I lent my brother 500 yuan, and he offered his wife as collateral.

……

High-order data cracks only last for a few minutes.

After the main control array where Song Wuji was located was formatted, a gap appeared in the shielding layer of the third sequence. A large amount of data was being automatically transferred, with the master pattern tail code sandwiched inside, and it could be closed again at any time.

Zhou Ye returned to the underground data room, his hands never stopping.

"There are still a little over four minutes left in the window. I don't have enough permissions, so I can only capture the outer waveform."

Qin Feng looked at Shen Banxia.

Can I accept the "Formation Bone" dungeon?

"They can accept it, but they'll need to reapply for guardianship authorization."

"Use read-only copy."

"I know."

Shen Banxia did not cut corners to save time. The Shen family's life legacy was not a tool; even if she missed the data by a step, she could not access it without permission.

She opened the guardianship app and resubmitted the application.

[Purpose: Comparison of the historical source of the master pattern's last digit.]

[Authorized carrier: A copy of the first layer of code from the Shen Family Sternite Array.]

[Calling method: Read-only.]

[Extraction of active ingredients is prohibited.]

[Modification of the subject of physical evidence of life is prohibited.]

[The creation of commercial ownership is prohibited.]

The system requires an explanation of the reason for the emergency.

Shen Banxia submitted the third sequence backlash record and the data rift together.

[Emergency read-only authorization granted.]

"catch!"

The copy code enters the high-level data line.

Zhou Ye simultaneously imported the second set of data. That was the discarded runes of the Life-Taking Decree, which had been peeled off from Xiao Kuang's body. The life-extraction portion had been removed, leaving only the traces of the source formed by automatic tracing.

The third group consists of the tail codes that keep flashing through the cracks in the main control array.

When three sets of data were placed on the same screen, they initially appeared as gibberish.

The arrangement of the Shen family's array bone copy comes from twenty years ago. The Death-Taking Decree has undergone many modifications, and the current format of the main control array plate has been enhanced with a new layer of concealment.

Zhou Ye tried three different comparison methods, but none of them matched.

"Three minutes left."

Qian Shao stood at the door and asked:

What equipment do you need?

"We have enough equipment."

"What about permissions?"

"That's enough."

"What's the difference?"

"A synchronization calibration waveform is missing."

Shen Banxia stared at the three sets of last digits.

"The Shen family's core formation is responsible for maintaining the remaining formation, the Great Commander is responsible for taking lives from the outside, and the Third Sequence is responsible for execution. The three sides have different purposes and rhythms, so we must first find out which one they all obey."

Qin Feng looked at the bottom of the screen.

Every so often, a brief blank appears in each of the three sets of data, with the blank length being the same.

This indicates that they are all making way for a higher-level signal.

"Stack the blank segments together."

Zhou Ye quickly made a change.

After the three sets of data overlapped, a missing interface appeared in the middle of the screen.

[The first carrier...]

The rest of the content is still obscured.

"Still missing."

Zhou Ye looked up.

"The interface is required to carry sequence waveforms."

Shen Banxia asked:

"Is the Shen family bloodline inadequate?"

"The Shen family is the maintenance end, not the carrying end."

Everyone in the basement looked at Su Qingxue at the same time.

Su Qingxue walked to the data terminal.

"What should we do?"

"Just get close to the reading area; no blood test or control agreement is required."

Zhou Ye first opened the permission instructions.

"Only read the Phoenix Fate waveform that you release naturally. Data is not retained, and no candidate authorization is created."

After confirming, Su Qingxue stood next to the reader.

The waveform of the Nine Yin Phoenix Fate was just captured when three sets of tail codes appeared simultaneously in response.

A gap appeared in the screen's masking layer, and Zhou Ye immediately captured the data.

"Successfully synchronized!"

The countdown has one minute and forty seconds left.

Numerous coordinates emerged from the cracks, including the Inner Ring Holy Tower, the Old Treasury Node, and dozens of deactivated maintenance positions.

Zhou Ye filtered the patterns according to their parent pattern levels and finally found the source mark at the highest level.

[The first tier of the Phoenix Emblem series.]

[Master heart rate coordinates being read.]

Everyone stared at the coordinate bar.

Shen Banxia originally believed that the first sequence of carriers must be hidden in the deepest part of the Holy Tower.

The Shen family was wiped out, and their remaining life force was used to maintain the main formation. The Central Region continues to select candidates for the Phoenix Emblem, and the true core of control should reside in the Holy Tower.

As a result, after the first coordinate segment popped up, the direction immediately left the central region.

Qian Shao thought there was a problem with the system.

"How do I get out from these coordinates?"

Zhou Ye retrieved the complete path.

"Not the Central Region."

The second segment's location is locked.

