Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 545 - 14: Goblin Code Disk_1

Chapter 545: Chapter 14: Goblin Code Disk_1

"This is my treasure room," Christo stepped into the metallic room and smirked, "Heh heh, I can’t wait to see your surprised face, Kyle."

Before them was a square metal room of over 60 square meters. Contrary to what Pannis had imagined, the room wasn’t filled with shelves or boxes. Instead, it was rather empty. There was nothing in the room, aside from the walls. It was a complete blank space and without Christo’s guidance, one would indeed think they had walked into the wrong room.

"It’s empty?" Pannis raised an eyebrow and surmised, "That makes sense. If all you’re storing are manuscripts and books like you previously mentioned, then a single box would suffice. If you use a space-expanding backpack, an even smaller secret compartment would do. Seems like this huge room is designed to deceive potential intruders or enemies."

"It is not just deceit, this is also a deadly trap," Christo elaborated, "If someone entered the room without properly unlocking the door, it would instantly set off an alarm. The metallic walls of the room would then begin to constrict rapidly. Don’t regard them as mere walls, along with them, a few dozen meters of earth would also constrict inwardly. Barely anyone could break out of there."

"Hmm, it sounds like it’s designed to deal with Demigods," Pannis pondered, "If someone forced their way in with their Inherent Psychic Domain, they’d trigger the trap and be crushed by the walls."

"Indeed, even a Demigod’s shield wouldn’t enable them to move freely and disable the trap under such a big squeeze. Their only option would be to escape using their Inherent Psychic Domain," Christo replied, "This way, our treasure would be secure."

"You mentioned five walls. So, the remaining one is where you hide your treasure, right?" Pannis glanced around the room and pointed at the wall facing the door, "This wall hides at least thirty secret doors. Do all of them lead to storage spaces?"

"No, only one of them is real," Christo said smugly, "Of the thirty-five secret doors, only one contains the genuine article. The rest are decoys. If anyone opens a decoy-filled secret door, the previously mentioned trap would be activated."

"You guys really are cautious," Pannis remarked, "Aren’t you afraid of forgetting the correct location and accidentally triggering the trap?"

"The trap can recognize the unique magical fluctuation of us users," Christo shook his head, "Even if we opened the wrong door, we can’t activate the traps. Don’t worry. Now, let me see...I placed it in the 27th cabinet. Ah, yes, here it is. It hides our clan’s top-secret Code Disk."

Upon opening the cabinet, a silver Code Disk lay quietly inside. Seven differently-shaped components lay next to the Code Disk. Christo’s dry lips trembled slightly as he reverently took out the Code Disk and handed it to Pannis, and removed the other seven components before carefully closing the cabinet.

"How does this work?" Pannis queried, "The few components I found and tested individually only projected a light screen filled with chaotic dots. There were signs of text and patterns but the content was completely indiscernible."

"That’s our goblin anti-leakage measure," Christo explained, "All those patterns and text require the Code Disk for calibration and ordering. Only then can they be read. If any component is missing, all you’ll see are the chaotic dots you described and it won’t be possible to obtain any valuable information. Here are the components. Try to install them."

Pannis took the parts, thought for a moment, and cautiously inserted the components one by one into the empty slots of the Code Disk. Conical, cubical, octahedral, dodecahedral, icosahedral, pentagram, and cylindrical objects. Some were able to be fully embedded into the Code Disk while others were only half exposed. When each piece fit flawlessly into its slot, it held fast with a satisfying rattle, merging seamlessly into the disk as though they had been made as one.

"What’s next?" Having installed all seven parts, Pannis waited a moment, only to be greeted by the Code Disk’s non-response. On close scrutiny, the Code Disk seemed made of two layers, nearly undetectable to the naked eye. Pannis frowned, "Am I supposed to rotate the bottom? And the rotation angle is restricted, right?"

"It indeed is," Christo replied, "We calculate it based on the position of the sun. You don’t need to be very precise, an estimation based on the time is enough. One full rotation of the Code Disk is equivalent to one rotation of the sun around Yarran. It’s now 8.24 in the morning. You can calculate it yourself."

"This is bothersome. My calculations have always been my weak point, and now, I’ll have to recalculate every time I want to activate this disk," Pannis complained, massaging his temple, "8.24 it is, let me figure it out, let me figure it out."

"Oh, you must rotate it correctly in one go," Christo added, "If you slow down or stop before reaching the correct position, the components will have to be dislodged, and you’ll have to start over."

