Night rain in Qingyang City drummed against the glass dome of Century Plaza. Su Yao stared at the chip fragment in her hand, the magical patterns on its surface glowing with an eerie purple light under the desk lamp. The circuitry on the fragment bore no resemblance to any integrated circuit diagrams she had seen in her physics textbooks, yet it contained a certain sophisticated logic, as if an ancient cultivation array had been translated into the language of modern technology.
"The test results are in." Yun Shang pushed the door open, her laptop still hot to the touch. "The material of this chip doesn't belong to any known metal. The spiritual power fluctuations it contains share the same origin as the demonic energy we discovered at the Nether Temple." She pulled up the computer screen; among the dense rows of data, a single red curve stood out. "What’s even more bizarre is that these data packets automatically transmit a signal to an unknown IP address every day at 3:00 AM."
Lin Yu leaned against the window, twirling a metal scrap retrieved from the lab between his fingers, his deep blue gaze fixed on the rainy night. "The 'testing ground' that the Silver-masked Man mentioned wasn't just talk. The frequent electronic malfunctions in Qingyang City lately may all be related to them." Before he could finish, Zhao Ya burst in, her golden hair still dripping wet, a Jade Slip protruding from her tracksuit pocket. "My Master sent word—similar technological demonic artifacts ha…
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