Chapter 92 Accumulating Knowledge
The girl in the red coat stood under the street light, the light shining on her slightly thin body, shadows crawling under her feet and around her, hidden in the shadows were pairs of alert and prying eyes - one pair of eyes noticed the "outsider" approaching, so Little Red Riding Hood immediately noticed Yu Sheng and his party.
"Sorry, the taxi is a bit slow," Yu Sheng waved to the other party, "Have you been waiting for a long time?"
"It's only a few minutes," Little Red Riding Hood said casually, turning her head to look aside, "I've sent my wolf to look around here first, and I didn't find any abnormal changes. The museum should be stable today, and it's a good day for action. By the way, have you read all the information I gave you?"
"I've seen it." Yu Sheng nodded, and at the same time followed Little Red Riding Hood's gaze and looked at the large building standing quietly in the night.
But that was not a "museum" at all, but an old theater that had been closed to the public many years ago - it's just that the entrance to the so-called "museum" was in this theater.
"After the opening of 'Museum Night', don't touch the collections that make breathing sounds, don't stare at portrait paintings for a long time, don't enter the red room, and if you see plastic models wearing guide uniforms, pay attention to their gestures and don't enter the doors they indicate or hint at - in fact, there are only a few things to pay attention to," Little Red Riding Hood warned with some concern, "The museum is a relatively stable foreign land, and the depth has been maintained at around L-2 for a long time. As long as you follow the rules, its danger can be controlled, so the danger level is also rated as level 2..."
Listening to the girl's tireless instructions, Yu Sheng couldn't help but think of the "introductory information" he had seen in the encyclopedia when he was familiar with "border communications".
Those materials could be said to be his biggest gain after registering with the Secret Service - a systematic set of basic intelligence about the extraordinary world, including the knowledge about the "depth" and "danger level" of foreign lands that he had heard Li Lin and Xu Jiali mention before but had never quite understood.
Depth, to put it simply, refers to the "degree of deviation" of the alien world from the real world. With the real world as level zero, the depth increases gradually from zero to five. An L-1 alien world may just be a place that looks a bit weird, and ordinary people may even walk out by accident. As for an L-5 level alien world, except for extremely rare and unrepeatable survival records, it can be said that there is no possibility of survival at all. Even experts are not sure whether the L-5 level alien world really has an "exit".
Generally speaking, the depth of a foreign domain is relatively stable, but it will fluctuate within a small range over time or under certain conditions. It is safe to explore a foreign domain when its depth is shallow, and sudden changes in the depth of a foreign domain are the main reason for the death of many spiritual detectives and investigators.
Danger level is another important "parameter" to measure the threat of alien domains. In most cases, the danger level is proportional to the depth of the alien domain. The "shallower" the alien domain, the safer it is, and the "deeper" the alien domain, the more dangerous it is. However, this is not entirely certain. Some strange entities generated by shallow alien domains will be particularly terrifying, and there are even stable safe zones in some L-3 level alien domains (this depth is generally considered to be a high-risk alien domain).
It is because of these exceptions that "danger" and "depth" become two independent parameters.
At the same time, the danger level is not only used to measure the danger level of foreign lands, but can also be used to measure the danger level of "entities" alone.
The group walked towards the entrance of the old theater.
"To be honest, according to the rules, I shouldn't take a 'newbie' like you to an L-2 level alien world like the museum. Newly-initiated spirit world detectives and investigators usually start at the L-1 level. After all, shallow alien worlds are more stable and easier to evacuate," Little Red Riding Hood said as they walked. "But you can't be considered ordinary 'newbies' - after all, you can even handle the Night Valley. Apart from your lack of experience and knowledge, your strength has long exceeded the standard."
"It's not a big deal. It's just a chance to learn something new," Yu Sheng said nonchalantly. At the same time, he looked at the girl walking beside him with some curiosity. "By the way, I suddenly feel that... you seem to be quite used to taking care of people?"
"Why do you say that?"
"He usually looks mature and cool, but once he starts doing something, he starts to talk a lot, especially when he's leading a group of 'newbies' like us, he's like a parent leading a team."
Little Red Riding Hood paused for a few seconds, with a subtle expression on her face.
But she said nothing, just curled her lips and continued walking forward.
"Now you have a clear understanding of the concepts of depth and danger, right?" She broke the silence after taking a few steps.
"I understand. To put it simply, depth refers to 'how weird this place is', and danger refers to 'how deadly this place or this thing is'," Yu Sheng waved his hand, "quite easy to understand."
