Returning from the abyss

Chapter 606 Vera's Research Institute
Before the night had cleared, Lu Ning and his party of six had already left the camp.

Before leaving the outer city, Jean had already bought enough "treasure maps". It can be regarded as a bit of judgment if it is a truly valuable relic.

The last one chosen was an eggshell-shaped building that was almost buried in a mountain.The ruins located in the wilderness are basically the resources of the Heikes, and because the terrain in that mountainous area is quite bad, not many people usually go there, it just takes a long time to travel.

Near noon, everyone finally saw the "eggshell" on a small hill. The part belonging to the building among the large white rock formations was very inconspicuous, not to mention that the main part was almost buried. It took a lot of effort to find it. Sharp eyes.

"In short, everyone should be prepared for the situation in the ruins, but each ruin may be different, so be prepared." Rang urged.

"Okay! Then let's go in and have a look!" Yuan Jie was gearing up, already impatient.

Pushing aside the thatch taller than people, everyone finally saw the door that was almost integrated with the rock. Judging from the remaining lines around it, it used to be a relatively high-tech place. Lu Ning scraped off a sign beside the door After removing the dirt and dust on it, the writing on it can barely be read.

[Genius Vera's personal research institute! 】

"Research institute?" Yan Rong couldn't help but frowned after looking at the house number. "This kind of place always gives me a bad association, especially when it's deserted."

"After so many scenes, you should know that normal scientific research actually has very strict regulations, and many scientific researches have been demonized—but the premise is that it belongs to normal scientific research." Jean said seriously, "Vera, I Never heard of it, have you ever heard of it?"

"It probably disappeared into history long ago." Zhu Qinyuan shook his head, "No matter what, we have to go in, don't we?"

The door had already lost its normal opening and closing function. Zhu Qinyuan and Yuan Jie pried open the door with weapons, and a smell like disinfectant gushed out from inside, but there was no smell of dust or decay. This also raised everyone's heart again. He became a little vigilant and walked into the research institute.

It's bright inside.

There are no lights or anything like that, but the walls, ceilings, and corridors themselves radiate light, making the interior of the Institute a very pleasantly lit environment.Entering from the door, there is a large room after a short aisle, which should be used as a rest area. Some tables, chairs and sofas are placed here as you like, and there are coffee machines, water dispensers, and vending machines next to it. And table game cabinet, spotless.

Lu Ning walked to the coffee machine, but she didn't see any power port. She touched the screen, and then the screen lit up, showing several types of coffee, including milk, hot chocolate and other drinks. Lu Ning He took out a paper coffee cup from under the glass tube next to him, tried to press the cappuccino button, and soon hot coffee and milk were poured into the cup.

"It still works..." Lian Bisheng next to him also took himself a drink from the water dispenser, which seemed to be fruit juice.Yuan Jie, on the other hand, took out a can of tomato soup from the vending machine, and immediately after opening it, there was a slightly sour taste of thick soup in the air.

"Be careful." Yan Rong walked around the big room and turned back, "This place seems to be still operating normally."

Yuan Jie took a sip of the soup, and immediately showed a satisfied smile: "It tastes great! I heard that canned food can be stored for a long time, it is true!"

"I don't think coffee beans have the same shelf life." Lu Ning took a sip of coffee, and the bitterness fell into her throat, but the aroma of coffee did not diminish.With her meager coffee knowledge, she can judge that the quality of the coffee is not bad, at least not the instant one.

"How long has it been unused here?" Jean also looked around. There were four corridors around the Hiroma, but he hadn't done any in-depth exploration. A place suitable for rest, suitable for nothing that can tell the time.

Clocks, calendars... including the board games on the shelves and the products in the vending machines, there is nothing related to the date.

"Don't you think this is strange?" Jean said after explaining to everyone.

Lu Ning put the coffee on the table, she didn't really need this thing to keep her mind clear, she was already a little too sober.

"Not surprisingly."

"If a place like the research institute doesn't have any concept of time, there will be a lot of troubles." Jean said.

"So as I said before, this is not a normal research institute. Since the things here will not be damaged no matter how long it takes, time may be meaningless here." Lu Ning said.

"We have to move on. There is nothing here." Zhu Qinyuan pointed to the four corridors, "Fortunately, there are still signs here. These four corridors lead to the Research Department, Collection Department, Liaison Department and Processing Department respectively. From the name We can't tell where the treasure will be."

"I'm going to go to the collection department first." Lu Ning made a judgment immediately, "I want to know what this research institute is used for."

"Should we act separately?" Yuan Jie asked.

"If the treasure can really attack, I don't think the number itself is of much significance. After all, we have encountered two treasures that can completely separate people and gather people together."

"If this is a place to play with time, we have to be careful." Yan Rong said, "Don't attack everything you see. There are too many ways for time to cause mutual attacks."

"You can rest assured that I can extract the time track here at any time to see if there is a time disorder here." Lu Ning waved her hand, a cloud of gray liquid coiled around her fingertips, "But in order to prevent anything from happening, it is best to have a few more Individuals act together."

"Then let's go to the collection department with you first, and we have to explore everything here." Jean also stroked the ring on his hand.

The styles of the four corridors are also different. There are many paintings in the corridors of the collection department, but those paintings look very abstract, and it is impossible to tell what the content is.There are numbers and letters under the picture frame. Lu Ning memorized a few, and then came to the stairs at the end. After going up the stairs, there was a room with many metal frames neatly arranged.Some of the metal racks were covered with black curtains, while others were not, and the uncovered racks were empty.These metal shelves only take up half of the room, the other half are a few desks, and many empty glass boxes.

