Chapter 233 Elevator

The exploration at night was not smooth.

In order not to miss any clues, their plan was to filter from the 19th floor upwards one by one. But unlike what they imagined, the 19th floor upwards were still various offices, including data rooms and large exhibition halls.

The two randomly chose an office to sneak into, looked through the documents, and understood that the reason why the floors above the 19th floor were not marked was that the work content here involved a large amount of commercial data, and many projects could not be made public.

Before Lin Wu's death, his background was similar to the identity given by this mission world. He had been a military doctor for several years and had also followed the troops to third world countries to face wars. He was good at many things.

In addition to the accumulation of one world after another after entering the system tower, his ability to survive has reached the extreme.

But he had no chance to come into contact with the work projects and business information in the Peace World Company. Not to mention Youxi, who was a painter working from home before starting the apocalyptic mission in the Bound Star House. The documents he came into contact with the most were the painting agreements.

The two flipped through the documents and could not get any more information from them.

Starting from the 15th floor, there were various lounges similar to suites, which were provided for senior scientific researchers to stay and rest.

They came all the way to the 31st floor and hid in the stairwell without daring to go out.

The internal structure here is obviously different from that below. The corridor is wide, and in the middle is a glass greenhouse with dense green plants. It is built around the central hollow area, and even some small animals are kept inside. The height of the ceiling is twice that of the lower floor, as if two floors were combined into one.

The security measures here are obviously different from the 30 floors below. Even the uniforms of the security guards are different. They are not ordinary suits and trousers, but explosion-proof suits similar to those of military members. From helmets, vests to joints, they are strictly protected, and everyone is equipped with a baton.

Youxi and Lin Wu looked at each other silently in the dark. He didn't know whether the virus software he placed in the monitoring center below could block the cameras here.

For the sake of safety, they waited there for a while. During this time, Lin Wu took out a stun baton and handed it to her. When the patrolling security guards passed by, he dragged the two people in from the left and right and knocked them unconscious. Then he went to the tool room in the stairwell on the lower floor and stripped the two people of their explosion-proof suits. Then he gagged them and tied them up and placed them in a dead corner of the item rack.

Youxi and the other two quickly put on their explosion-proof suits, took away the stun baton and their pass cards, and pretended to be security guards to start patrolling openly.

**

Starting from this floor, there are various laboratories. Some laboratories have large glass windows near the corridor, and you can see the inside at a glance.

At this time, the lights in most laboratories are dim, leaving only the dim light of some instruments.

Some of the lab windows were very small, and Youxi heard rustling sounds from inside, which were the sounds of animals moving around in cages.

She even heard the sound of human breathing in several labs, and through the narrow windows, they caught a glimpse of people lying on the test benches, some of them wearing metal helmets with many data cables connected to them.

There were a lot of instruments here that she had never seen before, with a high-tech feel, and she didn't know what experiments were being conducted.

The two endured the discomfort in their hearts and checked one by one, and finally felt that these were not the hidden labs they were looking for.

Although ordinary people cannot come up here, and the research situation in the laboratory is unclear, all the laboratories are neatly arranged in a circle around the green greenhouse in the middle, which is clear at a glance and cannot be linked to hidden.

The elevators going up here are separated from the lower floors, and the same is true for the emergency stairs. Even if ordinary people accidentally hit the 31st floor, they will be discovered by the security guards and asked to go down.

When the two found the emergency stairs going up and were about to leave this floor and continue to go up, You Xi turned around and looked at the location of the central greenhouse.

"What's wrong?" Lin Wu asked in a low voice.

"It seems like something is...looking at me." You Xi frowned. Her five senses are too sensitive and sometimes there are errors. Occasionally, the slightest movement will bring strong feedback to her. "There are animals in the greenhouse. Maybe it's my illusion."

From the 31st floor to the 40th floor, every two floors are one floor, a total of five floors, all of which are various laboratories and laboratories. Almost all scientific research projects involving the company have special laboratories here.

When the two came to the 41st floor, they suddenly felt enlightened.

Going up from this floor, the entire floor space is connected from top to bottom. The center is still the botanical garden. There are tables and chairs around the floor-to-ceiling glass. It looks like a coffee and leisure area with a view.

But this area should only be open to senior staff and senior scientific researchers.

There are no glass greenhouses around the botanical garden here. It is an open area. The landscaping in the middle of the botanical garden is extremely fashionable and gorgeous, full of futuristic technology. From low to high, it is a square plant ladder that shrinks one by one, much like a small pyramid, stacked up layer by layer, and each step is planted or hung with various plants.

The higher you go, the smaller the pyramid becomes until it connects to the ceiling at the top of the building.

There are no floors above here, and the internal space of the building facing upwards has been completely opened up to form an overall sky loft.

