Chapter 61

"How do we open this door?" Baichuan and the others were a little dumbfounded as they clung to the hall door on the 17th floor.

The hall door and the shaft fit together tightly, without a single gap, and a thumb-sized dot verification point shows a red alert sign.

"The elevator sensed violent damage and triggered the protection mechanism." Elena said.

"What should we do?" Tang Mary asked.

Elena frowned and said, “Someone has to check the information from outside to confirm it.”

"From the outside? If there's someone outside, we can just go out!" Baichuan said in an exaggerated tone.

"Is there no other way?" Tang Mary asked again. She knocked on the four sides of the hall door, trying to find another way out.

The red light flickered, reflecting on everyone's face.

There's no ceiling or bottom in the elevator shaft. Is it possible to get out from the bottom and fight with Qiu Tu?

"There is another way." Elena hesitated.

"What's the solution?" Everyone looked at Elena at the same time.

Elena frowned in thought. "I don't quite understand this method. I saw the elevator installer mention it during routine maintenance. If there's an internal fault, you can open the elevator call box and use your ID card to reset it."

Although she had come up with a solution, Elena's expression was not relaxed. "But if the refresh fails, then all the doors of this elevator shaft will be put under high security and completely sealed."

It is a natural cage for them.

"We can't wait any longer, let's reset and refresh quickly. Doesn't Lin Bai have an ID card?!" Tang Mary said.

At this moment, I really couldn't think of much. Elena said, "We have to find the box first."

Five people clung to the elevator shaft like Spider-Man, groping for a moment. Tang Mary felt nothing but the cold shaft wall, and angrily asked, "Why is this research institute so advanced?!"

The tone was completely different from the one used just a dozen minutes ago when he was praising the senior management of the research institute.

They searched for three or four minutes but found nothing.

"I think I found it." Bai Chuan, a wind-type psychic, leaned against the wall and listened to the wind for three minutes before vaguely sensing the location. "Is it here?"

As he spoke, he knocked on the wall of the well, and everyone heard a slight difference.

But after finding the location, everyone was still puzzled: "How do we open this bare board?"

Lin Bai walked along the wall of the well to that location, took out his ID card and pressed around. He didn't know where it sensed, but the panel made a click and a box popped out.

Elena noticed that although Lin Bai took out his ID card twice, he concealed the information very well each time so that no one could see it at all.

“Dongdongdong——”

The banging sound on the bottom floor of the elevator kept echoing under the shaft wall. Qiu Tu had not given up on the elevator. Compared with the strict identity verification on each floor, the elevator was obviously a faster way. The banging sound was also telling them in disguise that there was no time to lose.

Lin Bai looked at the box, took out a few iron sheets and steel wires from his pocket and began to try to reset the box.

The device inside the box is simple, with a few wires and a display screen, but the actual operation is very complicated.

After the display screen was activated by touching the steel wire, a series of operating instructions appeared, which were dazzling. Lin Bai scanned the instructions at a glance and kept clicking on the screen.

Red blocks, yellow blocks, blue blocks, and green blocks kept lighting up one after another.

Bai Chuan, who had done research, could only understand part of it, while Elena, Tang Mary and Lou Tiannan, three outsiders who knew nothing about it, could only watch Lin Bai operate.

As he watched, Lou Tiannan's gaze shifted to Lin Bai's face. Her pupils were staring at the screen intently, and the eye shadow in her eye sockets reflected faint light under the influence of red and green lights. Her lips were tightly pursed because of her research, and the meticulous concentration on her face made it impossible to look away.

Lou Tiannan looked at it for a long time without realizing it, until the machine box made a long ding sound, and he suddenly came back to his senses.

No one else noticed anything unusual about Lou Tiannan. All their attention was on the voice prompt from the machine box. They only heard the prompt tone of "The elevator machine box is about to be reset" and everyone's faces were filled with joy.

It’s going to succeed!

Then, a long, garbled string of numbers appeared on the display screen inside the box. Three seconds later, a voice message came out: "Please enter the 314-digit reset verification code within five minutes to verify your identity and reset the box."

"Ah? What is the reset check code? Still 314 bits? Do you know?" Tang Mary went to see Elena.

Elena also looked confused.

But the countdown has begun.

"The verification code is there to prevent accidental operations, and it's very temporary..." Bai Chuan was clearly familiar with this. As if realizing something, the joy on his face faded a little, and he concentrated, "Generally speaking, it's a random number combination given before input. The longest verification code I've seen is 32 digits. The number that just flashed on the screen should be the 314-digit verification code."

Tang Mary, who understood every word Baichuan said, had a grim expression on her face. "That gibberish thing just now was a check code?! It flashed by so quickly that I couldn't see the numbers clearly! I only remember 5691 or something... What will happen if I enter it wrong--" She remembered what Elena said, that if the refresh failed, the elevator shaft would be blocked, so she shut up and hoped that Elena had a good memory.

Even Elena, who had an excellent memory, frowned and said, "I only remember the first thirty digits..."

Not to mention Lou Tiannan and Bai Chuan.

“Beep, beep, beep…”

A digital input sound rang out.

The four of them were stunned at the same time and looked at Lin Bai who was inputting numbers.

