Yarra’s Adventure Notes

Chapter 56 - 56 44 Unlocking_1

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With their prior experience of encountering a trap, everyone proceeded with extreme caution during the next stretch.

Fortunately, they encountered no further danger.

Room after room in the residential area was opened, and every box, cabinet, and drawer was searched, but the group found nothing.

As Pannis had said, except for the two hidden bodies carrying some documents, it seemed that all other information was purposely concealed.

They could not find anything related to the research, nor anything related to daily life.

Regrettably leaving the residential area, Vivian led the way with a gloomy face, while Pannis, walking close behind her, seemed lost in thought.

“What’s wrong, Pannis?

Do you have a problem?” Noted Catherine, who was at the end of the line.

“I’m just thinking about the trap we encountered earlier.

It feels pointless.

They even marked a warning before the trap, it’s as if it was there either to slow us down or to keep us on alert for danger.”

“Stop thinking about it, Pannis.” Suddenly, Vivian halted “There’s a door here.”

“I see it.” Pannis didn’t understand Vivian’s meaning: “We’ve seen many doors on this route.”

“There shouldn’t be a door here,” Vivian explained, “This is the corridor from the residential area to the R&D area.

It’s an important place.

It shouldn’t contain any unrelated rooms.”

“Why don’t we open and see?” suggested Catherine.

“Let me try.” Pannis moved to the door and inspected it for a moment before shaking his head.

“This is a mana lock.

A common method won’t open it.

Vivian, you try.”

Vivian placed her right hand upon the door, closed her eyes, and remained silent for a few minutes, “This is tricky, very tricky.

Indeed, it’s a mana lock and it can only be opened by vibrating the lock with the precise mana attribute and accurate magic oscillation frequency.

If wrong input is given consecutively, it will activate the Mage Tower’s defensive system, or rather, the research facility’s defensive system.

Does anyone dare to challenge this system?”

“The door’s defenses are so stringent that it must guard something important.” Catherine said, “Can it be cracked?”

“I’m trying.” Without giving Catherine a glance, Vivian responded, “The door’s magic defensive system is linked to the entire research facility’s mana supply.

So, the energy is virtually endless.

We can’t possibly exhaust the defensive mana.

Trying to destroy the door would not only activate the Mage Tower’s defense system, but also the door’s own countermeasures.

With the full energy supply from the research facility, it could unleash an almost Legendary level of power.

None of us would survive.”

“What if we break through the wall instead of the door?” Pannis crossed his arms, patiently watching Vivian for answers, “Is that possible?”

Vivian shook her head “I thought about it, but after checking, I found the walls are also within the defense system’s range.

I guess the room inside is covered on all six sides by the defense system.

It’s impossible.”

Vivian placed her backpack on the ground next to her, continuously taking out some strange devices from it and hitting or sticking them at different locations on the door.

After each failed attempt, she disappointingly took them back and replaced it with another one.

The beads of sweat trickled down her forehead as she moved up and down, closer and farther, to find the best position.

“I seem to have an idea.” Vivian suddenly paused for a moment, as if lost in thought.

Her face lit up with joy.

“Let me see, let me see.

Hopefully, it works.

After all, I am a genius, I can definitely come up with something.

Oh yeah, big sister, could you lift me up?

I need to see the top.

Never mind, I’ll take care of it myself.” Mumbling a few words, she pointed towards the ground and an activating rope appeared out of thin air.

Coiling around her waist, it lifted her towards the top of the corridor.

“Ha, as I thought, the mana channel is here.

Hmm, no, this won’t work.

We need to go a bit forward, just a little forward.

Ouch.” As Vivian’s thoughts drifted, the activating rope, which was originally vertically anchored to the ground, started tilting and shifting, making an ever-decreasing angle with the ground.

Eventually, when the tilt was too extreme, the soft rope could no longer support her weight and she fell to the ground.

“Serves you right.” Seeing Vivian with teary eyes rubbing her forehead, Catherine went over, half annoyed and half amused to help her up, “You’re always so reckless, aren’t you afraid of breaking your neck?

I’ve told you countless times, consider the consequences before you act, but you never listen.

Think about it, if it had been higher.

Or what if it had been near a cliff?

Would you have taken the fall there?

You should…”

“Big sister, I was wrong.” Vivian raised her clasped hands above her head, “Please forgive me, I just came up with an idea and don’t want to lose it.

Please.”

Catherine sighed helplessly, “Forget it, I don’t care anymore.

It would be better if you just died.”

“Stop it.” Vivian chuckled and grabbed Catherine’s hand, then ran a few steps further, saying, “Big sis, stab the ground forcefully with your sword now.”

“Do I just stab anywhere on the ground?” Catherine didn’t ask any questions and began looking for a place to strike as she drew her sword.

“Just do it here.” Vivian haphazardly pointed at the ground.

Catherine raised her sword and focused silently.

After taking a few deep breaths, she shouted and forcefully stabbed at the metallic ground.

