Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 284 Mission: 07-4 Triumph
"Did it still happen?"

When the alarm sounded, Nero couldn't help but sigh. She could guess that Ye Sheng and the others were trapped underwater, but she didn't quite understand why the situation had become like this.

The high-blooded student council members, who had been preparing for the dance, suddenly turned solemn and, in an orderly fashion, made their way through the crowd toward the back door. However, Nero found this elitist approach in an emergency situation a bit pedantic. So, having been engaged in a polite conversation with Caesar, she politely interrupted the conversation with a gesture, signaling that Caesar should stop wasting her time. Then, Nero reached the second-floor railing and decisively climbed over it.

Nero seemed to have broken through some illusory barrier, but she didn't care. Amidst exclamations, Nero gracefully descended, her skirt pressed against her waist, landing in the middle of the dance floor. The crowd made way, and Nero scurried down the aisle, grabbing Lu Mingfei, who was still staring blankly at the food.

"Let's get ready to go." She dragged Lu Mingfei out without saying anything.

"Huh? That..."

Lu Mingfei frantically knocked over the lobster on the table. Nero glanced at it and saw that the lobster didn't seem to be anything worth paying attention to, so he decisively and forcibly pulled him away.

From the main gate.

However, there were few students above grade A, so the dance behind the door continued as usual.

"Where are we going?" Lu Mingfei asked, as if he had calmed down.

"Emergency assembly in the library."

As expected, in the library's central control room, Executive Director Schneider announced that two members of the Executive Division were trapped in the ancient city. The mechanism had been triggered, oxygen levels were low, and the only clue to unlocking the ruins map was a series of photos inscribed in Dragon language.

But this time, the situation was much better. With the weather not too bad, Professor Mans had already dived underwater with a spare oxygen tank, ready to pick up the two students at the exit. Meanwhile, some of the city's mechanisms had been damaged, so even if the city's mechanisms were self-destructing, the area near the entrance was still a safe zone.

These dragon characters were photographed by Professor Mans, who had entered the city and was wandering near the entrance. Norma completed the splicing and restoration. Now, a complete picture is presented to everyone.

Nero had entered the Bronze City and had a general impression of it. The entire Bronze City could be thought of as a 3D sliding puzzle. In this puzzle, blocks move by filling gaps created by adjacent blocks, so the number of blocks that can move at any given moment is limited. An algorithm must govern which blocks are prioritized for movement. Understanding this algorithm would reveal the map of the Bronze City.

The algorithm is in the words. Nero can read the words.

She began to build the simulation model as quickly as possible, but just when she was halfway through, "Lu Mingfei's interpretation results" suddenly appeared on the big screen.

Fine. Fine. After all, this is a matter of life and death, so it's better to be quick. But Nero still turned his head and mouthed two words:

"opened?"

There was no doubt that Lu Mingfei had indeed cheated this time. He had tapped into a mysterious power beyond the rules of the game. So, faced with Nero's teasing, this guy who had deciphered the rules of the city's operation lowered his head in embarrassment.

But when he turned around and looked at the answer sheet submitted by Lu Mingfei, Nero found a problem.

The rules Lu Mingfei had interpreted were indeed correct, but Norma, who was executing them, had made a mistake. Ye Sheng and his team hadn't fully explored the entire Bronze City, so one of the "locked" components marked in red was missing. Therefore, this simulated map was wrong. And the longer it ran, the greater the error.

It must be corrected.

A moment later, the map refreshed. A new red area appeared in the city model, which was running again. Next to it, after just three runs, another module fell to the bottom of the city, also locked in red, completing its self-destruction.

"Nero Revised Edition" was clearly marked under the line of small words.

After comparing the results with the sonar detection, Schneider concluded in a hoarse voice: "...This one is correct."

He looked at Nero in disbelief. While the sonar results were objective, how had Nero been able to tell at a glance that the simulation was flawed? Not only did he know it was wrong, he also pinpointed the cause, pinpointing that one single error among countless operating modules!
Is she a genius in magical mechanics?

But there was no time to sigh. He quickly synchronized the map results to the Moniach, which was far away in the sky.

Without a display, Ye Sheng and his companions couldn't receive this information. Similarly, they had already severed the signal line connecting them to the Moniach. Otherwise, the city would have pulled them into the cracks of the machinery, crushing them into a bloody mess. Fortunately, Ye Sheng had another way to communicate. Through the power of the Word Spirit, the incoming electrical signals were transformed into a real-time image in Ye Sheng's brain.

In this image, Ye Sheng and his team were only three modules away from Professor Mans. Someone had even meticulously marked a line for them—in the next three rotations, a straight passage connected in time would appear before them, and the rotating modules would carry them to Professor Mans.

The pressure in the cylinder was already very low, and the rate of oxygen release was slowing. But it should be enough to sustain them to Professor Mance. They could even leave with the alchemical weapon and brass container.

Ye Sheng released the Word Spirit, smiled at Jude Aki, and took a step forward.

There was silence in the control room of Kassel Academy. Mans and the members of the Moniach were waiting anxiously, but there was no sound.

Time passed minute by minute. Judging from the time, Ye Sheng and his team's oxygen tanks could no longer supply any oxygen. They continued to move forward relying on the small amount of oxygen in the diving masks and their strong breath-holding ability.

"Come here quickly!"

Mans's anxious voice suddenly filled the channel. Inside Bronze City, he removed his mask and placed it on the faces of Jude Aki and Ye Sheng, finally feeling at ease as their expressions, strained from holding their breath, gradually returned to normal.

"Assistant Commissioners Ye Sheng and Shude Aki of the Executive Department have returned safely."

He handed the spare gas cylinder he was carrying to the two men and asked them to replace it, while reporting to the supporters behind him.

Suddenly, the silent library was filled with joy.

(End of this chapter)