Pei Mengqing looked at Dongfang Xiaoyu, Juju and the others and felt that one and a half months was too sensitive.
It seems that the severe cold crisis and zombie siege in Tianhe County began to take shape about a month and a half ago.
"Oh, no problem. I have the key to the director's office here." Zhao Jieli nodded and replied.
"I would like to ask, why do you have the key to the director's office?" Pei Mengqing asked.
Could it be that this Researcher Zhao is the director’s brother-in-law? So he was given free access to the entire institute?
It is not impossible. After all, it took a long time to complete the research on the thermometer. If there was no support from others behind it, I am afraid that Researcher Zhao and his colleagues would have been kicked out of the institute for "cheating funds".
"Oh, after Director Shen left, we talked with Elder Shen in the central area. Because there are some equipment that need to be used, we need to apply with the director. Some potentially dangerous experiments also need to be applied with the director, so Elder Shen gave I was given the key to the director's office and asked me to handle the applications on my behalf, and then my application was submitted directly to Elder Shen." Zhao Jieli looked a little proud.
"So, you are now equivalent to the acting director?" Pei Mengqing complimented.
"It's okay, okay, Teacher Pei has received the award. If you have any more good projects, remember to come to me."
"Definitely, definitely, but are Director Shen and Elder Shen related? This surname doesn't seem to be a common surname in Yanzhou and Yuzhou?" Pei Mengqing asked insinuatingly.
"Well, Director Shen is Elder Shen's nephew, and Director Shen's father is Elder Shen's younger brother. But because Director Shen's father died early, Elder Shen has always been like his own father, helping his younger brother raise the children." Zhao Jieli He knew quite a lot, so he told the matter directly.
This is not a secret, after all, almost all researchers at Yanzhou University know about it.
Pei Mengqing has already rehearsed a series of ethical dramas in her mind.
Why did his younger brother die early and leave a posthumous son? Elder Shen lived up to his trust and took care of the orphans and widowed mother. Even the posthumous son was the child of Elder Shen who had no regard for ethics and morals and his sister-in-law...
"It's not easy for Elder Shen. He has many children, and he has to raise them. After his younger brother died, his sister-in-law abandoned the children and remarried. At that time, the salary of the faculty and staff of Yanzhou University was not high. Elder Shen had five children in his family, and he had to support his younger brother. The children are under great financial pressure.
"Without money to buy food, Elder Shen went hunting in the surrounding forests to support his family. The same goes for Elder Shen's wife. I heard that Elder Shen held his breath in order to receive more salary because of excessive financial pressure. This I just reached Qixing Star!"
Zhao Jieli told the story of Elder Shen, directly breaking the ethical drama that Pei Mengqing had imagined.
What made him even more unexpected was that the breakthrough from Xuanqi level to Qi level was actually due to financial pressure...
So can this also allow people to break through? How much financial pressure is this? But with six children, it’s understandable.
The key was inserted into the keyhole and the door to the director's office on the first floor was quickly opened.
As soon as the door opened, a blast of cold air hit my face.
Even people like Pei Mengqing, who were not afraid of the cold and heat, shuddered.
"Why is it so cold? Are the windows open?" Zhao Jieli hugged his arms and started to shiver.
"No, the window is closed." Pei Mengqing pointed to the window, "There are no gaps in the wall. This is the coldest place."
He quickly adjusted his condition and entered the room. He found that unlike other offices and research rooms, the entire place was covered with frost.
The floor, desk, and window glass were all covered with frost.
This temperature was just like the temperature before Pei Mengqing lit the candle.
Pei Mengqing took out the thermometer and put it on the desk. Soon, Pei Mengqing saw the temperature display "minus thirty-five degrees".
He didn't know how different this minus thirty-five degrees was from his original world, but if there was a difference in this temperature, it was probably only a few degrees.
"No wonder the director is not here. He went out for a meeting. It turns out that he can't stay in the office." Zhao Jieli was still in the mood to joke.
But Pei Mengqing and the others looked serious.
This is nothing to joke about.
The severe cold spread from here, and somehow evenly spread to the entire Tianhe County and the surrounding area of dozens of miles.
Rather than freezing the institute and the central area where it is located.
It seems that the ferocious beast below did this intentionally.
"Tell me, do the elders and the principal who has never seen the dragon know that there is a ferocious beast down here that represents the cold winter?"
Pei Mengqing transmitted the message to Xiaori and the others through the spiritual bubble.
"Probably? But no one can be sure. Why don't you ask Elder Liu? After all, according to the information you got, this is a ferocious beast in the middle stage of the combined level." Xiaori replied.
When she thought of such a powerful beast sealed in the ground beneath her feet, Xiaori felt cold all over. Even her golden hair that looked like sunlight couldn't warm it.
Combined level, even if they join forces, they can't defeat the early stage of the Qi star. After the Qi star, there is the destiny level. After the destiny level, there is the combination level/perfect level, and they are still in the middle stage of the integration level...
If this person breaks through the seal and escapes, who can stop him?
When they were in Liangzhou County, their enemies were Xia Hongwen and Chen Yun from Qixi Star, and they belonged to two organizations: Tianmeng Pavilion and Dark Night Chaos.
Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, I would have to worry about the combined level.
Hanging out with Pei Mengqing is really... exciting.
The desk was frozen to the ground due to frost. Pei Mengqing tried hard to move the desk and finally discovered the problem.
The director's room is located on the first floor. The ground is made of concrete similar to the earth and is very solid.
But after moving the desk, I saw a small hole underneath.
Cold air was constantly coming out of the small holes in the floor, but the cold air was very strange.
Even if Pei Mengqing reaches out, his hand will not freeze. Instead, it will maintain the basic coldness in the room and escape into the distance, without exchanging energy with Pei Mengqing's warm palm at all.
It's like having intelligence.
Pei Mengqing cut off a piece of wood from her desk and cut it into the shape of a stick to plug the hole.
But it's still useless. The cold air doesn't seem to be any gas or solid, and it seems to have come into the real world from a passage in another space. Even if the hole is blocked, it still comes out unaffected.
"What is this? Is this the center of the severe cold you have been looking for?" Zhao Jieli was shocked. He had never heard of such a hole in the director's office.
"Well, the question is, did Director Shen discover the hole here before he left, or did the hole appear here after he left?"
