Knights and witches were already clearing the energized plants that had gathered at the city gates.
Although the destruction of the Holy Stone plunged many into despair, such as the Pope who broke down in Compassionate Square, there were still so people who were unwilling to give up.
Li Wei, the vice-commander of the Sacred Order of Knights, had gradually cald down after the initial shock and panic and started to direct the equally bewildered knights to fight the energized plants outside the city and defend Holy Temple City.
Li Wei stood on the city walls, observing the battle below while talking to his ssenger.
"Have you found out who made it to the top of the tower?"
His ssenger said, "We've checked the surveillance footage outside and confird that the one that crashed on floor 200 was the warhorse of Knight Xi Mu, who just got promoted to Master.
"Additionally, according to reports from the first batch of guards to co into contact with the intruders, it's confird that those intruders were indeed Lord Xi Mu and his witch."
Hearing this na, Li Wei couldn't help but frown, "What was their purpose for going to the top of the tower?"
"We're not sure at the mont."
"What's at the top of the tower?"
"We're not sure at the mont."
"Then go find out quickly, send soone up, and capture them."
"But the scriptures strictly forbid anyone to go to the 211th floor for any reason." the ssenger replied.
"At a ti like this, who cares about the scriptures?" Li Wei's impatience grew more pronounced. "Xi Mu and the others have already gone up there. Tell the guards to be ready to invade the 211th floor within fifty-three minutes."
The ssenger sensed Li Wei's determination, but unusually, he refused Li Wei's command, "No."
Li Wei doubted his own ears. His voice beca icy in an instant, even carrying a hint of murderous intent, "Do you realize what you are saying?"
The ssenger, who had worked with Li Wei for so long, imdiately realized Li Wei was genuinely angry and his own voice couldn't help but tremble.
"But... the Church just received a divine ssage not to arrest Lord Xi Mu."
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After sending the ssage, Yong Yi turned to Ma Lu, who was still rummaging through the laboratory, "I've told the people below not to disturb you. You and your witch can stay here as long as you want.
"This is located in the center of Holy Temple City, and it's also the highest point in the city. If nothing goes wrong, this should be the last area to be occupied by the energized plants. You might be able to witness the end of the world from here."
Ma Lu had already searched the entire laboratory twice but hadn't found anything with a password written on it.
So, he turned to look at Yong Yi, who was preparing to et his death, and asked, "When you were with Mr. Paipu, did he ever ntion a password to you?"
"Password, what password?" Perhaps due to the failure of his experint, Yong Yi seed to be idle with the ti he had left and was very patient with all of Ma Lu's questions.
"A thing similar to a thermos, about this big, he set a password on it."
Ma Lu had buried that item outside the city and couldn't bring it out to show to Yong Yi, so he could only gesture with his hands.
Yong Yi thought hard, "I... haven't seen anything like that. In fact, after his death, I emptied his laboratory of everything, and what I couldn't take, I destroyed. If you haven't found it here, then you probably won't find it at all."
"No, he had a secret cabin as a backup data place; that's where I found the thermos."
Yong Yi was taken aback, "Mr. Paipu had a cabin? Did he leave a last word in there explaining why he committed suicide?"
"No," said Ma Lu, "and even if there were, I couldn't understand it."
"You can try this." Yong Yi pointed to a device on the table that looked like a flashlight. "Write down the text you know on its lens, then shine it on other texts, and annotations you can understand will appear below them."
"Cool, a portable text translator."
It might even be a High-Dinsional Artifact, Ma Lu excitedly picked up the flashlight and tucked it into his chest pocket, then he also grabbed the neighboring mushroom that produced coffee.
On the Chessboard Map, Ma Lu could see that its na was Beverage Machine Mushroom, a 1-star Energized Plant. It wasn't a high star level, but it was quite rare.
Moreover, what was even more precious was that it had no hostility towards humans. The mont Ma Lu saw it, he made up his mind to take it with him.
"Since you're about to die, give this to too."
"Sure, no problem," Yong Yi nodded, "Take whatever you want from here, just help yourself, no need to ask . However, I can't help you with the password for the thermos."
"What about other passwords?"
Ma Lu pursued a different angle, thinking that since Paipu had so many devices and equipnts, there should be more than one with a password, and since Yong Yi could use them, that ant he must know the passwords.
Sure enough, Yong Yi nodded, "Indeed, among Mr. Paipu's legacy, a few items are encrypted. I've been trying one by one over the years and managed to crack two of them. Their passwords are 'lousy boss' and 'so boring here'."
The password 'lousy boss', which Ma Lu had also used before, was the command to open the secret chamber under the giant rock. It appeared Paipu had a deep resentnt towards his ntor to outright use those words as a password.
And Ma Lu had heard Paipu complain more than once in his ssages about how boring his counterpart was and how he wanted to complete his research and leave as soon as possible.
With these two passwords, Ma Lu received two pieces of good news and one piece of bad news.
The good news was that Paipu, like most people, reused old passwords because he couldn't be bothered to rember new ones.
Also, his passwords were very arbitrary, basically involving things he constantly talked and thought about.
The bad news, though, was that Paipu's passwords had no set length, which made it extrely difficult to guess them.
Even Yong Yi, who was very familiar with Paipu, only managed to guess two in over three hundred years.
The ti left for Ma Lu, however, was running out as more and more energized plants were gathering outside the Holy Temple City, and it was uncertain how much longer the Holy Knights could hold on.
Ma Lu had no choice but to try his luck.
Upon learning that Ma Lu wanted to attempt saving the world, Yong Yi generously transferred his own access rights to him.
This authority not only allowed Ma Lu free entrance to the many levels of the giant complex but even enabled him to control all the weapon systems within Holy Temple City.
Yong Yi also issued another divine ssage to the Church, forbidding them from attacking Ma Lu, and arranged for a brand-new warhorse to be prepared for him. Explore more adventures at My Virtual Library Empire
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