The underground laboratory hummed with a cold mechanical rhythm and clattering of tools.
Rows of spirit-conductive crystal pillars pulsed with blue light, each one feeding torrents of computational spiritual energy into the massive extraction platform at the center of the chamber.
Bound within layers of sealing arrays, his limbs restrained by chains forged from Voidsteel and inscribed with anti-causal runes, lies Ye Feng, who had already regained consciousness and looked around in fear.
His breathing was ragged, his pupils flickered with unstable streams of golden data as the System inside him was struggling to resist.
Standing before the central control console, Feng Yuyan adjusted a rotating lattice of quantum talismans with clinical precision.
Beside her, her older sister Leng Shuang monitored hundreds of flowing calculations projected across holographic screens.
And Shen Haoran stood at the side, observing everything, and from time to time, would assist the two of them.
