LORD OF THE SKY CITY

Chapter 580: Chapter 543: Vanished into Thin Air Chapter 580: Chapter 543: Vanished into Thin Air The content of the third diary entry is very concentrated, with the entire focus on research.

An entire month had passed between the second and third diary entries. Over such a long time, the mentality of the researcher who wrote this diary had noticeably changed. He no longer fixated on anything else, his sole desire now was to complete the research as quickly as possible, because only by doing so could everyone survive.

However, from the latter half of the diary, it seemed that although the research was progressing relatively smoothly, it had encountered an unexpected difficulty— a shortage of supplies.

Thinking about it, this shouldn’t really be a surprise. The time noted for the first diary entry was a month after Kasin City had been occupied by the demons, and the third diary entry was written almost one and a half months after the first entry, which means that at the time the third entry was written, people had already been in this research institute for over two months. Therefore, even if they had stockpiled supplies beforehand, after such a long time, they would definitely have been almost completely used up.

This situation clearly worried the researcher who wrote this diary. But from what he wrote at the end, the king of the Wanzhong Kingdom seemed to have found a solution— using the newly invented skyship for resupply. This diary was written a century ago, at a time when Sky City and skyships had just been successfully developed, so calling them the latest inventions seemed to make sense.

So, does that mean that, after receiving the supplies, the research institute had completed its research?

This thought weighed heavily on Rocky, because if the research here had been successful, wouldn’t that mean this place was now completely empty? After all, if the research conducted here was as powerful as the diary suggested, the people here would certainly have left after its completion!

With this in mind, he immediately turned to the next diary entry.

“Era 1018, July 20, written half a month after the previous entry.”

“Half a month has passed, and the promised supplies still haven’t arrived. All research has now come to a complete halt, and not only that, but we’re almost out of living essentials. Why haven’t the supplies arrived yet? We can barely hold on!”

“Era 1018, July 30, written ten days after the last entry.”

“It’s over…”

“All is lost…”

“Although the director is trying hard to conceal the news, I’ve heard that the kingdom’s capital has fallen, the king is dead, and we’re finished…”

When Rocky flipped to the next entry, he only saw a few brief lines, and then all the content of the diary came to an end.

While the diary ended abruptly, having read the last two entries allowed Rocky to piece together the sequence of events.

As the demons occupied Kasin City, a certain research project was underway here, and it was precisely because of this that the people here survived.

This research project was also the very reason the king of the Wanzhong Kingdom chose to stay on the land rather than seek refuge in Sky City, clearly believing that his research was better and safer than Sky City. Hence, he gave up the opportunity to go there and chose to stay on land.

This research was naturally not just underway in a single institute in Kasin City, but across the entire network of the Wanzhong Kingdom’s research facilities, as other institutes were mentioned in the third diary entry. In other words, this was a major national project!

However, towards the end of the project, they encountered the difficulty of insufficient supplies. The king had intended to use the newly invented skyships to provide aerial resupply, but for some unknown reason, this plan wasn’t successful. Meanwhile, the kingdom’s capital fell to the demons, the king died, and it seemed from the contents of the last diary entry, that the research institute, particularly its people, without supplies, most certainly perished.

While some specific details might still be unclear, Rocky believed his deductions to be quite reliable based on the content of the diary and the descriptions of the Wanzhong Kingdom by Aniye and others.

Of course, this wasn’t the most important part; what mattered was, if everyone here had been trapped and died in the research institute, then does it mean that their nearly completed invention is still here?

That was the real crux!

With this thought, Rocky immediately left the room with the diary and contacted Karina.

“Karina, I’ve made a discovery.”

“Good, I’ll come over right away.”

After replying through the communicator, Karina, who had already checked half the floor, immediately headed to Rocky’s location, and they met up without much delay.

“What did you find?”

“This, take a look.”

Without saying much else, Rocky passed the diary straight to her.

As Karina took the diary and quickly flipped through it, she finished reading it in a short while, then briskly lifted her helmet, looking at Rocky with a face full of astonishment.

“This place is a research institute?”

It was no wonder that Karina was so surprised after reading the diary; while Rocky had been engrossed in reading, she had already checked half the rooms on the top floor, but hadn’t found any sign that this place resembled a research institute.

“The diary wouldn’t lie, let’s keep searching, head down to the lower floors.”

In fact, Rocky was also puzzled, as he too had not perceived this place as a research institute before finding the diary, even though he had only checked two rooms. But, as he said, diaries don’t lie; perhaps the level they were on was just a resting area and the real research area was below.

The research institute had three floors in total. Since they had entered from the sky, they arrived at the third floor first, but then they found the stairs to the second floor and quickly descended.

Upon reaching the second floor, they immediately began searching separately, and in no time, they had swept through the entire second floor, still without discovery.

This was indeed a research institute because they had found some experimental equipment during their search of the second floor, but they still hadn’t found any research labs. Faced with this, they promptly moved to the ground floor.

If nothing was discovered on the third and second floors, then undoubtedly all the answers were on the ground floor.

However, what both of them hadn’t expected was that when they rushed down to the ground floor, they didn’t see the anticipated research labs. The ground floor of the research institute was a vast hall with nothing but magic circles on the walls and floor, utterly devoid of any research labs!

What was going on?

How could this research institute have no research labs?!

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