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But when his gaze fell on this spot, he was momentarily stunned.

The space where the central processing unit should have been located was empty. A cable that should have been connected to the central processing unit was found to have been abruptly pulled out and carelessly tossed aside.

The wiring used in the tower must be specially made to keep electronic devices running for hundreds of years without problems, but it cannot completely shield the wiring from dust.

He Ao carefully examined the disconnected wires and found that they were not as dusty as the other wires, and looked relatively new.

But the "new" here only refers to the fact that, compared to those old lines that haven't been touched for hundreds of years, these lines are actually covered with a thick layer of dust.

This suggests that the central processing unit was most likely 'taken' by someone sometime between the extinction of the ancient humans and the arrival of Heo.

Based on the dust accumulation ratio above, He Ao guessed that this time point should be about a hundred years ago.

At this point in time, someone visited the central control room and took away the core computer's central processing unit.

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Chapter 211 The Answer and the Riddle (Please subscribe, add to your favorites, and vote with monthly tickets)

About a hundred years ago, someone entered this central control room and took away the central processing unit of this core computer.

He Ao searched carefully and found that not only was the central processing unit gone, but also some places next to it that looked like they were for storage chips were empty.

More than a hundred years ago, the civilization within those ruins had already been destroyed.

Who took the central processing unit here? The remaining humans from the ruins? A strange creature that infiltrated the central control room?

After a moment of contemplation, He Ao left the area of ​​silver server racks.

He quickly searched the entire central control room, but found nothing that looked like a central processing unit.

After searching in vain, he returned to the gravedigger's body, lifted his combat suit, and above his sleeve, next to where the combat suit's monitor used to be, was a small mini screen displaying the remaining time he had for this exploration of the ruins.

Nine hours left.

As for the monitors on his combat suit, they were destroyed during his fight with the octopus; both monitors were broken.

Four of the six cameras were destroyed, and the remaining two were also 'accidentally' damaged by some alien beasts during the journey to the tower with 'Liu Nan'.

Three of the six memory cards were also damaged.

Yeah, it's broken anyway.

As for whether the research institute will intervene, all the institute needs is intelligence. As long as the intelligence is accurate, it doesn't matter whether it comes from He Ao or is analyzed from data recorded on the memory card.

Of course, the combat suit also had some sensors that recorded data, but they all happened to be broken.

The only part of the combat suit that's still functioning properly is this small electronic clock with a countdown timer. He Ao checked it with his super memory and there were no problems.

Of course, He Ao also has another 'timekeeping software' in his field of vision, which records the countdown time of the next dungeon opening time, but this countdown is based on the time flow of the main world.

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

He realized what he had overlooked while he was thinking.

Time difference!

There is a time difference between the ruins and the main world. The flow of time between the two is not equal, but there is a time flow difference of one to twelve.

If we work backwards according to this ratio, a hundred years ago in the ruins would roughly be eight years ago in the main world.

No, it should be more than that. After all, the time is just He Ao's rough estimate. The real time may be much longer than that, perhaps more than a hundred years ago. Converted to the time in the main world, that would be ten years ago, or even more than ten years ago.

The first passage to the ruins appeared in the main world eighteen years ago.

He Ao looked at the corpse of the tomb keeper in front of him, his gaze slightly narrowed. Perhaps the answer to one riddle is the answer to another.

Why would the Gravekeeper possess these counterfeit palm print gloves and iris glasses, as well as the Commander's verification chip? Because he... or rather, someone who ordered him here, who is very likely currently in a high position within the Dawn Organization, had entered this central control room in the main world more than a decade ago.

That person did not hit

He opened the bathroom door without the administrator's permission, but he took away the central processing unit (CPU) of the core computer in the central control room, as well as some memory chips attached to the CPU.

He may have gained some knowledge from the central processing unit and memory chips, thus possessing the ability to forge palm prints, irises, and commander chips, and also knowing about the existence of spacetime beacons.

In the past ten years or so in the main world, his strength has grown rapidly. Now he has surpassed D-level and reached C-level or even higher, so he is unable to enter the ruins. Therefore, he sent the tomb keeper to find the spacetime beacon in his place.

As for whether the gravedigger is the one who took the central processing unit, He Ao thinks it's highly unlikely.

He glanced at the gossamer-thin gloves, the iris-sensing glasses, and the slender chip device beside him.

Both chip-based and iris-based glasses are fine; these are generally standardized.

Anyone can use it, but there is a problem with the gloves. These palm print gloves obviously need to be custom-made, and the gloves on the gravedigger's hands are obviously too small, and he can only wear them with difficulty. On the other hand, He Ao, whose palms are slightly smaller than the gravedigger's, wears them with little size difference.

If the person who took the central processing unit back then came in person, it's unlikely they would make themselves an ill-fitting glove. Therefore, this glove most likely doesn't belong to the gravedigger.

This also aligns with He Ao's previous predictions.

In other words, the other party originally planned to go through Liu Zhengyun's channels, but because He Ao was involved, they were unable to obtain a spot from Liu Zhengyun and ultimately had to use the mole 'Gravekeeper' who was placed among the specially appointed researchers.

The gravedigger was not the person originally intended to be; he was only brought in as a replacement later due to various reasons.

