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Chapter 403 After Four Hundred Years, Elvira Returns
[Dear passenger, you have safely arrived at your designated destination – Elvira]

[Current outside temperature 8℃, humidity 50%, no precipitation warning, please dress warmly]

The vehicle has automatically switched to parking and dormancy mode, the hover height has been reduced to a safe parking standard, and the doors will automatically slide open from the left side in 3 seconds.

Please keep your personal belongings with you, especially electronic devices and handbags stored in the rear storage compartments, to avoid leaving them behind.

If you need to call the service again, you can click "One-Click Ride" in the "Trip Record" section of the in-vehicle screen, or use your supercomputing ring for synchronous dispatch.

Have a pleasant trip, and see you next time!

The announcements from the hovercar were like cotton soaked in warm water, gently enveloping the warmth inside the cabin.

Tang Xin was the first to move. She curled up in the back row by the window, her bangs trembling as she breathed. Her fingers woke up before her eyes, unconsciously gripping the strap of the canvas bag on her knee—which contained three boxes of pudding, jelly, and tiramisu.

A handwritten note peeked out from the bag, the handwriting firm and fierce: "Think about your weight! Tang Xin!"

"We're here?" Tang Xin was still sleepy. She blinked twice before opening her eyes and reached for the thermos next to her seat. When her fingertips touched the warm cup, her brows relaxed slightly.

The woman in the front row also started moving. She had been leaning back in her chair looking at reports, with her tablet still propped up on her lap, the screen lit up with the unfinished report.

She raised her hand to press her temples, and with her other hand pulled up the scarf that had slipped down to her elbow—it was the one Qimengsi had given her last week when the temperature dropped; the dark gray wool had pilling along the edges, but she always forgot to change it.

"Ten minutes earlier than expected." Izuna's voice was clearer, but still hoarse from just waking up. She turned her head to look at the back seat. "Wake up those three pigs."

"Three pigs?" Tang Xin's fingers were still frozen on the canvas bag strap when she realized something was wrong the next second—her elbow was against a warm shoulder, and her hand was still wrapped in the other person's arm.

She looked down sharply and saw that the back of her hand was pressed against the cuff of Li Guanqi's light gray sweatshirt, with a fine white cat hair stuck to the fabric. Because she was worried that Xiaomi would be bored alone in the rented room, she bought a Ragdoll cat to keep Xiaomi company before she left.

"Hmm..." Li Guanqi's breathing was very light, his head was slightly turned towards her, and the wisps of hair in front of his forehead fell down, covering a little of his brow bone.

Tang Xin's heart suddenly started racing, like a butterfly being blown by the wind and hitting a glass. She stared at his sleeping face—his eyelashes were long, casting a faint shadow under his eyes when they drooped down, and his lips still had a soft, sleepy look, completely different from his usual aloof demeanor.

His right hand rested on his leg, his fingers curled up, his knuckles distinct, his nails neatly trimmed, and there was a shallow scar on the web of his hand.

Tang Xin hurriedly tried to pull her hand back, but in her haste, she accidentally touched his wrist.

Li Guanqi's eyelashes trembled, and she immediately froze, as if she had been frozen in place, even her breathing became soft.

Le Tong, sitting in the front row, stretched and the seat back clicked. She rubbed her eyes and muttered, "Finally here. My neck is so stiff from sleeping so much... Hey, Tang Xin, what's wrong?"

Le Tong's voice brought Tang Xin back to her senses. Her cheeks flushed instantly, and her ear tips burned. She could only gently push Li Guanqi's arm with her other hand, her voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz: "Myna... wake up, we've arrived in Elvira."

"And you!" Le Tong raised her hand and smacked the dead pig Mickey Mouse, her movements devoid of any gentleness, filled only with resentment. "Get up! Lazybones!"

"Holy crap!" Mickey was so startled that he sat bolt upright and cowered in the corner.

"Hmm?" Li Guanqi slowly opened his eyes, his gaze still a little dazed. He first looked at Tang Xin, then glanced around the carriage blankly before slowly sitting up straight.

"arrive?"

"We've arrived," Iitsuna said. "Let's get off."

"Tang Xin and I are here to provide support; the three of you need to be more reliable."

Upon hearing the words "get off the bus," Tang Xin's drowsiness vanished as a surge of warmth washed it away.

She hurriedly slung her canvas bag over her shoulder, not even bothering to fix the strap slipping onto her elbow. She leaned forward, her knees against the back of the seat in front of her, her eyes sparkling as she stared out the window like a puppy eager to go out.

