Night Raid [4,000 Words]

[Base Dungeon]

The heavy alloy doors closed, cutting off all sound from the outside world.

The superconducting alloy cage glimmered with a cold silver-blue light, intertwining with the high-frequency hum of the Star Energy Purifier to create an inexplicable sense of oppression.

Inside the cell, pale blue pulses from the purifier rose and fell like tides, repeatedly washing over the quantum interface chips at the Dark Star Envoy's neck and wrists.

Fine red lights occasionally flickered across the chip surfaces, as if resisting the erosion of the pulses.

Caroline crouched halfway outside the cage, holding a portable analyzer embedded with three Star Energy probes in her right hand.

The screen displayed densely packed circuit analysis diagrams and Star Power fluctuation curves, seemingly analyzing something.

"Deep within the chip's core circuitry is the quantum encoding of the Iron Dome Family."

Caroline tapped the analyzer screen with her fingertip, bringing up a fluorescent green spiral circuit pattern. Along its edges were tiny insignias of the Iron Dome Family.

Seeing this, Caroline said, "This Star Core Neural Bridge design was forbidden technology exclusively monopolized by the Iron Dome Family ten years ago. It could directly pierce through a biological Star Core and interface with neural endings."

"After it caused dozens of test subjects to suffer mental breakdowns, the Federal Council explicitly banned it. I never expected them to still be secretly iterating and upgrading this technology."

Jing Liuli sat before a multifunctional monitoring terminal nearby, her pale violet hair falling over the edge of the screen.

In the cell not far from her, three neural patches had been affixed to the captured Dark Star Envoy's temples.

Following specific pathways, the three patches connected all the way to the multifunctional monitoring terminal in the center of the control room.

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