The wetland jungle during the early hours of the morning was perhaps the quietest time of the day. The activity of the birds and beasts in the forest had already dropped to the lowest level. Most of the sounds transmitted to the interior of the building had been isolated.
In such an environment, even the slightest abnormality would be magnified, giving people an unusual feeling.
Luo Nan's soul body remained motionless as he carefully experienced it. A dozen or so seconds later, he was convinced that the chill was not an illusion. It even possessed a certain mode of operation. It was like a spiraling strand of air that traveled back and forth within the building of Gear.
Moreover, as the chill circulated, the fine dripping sound of the building of Gear accompanied it from beginning to end. Perhaps it was because he had heard it for a long time, but he always felt that there was a subtle connection between the two.
It was so subtle that it could give birth to an illusion at any time.
Luo Nan's out-of-body state allowed the precision of his mental senses to climb to the highest peak. Otherwise, let alone this connection, he might not even be able to detect the hidden chill.
"That's right. That's right."
Luo Nan liked this sort of discovery. This detail was quite in line with his research and judgment of the mysteries of Gear. It was a good start for his exploration of the spirit wander.
He nearly stayed here to do further research, but his brain heated up for a few seconds. In the end, he remembered the main objective of today's operation. He could only suppress his impulse and make his incorporeal soul body penetrate through the ground. He advanced toward the central control room on the fourth underground floor.
The feeling of using a soul body to penetrate through walls and into the ground was very marvelous. His soul body relied on mental senses. Ordinary matter would not cause any interference, but Luo Nan was used to the senses of a human body. He could not help but have some knowledge obstructions in his mind.
In his eyes, the earth and steel structure formed layer after layer of shadows. They were like thick clouds that assaulted his face. At first glance, they looked majestic, but when he collided with them, they vanished like smoke. It was to the point where he nearly lost his sense of direction. He was unable to distinguish whether he was in the sky or in the ground.
This sort of feeling triggered a memory from the bottom of his heart.
A week ago, a similar scene had occurred, but it was more realistic. The grayish-white clouds penetrated with a bloody glow, and they assaulted his face just like now. They presented him with an inconceivably vast world.
Today, Luo Nan quietly came precisely to retrace that inconceivable experience.
He had wanted to do this a long time ago. It was just that the Xia City branch kept a close eye on him during this period of time due to the mess that couldn't be cleaned up. He was practically protected 24 hours a day. He was sent to school and picked up after school. Xue Lei hated that he couldn't not leave the campus at all. When he returned home, there was a sentry shift outside in the middle of the night.
Needless to say, Gear's construction had always been in the middle of construction. Every passerby's horse powder and ink covered the field. Inside and outside, there were surveillance cameras. There really were eyes on all sides. They couldn't split themselves into two. They simply couldn't find an opportunity.
Now that he finally had the qualifications to leave his body, he naturally came over to try it out. Up until now, the development of the situation was very much to his liking.
Because he wanted to trace back, he had purposely gone to Ocean Sky Cloud City to observe from afar. And after arriving at Gear, the first place he chose was the starting point of his previous experience, the central control room located on the fourth underground floor.
Luo Nan had already seen it yesterday afternoon. The central control room had been renovated, and a brand new console had been installed. The holographic projection showed that the equipment was in a standby state right now. Only two or three electronic lights flickered.
Luo Nan stood before the operating console. The memories in his mind were like wave after wave of returning tides at the mouth of the sea. They surged and surged passionately, causing what was originally a short scene to be like a vast expanse of space, boundless and endless.
Luo Nan was clearly a soul body, but he still instinctively took a deep breath.
"Come. Now is the time to witness a miracle!"
Luo Nan's telepathic thoughts touched the console, and he extended a force towards the inner layer to capture the feeling within his memories.
The console was ice-cold. The electronic lights flickered. Then … there was no more response.
Luo Nan waited for a full twenty seconds before he dared to confirm that his attempt at tracing back had met with the most ruthless failure.
"How could this be?"
Luo Nan still remembered the experience of that day. He still remembered the entire process of being moved from the central control room to the tree hole a thousand meters away.
He remembered that he saw the console being blasted into ruins back then. That fellow called Tank had used this to destroy the fire safety module. He tried to reactivate it, so he used the external neuron to connect directly to the underlying system. When he connected to the energy module, a chaotic cloud suddenly flew about … Huh?
That's right. The external neuron!
Luo Nan's soul body circled in place five or six times, but he still found it hard to dispel his feelings of vexation. He was truly muddle-headed. The external neuron was extremely likely to be the primer, the key, in the situation back then. Otherwise, wouldn't it be possible for anyone to come in and pry into the astonishing secrets of Gear?
His mother, who designed Gear all those years ago, and the one who possessed the external neuron, used this train of thought as insurance. This was the most reasonable choice.
He just wanted to open the treasure, but he forgot the key.