"That just strikes me as deliberately making things difficult," Pannis grumbled. After calculating for a while, he held the top of the Code Disk with one hand and the bottom with the other, and started to rotate it forcefully. Goblins really do possess amazing technology, despite the Code Disk being at least ten thousand years old, it rotated smoothly as if it were brand new. Only a little effort was needed to make the disc spin smoothly without any noise.

"Alright." Pannis excitedly whispered, holding the Code Disk in his palm. After a few seconds, the disk began to slowly rotate by itself: "Do I need to hold it up? Or can I just put it on the ground?"

"Just put it on the ground, it doesn’t affect it." Christo gazed at the rotating disk, murmuring, "The effect will be even better if you put it on a flat surface than holding it in your hand."

Soon, according to the arrangement on the disk, all the components began to glow one by one, each emitting a pillar of light that ascended into the sky. The beams met in the sky, spread out with the rotation, and then a light curtain appeared above the disk in mid-air. The plane made up of light was like a table top, steadily lying in their field of vision, and the light curtain began to generate vague images and text. Pannis tentatively pressed his hand against it, his palm passed through the light curtain without hindrance, and when he took it back, the light curtain immediately returned to its original state.

"Eh? This is..." Pannis twitched the corner of his mouth, whispering, "It’s surprisingly a panoramic overhead view of the Yarran Continent. I didn’t expect the goblins of the Goblin Era could draw overhead views. I thought only Drakes and Winged People could do this."

"Don’t underestimate the era of the Goblin Empire," Christo said seriously. "The technology of the goblins is beyond what any sentient creature of today can imagine. Current technology can make skyboats fly in the sky, why couldn’t the Goblin Era have been able to do it?"

"Yes, that’s right." Pannis nodded, "It was my mistake, I underestimated the technology of that era."

After the panoramic overhead view lasted for two minutes, a constantly flashing green light circle appeared in the northwest corner of the map. The scenery outside the light circle darkened and eventually disappeared, leaving only the scenery within the light circle highlighted. Rows of densely packed goblin script began to appear next to the green circle. The script was clear, but this ancient Goblin Script was more complex and variable than the modern goblin language. Pannis, although he could understand it by hearing, found it a bit difficult to read the text directly.

"Don’t worry, I’ve translated all the text into the common language." Christo said, "I’ll bring the text for you later. You can read it with reference then. For now, let me give you a brief introduction. The text just now mainly introduces the geographical features, climate conditions and species distribution of this area, which doesn’t contain any valuable information."

After lasting for a while, the text quickly disappeared and the range of the green light point began to expand continuously. As it enlarged, the map within the green light circle also proportionally enlarged, eventually filling the entire light curtain, turning from a panoramic overhead view into a regional overhead view.

"This region should be the mountainous area in the west of the Mountain Country," Pannis observed, "Around the Darnes Plateau."

Christo recited a series of incomprehensible tones, and then explained, "That’s how it is called in the Goblin Language. It’s near the present Darnes Plateau."

The green light circle appeared again, once again enclosing a small area on the map, like what happened before, a large amount of text appeared next to the green circle.

"This area should be Felryas Mountain on the Darnes Plateau," Pannis confirmed, "No, the map has zoomed in again. Oh, I got it. It’s more like the flat plateau at the foot of Felryas Mountain. But where specifically? The map should continue to zoom in, right? Since it’s meant to guide the reader to a location, it surely will be more detailed."

Sure enough, the green light circle appeared several times, each time selecting a place to magnify. Each time, the characteristics of this area would be clearly written on the light curtain.

"It seems to have been zoomed in to the maximum," Pannis frowned and said, "It’s confirmed to be the plateau area below Felryas Mountain, but even according to the range of the last light circle, it’s more than a hundred square kilometers. How can we find a target in such a place, moreover, a target from ten thousand years ago? It would be too difficult."

"The text says the target was built deep underground," Christo added, "And it covered a very large area. The range marked by the last circle on the map is likely the entire area covered by the target."

"Are you kidding me?" Pannis was startled and asked incredulously, "What kind of research institute can cover an area of a hundred square kilometers? You saw the circle too, the area it marked, turns out to be several tens of square kilometers if not a hundred."

"Who said it was a common research institute," Christo retorted, "This is a hidden underground, massive super research organization, made up of dozens of research institutes." (To be continued. If you like this work, please recommend votes and monthly passes at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users can read at m.qidan.com.)