"So the shadow did come to the hidden room," Angor muttered. No wonder he couldn't find the shadow of the fog when he was monitoring the branch nodes.
But how did it get into the hidden room?
Could it be that he could ignore the magic array on the wall when he was in his semi-intangible state? If that was the case, the shadow could leave the lab at any time. There was no need for it to possess Reynolds' body.
Unless, its purpose was not to leave, but to do something in the laboratory.
Also, it had to use Reynolds' body in the material world.
So what was it after? He recalled the time when he first met the Firescale Familiar. The creature was setting the corridor on fire. Did that have anything to do with its goal?
"Or … is it trying to cause trouble? Destroy the lab? "
Angor shook his head. He couldn't figure out what the shadow was after.
"Hey, Angor! Why are you so quiet?" Ness' voice came from their Spirit Bond.
"It's nothing. I just noticed that Reynolds' body was hidden in Hidden Room 01."
"Hidden room of 01?
Number 01 is basically the leader of the base. Why is he so interested in Reynolds' body? "Ness mumbled." Could it be that he's also interested in Lucky Mascot's luck? "
Considering No.01's current situation, Angor believed that Ness' guess was probably correct.
01 might be acting crazy right now, but it didn't mean he had lost his mind. He was just going crazy because he couldn't see any hope. However, he wouldn't give up if there was even a sliver of hope left.
Perhaps in No.01's eyes, Reynolds, who had the Lucky Aura, was a small hope.
Even if it wasn't much, 01 was willing to give it a try. That was why he kept Reynolds' body in the most secret place in the lab.
"By the way, what did you say you found?" Kanter asked when he saw Ness muttering to himself. "What did you find?"
"Letters from 01, the Relic Association, and some void merchants. About a hundred of them."
"Letters? You only found letters in the hidden room? Nothing else? " Ness didn't ask about the contents of the letters right away. Angor would tell him sooner or later. Nessie was more interested in the hidden room itself. The way he saw it, this was the only hidden room in the entire laboratory that could not be explored. There should be some secrets hidden inside.
Angor was about to leave, but he stopped when he heard Ness' words.
He turned to look at the narrow room. Other than the experiment table, there was nothing else in the room.
On the experiment table, there were only letters.
This was indeed a little inconsistent with the specifications of this place. Did No. 01 create this hidden secret room just to hide these letters?
He thought for a moment and approached the workbench again. It looked like a standard workbench.
However, when he tried to use his spirit feelers to check the workbench, he was stopped by a familiar force.
This was the power of mageweaths.
Normal Magi wouldn't pay much attention to the magic patterns on the experiment table. This was because the standardized experiment bench would come with its own mageweaths for maintaining temperature and cleansing. According to the needs of different Magi, there would also be other mageweaths for force fields.
Unlike other people, Angor knew a lot about mageweaths. He did sense the "temperature-controlling" and "cleansing" runes on the experiment table, but he also noticed other runes.
"Concealment, energy barrier, and camouflage."
Concealing the secret, blocking spirit feelers, and using the camouflage runes to provide energy feedback.
This way, anyone who tried to look into the experiment table would unconsciously overlook the secret.
This was one of the ways to use mageweaths.
"I almost fell for it," Angor muttered to himself. If Ness didn't remind him, he would have overlooked it as well.
Angor was still at a disadvantage because of his lack of experience.
He thought the experiment table was a "standardized model", which meant that it was difficult to modify it. However, No. 01 really did modify it.
Now that he knew where the problem was, it was easy to solve it.
The magic array on the experiment table was not connected to the laboratory. It was independent, so it wasn't hard to crack it.
However, Angor wasn't going to break the magic array. Instead, he activated it.
The magic array was a type of aura encryption, which only recognized No. 01's aura. It wasn't hard to find No. 01's aura. The training ground outside was filled with violent blood aura.
Using a special method to collect some blood aura, Angor could directly activate the magic array.
From this detail, it could be seen that the modification of the magic array on this experimental bench was definitely not done by Number 01. If it was done by Number 01, he would not have placed the hidden room in the training ground. If someone really broke in, the blood aura in the training ground would be the password to the enemy.
It only took a few seconds for the magic array to be activated.
In Angor's eyes, the experiment table slowly divided into two halves, and a new platform rose in the middle.
At the center of the new platform was a small box that could be lifted with one hand.
"So this is No.01's secret?" Since the box was not locked, he opened it out of curiosity.
However, it was completely empty. There was nothing inside.
The only thing he could see was that the box was divided into two parts. Judging from the shape of the velvet cloth at the bottom, there were two bottles inside.
Angor carefully checked the box to make sure he didn't miss anything. Then he put it back on the platform.
"What do you think? What's inside? "Ness' voice came from Angor's Spirit Bond.
"There's nothing inside." Angor had been transmitting the information to Ness when he activated the magic array, so Ness knew what was going on.
Ness was a little disappointed. "I see … It seems that Number 01 has already taken it."
Angor left the hidden room and prepared to return to the first level. While walking, Angor briefly explained the contents of the letter to Sunders.
"… That's the basic situation." Angor already finished explaining the situation when he arrived at the outer passage between the fifth level and the first level.
Kanter and Ness didn't say anything in the Spirit Bond.
They needed to think about what they should do next since this was related to an important figure in the origin world. It was obvious that No. 01 had already started his hunt, and it was too late to stop him now. If Gluz Dayward really got angry, they might get hurt if they stayed nearby.
