Chapter 2462: Chapter 821: You Kept Demanding a Power Creep—Well, Here It Is_3
"Storm Hammer, please bring in Cement and Ruyi."
Upon witnessing the situation, "Lady Shui" immediately called for "support." A few minutes later, Cement Sister and little Ruyi, who had been waiting outside and slacking off, were brought near the control room. This newbie, carrying a novice magic wand, walked into the control room under the curious gaze of seasoned players.
Cement Sister’s eyes lit up upon seeing the automatically operating control core.
She quickly stepped forward and professionally touched the core device enclosed in a silver-gray hexagonal mechanical box. After a few seconds, she turned around and said to the others:
"I need you all to leave temporarily. Ruyi and Lady Shui, stay here to help me. The rest of you, do whatever you need to do."
"Can you handle it?"
Cheche shouted defiantly from the crowd:
"This thing looks really advanced. Don’t mess around and accidentally trigger some damn self-destruct system, blowing us all up."
"Well, the little brother seems quite confident, doesn’t he?"
Cement Sister was not indulgent of Cheche; she made a ’please’ gesture and said:
"If you think you can do it, go ahead!"
"I’m not going!"
Amidst the laughter of the crowd, Cheche decisively admitted defeat.
Natalie turned to ask "Lady Shui" a few questions, and upon receiving a definite answer, she waved her hand, and the NPCs escorted Old Flynn away. However, before leaving, Flynn’s identity card in the base was taken off and handed to Cement Sister.
After the others left, the control room was left with just three girls.
Cement Sister exhaled deeply, rolled up her sleeves, and said to Lady Shui and Ruyi:
"Ah Wen, go to the information monitoring station on the left and temporarily shut down all running processes. Ruyi, find the database interface on the right, and when I remind you, quickly disconnect the database slot, it’s the red one!
Don’t touch the blue and black ones, those are the security device limiters. Once removed, the self-destruct system might really activate.
But no worries, this is just an automatically operated control core. It shouldn’t have the authority to bury everything here."
"So, you’ve seen something similar before?"
Lady Shui asked curiously. Cement Sister snorted in a smug voice and said:
"I’ve not only seen it, but also dismantled it. It was much more advanced than this thing in front of us. It seems like this is just an edge facility from the Golden Era, far inferior to what that great figure hid away... Ahem, you heard nothing!
Now, let’s get to work!
Ten minutes, get it done!"
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Cement Sister wasn’t bragging when she said she’d take over the base in ten minutes. Thanks to her twenty-plus days of "research" in the well-preserved Marsh Museum, she had gained a general understanding of how the creator’s facilities operated. Cracking an automated control core without high-level permission wasn’t challenging.
At nine minutes and twenty-seven seconds, Lady Natalie, who was searching for a fourth-layer entrance within the F-217 warehouse on the third underground floor, suddenly heard a sharp, brief whistle. All lights went out simultaneously and were re-illuminated with a softer stance a few seconds later.
Immediately afterward, Cement Sister’s voice echoed from the speakers above:
"Retreat ten meters, I’ll open that locked-down path for you. But note, the control core’s monitor revealed there’s a massive empty void on the fourth layer with very surprising energy fluctuations inside.
The R-9 base has a fearsome independent energy system, but in the past millennia, 70% of its energy has been used to lock down the fourth layer. It’s not a catastrophe caused by heretics, but for heretics to be so cautious about it means that thing must be amazing.
Additionally, our Explorer gentleman is currently on some torn area on the fourth underground layer trying to activate an unknown transporter, carrying a special item marked as ’TS-092 Mind Control Unit.’
The database description of this item is encrypted, indicating it’s equally important.
Catch him, retrieve it!"
As the words fell, the hidden downward entrance is ejected outward in mechanical vibration, a downward mechanical spiral path opens. Natalie, without hesitation, rushes down followed closely by Lady Lena and Lord Yvette, then the noisy players.
But when they reached the fourth layer via the mechanical hanging ladder, everyone was left in shock.
Even the experienced Third Lord Lady Yvette widened her eyes and slightly parted her lips as if witnessing something incredible.
"This is..."
The old players experienced the battle at the Crimson Corridor instantly screamed, Brother Meow covered his face and shouted:
"Why... Why is there such a huge subspace fracture here! Crap, if this thing explodes, the entire Dark Mountain Range is doomed!"
