Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!-Chapter 462: Locked!

"What are you doing standing here? Come inside." The tall and slender figure swept past Bai E, taking the lead into the base.

Pansen, who had been to the base before, still remembered the overall detailed structure of the base and could find his way to the central area of the servers without a guide.

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Minister Eric hurried to catch up with Pansen’s figure, softly asking as he passed the assistant lady, "What’s the situation now?"

The assistant lady, following the minister, moved quickly with short steps, "That invisible ’world’ has occupied our server’s Computing Power Resources, causing a significant reduction in server performance. In fact, we can’t fully pinpoint where this invisible ’world’ is. We only infer its existence through the occupation of computing power and feedback from some abnormal signals."

"How long has it been since it was first discovered? Is the occupation continuous, or does it occur in fits and starts?"

"It’s intermittent; our operating speed fluctuates."

"Is there any pattern?"

"Current data is insufficient to deduce an accurate change function."

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Quick questions and quick answers.

Though many details had already been communicated, they still subconsciously sought confirmation upon meeting face to face, making sure no significant changes had occurred during their journey here.

Bai E listened quietly on the side, not saying a word.

His duty was to accompany the team to the base. Having reached the destination, he no longer had specific tasks to attend to; technically, he could rest.

But how could he rest? "You take them to rest first; we don’t need that many people for the technical tasks over there."

"Okay," Rose agreed without hesitation, raising her palm toward the security teams following her into line-up at the doorway, "Everyone, come with me."

She then turned her head to the base’s original guards, "Could you please arrange accommodations for us? We’ll rest for the night and take over tomorrow."

"No problem." The guard soldier who needed relief, faced with the radiant smile of the warrior woman before him, hastily nodded in agreement.

Only a few figures headed straight for the central control room.

"Pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat~"

The messy footsteps crisply resounded in the corridor, and soon the group arrived at the heart of the base.

Pansen, the first to arrive at the control console, halted his steps. The sound of his steel boots quieted as he turned his head, casting a somewhat urging glance.

His gaze naturally fell on the figure following behind Minister Eric, and a flash of displeasure crossed his eyes.

"You have fulfilled your duty, this isn’t a place for you."

Minister Eric smiled ingratiatingly, stepping half a pace forward, "My lord, Bai has done extensive research in the technical field. The first time we came here to reboot the servers, it was he who provided ideas for fixing those damaged servers. As you know, we technicians can’t resist the allure of these novelties."

Pansen’s brow furrowed, but he said no more.

It wasn’t a matter of personal preference or deliberate targeting of anyone; it was simply that his Spiritual Energy reacted strangely when it came to Bai.

The feedback from Bai’s Spiritual Energy was indistinguishable from others, yet some intuition named "hunch" constantly emitted subtle alarms, causing unease.

The source of the unease seemed to stem from this "Captain Bai"…

The deliberate provocation was meant to stimulate Captain Bai, to see if he would provide any more convincing feedback.

However… still flawless, as if he were just an ordinary soldier.

With Minister Eric speaking on his behalf, it wasn’t easy for Pansen to persist, his gaze circled Bai E’s face and ultimately, resignedly, shifted to Minister Eric’s face, "Do you have a way to roughly locate the ’legacy’?"

If they couldn’t approximate its location, he would have to rely on Spiritual Energy to meticulously explore every inch of space, which would undoubtedly be a massive challenge for him.

Minister Eric shook his head, "Lord, virtual worlds that exist entirely separate from physical hardware do not have a tangible entity to pinpoint. In fact, we can’t be sure if this so-called ’virtual world’ has a catchable entity within our material world."

"Perhaps give me some clues?" Pansen frowned deeply. The moment he had reached the central control room, he had already spread out his Spiritual Energy and did a preliminary search near the control console but found… nothing.

"That ’virtual world’ occasionally seizes our Computing Power Resources. We can only approximate which server’s resources are being harnessed during that time; that might constitute a clue?" The assistant lady, having been stationed here longer, was more knowledgeable about the situation.

Forewarned by Minister Eric, she took the initiative to step forward and answer the questions for the lord who had accompanied them last time.

"How long does it last each time your Computing Power Resources are stolen?" As he spoke, Pansen stepped to the edge of the nearby corridor, looking down at rows of server mainframes, each with a green indicator light, arrayed in the expansive, sunken hall below.

Glancing toward both ends, his vision was unable to penetrate the thin darkness, preventing a clear view of the entire mass of mainframes.