Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 886 - 514: The Secret of the Boundary (Part 3)

Li Banfeng took the elevator to the eleventh floor and waited at the stairwell entrance for ten minutes. The projector reminded Li Banfeng he could go upstairs.

He went up the stairs to the twelfth floor, where a black iron door blocked the way.

Two lights were lit on the door. The projector first used images to cover Li Banfeng’s silhouette, then the glove came to the iron door, quietly fumbled for a moment, and the iron door opened a crack.

This was guided by memory. Before this, the Black Glove had opened this iron door many times.

The projector projected a beam of light into the room through the door crack. The light flickered for a long time, and the projector said, "Seventh Guide, the similar ones inside have already become friends."

The glove reminded, "Boss, be very careful, there might be traps in this room."

Li Banfeng opened the Golden Gaze Autumn Hair, Insightful Spirit Sound, and Hundred Flavors Delicate, being extremely cautious with every step.

With the light from the projector, Li Banfeng could clearly see the neatly arranged file boxes on the shelves. Glancing over, he saw a file box labeled "Ruirong Textile Factory" on the second row of shelves.

Is this the files of Ruirong Textile Factory?

The Dark Star Bureau actually has files on the textile factory, but they don’t allow the security team member to view them?

What is the reasoning behind this?

Li Banfeng picked up the file box and was about to read it, but the glove reminded, "Boss, what the Black Glove was looking for when he came here wasn’t this."

The Black Glove originally belonged to Xiao Zhenggong. Xiao Zhenggong had also been to this archive room; what was he looking for at that time?

What he was looking for, was it the same thing that Big Head found?

Li Banfeng couldn’t be sure. By rough estimation, there were over a hundred file racks in this archive room. Looking through them one by one, who knows how long it would take just to look at the boxes.

First, see what Xiao Zhenggong was looking for.

The glove fumbled through each bookshelf based on memory and took half an hour to find the file box that had appeared in memory.

"Fortune is on our side, found it so quickly!" The glove was very pleasantly surprised, "Boss, what Xiao Zhenggong was looking for is this."

The file box only had two words, Boundary.

Boundary!

Li Banfeng came to the Outside Provinces as a Balancer, and his primary goal was to find a way out for Puluo State.

The territory of Puluo State was split by the Boundary, and the technology to control the Boundary was held in the hands of the Outside Provinces, which means the lifeline of Puluo State is also controlled by the Outside Provinces.

Even if, in Li Banfeng’s view, the Outside Provinces were not stronger than Puluo State, if the Outside Provinces chose to ignore Puluo State, the split Puluo State would not have the strength to resist the Inner State.

If a way to thoroughly solve the Boundary could be found, it would mean finding a way out for Puluo State.

The previously very calm Li Banfeng became a bit excited. He opened the file box and the first document, reading the first line of text.

"The Boundary of Puluo State originates from changes in dark energy induced by the magnetic field. The connection between the magnetic field and dark energy is the key to controlling the Boundary..."

The file box was large, and there was a lot of material inside, making it very difficult to read even one-tenth of it in one night.

The projector was already prepared. He had the gloves unfold the documents, starting to quickly photograph, shot over a dozen pages, then the projector stopped.

He himself opened the film room, pulled out a segment of film, looked at it in front of the lens for a long time.

"This is impossible..."

Li Banfeng asked, "What’s the situation?"

"I can’t record it, there’s nothing on the film." The projector was very nervous; he shouldn’t have faltered at such a crucial moment.

But Li Banfeng wasn’t surprised: "These materials likely used special materials preventing the film from being photosensitive."

The glove sighed and said, "In the end, it’s because Ah Ji isn’t reliable."

The projector was anxious: "I will try to think of another way, there must be another way."

This matter wasn’t the projector’s fault. Li Banfeng hid the key, opened the door of the Portable Residence, and handed the file box to the phonograph.

"Beloved wife, can you memorize what’s on here?"

The wife quickly flipped through each document, at first marveling, then beginning to complain.

"Beloved husband, you really found the secret of the Boundary! Beloved husband, this stuff isn’t easy to learn, let me take a careful look. Oh dear husband, these people from other provinces have a lot to say. They keep talking about magnetic fields, magnetic induction, and these terms are so awkward. And these diagrams and numbers, husband, they’re really hard to memorize!"

The wife flipped through it again and again. Hong Ying was also watching anxiously: "This messy stuff, written so densely, who can remember it all?"

The phonograph said: "That’s true, Ying Ying, I really can’t remember it all. Let’s be quick and copy a set!"

Hong Ying was a bit hesitant too: "There’s so much writing and drawing, don’t blame me if I copy it wrong."

The phonograph laughed: "Silly girl, how could I bear to blame you? If you really copy it wrong, I’d beat you to death on the spot!"

The phonograph started transcribing with the phonograph needle dipped in ink.

Hong Ying picked up a pen and started copying as well.

Even Li Banfeng wasn’t slow, writing even faster than the phonograph and Hong Ying, having studied in the Outside Provinces, he was more knowledgeable about their knowledge.

The Clock Pendulum, Meng De, and the projector also came to help, but the Music Box was too slow, wanting to help but unable to make much effort.

The glove was quick, but its literacy was limited, making copying exceptionally difficult.

The Sickle, Tang Sword, Teapot, and Wine Gourd weren’t good at copying, assisting on the side with binding instead.

After working for five hours, they barely copied half of it.

At this rate, they wouldn’t finish copying it tonight.

The projector reminded: "Seventh Guide, we better leave the archive room before dawn."

This was serious business, and since they wouldn’t finish copying it tonight anyway, Li Banfeng didn’t want to push his luck. He organized the copied materials once through, planning to finish copying the rest next time.