There is even a small waterfall landscaping here. The surrounding lights are dim, very quiet, and the sound of water falling from the small waterfall can be clearly heard.

Youxi and Lin Wu had never imagined that the 41st floor would be such a space. Apart from the coffee lounge area and the botanical garden, there were no other rooms. One could directly see the glass walls surrounding the building, so there was no way there could be any hidden laboratories.

"It's the end." You Xi looked around, "Could it be that the laboratory is not upstairs, but under the building?"

"You mean the underground space? There is no limit to the downward direction of the building. I checked it on the first day I came here. There are no secret passages in the entire underground parking lot. I also checked the elevator room and there was nothing unusual."

Lin Wu thought for a while and said, "Could it be that the hidden laboratory is not in this building?"

"No, because the prompt clearly says 'Explore Ruoai Technology Building'." You Xi glanced at his mobile phone. The time for the virus software to interfere was almost up. If he continued to stay here, he might be caught by the camera shop when he went downstairs.

Now that the hidden laboratory has not been found, it means that they have to continue to stay in "Ruoai" and they cannot be exposed yet.

Lin Wu knew what she was thinking, and the two of them agreed to retreat first.

They quickly returned to the 31st floor and returned to the tool room through the external stairwell. The two security guards were still there, motionless, but they looked like they were about to wake up.

You Xi and Lin Wu quickly took off their explosion-proof suits, put them back on, and placed the two people in the door of the stairwell, then quickly went downstairs.

This move made the two security guards wake up quickly.

The two were startled at first, their faces turned pale when they thought of the possible consequences of dereliction of duty, and then they quickly realized that their weapons and passes were still in their original places and nothing was lost, so they each breathed a sigh of relief.

"What happened just now?"

"Hush, don't talk, nothing happened." Another security guard immediately signaled to the other party not to talk too much, "Nothing was lost, no one found it, nothing happened."

"But-"

"But what, do you want to be transferred inside? People who went in never came out again..."

Another person thought of the rumors and his face suddenly changed: "But... the situation outside is not good now. It has also happened near where I live... several times. Brother Ying said last time when we were having dinner in the security room that things have long been out of control and the situation will only get worse..."

"Brother Ying? Why don't you think about it, have you seen Brother Ying again since he said these words?"

"Didn't you say you resigned?"

"Oh, resigned? You are too naive."

"Did he get taken... inside?"

"Tsk."

"What should I do? I'm scared..."

"It's not safe outside now. Let's hide for now. Remember to keep a low profile..."

Two floors down, Youxi and Lin Wu, who had not yet left, looked at each other.

Inside?

**

The next morning, the two sat in a corner of the cafe and reorganized the clues at hand.

Youxi glanced at the "Ruoai" building across the street. Under the sunlight, the building with all glass walls soared into the sky, gorgeous and dazzling.

She counted the grids of the glass wall layer by layer, and the pen in her hand drew lightly on the paper. Soon, the three-dimensional structure of the entire building appeared on the paper.

She even clearly marked the location of the elevator and stairwell.

Lin Wu also came over to look at the 3D drawing she drew, and reviewed the route of action last night.

In fact, the entire "Noai" building is almost transparent without blind spots. The outer walls are all glass, and the interior is hollow. The only possible place for a hidden laboratory is between the 31st and 40th floors.

Lin Wu pointed at this part of the building: "We will try to check it again in the next two days. If it doesn't work, we will go to confirm the station first. We have four chances to confirm it. The situation in the city is getting worse. If there is a big chaos outside, experienced tourists will take advantage of the chaos to grab resources and kill novice tourists. It will be more troublesome to find and confirm the station."

You Xi nodded. The reason why Lin Wu said this was because before dawn, several platforms on the Internet simultaneously released more than a dozen malicious videos.

Although these videos were quickly blocked afterwards, as the two security guards said, things have begun to get out of control.

No matter if they are from "Ruo Ai" or the official, they can no longer rush to the scene of the incident as soon as before, because the "mirror world" appears frequently and more and more people are affected.

Anyone who sees someone attacking others crazily will be panicked and scared.

The more people are afraid and panicked, the greater the probability of the "mirror world" being triggered. This is a vicious cycle, and the collapse of order is a matter of time.

When Lin Wu was studying the 31st to 40th floors, You Xi's sight fell on the 41st floor not far away. She likes painting, and she has strong logical ability and a keen perception of spatial structure.

Now she was looking at the top nine floors of "Ruo Ai" from the outside, and she felt that it was a little inconsistent with the feeling they had when they were in the mid-air landscape space last night.

After a moment, she suddenly murmured, "Two floors are missing."

"What?"

