Hao Ren walked forward along the aerial bridge until he reached the object that appeared to be a control console. It was a sleek device that looked brand-new, with no buttons whatsoever—only a single bright, mirror-like silver-white metal panel. He reached out and touched the edge of the panel, finding not a speck of dust on it.
Not only was the control panel spotless; in fact, there was no dust anywhere in the entire cylindrical space. The final door everyone had passed through earlier must have had extremely thorough dustproof isolation, and the space itself likely had a dust-removal system as well. Without a doubt, this was the true storage area of the "Final Vault."
"What's this?" Lily came over and asked curiously.
"It should be a manual controller for those mechanical arms." Hao Ren looked up at the neatly arranged metal supports and rectangular containers inside the cylindrical space, as well as the tracks and mechanical hands connected to them. At the same time, he reached out and touched the conspicuous pale-green indicator line beside the control panel. "Based on what we learned in the control room, this kind of touchscreen should activate when you touch here... Oh, there we go."
When he touched it, a series of complex, shifting geometric patterns appeared on the silver-white metal panel. The patterns slowly stabilized, forming an initial interactive interface. As expected, the operating system was locked and required identity verification to access. However, this controller apparently did not use the mechanical key carried by the Ark's captain. It required a password.
A password was no problem for the Data Terminal. It floated beside the console and linked itself to the control panel with a blue beam of light. The display immediately filled with interference and static, and within a few seconds,