The cost of using the Plane Corridor is not cheap! This time he used the Plane Corridor to come; inviting Kanter for escort, he needs to cover the expenses for the Plane Corridor; according to the contract with Kanter, all costs incurred by using the Plane Corridor during contract execution will be Nis’s responsibility, meaning if he uses the Plane Corridor to leave, he’ll need to pay three times today’s cost of the Plane Corridor materials.
This cost is alarmingly high, even the somewhat wealthy Nis couldn’t help but tremble with anxiety.
"No other options? Short-distance teleportation won’t work?" Nis spoke with a tremor, "Isn’t there an alternative external corridor?"
"For now, there are no other methods; spatial energy for short-distance teleportation could be suppressed by the Magical Energy Array, making the Plane Corridor the best choice."
"As for an alternative external corridor, the fourth floor originally had one, but even that was entirely stripped away by the Controller." It must be said, that Controller acted decisively, leaving no room for retreat.
"So hateful!" Nis shouted angrily, "My data!"
"I want to kill them, I must kill them!" Nis stormed furiously, "Angel, can you pinpoint their location?"
"I can, but killing them now is pointless; they are also like ants on a hot pan now." Through preliminary control of the fourth-floor Magical Energy Array, Angel could see through an Authority Eye, observing the general situation on the fourth floor, that group had already fallen into panic upon realizing the Magical Energy Array suddenly ’lost control.’
"I must teach them a lesson." Clearly still unsettled, Nis had previously acted silently before a group of apprentices, only for this group to slap him in return, which he couldn’t easily dismiss.
Angel no longer tried to stop him and directly reported their location.
"Most people are in the research center, a small portion spread across different rooms, with the person controlling the Magical Energy Array in the Exhibition Room."
"Exhibition Room? The fourth floor has an Exhibition Room?" Nis turned to Reynaud.
Reynaud hesitated, bowed his head, and softly replied, "Yes."
Nis: "I remember the previous three floors didn’t have an Exhibition Room?"
Reynaud continued nodding, "Correct, only the fourth and fifth floors have Exhibition Rooms. Similarly, Medical Center only exists on the third and fourth floors; the Magical Beast Garden is on the first floor; Demon Plant cultivation rooms are on both the first and second floors..."
Reynaud detailed the unique architecture of each experimental floor one by one.
"Why didn’t you mention the fourth floor had an Exhibition Room earlier?" Nis had no interest in Medical Centers or Magical Beast Gardens, but an Exhibition Room was of critical importance; he was there to research data.
Reynaud made a swallowing gesture: "I forgot."
Nis squinted, as a Wizard of the Soul Sect, Reynaud thoroughly understood the small actions of the soul as well as the guiding of external emotions affecting internal energy flow. Reynaud clearly had no ’saliva’ to swallow, he obviously wasn’t telling the truth.
Nis casually remarked, "I remember you previously mentioned the fifth floor only has three rooms, corresponding to the first three sequences. Are you sure there’s an Exhibition Room there?"
Reynaud: "Yes, each large room of the first three sequences contains a private Exhibition Room."
Nis: "The data you’re looking for about removing soul marks, which room is it in?"
Reynaud instinctively replied: "Possibly in Room 01’s Exhibition Room."
Nis gave Reynaud a deep look, having likely figured out his intentions. This was Reynaud’s personal interest; he was worried that if Nis found the research data in the fourth floor’s Exhibition Room, he wouldn’t go to the fifth floor at all. As such, instead of mentioning the Exhibition Room, he just stated the data was controlled by the first three sequences.
Nis ultimately didn’t say anything about Reynaud’s petty schemes.
Everyone has their self-interest; Nis can understand from Reynaud’s perspective. However, understanding doesn’t mean agreement; for Nis, the Exhibition Room is key content, and Reynaud overlooked this point, which naturally means Nis couldn’t be entirely unperturbed.
Yet, Reynaud is still useful, and his ’talent’ is also quite useful, so Nis temporarily subdued the emotions stirring within him.
Not looking at Reynaud, he turned to Angel’s Authority Eye: "Can you restrict that person in the Exhibition Room?"
"What restriction?"
Nis: "I’m afraid he’ll destroy important data in the Exhibition Room."
Angel understood Nis’s meaning; he thought for a moment and said: "I can restrict his actions, but even without restriction, it would be difficult for him to destroy the Exhibition Room’s data. Like the materials in the Exhibition Room, the data in the Exhibition Room is encompassed within the Magical Energy Array, with regulations for access."
"The Exhibition Room also has regulations? Wouldn’t there again be a time limit, and you can only take away three items?" Nis’s head started to ache at the mention of regulations.
"There’s no time limit, but based on authority, one can take 3 to 10 pieces of books or research data at a time. One can continue to acquire new data only after returning those books and data."
Therefore, even if the other side wants to destroy the Exhibition Room’s data, they could at most destroy 10 pieces of research data; without returning borrowed data, they cannot acquire new research data.
"Is that so... Can you change this regulation?"
Angel: "Not currently, unless I completely control the Magical Energy Array, but it might take ten days to half a month or even longer."
Nis sighed with disappointment. However, this regulation was within psychological expectation, at worst spending more time in the Exhibition Room examining each document one by one.
Nis: "By the way, what’s the situation over at the Exhibition Room?"
Angel: "No incidents, currently no one is near the Exhibition Room."
Nis’s eyes sparkled, with no issues around the Exhibition Room, he might go there to continue searching for transplantable organs; even if specific research data isn’t found, through study of the Soul Arms, he could deduce some information.
Nis didn’t hesitate, directly heading towards the Exhibition Room with large strides.
If leaving is not an option for now, the benefits of the fourth floor should be seized first, starting with searching the Exhibition Room for data, then scavenging the Exhibition Room.