The footsteps in the passage were unhurried, and they approached the entrance step by step.

Not only Barrett, but also Hanyu didn't find any enemies, and her armor even had the function of spreading.

Countless nanotools have been left on the path they have traveled, and still nothing has been found.

"It's already past the first node, but there's nothing to confirm." Hanyu said, looking back in the direction of the entrance as she was led by Barrett.

The enemy has reached the position of the middle intersection and there is nothing.

"We speed up to the eleventh floor, which is the entrance to the next functional area, and when we get there, it should be difficult to track down."

In a typical triangular configuration, the further down you go, the wider the space.

The second stage is about the same size as the first stage, but the third stage is about twice the size of the first two.

The closer he got to the entrance to the eleventh floor, the more uneasy Barrett became, the sign here was not a good sign.

He had seen this kind of thing in Frost ...... "Sample Cultivation Area", a huge cultivation cabin, full of terrifying monsters.

Rectangular hollow, this should be the downward channel.

It can be seen that this place was supposed to be a sealed elevator, but now only the hole remains here.

The three of them jumped straight in, worried about what was the threat of what was approaching behind him.

A faint red light, the blazing phoenix on Barrett's chest emitted a faint red light, illuminating the surrounding distance of a few meters.

As the descent continued, all three found that the descent was slowing down.

There is an anti-gravity structure underneath.

The passage was so deep that it took them a full two minutes to reach the bottom of the cave.

Standing almost lightly on the ground, when they reached the bottom, the speed was almost like jumping off the last step.

"This is ............" surprised, with an extremely surprised expression, Barrett walked into the eleventh layer --- sample culture area.

Miraculously, it's not pitch black like the previous stage, it's light, and it's very soft.

The pale white light source was not emitted by a lamp or anything else, but like sunlight, it seemed to appear in front of them as a matter of course.

Records indicate that Juntian's exploration team had arrived here, but there was no information as to why they didn't move on.

"Although I can't find any information in the information, I personally don't think they got here." Hanyu was also amazed by everything about the place, the simple but beautiful furnishings, the soft and warm light, and the white-blue walls.

When he really walked into this space, Barrett found that the hole behind him had disappeared.

What was originally a hollow place is a solid wall.

"I've seen that." Barrett remembers, of course, Nopro's space, which is too similar to this place, where the entity overlaps with the original space, but there is no trace of it.

After a certain point, you arrive in a new space without any obstacles.

But when you want to go back, you can't find any way back unless you get permission.

"This should be the kind of projected space outside, but more advanced." Barrett lightly picked up a document on the stone table, the words on which he did not recognize.

"There are no signs of a battle, no corpses, not even a sign of an invasion here." Hanyu crouched on the ground and checked the dust on the ground, his fingers running across the floor, spotless.

"It's not unusual, there's no communication with the outside world, so naturally there's no way to get dirty here." Barrett shook his head as he read the document with the help of Kama.

It was a very common note, recording a message left by the scholar in charge of the observation to his companion: "The zenith monitor has some slight malfunction and needs to be repaired. ”

It's a very simple sentence, and I don't see anything valuable.

"Do you think they're going to go into a different place than we do? If they've ever arrived, they shouldn't have left nothing behind. Hanyu stood up and took two steps, looking for a way to open the door in the middle.

They were standing in a position similar to the Frontroom, with three doors on the surrounding walls, seamless, and would not be much different from normal metal walls if it weren't for the jagged bites on the doors.

Yes, the papers on the table have not been taken, and there are no signs of destruction on these doors, most likely as Hanyu said.

Putting down the sticky notes, Barrett looked at Ace, although Cama had translated the documents for him, she didn't have any useful advice here, after all, she didn't go out from here.

Ace noticed Barrett's gaze, and she had been observing everything around her, but she didn't say anything.

"I don't understand, but I just know that this is supposed to be a real observatory, and that's where it works." Ace groped with her fingers on the wall, and she didn't know how to open the door.

"I don't know what happened, these people either left abruptly or ............," Barrett changed the subject, walking to the middle of the antechamber and looking overhead.

There was a soft white light above, but it could not be penetrated, and the position as far as the eye could see was a few hundred meters high, but it seemed like a murky water, and the higher it went, the more blurred it became.

