If We Lose It All, We'll Just Start Robbing People!

In the end, Cong Yu found a coat in the collapsed wardrobe. Inside, he discovered a keycard and the laboratory key.

How should he put this...

"It really was in the room."

With a sigh, Cong Yu inserted the keycard chip into the terminal. Then, calmly and casually, he sat down and began browsing through its information.

The displayed time was fixed at [17·7·301], meaning the 301st day of the seventh cosmic decade during the tenure of the 17th Speaker since the Star Alliance's founding—112 Earth years.

Cong Yu knew that the time displayed on his own terminal began with 18.

In other words, this research institute had lost its network connection during the previous Speaker's tenure... which probably signified its destruction.

Most things on the terminal displayed either "Data Corrupted" or "Network Connection Error" when opened. Only a small number of files could be accessed.

One file contained a photo of the terminal's owner... an alien with a tail, though otherwise quite similar to a human.

Since there were photos of him with his wife and daughter, he was probably a father... who had come to work at this research institute.

A research institute built underground on a planet...

It sounded like something involving the Star Alliance's internal darkness.

The only thing of value was probably the chat page Cong Yu opened now... displayed before Cong Yu and Origin Darkness: Apophis was the chat history between the terminal's owner and someone else.

The earliest messages might have been automatically deleted, so they could only start from the middle... The name of this terminal's owner was highly unreasonable.

If rendered in an Earth language, it could only be treated as a string of gibberish, or perhaps called "Ho22U" based on its pronunciation.

``` [Ho22U: The test subject has breached