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The evening exploration did not go well.

In order not to miss any clues, their plan was to filter them one by one from the 19th floor upwards. But unlike what they imagined, there were still various office rooms from the 19th floor upwards, including information rooms and large exhibition halls.

The two randomly picked an office and sneaked into it, looked through the documents, and understood that the reason why there are no floors marked above the 19th floor is that the work here involves a large amount of business data, and many projects cannot be disclosed to the public.

Before Lin Wu died, his background was similar to the identity given in this mission world. He had been a military doctor for several years, and also went to third world countries with the army to face wars. He was good at many things.

Coupled with the accumulation of world after world after entering the system tower, the ability to survive has reached the extreme.

But he really didn’t have much opportunity to come into contact with the work projects and business information in the Peace World Company. Not to mention You Xi, before binding the Star House to start the apocalyptic mission, he was a painter working from home, and the documents he had the most contact with in his life were painting appointments.

protocol.

The two of them flipped through the documents, unable to get any more information from them.

Starting from the 15th floor, there are various suite-like lounges, which are provided for senior scientific researchers to stay and rest.

They went all the way to the 31st floor and hid in the stairwell without going out rashly.

The internal structure here is obviously different from the one below. The corridor is spacious. In the middle is a glass greenhouse with lush greenery. It is built around the central hollow area. There are even some small animals in it. The ceiling height is twice that of the floor below. It seems to be

Combine the two layers and make one layer.

The security measures here are obviously different from those on the 30th floor below. Even the uniforms of the security guards are different. They are not ordinary suits and trousers, but explosion-proof suits similar to those of members of the army. From helmets to vests to joints, they are strictly protected, and the individual

Each is equipped with a swing stick.

You Xi and Lin Wu looked at each other silently in the darkness. He didn't know if the virus software he placed in the monitoring center below could block the cameras here.

To be on the safe side, they waited there for a while. During this period, Lin Wu took out an electric shock baton and handed it to her. When the security guard patrolling the building passed by, he dragged the people in one by one to knock them unconscious, and then went to the tool room in the lower stairwell.

He took off the two people's explosion-proof suits, gagged their mouths and tied them up, and placed them in a blind corner of the item rack.

You Xi and the two quickly put on their explosion-proof suits, took away the sticks and their passes, pretended to be security guards and began to patrol the area openly.

Starting from this floor, there are various laboratories. Some laboratories have large glass windows near the corridors, so you can see inside at a glance.

At this time, most of the laboratory lights were dimmed, leaving only the dim light of some instruments.

Some laboratory windows were opened very small, and You Xi heard rustling sounds inside, which were the sounds of animals moving in cages.

She even heard the sound of human breathing in several laboratories. Through the narrow windows, they caught a glimpse of figures lying on the test bench. Some of them were wearing metal helmets with many data cables connected to them.

There are a lot of instruments here that she has never seen before. They have a high-tech feel and she has no idea what experiments are being conducted.

The two endured their inner discomfort and checked each room, finally feeling that none of these were the hidden laboratories they were looking for.

Although ordinary people cannot get here, and the research situation in the laboratory is unknown, all the laboratories are neatly arranged in a ring around the green plant greenhouse in the middle, which is clearly visible at a glance and cannot be hidden.

The upward elevators here are separated from the floors below, and the same goes for the safety stairs. Even if an average person reaches the 31st floor by mistake, they will be discovered by the security guards immediately and asked to go down.

The two of them found the safe stairs going up, and when they were about to leave this floor and continue going up, You Xi turned back and looked at the central greenhouse.

"What's wrong?" Lin Wu asked in a low voice.

"There seems to be something... looking at me." You Xi frowned. Her five senses are too sharp and sometimes have errors. Occasionally, the slightest movement will bring strong feedback to her. "There are animals in the greenhouse, probably

I misunderstood."

From the 31st floor to the 40th floor, every two floors are one floor inside, for a total of five floors, all of which are equipped with various laboratories and laboratories. There are specialized laboratories here for almost all scientific research projects that the company is involved in.

When the two of them arrived at the forty-first floor, they suddenly felt enlightened.

On this floor, the entire space is connected from top to bottom. There is still a botanical garden in the center. There are tables and chairs in a circle near the floor-to-ceiling glass. It looks like a coffee and leisure area with a view.

But this area should only be open to high-level personnel and senior scientific researchers.

There are no glass greenhouses around the botanical garden here, it is an open area. The landscaping in the middle of the botanical garden is extremely fashionable and gorgeous, full of futuristic technology. From low to high are square plant stairs that shrink one by one, much like a small pyramid, layered on top of each other.

On each level, various plants are planted or hung.

The higher you go up, the smaller the pyramid becomes until it is connected to the ceiling at the top of the building.

There are no floors going up here, and the internal space of the upward-facing building is all opened up, forming an overall sky attic.

There is even a small waterfall here. The surrounding lights are dimmed and it is very quiet. The sound of the water when the small waterfall falls can be clearly heard.

