Ye Li walked slowly up to the massive wall etched with the marks of time. The other Team Rocket members, including the resourceful and courageous Apollo, were all at a loss before the incomprehensible writing. The complexity of these symbols had already exceeded the scope of their knowledge.
Yet Ye Li's expression remained unusually calm. Like a scanner of the highest precision, his eyes swiftly took in the positions, shapes, and interconnections of the hundreds of runes on the wall. His brain worked at full speed. In his memory palace, two streams of data were rapidly being compared, analyzed, and reconstructed: rubbings of the stone tablets from the Seafoam Islands ruins, and the "Detailed Puzzle Guide to the Legendary Birds' Temples" posts that expert players had published on gaming forums in his previous life.
"Third row on the left, fifth from the top. Press the rune that represents 'sky.'" Ye Li's voice was quiet, yet carried unquestionable authority.
A team member immediately stepped forward and, following his instructions, pressed hard on the symbol shaped like the heavens. The rune sank slightly with a faint mechanical click.
"Good. Next, the rune in the lower-right corner, the one shaped like outstretched 'wings.'"
Another team member quickly located it and pressed it. A dull grinding of gears came from within the wall.
"Finally," Ye Li's gaze settled on the very center of the wall, where the most complex rune seemed woven from countless lines, "this one, the rune symbolizing the 'heart' and the 'core.'"
Apollo stepped forward himself, took a deep breath, and pushed the core rune inward with all his strength.
As the final rune activated, a sudden change erupted! The entire wall began rattling with a rapid series of clicks. Countless deep-blue pathways of light instantly lit up within the grooves