Chapter 27: Privileges Locked (Part 2/2) (2/2)

The power system has been shut off. The communications system has been shut off. The transportation system has been shut off. The life support system has been shut off…..Locking of the laboratory area has been completed.

“......”

The flood of information ended. The luminance of the wristband also died out. The faint luster of the wristband was like the gaze of a teasing demon. It blinked and blinked, no longer paying heed to its observer.

Luo Nan tapped the wristband to try to revitalize it, but the personal defense mechanism of the wristband had activated. There was no response whatsoever no matter how he tapped.

Luo Nan smashed a heavy fist against the elevator door.

Present society was certainly a society of authority and privileges.

A physical network covered every nook and corner of the city. The scope of digital privileges you have, which level of access you have, determined which locations you were able to access in the city.

Your physical body could move freely, but your privileges were controlled. If one were to charge into the realm of high level privileges with the identity of low level privileges, one would just crash nose-first into a wall. And so Luo Nan had been caught in this inexplicable snare and was trapped here on the spot.

The “Privilege Trap” was very commonly seen. Most of these traps consisted of elevators, corridors, and other relatively confined narrow areas in important locations. These traps were meant for capturing illegal intruders who were not awarded with privileges, then the intruders were to be handed to the police for processing.

This trap that Luo Nan encountered covered a vast amount of area. It’s just that the location wasn’t quite ideal…… This was a sealed space located fifty meters underground.

The darkness was just like a demon that was everywhere at once in this place. The silence that permeated through the space passed along restlessness and fear.

Luo Nan stood at the elevator’s entrance. He could clearly hear his and Xie Junping’s breathing. Several seconds passed before Luo Nan took Xie Junping, placed him down, and leaned him against the elevator’s door.

“Hey! Wake up!”

Xie Junping did not respond.

“Slap. Slap.”

Still no response.

Shouting, slapping, pinching, and other methods were all employed, but Xie Junping continued to remain in his unconscious state. On the other hand, Xie Junping’s body temperature had stabilized quite a bit.

Luo Nan was dumbfounded. He stood there for a dozen seconds before smashing the elevator door one more time, but this time his fist was a bit lighter. Then he carried Xie Junping anew and headed back the way he came.

The darkness followed them like a shadow following a body. This was the darkest of darkness, the defense system of the damned laboratory room. All power sources were cleanly and directly cut off. There really weren’t any sources of light at all.

Luo Nan’s initial thought was to use his own wristband for light. But his wristband practically emitted no light since half an hour ago, due to the long thread entering his wristband and causing a low-energy state.

He might as well just not use anything, the darkness had no meaning to him in anycase.

The heavily chained crow extended out once again and the Wraith Signed flickered with a demonic red glow in front. This aura only radiated out on the mental plane, but it illuminated the plane of reality through some sort of form to allow Luo Nan to be able to observe his surrounding environment without using his naked eye. Even more importantly, this method was clearer then using his naked eye.

This was using his soul’s point of view without having to leave his body.

Regardless of any fact, it was truly a great feeling to be able to “see” one’s surroundings clearly. What had been unobservable in the darkness had been scanned and seen clearly. The mental aspect of pressure had also alleviated.

Luo Nan found a chair within the empty space of the central control room. He place Xie Junping upon it and temporarily left Xie Junping unoccupied. Luo Nan had already walked to the front of the completely shutdown control console. He pressed a few random buttons, and the result was no response at all.

The threat in reality still remained critical and heavy.

Luo Nan didn’t forget about the flickering stream of information that appeared later on Xie Junping’s wristband.

Several systems were completely shut down, the most life-threatening was the shutdown of the “Life-Support System” without a doubt. They were fifty meters underground in a sealed room. If the system didn’t constantly circulate air, not much time was needed for the trapped…… Those inside the room, be it intruder or temporarily authorized people, would face the risk of suffocating to death.

From this, Luo Nan could tell that owner of this laboratories ought to possess truly a vicious and merciless heart. These measures were undoubtedly illegal, should one dig out the legal clauses. But when Luo Nan thought about who the owner of this laboratory was, Luo Nan felt things matched his own inner expectations.