Only I can make them stronger

Xia Ye reached out his hand and gently stroked the box as he thought so.

No, forget it.

The entire Gear City ruins showed a certain "integrity", and Canaanzi also said that the entire ruins might be a living creature.

It would be too dangerous if we open our eyes rashly and encounter the same situation as in the highway area.

It's much more dangerous here than over there.

Seeing that there were no better ideas, Xia Ye simply used his bracelet to convert a small amount of rational elements and pressed them on the door.

"Ka... Ka..."

"Hmm? Did the trunk door make a noise?"

An Ke on the side asked in confusion.

"Yes, what did you just do?" Jinniel looked at Xia Ye.

"I applied a little bit of rationality to it." The latter replied with a frown.

When he pressed his hand on it just now, he felt that the rationality in his palm was like a stone sinking into the sea. The door only shook slightly but still did not open.

Is it because the amount of physical elements is not enough?

No... it doesn't feel like that. It's more like the concentration is not enough. Otherwise, I don't know how much physical energy I would have to consume to open it.

"If the concentration of rational element is not enough, do I have to use this?" Xia Ye thought and ignited the healing fire in his palm.

The flames of the [Origin] ability are all directly converted from mental power, and in terms of effectiveness they are indeed several levels higher than physical elements.

The appearance of the white flame made Karen, Anke and Fiti's expressions become somewhat unnatural.

This force will naturally trigger some reactions in their bodies.

Xia Ye pressed his palm on it again, and this time, the white flame quickly spread to the entire door of the box and seeped in from the gap on the side.

With a "bang", the box opened.

There was nothing else inside except a brass metal part lying quietly. It looked like a part of a toy called Luban Lock that one had played with in the previous life.

"That's all? That's it?" Karen half-stuck his head into the box and looked around. After confirming that there was nothing else, he became disappointed. "It's boring..."

She thought there would be some precious treasure or powerful weapon or something like that.

"It looks like it requires a lot of similar parts to put it together?" Jinniel looked at the parts Xia Ye took out and was a little confused for a moment.

This thing does look like an educational toy, and it does seem a bit meaningless to leave it alone in the room in such a serious manner.

"It should be..." Xia Ye looked at it for a long time but couldn't figure it out.

There was no prompt from the system, which meant that this thing had nothing to do with him.

But the strange thing is that if the box can only be opened with mental power, it means that no one can get it except those with real abilities.

This seems to indicate that it should be related to myself.

The contradictory conclusions left Xia Ye very confused. He could only temporarily decide to throw it into the subspace backpack and wait until he collected more to see.

But the crisp sound of metal collision made him stunned again.

The parts did not go into the warp backpack, but fell to the ground.

"Are you throwing it away now? It's better to keep it. At least it can be used as a souvenir. What's more, what if it comes in handy?"

Others cannot see the existence of the subspace backpack. Karen was quite puzzled by Xia Ye's behavior.

"I... didn't throw it away, but this thing won't fit into the Warp backpack? What could be the reason for this?"

Xia Ye, who knew almost nothing about the operating principles of the subspace backpack, had no idea what was going on and turned his inquiring eyes to Anke and Jinniel.

"That means it is still connected to other subspaces or it is a living thing." Encore is quite good at these basic knowledge.

"Other subspace connections or... living things?" Xia Ye narrowed his eyes and picked up the parts.

There's something weird about this thing from beginning to end. Could it be that it's also part of the "creature" called Gear City?

"Forget it, I'll just take it with me first." But he couldn't think of anything to do with it, so he just put it in his pocket and said:

"Okay, we've almost finished exploring this room. I think we should check out the other rooms as well?"

"I'm really curious about what this thing is used for. Maybe there are some in other rooms too..."

"Okay, we're just going to take it one step at a time. It might be an important clue." Jinniel had no objection.

……

Soon, the group explored the eighteen rooms that had been opened on the way, and Xia Ye stuffed eighteen parts into his pockets.

This incident taught him that even if he had a subspace backpack, he should develop the good habit of carrying an ordinary backpack with him.

"There are still many houses behind. It seems that we really need to explore and collect all these things to restore the complete picture."

Jinniel looked at the canned robot still standing in front of the road and narrowed her eyes.

"Let's go and see what other levels it has prepared for us."

Xia Ye nodded and walked forward first.

63. High-Energy Strike Preparation

"Non-native ecological invasion detected, first-level removal measures failed, implementing second-level removal measures."

"Non-native ecological invasion detected, first-level removal measures failed, implementing second-level removal measures."

"Non-native ecological invasion detected, first-level removal measures failed, implementing second-level removal measures."

The canned robot should be conducting real-time detection based on the depth of the intruder. When Xia Ye and his group just walked to a certain place, it started making noise again and its eyes turned red again.

