535: Chapter 179: Visiting Scholar from the Tsinghua University Knightly Order 535: Chapter 179: Visiting Scholar from the Tsinghua University Knightly Order Xiang Shan looked at the reinforced glass on the floor and gently tapped it.

The glass didn’t budge.

Because it was embedded with a reactor, the nuclear fuel along with the radiation-blocking outer layer of the reactor was very heavy.

His prosthetic body already weighed over eight tons.

Moreover, he was standing in a human pose, causing terrifying pressure on the sole of his feet.

If he weren’t just using his own weight but was striking with force, he could break it.

However, there was no necessity for that.

Xiang Shan looked at the fossils below, reevaluating the potential damage breaking this building could cause.

Xiang Shan deeply understood the value of fossils.

Each fossil was information precipitated after battling time, records from millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of years ago, and valuable research material.

As a scientist, he really couldn’t bring himself to destroy them.

However…

——Claiming these fossils for oneself was indeed rather excessive.

He had already read through the regulations of the Scientific Knight Order.

Xiang Shan, like a tourist, had meticulously studied the warning signs at the entrance of this special reception hall.

From those regulations, he could glimpse the minor “incidents” that had happened in the past.

It was hard to imagine that the Yawgmoth, who believed that “all knowledge should not be privatized,” would declare that all fossils belonged to a supreme deity…

yet, it wasn’t unimaginable either.

Even more than two hundred years ago when Yawgmoth did all this, it was simply with the thought, “I want to eradicate the nightmare with the most intense measures.”

Over these two hundred years, he, now accustomed to this immense power, likely also differed from those earlier times.

Xiang Shan just stood there, sighing softly.

This behavior was quite abnormal.

However, the respectful demeanor of the two knight apprentices by his side acted as the best amulet.

Since the friend-foe identification system hadn’t triggered an alarm, and since there were two of his own guiding here, this upper body-sturdy cybernetically enhanced person must indeed be one of their own.

Some people in the Order covertly engaged in certain secret projects, so many people were no longer surprised by such Outsiders.

No one asked questions.

It can only be said, no one expected that the Eighth Martial God’s decryption of the lower-level security protocols could be so successful.

In the realm of the internet, King Aqini was much stronger than the Eighth Martial God.

He could harness more resources, accomplish decompilation faster, detect vulnerabilities in the firewall more accurately, and kill more violently.

But at the “boundary between the human brain and computers,” he had to stop.

He could do similar things, forcefully blocking the brain’s commands, but to make the opponent’s brain “believe” it wanted to perform such actions in such a short time was extremely difficult.

King Aqini found it hard to completely suppress the retaliatory Inner Strength of another.

And if the controlled individual recovered a moment of clarity, it was enough to trigger an alarm.

But the Eighth Martial God’s invention, by reverse-inputting weak electric currents into the brain, made it impossible for the other party to resist, rendering all alert mechanisms virtually useless.

To the prosthetic body, that brain seemed to be conducting normal, legitimate operations.

And because this technology had never appeared before, no one had defenses prepared against such a form of invasion.

Xiang Shan thus passed through this special place of luxury, stepping over trilobites, Marrella leaf bugs, Opabinia sea scorpions, queer shrimps, Cambrian rake shrimps, simulated oil comb bugs, bizarre bugs, pica bugs, and Canadian bugs.

He entered the elevator.

The scenic elevator ascended, gradually distancing itself from this layer of shale.

Those ancient fossils eventually blended into various colored patches.

Soon, the elevator passed through the floors made of alloy layers.

Xiang Shan paused briefly on the six hundredth floor.

Through the transparent elevator doors, he keenly noticed that this floor was a rather empty research area.

An Official Knight, who was instructing newly acquired apprentices on how to navigate around pillars, heard a noise outside the door and checked the surveillance, discovering two Scientific Knight apprentices leading an unrecognized person ringing the bell.

He hurried to the laboratory door and said, “You are not wearing any protective gear…

ah, it’s you!”

Inside the laboratory, the apprentices suddenly heard their young boss speaking in an eager tone and became somewhat curious.

However, the knight immediately stepped back and chastised, “Don’t get distracted, focus on your task.”

It was that kind of…

very knightly tone.

—It seems it’s not something we can meddle in.

Thus, the apprentices quietly sat down and continued with their previous tasks.

The two apprentices who had just guided Xiang Shan went to the washroom to cleanse themselves and sterilize with strong ultraviolet light—on this account, the Cybernetically Enhanced People experimenters had too much advantage over the Natural Person experimenters.

Then, they each found a vacant laboratory to conduct their experiments.

Xiang Shan confirmed that these two also had grenades with them.

Next, this Official Knight continued to lead Xiang Shan upwards.

Xiang Shan, through wireless signals, directly accessed the contents of the Official Knight’s storage device.

Soon, he reached the thousandth floor.

This was the office of Vice Captain Isin Bluetooth Vine.[In this name, Vine is the paternal surname, Bluetooth is the maternal surname]

The Scientific Knight stood at the door.

The Vice Captain’s voice directly arose in the hallway, “Scientific Knight Yi Erqi, your task today is to instruct the apprentices of class 186.

Why are you here at my office?”

“Vice Captain,” Scientific Knight Yi Erqi bowed respectfully and said, “This honorable gentleman here is from ‘over there’, and says he needs to discuss some matters with our Vice Captain.”

Vice Captain Isin responded strangely, “These matters are usually handled by Vice Captain Changkong.

Also, why are you the one guiding him here?

Aren’t there other people available to receive him?”

“Your Excellency, Vice Captain, please be calm,” Xiang Shan stepped forward and naturally said to the camera, “I am here to see you.”

Mr.

Isin pondered for a moment, then quietly drew a weapon from under the desk, and opened the door.

He figured that a genuine threat wouldn’t appear before him in such a frivolous manner.

Moreover, even if there was a real issue, relying on his martial arts, he ought to handle it for a while.

No matter how skilled in Inner Strength the other person, they couldn’t stop him from triggering an alarm.

With such thoughts, the Vice Captain opened the door.

Xiang Shan walked in, stretching out his hand enthusiastically to the Vice Captain, “Hello, hello, Mr.

Isin, I am a visiting scholar from the Tsinghua University, from the basic industrial training center of the Tsinghua University Knightly Order.”

The Vice Captain was momentarily baffled, hesitantly extending his hand and said, “Hiss…

this Knightly Order?”

He raised his head, meeting Xiang Shan’s eyes directly.