Since it is a separate space, the distance of the line of sight is not accurate.

Pulling his gaze back to the entrance, Barrett noticed that there were no gaps in the entire vestibule, just towering into the white ceiling, and the straight walls were not raised in the slightest.

After fumbling for a while, Hanyu walked back to him with his waist pinched.

She tried everything she could, but found nothing.

There are no controls or associated panels, let alone keyholes or identifiers.

The three doors seemed to appear on the wall plainly, and no matter how much they tried, they didn't move.

I tried the dirty method of pressing my palm on the door, and Hanyu ran out of ways.

"Is it voice-activated? What should I shout? Hanyu said with a pout.

"Open Sesame?" Barrett looked at her and smiled, teasing.

In the story of a great thief, just shout this spell and you can get a lot of treasure.

"Open Sesame!" Hanyu shouted at the front door, her voice playful, she was joking.

Unfortunately, the gameplay of a dead horse as a live horse doctor is useless, and the door on the wall does not react at all.

They glanced at each other, and both of them laughed.

Hearing the laughter, Ace looked back at the two of them and laughed as well, "Well, I'll admit that this spell has been around for some years, and I heard this story when I was a kid. ”

She gave up, and like Hanyu, her attempts failed.

Barrett also walked to the door and looked up and down carefully.

The whole door is tightly sealed, and there is indeed no place to pry it off.

Instead of looking in front of the door, Barrett tried to look down the wall for something different.

All the way along the wall to the left-hand doorway, he didn't get anything.

It's just that when his fingers touched the door on the left-hand side, a female voice sounded: "Core data detected, there is no suitable match, please identify yourself." ”

Barrett suddenly understood that he was asking him.

But what is identity? The detection of core data should refer to Karma, and it is natural that there is no suitable data, after all, Karma is the core that was slowly formed later.

Asked Kama silently in his mind, and Kama didn't have any useful explanation.

As he hesitated, the voice came from above him again, repeating the same words.

Looking back at Ace, he could only hope that Ace knew something.

How do you know that Ace also has an expression of not knowing anything, although she knows that her identity has changed, but she doesn't know how to describe this identity at all.

When the voice remembered it for the third time, the content was different: "There is no suitable certification, and it is judged to be an illegal intruder." ”

As this sentence ended, Barrett and the others were all nervous, could it be that they were going to release some weapons or something?

Vigilantly watchful of their surroundings, they searched for possible enemies.

There was silence for a moment, but nothing of the imagination appeared.

There were no swarming guards, no giant guard mechs, not even a single weapon appeared.

Say that the illegal intruder is over like this?? Barrett was a little surprised, he didn't think of breaking down the door by other methods, but he knew that the modifying tools were ineffective against this kind of wall.

This kind of metal is not even afraid of modifying tools, and the gameplay of gun blasting and the like can be saved.

There are two methods, one is to let Karma crack the calculation, and the other is to find a way to deceive the AI.

It's a pity that before it started, it was judged to be an illegal intruder.

The only thing to do now is to take out the defenses and then find a way to invade them.

Brute force destruction is certainly not advisable, after all, if the AI forcibly destroys information due to intrusion, it is not what Barrett wants.

He remembered what Karma had told him before, that if there was an intruder that could not be solved, important samples and information would be destroyed.

More than ten minutes passed, and no attacks appeared.

Only Hanyu said, "Except for the light that is a little stronger, it seems that nothing has happened." ”

Since it was okay, Barrett turned and beckoned to Ace: "If you come here to touch it, you may be able to get some permissions." ”

Although Karma doesn't tell him who Ace is, this watcher should have some effect, right?

As Ace's fingers made contact with the door on the left, the expected voice did not appear, just like the door on the front.

Only I can?? Barrett was a little depressed, and he asked Karma several times in his mind what identity he could use, but unfortunately Karma's answer was very consistent, and she didn't know.

Is it really necessary to forcibly destroy this? Barrett could only put his hand on the door again.

"The exclusion operation is in progress, and the external service is temporarily suspended." Sure enough, only his hands worked.

But what exactly is this exclusion job? If it doesn't end, it looks like you can't communicate at all!