Lin Bai calmly pressed the numeric keypad. The number that just flashed by was clearly recorded in her memory chip. She thought about how to enter the number in an unnoticeable way to open the hall door, or find a logical reason, but she only thought about it for three seconds and she knew there was no reason.

The hall door must be opened. It took her a year to get here, and she couldn't fail here. Even though she knew Elena was doubting her, she had to do it.

Lin Bai lowered his eyes and pressed the numbers one by one. The countdown on the screen decreased little by little.

The four people around him breathed softly. Bai Chuan blinked and looked at Lin Bai, then suddenly realized that she was a bionic person, and it was not difficult for her to remember these more than 300 digits. But, was she really a bionic person?

Baichuan was a little doubtful of himself. He had been with Lin Bai for these days, and Lin Bai was too natural, too much like a normal person.

Elena looked at Lin Bai, her heart pounding wildly. The layer of suspicion in her heart became thinner and thinner with each beating of her heart...

"Beep—Verification successful, please re-verify your ID."

Sizzle——

Elena looked at Lin Bai in disbelief, and the layer of suspicion in her heart was finally broken with the system's successful prompt sound.

Lin Bai didn't look at Elena. After he took out his ID verification information for the third time, the door to the hall on the 17th floor opened.

Tang Mary finally emerged from the dim well wall. She praised: "Lin Bai, you are worthy of being me. You have a really good memory!"

She always knew that Vera had a good memory. When she was mining with Vera in the wasteland before, she could always remember the location of each ore very clearly. She didn't expect that she could remember more than 300 check codes in such a short time. She is worthy of being Vera!

After she finished speaking, silence fell around her. She looked at the others in confusion. She had assumed everyone shared her feelings, but at a glance, only Lou Tiannan shared her surprise. Lvmao Baichuan had a look of self-doubt on his face, while Elena's face was filled with disbelief and shock, her chest heaving violently. Hmm?

Is Elena a little too excited?

As for Lin Bai, well... I can't tell what he's thinking.

In short, even someone as thick-skinned as Tang Mary felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange, right?

"Let's act quickly." Lin Bai said calmly.

When they came to their senses, they realized that they had arrived at the office and laboratory of Xiao Hehua, the director of the 621 Pharmacopoeia Research Institute.

Aside from its larger footprint, the office is essentially the same as any other office: clean, tidy, and empty. Floor-to-ceiling windows offer a wide view, while a well-enclosed laboratory is also located. Reagent bottles and uncovered pens lie on the lab tables, as if the office's occupant has only temporarily left.

"I thought the dean's office would require more verification, but how could he just open the elevator and get in? He's too unguarded." Tang Mary said casually as she looked at the things in the office. She didn't have anything to look for, she just wanted to ensure Lin Bai's safety.

Little did she know that this idle talk would cause Elena's mood, which had just calmed down, to waver again. She had been to her teacher's office several times before, and there should be at least five lines of defense outside the elevator door. Even as a student of the teacher, she had to go through two lines of defense before entering, and Lin Bai...

Is Lin Bai really her?

Elena couldn't help but look at Lin Bai again.

Tang Mary looked at Elena puzzledly, “Elena, what’s wrong with you?”

"It's okay." Elena lowered her head to hide her expression. She also started looking in the office. She did not lie to Lou Tiannan. Teacher Xiao Hehua did send her a message after the apocalypse and left something for her. She had to find it. If Lin Bai was really... then this thing should be very important to her.

Lin Bai also searched every inch of the office.

As Bai Chuan was searching, he rubbed against Lin Bai and whispered, "What did the boss ask you to look for? I'll help you find it."

"You go and keep an eye on him." Lin Bai said expressionlessly.

"Okay." Bai Chuan responded, turned around and took two steps before he realized something was wrong. The tone of his command was too matter-of-fact! He wasn't as cute as his boss at all!

He turned his head to look at Lin Bai, and decided to follow Lin Bai's words. He had a vague feeling of unease in his heart. This place didn't look as peaceful as it seemed on the surface. While thinking about it, he also flipped through some things. He was mainly curious whether the office of the director of the top federal research institute was full of treasures.

But to his disappointment, there were countless experimental data tables and some medicine bottles.

After flipping through several places, he suddenly exclaimed and went to Tang Mary to show off, "Boss Tang, look, the dean is using my product!"

Tang Mary glanced at the adult toy in his hand and sneered, "The packaging wasn't even opened, and you used a hammer. Look at me! My Tang's classic jewelry was put in the display cabinet by the dean. Do you understand the value of this?! As expected of the dean, he has a good eye."

The two of them didn't deliberately lower their voices when speaking, and Lin Bai heard it. He looked up and saw what they were talking about. His expression was startled, and then he continued to lower his head to look for what he wanted.

Lou Tiannan quickly searched the office but did not find the original blood vaccine that Minister Xiang Cheng mentioned. He quickly thought of the alien metal that Minister Xiang Cheng gave him when he left the new city area.

He pulled out a strange-shaped metal from his collar and probed around the outer wall of the closed laboratory. Just as he heard a voice prompt saying "Verification successful," Tang Mary's shocked cry rang out from behind him: "Are those things coming over here zombies?"