King had been spending his second day stationed defensively at the edge of the Ice Blue System. A group of xenogeneics had approached the border of the Ice Blue System and attacked the Ice Blue Knights that were on guard.

Then Night River King had made this note:

“It was here. It was always here.”

That didn’t make much sense. Han Sen didn’t know exactly what it meant, but it clearly indicated that Night River King had found something.

Han Sen kept looking through Night River King’s diary. He noticed that over the following days, each entry was short.

“It’s still here. Purple.”

“Seventh is infected. Haven’t found anything abnormal.”

“Thirty-second is infected. Nothing abnormal.”

…

“First is abnormal. Observation ongoing.”

The short entries continued for an entire month. Night River King seemed to have discovered something, and although his entries were short and mostly without emotion, Han Sen could sense the worry that had filled Night River King as he wrote.

“What did he find that scared him so badly, I wonder? What are his notes talking about?” Han Sen wondered with a frown. He didn’t have any answers yet.

The diary continued in that way for some time. The entries led up to a few days before Night River King had come and attempted to kill Han Sen. At that point, the diary included something new.