The post-apocalyptic world has a space full of supplies.

Chapter 230 Obtaining the Box

Ji Lang and the other three stood on either side of the lab table, while Gu Nanfeng had already set up his equipment. Actually, when he first came in, he thought he could just open the protective shield and take out the box, but he overlooked the fact that the lab would definitely have encrypted protective shields.

Sure enough, he tried various methods, including violence, but failed to open the protective shield. Even after being struck by powerful lightning for a long time, it didn't break the shield at all. He wondered what the creator of the shield was thinking when he made such a device that even superpowers could withstand.

"This protective shield doesn't look like something from our time at all." Pei Sihao only dared to voice his opinion after getting up close to the shield. Actually, he had thought so before in the illusion, but he couldn't get close then, and later he learned that it was an illusion and might not be reliable, so he hadn't said anything before.

"Can you project it for me to see?" Lu Yuan's voice came from inside the protective shield again, surprising all four of them.

"Can you hear us now?" Yang Xiao asked.

"I threw the signal amplifier into Gu Nanfeng's bag." Everyone could feel the laughter in Lu Yuan's voice at this moment.

"You mean this?" As soon as Yang Xiao said this, his face appeared on the screens of Lu Yuan, Lin Yun, and Zhong Qiang.

"That's right, it's this one. Is your face really that big? I never noticed it before." Lu Yuan's teasing voice annoyed Yang Xiao, but he was in the lab while Lu Yuan was outside, so even if he wanted to beat Lu Yuan up, there was nothing he could do.

"Thank you." After saying that, Yang Xiao placed the black 3D triangle in front of the protective shield. "Is this distance okay?"

"It would be best to go around in a circle," Lu Yuan's voice rang out.

Not long after Pei Sihao and Yang Xiao went inside, Lu Yuan projected a light screen onto the doorway using the mecha. Lin Yun and Zhong Qiang had never seen this high-tech device before, and they were both quite surprised. However, the screen remained dark, so they only glanced at it briefly before giving up.

It wasn't until they heard Gu Nanfeng and Ji Lang talking inside their masks that the screen showed an image, but the image was only focused on Gu Nanfeng's backpack.

As Lu Yuan requested, Yang Xiao and Ji Lang took the triangular camera and circled the entire protective shield.

"Your camera is way too big. The one Lu Xiaoyuan used before, which could move on its own, was much smaller," Yang Xiao complained. This thing was not only big, but also heavy.

“This is a signal amplifier.” After saying that, Lu Yuan stopped joking with Yang Xiao and stated his observations. “This protective shield is somewhat similar to a product of our Republican government. I remember having one in my space, but I don’t remember ever taking it out. Even if your Lu Xiaoyuan did take it out, it’s impossible for it to appear here.”

"Hmm." Gu Nanfeng nodded. His equipment had already connected to the protective shield, but since this thing was basically confirmed to be an interstellar artifact, he had no idea how to test it properly, so he could only ask, "How can we open it?"

"The password," Lu Yuan replied.

“How could we possibly know the password?” Ji Lang retorted.

"This elemental shield only has one way to open it: a password. No matter how you try to force it open, you can't." This thing is mainly made to protect against other extraterrestrial life forms. The password system is simple, since extraterrestrial life forms don't understand Earth's language.

Lu Yuan paused for a moment, then said, "The initial password is either six zeros, six eights, or six sixes. It's the standard initial password in China. You can all try it. If the person using this doesn't know how to change the initial password, then the initial password might be able to open the game."

Unfortunately, in the lab, Gu Nanfeng tried all the initial passwords but couldn't open the protective shield. Come to think of it, if this person didn't understand the shield at all, how could they possibly take it out and use it, especially something so important?

"Didn't Jiang Xing tell you the password? How could he not know about this protective shield if he sent you to get it?" Yang Xiao suddenly thought of this question.

“When we were talking that day, Old Man Jiang didn’t mention any password,” Pei Sihao recalled, then looked at Ji Lang and asked, “Did he mention it before?”

After thinking for a moment, Ji Lang and Lin Yun both said that they had no clues about the password.

"Just move it?" Yang Xiao glanced at the large table. It shouldn't be a problem for the four of them to move it outside. Lu Yuan could then simply put it into his spatial storage and take it with him.

Just as Yang Xiao was about to move the table, Ji Lang and Pei Sihao stopped him, pointing to the protective shield on the table and saying, "We can just move this thing."

After saying that, Gu Nanfeng packed his backpack and, together with Ji Lang, walked around to Pei Sihao and Yang Xiao. They stood between the two ropes and then lifted the semi-circular protective shield from either side. However, unexpectedly, as soon as the shield left the table, it transformed into a complete sphere.

Yang Xiao and Pei Sihao stood behind them, each holding onto the clothes of the person in front of them with one hand. This was to prevent them from veering off course once they entered the yellow sand area, since they were in the middle of the rope but not properly secured.

After the four people were ready, the three outside pulled together, dragging them away from the tabletop. They hadn't gone far when they were back in the sandstorm.

This time, however, the four of them emerged from the laboratory quickly. In contrast to the four people covered in sand, the protective shield remained completely free of dust. Moreover, the sandstorm inside the room vanished as soon as they came out.

"What's the principle behind this?" Yang Xiao pointed to the laboratory behind the door, which had returned to normal. Just seven or eight steps away was the experimental table where they had just been, with the paper and pen that Gu Nanfeng had used still on the table.

Everyone shook their heads in confusion, including Lu Yuan from the interstellar era. However, they had now completed half of their mission; all they needed to do was bring the box back to the South China base, and they would have won.

Just as the group was about to catch their breath, Ji Lang and Gu Nanfeng suddenly became alert.

"Lu Yuan, put this into your spatial storage." Gu Nanfeng and Ji Lang together lifted the entire sphere of light in front of Lu Yuan, and in just an instant, the sphere of light disappeared.

"There are at least two level nine or higher zombies inside, we have to be very careful." They hadn't encountered any zombies on their way here, and Ji Lang had almost forgotten that there were high-level zombies here.

"It seems they're specifically guarding this thing." Lin Yun also clearly felt a strong sense of oppression, similar to the last time they tried to enter this laboratory, when many zombies were consciously watching them.

There shouldn't be that many low- to mid-level zombies left, so the high-level zombies have started to move around on their own.