Fine. This trip was a waste. He would look for an opportunity next time …. Hold on. It was only four thirty in the morning. There was still time. With the flying speed of his soul body, he could completely make a round trip!
Luo Nan's soul body flew up with a single thought. It passed through the layers of earth, stone, and metal structures, directly leaping into the air above the building of Gear.
"Huh?"
Luo Nan originally wanted to leave immediately, but he suddenly felt something as his soul body traveled through the interior of the building. The chill that lingered in the air seemed to cut into many parts of his soul body, rippling with ripples. The feeling was quite marvelous.
Luo Nan couldn't help but think of the question from before.
His soul body stopped, and his mental senses naturally covered the entire building. He took the entire structure of Gear into his heart.
There seemed to be no end to the marvels of Gear. On the outside, Gear was a tiny component that was seamlessly embedded within the Heaven and Earth Format. On the inside, there were subtle and exquisite components. Together, they formed a harmonious whole.
According to the direction of Luo Nan's recent studies, Gear could be described as a precise operating mechanical system.
Luo Nan had been observing endlessly over the past few days, dividing them one by one. He was able to roughly discern that there was a central control room, an underground laboratory, an aboveground laboratory, an activity room, an atrium, and other relatively independent areas within this building. They were all components of this machine, and they realized their respective functions.
The machine was endlessly operating, but each component was fixed. This created a problem: If the components didn't move, then what moved?
A proper engineer might go crazy when faced with this problem, but Luo Nan had been continuously influenced by the way of thinking of the inner world over the past few days. He very naturally switched to a different train of thought:
If the components didn't move, then what moved was some sort of supernatural power.
Some knowledge of the mystic arts was involved in the cultural classes he attended. For example, Eastern diagrams, Western magical arrays, and a few other similar things. Ability users used materials, temperature, air pressure, topography, and so on to set things up. They were able to draw upon the flow of energy to construct the marvelous structure of condensed air.
The researchers of the Society even added the legendary Eight Formation Diagram of Wuhou as a reference.
Luo Nan didn't care about the Eight Formation Diagram of Wuhou. He was just driven by a new thought that popped up in his mind. He flew up a certain distance and looked down from a distance. He scanned the building from the inside to the outside several times, using this to open up a new train of thought.
He thought: Isn't that coldness growing in the dark the flow of energy?
According to what he learned from Worker Zhai over the past few days, a normal mechanical system should have a prime mover providing power, a working part realizing its functions, and a transmission device effectively connecting the power and working parts. Then there was the control and operation part and other auxiliary components.
Making Luo Nan, a mediocre Engineer Apprentice, distinguish the marvelous design of this seamless mechanical structure was truly a difficult task. But with the flow of energy, Luo Nan was able to roughly determine where the energy was being transmitted, where the energy was being stored, and where the energy was being used.
Luo Nan's mental senses immediately followed the coldness of the energy flow inside and out. He smoothed it out a few times, eliminating the components one by one. He gradually narrowed the range until he reached the westernmost side of Gear.
This place was an atrium with a diameter of twelve meters and a depth of fifty meters.
According to Luo Nan's perception, the layers of coldness of the energy flow had different sources, but in the end, they all accumulated and revolved here. Therefore, the drip drip drip drip drip drip was the clearest here.
Luo Nan's soul body sank directly into the atrium area. He entered and sensed with the answer in mind. Sure enough, the psychic pressure of the flow of energy flow was a level higher than in other parts of the building. When Luo Nan's soul body cut in, the mental plane clearly rippled. It was like a stone thrown into a deep well.
Luo Nan was able to confirm that the energy flow accumulated here was exquisite and subtle. And reality told him that if it weren't for the fact that his soul was in an out-of-body state, greatly increasing the precision of his senses, he probably wouldn't have been able to capture the changes within.
But what happened after the energy flow accumulated and revolved?
Why did Luo Nan have an impression of a deep well? It was because the atrium seemed to be lacking something relative to the amount of energy that had accumulated. It lacked the order to control the energy flow. It lacked the decisive element.
Was it the external neuron? Or perhaps ….
Luo Nan floated in the atrium and pondered silently for a moment. Then he suddenly gave his soul body a boost. With his current abilities, doing the relevant boost was as easy as drinking cold water. The visualization diagram of a tetrahedron, an inscribed sphere, and an inscribed sphere immediately appeared in the void, wrapping the soul body within.
When this diagram manifested in the atrium, Luo Nan discovered that the surrounding slightly cold energy flow was stirred!
The flow of energy increased in speed. It passed through and coiled inside and outside the diagram, moving step by step.
With the stirring pole, the accumulated energy flow became much more orderly, and it became much more solid. Especially some scattered information. Because of this, they gathered together and gradually formed logic.
There's a way!
Luo Nan's senses toward the circulation of energy flow grew clearer and clearer. Luo Nan's mental senses were even painted with a smear of color. A slightly grayish glow gradually filled in.
Luo Nan was no stranger to this.
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