"Elvira!" she exclaimed excitedly, tapping her fingertip lightly on the car window. "I've read the guide to the Hanging Gardens; they say there are holographic fireflies at night!"

Fireflies, a species that went extinct two hundred years ago.

It is said that at night, this creature glows on its own and floats around, which is very romantic.

Looking at her excited expression, Li Guanqi's eyes showed a faint smile. He reached out to help Tang Xin lift the backpack strap that had slipped to her arm, and his fingertips inadvertently touched her warm wrist. Both of them paused for a moment.

He quickly withdrew his hand, bent down and picked up the black backpack at his feet, which contained the multi-layered encrypted epic domain - [Mental Collapse].

Fan Gang in the front row had already opened the car door, and a cool breeze carrying the fresh scent of metal and grass rushed in. She wrapped her scarf around her neck again and stepped out of the car first. Her high-heeled boots made a soft "tap-tap" sound as they stepped on the transparent platform of the floating parking spot.

Le Tong followed closely behind. She stretched out a big yawn, and when she raised her arms above her head, the hem of her hoodie rode up a little, revealing a small section of her fair waist and abdomen. She hurriedly pulled it down a bit.

But Mickey was faster; he had already snapped a picture with his camera: "Wow—Ah Tong has such a fair and slender waist."

“What a beautiful scenery.”

Le Tong turned her head and gave him a murderous look.

"How scary!" Mickey yelled and quickly ran out of the car.

Tang Xin and Li Guanqi exchanged knowing smiles and got out of the car one after the other.

The scene before her eyes left Tang Xin frozen in place.

Elvira's hovering parking area is built hundreds of meters in the air, with transparent pressure-resistant glass underfoot, allowing a clear view of the endless stream of unmanned hovercars below.

The buildings in the distance were even more unimaginable—the tallest tower was made entirely of light blue energy glass, changing shape every few seconds, sometimes like outstretched wings, sometimes like a budding flower.

The rooftop gardens are built between several buildings, with countless vines hanging from the metal supports.

"My God..." Le Tong stood on the edge of the transparent platform, her hands tightly gripping the metal railing beside her, too shocked to even think about beating Mickey.

"So beautiful!" She reached out to touch the vines hanging from the rooftop garden, but Iizuna grabbed her arm. "Don't touch them. The plants in Elvira have energy sensing systems that will trigger an alarm."

Izuna's gaze swept over the surrounding environment, his brows furrowing slightly. He tapped the supercomputing ring lightly with his fingertip, bringing up a map of the docking area.

Mickey had already started taking pictures with his camera. He knelt on one knee on the transparent platform, pointed the lens at the energy tower in the distance, and kept saying, "What a great view!"

He even forgot to wipe the lens, his fingers constantly pressing the camera shutter button.

Tang Xin grabbed Li Guanqi's arm and pointed towards the Sky Garden, her voice filled with excitement: "Look, myna! Aren't those holographic fireflies? No, it's daytime now..."

Before she could finish speaking, she saw several translucent butterflies fly out from among the vines, their wings shimmering with tiny lights. They circled the docking area once and then slowly flew back.

Looking at everything before him, Li Guanqi felt as if his heart was being gently squeezed by something.

Four hundred years have passed, and Elvira has changed a lot. The buildings are more advanced, but the familiar metallic smell in the air and the frequency of the energy towers in the distance are exactly the same as in my memory.

Looking at the slogan, "The more you study man, the less human you become; the more you study reason, the more you believe in God," he couldn't help but sigh softly.
"It feels like a lifetime ago..."

Just then, there was a sound of light footsteps in the distance.

The crowd looked in the direction of the sound and saw a woman in a white coat walking toward them. Her uniform was embroidered with light blue patterns and she wore a silver badge on her chest with the words "Elvira Reception" engraved on it.

The person walked up to Izuna, nodded slightly, and said in a gentle and polite voice, "Excuse me, are you from the analysis team of Department 5? I am Ella, the receptionist, responsible for escorting you to the analysis center."

Ella's supercomputing ring flickered gently on her wrist, projecting a semi-transparent holographic interface displaying the names and identities of the five people. "The analysis room is ready with the equipment. Please follow me."

Everyone nodded slightly. Ella turned and led the way, with the supercomputing ring projecting a pale blue guiding light in front of them.

