Hawkins Laboratory.
A room half the size of a football field was filled with deafening roars.
Several people in white coats stood in front of the special glass wall, staring at the horrifying scene opposite——
A large expanse of pale light expanded and contracted, illuminating a piece of machinery on the central platform that was coiled with billions of forked currents and resembled a giant engine. The equipment rotated at extremely high speeds, spraying out silver-white beams of light that continuously bombarded the opposite wall.
A three-meter-long millipede-like crack stood on the wall.
It slowly expanded with the energy bombardment, revealing a shocking golden color like lava, and at the same time sprayed out a sky full of goose-like spores.
And around the cracks, there are dense vines and mucus that move like granules...
"Look, what a wonderful world." The tall man with middle-parted blond hair in the middle behind the glass wall looked at his colleagues and sighed, "The color is like gold, and its value is much higher than gold. It represents unknown resources. mineral."
The bald researcher shook his head worriedly, "Dr. Sean, I think it's time to stop the collider. According to Dr. Martin's original idea, it should only open a window to observe another world."
"If the crack opens too large, it will lead to unpredictable risks, such as a large-scale power outage like yesterday, or it may cause unstable fluctuations in the surrounding space, creating a small crack somewhere to allow the monsters inside to escape."
"This is not a monster." Sean lowered his head and looked at the drawing in his hand, which showed a lifelike slit monster. "They are obviously precious biological materials, which can be used to develop various new drugs, compounds, and biological weapons. . Even if they want to invade on a large scale, they are just flesh and blood bodies that cannot even withstand bullets. In the face of our army and high technology, they will be wiped out in minutes. "
Seeing that the researchers were silent, Sean continued,
"Besides, we don't have time to waste time. The higher-level departments that study different dimensions have launched several plans to compete with us at the same time. For example, the 'Arrow Plan' is a strong competitor. If we can't show great value first, we will take over with the department. The huge support that came down was missed.”
"You see, Martin Brenner's conservative approach is no longer relevant."
Several researchers nodded sadly when they heard this. No matter what industry, competition is everywhere.
After seeing this, Sean finally continued with satisfaction, "We must build a spacious passage as soon as possible, enough to enter the reconnaissance team, escort team, and transportation team to mine the resources of another world, so... how long will it take for the bombardment to reach the crack?" Qualifying standards?”
The bald researcher stared at the collider and exchanged glances with his colleagues around him. "The channel is a wound on the surface of the world. It is healing itself every moment. It will take at least half a year to open it to the standard state."
Sean said disappointedly, "In half a year our plans will be shelved and the team will be disbanded."
"Scientifically speaking," the bald man in the white coat shook his head regretfully, "we have no other choice."
"Find No. 11 and all problems will be solved." Another man with a unique temperament wearing a floral shirt and sunglasses walked up to the glass wall. "Five months ago, she opened this door during the sensory deprivation experiment ( Chapter 174), she has unlimited potential and can further open the space-time tunnel and greatly improve our work efficiency."
Sean smiled bitterly upon hearing this,
"No. 11 is the most precious possession left by Martin Brenner. I have dreamed of getting her, but it has been five months since she disappeared and not a single bit of news has come back."
"Not only us, but even the Sulian people are helpless."
"It's ridiculous to say that. We both fought hard and suffered heavy casualties. As a result, a third party in the shadow took away the most precious fruits. Dr. Martin was exiled to the elderly care department because of this."
"We can't fail this time." Sean looked at the floral shirt next to him and said, "Sir Damien, can your special operations department send an excellent search expert to help find 11? Yes, I heard my colleagues mention you There’s a mushroom guy named Anton Chigurh who’s really good at finding people.”
Anton Ziege?
Damien's eyes behind his sunglasses were sharp. He looked at the crack on the opposite side of the glass wall and said expressionlessly, "Mushroom Head was killed in a tracking mission in Texas a few months ago. Not even his soul could escape. (Chapter 254)."
Sean said sadly, "Did you catch the murderer?"
"The world is a big place, and supernatural disasters are emerging one after another, especially in the past two years. Our department has limited manpower, so we can only solve far-reaching incidents first and have no time to formulate revenge plans." Damien said with a hint of hidden joy in his tone. "Besides, Anton is a cold-blooded and perverted butcher who used his power to kill many innocent people. He deserves to die."
"Do you still have a problem with each other in the special operations department?" Sean asked,
Damien spread his hands and admitted directly, "There are factions fighting everywhere."
"Okay, let's get back to the topic. Since there are no tracking experts looking for 11, we can only wait and resign ourselves to fate." Sean said dejectedly when he heard the sound of pushing the door and a burst of hurried footsteps behind him, and a "listener" Holding a stack of information, he ran over panting, "Dr. Sean, I heard an important clue!"
Sean's heart moved, he took the information and read it,
"Just now, at Joyce Byers' house at 168 North Hawkins Town, a group of children mentioned space channels, dimensions, and collider on the phone... One of them was a special girl... After comparison, her voice characteristics It is extremely consistent with the long-lost No. 11, and I am 95% sure that she is No. 11!"