While Kanter and the others were thinking about what to do next, Angor walked into the outer passage.
Everything went smoothly until he saw a series of footprints on the ground when he reached the stairs leading to the first level.
There was a faint chill around the footprints, which seemed to have appeared not long ago.
Without a doubt, Reynolds, who was possessed by the Shadow of Mist, walked out of the passage.
But Angor didn't see any footprints along the way. Why did they suddenly appear here?
Angor kept going up. When he was about to reach the entrance of the first level, he saw another footprint on the ground. This time, it wasn't a footprint, but a handprint.
Angor looked at the two handprints and the elongated footprints behind them.
"Reynolds" was walking on the stairs when he suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground. "Reynolds" was walking on the stairs, and he suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground.
Although the chances of a normal human being falling were not high, the other party was "Reynolds" who had been possessed by the shadow of the fog. It was possible that it did not know how a human being walked. Or rather, Reynolds had been "frozen" for too long, and its limbs were stiff. It might also fall.
Angor didn't find the footprints strange. He glanced at them and walked toward the exit of the first level.
As soon as he stepped out of the exit, Angor sensed something wrong.
Everything was normal as far as his eyes could see. However, there was a bloody smell in the air.
He didn't look for the smell right away. Instead, he looked at the ground first. The ground was smooth, but he could still see the outline of footprints in some places. There was also cold air around them.
He was planning to go to the main control node and look for Reynolds' whereabouts, but now, it seemed that he wasn't planning to do so. But now it seemed that he didn't need to do that. He only needed to follow the footprints to find his target.
After confirming the direction of the footprints, Angor began to sniff for the source of the smell.
He realized that the smell of blood was coming from the direction where Reynolds was heading.
"Is Reynolds injured?" Angor wondered. Otherwise, where did the smell of blood come from? But if that was the case, why didn't he smell anything when he was in the outer passage?
Soon, Angor reached the source of the smell.
He looked at the corridor not far away and frowned.
This was a very ordinary-looking corridor. He had walked through it when he was heading down earlier. But now, the corridor was a bit messy. Wind energy still lingered in the air, and there were several drops of blood on the floor.
Angor frowned because he knew what was going on.
The mechanism of the corridor was activated.
Once activated, the corridor would release a huge amount of violent wind energy for a short time. The wind energy would form into tornadoes or wind blades, which would attack everything in the corridor indiscriminately.
It sounded dangerous, but it wasn't. The mechanism of the corridor was triggered. As long as one didn't touch the walls on either side and walked straight, nothing would happen.
Angor was confused because the mechanism was easy to avoid.
Normal people wouldn't randomly touch a place where they knew there were traps, let alone the shadow of the mist.
Besides, the shadow of the mist controlled the Firescale Familiar from the first level to the fifth level, and it didn't run into any traps. Why did it run into one this time?
Angor walked into the corridor with doubts in his mind.
He carefully observed his surroundings as he walked. His eyes were clearly clearer than usual. This was the effect of activating the "Eye of Truth".
With the help of the Eye of Truth, Angor quickly found where the mechanism was triggered.
Next, he looked around again and saw a familiar mark.
It was a footprint that was elongated in an instant.
It was similar to the footprints he saw when someone fell down in the outer corridor. If that was the case … Angor began to understand why the mechanism was triggered.
The shadow of the mist must have slipped and accidentally hit the walls on either side. Then, the mechanism was triggered. Wind blades sliced through the air, and blood splattered everywhere.
It all seemed like a coincidence, but Angor still felt something was off.
Because Reynolds was injured in this Gale Corridor, it was even easier to find traces of him. He could use the blood and the pheromones in the air to find him.
But as he moved forward, he frowned more and more.
He was about to reach the tenth corridor. Of the nine corridors before him, only two had traps, and both of them were triggered.
However, the two corridors with traps were both triggered.
And those who triggered them all showed signs of being hit. For the time being, he assumed that it was all caused by "unsteady footing" that led to the fall. However, what was going on in this corridor?
Why was the mechanism here triggered as well?
There was a mechanism in this corridor that was also triggered. However, it was triggered by a well-hidden button. Normally, it was not triggered by an enemy. Instead, it would be triggered by someone who noticed danger and quietly pressed the button to eliminate the threat.
Unless there was an outsider around, triggering a mechanism like this by yourself could only mean that … your hands were too weak.
There was still an "electric field" in the air.
Even at the end of its effect, the electric field was still very threatening. This was the power of this mechanism, which was also the most powerful one among all the triggered mechanisms so far.
Angor walked in and could still feel his skin tingling.
It could be imagined that when Reynolds had triggered the mechanism, the damage he had suffered must have been terrifying.
He walked to the button where the mechanism was located.
He saw the charred marks around the button, the marks on the pipes, and the scratches on the ground. Angor could already picture the scene in his mind.
Reynolds stumbled again. He did not fall down, but he sprained his ankle. So he held onto the pipe beside him for support. Little did he know that there was a hidden button next to the pipe.
Was this another coincidence?
In Angor's mind, it did seem like a coincidence that there was no outside interference.
But he had seen too many coincidences like this before.
All the coincidences only led to one result: the mechanism was triggered, and Reynolds got hurt.
To sum it up, he was haunted by bad luck.
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