Curse The Mainframe - Chapter 431

The inside of the hall was quite empty. Compared to the luxurious and elegant outlook that the place had, inside was practically barren, which surprised them.

Ye Sha, in particular, was quite puzzled.

Where were the treasures? The opportunities?

Why did the place look like this? Normally, people wanted to portray the place with grandeur and make those other people awed, but this place?

Empty!

Barren!

In fact, they had not been attacked by anything in the moment they entered this territory.

But was it really as safe as it seemed?

Ye Sha was frustrated. He could only measure the ‘value’ of the place, but he could not see what kind of dangers they would face – if there were any at all. From the outside, this place appeared like a reward palace instead.

It was clear that the other party had a level up on him, and he would need more time to break through the walls set around the information.

Thinking up to this point, Ye Sha sat down in a corner of the hall. To the other three, he said, “You guys continue up. This place might look empty, but there should be sufficient opportunities for you.”

They nodded.

“Are you planning on trying to break through their firewall?”

Alec sent the other two up first while he gave Ye Sha a look. However, he didn’t miss how Katherine and Le Xuan’s figures disappeared from plain sight the moment they stepped onto the stairs.

In that moment they stepped on, the arrays naturally started, and Alec could even see the illusions descending for a brief moment before it returned to its barren state.

Ye Sha scoffed. “Do you even have to ask? I wasn’t even going to come up here until I managed to get all the information, but you dragged me up here,” he said helplessly.

Alec’s lips curled into a smile, which scared Ye Sha.

“Well, about that… it’s not that I wasn’t trying hard enough. Really. I just can’t do anything with Katherine and that Le Xuan here as well.”

“Why can’t you? It’s not like they’d understand anyway.”

Ye Sha held his forehead. “Because then they’ll all think that I’ve lost my marbles?”

“Have you not?” Alec asked, his face completely serious.

Ye Sha looked at his friend’s face, and he realized that Alec wasn’t teasing him. He genuinely believed that.

He threw the pack of ch.i.p.s that he’d just taken out at the other System. “Get out! Who said that I’m crazy! I’m perfectly sane, alright?!”

“I never said that you were crazy.”

Ye Sha glowered at him. “Just go!”

Alec gracefully turned around and headed up the barren stairs.

The place was truly empty. There was no wallpaper, no furniture, and even no lights in the place.

It looked almost like an unfinished building.

The only thing in this place that seemed to be particularly taken care of was the stairs.

The stairs spiralled upwards, from the sides of the building, and it appeared very grand. There were rooms on every half-level, which led to somewhere different.

The wooden railings were lacquered, making it glossy, and each step was inlaid with gold, creating a strange contrast in the place.

Alec wondered… as a building in the middle of the ‘region’, this should arguably be the most eye-catching and important place.

But… something felt wrong on another level. It was as if it wanted to be found. As if they were afraid that no one would find it after searching.

Or was this called ‘hiding in plain sight’?

Upstairs, Katherine and Le Xuan were nowhere to be seen, which did not surprise him.

He could see the various arrays inside here, and there was a bit of a bewildering effect inlaid in it. It also created illusions that would draw you into another world.

More than that, the inner space of the pavilion was a lot larger than it appeared.

Alec continued walking up the stairs, having to take various detours.

This was because the array formed a natural formation that caused those who stepped onto the stairs to get lost. That was… unless they could navigate the array!

But stumbling around in the array had fortune of its own.

Therefore, Alec did not seek out either Le Xuan or Katherine deliberately.

They were strong enough not to die inside, so he was rest assured.

Alec stood still as he quietly comprehended the various parts of the array that appeared in front of him.

It was a very useful array since it was a giant array that contained many smaller parts within it.

The linkage was the thing that held everything together. If it weren’t for this one giant interlinking part, everything would fall apart, and one could easily break through the array.

It was strange and wondrous, and Alec felt like he was a fish returning to water.

This array was tremendously helpful to him, more so than him burying his head and studying books.

It even came to the point where Alec didn’t want to leave this place at all. At least, not until he had thoroughly understood everything within.

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Meanwhile, Le Xuan was very, very confused.

She was walking around the gorgeous and luxurious room curiously. She couldn’t find anything at all.

She’d lost Katherine, but there was a strange sense of serenity in her, and she wasn’t worried like she usually would be.

She suddenly realized that there was something wrong with her mental state when she walked past a mirror. There was a strange, bizarre smile on her face that frightened her so much that she startled out of it.

Le Xuan patted her chest in fear. “What was that?”

For once, the fear of god that her mother put into her helped her out. When she thought about how she was wearing that strange smile in public, she felt complex. That was actually the thing that allowed her to break out of that state…

Just how deep did her strange fear go?

Her mother’s theory about a gentle girl being able to find a man in public was so deep sated that it startled her out of that deep illusionary realm?

She was feeling complex indeed…

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On the other hand, Katherine was already punching out. The punches caused various shock waves to appear in the air.

She was in a room that was wide. It looked like a training room, with a few dummies by the side that she hadn’t yet touched.

She followed a series of instructions that appeared in her brain, closing her eyes as she repeated the moves again and again until she ultimately inched closer to perfection.

It was a shocking training technique, and every punch or kick of hers generated so much force that it could shake the world.

The Sin was wholly engrossed in it as she comprehended the strikes and how to move.

She didn’t have the extra mental capacity to think of anything else.

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Ye Sha’s fingers were flying across the various screens in front of him. This would go a lot quicker if he had Two or Three with him, but they’d gone out to ‘temper’ themselves and experience more things.

They had their own fortune. Though they had been made by the previous motherboard, they were still living beings in the end.

Ye Sha was racing against the clock as he cracked the code.

Finally, he pressed the last key, and the screen went blank.

The System breathed out and rested his head against the pillar he was leaning against.

“Finally done…”

He quietly studied the information that was given to him, not disturbing the rest of them.

This place didn’t hold danger – in fact, it was rife with hard-met opportunities, so he would instead be disrupting their fortune if he acted.

Ye Sha looked up towards the staircase that seemed to spiral upwards endlessly deeply.

He slowly put a chip in his mouth.