Chapter 516: Record

【Story Experience Mission Triggered: Infiltrate the Confidential Archive Room】

【Mission Description: To let players better experience the storyline, please choose the character you will portray in this mission and take part】

【Location: Mitra Academy Confidential Archive Room】

【Time: 12:00 midnight on the day】

【Note: This mission can only be undertaken by one person; you may choose to play as Mu Lingxiao】

As the two finished their conversation, Ying Duo received the first side quest in this instance.

Although this quest can only be done solo, its description has already been synced to the others.

They don't need to rush to Ying Duo, yet they also know what they should do.

Since Mu Lingxiao is a character they can briefly assume, exploring the current storyline from her perspective, other NPCs must also have similar triggerable quests.

Yang Yixie sent Hua Jian Lei a message that Min Xingyao might reach the surface by some means, purpose unknown, and then decisively accepted the mission.

【Note: The player will enter an isolated storyline instance, during which they cannot communicate with other players. Enter?】

【Yes.】

【Instance loading...】

Night fell over Mitra Academy, the moon hidden by clouds, the silhouette of the teaching building blurred in the darkness, and a dark shadow flickered a few times on the building's wall.

It was rapidly approaching some location within the academy.

She stood in a second‑floor corridor, moonlight leaking through a window crack onto her profile, having changed into a night‑clothing suitable for movement.

Mu Lingxiao stopped before a bookshelf piled with books in the Mitra Academy library, and after deftly triggering several mechanisms, a low, muffled gear sound began to rumble.

Like a magical gate hidden among the books, the shelf slid aside slowly, revealing a secret door behind it.

The Mitra Academy Confidential Archive Room.

When Ying Duo opened his eyes, his perspective was no longer that god‑like camera switch; he saw a secret door.

Clearly, his instance quest had begun.

The storyline only tells him to infiltrate, without specifying what to do, but fortunately the process leaves no room for free action; arrows guide him throughout.

Including which mechanisms, where to go to disable them, what should have been a precise Rune rewriting by external force was forcibly twisted by the system into a series of mini‑games.

Just by comparing before and after, Ying Duo gained a certain understanding of her level in Rune technology.

A very skilled Rune master.

No wonder the NPCs he met all said the Church's past gender inequality caused many talents to be missed; Mu Lingxiao has that skill, yet Ying Duo has never recorded any trace of such information.

The Undercurrent Mercenary Corps' Regiment Leader excels at exploiting the Church's loopholes; his spatial Aberrant Arts combined with combat prowess can match the fifty‑plus level Yue Chengzhang, and that is our frail academic element.

Similarly frail academic Ying Duo now swiftly overcame the mechanisms outside the Confidential Archive Room and finally entered the archive.

Although it is a Confidential Archive Room, its interior is not particularly luxurious; years of sealing have left a thick layer of dust on many files.

How does Mu Lingxiao know this place?

According to the earlier conversation between Min Xingyao and her, the lives of the two people now controlling Tianmian City hinge entirely on the former Pope's whim; although Yang Yixie at this moment guessed part of that former Pope's cause of death, Mu Lingxiao, having just enrolled, should be only sixteen.

How does she know so much?

Following the storyline guide, Ying Duo pressed onward.

Several books on the archive shelf were highlighted with golden light, clearly those he must take all of.

Although the quantity is somewhat large, for those of us with space, it is never a trouble.

Yang Yixie casually grabbed one, opened to the first page and roughly skimmed the content.

"Human Body Cloning Experiment"

The screen flashes with lightning.

Although Yang Yixie already knew there is a hidden secret laboratory beneath Tianmian City, and that lab is linked to the Chen Family, the appearance of such documents here implies the Academy is also involved.

He skimmed the contents and began recording the text.

"... We successfully, using Old World methods, identified the Divine Oracle's genetic sequence and attempted, on that basis, to artificially create an identical Divine Oracle."

"Experiment 1316 ended in failure again; even with numerous Old World‑style fabricated machines, we cannot bring the clone into this world. How did the Old World manage it? Was it because they never experimented on humans, only on animals?"

"If we had a choice, we would not commit such a violation of human ethics, but this is our only option."

"Experiment 1521 revealed that the clone's failure to manifest likely relates to differences in soul wavelength; even with identical bodies, an identical soul cannot coexist in the same world."

"Their fates would clash; if destiny were a bridge, only one could cross the river while the other would be swallowed by the waters."

"What if we tweak the genes slightly? What is impossible in the Old World might be achieved through Mutation; we just need to continue the experiments..."

The amount of information here is huge; even the Church has someone secretly conducting artificial Divine Oracle experiments?

Perhaps because a father in a parallel world died because of this, Yang Yixie seems to have an innate aversion to it.

Turning another page, he saw an ancient emblem.

A venerable tree with lush foliage, serpentine patterns coiling around its trunk, bearing forbidden red fruit on its branches.

Yang Yixie immediately found the same emblem in his archived data; aside from one showing wear from time, the two were identical!

Yang Yixie even began to suspect that the documents found in the Black Stone Mountain Range underground lab were brought down from this place.

Or perhaps there are many backups stored?

He intuitively felt there would be more information here.

Yang Yixie immediately searched for other documents, but unfortunately they seemed largely unrelated to the human cloning experiment.

Only one document still caught his attention.

"On the Possibility of Killing a God"

Isn't this what they are supposed to do immediately after returning to the game?