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

……

The cleanup process left the central domain and touched the ancestral land of the Su family in Yanjing for the first time.

The main control pulse, which had been unresponsive for a long time, lit up once.

No one submitted an activation request to it, and no candidates resonated remotely.

It only received one erase command from the Santa secondary port.

The supreme defense agreement, dormant for many years, has been activated on its own.

In the Holy Tower Hall, all the sealed array gates stopped simultaneously.

The red clearing line retreats from the surface of the data box and flows back along its original path toward the gold seal.

The Grand Master attempted to stop it.

The highest-level disaster recovery procedure has been triggered, triggering the primary central defense.

The secondary port has no right to unilaterally suspend operations.

The previously disconnected public channels have been reactivated.

Zhou Ye's screen went white at first, then he received the complete live feed.

The public system bypassed Santa's local blockade and pushed the new rulings across the entire inner ring.

[A secondary array pivot has been detected actively attacking the highest main pivot.]

The attack order was personally issued by the Grand Master of the Holy Tower.

The charge of insubordination has been established.

[The Grand Master's temporary authority is immediately revoked.]

The Grand Master gripped the golden seal tightly, trying to pull it out from the starting point.

The golden seal was already bound to his Qi Sea.

[The execution terminal and the device carrying the permissions that violated the rules have entered the erasure process.]

The golden mark split open from the middle, and layers of authorization codes were peeled off from the Grand Master's identity terminal.

All permissions related to the Santa Ana administration, primary coverage, disaster recovery, and resource allocation are simultaneously reset to zero.

Immediately afterwards, the formatting entered his Qi Sea.

The Grand Master swayed slightly and knelt on one knee.

He didn't die, but his cultivation in his dantian was completely wiped out. Every piece of power bound to the golden seal was deemed a carrier of unauthorized permissions.

The gold seal shattered completely.

The Grand Master raised his hand, attempting to reconnect to the main array, but the system only returned a single message.

[Ordinary entities awaiting review do not have the authority to operate.]

No one in the lobby came forward to help him.

Those old tribes who had just supported the Holy Tower now felt only lingering fear as they looked at the fragments of the golden seal on the ground.

If not for a response from the higher-level central authority, the highest level of censorship will wipe out all witnesses. At that point, they won't even have a record of why they died!

The old woman in the Fengyi subplot was the first to apply for the detention of the Grand Master.

"He must not be allowed to access any more files."

The representatives of Tianji Pavilion immediately severed ties.

"This highest level of emergency preparedness was activated by the Grand Master personally, without the knowledge of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion."

Upon hearing this, Wu Jie immediately cast up the joint signature he had previously obtained.

"Don't be so quick to say you don't know."

"Your name is on all of these: deleting the arrow pointing to the flow of water, signing the death penalty for the earth veins, and seconding the Shen family's pollution."

The representative from Tianji Pavilion remained silent.

After the Holy Tower Main Array lost its Grand Master authority, it entered an emergency trusteeship procedure.

The local highest-level custodian entity has become invalid.

[Selecting a temporary monitoring custodian.]

The first condition has been met.

[It has the capability to adapt to the first bearer sequence.]

Su Qingxue fits the bill.

The second condition has occurred.

[Historical source verification passed.]

She maintained full resonance, did not accept subservience, and the source verification process was entirely legal.

The third condition has occurred.

[They are direct victims of current procedural irregularities.]

The Taiyi Spirit-Seeking Mirror attempted to write her into an energy source, and the highest formatting listed her as the primary target for elimination.

All three requirements were met.

[Candidate for Temporary Supervisory Supervision: Su Qingxue]

[Do you want to accept the highest available permissions currently available on Santa's local machine?]

Su Qingxue did not accept it immediately.

"Scope of public access permissions".

The system lists the details.

[It can maintain the basic local operation of the Santa.]

[Historical archives can be sealed.]

[The project can be shut down for life support purposes.]

[It can protect historical artifacts.]

[A liability review can be initiated.]

[We do not have the authority to permanently define the first bearer sequence.]

[They have no authority to control all families in the Central Region.]

[We have no authority to modify, transfer, or destroy the superior's central control system.]

This is a temporary supervisory trusteeship.

The scope is limited to the local area of ​​Saint Tower. Its main function is to maintain operations and preserve evidence. It does not mean that Su Qingxue will control the entire Central Region from now on.

After reading it, Su Qingxue submitted three conditions for taking over.

"First, permanently cease using living organisms as local energy sources."

"Second, the Shen family's remaining life forms shall be immediately removed from the Holy Tower's power supply system and placed under independent guardianship."

"Third, I accept temporary authority as the actual controller of the Su family and do not accept the definition of Fengyi as a subordinate candidate."

The system verifies each item one by one.

[The first item complies with the superior central control's life protection rules.]

The second item complies with the rules for the custody of historical physical evidence.

The third change of identity does not affect temporary supervisory status.

[All preconditions for takeover have been met.]

[Su Qingxue, the actual controller of the Su family, has obtained the highest available temporary supervisory and trusteeship authority in Santa Maria.]

