Seeing the metal gate ahead, which clearly led to a restricted area, everyone grew wary and slowed their steps.
Noticing that the footprints stopped outside the gate, Huang Liang quickly raised his rifle and took aim, warning the others in a low voice:
"Careful. This might be where something happened to those Rebels!"
Everyone nodded silently, while Ye Lin reached back and drew his sword.
Looking at the vast complex in the distance, they struggled to steady their racing hearts. Beneath their nerves, however, excitement burned even stronger.
Danger lay ahead, but that also meant the machine controlling everyone might be there!
Chen Qing glanced back along the way they had come, grateful that Ye Lin had thought to follow the Rebels' route.
The Starship's interior was extraordinarily complex. Without that idea, even if they had known the machine was here, they would probably have wasted a great deal of time.
They approached the gate cautiously. Ye Lin gestured toward its identification device, signaling for Han Yuer to open it.
To everyone's surprise, however, the identity modules that had granted them unrestricted access until now seemed to have stopped working, eliciting no response at all.
Han Yuer's heart lurched. She quickly pressed her hand against the identification device, and a second later, her expression darkened sharply:
"Ye Lin, it looks like our identity modules don't have clearance to enter!"
"We need higher-level credentials. I just tried hacking the system, but I nearly triggered an alarm."
At her words, everyone froze in shock.
He Zheng's expression changed as well. He had just been thinking how smoothly everything had gone, only for them to get stuck at the very last step!
Higher-level credentials!?
Never mind where they could find someone with that clearance-they had no time to go back and look!
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