With the experience of the first time, everyone was fully prepared for battle this time. They carefully stared at the doors on both sides of the road, ready to fight at any time.

According to Xia Ye's guess, the enemy's strength should be getting higher and higher.

But after a few seconds, the expected attack did not come.

Just as Xia Ye was feeling puzzled about this, he suddenly vaguely saw lines appearing on the floor in front of him. These lines divided the floor into squares of one meter in size, and there seemed to be unclear words in the squares.

"Order executed!"

A metallic sound came out from the mouth of the canned machine, announcing the official debut of the second round of levels.

At the same time, the lines became clearer and clearer, and the words in the squares also appeared.

They are actually numbers!

There is no pattern, the numbers range from 0 to 114511, which makes people who see it completely confused.

"Did you see it?" Xia Ye asked the four girls behind him.

"Hmm..." "I don't quite understand... What is this for?" "I can see."

Fitty, Anke and Jinniel answered one after another.

Only Karen's eyes widened, filled with clear stupidity.

"No? What is that? What did you see? Are the enemies coming?"

“I can’t see anything!”

"What happened?"

Her companions' unanimous reactions made her feel completely left out of the situation.

"It's bad... I know!" Seeing this, Xia Ye immediately realized what appeared in front of them.

Canaanzi said that there is an attack method in the Gear City which she named "Algorithm Test", and the low-sensitivity mutants are completely helpless against it.

The inspirations of the other three wives were all around 30, except for Karen who only had a pitiful 6.

"Use the inspiration zone to share vision with Karen..." Xia Ye was conflicted.

Although activating [True Insight] might lead to some bad things, what if Karen gets hurt because he can't see anything?

After a brief hesitation, Xia Ye decided to prioritize the current situation and directly prepared to activate [True Insight].

But just before the ability was activated, a feeling of being stared at came over him.

It was a strange feeling, both cold and hot.

Hot is in the physiological sense, and cold is in the emotional sense.

"No Cheating"

A metallic sound without any emotion suddenly sounded in his mind, suppressing his urge to activate [True Insight].

"Fuck, who on earth is this Gear City? They can even tell that I want to cheat?"

Xia Ye was shocked.

Fortunately, apart from this cold warning, there were no other adverse symptoms reported. It seems that this thing is much friendlier than the God of Concealment.

The question is, what will Karen do if the inspiration zone is not activated?

Just as he was thinking anxiously, something strange happened again.

A beam of light suddenly rose up under the feet of the remaining people except Karen.

In the blink of an eye, the four were trapped by the beam of light just like the specimens in the incubator.

"What is this?!" An Ke said in horror.

"Squeak!" Xia Ye immediately touched the light beam with the crowbar, and then a tingling sensation like an electric shock spread throughout his body.

Unlike the way Shana usually used micro-currents to increase the mood and sensory stimulation when they were in bed, this was like touching a high-voltage electric pole, and it almost made him collapse to the ground.

"Don't... don't touch this!" Xia Ye shouted hurriedly.

"What are we going to do now?!" An Ke looked at Xia Ye, and the expression on his little face became extremely nervous.

This feeling of being trapped made her extremely uncomfortable.

"The first inspection begins--" At this time, the voice from the can robot took over Anke's question.

As she finished her words, some numbers and symbols appeared on the beam of light beside her, as if they were projected onto it.

These numbers and symbols began to move and combine rapidly, eventually forming a calculation equation, but the answer on the right side of the equation was still blank.

"The countdown starts at 15 seconds. The executors must go to the area with the correct answer and stay there for more than 3 seconds. Staying in the area with the wrong answer for more than 3 seconds will be considered a calculation error. If the correct calculation is not completed after the countdown ends, everyone will be hit by a high-energy attack."

"15..."

"14..."

"13..."

"..."

The cold and precise countdown began immediately, echoing in everyone's ears like a death warrant.

"It looks like Karen is the executor this time! But what answer does it say? I don't have any clues here!"

Xia Ye shouted anxiously.

"It's here with me!" An Ke calmed down the tension in his heart and carefully observed the formula in front of him.

"Encore! What is that thing?" Jinniel was also a little anxious.

"Don't make noise! I'm calculating!" With her pink eyes wide open, Anke's brain was working fast, trying to recall the calculation method she had learned from the book.

"10..."

"9..."

The countdown continued, and An Ke suddenly raised his head and shouted:

"It's 6! Karen, go to the square with number 6!"

"I just mean that we can't see anything!" Karen shouted with tears in her eyes.

"8..."

"7..."

"Based on your bearing, go straight for 28 meters, turn right and go another 5 meters!"

A flurry of numbers flashed across Jinniel's eyes as she accurately reported the distance she had observed.