Broken mechanical casings, scattered plastic debris, and bits of trash lay strewn beneath the dim blue lights.
He Ao crouched down and picked up a plastic sign with writing on it.
Snap--
A soft sound came from beside him. A light above He Ao's head switched on, illuminating the area around him.
"So this is the light switch," Li Cheng said, withdrawing his hand from a nearby button. He raised his head and looked at the flickering lights overhead. "After all these years, this place still has electricity?"
"There should be fusion batteries in here." He Ao shook the dust from the plastic sign in his hand, glanced around, and replied casually.
"Could this be the remnants of a civilization?" Li Cheng looked up at the lights again, walked over, and saw the plastic sign in He Ao's hand. He asked quietly, "What's written on it?"
"'No eating in the laboratory.'"
He Ao placed the plastic sign on a toppled equipment console and answered casually.
"Huh?"
Hearing him, Li Cheng froze for a moment before realizing that the sign indeed read, "No eating in the laboratory."
He looked up and swept his gaze across the hall again, sighing. "A lot of people must have lived here once."
"Yeah."
He Ao nodded lightly.
At that moment, a faint rumble sounded beside his ears. He turned and looked behind him.
The Stone Gate they had entered through was slowly closing. Behind it, crimson patterns had also been carved into the stone.
"Should we hold it open?"
Li Cheng heard the movement behind them as well. He turned around, looked at the slowly closing Stone Gate, and asked softly.
Clearly, he had not expected the power on the Stone Gate to still be functioning.
It seemed Hao Yi had not completely destroyed the