"This underground world is actually a gigantic array built to escape the apocalyptic world."
Yang Yong raised an eyebrow. "Like that Old Taoist from before, breaking straight out of the world and leaving?"
Cao Xianming nodded. "Very likely."
"Why are you so certain?"
"Combined with the conclusion from our earlier analysis of the brown blood bead: it was forged from something manifested by a Buddhist array."
Cao Xianming said slowly, "This array is Buddhist in origin."
"A Buddhist array?"
Yang Yong was even more puzzled. "Then what's all this about collecting living beings' desires?"
"That remains unclear."
Cao Xianming shook his head. "I need more information to deduce anything further."
At the words "more information," Yang Yong immediately handed over the thick notebook in his hand.
Cao Xianming paused, then took it and opened it.
The instant the binary code, which looked like meaningless scrawls to Yang Yong, entered his sight, this master of deduction's eyes lit up.
"Where did you get this?" he asked urgently.
Yang Yong immediately recounted the entire process of the three of them exploring the space within the mist, discovering numbers on the ground, and copying them down along the way.
Cao Xianming rapidly flipped through the pages with his fingertips and mused, "It seems another Transcendent came here before us. These numbers are warnings he left behind."
"Warnings?"
Joy stirred in Yang Yong's heart. "You can read them?"
"Yes."
Cao Xianming nodded, his gaze falling on the first string of code as he slowly translated it. "The first sentence means-there's danger."
Yang Yong's heart clenched.
It really was a warning!
"What comes next? What did he write after that?" he pressed impatiently.
Cao Xianming took a deep breath, turned to the next page, and read out the translation, word by word.
Every word struck