Just as he thought of this, his eyes gradually turned white.

Really, it's all white!

Then there was the sound of air expanding in my ears.

He was familiar with the sound, which was similar to a screaming sound when the air was exposed to high temperatures.

"Buzz............... Swish!! "The eye couldn't see anything, not that he couldn't see, but that the whole space was filled with white light.

This high-pitched whistling continued in his ears, telling him that the so-called elimination operation was not over.

It wasn't until thirty seconds later that the sound died down.

But his eyes still couldn't see anything, and the intense light made his eyes temporarily lose sight.

"Are you alright??" He asked with concern, the huge heat he didn't feel at all, and since he had Kama, the energy couldn't hurt him at all.

But whether Hanyu and Ace can resist it, his heart is a little drumming.

All this came too fast, and in the blink of an eye, the white light came, and he couldn't react at all.

"It's okay, I just can't see anything." Hanyu's voice was right next to him, and then a tiny hand took his hand.

Ace's voice also came from behind: "I'm okay too." ”

Their answers reassured him a lot, as long as he was fine.

It seems that this energy heat is very high, but the actual strength is not high, and it is still within the absorption range of the tool.

A few minutes later, Barrett's eyesight returned.

But what happened next left him a little confused.

Ace's palm was on the door, but the door didn't know when it would open.

The blue aura wrapped around her body made him a little puzzled.

He purely relied on the tools on his body for energy absorption, but it didn't look like Ace was there, she had some kind of shield on her body.

Looking back at Hanyu, he found that she had something similar on her body, except that her aura was a pale red color.

"I, I'm afraid it's closed." Ace was in a dilemma, a little worried about Barrett's condition, but he couldn't leave the goal.

"Okay, keep this moving." Barrett reacted immediately, pulling Hanyu up and running towards the door.

When all three of them got inside, Ace let go of his palm.

Sure enough, the door to the wall immediately closed.

"How did you open it?" Barrett still has a confused face, he tried it just now, Ace's hand can't even inspire the AI's identification, why did the door suddenly open?

Could it be that the high heat energy can't destroy them, so let them in and destroy them with other defensive measures?

This possibility is not ruled out.

"I don't know, I can't see anything, I fumble around, and the door opens." Ace didn't understand it at all.

At this time, the passage was lit up with the same light as outside, there was no light, but there was a soft light.

It's as if the light is coming from the walls, or even from the ceiling.

"Welcome, Level 3 Cultivator." The voice just now sounded again, and Jean announced Ace's identity.

“………… Trainers? "Barrett is a little confused, Karma says Ace is a watcher, but this AI says she's a cultivator?

Could it be that she used to be one of them? She's not human??

looked at Ace, but found that Ace still didn't know anything, and she looked at Barrett with some horror.

It looks like she's cranky too.

Reaching out to hold her hand, trying to calm her down, Barrett softly comforted, "It's okay, no matter who you are, we're still companions, right?" ”

Ace Leng paused for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, you still have to take me to the place of survival." ”

Karma finally told Barrett everything, and it turned out that the red slime was not just the humans who invaded here.

It's simply the result of some kind of change in the management here.

Originally, it had been locked up on the eleventh floor, but it was precisely because Juntian's people invaded here and released it that a huge red slime mass was formed.

And when it comes to deconstructing the slime mass in reverse, all three of them take advantage, Hanyu gets the energy, Ace gets the information center, and the blazing phoenix steals the last bit of skin.

In other words, the three of them together are this so-called third-level cultivator.

Probably the same high-ranking being who stayed here to keep an eye on everything.

The reason why Karma is hiding all of this is because of her deal with Blazing.

If he learns of all this, Barrett is likely to fuse Blazing Phoenix with Ace or Hanyu, and Blazing Phoenix is naturally very resistant to this.

That's why it secretly reached some kind of agreement with Karma, trying to hide it from Barrett.

It's a pity that it was revealed.

Seeing that the momentum was not good, Karma immediately betrayed the blazing phoenix.

After all, as a tool, his decisions represent the will of everything, and this cannot be changed.

Of course, it's okay to be a little clever, and after all, Kama is a transformation tool that forms a sense of self.