Light Fortress
Chapter 219 - 204 Malice

Chapter 219: Chapter 204 Malice

The technology of Lion Awakening Wine was enclosed in such an ancient, small bronze box.

The construction of this cipher box was very simple.

Six rotating disks, one copper lock, apparently sturdy but actually vulnerable to any attack.

For a Transcendent, destroying such a cipher box was too easy... they didn’t even need to follow the logic of "decryption" to extract the information inside.

Gu Shen stared at the bronze box, somewhat skeptical.

Could such a box protect a secret?

"I know what you’re thinking."

The lady said, "This bronze box’s material is not robust against the Transcendents; they can easily destroy it... but this is the creation my father used to protect the Lion Awakening Wine technology."

"To unlock the bronze box, both a password and a key are necessary... Should one attempt to forcibly break it, without the intervention of Extraordinary Power, the box can withstand burning, crushing, and submersion without fear of physical damage."

"However, if one tries to break the box using Extraordinary Power, the Caster will suffer a heavy blow... because the box’s inner coating is filled with ’illogic material’."

Gu Shen slightly furrowed his brow.

He knew about ’strong logic materials,’ red silver, and purple silver... These materials, because of their rigorous logic, couldn’t be destroyed by Extraordinary Power, and were commonly used to contain, imprison out-of-control beings, and unclaimed sealed objects.

Of course, they were also turned into weapons used to kill ’Transcendents.’

Illogic material, however, was a first for him... but not hard to understand.

The order and structure within an object constitute its "logic."

Strong logic means a structure that is rigid and hard for Extraordinary Power to erode, suppressing the Extraordinary Power.

Illogic... should be the complete opposite, dispersing Extraordinary Power.

"Because of the conservation law of Extraordinary Essence, humans cannot absorb Extraordinary Essence that is outside their own system... Once they come into contact with ’illogic material,’ the entropy of Extraordinary Essence will surge."

It was not much different from his understanding.

Illogic material would lead to a further dispersion of extraordinary properties.

Gu Shen had already envisioned... the scenario which one who dismantles the bronze box would face.

Disorderly surge, with the most direct impact being—power out of control!

"Of course, as a warning, initially touching the illogic material inside the bronze box’s coating will only result in the loss of the dispersed part of the Extraordinary Essence... If one insists on dismantling it, once the coating’s illogic material is damaged, the contents inside the bronze box will be instantly destroyed. Similarly, the Transcendent who attempts to break the box will also immediately suffer from an invasion of uncontrolled Extraordinary Power."

Staring at this plain old bronze box, Gu Shen felt a cold sweat breaking out on his back.

Who would dare to underestimate the creations of the old era?

Goodness... was this the malice from Mr. Lu Cheng?

However, he was curious about what would happen if Chi Huo burned the bronze box... Gu Shen stroked his chin, and based on his past experiences of consuming ’Points of Order Collapse,’ the illogic material filled inside the coating of the bronze box should be directly consumed by Chi Huo, right?

Hm.

This bronze box, most likely, couldn’t stop his Chi Huo.

"I know the six-digit code, but the key has been lost."

Lu Nanzhi gently caressed the rotating disks of the bronze box and murmured, "The key was carried on my father’s person. He fell in a pool of blood in Lion Alley, and his belongings were completely looted... The FBI thinks it was a robbery."

She was a bit distressed, rubbing her temples, "But I always feel... they might have been after the Lion Awakening Wine technology."

"Madam..."

Gu Shen spoke up, "As you might have guessed, the Lion Awakening technology had already been stolen."

This woman’s intuition was indeed sharp.

Even if she hadn’t noticed, Gu Shen had decided to inform her: "In the ninth level of the Huazhi Underground, where the Awakening Bill experiments were conducted, I don’t know if you had visited it yourself, the ’Link Technology’ there was actually derived from ’Lion Awakening’... extracting the spiritual element, displaying it concretely in the real world. In a sense, ’Lion Awakening’ is a form of awakening."

Lu Nanzhi looked stunned.

"This bronze box, I’m afraid it has been opened once already," Gu Shen said softly. "I guess it was the person who killed Mr. Lu Cheng... who took the key, opened the box, and stole the Lion Awakening data."

"But... the password?"

"It was hypnosis."

"No... there was a Spiritual Lock." Lu Nanzhi murmured, "The password for the Lion Awakening technology must have been tightly secured."

Gu Shen calmly said, "In front of a sufficiently powerful Transcendent... those Spiritual Locks cannot function as barriers. It’s just like how I entered your spirit."

The lady suddenly fell silent.

Because she knew... Gu Shen was right. Spiritual Locks could lock out 99% of the world, but it’s often the 1% who can break these locks.

Old Lu might have had a premonition that something was going to happen.

He gave the most crucial ’Spiritual Lock’, that ’red door’... to himself.

"As the ’key’... I borrowed some of Deep Sea’s authority and compared the ’Lion Awakening Technology’ with the ’Link Awakening Technology’," Gu Shen paused, then continued: "The similarity between these two technologies is very high. According to the comparison results, the latter is likely evolved from the former... If it wasn’t Mr. Turing, deceased, who leaked it, then it must have originated from Mr. Lu Cheng."

Lu Nanzhi stood there, holding the bronze box, looking at the relic she had treasured and protected for ten years, suddenly feeling lost.

"I’m not sure whether this has anything to do with Mr. Lu Cheng’s identity being exposed in the Ancient Literature Society, but what’s certain is this ’accident’ was no accident..." Gu Shen spoke quietly, "The council had been eyeing the ’Lion Awakening Technology’... Moreover, one thing is for sure, whoever did this was very cautious, not taking the bronze box directly is a sign they wanted to bury the truth."

Lu Cheng passed away.

The Lion Awakening technology was lost.

The newly introduced was Deep Sea’s Link Awakening Technology... if it hadn’t been for the source code detecting flaws, who could have linked these two technologies together?

He didn’t know the truth... he could only assume the worst intentions for what had happened in Lion Alley.

But the truth might be darker than this malign intent.

"The Zhao Family..."

Lu Nanzhi took a deep breath.

After she lowered her gaze, the sadness in her eyes slowly congealed, gradually turning into fury.

Without a doubt... Zhao Xilai was privy to this, even if he didn’t know the murderer in Lion Alley, he should know who was providing the Zhao Family with technological support.

He was indeed an old friend of her father, sharing the same ideals.

Regarding the research into Lion Awakening Wine, even if he hadn’t participated directly... he should have been able to discern the nuances of the technology provided by the council.

For many years, her belief was... the Lion Alley massacre had nothing to do with the Zhao Family.

Perhaps Zhao Xilai indeed hadn’t participated in the "assassination".

But he chose to stand by... and to keep silent.