"Big brother, there's another dodecahedron-shaped groove here too!~"
Soon, Xiao Xiao made a discovery in a hidden corner.
"Good!"
Ye Feng quickly stepped forward and opened it with the dodecahedron dice.
"Kaka~ Kacha~ Keng!~"
After a series of sounds, Ye Feng took out a peculiar mechanical device covered in mysterious runes from the box space...
"Fire Core... What is this thing?"
Ye Feng was perplexed as he looked at the words "Fire Core" marked on the mechanical device.
"Ye Feng, the material of this thing... seems to be Star Stone too..."
Qiao Ying stepped forward, touched it, and said.
"The runes on it... some are arcane runes... some look like divine script... here are dodecahedron dice and a small fire identical to those on the arcane elemental coins!"
Yue Yan mumbled as she observed.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, Yue Yan looked at the dodecahedron dice in Ye Feng's hand and frowned, "Ye Feng, let me see the dodecahedron dice you're holding!"
"Okay!~"
As soon as Ye Feng finished speaking, Xiao Xiao said, "Big brother, this seems to be the instruction manual... This device called Fire Core is related to the awakening of survivors..."
While speaking, she also handed a small stack of documents, also taken from the box space, to Ye Feng.
"Oh?"
Ye Feng was quite surprised. He took it and quickly scanned through it.
...
"Wow..."
After a long while, Ye Feng exclaimed, his face showing obvious surprise.
Because according to the book, this device called Fire Core was used to imprint a thing called "Firefly" onto the bodies of survivors in the Remnant Fire Plan... Survivors, shortly after awakening, would have this "Firefly" on them...
"Firefly" could protect survivors from monster attacks. Although invisible to the naked eye, it would be effective as long as it encountered light, be it sunlight, a flashlight, or a bonfire... It wouldn't work in darkness. However, 'Firefly' would disappear after some time...
"Speaking of which, when I woke up in the simple cabin, the strange golden paper said, 'Never let the fire go out. There are dangers and monsters in the darkness that you can hardly imagine. Only fire and light can keep you safe!'..."
"I didn't quite understand what it meant before... So it's 'Firefly'..."
Looking at the instruction manual for the Fire Core device in his hand, Ye Feng suddenly understood.
"Wait a moment, this 'Firefly'..."
Ye Feng frowned.
Because he remembered something, that in the City of Arcane Magic, Frost... According to what Yue Yan and Bing said, the Dark Holy Cult could track Frost through some means... and it had been like this since childhood...
"Could it be related to this Fire Core device... 'Firefly'..."
Ye Feng looked at the Fire Core device in his hand, lost in thought.
"Ye Feng, let's keep looking. There should be one or two more similar dodecahedron-shaped grooves!"
At this moment, Yue Yan spoke, pulling Ye Feng's thoughts back.
"One or two more such grooves?"
Ye Feng was quite surprised and looked at Yue Yan with a questioning gaze.
"Yes!"
Yue Yan nodded, "I observed the dodecahedron dice carefully just now and noticed that the small fire on it has dimmed again..."
As she spoke, Yue Yan showed Ye Feng the side of the dodecahedron dice with the small fire. "Look at the subtle scale next to the small fire. When you activated and deactivated the entrance teleportation array earlier, the small fire didn't change, but when you opened the box space containing the interstellar battleship navigation log and this box space containing the Fire Core device, the brightness of the small fire dimmed... The small fire has shrunk by two notches..."
"There are a total of four notches, and now there are two left..."
"So I infer that there should be one or two more grooves that can only be opened with the dodecahedron dice!"
Yue Yan quickly explained.
"Sister Yue Yan, why one or two grooves? According to what you just said, shouldn't there be two grooves?"
Xiao Xiao furrowed her small eyebrows, looking puzzled.
"Whoosh!~"
Yue Yan let out a sigh and looked towards the direction of the teleportation array where the four of them had entered. "I observed the groove of the teleportation array we entered through just now... The runes on the groove show signs of cracking..."
"I infer that the way to leave this secret area of Star Stepping City will not be by returning the way we came, but through a passage that also needs to be opened with the dodecahedron dice!"
"Of course, this is just my guess... That's why I said one or two grooves~"
As she spoke, Yue Yan lightly flicked Xiao Xiao's nose.
"So that's how it is~"
Xiao Xiao turned to look at Ye Feng.
"Let's split up and search... Although this place isn't large, it's not small either... Collect everything on the scene, including those paper documents, that can be collected!"
Ye Feng pondered for a moment and then spoke quickly.
"Okay!~"
...
Soon, Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, and Yue Yan quickly searched the secret area of Star Stepping City.
Unlike at the beginning, this time the four of them had a clear objective, and their search speed increased significantly.
White light continuously flashed throughout the secret area of Star Stepping City, as one item after another was collected by Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, or Yue Yan into various storage spaces...
...
"Ye Feng, over here!"
"Big brother, I found something here!"
The voices of Qiao Ying and Xiao Xiao sounded almost simultaneously. By now, the entire secret area had become somewhat empty.
"Good!"
Ye Feng responded and quickly walked to Xiao Xiao, who was closer, while Qiao Ying, who was further away, also approached Xiao Xiao.
"Kaka kaka~"
"Keng~ Ka~ Genggeng!"
Ye Feng pressed the dodecahedron dice into the groove, and after a series of sounds, another box space appeared in front of the four of them.
"This... is a list of survivors that didn't have time to be destroyed..."
Ye Feng took out the crumpled, folded, and jumbled, even partially burnt paper from the box space. After spreading it out and examining it, he was surprised.
"Big brother... This... Is Shen Yun Yao on this the same Yun Yao sister?"
Xiao Xiao pointed to a piece of paper in her hand and showed it to Ye Feng.
"This... The name is the same... And the person in the photo does indeed resemble Yun Yao in her eyebrows..."
Looking at the spot Xiao Xiao was pointing to, Ye Feng was quite astonished.
"It seems the situation was indeed very urgent at the time... They didn't even have time to completely destroy the survivor list... They could only hide it in a place like this..."
Yue Yan added, her expression solemn.
"Indeed!"
Ye Feng nodded, took out all the messy papers from the box space and put them into his storage warehouse. Then, Ye Feng nodded to Qiao Ying and quickly walked towards the dodecahedron-shaped groove the other person had discovered.
"Ye Feng, wait a moment!"
Just as Ye Feng was about to press the dodecahedron dice into that groove, Yue Yan's voice interrupted him.
"What is it?"
Ye Feng looked at Yue Yan with great seriousness, as he could detect a hint of urgency in her voice.
...