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Chapter 2640

Three Directions

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"Stolen from a player in this district," He Liang said. "It contains a clue to the Imperial Treasure."

His words left everyone present stunned. Wu Zishuang quickly asked, "A clue to the Imperial Treasure? Have you checked?"

"If I could open this box, would I have waited until now?" He Liang touched the button on the bottom of the box. A projected, multi-factor authentication keyboard appeared in the air. "Unfortunately, I killed him too quickly. It needs that player's biometric authentication."

"I've tried a few things, but this is an encrypted box that only came out in the past two years. The material is unusual, and it has a custom chip inside. If the box is damaged, the chip will trigger its self-destruct program."

"The problem is, I don't know what kind of medium the clue is stored on. If it's directly on the chip, then opening the box would ruin everything, wouldn't it?"

"Biometric authentication," Xiao Mei said. "You really did a thorough job of covering your tracks."

"See if you can open it." He Liang pushed the box toward them.

The group gathered to discuss it for a while, but in the end, they couldn't reach a decision. The box looked fairly large, but they had no idea what was inside. What if it held something important? If they damaged it, wouldn't that make clearing the Dungeon hopeless?

"Is there no one else who can open it?" Fei Jingyi asked. "There must be someone who could take over."

He Liang shrugged. He'd acted too quickly to interrogate the victim, and there were no other clues in the Storage Compartment.

"Let's put the box aside for now." Fei Jingyi turned to Fu Kuai and Xu Huo. "Do you have any other leads?"

"I've noticed that another force seems to

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