"That's my understanding... although it's superficial, it's quite vivid," Little Red Riding Hood nodded. "The depth of the museum is L-2, which is a 'standard' alien depth. It is already very different from the real world. The environment itself has begun to distort, which is very dangerous for ordinary people. But overall, the space inside it is still in line with 'common sense', in line with human perception and thinking logic. If you follow the rules, nothing will go wrong..."
Yu Sheng did not wait for the other party to finish, and took the initiative to continue: "Danger level 2 means that it will not actively cause death, and does not have active or indiscriminate malice, but if the regulations are not followed, it may still cause serious harm or even death - right?"
"It's OK. I remember it very well. I won't worry about it then."
Little Red Riding Hood said this casually, and then stopped.
They had already stepped into the door of the old theater. After passing through the half-open old iron door, what came into view was a hall paved with dark green tiles. There were passages leading to the interior of the theater on both sides of the hall. Opposite the door were several dark ticket windows.
But what Yu Sheng noticed first was a strange device placed in the center of the hall.
It was a black-gray metal quadrangular pillar, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, about half a person's height. There were several slowly flickering lights on the top of the pillar, and from time to time a low and intermittent buzzing sound could be heard from inside it, indicating that it was obviously in operation.
"This was placed by the Secret Service. We call it a 'node', the full name is 'constant node generator'," Little Red Riding Hood pointed at the metal quadrangular prism, "The low-frequency cognitive interference it releases can affect ordinary people and keep them away from the dangerous places that have been discovered in the border area. In fact, the effect is very weak, but it is enough to deal with ordinary people who have not yet achieved spiritual awakening."
"...Are there a lot of these things in this city?" Yu Sheng looked at the device called "node" in surprise, "I've never seen it before..."
Little Red Riding Hood glanced at Yu Sheng and subconsciously wanted to say, "Because you were an ordinary person before, you would never get close to this thing." However, she swallowed the words back before she could say them.
Because she felt that even the fox next to him had a higher human content than Yu Sheng...
"How effective is this thing? Can it really stop ordinary people?" Yu Sheng asked curiously again.
"The effect is good, but no matter how good the security measures are, the interception rate is not 100%. Even if you seal this place with steel bars and concrete, there are still people who will take hydraulic pliers and impact drills to commit suicide," Little Red Riding Hood sighed. "There are always stubborn and gifted people who will go on 'exploration' despite the dizziness and calf cramps, or they are simply unlucky and have high natural inspiration that is not affected by nodes. So there are often unlucky people who fall into foreign lands and wait for us to rescue them. In the end, they either become rewards for detectives and investigators in the spirit world, or become tragic cases announced by the Secret Service. In a few cases... they will become new detectives, investigators or Secret Service agents after crying and receiving psychiatric treatment."
"Why don't you just tear this place down?" Hu Li on the side suddenly asked.
"Tear it down? That's going to be fun." Little Red Riding Hood knew that Hu Li lacked common sense in this regard, so she just spread her hands helplessly, "What you've torn down is just an already discovered 'entrance'. The alien world itself is not in the real dimension. If you tear down its known and controllable entrance, then no one will know where it will open next time."
Listening to Little Red Riding Hood's explanation, Yu Sheng felt emotional. It is indeed human instinct to seek death. It is really unstoppable...
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At the same time, Little Red Riding Hood took another step forward, came to the "node", and swiped her ID card on the top of it.
"Register your entry and exit information," she turned around and waved the certificate in her hand. "If you die in there, the corpse collector will know where to retrieve you. After all, once you enter a foreign land, your external communications will basically be cut off. Registering at the node is the last stop for the spirit world detectives and investigators to leave traces in the real world."
Seeing this, Yu Sheng also took Ailin and Hu Li to register. While doing so, he sighed: "Fortunately, I got them both their certificates..."
A slight humming sound emanated from the node.
Then, Little Red Riding Hood led Yu Sheng and the other two across the "node" and came to the end of the hall.
She stopped in front of the dark ticket windows.
The old theater had been abandoned for a long time, and of course all the ticket windows had long been disused. Two of the four windows were covered with criss-cross plastic tapes. Of the remaining two, one was empty, with only a lot of unwanted junk piled inside, while the other one still had a ticket-printing machine - the machine was covered with dust.
Little Red Riding Hood stopped in front of the window where the ticket machine was placed, took out her cell phone and checked the time.
After two or three minutes, she suddenly reached out and knocked on the glass of the ticket window.
"Night show, Night at the Museum, four tickets."
A light suddenly appeared in the empty ticket window - even though the light was broken, the warm, bright light filled the dusty little compartment.
It was as if there was still an invisible ticket seller, lost in time and memory, sitting behind that window.
The old-fashioned ticket machine squeaked, and the empty paper feeder turned round and round, starting to spit out admission tickets.
(End of this chapter)
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