The hall fell into deathly silence.
Li Liang looked directly into the bald man's eyes, trying to see a hint of a "living person" reaction, and finally found that what stood in front of him seemed to be a soulless body. The heart of this "body" beats powerfully, the muscle lines are standard, and the skin is flawless, as perfect as a carefully designed bionic human.
Such a "monster" could no longer be guessed by common sense. Li Liang was ready to take action at any time and even thought of an escape route.
To his surprise, the bald man did not question his disrespect. He just turned his head slowly and said something to Jin Ji with an indifferent tone. The "subtitles" read, "The Chief of Staff is resting. You can wait for the summons here, Sergeant." long."
Li Liang was stunned for a moment. Can he get away with this? Or playing hard to get?
Jin Ji raised his hand in salute again, and the bald man turned to the other sergeants who were standing in silence and said, "Follow me."
moment.
Only Li Liang and Jin Ji were left in the hall.
Jin Ji stared at the direction the bald head left, breathing heavily.
Li Liang turned around and glanced at the robot at the door. Its goose egg head was still facing this way.
Before departure, Anqiao introduced the situation of the Zhuos headquarters, but he listened to the whole process and found not much useful information. After all, this canyon is the core area of the Zhuos clan and is home to real Zhuos people. Even Andre I have only been to a limited number of buildings, the most frequent of which is the command headquarters, where the entrance to the lunar core engine is.
Andre's intelligence showed that Li Hao was being held at the headquarters. The question is, where are K, Dr. Xisen, Child Li, and Cain?
With Jin Ji's level, successfully leading him into the canyon was considered as completing the task. If he wanted to confirm whether he had fallen into a trap by himself, he had to first find a Drosian who knew the inside story better.
The chief of staff is a good choice.
Thanks to the ability of the "Heaven Spirit", as long as the distance is slightly closer, he can judge the opponent's strength in the spirit's vision. If the chief of staff is indeed a powerful magician or sorcerer, he can change his plan in time.
After coming back to his senses and glancing at Jin Ji, Li Liang found that the fat man was hesitant to speak and kept glancing around.
It seems that this place is different from the Shangcheng area. Surveillance means are deployed indoors.
Li Liang tried to use the recognition function of the retina projector to analyze the surrounding environment, but found a familiar prompt popping up in his field of vision: "According to Xi'an Company's S-2 security protocol, this function cannot be used in the current area."
It's this S-2 security protocol again.
The last time we checked on the Defender about the last Captain of the Defender, Mona Softbank Lee, the query failed because of this agreement, which shows that the people in the family and the headquarters are protected by this agreement.
Turning off the recognition function, Li Liang gently patted Jin Ji's back.
In this secret place where no prying eyes are allowed, neither Andre nor the zero-sequence androids can provide any substantial help. Now they can only rely on themselves. Since it is not convenient to communicate here, then find another place.
The muscles on Jin Ji's face trembled, and he obviously understood what he meant. He turned around and walked behind the column in the center of the hall.
Li Liang followed behind. The tactical helmet provided a 180-degree field of vision. He could always see the reaction of the robot at the door with the corner of his eye.
The robot stood there, its head just moving with them.
moment.
The two walked around the column.
It turned out that there were two corridors on the other side of the hall, one leading to the hall hanging out of the rock, where there was a similar giant column.
The other one was extremely long and led to an unknown place. Jin Ji quickened his pace and led Li Liang straight into this corridor.
The corridor is minimalist in style, with a hazy orange light emitting from the top. There are doors every ten meters on both sides, and most of the doors are closed.
Through the occasionally open door, Li Liang saw that there were also grooved columns in the room.
A few minutes later, the two came to a special door with a familiar circular relief on it, the closed eye.
The door opens automatically.
The interior of the room offers an unobstructed view of rows of small cubicles, each only about the width of an adult's shoulders and smaller than an ancient telephone booth.
Li Liang remembered where he had seen something like this. The Catholic confessional in old movies a thousand years ago was like this. Believers walked into a narrow grid to confess to the priest.
Jin Ji reached out and gestured towards one of the cells.
