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

……

All public displays above the lobby were simultaneously turned off.

The outside world can only read the copy before the channel was cut off, and cannot see the changes on site.

Zhou Ye tried to restore the connection repeatedly, but the system only returned the same message.

The site has been placed under maximum emergency preparedness lockdown.

[External ports are read-only.]

[Write prohibited.]

Zhou Ye immediately stopped trying.

Forcing access will only leave the Grand Master with evidence of external contamination.

"Qian Shao, seal up the existing copies."

Qian Shao has already opened the public backup of the transition warehouse.

"Everything's saved. What's the situation inside now?"

"have no idea."

"Can I contact Brother Feng?"

"Personal channels are also down."

Zhou Ye stared at the last frame of the image.

The Grand Master held the golden seal, while Su Qingxue still kept her hand on the Spirit-Seeking Mirror. Qin Feng stood beside her, not stepping forward to stop her.

He knew what Qin Feng was waiting for, but he didn't know exactly how to break it.

All we can do now is preserve the external evidence.

……

Inside the Holy Tower Hall, the golden seal lit up again.

The Grand Master's physical projection fell from above and stopped in front of the array platform.

"The Shen family's historical code has corrupted the main formation."

"Su used external data to intervene in the first bearer review."

"To prevent the spread of contamination, the highest level of disaster recovery formatting procedure is now initiated."

The list of items to be removed appears one by one.

[Objective 1: All members of the Su family attending the meeting.]

[Target Two: The Shen Family's Life Remains Data Box.]

[Target 3: The original recording of the Taiyi Spirit-Seeking Mirror.]

[Objective 4: Evidence from the scene.]

[Objective Five: Witnessing seats for all exposure to contamination data.]

After the last item was announced, the old clan members could no longer remain seated.

"We only applied for verification, why are we also included in the cleanup scope?"

"The witness panel only read publicly available records and is not a source of pollution."

"High Priest, are you going to format us too?"

The Grand Master said:

"Any port that comes into contact with erroneous data could cause secondary spread."

The old woman from the Fengyi side story retreated directly to the back of her seat.

She understands everything now.

Formatting Su and the data box could be considered as cleaning up contamination. But erasing the witness stand along with it, the purpose being to leave no witnesses at the scene.

The old clans that had just supported the Holy Tower immediately withdrew from their positions.

"Request to terminate the disaster recovery process."

"Request to transfer the golden seal."

"Request the public system to regain control."

All applications were rejected while in a closed state.

During the period when the highest disaster recovery authority is in effect, ordinary objections will not be accepted.

Su Lie walked to the witness point.

Several old clan guards were also approaching the Grand Master, intending to seize the golden seal by force.

He raised his hand to stop him.

Don't go over there.

One of the guards angrily said:

"If we don't act now, everyone will die."

"If you take action now, it will be recorded as an attack by the old clans against the Grand Master."

"What else can we do?"

"Protect the recording device."

Su Lie stood between the array platform and the crowd, but did not attack the Grand Master.

"Anyone who wants to use this chaos as an excuse to make a move will have to get past me first."

He guarded against both the Holy Tower's guardians and the Old Ones' protectors.

If someone draws their sword at this moment, the Grand Master can repackage the highest disaster preparedness procedure as a suppression of a riot.

Shen Banxia was still holding the data box.

The red line was repeatedly swept across the seal, and warnings kept popping up from the historical source agent.

The evidence is under legal guardianship.

[Items must not be destroyed without verification of their origin.]

"I can't hold on much longer."

She gritted her teeth and said:

"The Golden Seal authority has been suppressing the agents."

Qin Feng asked:

"Is the third floor still sealed off?"

"Sealed."

"Who signed it?"

"You and the boss."

"What are the trigger conditions?"

"The source has been deleted with the highest level of authority; the system can automatically trace back."

After Shen Banxia finished speaking, she suddenly realized what she meant.