Lu Ning walked to a glass box and looked at it. The craftsmanship of the box was quite peculiar. It did not use any material other than transparent glass. The glass itself had a light green color, but it was not obvious.She looked at the desks again, and the things on each desk were neatly arranged, which looked quite regular.There were still unfinished documents on some tables, and there was even a cup of coffee on one table—a paper cup that was exactly the same as the one Lu Ning had taken before.

"Phenomena Observation Report T-13-0873, 'Time Series Heteroskedasticity Diffraction'." Yan Rong picked up a report on the table and read, "Sure enough, what is being done here is research related to time."

"The institute of the genius Vera... It seems that Vera is the director here." Jean also picked up a report, "This one is about the derivation of the space conversion matrix under fault time."

"Oh~" Lian Bisheng dragged his voice, holding a report stamped with the word "rejected" in his hand, "Regarding the calculation of the multi-dimensional time mechanism, it seems that many calculation errors have been detected... . . . I don’t understand these things.”

"Then how do you know there was a calculation error?" Zhu Qinyuan asked.

"It's all circled."

When everyone checked the side of the desk, Yuan Jie had already walked to a metal frame covered with a black curtain, stretched out his hand and opened it a little.

"Wow!"

His exclamation immediately attracted everyone's attention, and Jean immediately walked over and pulled Yuan Jie away from the curtain. A faint white halo enveloped his body and spread to Yuan Jie at the same time.

"what happened?"

"No, it's just... In short, this is really the place to record." Yuan Jie didn't know how to describe it for a while, and finally opened the curtain lightly. As expected, there were glass boxes on these metal shelves. What's more, these boxes have something in them, and they are completely sealed.

There is only a glass box in the place that has been opened, and there is now a meat ball inside. It is suspended in the center of the box, and it is getting bigger and bigger. Judging from the purple-black color, it looks like something happened Mutation.Deformed eyes gradually appeared in the middle of the meat mass, and the cells were differentiating into different organs and tissues, but without exception, they all grew in the wrong place. It wasn't all a person, it also had many animal parts.

"Phenomenon number T-9-2902." Jean glanced at the label marked below, "Can you check the files over there for similar records?"

"Easy." Lu Ning flicked her fingers lightly, and the surrounding objects immediately began to enter the "past". As a treasure, Sudden yesterday still faithfully reproduced Lu Ning's field of vision. She used this time to quickly browse the table and documents. All the documents in the cabinet were then released from the backtracking status, and they reached out and pulled out the document with the same number.

"Phenomenon T-9-2902, multi-time compound variant, has been safely included." Lu Ning read the title, and then began to browse the difficult and obscure text in it. Even if she can use all her energy to think now, she still My head hurts watching it.

Let's close the curtain again, and it's better not to touch these weird things before knowing what's going on here.Everyone continued to investigate. Zhu Qinyuan quickly found a memo from the corner of the desk of a suspected new researcher under the weight of a book.

"The research institute has classified all the phenomena into sixteen categories, using numbers 0 to 15 to distinguish them." Zhu Qinyuan glanced at the numbers on the memo to explain. This is obviously because the newcomer is afraid that he will not remember and write it here first. Yes, there is no such thing on other tables.

"What is Number Nine?" asked Jean.

"Multidimensional temporal phenomena."

"As expected."

Lu Ning put the document back and asked, "What is number 0?"

"Time loop phenomenon." Zhu Qinyuan replied quickly.

"This research institute really studies all kinds of time phenomena... The most outrageous thing is that there are so many phenomena here for research." Yan Rong flipped through and found that there are all kinds of report records here, and he began to feel dizzy. These things are a bit too advanced, typical words that don't know what they mean when put together.

"Obviously, even if there are treasures here, they must be those covered over there. Of course, the time-based treasures are very strong. The question is... can we deal with it?" Lian Bisheng pouted, "I don't think so. We can look at these reports as geniuses."

"There is no Vera." Lu Ning flipped through a few more documents.

"what?"

"The owner of this institute, Vera, there is no record of her here, even including the numbers of all the researchers, and Vera didn't even sign any documents." Lu Ning said.

Lian Bisheng grinned: "Then I have an interesting idea, since this is a time research institute..."

"Gather yourself together from different time periods?" Jean quickly realized, "It's not impossible, this is indeed Vera's personal research institute, and you and yourself don't need to use signatures, just make a distinction. up.

"I don't think so." Zhu Qinyuan shook his head.

"Ok?"

"The living habits left on these desks are different. Although the environment will have some impact on people, if Vera does that, he will definitely choose himself for a fixed period of time to make the cooperation more tacit, but these people Some of the personal marks left on the desk made a noticeable difference."

Some handwritten fonts, arrangements, the position of the pen holder, and some small decorations on the document—maybe one or two types of people have changed at different times, but all of them are different, which only means that they are not the same person.

"Researchers should have been recruited here, but it probably once belonged to Vera personally." Zhu Qinyuan said.

"So, shall we lift the curtain to see what will happen, or explore other places first?" Lian Bisheng asked.

"Stay safe." Lu Ning said concisely.

The collection department is not empty, and the numbers of the paintings in the corridor also correspond to some of the phenomena collected here, but the specific meaning is still not clear.

"I'm afraid there will be a lot of things in the research department. Let's go to the liaison department first." Jean made the next choice for the team. This department is probably the one with the lowest scientific research content in the entire institute.

Different from the corridor of the collection department, there are many screens in the corridor of the liaison department, and some strange black-and-white movies with unknown content are still being played. Lu Ning always feels that these are some low-quality midnight horror movie clips. In fact, there are no ghosts and ghosts on the screen. It's just the distorted, blurry, and weird images and tiny screeches that are disturbing.

But Lu Ning didn't feel uneasy.

(End of this chapter)