Chapter 75: Isolation (2/2)
Liu Gan walked over to take a look and felt what Jiang JinYuan said was true. At this moment, the entire wall he was facing was possibly just like a sliding door. Therefore, Liu Gan reached out with his hands to grab onto some part of the wall to try shaking it. He discovered that this sliding door was not as heavy as the previous metal doors, and also, there were even wheels underneath. He only used a little force to push the wall in front of him, and another opening appeared at once. The opening was at the corner of the room.
Not long after the opening appeared, a beam of light suddenly appeared from the outside, and it was extremely bright and dazzling. Furthermore, the rumbling sound of a mechanical operation and the sound of electrical currents accompanied the beam of light’s appearance. Jiang JinYuan was frightened without warning and almost screamed out loud. Liu Gan seemed relatively more unperturbed, but he too was susceptible to the blinding light. As he had been enveloped in darkness, his eyes uncomfortably adjusted to the sudden appearance of the bright light.
The bright light slowly dimmed, and Liu Gan and Jiang JinYuan’s vision adjusted after ten seconds. Only then did they discover a framework of ladders and platforms immediately on the other side of the trap wall beyond the opening. There were seven partitions leading to eight layers, and the zigzagging ladders descended more than ten meters downward to the ground floor of the cavern. This huge underground cavern happened to be underneath San Xing Corporation’s hundred story building.
After walking passed the trap wall facing the open cavern and upon walking up to the top of the platform that oversaw the cavern, you could see the center of everything. Previously the PDA monitor indicated that the center of the cavern should be the location of the yellow dot. There was a spherical or annular electromechanical system more than ten meters in diameter. The previous beam of light precisely originated from this huge system.
If one looked carefully, it wasn’t a spherical or annular mechanical system at all. Rather, there were 3 ring-shaped electromechanical devices joined together to form the sphere. These 3 rings were just slowly rotating, so it seemingly looked spherical.
Just as the beam of light was gradually dimming, the 3 rotating rings were also slowing down. After they finished slowing down, Liu Gan could see a platform in the center of the spheroid, and a metallic cabinet was placed horizontally across the platform. If the yellow dot that appeared previously was meant to represent something, then it may be assumed that it should be located within that metallic cabinet now. Looking at the information from the PDA’s scan, the location’s coordinates matched identically.
He just didn’t know why the yellow dot suddenly disappeared.
“Have you seen anything similar before?” Liu Gan asked Jiang JinYuan. Before when he was playing another sci-fi game, Liu Gan also encountered this kind of huge high-tech electromechanical system. Now that he personally saw his circumstances in the presence of such a huge system up close, he still couldn’t help but feel shocked.
“I haven’t, but I think those rings should be magnetic energy generators. This kind of large-scale magnetic energy array is often used for research, specifically designed to isolate or shield some unstable substance.” Jiang JinYuan replied to Liu Gan as he examined the gradually dimming beam of light coming from the spherical system.
“A magnetic energy generator system? Didn’t you say the building’s electricity supply was offline? Why did it produce such an intense light just now, and why is it still rotating?” Liu Gan continued to question Jiang JinYuan.
“When we entered, a thunderstorm was raging outside. If I were to make an educated guess, the rooftop of this kind of tall building must have a lightning rod that extends several hundred meters straight up into the sky. Lighting in the sky is precisely one of the electrical power sources for this magnetic energy generator system.” Jiang JinYuan continued his analysis.
“This building’s lightning rod really is something strange.” Liu Gan nodded a little. Previously, he always thought it was strange why this kind of large building attracted almost all of the lightning nearby. He had guessed whether or not this large building had some sort of secret that required this lightning, but he didn’t expect that he had actually guessed correctly.
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