Tang Xin couldn't help but slow down and stare at the scene on both sides of the corridor.

The corridor is lined with portraits of Elvira’s top scientists throughout history, with their achievements recorded below each portrait.

Le Tong, who was walking ahead, couldn't resist reaching out to touch the wall. As soon as her fingertips touched it, a ripple appeared on the wall, startling her so much that she quickly withdrew her hand and exclaimed, "Wow!" "This wall is actually soft?"

“It’s made of elastic energy material, which can cushion impacts.” Ella turned around and smiled, her voice gentle. “This material is used in all of Elvira’s public areas, making them safer.”

"If only the Fifth Department of Shen had something like this," Yue Tong murmured to herself, "then I could sleep peacefully."

Mickey kept taking pictures with his camera, not even missing the flowing light patterns on the corridor ceiling.

Izumi walked at the front, occasionally asking about the security measures at the analysis center, which Ella patiently answered one by one.

As we approached the corner, two researchers came towards us, pushing a levitation experimental vehicle. On the vehicle were several transparent petri dishes filled with a pale purple liquid, in which tiny particles of light floated.

Tang Xin couldn't help but take a second look, and Ella explained, "This is the latest type of card energy stabilizer, which will be used in this analysis of [Mental Collapse]."

When the topic of "mental breakdown" came up, her tone was full of surprise: "It's amazing that there are cards that can resonate with neurons in the human brain, can break through the conjunctiva, and yet don't cause brain death."

She talked a lot, and apart from Li Guanqi, the other four people looked on with a mixture of confusion and awe.

Soon, Ella led everyone to the door of a spacious room with a sign that read "Analysis Room 08".

She raised her hand to enter the password.

Tang Xin and the others chatted excitedly, but Li Guanqi didn't join in. Instead, he looked towards the end of the corridor and subconsciously asked, "Is that 505 still in use?"

Ella paused for a moment, then turned to look in the direction of room 505, her tone tinged with doubt: "505? This room has never been opened in the years I've been in Elvira. Why is Agent Li asking about this?"

Li Guanqi's expression remained unchanged; he simply smiled faintly and said, "Just asking out of curiosity. I heard that Room 505 in Elvira is doing some strange research."

“They’re all just urban legends.” Ella smiled and continued pressing the password.

With a beep, the iron gate slowly opened.

The analytical laboratory is very simple, with a circular floating platform in the center, surrounded by eight small scanning instruments.

The surroundings and the ground were a vast expanse of white.

Just as Ella was about to step into the analysis room, the supercomputing ring on her wrist suddenly emitted a rapid "beep beep" sound, and a light blue holographic interface popped up, displaying several lines of red text scrolling across it.

She glanced down, her gentle expression turning urgent, her brows furrowing slightly. She turned to the group and said, "I'm sorry, I have an urgent notice to attend to and need to go to the energy control zone first. If you have any needs, just tell Xiao Ai, and she will assist you."

Ella raised her hand and tapped the supercomputing ring twice, saying, "Xiao Ai, activate the analysis room service mode."

The next second, a soft white light floated down from the air vent in the ceiling of the analysis room, condensing into a palm-sized floating robot—it was light pink all over, with a pair of translucent white wings unfolding on its back, like a cute little angel.

[Xiao Ai is ready and at your service!]

The robot had a soft, childlike voice. Ella reminded her, "Remember to back up the data regularly," before turning and quickly leaving.

Tang Xin looked in surprise at the white walls around her, then at Xiao Ai in front of her. Suddenly her eyes lit up, and she leaned forward, stood on tiptoe, and said, "Xiao Ai, I want a set of desks and chairs."

Xiao Ai blinked its electronic eyes, scanning Tang Xin's entire body. A soft, sweet voice sounded: "Okay, a portable office suit has been matched for you. Retrieving the spatial teleportation channel~"

A set of silver office desks and chairs appeared out of thin air, with a smooth, mirror-like surface and light gray cushions on the chairs, complete with a computer and pen holder.

Mickey, holding his camera, happened to capture this moment and exclaimed, "Wow!" "On-demand service! Elvira's space technology is amazing!"

Le Tong also went over and touched the soft cushion of the office chair, marveling at the quality of the material.

"Really, order now and then?"

"Xiao Ai." She looked up at the mechanical angel, "I want a milk tea, 30% sugar, less ice, with tapioca pearls and coconut jelly!"

