A Failure's hopeful Journey

You Xi Wang regrouped with his team and he described the new plan to them. They were going to clear up the divergences and he will be dealing with the main veins in the tunnel. The primary vein was sealed and given up for the time till they would clear up the rest of the divergent veins. The process may be long but it will be able to temper the still somewhat glitchy rookies. 

The team had no objections and they all agreed to follow the arrangements and since then, the people began to clear up things in batches. They gave up on the cycle of day and night and the progress of the clearing groups increased slowly but surely. On the other hand, You Xi Wang started to venture out alone in the tunnels and he would even act alone to even seal the tunnels. 

Since he did not encounter any crawlers he did not take any careers with him. Onyxia was distressed but she accepted this scenario. Yuki had told her already, not to have hoped. You Xi Wang will not be taking any other women. The reason was that he already had enough and his heart was set on his cultivation path and the upcoming test of the ancestors. 

You Xi Wang's work pattern was different than others. He would enter the tunnels but come out only after he had reached the end of a vein. He would sometimes bring back some remains of dwarf zombies he had killed and ask the people of the army to return the things to the families of the deceased. 

This move of his had won a lot of hearts. The people were grateful that he bought them back the remains of the deceased and they could use these things for a proper funeral of their family members and pray for their peaceful journey in the afterlife. 

However, what he did not tell anyone was that he had destroyed the zombies their family members had become. He had to slay these things to move forward, yet he tied to preserve things as much as he could. The progress of clearing the tunnels had increased at a rapid pace. In just a week he had dealt with three big divergent veins. 

Each of them was deeper than the previous one. He had been getting closer to the deepest part and the system could sense the source of darkness. Just as the boy turned back his head to walk out of the cleared tunnel vein. The system said, "You better get the rest of the people out of this place, the source of this dark fog seems to be something sentient. The seals put on the tunnels are preventing it from advancing. 

I can sense the darkness in the main vein getting thicker and thicker. It is like a volcano duct ready to go off. Since it cannot erupt forward, how do you think it will explode?" 

You Xi Wang said, "Sideways. Shit." 

He ran out and tracked where the rest of the people were. After he was in the communication range he said, "Everyone retreat now." 

His loud voice in the communication channel surprised the people but within one second they all began to evacuate quickly and orderly. This was their training, if an R command was issued then everyone must obey it without delay. 

The R commands were Rescue, Retreat, and Regroup. After an hour everyone was outside of the tunnels and the people were accounted for. Fenny asked You Xi wang, 'what happened?" 

The boy sighed and after removing his mask he said, "The main vein's volume of dark mist is accumulating into a thicker fog. We will not be able to deal with it if it erupted the vein, like a tube crushed from the sides. The tunnels will collapse and it will count as a failure. 

If we tried to rush and the tunnels erupted while we are all inside, it will be terrible." 

These words made the people calm down. They did not know how to deal with this. You Xi Wang scanned that everyone was anxious thinking about the problem, he sighed and said, "Can you all look past the problem and think about the solution? You all have the education and training to deal with this kind of situation long before you joined this group. 

Calm down and think, how you can solve this situation. I can give you one idea but that would be making you people too dependant on me. Those who wish to pass the ancestral examination shall be sharp in mind and strong in body. If your body is a sword then common sense is the edge of this body. You have an hour to think and reply." 

After finishing his monologue the guy sat down with the phantoms and his elder sister's team. You Zhichi said, "You scared me by such a command. I thought something big was about to happen." 

The handsome guy smiled and said, "Something is about to go down, but I cannot let these people enjoy free labor." 

Fenny asked, "You detected the dark source?" 

Everyone was surprised and You Xi Wang raised his hand while making an OK symbol and said, "B-I-N-G-O" 

He paused and made an isolation array around them before speaking. He said, "The source is sentient." 

Yuki said, "Could it be some expert taken over by it?" 

The boy nodded. Neo said, "How do we deal with the laws of darkness? This thing just became an SSS mission." 

You Zhichi said, "What do you mean by the laws of darkness?" 

She was not there when they faced Yuki's grandma so the team explained the laws of darkness to her. The Celestial maiden was calm and waited for You Xi Wang to speak up. However, when she saw him not responding, she asked, "Gougou, what is it?"

The boy said, "We cannot use the tunnels as the battlefield anymore. The reason is that area has no source of natural light. Even in the lost sector, we had a source of light. Despite being covered up by a world array the source of light was natural. We need to lure that thing out."