Two days earlier.
Jeming and Viola followed behind Professor Clark, passing through the side door of the command room, walking deeper along the corridor.
When they reached the end of the corridor, Clark stopped in front of a seemingly ordinary metal wall.
He raised his hand and gently pressed a spot on the wall.
The wall, as if released from some illusion technique, silently opened a hidden door just wide enough for one person to pass through.
Behind the door was an extremely simple device, presumably an elevator.
Though calling it an "elevator" was pitiful—it was merely a metal platform, surrounded by a deep shaft, with nothing but endless darkness above and below.
Clark stepped onto it first.
Viola followed closely, not forgetting to give Jeming a look that said, "Don't just stand there."
Jeming took a deep breath and stepped onto the platform.
After Clark confirmed the permissions with the array on the platform, it began to descend.
