The stairs of the Liaison Department go down, and the entire room has a three-story structure. A large number of screens occupy almost all the wall space. Although there are no connecting wires, the place does not look too cluttered, but the black and white ones on the screen The colorful images really send chills down your spine.
Part of the image could even be seen clearly. In fact, it was worse than not being able to see clearly. Lu Ning could see some painful and ferocious signs of death, and the camera was even facing the face of the deceased, slowing down at about one-tenth of the speed. Pictures of their deaths.
"Wouldn't it be crazy to work in a place like this?" Zhu Qinyuan couldn't help but said, "I can't stand facing a screen like this for a day."
"Maybe it wasn't like this originally. Liaison Department...let me take a look." Jean looked at the signboard on the third floor. "This floor is for internal liaison, the floor below is for external liaison, and the bottom floor is for processing. Ministry liaison.”
"Why should the processing department be listed separately?" Yuan Jie asked strangely.
"It's probably something special. Is anyone following me to go down and have a look?" Jean walked towards the stairs going down. Yuan Jie and Lian Bisheng followed immediately, while Lu Ning and the other three stayed on this floor.
Ignore the screens, this place looks more like a normal command center. Lu Ning found a cardboard box from a cabinet, which was filled with video tapes, and the numbers on it were different. She took out a few video tapes with doubts, but when her fingers touched the lower layer, a gray liquid suddenly flew out from her sleeve. At the same time, a screen on the wall suddenly turned into color and began to get bigger and bigger. Yan Rong and Zhu Qinyuan immediately pulled out their weapons and tried to attack the screen. Unexpectedly, the weapons sank directly into the screen, and then the three people were also enlarged. The screen swallowed it.
They returned to the entrance, and the short aisle remained unchanged, except for some more lively decorations. Lu Ning blinked, feeling that the colors of this world were dull, like a slightly overexposed photo.
[I have heard about Vera, the youngest genius scientist in history. Her fame is even known to some illiterate old people in the countryside. Now, I think I need to visit her. 】
A voice sounded like a narrator, a young and majestic male voice. Lu Ning turned her head. A man had just entered and was passing by the aisle. The man's face was not particularly clear, and he wore a crown on his head. In an instant, the three of them knew that this might be the rumored king.
The king passed through Lu Ning's shoulder without touching her. This shows that unlike what suddenly appeared yesterday, this time they are really nothing.
"Follow us and take a look." Zhu Qinyuan has already cheered up. The abnormal situation may be related to the treasure. If it is really the treasure, then the trip will be worthwhile.
[It was a gloomy afternoon when I walked into Vera’s research institute. It is said that this place did belong to Vera personally at first. Occasionally she would go to a nearby town to eat some food, but most of the time the institute was self-sufficient. If this is the case, then the scientist may have been able to construct a miniature ecological cycle. 】
A researcher appeared in front of him. The reason why he appeared was because this person suddenly appeared after the king approached. There was no one there before.
"Only relevant ones will be displayed..." Lu Ning whispered. The king and the researcher were obviously talking, but no sound came out. I don't know if it was because the treasure was set like this or because there was something wrong with the image.
Soon, the researcher opened a door on the side of the large room and ran in with excitement on his face. For Lu Ning and others, the most surprising thing is that there is actually a door in this place.
"Huh? Wait, wait, there is a door here? How did he open it?" Yan Rong rushed to the wall and touched it carefully a few times. The door and the wall were so tightly attached that it was impossible to tell. No wonder No one had noticed it before.
"We can come back and try after we solve the treasure here, but I think it will probably require some identity verification." Lu Ning said. Now the king has found a seat and sat down. There is no one else around him, probably because he has not had any communication with him.
Soon, the wall door opened again, and the researcher came out with a brown-haired woman wearing a green plush sweater and a white researcher uniform. She looked really young, she seemed to be less than 2 years old. Ten years old, with a confident and proud smile on his face, his hands in his pockets, and his steps brisk. There is an ID tag on her chest. Unlike the researcher who only had a number, this ID tag has a name on it - Vera.
[Vera is similar to many geniuses I have seen. She has extraordinary intelligence and strong self-confidence. Even if she faces me, she will not let her head lower. I admire people like this very much. Really talented people are qualified to act like this. Maybe I made the right choice. 】
The researcher introduced the king to Vera and then disappeared like smoke, indicating that he was no longer important in this image.
The king and Vera started a conversation. Everyone couldn't see the king's face clearly, so naturally they didn't know what the king said. As for Vera, it was a bit difficult to read her lips.
Fortunately, the "narrator" can still summarize it.
[I asked her if she would be willing to take on one of the most obscure research topics in this country that I brought. She was scornful, of course, in all her previous research she had encountered no obstacles... but this was different. Time is an eternal problem in scientific research, and what I bring is not a single problem, but the time phenomenon that occurs everywhere in the entire country. 】
Vera took the two reports in envelopes from the past. During the reading process, she finally slowly frowned, but it only took a moment before she relaxed her brows.
[She told me that it was indeed a little challenging, but not to the point where it was too much for her. I laughed, Vera was indeed the one I had been looking for and I should leave this to her. 】
The king stood up and seemed to be asking Vera questions one by one, and Vera answered them while reading the report. The communication between the two became more and more fluent. The three people watching could only try to read some words from Vera. . After about five minutes, the king sat down again, and Vera put the envelope back on the table.