Youxi looked down at the 3D structural diagram on the paper again, and the tip of her pen landed on the 41st floor: "Here, the inner mid-air landscape space we went to last night is shorter than the actual outer floors. Each floor of this building is about 2.8 meters. There are nine floors from the 41st to the 49th floor, and the height should be about 25 meters. However, the inner space of the mid-air landscape last night would definitely not be more than 10 meters high."

As she spoke, she painted the top two floors of the 3D diagram black: "Here, there is another space, just above the mid-air landscape."

Lin Wu frowned and almost immediately objected: "If If there is another space above, where is the staircase or elevator to go up? Don't forget, there is no floor in this area, and the glass of the surrounding walls is clearly visible. If the hidden laboratory is really up here, let alone us, how can they get up there? They don't use helicopters every time, right? We would have discovered such a big movement a long time ago. "

Youxi moved the pen tip again and landed on the pyramid-shaped plant platform in the center of the mid-air landscape space: "Here, in the entire landscape space, only here may there be a visual blind spot, and you should remember that this plant pyramid is connected to the top. "

"Yes, they are connected." Lin Wu took her pen and drew a vertical well in the middle of the "pyramid". "Because there is a hollow area in the middle, have you forgotten? This is the central location of the building. If there is any hidden elevator or staircase, it is least likely to be in this area-"

Lin Wu stopped talking here. He looked at the vertical well and suddenly a light bulb flashed in his mind. He asked Youxi to pack up and go to the company immediately.

"What's wrong?"

"I have a guess-we may have preconceived ideas and let our ears and eyes deceive ourselves!" Lin Wu's eyes were bright.

**

The ears were deceived because they learned the well-known "facts". Whether it was the information obtained on the Internet, the information in the company introduction, or the information passed down by word of mouth, they all mentioned the hollow design in "Ruo Ai" that runs through the entire building.

The eyes were deceived because everyone who came to "Ruo Ai" for the first time could not help but look up to the highest point and enjoy the wonderful light of the sun pouring down from the top.

But, is what the eyes see really the sky and the sun?

Is the information heard by the ears necessarily true?

Does the hollow area of ​​the building really run through the entire building?

More than half an hour later, Lin Wu and You Xi, who had been to the lobby and different floors to observe the hollow area, met again in the single dressing room.

"How is it?" Lin Wu asked.

"Just as you said, the hollow area should only reach the 39th or 40th floor. The so-called hollow area starting from here should be a very advanced electronic screen - the kind that can play the external image of the roof in real time, similar to camera switching, so even the changes in the sky and sunlight are reflected without any flaws." You Xi changed the three-dimensional map again, blackening the hollow area above the 40th floor.

Since this place is not hollow, the hidden elevator or staircase should be here.

Lin Wu once again pointed out the 31st to 40th floors: "The entrance should be in this area. Let's go again tonight."

You Xi nodded.

That night, the two changed their route and confused the two security guards on the 31st floor again. They put on explosion-proof suits and helmets as if they were familiar with the route.

This time, their target was the plant greenhouse in the middle.

They quickly found the entrance to the green plant glass greenhouse on the 31st floor. The security guard's pass card could pass through here. They walked among the dense green plants and found a revolving staircase covered by green plants.

The revolving staircase was locked with a solid iron door, like a bird cage. You Xi looked at the two large locks on it and broke the locks himself without taking the high-temperature perfume.

Lin Wu: ...

The spiral staircase went up about nine floors, and at the end was an elevator. They judged based on the direction and size that outside this elevator should be the bottom of the 41st floor of the plant pyramid.

There was only one elevator in the elevator. From the outside structure, it looked like a tourist elevator, and it felt like glass when touched, but now this layer of glass has been completely painted black.

Before this place was deliberately hidden, taking the elevator from here through the mid-air landscape area, you can imagine the surrounding scenery on the way up, which must have been beautiful.

But now, the elevator is dimly lit, the walls are old and worn, and there is an uncomfortable chill, which is completely different from the gorgeous mid-air landscape area.

The elevator door can be opened, but the pass cards they have on them cannot allow the elevator to move upward.

"Do it manually." You Xi took out the climbing aid gloves and hooks and handed them to Lin Wu.

Lin Wu took them and buckled them skillfully, while looking around: "It's strange, there is no camera here."

You Xi just noticed that not only is there no camera, but there is nothing with mirror properties. Even the inner wall of the elevator is blocked by a layer of wooden boards.

The two of them lifted the emergency exit panel at the top of the elevator, climbed out with neat movements, covered the board, and then followed the elevator rope, relying on their agility to quickly climb to the top elevator door.

You Xi first listened to the elevator door for a while, and after confirming that there was no one outside, he pried the elevator door open.

It was pitch black outside. They were already above the landscape space in the air. There was indeed another space here.

The dark and closed space was surrounded by old laboratories. There were various dark marks on the walls and the ground.

From the smell in the air and the shape of the marks, it could be known that they were all bloodstains.