The room, filled with a metallic texture and covering more than 200 square meters, had walls lined with a central control screen. In the middle were rows of desks equipped with computers.
A team of thirty-six experts was diligently trying to decrypt that piece of candy wrapped in sugar paper.
Lacking sleep for an extended period, everyone appeared fatigued; their skin was loose and dry. More than half of them had shiny scalps under the lights.
After swiping his card to enter, Liu Yichong, like a harbinger of doom, walked directly to a woman with a ponytail in the front row of the central control screen.
"Qiao, Elder Chen asked me to check on your progress. Elder Chen said you've already spent two days and also mentioned the supercomputer."