The data stored in the third layer is not ordinary code.

Before setting off, Zhou Ye had already written down the complete coordinates of the Su family's ancestral home in Yanjing.

That coordinate system never actively connected to the Holy Tower, nor did it participate in the verification by the Spirit-Seeking Mirror just now.

It only accepts system checks when the source is erased.

In other words, if the Grand Master doesn't change the highest-level format, it will forever remain just a sealed-off piece of evidence.

If he attacks it himself, the removal process will trace back along the source chain.

Shen Banxia looked at Qin Feng.

"You've been waiting for this all along?"

"All I know is that he'll try to destroy the evidence."

"What if he doesn't press it?"

"Then continue with public censorship."

Qin Feng was also holding his breath.

At this point in the plan, there is no longer any absolute certainty.

They knew that Yanjing, their ancestral home, was the true controlling entity, but they didn't know what "abnormal existence" really meant.

After the cleanup process is initiated, no one can guarantee whether the controller will respond.

However, since the Grand Master does not personally attack the source of his superiors, his secondary status in the Holy Tower only proves that he has no right to define, but cannot immediately abolish his golden seal.

Now, by including all the evidence and witnesses in the purge target, he has effectively sealed off all responsibility.

Su Qingxue maintained her resonance with the Spirit-Seeking Mirror.

Her arms were already numb, and Feng Ming was still being repeatedly pulled by the control chains.

The Grand Master said:

"Su Qingxue, by actively interrupting the resonance, you can be temporarily removed from the first elimination sequence."

"and then?"

"Hand over the data box and accept subsequent quarantine."

"What will happen to my people?"

"It will be handled on its own after the pollution investigation is completed."

Su Qingxue did not stop.

If she were to voluntarily interrupt the process, the Grand Master could then claim that the failure of the review was her fault. The Shen family, acting as an agent, would also lose the support of the entity being reviewed.

"I accepted a full source verification."

"I won't withdraw until the results are in."

Wu Jie had already placed the two recorders in front of their personal terminals.

They were caught red-handed by Wu Jie when they tried to destroy or delete the template while it was under lockdown.

One of them said:

"You have no right to restrict the Santa Recorder."

"I didn't restrict your movement."

Wu Jie moved their hands away from the close button.

"I just won't let you delete anything."

"This is an internal record."

"Tell me about the internal matters after the review is complete."

In the old witness stand, someone voluntarily helped him lock the recording device.

At this point, anyone who dares to ask the people of Santa to delete their data is playing with their own life.

The chief minister stopped trying to persuade him.

He concluded that the main control system in Yanjing had long since failed.

Even if the cleanup process traces the historical source back to the Su family's ancestral home, it will only delete an old address that is no longer responding.

Once the original source disappears, all externally stored copies can be defined as contaminated data.

He raised the golden seal.

The highest level of disaster recovery procedures have begun binding to the gas field.

[Caller's identity confirmed: Grand Master of the Holy Tower.]

[Responsibility carrier confirmed: Golden Seal, bound to Qihai.]

The responsibility cannot be shifted.

Representatives of the old clan are still submitting applications to terminate their membership.

None of them passed.

Qin Feng watched as the golden seal descended towards the activation point without stopping it.

"Press it."

The Grand Master pressed down with his palm.

Qin Feng continued:

"Press it, and you'll know who this tower is really in charge of."

The golden seal was sealed.

The red cleansing program rushed out of the main array, first sweeping past the spirit-seeking mirror, and then entering the Shen family's data box.

The third layer of double-signature seal lit up on the spot.

[Historical sources have been detected to have been erased with the highest privileges.]

[Automatic upstream source lookup.]

[The sealed coordinates have been connected.]

The red light traces outwards along the complete coordinates within the data box.

The next moment, the entire Holy Tower stopped operating.

A new notification popped up above the lobby.

[The secondary port is requesting the removal of the superior central hub!]