[There is only one thing, her researcher will not leave the institute, she needs me to bring those phenomena to the institute. I hadn't even thought about this method before, and Vera provided some tools that she made that allowed me to have someone cut up and bring this whole area with the phenomenon of time up here. She is an unexpected scientist, and only such a person can eliminate the time disasters in our country one by one. 】
After the two saluted each other, the king walked down the aisle and quickly disappeared through the door.
"I have a bad feeling." Yan Rong said.
"Same feeling." Lu Ning and Zhu Qinyuan nodded together.
Everything around him once again turned into black and white speckled with snowflakes. After the harsh sound of electric current for about ten seconds, the scenery returned to normal. The furnishings in the research institute did not change much, but some moved slightly. Vera Standing next to the coffee machine in the large room, not wearing the white coat this time, holding a cup of coffee and trying to cool it down. She looked a little less radiant, and the faint traces of dark circles under her eyes could already be seen. At this time, there were also many busy researchers around her.
Lu Ning saw someone pushing a hospital-style medical bed from the research department. These people were wearing yellow-green uniforms that were different from ordinary uniforms. Their whole bodies were wrapped tightly, and the medical bed was covered with The cloth was stained with large chunks of blood.
[It was three years later that I visited Vera again. I did not expect to see such a scene. Did this peaceful institute bring disaster? Did I overestimate Vera's abilities? Perhaps there was a glimmer of this thought in my expression, and someone as smart as Vera quickly noticed it and scolded me. 】
The king's voice had a hint of a wry smile. At this time, the king at the door also came in again. He greeted Vera, but soon as the narrator said, Vera pointed at the king and said a lot of things loudly, speaking very fast. This time Lu Ning and the other three couldn't tell what she was scolding.
【It was my fault. In the past three years, Vera's research institute has been extremely efficient in researching, extracting and reusing all time phenomena. The average solution time is sixteen days. When the gratifying research results were continuously sent to my desk, I just took it for granted that everything went very smoothly. But I forgot that a proud person like Vera would figure it out on her own no matter what she encountered. She never asked for help, so I thought she didn’t need any help. 】
While listening to the king's words, Lu Ning approached a person who was transporting a medical bed. She got close to the person. She originally wanted to see what was there based on her current state, but unexpectedly she thought she was part of that person. After they overlapped, there was suddenly a suction force that pulled me into that person's body, and the surrounding scenery instantly became real. She could smell the sweat and blood in this man's mask, and could also hear the voices of the two people talking over there.
"...We don't need any financial assistance or manpower assistance! Are you pitying us? After the results we sent have made your army's strength rise a few levels again?"
"Vera, I just saw a tragedy, and I don't want it to happen again. You never said how many casualties there will be here."
"Casualties? Who told you there were casualties?" Vera strode over. Lu Ning felt herself being knocked away by her. Then she grabbed the white cloth on the medical bed and pulled it. There were a lot of meat underneath, without bones. But many parts look distinctly human.
"Tell me what happened and what you need to stop it. Life should not be sacrificed like this, Vera, I recognize your results, but the price of this research is also too high."
"When you stuffed those weird phenomena over, didn't you notice anything? King?" Vera said loudly, "You must understand how dangerous those things are, and you can do it without paying anything in the process. Get everything that’s on your desk? Do you really think so?”
"I thought your intelligence could find a safe way, but apparently this is not the case," said the king.
"This is indeed a safe method." Vera covered the white cloth back and looked at the king again. "We have made multiple classifications of the time phenomena you sent. During the research process, we have already developed a complete set of observation methods. Carefully study each phenomenon and the laws reflected behind it in a way that is most consistent with scientific research methods."
"Why are there such mutilated bodies?"
"Among the recent batch of phenomena sent over, the observation results of 'non-normal observation scatter'. We must master some basic properties before we can incorporate them into our research methods, and there are many of these phenomena that observers are prone to instantly. Killing stuff."
"Killed instantly?"
"Yes, he was scattered the moment he completed the observation log. Only part of him fell back into the world here, so he became like this." Vera pointed to the medical bed, "Like this It happens every day.”
"Every day? You've been working on it for three years."
"So everyone here is dying repeatedly." Vera's tone became gloomier. "I have to have a group of people responsible for cleaning up these corpses. Not everyone can adapt to using the leftovers of people they originally knew. Deal with it in the cleanest and most thorough way, and then see him standing in front of you alive again tomorrow."
"...You just say it like this?"
"Everyone in the processing department will perform regular memory clearing to reduce psychological pressure. The dead people will not have that part of the memory after using time series technology to restore it. At most, they will learn from the log that they died once, and they will not face it directly. The response is much lighter.”
"It sounds like you need some psychological relief," the king said.
"It's useless. I have studied psychology myself. Under the most intuitive stimulation of life and death, ordinary counseling will soon become ineffective. We can only wait for them to become numb sooner or later."
The king was silent for a moment and asked: "How long will such a round... take?"
The man possessed by Lu Ning pushed the medical cart and started walking towards the corridor of the processing department.
"On average every thirty days."
There were only countless white cloths in the corridor of the processing department, like white funeral streamers. Lu Ning suddenly felt that her body disappeared. It was obvious that she was too far away from the central area. She finally broke away from it and hurried back to the wide room.
[I told Vera that the project should be terminated and that I would find someone else to share the pressure. But Vera refused. She said that only her research institute could solve these phenomena now. Even someone as talented as herself would not be able to get used to all this in a short period of time. Her usual exaggeration and pride deceived me again... She had a vague concept that the cycle of life and death that occurred in this institute did not include herself. 】
- Will she collapse?
Lu Ning was horrified.
