The "garbage heap" where the main body was hiding lay in a corner at the edge of the circular platform, near a vertical shaft descending below, packed with thick energy pipes and pulsating fleshy tendons.
The shaft was not entirely open. It was covered by a layer of dark purple, semi-transparent Energy Film.
Complex Chaos Runes flowed across the film's surface, clearly forming a filtering and warning barrier.
Through the film, Ming Xin could vaguely make out several lower platforms and sense powerful thoughts sweeping through the shaft from time to time.
That was the guards' routine surveillance. To pass through silently, he had to find the barrier's pattern or a flaw.
He did not act rashly. Instead, he focused most of his attention on the thread of Split Soul Consciousness that had already infiltrated the "Repair Package."
At that moment, the split soul's senses were steadily passing through a spacious yet oppressive core hall along with the conveyor belt.
On either side of the conveyor belt, the towering and imposing Guardian Giants stood like statues. The Energy Fields they radiated were like tangible walls, carrying a cold sense of scrutiny.
Each time it passed one, Ming Xin felt as though the split soul's presence was being repeatedly scraped by invisible probes.
The fragment of consciousness disguised as an Order Energy New Wave had to contract and fade as much as possible, maintaining absolute synchronization with the Gear Core's energy pulse.
Fortunately, the Command Encoding on the Repair Package's surface seemed to grant it high-level clearance.
The conveyor belt passed through without obstruction. The guards' cold photoreceptors swept over the package, and after confirming that the coding was correct, they paid it no further attention.
At last, the conveyor belt carried the package through a heavier arch condensed from