Chapter 875 552: Final Banquet_2

Lin Yue looked up and glanced around.

Extremely silent.

On the bare rock wall, there were quite a number of dried Lizardman corpses.

In the sky, a gray-white moon was slowly moving from east to west.

Now that the Moon-dwellers were completely eradicated, even returning to the Secret Realm, which is on Earth, shouldn't transmit him back here... right?

However.

The system was still active.

Although the world channel and regional channel were lost, it could still be used.

Even the Storage Space remained unchanged.

The feeling it gave him was as if eliminating the Moon-dwellers only disrupted the system's chat functionality.

"Is there anything else out of place?" Lin Yue wondered as he looked at the pits meant for placing the gems.

He took out the Imperial Topaz he had just obtained and placed it above.

He found that it wouldn't go in at all.

"Hmm? Seems like every gem has to be placed correctly? The shape at the bottom doesn't quite match..."

Lin Yue compared them one by one, finally finding the pit where the Imperial Topaz belonged, but suddenly a thought came to him.

"How do gems summon that gate, what's the principle?"

He squatted down, looking beneath the altar.

Unexpectedly, he saw a glimmer of metal at the far end.

Lin Yue raised an eyebrow and looked closely; this metal wrapped entirely around the altar and was tightly linked to this gigantic statue.

Could it be...?

He took out his dagger, chipping away at the nearby stones that had become slightly brittle.

The metal area gradually expanded, revealing complex wiring and microchip construction, entirely beyond the technology on Earth.

"The altar is metal, covered by a stone shell, and the twelve gems are actually a start-up device? And if they must follow a sequence, then there's an issue..."

Lin Yue felt it should be activated according to the original elements of the gems.

For instance, the diamond's element is "carbon", Imperial Topaz is composed of aluminum silicate with fluoride and hydroxide, and Amethyst is a type of silicon dioxide...

These twelve gems represent the various elements of this world.

These elements are the key to activating the gate...

Suddenly, Lin Yue thought of something.

He boarded the train back to the main Shelter, arriving beside the Ancient Secret Realm Gate.

He realized he had been overlooking something.

Apart from the facade and doorknob, it seemed he hadn't touched the bricks and vines beside the door.

Reaching out to touch, Lin Yue discovered a surprising fact.

"Virtual?" He found that besides the main part of the door, everything else was virtual.

"Why do I feel like the unraveling of the mystery is just beginning now?" With a shovel in his hand, he began digging under the door.

Soon, the shovel hit something metal, making a crisp sound.

Separating the soil, Lin Yue saw a long-shaped machine within it.

"This is..." He tried using the system's identification function but found no display at all.

After cleaning it a bit with the shovel, Lin Yue discovered small indicator lights shining on the long-shaped machinery.

Could this be the mechanism that virtually manifests the door?

Wait, does the Ancient Secret Realm Gate disappear after a certain period, related to this machine's "battery"?

When the power is depleted, the door disappears, and if the machine is destroyed...

He recalled that time when the Ancient Secret Realm Gate was destroyed by the Secret Realm Beast, and the time it exploded when he was captured aboard the spaceship.

Moreover, an inexplicable event remains, which is when humans pass through the Ancient Secret Realm Gate to the pre-disaster period, they are forcibly transmitted back to the door.

Previously, there was a similar instance, when he was forcibly returned after killing a Mythical Giant Beast. But Lin Yue recalled that at the time, it was merely a flash of white light before his eyes.

"If that flash of white light was something emanating from me... wait, the system?"

Lin Yue considered a possibility.

This so-called implanted system in his brain was the key to being transmitted back...

Then, if he passes through the gate activated by the twelve gems, should the system disappear too?

This so-called system... Lin Yue took out a mirror, removed his clothes, and began searching around his body.

Suddenly, he touched something with a strange shape beneath his left clavicle.

But there was nothing underneath the right clavicle!

Moreover, it was right under the skin!

This square piece was definitely not something humans should have.

Though it wasn't causing any discomfort, and not touching it meant he couldn't even sense it.

Lin Yue took out his dagger, taking a deep breath.

He cautiously used the dagger to lightly cut open the skin.

Quickly, blood started to flow.

Enduring intense pain, Lin Yue looked towards the very center of the wound in the mirror.

At the moment of healing, he used the system's photo-taking function to capture an image.

Wiping away the blood, Lin Yue felt the scorching pain and examined the photo.

There, existed an intricate circuit of a tiny microchip assembly.

"Perhaps this is what's referred to as the 'system'."

Though he couldn't understand how it could bring forth a light screen before him, nor how it emitted sounds, nor how it could issue language and text through sheer consciousness, nor did he know what the mall and survival points were about, or even how the Storage Space came to be, he knew nothing at all.