Li Liang walked to the grid and looked inside. The structure inside was very simple, consisting of a round stool and a table. On the table was a strange-looking machine. It looked like a cube with a U-shaped handle fixed on it.
The reason why he thought it was a handle was because the color of the two ends of the U-shaped metal was different from the other parts, giving it a smooth feel that had been rubbed all year round.
This shape, this atmosphere...
The "Confession Room" of the Twin Gods?
At the same time that Li Liang stepped into the cubicle, Jin Ji suddenly squeezed in backwards, took a deep breath, and closed the door of the cubicle.
The metal door made an overwhelming creaking sound, and the cube on the table lit up.
Li Liang felt a strong force hit his back and was pressed against the table. He almost got poked in the face by the electric fork-like device.
"I'm sorry," Jin Ji said in a dull voice, "Only the resonance room can block monitoring."
Being squeezed by Jin Ji's broad back, Li Liang had no choice but to support the wall behind the table with one hand, and said helplessly: "Is this the resonance room? Why is it so small."
"I don't know," Jin Ji pressed his face against the door panel and mumbled, "Mr. Li Liang, the chief of staff is a magician. Meeting him is very dangerous."
Li Liang nodded.
Jin Ji didn't know his identity and was just following orders, so he was naturally unwilling to take such a risk.
He asked, "What was your original plan?"
Jin Ji sped up and began to speak in Shangcheng District language again, with subtitles: "Under normal circumstances, the Joint Staff is very busy, with many people from various departments of the Galaxy. If we are not seen through at the first time, we have a chance to blend in with them. middle."
"What do you think happened?"
"I don't know," Jin Ji moved his head, "The Dros people blocked the news, and the sergeants majors of those combat bureaus and the Deep Space Surveying and Mapping Bureau didn't know either."
"That bald man just now was from Dros?"
"Yes, Assistant Chief of Staff."
"Are all Dros people like that? No emotions?"
Jin Ji was stunned for a moment, then turned around with difficulty: "Emotions?"
"Well, don't you think he's weird?"
"They are different from us, and different from anyone else," Jin Ji's side face was illuminated by the light from the cube on the table in the darkness. "They can control their emotions and are sometimes as calm as machines. Sometimes it's crazy..." Jin Ji seemed to recall a certain scene, showing a fearful expression.
"Control emotions?" Li Liang couldn't understand.
Can emotions adjust the "temperature" at will like an air conditioner?
"I have seen a machine that is similar to a resonator." Jin Ji shook his head, "Mr. Li Liang, what is your purpose here?"
"Looking for someone to kill."
Jin Ji was silent for a long time and whispered: "That's why you want to see the Chief of Staff."
"yes."
"You may be underestimating his power."
Li Liang readjusted his stance and said casually: "Do you have any other candidates? The assistant just now?"
"No, we should stall for time and find a more inconspicuous Drosian."
"Ordinary Dros people probably don't know what I want to know."
"Mr. Li Liang..." Jin Ji tried to turn sideways and continue to persuade Li Liang to give up, but he ignored his fat body.
Li Liang was squeezed and subconsciously held the U-shaped handle of the resonator with one hand.
Sudden.
He heard the whistling of the wind, mixed with the faint sound of knocking.
Ding, ding, ding, ding...
Like someone hitting a nail with a hammer.
next moment.
In front of him was no longer a dim cubicle wall, but a two-meter-wide stone staircase.
Slowly looking up, the stone steps are nearly vertical, like a ladder cut out of stone. The jingling sound comes from the end of the stone steps.
Is this resonance?
Li Liang suddenly thought, if he was in sympathy with himself, would there be any problems?
However, for some reason, he always felt that the tinkling sound in his ears was very familiar.
As if by mistake, he began to climb up on his hands and feet.
It's actually not that difficult to climb, and it's not very high either.
It felt like more than ten minutes had passed, and he had reached out to grab the last step and pulled himself up. In an instant, he saw the source of the sound.
A man with a bare upper body turned his back to him, holding a hammer in his left hand and a chisel in his right hand. He was raising his head and concentrating on carving a stone monument.
Ding, ding, ding...