Her name appeared on the highest panel of the Santa Claus Tower.

It is not sequence number 07.

It is not a living array core.

It is not a candidate for the Phoenix Palace under the management of the Grand Master.

The identity section only lists the actual controller of the Su family.

After obtaining the permissions, Su Qingxue did not touch the resource library, nor did she take over the old clan register.

She issued the first order.

"The records passed down through the ages shall be sealed and preserved, and no one may delete, transfer, or overwrite them."

[Command executed.]

"Stop all life support projects and prioritize ensuring the survival of existing life-sustaining individuals."

[Command executed.]

"Inventory all Shen family relics within the Holy Tower, and preserve their original serial numbers, life status, and historical access records."

[Command executed.]

……

Deep within the Holy Tower, the extraction arrays that had been operating for a long time ceased to function.

The historical energy supply catalog has been transferred from the closed repository to an independent monitoring area.

The serial numbers of the Shen family's relics are no longer classified as array materials; they have all been changed back to evidence of life.

Shen Banxia received a guardianship invitation.

[The identity of the current legal guardian of the Shen family has been confirmed.]

Do you accept legacy catalogs?

When she raised her hand, her fingers were still a little unresponsive.

"take over."

More than a hundred IDs appeared on the personal terminal.

Some are just code, some retain their organization, and a few are in a very low state of life.

She quickly flipped to the earliest batch.

Some of the names are still obscured, but guardianship has been transferred from the Holy Tower. From now on, no one can use these relics to prolong the life of the remnants.

Su Lie and the others completed the procedures before approaching the Grand Master.

He did not draw his sword, but simply removed the man's identification and handed him over to the new temporary guard.

"Keep an eye on it for now, and wait for the accountability review."

The Grand Master looked up at him.

"You think you can investigate things from twenty years ago just because you've got temporary access?"

Su Lie said:

Whether the investigation is completed or not is not up to you.

"I have someone backing me up."

"That's perfect."

Su Lie pressed the seal receipt.

"Wait for him to come and get you."

Wu Jie was also busy.

He submitted all the collusion and closure records of the remaining members of the Yun family, the outer staff of the Tianji Pavilion, and the three recorders of the Holy Tower.

The two recorders also tried to explain that they were simply following orders.

Wu Jie told them to fill in the signatory information directly.

"Who told you to delete it, and who did you write it about?"

"If you can't write it down, then count it as your own for now."

Looking at the responsibility assignment page, the two no longer dared to say that they were just following the rules.

Xiao Henian voluntarily applied to restore his testimony before the nationwide channel was cut off.

"The records of the issuance, receipt, and sealing of the official orders submitted by the Xiao family should be permanently archived."

Su Qingxue approved the application.

"Testimony will be preserved, the investigation into the Xiao family's responsibility will continue, and the responsibility of Santa Claus in issuing the document will also be traced back to its source."

Xiao Henian nodded.

He didn't expect to clear the Xiao family's name with just one testimony.

As long as the Holy Tower can no longer change its tune and shift all the blame onto the Xiao family, this step will not have been in vain.

The old-generation members began queuing up to submit their candidate files for verification.

The Tianji Pavilion attendees attempted to leave but were stopped by the system to cooperate with the investigation; the remaining members of the Yun family also lost their speaking privileges.

The hall was still chaotic, but no one was paying attention to Su Qingxue's last seat anymore.

The red lock on that waiting table has been automatically released.

Qin Feng walked to the top panel of the Holy Tower.

The hierarchical structure of the local main teams has been fully disclosed.

The Holy Tower is located below.

The coordinates of the ancestral home of the Su family in Yanjing are located at the top level.

The coordinates light up once at fixed intervals, with the rhythm closely resembling a person's heartbeat.

Qin Feng opened the detailed status.

[The primary control system is abnormally persisting.]

[Supreme Defense Agreement: Silence has been restored.]

[External review record: Received.]

Going deeper, a feedback that had never been seen before appeared.

The abnormal entity has detected external kernel coverage.

Qin Feng stopped what he was doing.

Within the main control system, there is a core entity.

The system did not provide a name, health status, or identification number. It only confirmed that the other party had become aware of everything that was happening at the Santa.

Su Qingxue also came over.

"Can you find out who it is?"

"Insufficient permissions".

"Do we need to go to the ancestral land?"

"I'm afraid I'll have to go in person."

Qin Feng continued scrolling down.

At the very bottom of this connection log, there is an old record that is mostly obscured.

[The old identity terminal on the outskirts of the ancestral land was artificially activated before this connection.]

[Awakening time: Seven days ago.]

[Operator's identity: Unknown.]

Seven days ago, they still hadn't found the coordinates of the Su family's ancestral home.

However, some people had already entered the outer perimeter of the ancestral land and awakened their old identities.

Qin Feng retrieved the personnel records from the Yanjing area and sealed the obscured log separately.

Then, he opened the access map of the Su family's ancestral land and began to check the first entrance that had been manually opened!