But Tony did not give up. He tried pressing several keys on the keyboard, hoping it would start up.
Fortunately, the Computer Terminal had not been completely paralyzed as Tony had initially feared.
With several faint electronic startup sounds, a weak glow gently brushed away the dust on the screen, as though a sleeping giant had been softly awakened.
Tony's heart raced with the light of the screen. He swiftly and skillfully tapped away at the keyboard, his fingertips dancing across the keys as though playing a triumphant symphony.
Drawing on his deep understanding of electronic devices and programming languages, Tony began digging deeper into the information stored in the Computer Terminal.
His hands flew across the keyboard, pausing at times and speeding up at others, as though racing against time to uncover the secrets of this underground base.
Characters scrolled rapidly across the screen like an ocean of flowing information, and Tony was a brave navigator searching the endless sea for precious treasure.
After considerable effort, Tony finally fished several dazzling pearls from that ocean of information—clues regarding the underground base.
Though scattered and incomplete, the information was like pieces of a puzzle, gradually assembling an astonishing picture in Tony's mind.
The underground base extended more than a hundred meters beneath the surface. Its immense scale and comprehensive facilities left Tony stunned.
He imagined that underground world, wrapped layer upon layer in rock and soil, housing hundreds of staff members and security personnel—scientists, technicians, logistics workers, and combat personnel—forming a self-sufficient miniature underground society.
This underground society had its own operating system. They worked and lived beneath the earth day after day, year after year, isolated from the outside world like residents of another world.
Tony learned further that the base was fully equipped inside. Numerous laboratories, research areas,