Luo Ling and her companions searched the remaining rooms, including the training room, repair yard, and manufacturing workshop. All places were empty. Not only did they not find Arsene, but even Adam and Ola were nowhere to be seen.
The three searched the last room, which was a workshop for making humanoid golems. The facilities in the room were relatively intact, with a total of four forging platforms lined up in the room.
The main body of the forging platform is a two-meter-diameter circular metal table with a reinforcement and anti-slip array drawn on it. There are also four small array platforms on the side, which have the functions of heating, cooling, cutting and welding. The large and four small platforms together look like a cat's paw print.
There are independent workbenches and cabinets beside each forging platform, on which many unfinished golem parts are still left. There are also metal pipes above the platform, the thick ones are probably ventilation pipes, and the ones with valves are probably water pipes.
It can be seen that when evacuating, many works were halfway done, and there were even two golems that were exactly the same as the ones at the entrance of the ruins, still standing on the forging platform. However, they seemed to have no soul implanted in them, just an empty shell.
"I'm really drunk. How come three living people disappeared?" Ji Yijun asked curiously, "Could it be that something mysterious made them disappear?"
"It's unlikely." Luo Ling said, "The doors between the rooms are open. If something really attacked them, we would definitely hear the sound."
"But this is the last room?" Ji Yijun said.
"Have you noticed that this room is a little different from the other rooms?" Luo Ling asked.
"Well, I didn't take anything with me." Morey said.
"This is normal. These humanoid golems need to extract the souls of the dwarves to serve as control hubs. Other countries may not be as heavy-handed as the Black Dragon Empire. They may even think they are terrible murderers. Who would take these black evidences with them?" Ji Yijun said, picking up the palm of a golem. "Besides, this thing is so heavy and it won't move by itself. How can I carry it with me?"
"If that's the case... then there should be a soul-extracting machine in this base. Those people definitely wouldn't take that with them when they escaped. There might even be dwarf prisoners waiting to have their souls extracted, right?"
Ji Yijun couldn't help but shudder. He knew very well that if there were really dwarves imprisoned here, they would definitely not be released when those people retreated. They would either be executed or simply starved to death.
He said with some anger: "I understand. So we neither saw the soul modulation equipment nor the prison where the dwarves were imprisoned. That means there must be rooms that have not been found. I knew that this guy Adam must have bad intentions and was hiding secrets that he didn't tell us!"
"So we have to search it again carefully." Luo Ling looked around the room.
"I can try to track them down," Morey said.
"Are you talking about the method we used to track Lorenzo on the top of the mountain?" Ji Yijun asked.
"That's right. If there is a secret passage or something like that, there must be a way to open it, either with magic or fighting spirit. Both of these things will leave residual energy. We will know if we take a look here."
"Then let's start from this room." Luo Ling said.
Morey took out the Arkadina powder from his space bag, began to draw a magic circle on the floor of the room, and then ignited it. After a burst of white light, energy marks began to appear in the room.
"This way!" Morey pointed to the middle of a wall, behind a storage rack. There was a faint blue and yellow light. "It is this room. This should be the place where Adam and Yasen used their fighting spirit."
The three of them looked over and saw a magic circle on the ground used to open a secret door.
"This magic array requires you to input energy into the six areas on the magic array in a certain order in order to open the secret door on the wall."
"Isn't this just a combination lock?" Ji Yijun said, "If Adam knew the combination in advance, then how did Yasen get in?"
"Just peek from the side." Luo Ling glanced at the messy room. It was easy to find a place to hide and peek here. "After he separated from you, he must have followed A Dan and the others."
"This is troublesome, and we don't know the password." Ji Yijun said.
Luo Ling asked: "Morey, is it true that the closer your detection array is to the target, the finer and brighter the light clusters that appear?"
"That's right."
"Then draw another magic circle near here. I want to see the light balls at the positions of each button clearly."
Morey added a magic circle as he was told, and sure enough, the halo was now much clearer, with small blue and yellow light balls visible on each button.
"Oh, I understand. Do you want to judge the time when the keys were pressed based on the different shades of color on the keys? Does it mean that the lighter the color, the earlier it was pressed?" Ji Yijun said.
Morey shook his head and said, "That's impossible. The energy bursts were too close together and the magnitudes were too small to be distinguished."
"We use one to six to mark these keys. First, there is no energy on key number six, which means it is not used." Luo Ling squatted on the ground and looked closely at these energy balls, "Then you can see that the most blue Dou Qi energy of A Dan is left on keys number three and five.
According to the psychology of most people, when using something for the first time, they are always hesitant and want to see the effect, so they will definitely be slow when pressing the first key; and after pressing the last key, they will often subconsciously wait for the magic circle to take effect, which will also be slow, so I guess three and five are the first or last two numbers."
"But it is also possible that he pressed these two keys twice," said Ji Yijun.
"You can refer to the yellow energy. When Yasen pressed it, he had already confirmed that there was no problem with the formation, so the energy left by the three and five keys was almost the same as that of the other keys. This proves that no key was pressed a second time." Luo Ling said.
"What about the other three keys?"
"What else do you want? Of course you should try it one by one according to the enumeration method!" Luo Ling said unhappily.
"Sister Luo Ling, we are lucky this time, but what if the password is seven, eight, or even ten or twenty digits?"
"Is there any point in thinking about this?" Luo Ling crossed her arms over her chest. "If so, I will hand you a hammer and ask you to start smashing the wall."
"Well, if your inference is correct, the Africans will only press it twelve times." Ji Yijun began to input fighting spirit into the formation, "Three, one, two, four, five..."
Ji Yijun was lucky enough to figure out the correct password on the fifth try. The wall opened with a rumble as the password was completed, revealing a spacious passage behind it.
Luo Ling took the first step forward and said, "Let's go. I have a bad feeling that we might be in big trouble."