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Xu Shuo returned to the university bathroom just as the Character Card's duration ended, and he regained his original appearance.

Although this world is not purely a traditional script, the Script Space still restricts the players' own abilities—perhaps due to the characteristics of New Humans, the players could only use their Character Card.

Luckily he had plenty of Character Cards.

Xu Shuo put on his glasses that had been set aside, then flushed the toilet, picked up the electronic tablet and left the stall.
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The electronic tablet distributed by the university could also be considered a type of Micro-end, only its six-inch size wasn't as portable as the Micro-ends, and its computing power wasn't as strong as the new Micro-ends, making it a tool that had been phased out.

The students used it for classes, but for normal communication and fun, they still used the new-style Micro-ends.

But this thing was indeed popular in the Historical Department, just as Wei Ya said, there were a lot of old antiques in this department.

As those students would complain, "Studying old antiques so much that their brains have turned into antiques," how else could they be so inflexible?

With technology advancing day by day, who would still like to use such cumbersome and inconvenient things? It truly was like seeking unnecessary trouble.

Except for the old antiques.

Xu Shuo headed to the office building while looking at the tablet, he exited the travel post, surfed around the campus network for a while, and saw a lot of people's complaints about it.

But indeed, the tablet was more secure.

After having learned that the Micro-ends are connected to brain neurons, he somewhat understood why Professor Li wouldn't use that thing.

Among the New Humans, Wei Ya even had the ability to read data; would that not mean, there might be ones who could control the nervous system through Micro-ends?

It can't be certain.

After exiting the campus network, Xu Shuo entered the secret chat room, opened the data packet sent by Wei Ya, and silently read it while walking.

It wasn't until he had absorbed the mass of intelligence and gained a clear understanding of both the New An Bureau and the New Humans that Xu Shuo suddenly felt something was off.

Why was he still wandering around the campus?

Coming out from the bathroom and looking at the materials for at least half an hour, he still hadn't reached the teachers' office building!

Xu Shuo looked up at the neatly arranged campus path in front of him, then at the surrounding high-rise buildings' layout, and suddenly felt a bit disoriented... Where was this?

Wait, why was he lost?

It must be because he was too engrossed in the tablet earlier and hadn't paid attention to the path.

After a moment of confusion, Xu Shuo opened the map on his glasses, zoomed out to check his current location compared to the location of Office Building No. 9, memorized the road and then steered the scooter towards it.

Beyond the Historical Department's building, the other departments' buildings were all very tall, with a futuristic exterior.

But seen within the entire campus, these high-aspiring skyscrapers seemed somewhat monotonous. Even the flowers, grass, and green leaves scattered across the campus paths couldn't dilute that cold, rigid feeling.

Xu Shuo passed these high rises, weaving through the campus paths for a while, then suddenly stopped again.

He opened the map on his glasses to check.

"..."

He had completely deviated from the route back he had planned earlier and now didn't know where he had turned.

Xu Shuo stood in silence.

Why, after a simple outing and return, had he suddenly lost his sense of direction?

When he had just entered the game earlier, he knew the routes very clearly; even the bathroom he had passed after finishing his lecture was accurately directed towards the office building.

Direction sense can sometimes be a very metaphysical thing.

Xu Shuo sighed, decided to let the scooter directly take him to the office building, but then suddenly remembered—since the scooter wasn't connected to a Micro-end, it only had a transport function and was not equipped with online navigation.

Xu Shuo: "..."

He simply opened the map on his glasses, kept an eye on the screen in front of him as he walked, and when he reached a fork in the road, he figured out which way to turn.

In this manner, stumbling along while focusing on the map, with his eyes sore, he finally found the sign for Office Building No. 9!

Xu Shuo hurriedly made his way back to the office and locked the door behind him.

Then he sat down in the chair, turned on the tablet, and entered the chat to poke the tortoiseshell cat's avatar.

Orange Cat: [Is there a way to enter the New An Bureau's internal system?]

The information Wei Ya had packaged was limited after all; the New An Bureau had been developing for over two hundred years, and it was impossible to copy all the information in a short time, nor was it necessary.

After a while, the tortoiseshell cat sent over a link.

Tortoiseshell Cat: [Valid for half an hour, if you haven't finished, contact me for another link, can't keep this open for long.]

Siamese Cat: [Wow~ what kind of resource is this?]

Tortoiseshell Cat: [ExplodeDogHead.flash]

Xu Shuo ignored the chat room discussion and quickly clicked on the link.

In a moment, a new window popped up on the tablet; a white background window outlined a black cat's pattern, and it took a few more seconds before a login channel appeared.

[Please enter your extraction code.]

Xu Shuo: "..."

Wei Ya hadn't mentioned this, but after thinking about it, Xu Shuo typed in the words "Orange Cat."

The next moment, the New An Bureau's page appeared.

The internal system of New An Bureau had records of many New Humans and their abilities, and Xu Shuo used the search function to find "Jieta's" details, then clicked to access them.

Under this code name indeed were Professor Li's details.

All the information recorded, detailing every aspect of his life from kindergarten to university graduation and finally joining Huai'an Industrial University as a lecturer, was marked with a red circle indicating top secret.

There were many members of New An Bureau, but New Humans with special code names were rare.

Professor Li's recognition and acquisition of a code name might not only be due to his fifty years of service but also due to his abilities like "Thought Transmission," "Mind Reading Technique," and "Memory Storage."

But, there are side effects to using abilities excessively...

Space jumping can lead to an imbalance in spatial cognition abilities, commonly known as a poor sense of direction, while the Mind Reading Technique can cause facial recognition disorder, commonly referred to as face blindness.

Therefore, superpowers cannot be used frequently.

Xu Shuo: "..."

He looked on; only Memory Storage seemed to have no issues, probably because it was a common skill even ordinary people possessed, where they could remember everything at a glance.

Forget it; in any case, these side effects only become apparent after he had used his abilities, and at least they were not permanent.

Xu Shuo rubbed his forehead, exited his own details, and while staring at the New An Bureau's system page, something suddenly occurred to him.

Thinking of his own code name and those of his teammates, Xu Shuo tentatively entered "Alpha" into the file search bar.

[The target you are trying to access does not exist.]

No "Alpha"...

Perhaps, the founder had destroyed that piece of information.

Xu Shuo then entered "Omega."

This time, details did pop up, stamped with the red top-secret circle like "Jieta's," and the personal file avatar showed a woman whose life experiences were meticulously documented from childhood.

Moreover, her identity was actually the Deputy Director of New An Bureau, Marcia Celo Morales.

Omega had only one ability.

It was called "True Illusion."

Read as reality, written as falsehood.

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