However, that person may have sent more than just the tomb keeper, or even sent people into the ruins to explore more than once. But the tower should not be so easy to find, since the delivery location of the ruins is completely random.

I finally found it once, and then I met He Ao.

Yes, sometimes, luck is also a form of ability.

However, going back to the beginning...

He looked at the tightly closed door.

If he wants to open that door, he'll probably need to find the central processing unit and those storage chips to determine the information about the door.

Since those storage chips and central processing units contain even the commander's identity chip information, then the information about that door should also be there.

To find these two things, we need to find the person who manipulates the situation behind the scenes.

He Ao pondered for a moment, took out the crystal ball, used the souls that had not yet completely dissipated from the two giant wolves controlled by the tomb keeper as the activation price, and then sank his consciousness into the crystal ball.

As the purple mist churned, He Ao felt his consciousness extend in some way, and the surrounding scenery turned into a dim grayish-white.

In this gray world, some ethereal smoke is unusually attractive; this smoke is the 'shadow' surrounding the tomb keeper.

The gravedigger's soul had been absorbed by the crystal ball, and only wisps of smoke remained. However, after separating the smoke, He Ao vaguely felt that he could establish some kind of connection with the gravedigger through the crystal ball.

With a thought, he moved closer to the tomb keeper.

At the same time, the gravedigger, who had been lying straight on the ground, suddenly sat up. He looked around, then looked at He Ao in front of him, and slowly stood up.

He looked at the gravedigger, and the gravedigger looked at him.

It's a strange feeling, like seeing different images with both eyes at the same time, creating a peculiar sense of separation.

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Chapter 212 The Secret Passage and the Knocking (Long Chapter, Please Subscribe and Collect)

He Ao manipulated the tomb keeper's body to turn around, looked around, and gradually became familiar with the feeling of controlling the body.

To be honest, he seemed a bit stiff, because his internal organs had been completely pulverized and there was a large hole in his chest, which made it impossible for He Ao to control the tomb keeper to perform many of his physical movements.

Moreover, he could clearly sense that the gravedigger's remaining life force was rapidly dissipating, making it impossible to control continuously, and the gravedigger's extraordinary power could no longer be used.

However, He Ao did not intend to continue controlling him. After getting used to it for a while and being able to control the movement skillfully, He Ao shifted his gaze to the monitor next to the metal door leading to the central control room.

The knocking outside had stopped, but He Ao wasn't sure if the giant octopus was gone. It was very likely that the door was now covered with the giant octopus's tentacles, just waiting for He Ao to open the door and walk right into its trap.

He walked over to the monitor, intending to see if there was anything different from the monitors outside, and to see if there was any other way to leave.

The way the ruins return to the main world is by anchoring the explorer and allowing them to travel back directly, regardless of their location. However, if they are in areas unsuitable for travel, they may be torn apart by spacetime during the journey.

The way to ensure you won't be torn apart is to reach a safe area before you travel through it.

These safe zones are scattered throughout the ruins. In the last three hours, all explorers will have a premonition, like an arrow that appears in the upper left corner of the field of view in a game, marking the location of the nearest safe zone and guiding them to it.

Under normal circumstances, this safe zone is located no more than three hours away from where the explorer was at the time.

He felt that the inside of the tower did not look like an area where he could safely travel back, so he needed to prepare early.

The monitor inside the door can indeed display more items than the one outside, and He Ao now has the highest privileges, so he can open many things.

He first turned off the human verification mode and switched to the authorized verification mode, then opened and looked at all the entries.

Most of it is useless information.

Until he clicked on [Access History].

The access logs are records left by the people who opened this door. Most of these records have become gibberish, with only a few records still containing relatively detailed information. The last record is He Ao's entry record, marked as [Visitor], without recording the time.

Before He's record, the second to last record is marked "[Academician Anker of the Federal Academy of Sciences]", and the date is "[December 23, Federal Calendar 375]".

The pronunciation of this 'Anke' is a bit strange; it's not a common naming convention for people in Zone 2. He probably doesn't belong to Zone 2 and is more likely from Zone 1.

The Federation calendar here should be the original Federation's calendar system, but because the flow of time is different, He Ao is not sure whether the flow of time in the ruins and the dungeon world is always proportional, so it is impossible to compare this point in time with the time in the dungeon world.

However, this time point is extremely...

It could be the point in time when the ruins were destroyed, because after that point, no one has opened the door again.

The next record is He Ao's record.

and many more.

If no records were opened, how did the gravedigger and the person who took the central processing unit get in?

He Ao paused for a moment, then turned around and looked at the spacious conference room.

Unless they didn't come in through this door.

This makes sense; the outermost door of the tower itself doesn't have any opening mechanism, and it's guarded by fully armed intelligent robots.

According to the research institute's data, the level of explorers that the relic passage can withstand gradually increases. This means that explorers from more than ten years ago could not possibly have the strength of a D-level explorer like they do now, or even the weakest F-level explorer. Such combat power would not be able to break through the outermost gate of the tower, let alone enter the central control room.

This central control room has another secret passage that leads directly to a secret passage outside the tower!

The person who took the central processing unit and the tomb keeper both entered the tower directly through that secret passage!

Since 'Liu Nan' chose the cumbersome method of forcibly breaking open the tower's door, it means that she may not have discovered the secret passage.