"Is God finally willing to take a look at us? The target is delivered to us at the most critical moment." Sean grinned, showing a set of smoky yellow teeth, and looked at the monitor with a complex smile, "But 11 has been right under our noses. Hiding, you are so brave... If you can catch her, you will make a great contribution and your bonus will be doubled this month."
As soon as he heard about the bonus, the gentle monitor's face turned red as if he had been given a shot of blood. "These children are riding bicycles from that house back to Hawkins. They can only pass through the only road to the north. If they set off now, they will probably... We can intercept them midway.”
Sean nodded and looked at the man in sunglasses beside him, "Damien, the important task is left to you, bring back No. 11 as soon as possible."
"Things are not that simple." The flower shirt took off his sunglasses, revealing a pair of cold and narrow eyes, extinguishing the enthusiasm of the researchers, "Since No. 11 is in Hawkins, we snatched her away from Dr. Brenner and the Sulian spy. The organization must also be nearby. I even suspect that the members of this organization (Chapter 284) left that terrible battle mark in the forest not long ago. They are very troublesome."
"It's not much use just catching No. 11. They can attack the laboratory at any time and take him back." The narrow eyes of the flower shirt swept over the researchers, making their faces turn pale.
"So we can't rush back to 11." Hua Shirt said solemnly, "I will first find out the details of this organization, make a comprehensive assessment, and then apply for assistance from the department to solve this big trouble at once."
"Well, it's better for professionals to think carefully." Sean nodded with a heavy face. "No matter how many manpower is needed, after the last attack, the security of the building has been doubled several times, and there are sufficient manpower."
"No need. Ordinary people will only alert them if they monitor. I can do it myself." Hua Shirt paused and glanced at his watch calmly. At three o'clock in the afternoon, "But if I don't send back the message before eight o'clock in the evening, , means I had an accident, please take emergency measures."
After explaining, Hua Shirt made a few phone calls and quickly left the laboratory building.
In a corner where no one was paying attention, he breathed out a breath of black breath into the sky. The black breath floated and shaped into a crow, flying into the clear blue sky.
…
The crow flew a few kilometers along the southbound road, then turned and flew into the woods beside the road, jumping up and down on the treetops piled with snow.
Five petite figures riding bicycles were reflected in the bright black eyes. They were Jian and his party who had just returned from Jonathan's house.
Mike turned to look at his friend, "What does it feel like to have superpowers?"
"It must be really exciting," Lucas said with fierce eyes, "If I want to have the strength, I will first punish those two nasty guys who harass us all day long and make them pee in front of the whole school. It's a shame, it's a shame. They won't have the right to bully us anymore."
"Is this your ambition?" Dustin shook his head and straightened the peaked cap on his head. "If I had the ability, I would first set up a tent in the central square of the town and write 'Shocking Magic Show' on the outside. ...Then I use my superpowers to perform teleportation and magical flying every night. I can earn at least a thousand dollars a night, which is thirty thousand dollars a month... Is there anything I can't do with money? I'll buy it for my mother first. A new car and a set of Nancy’s favorite textbooks…”
"Wait a minute, why did you idiot bring up my sister?" Mike looked at Xiaopangdun with a ghostly look on his face, as if he was being stabbed in the back by a teammate. He gasped and turned the handle to kick Dustin.
"Wait, Mike, sooner or later I will become your brother-in-law. This is the best of both worlds..." Dustin picked up his pace and spoke provocatively, "When the time comes, we will go to your basement to play DND, and there will be Nancy as a master. Mr. and Mrs. Weller don't mind if you take cover and play for as long as you want."
"Shut up, I'll kill you!"
"Help!"
"Is this a cycling competition? Count me in!" Lucas' black face surged with golden fighting spirit, and he accelerated his pace to catch up.
Jane looked at the three companions playing and playing in the warm winter sun, smiled enviously, and turned her eyes to Will, who was at the end. The boy's face was pale, and there were tears in his eyes as he stared at a photo, "I'm sorry. Will, I can't be a flea and find a collider."
Will lowered his head, took back the photo, and looked at Jane with red eyes, "Help me, I feel you have a way. As long as Jonathan is saved, I am willing to give my life in exchange."
Jane turned her head in silence, looked at the quiet pine forest, pedaled her bicycle silently, and pursed her lips after a while, "I can't do it, but another person may be able to do it."
"who."
"The person who taught me this skill, but I don't know if he will agree, let's go home together."
The eavesdropping crow in the bushes let out a flash of light in its eyes, fluttered its wings and turned into a ball of black air again. The black air shrank into a ladybug the size of a match head, flew to Jane's hat, hid it, and left together.
…
In the Hawkins Town Center Mall, Dean, Steve, Nancy, and Barbara were sitting in the cafe.
"Is Jonathan okay?" Barbara stirred the coffee, nervousness written on her round face.
"Still alive and in good condition." Dean checked it with a search not long ago. Jonathan is still lying in the house, conscious and conscious, but his face is haggard. The air in the world is poisonous, and his condition will get worse and worse.
