Elder brother's garrison

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The second reference book had fewer pages, and Xiaobai flipped through it in just a few minutes.

"Lianlian, the third book."

"it is good."

Blah blah blah...

"Lianlian, the fourth book."

"it is good."

Blah blah blah...

Under the watchful eyes of Luo Lian and Ella, Xiao Bai spent nearly an hour quickly flipping through the dozen or so books that Luo Lian had shown him.

After closing the last page of the book, Xiaobai closed his eyes, rubbed his temples for a while, and then let out a long sigh.

"Xiao Bai, how is it?" Luo Lian asked Xiao Bai.

“…Okay, all done.” Xiaobai put down her hand and smiled at Luo Lian.

"Xiaobai, what were you doing just now?" Ella, who had been staring at Xiaobai flipping through books for an hour, couldn't suppress her curiosity and asked Xiaobai.

"Me? Hmm... I've memorized all these books." Xiao Bai smiled at Ella, then turned to Luo Lian, "Lianlian, how about I write these books down for you to read after we get out?"

"Ah, thank you, Xiaobai." Luo Lian's eyes lit up, and she nodded.

"..." On the contrary, Ella stared wide-eyed at Xiaobai, "Huh? Xiaobai, you memorized the whole book?"

"Hmm... I'm pretty sure." Xiaobai smiled at Ella.

Ella stared blankly at Little White, then picked up the book on the top of the table and opened it to a certain page.

"What is the working order of the reclaimer using runic language?" Ella asked Xiaobai.

"First, pause the rune logic, copy all surviving objects from the current heap to another heap, and identify objects that are not copied as targets for recycling..." Xiaobai said fluently.

Ella listened to Xiaobai's words with her mouth agape, then turned a few more pages.

"Then... a reconstruction of runic logic?"

"First, a constructor with parameters must be created. In inheritance, the execution order of constructors is first the parent constructor, then the child constructor..."

Xiao Bai continued talking non-stop.

"You...you really memorized it all!" Ella stared at the book in astonishment, looking up at Xiaobai in disbelief. "Xiaobai, you're amazing! Now I understand why Grandpa wanted you to learn runic language so much!"

"It's...it's alright..." Xiaobai smiled sheepishly. "Actually, although I've memorized all these books, I don't understand anything written in them...I'm really stupid, all I can do is memorize by rote..."

Chapter 1636 An Unexpected Name

Xiao Bai's memory wasn't actually this good to begin with.

In the period immediately following his appointment as admiral, Xiaobai's memory could be described as photographic, which was enough to handle the admiral's clerical work. However, if Xiaobai were to memorize a dozen or so books, it would be quite tiring and time-consuming for him.

The reason why Xiaobai is so powerful now is largely due to the fact that after merging with the spiritual body of the Deep Sea Will, Xiaobai's spiritual power was enhanced by an extraordinary amount, and even his passive ability of photographic memory was strengthened by a lot.

However, memorizing a dozen or so books that you can't understand at all is really quite tedious.

Xiao Bai rubbed his temples, relaxed, and let out a small sigh of relief.

"Thank you, Xiaobai."

Luo Lian smiled at Xiao Bai.

Luo Lian wasn't too surprised by Xiao Bai's performance. In Luo Lian's mind, Xiao Bai was the strongest. Being able to read more than a dozen books in one go was completely within Xiao Bai's capabilities.

"I already said we don't need to say thank you," Xiao Bai said to Luo Lian with a smile.

"Okay." Luo Lian nodded and picked up the books on the table. "Xiao Bai, wait for me a moment, I'll put these books back."

"Hmm... Oh, right, Lianlian." Xiaobai called out to Luo Lian as she spoke.

"what happened?"

"Speaking of which, Lianlian, when you were looking for books in the library just now, did you find a place that looked like you could store a logbook?" Xiaobai asked Luo Lian.

"Log?" Luo Lian was taken aback.

“Yes, a log.” Xiaobai nodded. “It’s like… a place to store files and documents.”

“Oh… I think I understand what you mean.” Luo Lian nodded, then shook her head at Xiao Bai. “But I just walked around the library, and it’s full of bound books. There shouldn’t be any files or documents that Xiao Bai wants to see.”

