Luo Shu unlocked the third-floor elevator shaft with his fingerprint, stepped into the elevator, and headed straight underground.
With a ding, the elevator doors opened.
An empty room with a distinctly futuristic feel greeted his eyes.
This was the core of the Secret Management Department-the Secret Management Zone.
It was a "cage" used to hold Abyssal Artifacts and dangerous life-forms.
Of course, where Luo Shu had arrived was not the real "Secret Management Zone."
The real Secret Management Zone lay deeper still.
At that moment, directly ahead of Luo Shu...
A silver-gray door with no visible seams came into view.
On either side of the silver door stood a metal cylinder half a meter in diameter and one and a half meters tall.
Luo Shu strode out of the elevator, went straight to one of the metal cylinders, and pressed his hand against it.
Blue circuitry flashed across the cylinder. Then the hemispherical metal cap on top slowly opened, revealing a purple metal sphere embedded in a recess.
"Haros, Luo Shu! Haros, Luo Shu!"
The purple metal sphere flapped mechanical appendages that resembled both ears and wings, repeatedly producing a humanlike voice.
This was a small intelligent machine called a "Haros." Its technology seemed to come from Lacus Clyne's world.
And according to gossip from Tachibana Kirika, the source of that silly-sounding synthesized voice seemed to be Lacus Clyne herself.
Listening to the repeated calls of "Haros, Luo Shu," Luo Shu could not help remarking:
"I get the feeling Lacus Clyne wouldn't starve if she became a voice actress."
Luo Shu reached out and touched the Haros. The spherical intelligent machine immediately opened on its own, revealing a combination lock inside.
Luo Shu entered "2887," the code he had set, and pressed confirm.
Then came a hum.
The silver-gray metal