Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1079 - 420: Cold-Blooded Monster, Imperial Mind, The Wrath of a Lone Warrior in Time

Beside this seemingly unremarkable door was a row of number buttons from 0 to 9, laid out like elevator buttons from the 21st century.

All the buttons were solid metal ones.

When pressed, the mechanical structure was palpable, requiring significant effort; relying solely on human arm strength wasn't enough, and assistance from armor was needed to exert force.

Both the door and the adjacent alloy wall, along with the surface of the number buttons, were coated with neutron material, making it nearly impossible to damage them externally.

This was a purely mechanical numeric password lock. It was primitive, ancient, structurally simple, with an even simpler principle.

Moreover, the password lock appeared out of place with the wall.

Ren Zhong speculated that this was likely a control door lock substitution thought up by the frozen elders after losing "the Net."

Although simple, the solution was reliable and stable.

With the aid of another backup plan, this seemingly simple numeric lock was actually the safest means in the world.

When Ren Zhong first arrived here, several times he fell to the floor beneath this door lock, contemplating whether to simply come back later after crafting a second hydrogen bomb to blast it.

However, Ren Zhong ultimately didn't do so, because what he wanted was to control the frozen elders and extract more secrets from their mouths.

He didn't want to easily allow the frozen elders the release of death.

The problem of Source Star's civilization was not just the frozen elders but was a deep-rooted decay from start to finish.

Simply beheading couldn't change anything; instead, it might create greater chaos by recklessly destroying the top-level management structure.

What Ren Zhong truly wanted for the best scenario was to find a way to keep the frozen elders under his control.

Theoretically, Ren Zhong had at least two ways to directly destroy the white sphere. First was creating more hydrogen bombs, or even making a Three-Phase Bomb to directly blow up the white sphere. But that would take too much time and was impossible to achieve within a year. On Source Star, without a nuclear industry foundation, the amount of deuterium and uranium Ren Zhong could collect in a short time was limited. Second was attempting to seize control of Ying Hao's Star System Level Main Cannon and directly attack. Ren Zhong had contemplated the feasibility of this, but it faced numerous insurmountable difficulties. Firstly, given the significance of the Star System Level Main Cannon, Li Yang would undoubtedly maintain high vigilance over it, making it extremely difficult to stealthily seize control. Even if he succeeded in the coup, his disguise would inevitably be entirely exposed, leading to the entire Ren family group being betrayed by Ying Hao, who was controlled by Li Yang, and annihilated by Hewitt. Although the Ren family group was now the tenth force on Source Star, compared to the old Nine Major Groups, it was still too weak to withstand a single blow. Additionally, with the performance of the white sphere's membrane shield, the Star System Level Main Cannon still couldn't obliterate the white sphere in one shot. Given the white sphere's preparedness, hitting it with a second shot was basically impossible.

This was the fundamental reason why Ren Zhong, though seemingly having a shortcut, actually had no choice.

Only through strategic infiltration into the heartland and capturing the frozen elders could he truly open up the situation.

He knew it was difficult, but difficulty and gain are often proportional; who knows the result without trying?

Ren Zhong slowly raised his right hand, extended his index finger, then precisely deployed the armor energy, controlling the force of each finger exactly to 55.7 newtons, and pressed down on the first digit, "7."

The square button sank down, emitting a click sound.

Ren Zhong released his hand, and the button did not immediately return to its position; instead, it rebounded at a very slow pace. The process of pressing the button was a bit like winding a spring, and when released, the button's rebound felt akin to the lever rotation of a spring-driven frog in motion.

As the button rebounded, the mechanical structure inside the wall transferred mechanical force like dominoes, amplifying it, causing vibrations that spread outward.

Finally, when the "7" button fully rebounded, it gently quivered and emitted a creaking sound.

Ren Zhong's set of actions seemed simple, but initially, when he first pressed this button, he pressed the "8" key, making a mistake.

At the time, knowing nothing about this password lock, Ren Zhong could only tentatively and randomly press one to see what would happen.

What happened was that the absolutely defensive hall, coated entirely with neutron material, instantly sealed its door, and within a mere five minutes, it filled with high-energy plasma, with a temperature equivalent to millions of degrees.

This high-energy plasma was precisely the second insurance paired with the password lock, intended to eliminate intruders.