Neither You Xi nor Lin Wu expected that the interior of the forty-first floor would actually be such a space. Apart from the coffee and leisure area and the botanical garden, there were no other rooms. You could directly see the glass walls surrounding the building. It was impossible to have such a space.

What a hidden laboratory.

"That's it." You Xi looked around, "Is the laboratory not upstairs, but underneath the building?"

"Are you talking about the underground space? There are no restrictions on the downward direction of the building. I checked it on the first day I came here. There are no secret passages in the entire underground parking lot. I also checked the elevator room and there is nothing unusual."

Lin Wu thought for a moment and then asked, "Is it possible that the hidden laboratory is not in this building?"

"No, because the prompt clearly says 'Explore the Ruoai Technology Building'." You Xi glanced at his phone. The time for the virus software to interfere is almost up. If he continues to stay here, he may be caught by cameras when he goes downstairs.

Caught.

The fact that the hidden laboratory has not been found now means that they have to continue to stay in "Ruai" and they cannot be exposed yet.

Lin Wu knew what she was thinking, and the two of them had a tacit understanding and unanimously decided to withdraw first.

They quickly returned to the 31st floor and returned to the tool room via the external stairwell. The two security guards were still where they were, but they looked like they were about to wake up.

You Xi and Lin Wu quickly took off their explosion-proof suits, put them back on, placed them inside the stairwell door, and then quickly went downstairs.

This transfer quickly woke up the two security guards.

The two of them were shocked at first, and their expressions changed greatly when they thought about the possible consequences of neglecting their duties. Then they soon discovered that their weapons and access cards were still where they were, and nothing was lost, and they each breathed a sigh of relief.

"What just happened?"

"Shh, don't talk, nothing happened." Another security guard immediately signaled the other person to stop talking, "Nothing was lost, no one noticed, it's just that nothing happened."

"But--"

"But what, do you want to be transferred inside? People who go inside never come out again..."

Another person thought of those rumors, and his face suddenly changed: "But... the situation outside is not very good now, and it has happened near where I live... several times, Brother Ying said it last time when he had dinner in the security room

, things have already gotten out of control, and the situation will only get worse..."

"Brother Ying? Then why don't you think about it, have you ever seen Brother Ying again since he said these words?"

"Didn't you say you resigned?"

"Oh, resigning? You are too naive."

"Did he be taken...inside?"

"Shh."

"What should I do? I'm afraid..."

"It's not safe outside now, so just stay quiet for now and remember to keep a low profile..."

Two floors down, You Xi and Lin Wu, who had not yet left, looked at each other.

in?

The next morning, the two of them sat in a corner of the coffee shop and reorganized the clues at hand.

You Xi glanced at the "Ruai" building diagonally across the road. Under the sun, the all-glass walled building towered into the clouds, gorgeous and dazzling.

She counted the grids of the glass wall layer by layer, drawing lightly on the paper with the pen in her hand, and soon the three-dimensional structural diagram of the entire building appeared on the paper.

She even clearly marked the locations of elevators and stairwells.

Lin Wu also came over to look at the three-dimensional diagram she drew, and at the same time reviewed the route of action last night.

In fact, the entire "Ruai" building is almost transparent with no blind spots. The exterior walls are all glass and the interior is hollow. The only places where hidden laboratories may exist are on the 31st to 40th floors.

Lin Wu clicked on this part of the floor: "Think of a way to check again in the past two days. If it doesn't work, go to confirm the station first. Together, we have four confirmation opportunities. The situation in the city is getting worse. If there is really chaos outside,

Veteran passengers will take advantage of the chaos to snatch resources and intercept and kill novice passengers, which will make it more troublesome to find and confirm the station."

You Xi nodded. The reason why Lin Wu said this was because before early in the morning, more than a dozen malicious and hurtful videos were released on several online platforms at the same time.

Although these videos were quickly blocked afterwards, as the two security guards said, things had begun to get out of control.

No matter the people of "Ruai" or the official people, they can no longer rush to the scene of the incident as quickly as before, because the "Mirror World" appears frequently and more and more people are affected.

Anyone who sees someone who attacks others crazily like that around them will be panicked and frightened.

The more people are afraid and panicked, the greater the chance that the "Mirror World" will be triggered. This is a vicious cycle, and the collapse of order will happen sooner or later.

While Lin Wu was studying the 31st to 40th floors, You Xi's eyes fell on the 41st floor not far away. She liked drawing, and she also had strong logical skills and a good sense of spatial structure.

keen.

She was now looking at the nine highest floors of "Love" from the outside, and she always felt that it was a bit inconsistent with the feeling they had last night when they were in the mid-air landscaping space.

After a moment, she suddenly murmured: "Two layers are missing."

"What?"

You Xi looked down at the three-dimensional structure diagram on the paper again, and the pen tip landed on the forty-first floor: "Here, the internal half-empty landscaping space we went to last night is shorter than the actual external floors. Each floor of this building

It’s about 28 meters. There are nine floors from the 41st to the 49th floor. The height should be about 25 meters, but the inner space of the mid-air landscaping last night will definitely not be more than 10 meters high.”
To be continued...