Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 519 - 255: Grand Priest’s Deduction—Li Hao and Su An’s First Clash

Upon hearing the report from his subordinate, the Grand Priest furrowed his brows slightly, striving to scrape together memories related to the restricted area of the Taishan Ruins from his mind.

This is also a common ailment for Evolvers entering their twilight years.

Memory decline, especially memories of the past from the first half of one’s life, events from five hundred years ago, except for those events with deeply etched impressions that occasionally come to mind during contemplation, how could there be any recollection of minor matters?

Not to mention, even profound memories fade slowly over time.

This is an irreversible process.

The reason a Tier Two Body can remain imperishable lies in the fact that all the cells of the Tier Two Evolutionary Form have achieved unlimited replication and proliferation, allowing for renewal and perpetual youthfulness.

Just like cancer cells, each type of functional cell in the body has illuminated the ability for infinite proliferation, preventing aging and decay caused by limited numbers or capped proliferation cycles, which would lead to organ aging and overall functional decline.

However, this also presents a serious problem.

Existence is not merely a shell, especially for higher life forms, whose self-awareness is where the true soul resides.

A life without a soul will become a shell devoid of self.

Much like a vegetable or an idiot.

Human brain cells have a limit, reaching their peak at birth, and then gradually diminishing as the life form grows.

Each brain cell is akin to a storage space, and as these cells age and disappear, memories gradually fade, until at life’s end many once-treasured memory fragments and people are forgotten.

The syndrome caused by this is also referred to as Alzheimer’s, commonly known as senile dementia.

But the issue faced by Tier Two Evolvers is not just the limited storage space for memories, but the brain cell capacity limit can only hold experiences spanning a few hundred years.

An Evolver five hundred years later is almost like a different person from the one who controlled the same body five hundred years ago.

Even if past experiences are recorded externally in videos or diaries, upon reviewing them several centuries later, they feel incredibly unfamiliar.

This is because the brain cells involved in recording those experiences are long dead, replaced by a new batch of brain cells storing events from the recent century.

The Grand Priest has lived through several hundred years, and now, apart from seeking revenge against the Knight Commander, only the matter of his successor preoccupies his mind.

Other minor matters aren’t remembered so clearly.

Regarding the Taishan Ruins, he vaguely remembers it was once an underground restricted area where a polluted deity, an Evil God, was buried.

Therefore, the subterranean refuge ruins emit endless terrifying pollution.

But as it was once a large refuge, its internal resources are far richer than those in medium to large settlements on the wasteland, which is why countless wasteland Hunters and Wanderers have flocked to it over the past millennia.

However, with opportunities and risks coexisting, as the upper layer safe zones were scavenged clean, the value of the resources stored in the lower layers compared to the risk of genetic pollution became increasingly untenable.

This is why in the recent thousand years, the once popular Taishan Ruins gradually faded from view as its cost-effectiveness diminished.

By the Grand Priest’s sixth millennium, the Taishan Ruins had fallen from being one of the most popular ruins to a bottom-tier exploratory area.

Additionally, the dark environment of the lower layers is highly unfavorable for the followers of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect to traverse, resulting in even less contact and understanding of the Taishan Ruins.

If not for setting out early to Ancient Zhengzhou City and detecting traces of Fiery Sun Energy gathering at the Taishan Ruins while passing by, the Grand Priest would not have dispatched several servants with suspicion to investigate.

Now that information has arrived, indeed there are developments.

The Mid-stage Priest making the report also noticed the abnormal expression on the Grand Priest’s face and immediately recounted the background information on the Taishan Ruins:

For instance, the reason it was formed: several thousand years ago, an entity above Tier Three was about to ascend to godhood but was thwarted by the All Gods of the time, using a Level 39 Wolf King to obstruct its Path of Transcendence.

After failing to transcend, the polluted Evil God was sealed in the deepest part of the ruins.

As for the Late Tier Three Wolf King’s corpse, it remained in the refuge, becoming a part of the ruins, to serve as an eternal seal over the Evil God’s Body.

Over the years of evolution, coupled with the Desert Wolf Pack’s guardianship, the Wolf King’s Tomb outside became a landmark known as Fallen Wolf Valley, populated by a large number of wolves.

Through worship and guardianship, they rely on the lingering aura of the Wolf King emitted from the Wolf King’s Tomb to complete their own evolutionary metamorphosis.

Within, there are tens of thousands of evolving wolves...

The anomaly reported this time, according to the reconnaissance by the Fiery Sun Servants, was discovered after inquiring among the Wanderers. It is rumored that a second-tier influence called the Salvation Army intends to venture to the deepest part of the ruins to loot the prehistorical military arsenal and weapons production line stored there.

Upon reaching this point, the Priest continued:

"To reduce the radiation at the bottom of the ruins and drive away the darkness and hidden mutants within, they erected focusing equipment to channel the Fiery Sun Energy from the nearby Scorching Sun Forbidden Area, via concentration and refraction, into the depths of the ruins."

"Thereby dispersing the anomalous radiation within the Restricted Area."

"But after these people left, another force from Oasis Town entered thereafter, followed by a violent tremor emanating from underground, and then this group carried out numerous corpses of Tier Two Giant Wolves..."