Chapter 1 The Technology of Lion's Awakening

The technology of Lion's Awakening was stored inside this small, ancient bronze box.

The construction of this safe was very simple.

Six dials, a copper lock—seemingly sturdy, but actually quite vulnerable.

It would be too easy for an Adept to destroy such a safe… they wouldn't even need to follow the logic of "decryption" to retrieve the information inside.

Gu Shen stared at the bronze box, somewhat dubious.

Could such a box protect a secret?

"I know what you're thinking."

Madame said, "The texture of this bronze box isn't very strong for Adepts, it can be easily destroyed… but this is my father's invention to protect the technology of Lion's Awakening."

"To open the bronze box, both the password and the key are essential… If you try to dismantle it by force, without the interference of supernatural power, this box is resistant to fire, heavy pressure, water immersion and other physical means."

"And if you try to break the box with supernatural power, the caster will suffer severe damage… because the internal coating of this box is filled with 'illogical material'."

Gu Shen frowned slightly.

He knew about "strongly logical materials"—red silver, purple silver… These materials, because of their strict logic, cannot be destroyed by supernatural power, so they are commonly used to contain and imprison the out-of-control, as well as unowned Sealed Items.

Of course, they were also used to make weapons to kill "Adept".

Illogical material was something he was hearing about for the first time… but it wasn't difficult to understand.

The order and structure inside an object are its "logic".

Strong logic means that the structure is solid, difficult to be eroded by the supernatural, and inhibits supernatural power.

Illogical… should be the exact opposite, diffusing supernatural power.

"Because of the law of conservation of supernatural source matter, humans cannot absorb supernatural source matter outside of their own system… Once you touch the 'illogical material', the entropy of the supernatural source matter will skyrocket."

It wasn't much different from his understanding.

Illogical materials lead to further diffusion of the supernatural.

Gu Shen had already anticipated… the situation of someone dismantling the bronze box.

Disorderly surge, the most direct effect is—ability out of control!

"Of course, as a warning, initially touching the illogical material inside the bronze box coating will only result in the loss of a portion of the overflowing supernatural source matter… If you insist on dismantling it, and the illogical material inside the coating is destroyed, the information inside the bronze box will be destroyed instantly, and the Adept who destroys the box will also encounter the encroachment of supernatural out of control at the first moment."

Staring at this plain and old bronze box, Gu Shen felt a little cold sweat on his back.

Who would dare to look down on the creations of the old era?

Good heavens… is this the malice of Mr. Lu Cheng?

However, he wondered what would happen if "Blazing Fire" scorched the bronze box… Gu Shen rubbed his chin. Based on his past experience of devouring "Points of Order Collapse," the illogical material filled inside the coating of this bronze box should be directly eaten by "Blazing Fire"?

Yes.

This bronze box, in all likelihood, wouldn't be able to withstand his Blazing Fire.

"I know the six-digit password, but the key is lost."

Lu Nanzhi gently stroked the dials of the bronze box, and murmured, "The key was carried by my father, and he fell in a pool of blood in Lion Alley. The items on his body were looted… The people from the Federal Bureau of Investigation thought it was a robbery."

She was a little distressed, rubbing her eyebrows, "But I always feel… that the other party might be coming for the technology of Lion's Awakening."

"Madame…"

Gu Shen opened his mouth, "I'm afraid that as you expected, the technology of Lion's Awakening has already been stolen."

This woman's intuition was really sharp.

But even if she hadn't noticed it, Gu Shen had decided to tell her about it, "The Awakening Decree experiment conducted on the ninth floor underground of Huazhi, I don't know if you've personally visited it, but the 'linking technology' there is actually derived from 'Lion's Awakening'… extracting spiritual elements and manifesting them in the real world. From a certain point of view, 'Lion's Awakening' is a kind of awakening."

Lu Nanzhi's expression froze.

"This bronze box has probably been opened once." Gu Shen lowered his eyes and said, "I guess it was the person who killed Mr. Lu Cheng… who took the key, opened the box, and stole the information of Lion's Awakening."

"But… what about the password?"

"It's hypnosis."

"No… there is a mental lock." Lu Nanzhi murmured, "The password for the technology of Lion's Awakening must be strictly guarded."

Gu Shen said calmly, "In front of a powerful enough Adept… those mental locks cannot stop anything. Just like how I invaded your mind."

Madame was silent all of a sudden.

Because she knew… that what Gu Shen said was right. Mental locks could lock 99% of the people in this world, but the ones who could break the locks were often that 1%.

Old Lu had probably sensed that something was going to happen long ago.

He gave the most important "mental lock," that "red door"… to himself.

"As the 'key'… I borrowed a portion of Deep Sea's authority and compared 'Lion's Awakening Technology' with 'Linked Awakening Technology'." Gu Shen paused, and said, "The similarity between these two technologies is very high. According to the comparison results, the latter is likely evolved from the former… If it wasn't leaked by the late Mr. Turing, then it could only have flowed out from Mr. Lu Cheng's side."

Lu Nanzhi stood there, holding the bronze box, looking at the relic she had cherished and kept for ten years, feeling at a loss all of a sudden.

"I don't know if it's related to the exposure of Mr. Lu Cheng's Ancient Literature Association identity, but what is certain is that this 'accident' is by no means an accident…" Gu Shen said in a low voice, "The Council has been eyeing the 'Lion's Awakening Technology' for a long time… And one thing is certain, the person who did this is very cautious. He didn't directly take the bronze box, which means he wanted to bury the truth."

Lu Cheng died.

The technology of Lion's Awakening was lost.

What was newly launched was Deep Sea's linked Awakening Technology… If the source code hadn't detected loopholes, who would have been able to connect these two technologies?

He didn't know the truth… He could only use the worst malice to measure the past that happened in Lion Alley.

But the truth might be even darker than this malice.

"Zhao…"

Lu Nanzhi took a deep breath.

After lowering her eyes, the sorrow in her eyes gradually condensed, and gradually turned into anger.

Without a doubt… Zhao Xilai was an informed party. Even if he didn't know the murderer in Lion Alley, he should know who was providing technical support to the Zhao family.

He was a like-minded old friend of her father's back then.

Regarding the research on "Lion's Awakening Wine," even if he didn't directly participate in it at the time… he should have been able to see the technical clues provided by the Council.

For so many years, her judgment was… that the blood case in Lion Alley had nothing to do with the Zhao family.

Perhaps Zhao Xilai really didn't participate in the "assassination".

But he chose to stand idly by… and silently conceal it.