"Huh? It's not here?"

“Document files involve some degree of privacy, so they should be stored in an empty room,” Luo Lian said. “This is a library, you know; it’s not a good place to put these things when people are coming and going.”

"Uh..." Xiaobai was also taken aback when he heard this.

Yes.

I didn't even realize it myself.

Loki had told himself that the visit records were kept in a closed study that only the head of the family had the right to enter. This was a library, and although it appeared to be empty, it was not the same as a closed study that was essentially off-limits to others.

Absolutely.

I guess when I told Ella I wanted to go to the study, she thought I wanted to read, and that's when she misunderstood me!

Having figured this out, Xiaobai looked at Ella with some embarrassment.

"Ella...we might have come to the wrong place..."

However, Ella's expression remained normal in the face of Xiaobai's embarrassment. After listening to Xiaobai and Luolian's conversation, Ella pointed her slender finger at her chin and spoke to Xiaobai.

"Hmm... Xiaobai, do you mean you want to take a look at our family files?"

“…Hmm.” Xiaobai nodded reluctantly.

"Hmm...that's alright." Ella lowered her hand, nodded to Little White, and grinned. "It's okay, we didn't go the wrong way!"

"Huh? You didn't go to the wrong place?"

"Xiaobai, you're going to the archives where the files are kept, right? The entrance to the archives is inside the library." Ella said, pointing in a direction behind the library.

Xiao Bai followed Ella's finger and looked in that direction.

At the far end of the library, there stood a door that resembled an office, with three large characters on it that read "Archives".

"Wow, it's really here?" Xiaobai exclaimed in surprise.

“The archives are usually right next to the library,” Ella said matter-of-factly. “We’re all in the same field of book management.”

"……"noob.

The library's archives room wasn't a secluded room at all; on the contrary, it was quite open and aboveboard, like the room Xiaobai saw when he was in school, used to store student records.

Xiao Bai, Luo Lian, and Ella arrived at the entrance of the archives room.

The archives room has an iron door, and the iron door is locked.

"Grandpa has the key to the archives," Ella asked Xiaobai and Luo Lian. "Do you want me to go get it for you?"

“Uh…” Xiaobai.

“It shouldn’t be necessary.” Luo Lian interrupted Ella. She leaned closer to the iron gate, bent down and examined the lock on the door for a while. “Hmm… this is a lock made of runic language. Although it’s a bit small, it’s about the same size as the door at the connection point between the first and second test areas.”

"A lock with runic language?" Little White curiously approached the lock.

really.

After careful observation, Xiaobai discovered that this lock was indeed different from the iron locks commonly found in human society. This lock had no keyhole, and its shape was decorated with several bright gold runes that flashed rhythmically, making it look like a high-tech product.

"The principle of rune locks is actually similar to that of locks in the human world. Human locks use all sorts of unique key patterns as the unlocking medium, while rune locks use the arrangement of runes and the slight differences between the strokes as the unlocking medium. Therefore, theoretically, the keys to these rune locks are more difficult to copy than ordinary locks, and the locksmith's unique right to open the door is thus somewhat guaranteed."

Luo Lian explained to Xiao Bai.

"Oh..." Xiaobai nodded, "Then how do you open this kind of lock without a key?"

"Xiaobai, did you see the runes on the lock?"

"I saw it."

“In principle, as long as these runes light up at the same time, the lock will open.” Luo Lian said this, and then very seriously took out a pen and rice paper from her pocket. “As long as someone can write the corresponding runes on the key, they can open the lock even without the key.”

Wow! That's amazing!

“Hmm… however, the order of the runes and even the slightest difference in the strokes will affect the final result. At my level, it would probably take me several hours to figure out the conditions for opening the door.” Luo Lian said, while writing on the rice paper with a fountain pen. Every now and then, she would bring the runes she had written close to the lock to observe the brightness on the lock, looking completely focused. “…Little Bai, you can just think of it as a hacker intrusion.”

"Uh..." Xiao Bai looked at Luo Lian's serious expression as she solved the puzzle, and then turned to Ella with some embarrassment.