Xiao Ai immediately replied: 【Okay, retrieving the beverage preparation module, expected to arrive in ten seconds~】

Sure enough, after ten seconds, another ripple in the void unfolded, and a steaming cup of milk tea floated out from it, with cute cartoon patterns printed on the cup, and the straw automatically landed at the rim of the cup.

Le Tong picked up her milk tea, took a big sip, and the sweet taste spread in her mouth. She happily squinted her eyes and was about to say, "I'd like another strawberry cake," when she was interrupted by Izuna's cold voice: "We're here to do analysis, not to go on vacation."

Tang Xin and Le Tong puffed out their little mouths.

"It's such a rare opportunity to come to Elvira."

These two are treating it as a vacation.

Decoding a single card isn't a high-intensity task, and with six days remaining, it can be easily handled by one or two people.

At this moment, Li Guanqi took two steps forward, handed over the [Mental Collapse] to Xiao Ai, and said, "Xiao Ai, teach us how to use these instruments to analyze this domain card, including energy calibration, data acquisition, and security protection procedures."

Xiao Ai took the card, her playful demeanor vanishing. A pale blue light flashed in her electronic eyes, and her soft, sweet voice turned serious: [Domain Card Analysis Tutorial Module Retrieved]

It floated to the central suspended platform, placed the card inside, and began to introduce itself to the crowd.

This circular, floating platform is the energy storage unit for the cards.

As soon as Ella rushed into the energy control zone, she was enveloped by a scorching heat wave—not physical heat, but the energy heat emanating from the overloaded control console.

The technician in the white lab coat was hunched over the control panel, his fingers trembling like leaves. The red light from the screen made his face look deathly pale: "Sister Ella! The intruders' target isn't the energy depot, it's the analysis room!"

"Analysis room?"

Ella removed her reception badge and strode to the central control console. The supercomputing ring card entered the interface, and a pale blue holographic interface covered the screen, its alarm messages painfully bright.
[Analysis Room 06 Database Access Permission Abnormality]

[Analysis Room 07 Database Access Permission Abnormality]

[External intrusion source address spoofing: Dream Collapse signature detected].

"Dream Collapse?" Ella's fingertips paused, and her brows furrowed.

Elvira truly represents the highest level of technology in the world today.

However, outside the present world, there are seven places that are not bound by the Alliance: the Sky Sanctuary, the Pearl World, the Heavenly Demon World, the Dream Collapse Realm, the Teaching Dragon Kingdom, Endymion, and Labyrinth. These seven places have their own independent civilizations and are also known as the Level 7 Fortresses.

The technology in the Dream Collapse Realm is similar to that of Elvira.

"Why are they suddenly targeting the analysis room?" She didn't have time to think about it and quickly typed code. "Temporarily disconnect the analysis room's database from the internet! Start the local encrypted backup, and open three decoy channels for me, then flood them with fake analysis data!"

But as soon as she finished typing the command, the black snake on the screen suddenly turned around, and a line of mocking white text popped up:

Elvira's encryption is still so easy to crack.

Immediately afterwards, the console emitted a piercing "zzzz" sound, and the decoy channel that Ella had just established was torn to shreds. The fake data was thrown out like waste paper, and the black snake continued to crawl into the analysis room, beginning to infiltrate Room 08 where Li Guanqi and his team were located.

"The defense system has ten layers of encryption, and three layers were broken in just eight minutes." Ella's lips curled up slightly. "Interesting."

Elvira's defense code was left behind by Bai four hundred years ago, and even the Sky Sanctuary couldn't crack it. How could this intruder from the Dream Collapse Realm be so familiar with the old code?
"Old monster."

She gritted her teeth and brought up the hidden program, which was a "backtracking anchor" that she had discovered last year while sorting through old files. It could lock addresses by following the intrusion trajectory.

Just as the pale green code wrapped around the black snake's tail, the screen suddenly went completely black. When it lit up again, countless pop-ups with the "[Dreamy Collapse Shadow · Mermaid]" logo exploded—it was a counter-virus, the intruder turning around and gnawing at the defense network of the controlled area.

"The backup power is failing!" the technician slammed his hand on the control panel. "If this continues, the local backup in the analysis room will be wiped clean!"

Ella stared at the fading green code, her fingers flying across the light screen: "Direct the energy resonance frequency of [Mental Collapse] into the defense system! Use the neuronal fluctuations of the cards as 'interference waves' to disrupt his copying rhythm."