The Knight Sword penetrated the metallic ground about half a meter deep under the pour of aggression before stopping.

“Excellent, that’s enough.” Vivian clapped her hands cheerfully, “Big sis, give me your sword.”

Upon handing over the Knight Sword, Catherine watched Vivian curiously as she began using the Magic Array sketching method she had learned from Pannis not long ago.

Vivian condensed strands of mana and began to inscribe some array runes on the surface of the Knight Sword.

Unable to contain curiosity, Catherine asked, “What is this…

do I need to cooperate?

I don’t understand the first thing about magic.”

“It’s okay, just follow my instructions.” Vivian ascended to the top once again with the help of the activating rope.

She pulled out a pen and drew a mark on the ceiling of the corridor before directing the activating rope to retreat two meters away.

“See that line?

After I shout ‘stab’, no matter what you do, within five seconds of hearing me shout, you have to ensure your sword stabs that location, not a second late.

When I shout ‘pull the sword’, immediately pull it out.

You can do it, right?”

Catherine silently repeated Vivian’s instructions in her head, going through her actions mentally before nodding, “No problem.”

Vivian also put away her playful expression, pressing her palm on the roof and closing her eyes to feel the flow of mana in the mana channel covered by metal.

She calculated silently in her heart.

Suddenly, she opened her eyes wide: “Now, stab!”

As soon as Catherine heard the word “Now”, she was already in the air, her body full of aggression.

When she heard the command to ‘stab’, she thrust the Knight Sword forcefully into the spot marked with thin lines, not missing by an inch.

“Open the door.” Vivian remembered that she had forgotten to tell Lina and Pannis to stand by to open the door.

Just as she was getting anxious, she noticed that Pannis seemed to have anticipated the need, and had been standing by the door all along.

At her command, Pannis immediately pushed the door open.

The door that had remained unmoved regardless of how much force was applied began to open the moment the Knight Sword pierced the ceiling.

Pannis felt as if he hadn’t exerted any force at all when the thick metal door opened inward lightly without making the slightest sound.

“Pull out the sword, quickly.” The Knight Sword was stuck in the ceiling at this point, and Catherine’s body was suspended with her right hand gripping the sword, hanging below it.

Upon hearing Vivian’s shout, Catherine gripped tightly with her right hand, her body flipped upwards and her feet stamping on the ceiling for leverage.

She effortlessly pulled out the lodged Knight Sword, curled her body mid-air doing a somersault, before landing firmly on the ground.

“Perfect, it’s done.” Vivian also landed on the ground, but instead of rushing in the door, she ran to her backpack and took out a few items then ascended to the crack that Catherine had made in the ceiling.

She busied herself for a moment and when she returned to the ground the crack in the ceiling was no longer visible.

“Impressive.” Lina, who hadn’t contributed much, took it upon herself to feed Vivian’s vanity, clapping and praising, “Well done, you truly are a genius, how did you manage to do that?”

“Hehe.” Vivian chuckled proudly and replied, “It’s actually quite simple, I tricked the mana channels of the Mage Tower.” Seeing that everyone didn’t quite understand, she continued to explain, “What I found just now was the mana channel that supplies energy to the mana lock of the door.

If we abruptly severed this channel, the obstruction in the mana supply route would have triggered an alarm, activating the entire defensive system of the Mage Tower.

That’s why I adopted a deceptive strategy.

First, I used my own mana to obstruct the channel for around half a second.

Half a second is long enough for the security system to regard as a normal channel blockage and thus ignore it.

Then, in this half-second, I had big sis thrust the sword into the position of the channel.

The runes inscribed on the sword form a Mana Absorption Array, which also serves to deceive.

The mana that the channel transmits will be absorbed by this array while the array sends out deceptive signals, causing the security system to mistakenly believe that the mana has been successfully transmitted.

This way, the mana lock on the door temporarily loses its power supply and it can be easily opened.

However, this deception can only last for a few seconds, any longer and the security system would detect it.

That’s why it was imperative to open the door and pull out the sword as fast as possible to allow the mana in the channel to resume its flow.

I’ve tried to keep these as simple as I can, the actual calculations needed for the operation are very complicated.

So, whatever you do, don’t close that door because if you do we’ll have to do it all over again.”

“Well then, let’s go in.

We’ve gone to so much trouble just to open the door, we have to see what secrets are hidden inside.” Lina put her habitually held book back into her backpack, and casually took out her mace, waving it.

“If there’s still nothing inside, I’m going to smash this room.”

“Don’t go in just yet.” Pannis stopped Lina, “There’s quite a few corpses inside, and it’s been sealed all this while, let’s wait for the air inside to clear out a bit.”

“There are corpses in here too?” Catherine realized something, “Does that mean that…

this place hasn’t been cleared out?”

“Seems like it.” Pannis nodded, “Clearly, the people who were responsible for cleaning up the bodies weren’t able to get into this room.

It seems this room isn’t just any ordinary room.”