Crane's Ark of Tomorrow Daily

"If you have a way to get out of here, I can also try to take you to see the doctor."

Prisse said nothing.

After a long silence, Prisse nodded lightly and said, "I... see, I need some time to think about it."

Of course there is a way to leave here, but Prises is unable to make a decision in a short period of time. She is now in a dilemma where she wants to ask for clarification but is afraid to meet, and this situation is expected to last for a long time time.

"It's okay, then I'll leave first."

The matter has been told to Prises, and it is all up to her to follow. Li Ke will also leave Rhodes Island temporarily to find the secrets hidden deep underground.

He took out a bottle of teleportation medicine and drank it, and disappeared into the room in the next second.

Prises on the monitor stared in this direction, and after a long time, the screen finally gradually dimmed.The scene in front of him was distorted for a while, and in the next second, Li Ke successfully appeared in the reception hall of the underground research institute.

The huge screen on the wall is still playing the promotional video in a loop, and the sound echoes in the empty hall, which looks a little weird.

“Welcome to The Earth Federation NO.134 Biotechnology Research Institute.”

Revisiting the old place, Li Ke didn't mean to be very happy, but a faint uneasiness in his heart.

It was because of the discovery of this place that he inadvertently uncovered a corner of the world's hidden world view. If it wasn't for the sudden alarm at that time, he should have been able to get more information from this place.

Li Ke walked in the direction of the elevator. After trying, he couldn't open the elevator. At that time, the system had completely locked the only entrance and exit of the research institute. right way.

The only ones who can enter this place now are him and the doctor.

After casually looking around in the lobby and finding that there was no change from when he left, Li Ke was ready to set off to the lower floors. The first floor is only used to receive temporary visitors, and it is impossible to store any secrets. Looking here is just a place to go. Pure waste of time.

The reception and temporary living area on the first floor, the living area on the second floor, the hub floor on the third floor, the experimental floor on the fourth floor, and the core floor on the fifth floor. Li Ke remembers the map here very clearly, so there is no need to read it again.

At the beginning, because time was limited and there were not many choices, Li Ke only investigated the core layer of the total importance, and did not have time to go in and take a look at the other layers of the research institute.

And he didn't even have time to read the information stored in the core layer, so he was forced to withdraw from here. I really don't know what Grani and Skadi touched here, which led to the closure of the institute.

At that time, Li Ke was honestly staying at the core layer and looking through the documents, so it couldn't be his problem.

After searching around in the hall, Li Ke found a passage leading to the bottom in the corner. He didn't know one of the passages, so Li Ke just chose one at random.Although the elevator is out of use, you can still go to the lower floor through the stairs.

The blockade simply locked the elevator and did not affect the use of the stairs, which seemed strange to Li Ke.

According to the general process, if there is a serious leakage of something in the research institute, all the isolation should be fully opened, and the layers should be completely separated, and the regions should be completely separated, instead of just following the general process like now Locked the elevator.

At least that's what Rhine Life has stipulated. Although the era is different and the research institutes are different, the security protocols should all be similar.

Li Ke couldn't figure out why, but it was also a good thing for him. There was no blockade inside the institute, so he didn't have to work hard to get through.

After walking down the stairs for a while, Li Ke saw an entrance leading to the second floor, but Li Ke didn't stay here any longer, and continued to move down directly.

Although this place is called a 'living area', its overall size is comparable to a small town, enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people living here. Even if Li Ke has no time limit this time, he can stay here and investigate slowly. But it is impossible for Li Ke to investigate all such a large place by himself.

There has to be a trade-off.

The structure of the entire research institute presents a spindle shape, with the hub layer in the middle being the largest, the reception area and the core layer on both sides being the smallest, followed by the experimental layer in the living area.

After thinking about it, Li Ke decided to investigate in the order of the hub layer, the core layer, the experimental layer and the final living area.

First of all, I went to the hub floor to check the situation. I heard that Grani and the others encountered strange things there. Li Ke felt that it was necessary to take a look at the situation there first, so as to avoid any accidents later.

The following investigation sequence is very simple. He hasn't had time to read the information stored in the core layer last time. By the way, he will look there for information about the experimental layer and the living area, and find out what are the more important places there.

Compared with these two areas, the experimental layer should be more important.

The next section of the road is very long, and I didn’t feel much when I took the elevator, but it took Li Ke more than half an hour to climb the stairs between the second and third floors. After all, it is no easier than going down the mountain How much, not to mention that this is still a more troublesome step.

When Li Ke gradually approached the third hub layer, his ears caught some sounds, similar to the sounds of gears turning and metal friction.

Something else is going on in the hub layer.

The hub layer is the "core" of the entire research institute, and there are countless automatic machines inside to maintain the operation of this giant research institute, from providing daily supplies in the living area to processing waste in the experimental layer, all are carried out here.

These are all Li Ke learned from the information at the front desk. The entire laboratory still maintains a certain degree of function, which means that the hub layer has not completely stopped working, but the sounds captured by Li Ke... seem a bit too noisy. It doesn't sound like the sound that a heavily damaged hub layer should have.

Standing at the entrance of the black hole on the hub floor, listening to the noises coming from inside, Li Ke hesitated for a second, then clenched the weapon in his hand and stepped into the darkness.

The lighting system on the hub floor seemed to be broken, and it was pitch black inside, making it impossible to see the surroundings clearly. After Li Ke walked in, the light from his body made the surroundings slightly brighter.

However, before Li Ke could clearly see what was around him, all kinds of noisy voices around him fell silent, and countless red lights lit up in the darkness, looking at Li Ke's face like scarlet eyes. in the direction.

If you were an ordinary person, seeing this scene would have scared you out of your wits, so you wouldn't dare to go any further.

And Li Ke just stood there calmly without doing anything, as if those red lights in the darkness didn't exist.

After a minute, or maybe more than ten seconds, those red lights dimmed one by one, and all kinds of noisy sounds returned to Li Ke's ears again.

"Sure enough, it's these things again." Li Ke said to himself.

At this time, his eyes had almost adapted to the surrounding dark environment, and he could vaguely see the situation ahead.

Those red bodies are machines shaped like octopus. These... are the self-discipline machines responsible for maintaining this hub layer, and they are also the monsters that Grani met at that time.

The condition of some of the automatic machines does not look very good. Most of the whole body is covered with black and red flesh, and many tissues similar to human organs have grown on it, which looks very disgusting.

I really don't know how these things are formed... These things look a bit like the "sea descendants" that Alyt said, the minions of the sea, but Li Ke's intuition tells Li Ke that these should not be the same thing.

Even if they are both tentacles, the tentacles of fish creatures and tentacles made of human muscle tissue are different things, but these things are so similar that it is hard not to associate them together.

Similar to the machines I saw at RIM Billiton before, none of these self-discipline machines attacked Li Ke. After identifying his identity, they each went about their own affairs.