The pale green code was quickly enveloped in a faint purple glow, like thorny vines, and wrapped around the black snake again. This time, the black snake paused noticeably, the copying speed slowed down, and data corruption began to appear.

"Lock the entrance! Seal it with an energy wall!" Ella pressed the "block" button.

The black snake writhed wildly, trying to break free of the vines and escape back to the Dream Collapse Realm, but an energy wall had already risen, blocking it in the data channel.

A few seconds later, the black snake gradually dissipated, leaving only the entry code and the signature "Tianxing".

The technician slumped in his chair, panting heavily: "Finally, finally we stopped him... He almost stole the core parameters of [Mental Collapse]."

Ella stared at the entry code for "Dream Collapse," her brows furrowed.

Li Guanqi and his team had just arrived at the analysis room when Huan Beng invaded them.

Is the doctor in such a hurry?

"Should we report this as a genius?" the technician asked.

Ella sighed softly and said, "Talk to him, otherwise I'm afraid his brain will rust."

"besides."

"The other side will definitely not give up, so we need to strengthen our defenses these next few days."

Elvira, the deep laboratory, the cold white light falling on the twelve-meter-high black block did not reflect a single ray of light.

The black mass resembled a piece of night that had been crushed, its edges blurred yet exuding an indestructible sense of weight.

Fudoki stood five meters in front of the black block, his slightly curly dark brown hair hanging down his forehead. He wore a neatly tailored dark gray lab coat with the sleeves rolled up to his forearms. His gaze was fixed on the black block, and he rarely even blinked, like an innocent young man staring at his first love.

He was the highest authority in the research center at that time, but he was unhappy.

He took office with a mess that he could never clean up.

Technology is locked down. Every time the research center releases a new invention, it gets criticized because anyone with common sense knows that the new invention is just a rehash of the same old thing.

Human desires and problems are increasing, but the tools for solving them haven't been updated in two hundred years.

So boring
Elvira's so-called high-tech gadgets are just for scaring ordinary people; he got tired of them more than a decade ago.

The only thing that kept him from getting tired of it was the huge black block in front of him.

I never get tired of looking at it, I could look at it for another five hundred years and still not get tired of it.

How could something be so beautiful?
"Dr. Fudo—" The assistant stumbled in, the hem of his white coat brushing against the data cables on the floor. He was about to report when Fudo abruptly interrupted him: "Call him Genius."

The assistant choked for a moment, then quickly corrected himself: "Uh, genius, report—just now..."

“I know about Huanpeng’s little tricks.” Fudou interrupted him again. “Is there anything else?”

The assistant didn't dare to ask any more questions, and only stammered, "No, nothing else."

Fudouji didn't turn his head the entire time; his eyes were only on that black block.

The assistant stood beside Fudoki, mimicking his posture as he looked at the black block. After staring at it for a while, he couldn't help but whisper, "Dr. Fudo... oh no, genius, what are you thinking about, staring at this thing for ten hours every day?"

"I am indeed thinking about something." Fudouji crossed her arms and tilted her head. "You said—"

"【Azeus】Is it a weapon that destroys gods, or a weapon that destroys the world?"

The enormous black block, twelve meters high, in front of us is a small part that fell from the sky during the Tian Ting A Zeus incident four hundred years ago.

"Huh?" The assistant was taken aback, clearly not expecting a question unrelated to scientific research.

The more one studies science, the more one believes in God; things that science cannot explain can only be attributed to miracles.

"It should be a weapon of divine destruction, right?" the assistant continued, forcing a smile. "Rumor has it that it is—"

As a top researcher, he felt ashamed to use the word "rumor".

"Humanity's greatest, final, and ultimate strike to quell the calamity!! The God-Slaying Weapon - Heavenly Thunder Cleaves Zeus."

"Slay the calamity. Divine weapon of destruction," Fudoji murmured, opening his hand to reveal two playing cards.

He looked at the "Skybreaker - Aeus" card and asked, puzzled.

"Then why is its effect—"

"Send all other cards on the field to the graveyard; it's a group effect."

“And its opponent.” He turned to look at the [Typhon, the Star of Calamity] card, “has a monster on the field that returns to your hand; it’s a single-target effect.”

“The divine weapon that symbolizes humanity’s struggle against the gods has a group effect, while the divine weapon that symbolizes the disasters that the gods bring upon humanity has a single effect.”

"Don't you think it's weird?"

The assistant's face darkened upon hearing this; a normal person really couldn't keep up with the thought process of someone who wasn't a genius.

(End of this chapter)