章 172: The missing element (double chapter)

"Why is nothing happening?"

This one question accompanied me as I slowly turned the knob one step at a time, all the way to the point where I could turn it no more.

"It's the same as before," Claire reported from behind, "the batteries are not loading anymore, which means…"

I took a deep breath before sighing it away.

"Which means no spiritual energy is reaching Chihiro's reverse Qi converters," I finished Claire's sentence just to indicate I already knew what she was talking about.

This was the only thing that changed as I moved the sixth knob across all of its steps.

Before I first touched it, the factory was already operating on the same level of electricity as back when the disaster nearly struck, given how the whole circuit was separated in two and how we closed only one of them.