"Then why don’t we go and have a look?" The Deputy Director eagerly looked at the Defense Director.
"Sure, I haven’t been to the Five Bridges Secret Realm in years," the Director readily agreed.
The Deputy Director laughed aloud, "Ha ha, you’ve been there before; I haven’t even gone once."
The atmosphere at the scene instantly relaxed. Ye Nai let them line up, then she passed through the Transmission Port to confirm the other side. In a mont, her arm extended over and waved.
Imdiately, four security personnel followed her, and seconds later, one returned, allowing the others to queue up and enter in order.
In the blink of an eye, they stood at the highest point of the snow mountain within the Five Bridges Secret Realm, at an altitude of 2600 ters.
In sumr, this alpine ski area is not open, and the scenic lights are naturally not turned on, so the mountain top is pitch black, with only the illumination provided by Ye Nai to light up underfoot to prevent anyone from stepping into the void and falling off a cliff.
However, looking far into the distance from the height, one could clearly see faint lights scattered afar, presumably indicating the location of the small town at the rear of the Five Bridges Secret Realm.
"Wow, this really is the Five Bridges Secret Realm," soone from the Academician Team’s security personnel softly exclaid.
"Have you been here before?" a companion curiously asked.
"Shine my flashlight down below, see if we can spot the ski resort buildings?"
Accustod to being fully ard all day, the security personnel all carried high-intensity flashlights. A sweep of light downward, pausing for a mont, slowly discerned the large installations and buildings unique to the ski area.
Under the sweep over the largest building, the reflective signage clearly showed words reading Five Bridges Secret Realm Ski Hotel.
"Indeed, it truly is the Five Bridges Secret Realm."
Here was a large mountain top platform, seemingly ford from a mountain collapse, but ample in size to conveniently and safely accommodate everyone.
Ye Nai ignored others as they chirped and searched around chaotically, engaging instead in communication with spores she had left behind here.
By now, these spores, through natural reproduction, had grown into large mushroom mats.
From the feedback of nurous spores, Ye Nai quickly realized that there was indeed sothing amiss in the Five Bridges Secret Realm.
It had been a year since she emptied the Transmission Platform; without a stable energy supply from the platform, this secret realm might not last long. If left alone, it might collapse on its own, but the process would undoubtedly be far more dangerous than when she previously shut down the East Ridge Secret Realm.
After the Deputy Director and the others circled the mountain top platform, they ca back to Ye Nai, finding her calm-faced and staring dazedly in a direction.
The Defense Director gently patted her shoulder.
"Hey, you guys finished your tour so quickly?"
"Saw you staring into space. What are you thinking about?"
"The energy flow within this secret realm is unbalanced, it might actually collapse."
"...Huh?!" The crowd was shocked and collectively asked, "Then what do we do?"
"Have Five Bridges City give all their Transmission Platforms; I’ll extract the energy and shut this secret realm down smoothly; otherwise, if left to collapse on its own, the process surely won’t be as safe as when I shut down the East Ridge Secret Realm years ago."
"I’ll coordinate that," the Defense Director responded decisively.
"Also..." Ye Nai awkwardly scratched her nose, "The Purple Capital Secret Realm is in the sa situation."
"What?"
"Is there a problem with Purple Capital Secret Realm too?"
"I emptied the Transmission Platforms at the Purple Capital Secret Realm before, leaving only one because, beneath it, an enemy soldier squad crawled out and clashed with our Patrol Team; I participated in the latter half of their defeat. The army then took away that last platform. So now there are no Transmission Platforms left in the Purple Capital Secret Realm."
Attendees listening nearby were speechless. What kind of work efficiency was this?
How co such large items as Transmission Platforms were so easily excavated by her?
"Not only are the Five Bridges and Purple Capital’s express states unpleasant, how are the states of the secret realms in between?"
"Oh, don’t worry about those; I left a Transmission Platform in each of those secret realms. At the ti, I figured it didn’t matter who might excavate the platforms, I’d leave one wherever my hand had reached. Originally, I intended to leave the last in the Purple Capital Secret Realm too, but who knew that enemies would crawl out from underneath? And then, encountering the Patrol Team, it couldn’t be retained."
"That’s fortunate."
Everyone felt slightly reassured. Now it was only the two secret realms being especially unlucky and needing expedited closure, while the other secret realms could endure a longer duration.
"In closing the secret realms, they can still be reopened, right?"
"Yes, do you want a temporary or a long-term one?"
"Temporary is like yours, where you can go sowhere, open a Transmission Port, and directly get through?"
"Correct."
"And what about the long-term one, is it still like the current secret realm entrance?"
"Indeed, though not as large, even adjustable in size; you tell how big you want it, and that’s the size I open."
"Why? Can it be flexibly adjusted once closed?"
"According to enemy accounts, the existing towering entrance to the secret realm is also fake now."
"Huh?!"
"In the initial invasion, the giant secret realm entrance was genuine, intended to intimidate us feeble Blue Star civilians. Such a large entrance indeed made one fearful just by glancing at it. But as ti went by, maintaining this large entrance consud too many resources, with conflicts happening all over, demanding resources everywhere, it beca unsustainable. Gradually, the energy was reduced, but not allowing us Blue Star people to know their lack of resources, exploiting our psychological blind spots by retracting so energy while maintaining the illusion of a massive entrance with a fake outline."
"Just such a bogus shell tricked us for many years?" The Defense Director’s face turned fiery red with anger.
"Ha ha, we were ignorant, so we got deceived. At least we’ve uncovered it now. Take a breath, don’t get worked up," the Deputy Director patted the Defense Director to calm him down, telling him not to be too agitated.
The Defense Director took deep breaths repeatedly and finally, his excited emotions gradually subsided.
"Close! Close! Close! Shut down this crappy secret realm, and open one with entrances under our control anew," the Defense Director said irritably.
"Maintaining a long-term entrance consus energy, doesn’t it? How do you replenish it?" The Deputy Director of the Administration Bureau raised concerns about it.
"It still needs to be opened in the danger zone, utilizing the abundant waste there for energy," Ye Nai said.
"Huh? Those waste items that can only be incinerated can provide energy for the entrance?" Several officials first stunned, then puzzled.
"Yes, because Blue Star’s ecosystem can’t break down yet those organic wastes can be fully utilized, turning waste into treasure; that’s my inherent superpower."
Several rounds of etings, after discussing countless topics, finally delved into topics related to superpowers.
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