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Chapter 210: The Answer and the Mystery (Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 210: Chapter 210: The Answer and the Mystery (Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Ticket)

About a hundred years ago, someone entered this Central Control Room and then took away the central processor of the core computer.

He Ao carefully searched around but found not only the central processor was missing, at the place next to where the central processor should be, some slots that seemed to be for storage chips were also empty.

A hundred years ago at that time, the civilization within the relics had already been destroyed.

Who took away the central processor from here? The remaining human beings of the relics? A mysterious being that sneaked into the Central Control Room?

After pondering for a moment, He Ao left the area of the silver cabinet.

He quickly searched the entire Central Control Room but didn’t find anything that looked like the central processor.

After an unsuccessful search, he returned to the corpse of the Tomb Guardian, and lifted up his Combat Suit; above his sleeve, next to where the combat suit’s display should have been, was a small mini-screen displaying the remaining exploration time for this relic venture.

There were nine hours left.

As for the display on the combat suit, it had already been shattered during the battle with the octopus creature; both displays were shattered.

Out of the six cameras, four were destroyed, and the remaining two were ’accidentally’ damaged by some exotic beasts while he and ’Liu Nan’ were on their way to the high tower.

Three out of the six memory cards were also damaged.

Well, in short, they were damaged.

As for whether the Research Institute would question it, what the Research Institute needed was only intelligence; as long as the intelligence was accurate, it didn’t matter whether it came from He Ao’s mouth or was analyzed from the data recorded on the memory cards.

Of course, there were also some sensors for recording data in the combat suit, which just so happened to all be broken as well.

Now the only thing that was still working properly in the entire combat suit was this countdown clock, which He Ao had checked with Super Memory and found no issues.

Of course, He Ao also had another ’timing software’, in his field of vision, which recorded the countdown for the next opening of the Copy World, but this countdown followed the real-time flow of the main world.

Looking at the countdown in his field of vision, He Ao suddenly paused.

He realized that when he was thinking just now, he had ignored something,

The time discrepancy!

There was a time discrepancy between the relics and the main world; their flow of time was not equivalent but had a time-speed difference of a ratio of one to twelve.

If calculated back using this ratio, a hundred years in the relics would be about eight years in the main world.

No, it should be more since time was only He Ao’s rough estimate; the actual time might be even longer, perhaps a hundred years in the relics would translate to ten years, or even more, in the main world.

And the time point when the first passage to the relics appeared in the main world was eighteen years ago.

He Ao looked at the body of the Tomb Guardian in front of him, his gaze slightly focused, maybe the answer to one mystery was the surface of another.

Why did the Tomb Guardian possess these fabricated palmprint gloves and iris glasses, and the commander’s verification chip? Because he... or rather, the person who instructed him to come here, was very likely to be someone who is now in a high position within the Daybreak organization, who entered this Central Control Room about a dozen years ago in the main world.

That person did not open the door to the restroom, nor did they obtain administrator permission, but they took away the central processor of the core computer in the Central Control Room, along with some of the memory chips that were part of the central processor.

He must have acquired some knowledge from the central processor and memory chips, hence possessing the ability to forge fingerprints, irises, and commander chips, as well as knowing of the existence of the spacetime beacon.

In the main world, his strength grew rapidly over these past decade plus years, now surpassing D-level and reaching C-level, perhaps even higher, which is why he can’t enter the ruins, and that’s why he sent a Tomb Guardian to search for the spacetime beacon in his place.

As for whether the Tomb Guardian was the one who took the central processor, He Ao felt it wouldn’t be.

Firstly, if that person had truly entered the ruins many years ago, based on the information revealed in the previous conversation between Zhang Ansha and He Ao, these past dozen or so years have been a period of explosive growth for Transcendents. Those who entered the ruins earliest are now essentially the big shots in various fields. By that reasoning, since the other party holds a central processor that surpasses the era, to have survived until now, their strength should not be as weak as the Tomb Guardian’s.

Secondly,

He Ao looked at the gloves as thin as cicada wings, the iris glasses, and that slender chip device,

The chip and iris glasses are not an issue, as anyone could use them, but the gloves present a problem. These palmprint gloves clearly require customization, and the gloves on the Tomb Guardian’s hands were obviously too small, which he managed to put on with difficulty, whereas He Ao’s hands fit them with only a slight size discrepancy. If it were that person coming in person, they wouldn’t make gloves that don’t fit for themselves.

This also tallies with the earlier speculation, that the other party originally planned to go through Liu Zhengyun’s channels but ultimately had to activate a Dark Seed embedded among the special appointed researchers.

The Tomb Guardian wasn’t the person’s first choice but was a replacement called up later due to various reasons.

However, that person might have sent more than just the Tomb Guardian, and possibly not just once, to explore the ruins, although the tower probably isn’t that easy to find—after all, the teleportation locations within the ruins are completely random.

It just so happened that he found it once and then encountered He Ao.

Well, sometimes, luck is also a form of strength.

But if we reason backward,

He Ao looked at the tightly shut door,

If he were to open that door, he probably would need to find the central processor and those storage chips to determine the door’s information.

Since those storage chips and the central processor contain even the commander’s identity chip information, they should also have the information about that door.

And to find these two things, one would need to locate the person behind Daybreak manipulating the situation.

He Ao pondered for a moment, then took out the crystal ball, first absorbing the soul of the Tomb Guardian that had not yet dissipated as the cost to activate it, and then sank his consciousness into the crystal ball.

With the purple mist swirling, He Ao felt his consciousness extend in some way, and the scenery around him turned into a dim gray-white.

In this gray-white world, some ethereal smokes were particularly alluring. These smokes were the ’shadows’ surrounding the Tomb Guardian.

The Tomb Guardian’s soul had already been absorbed by the crystal ball, leaving only traces of the smoke, but after peeling away these smokes, He Ao vaguely felt he could establish a certain connection with the Tomb Guardian through the crystal ball.

With a thought, He Ao approached the consciousness of the Tomb Guardian.

Simultaneously, the Tomb Guardian, who had previously been lying rigid on the ground, suddenly sat up. He looked around, then fixed his gaze on He Ao standing in front of him and slowly rose to his feet.

He Ao watched the Tomb Guardian, and the Tomb Guardian watched him too.

The sensation was strange, as if seeing different images with both eyes at the same time, creating a curious sense of dissonance.