Chapter 368 Chapter 368 – Steel
Right now, the display on the right was blinking red, and Nick could see a big exclamation mark appearing and disappearing.
'This display most likely shows the door's status,' he thought.
Then, he looked around the display.
'But there are no levers or buttons anywhere. Can I not operate it?'
Nick put his finger on the display, and he saw it change.
Letters and words Nick had never seen before appeared on the display.
He had no idea what the display said.
Nick tapped the display a couple more times and noticed that dots appeared in the middle every time he pressed.
'It actually reacts to my touch. This is so strange,' he thought.
The dots stopped appearing after they became eight.
'I presume this is some kind of password to deactivate the alarm and to open the door.' nove(l)bi(n.)com
Nick furrowed his brows.
'Yeah, I'm not going to be able to guess that, and there is probably also some kind of fail-safe.'
'Might as well go in the hard way.'
SHING!
The blade on Nick's right arm activated, and he rammed it into the door.
Luckily, since the alarm was already active, nothing surprising happened except for Nick's blade burying into the door.
'This is just normal steel. Maybe it's a bit harder than normal steel, but not a lot more,' Nick thought.
'But it's a lot of steel. That door is probably over half a meter thick.'
'Why would they use that much steel, though? Why not use materials treated with Zephyx? What's the point of putting ten meters of steel in front of me when I can just cut through it?'
'Did they not have access to better materials? Were they that primitive?'
Nick looked at the display to the right.
'No, probably not. That display is clearer and more versatile than any I have seen. Even the displays for the Fog's Containment Unit aren't this advanced, and that Containment Unit costs millions of credits.'
Nick raised an eyebrow.
'Did they not have access to harder materials?'
'I mean, without Zephyx, steel should be the hardest material you can get in bulk.'
'So, did they not have access to Zephyx?'
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