Ella watched with a smile as Luo Lian and Xiao Bai studied how to pick the lock. Even though the two of them were trying to break into her house, she didn't feel any displeasure.

how to say.

Xiao Bai felt that it was wonderful that she and Luo Lian were good people.

Ella is so sweet.

If either of them had even the slightest bad intention, Ella would probably end up in a situation where she'd be sold out but still be counting the money for the seller.

However, trying to pick Ella's lock under Ella's watchful eye was indeed quite stressful for Xiaobai. Moreover, according to Luo Lian, it would probably take several hours to open the lock, and the banquet might end after that, with the guests starting to wonder where their people had gone.

Thinking about this, Xiaobai suddenly felt a little nervous. She looked at the runes on the lock and pondered for a while.

Essentially... as long as these runic languages ​​light up in some way, the lock can be opened, right? And the brightness of the runic languages ​​themselves is determined by the amount of mental energy infused into them... I guess the corresponding runic characters on the key are specifically for infusing temporary mental energy into the runic languages ​​on the lock.

Hmm... since that's the case...

Xiao Bai looked down at his fingers.

—Could I try one-click fast charging?

Thinking of this, Xiao Bai gently touched the rune lock with his finger, and the Admiral Network surged, carefully pouring into the rune text on the rune lock.

really.

The moment Xiaobai poured his mental energy into it, the five runes on the rune lock lit up as if they had been charged.

"Snapped!"

The rune lock opened with a click and fell to the ground from the iron gate.

"Ah, it's open," Xiaobai murmured.

"Huh?" Luo Lian, who was rapidly calculating, was stunned. She opened her mouth and looked at the rune lock on the ground, then looked at Xiao Bai in a daze, "Xiao Bai, what... did you just do?"

"Uh... I... well... haha... I just tried it out a little... I didn't expect it to actually open." Xiaobai scratched his head, picked up the rune lock from the ground, and said awkwardly.

The runes on the rune lock brightened briefly before quickly returning to their previous dim state, presumably because the rune lock has a built-in function that consumes a portion of mental energy.

But it's alright, Xiaobai is now a little worried about the consequences if he breaks the lock.

"Anyway, let's go in." Xiaobai said to Luo Lian and Ella with a smile.

"..." Luo Lian.

Stepping into the archives, the temperature noticeably dropped several degrees.

The archives room was mostly made of metal cabinets, with rows and rows of file packages wrapped in yellow paper placed on the rails. The file packages were arranged in order on the cabinets, and the date was written on them.

Xiao Bai approached a file bag, carefully opened it, and saw that it contained many paper documents, including a signature book similar to the one Loki had used to sign in for the admirals.

Xiao Bai pulled out the autograph book and looked at it. It contained many records of guests who had visited Ella's house, but these were records from a few years ago, and there was no information Xiao Bai wanted in it.

Xiao Bai put the autograph book back into the file bag, closed the file package, and glanced into the archives.

Ok.

That's right.

It seems this is the study Loki was referring to.

"Ella, how old are you today?" Xiaobai asked Ella.

"Me? I'm nineteen."

"Nineteen years ago..." Xiaobai nodded, counted the years, and came to the file bag from nineteen years ago. She carefully opened the file bag and found the autograph book.

Although Loki didn't tell Xiaobai the exact time she received the Deep Sea Aura Shield Bracelet, through their conversation, Xiaobai roughly understood that the so-called "she," the person who gave Loki the bracelet, was most likely not a member of a naval base, but rather a lone individual. After all, if a naval base had detected Loki's presence, it wouldn't have simply dropped off a Deep Sea Aura Shield and left. Similarly, most collective organizations are the same.

So all Xiaobai needs to do is take a quick look at the guest log for that period and find the lone guest whose signature is on the log.

It was surprisingly easy to find.

After all, most of the people who come and go from Ella's house are famous naval bases and teams dispatched from the Admiral's headquarters. These teams are not Xiaobai's targets. After eliminating these targets, during the time period when Ella was born, there was only one "independent" guest left.

You can simply ignore names like "XX Naval Base," "XX Organization," and "XX Association."