Once the code was in hand, all that remained was to find a teleportation gate. Duanmu Huai could build one himself, but that would take time. Besides, the Dark Eldar used their own unique technology, which was incompatible with teleportation gates made with human technology—it was like trying to install Android software on an iPhone.
So he could only have the Systems Alliance search for one. Duanmu Huai was certain there had to be a Dark Eldar teleportation gate somewhere within Systems Alliance territory. The frequent appearances of the Dark Eldar proved it. Although the Dark Eldar could use the Webway to teleport, those cowardly rats would never stray too far from home. Since they kept appearing in Systems Alliance territory, there had to be an Eldar teleportation gate somewhere within it.
Just as Duanmu Huai expected, he received information about an Eldar teleportation gate a few days later.
What surprised Duanmu Huai was that the information had not come from Li Longcheng on the Systems Alliance side. Instead, a message from Cerberus had been sent to True Clever's space station, and she had forwarded it to Duanmu Huai.
The message came from the director of a Cerberus research station. He said that more than a decade ago, they had excavated a device on a planet resembling the Eldar teleportation gate Duanmu Huai had described. They had been investigating it ever since, but unfortunately had made almost no progress. Since the relic was not a product of the Prothean era, the research station had initially regarded it as the remains of some ancient extinct civilization. After finding nothing further, they had set it aside.
Only after learning about this did the research director begin to suspect that the object everyone else had considered merely a possible ancient building might actually