"We have to hurry up, so I have assigned you a task. Take a compass and a clock and go to the northern suburbs of Hawkins to find such a place... If you are in it, the compass and clock will fail..."
"Do these places have any special significance?" Nancy and Steve beside her asked without knowing why.
Dean said in his head that these places may be separated from the other world by weak space nodes, and monsters may be released. They can also serve as portals for Dean to return to the other world.
To be on the safe side, he had to choose the door closest to Jonathan before entering.
"They have special magnetic fields, and the more you find, the greater your hope of saving Jonathan."
The three of them looked at each other, as if they had taken over a huge mission, and nodded heavily.
"Dean, watch out, we will never let you down!"
"Don't go at night if it's too dangerous. Search together as a team during the day."
…
After Dean finished explaining, he temporarily separated from the trio and prepared to go back to Catherine's house to smelt a large number of new Slit Monster bones and teeth into star arrows and reserve some of his trump cards...
Halfway through, he received a page from Jane, and immediately rushed back to the house next to Hawkins Middle School. As soon as Dean entered the door, he saw a red-faced teacher Owen lying on the sofa, fast asleep, with a strong smell of alcohol coming out of his mouth, while Jane and four boys were sitting in a row on the other side, with their buttocks as if there were Needle-like, restless.
"Good afternoon, Dean." Dustin smiled stiffly and waved.
"What's going on now? What did you do to Teacher Irving?" Dean's torch-like eyes swept over him, and all five children trembled as if they had been electrocuted.
Jian clasped her fingers together and stammered,
"Sorry, I, I got Teacher Owen drunk today and sneaked out."
Dean's eyelids twitched, as if he heard a big joke, "Did you get him drunk? Jane, although I have the impression that you are naughty, you are not to this extent."
"It's not Jane's fault," Mike stood up with a slap on his chest and said with a righteous expression. "It was me who secretly added whiskey to Teacher Owen's coffee, got him drunk and took Jane out."
"It's me!" Lucas stood up as if he was stimulated, staring with a pair of bull's eyes, "If you want to blame, blame me!"
"Actually, I also have a share..." Dustin raised his hand tremblingly, "If there is a punishment, can the five of us share it equally?"
Will stood up after realizing it, his handsome and delicate face rarely showed the resoluteness of a man, "We need Jane's help to find Jonathan!"
Dean narrowed his eyes, "Why do you need her help?"
Jane said apologetically, "They all know that I have the super power of finding people."
"And telekinesis," Dustin added,
"I knew you would make a big deal sooner or later! If Hope finds out about this, you won't be able to leave for the next year."
Jane didn't dare to talk back.
Dean silently walked around the sofa, looking at the young faces with keen eyes. Every step seemed to contain magic, stepping on the hearts of the children, causing large beads of sweat to appear on their foreheads, almost can not breath.
I couldn't help but sit up straight.
When they were about to faint from the discomfort, Dean finally spoke,
"Have you ever told anyone else about Jane?"
"Absolutely not, I swear!" Mike tremblingly raised his hands and vowed,
"I swear too!" All four boys raised their hands without exception.
Dean's expression improved slightly and he withdrew his willpower. The five of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"What clues did you uncover today?"
Dustin, the most eloquent, recounted the theories discovered by Jonathan's family about the Upside Down World, Valley of Shadows, Fleas and Acrobats, and Colliders.
"We have a clear goal, Dean. Just open the door at Jonathan's house and we can rescue him!"
Dean fell into deep thought after listening.
He had long discovered that there were buildings in the world exactly like those in Hawkins Town.
But he never expected that in the two worlds, these buildings with the same appearance would correspond to their locations.
"Jane, are you sure that Jonathan is 'underneath' his house and you can find him by opening the passage?"
"Yeah!" Jane's eyes were firm,
Dean nodded. This meant that he did not have to enter the slave world elsewhere and risk being discovered by the big spider, crossing the deserted land and heading to Jonathan's house to save him.
He only needs to find a corresponding unstable node in Jonathan's house in the real world, and then open it to rescue him from another world!
"I can't help you find the collider," Dean glanced at the four boys, "but I am barely a 'flea' and can walk under the wire."
Jane's tight little face relaxed, "You are willing to help, don't you blame me anymore?"
"Rescue Jonathan first."
"Yeah! The plan worked!"
The boys immediately stood up and clapped their hands in celebration, circling around Will like a team of cheerful hobbits.
Dean shook his head and walked to the sofa to check Teacher Irving's condition. He made sure that it was okay. He gave Jane a look and was about to go out. However, his eyes accidentally glanced at the woolen hat on Jane's head, and one of them was as small as dust. of bugs.
Dean's eyes froze for a moment, and his keen perception instantly captured an extremely weak and abnormal energy fluctuation.
He immediately realized that this was no ordinary bug.
is the tracking mark.
Jane and the others have been exposed.
Who is behind it?
Dean thought about it, but on the surface he looked away as if nothing had happened.
Just let Qian Tan and Ying keep an eye on the bug quietly.
"Let's go, everyone, to Jonathan's house."
(End of chapter)
