Time is pressing, and Su Mo doesn’t have time to look for mechanisms. He directly activates Mad Corpse Blood Code, morphing a bone ram on his shoulder, and charges forward.

"Boom!" With Su Mo’s current Quadruple Blood Code body, his basic strength is astonishing. A wall shaped like a door is directly knocked down by him, and he rolls into the space behind the wall.

Just as he expected, there is a secret room here, and it’s where Qi Ling is carrying out hacker actions.

This place is filled with various professional computing equipment, all top models in today’s world, and worth a fortune.

On the computer desk are several rows of composite screens, with large racks in the corner, neatly arranged in a matrix of server terminals. The cables and lines are meticulously organized, with every trajectory clearly visible.

Qi Ling acted a step faster than Su Mo, and this secret room has already been splashed with gasoline and set on fire, flames everywhere.

Judging by the extent to which the hardware equipment has been destroyed, there’s no possibility of recovery.

The table and floor are littered with burning documents, mostly charred black.

Su Mo can only grab the papers that haven’t been completely charred and shove them into his pockets, managing to salvage only a small portion, with the rest being completely consumed by the flames.

The fire grows stronger, and the entire villa is ablaze. There’s hardly anything left to rescue. Protecting the few document fragments he managed to retrieve in his pockets, he hastily escapes the villa.

Just as he escapes, he sees the firefighting unit arriving to put out the fire.

In Anmi New District, as a Rich People’s District, all safety measures are top-notch, and the firefighting equipment is extremely sophisticated.

Large firefighting floating airships hover over the villa, continuously spraying fire-extinguishing foam, suppressing the flames.

Ground fire trucks need to navigate mountainous roads, arriving a few minutes later. Upon arrival, they immediately begin clearing out firebreaks and, together with the floating airship, gradually extinguish the spreading flames.

Simultaneously, several rescue robots begin to stride into the fire site.

In this technologically advanced world, various functional robots are ubiquitous, controlled by electronic systems, achieving high levels of intelligence.

These fire-specific rescue robots have a powerful fireproof coating that can withstand temperatures of 2000 degrees Celsius. They scan back and forth with top-mounted detectors upon entering, searching for potential life forms.

As Su Mo exits, he encounters a rescue robot head-on.

The rescue robot’s massive body opens, revealing a storage compartment inside, its mechanical voice sounding: "Hello, sir, please enter my body, I will take you safely away from the fire site. If you are unable to move, I will perform automatic rescue."

Su Mo pushes it away: "No need." 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

He heads outside where several human firefighters run over: "Hey, are you okay?!"

Su Mo: "I’m fine, carry on with your duties."

Seeing Su Mo’s mental state is good and he’s unscathed, the firefighters are relieved.

Someone asks: "Is this your place? Is there anyone else inside? How did the fire start?"

"It’s not my house, no one else is inside, the fire has nothing to do with me." Su Mo takes out a business card from the black ark and hands it to a firefighter, "If you find the owner of this villa, please contact me. I have matters to discuss with her."

Su Mo is the only person on-site, suspected of arson, and logically shouldn’t be let go.

But upon seeing the business card, the firefighter hesitates: "So it’s Captain Edge... Understood, we’ll contact you with further progress. Please keep your phone available."

Su Mo returns to the car, taking out the salvaged document fragments from his pockets, laying them on the dashboard to try and examine them.

Some fragments contain text, some pictures, and some numbers, with no apparent continuity, clearly not belonging to the same document.

Additionally, they are severely damaged, burnt to mere scraps, almost impossible to reconstruct complete information.

As Su Mo furrows his brow in thought, he suddenly notices a fragment with numbers recorded on it.

The lower half of the sequence has been burnt away, leaving only the upper half intact.

By deducing from the curvature of the upper half of the numeric pattern, the original appearance of this sequence can be identified —

12061923.

At first glance, he doesn’t think much of it, assuming it’s undecipherable data or a password, when he suddenly recognizes this sequence as familiar.

12061923?

Su Mo suddenly realizes: "December 6th, 19:23?"

The time of the Venus Eden Garden explosion in the original plot of "Dawn" game!

Such a long number directly aligning with the time cannot be a coincidence.

"Damn, so you were behind that..."

It can now be essentially confirmed that Qi Ling is the real culprit behind the Venus Eden Garden explosion.

As for how the bomb got placed into the underground pipeline...

Su Mo speculates that hacker technology must have been involved.

Previously, Miyata Junren mentioned that Eden Garden underwent major renovations in the first half of this year, including a complete re-layout of underground pipelines.

In this era’s construction projects, automation is largely realized, requiring only detailed input of engineering data, with robots able to carry out the work.

For a hacking expert like Qi Ling, using electronic virus control to operate robots to transport some bombs into concealed underground pipes would not be difficult at all.

In the original plot, Venus Eden Garden was likely bombed into the sky this way.

However, several questions remain unanswered.

Why did Qi Ling bomb Venus Eden Garden?

After the explosion in the original plot, where did she go?