Leike paused.
"He seemed to mention feeding some kind of 'Root.'"
"Root?" Glock frowned. "What root?"
Leike shook his head with a frown.
"Not sure, but judging from where they were going, it should be in the Pipe Network Layer. Their target seemed to be that wall."
As Leike said this, he glanced at Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan clearly understood what Leike was hinting at.
The Grey Covenant called that place "Root."
Lu Yuan recalled the Copper Pillars he had seen in the Pipe Network Layer, as well as the Inscription Bolen had copied.
If the Copper Wall really was the "Root" of Bronze City, then what was the Grey Covenant trying to release, or...
But Lu Yuan soon realized what was wrong. If it really was Him, how could Leike possibly see those memories...
Unless those memories had been deliberately left for him to see. The memories of a Third Order pawn contained only one image and one word, clean and neat, as though someone had scrubbed them clean beforehand.
Leike continued.
"There's one more thing. The box they brought contained something taken from the Sea of Knowledge."
Glock immediately asked.
"What?"
Leike turned around, took a bronze box from the corner, and placed it on the table.
The box was small, about the size of a palm. Its surface was carved with dense Inscription, which still glimmered faintly.
Lu Yuan walked up to the table and looked at the box.
"Can it be opened?"
Leike nodded and reached out to undo the Inscription Lock on the box.
The box opened, revealing a layer of gray-black scraps of cloth and a severed limb resting atop them.
It was not large, roughly the length of an adult's forearm. It was grayish white, like a dried-up riverbed, with dense hairline cracks