[Yanjing.]

The third section continues to sink.

[The ancestral home of the Su family.]

The final source is located in the deepest part of the Su family's ancestral land.

No one spoke in the basement.

Su Qingxue looked at those words and her breathing slowed down.

She came to Zhongyu from Yanjing, always believing that the Phoenix Plan originated here. The Su family was merely an external participant, and Su Zhennan and Su Zhendong were just people working for Zhongyu.

Now, the coordinates point back to the ancestral home of the Su family.

"Could it be a transit point?" Su Lie asked.

Zhou Ye verified it three times.

"no."

"The mother rune marks that place as the location of the main control meridian. The Holy Tower is just the current main array; the true primary carrier of the meridian has always remained in the ancestral land of the Su family in Yanjing."

Shen Banxia retrieved the data gaps from twenty years ago.

"The timing is right."

"What matches?" Qian Shao asked.

"After Lin Wanrong left the Central Region, the main control meridian records were interrupted. In the same year, the Shen family's main array was forcibly connected to the Holy Tower."

She put the two timelines together.

Lin Wanrong took away the main control meridian, the Shen family bloodline was extracted, and the Phoenix Formation began long-term maintenance.

For the past twenty years, Zhongyu has been unable to fully restore its main control meridian, which is why it needs the Shen family's life remnants to continuously supply energy, and why generations of Phoenix candidates need to undergo the bearing test.

Shen Banxia looked at the monitoring record of the petri dish, her hand pausing on the table.

She only knew before that the Shen family was destroyed because they possessed the purification array. Now she knows that there was a more direct reason for the Shen family tragedy.

Lin Wanrong took the main control meridian with her. The Central Region is missing the most crucial part, and they need the Shen family bloodline to fill the gap.

The elder whose heart meridian tissue and sternal array bone were removed endured twenty years of reading, not to maintain an ordinary array artifact.

It is extending the life of the entire Fengyi Project.

"So their destruction of the Shen family wasn't just about seizing the formation."

Shen Banxia spoke very slowly.

"Whatever they lack, they take from the Shen family."

Su Lie walked to her side but did not try to persuade her to put it down.

This kind of thing can't be left unresolved.

"Another item has been added to the bill."

"Not a single stroke."

Shen Banxia closed the remote reading screen of the petri dish.

"It's a family affair."

Qin Feng looked at Su Qingxue.

She was still looking at the coordinates of the ancestral home of the Su family in Yanjing.

What Lin Wanrong took away back then was not ordinary blueprints, but the main control core of the first carrier sequence.

This also explains why Su Qingxue was targeted from birth.

She is not merely a candidate for the Nine Yin Phoenix Fate. There may be a direct bloodline connection between her and the controlling heart meridian.

"Qingxue".

Qin Feng walked to her side.

"Save the coordinates first."

Su Qingxue nodded and personally wrote the coordinate copy into the Su family's highest-level database.

"Brother Feng, does my mother know I'll be a candidate?"

"I might know some of it."

"Then why did she bring the main control meridian back to the Su family's ancestral land?"

"It's not certain yet."

Qin Feng did not offer her any conjectures to comfort her.

Lin Wanrong may have done this to thwart Fengyi's plan, or perhaps she wanted to leave herself an escape route. The fact that she brought the items back to Yanjing without completely destroying them suggests that the main control heart meridian had other uses.

One thing is certain.

"What?"

She didn't hand you over.

Su Qingxue looked down at the coordinates.

Twenty years ago, Lin Wanrong must have paid a heavy price to take the main control meridian from the Central Region. After returning to Yanjing, she was poisoned by Su Zhennan.

There are still many blank spaces in this.

But the fact that her mother hid the most important things in the Su family's ancestral land at least shows that she did not follow the arrangements made by the Central Region.

Su Qingxue raised her hand and turned off the Phoenix Fate Reading.

"Let's seal the coordinates first. No one may access them without my and Feng's joint signature."

Zhou Ye implemented double encryption.

"It has been sealed."

The data crack has 20 seconds remaining.

Zhou Ye continued to extract the explanation following the last digit.

The screen flickered rapidly.

[The first carrier sequence controls the heart...]

Current status...

【abnormal……】

The shielding layer begins to close.

Give me ten more seconds.

Zhou Ye increased the reading speed.

The high-end data cable is overheating. The edge of the connector is already red.

Shen Banxia pressed down on the array bone copy.

"Don't damage the instance structure."

"Won't."

In the last three seconds, a complete message appeared on the screen.

[First carrier sequence master control artery: Abnormal existence.]

The data rift was immediately closed, and the higher-order channels were severed by the main array.

At the same time.

An unusual echo resounded from the depths of the inner ring of the Holy Tower!