Chapter 520 Hardcore Medical Area
Luna used both hands to maintain the holographic projection in mid-air, while Yu Shengze and Baili Qing studied the strange object in the center of the projection.
That thing was obviously the focus of the entire laboratory's work - it floated on the most conspicuous anti-gravity platform in the hall, tightly protected (or suppressed) by a circle of light blue light curtains. There were countless advanced equipment and technicians circling around the platform. Even when fierce conflicts broke out on both sides of the passage and Hu Li's Fox Carrot missiles smashed into the passage, the technicians guarding several key equipment near the platform did not evacuate, as if they would live and die with the equipment.
But the appearance of that thing was really unremarkable. It was just an irregular black stone, like a fragment knocked off from some larger object. Its edge had a bit of obsidian texture. The size of the whole fragment was about the same height as Irene, so it looked quite inconspicuous when floating in the force field.
Luna adjusted the holographic projection and enlarged the image so that Yu Sheng and Baili Qing could see more details of the black fragments.
To be honest, Miss Saint's resolution is quite high...
"There seem to be some patterns on this side of the surface. They look like part of some kind of relief or engraving," Baili Qing was the first to notice. Frowning slightly, she pointed at a detail on the black fragment. "Ms. Luna, can you isolate this part of the pattern?"
"Can."
Luna nodded, and then the holographic projection floating above her palm suddenly flickered a few times. The scene in the laboratory disappeared, replaced by a highlighted pattern. She directly extracted and processed the texture on the surface of the black fragments she had photographed. With repeated visual enhancement, the processed pattern became clearer and clearer in the holographic projection.
Yu Sheng suddenly frowned and looked at the pattern projected by Luna thoughtfully. An inexplicable sense of familiarity was stirring in his heart.
"I seem to have seen this thing somewhere..."
Baili Qing and Baili Xue asked in unison: "Have you seen it?"
"Hmm... wait a minute, I'll recall it," Yu Sheng nodded, then began to frantically search his memory, and soon he found the source of this familiar feeling, "Ah, I think I know what it is——"
The next second, he opened a small door beside him. As he heard Irene yelling "Silly fox, you stole the bean paste again" from the other side of the door, he quickly took something from No. 66 Wutong Road.
It was a tattered piece of cloth with complex and mysterious runes printed on the edge.
Yu Sheng unfolded the piece of cloth and compared it with the pattern on the holographic projection. His eyes suddenly lit up: "It really is this!"
Baili Qing also recognized the piece of cloth in Yu Sheng's hand almost immediately. She raised her eyebrows and said, "I remember this is..."
"A fragment of the Omen Banner!" Yu Sheng said quickly. "There's also a piece at Taixu Lingshu... The pattern on it should be some symbol related to the Omen Goddess."
Baili Qing's expression didn't change much, but her eyes instantly took on a more solemn and serious look. She stared at the holographic projection in Luna's hand and spoke slowly, "...So, the 'Black Spot Laboratory' across the passage is researching a 'holy artifact' related to the Goddess of Omen—it seems they possess even more than we imagined."
Yu Sheng nodded, then pondered, "So, what about that suddenly opened passage? Is it related to their ongoing research?"
"Using the power of the Goddess of Omen to open a portal across dimensions?" Baili Xue's eyes drifted to Luna's alloy shell, and she muttered as she pondered, "But judging by the situation at the time, the process must have been somewhat out of control. Either they didn't expect the passage to open, or they didn't expect someone to be on the other side of the passage. But then again, they still had the ability to forcibly close the passage in the end..."
Yu Sheng didn't say anything for a while, still thinking about the sudden opening of the passage. While thinking, he seemed to have realized something, and the image of a noisy and silly little boy began to pop up in his mind.
Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Baili Xue's eyes drifting to Luna's face, blinking repeatedly at the position of Luna's eyes...
"Baili Xue, can you please change the location?" Yu Sheng said with a cold sweat on his forehead. "You look a bit weird here."
Baili Qing, who was standing next to him, also immediately frowned: "Stop messing around and get down."
"Oh," Baili Xue agreed, then slowly floated to the floor-to-ceiling window not far away and continued, "Anyway, it seems that the Black Spot Group is obviously developing some new 'black technology'. Although that thing is not stable yet, they already have the ability to open the gate to the junction area. Although they opened the gate in the 'dark alley' this time, it is not ruled out that they can open the gate to other places. In fact, I even suspect that they have already established some secret passages in the junction area, and it was only exposed when they encountered an experimental accident this time..."
Baili Qing frowned slightly and looked at her sister who was climbing on the window: "What do you mean?"
"That team of agents that appeared at the Jinglin Sanatorium," Baili Xue said slowly. "Such a group of outsiders, fully armed—even if they were renowned black spot agents, it wouldn't be easy for them to infiltrate the border area. We still don't understand how they got in... But what if they dug a hole in the border area? Then the border barrier and the outposts throughout the boundary city would naturally not show any trace."
Baili Qing's eyes became sharp.
It was the first time that Yu Sheng saw such a change in the female director's eyes - not just her eyes, he even suddenly felt a kind of indescribable... aura from her, an invisible and intangible, but real "presence" that was slowly dissipating from her seemingly thin figure.
But this feeling was fleeting. The next second, Baili Qing returned to her usual cool and indifferent demeanor. She simply took a deep breath and nodded slightly: "This guess is not unreasonable. It seems that I have to keep a close eye on everything for the next period of time."
Just then, footsteps suddenly came from the corridor, interrupting the conversation in the office.
A girl with short hair and a dress pushed the door open and walked in. She hurriedly bowed to Baili Qing, "Director, our captain wants you to go to the medical area on the 77th floor. He said that the 'black spot soldier' has woken up."
Then the short-haired girl looked up again and saw Yu Sheng standing in the office. Her eyes suddenly lit up: "Hey! Teacher Yu?"
Oh no, it’s the great scholar Ren Wenwen who is urging us to submit our manuscripts!
Yu Sheng broke out in a cold sweat the moment he saw the other person's sparkling eyes. He quickly responded to the other person perfunctorily and told Baili Qing to go out: "First, let's get down to business - go check on the captured prisoner."
Baili Qing seemed a little puzzled by Yu Sheng's reaction for a moment, but still nodded and walked out of the office, while Luna followed closely behind Yu Sheng.
Ren Wenwen certainly didn't dare to block the director's way, but she still followed him to the door and saw Yu Sheng out, greeting him enthusiastically as she did so: "Teacher Yu, please let me know when you come next time... I look forward to your new work~"
Walking in the corridor leading to the medical area, Yu Sheng couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead. Baili Qing, who was beside him, seemed to understand at this time. She turned her head and gave him a blank look: "Being popular is a good thing."
"It's quite stressful," Yu Sheng laughed dryly, "especially since that girl's CP is a bit weird..."
Baili Qing paused for a moment: "What is CP?"
Yu Sheng: “…”
He glanced at Baili Qing, who looked to be in her twenties, and realized that this director, who had been in charge of the Secret Service for a hundred years and was completely busy with work on weekdays, didn't seem to understand much about "young people".
Seems like a good thing.
Seeing Yu Sheng remained silent, Baili Qing didn't ask any further questions. She just pondered for a moment and continued walking forward. After a few steps, she suddenly said, "Actually, I've also read what you wrote."
The cold sweat that had just subsided suddenly broke out again.
"I can't quite... understand them, but they all seem very interesting stories," Baili Qing seemed not to notice Yu Sheng's momentary embarrassment, and just spoke to herself, "I usually don't have time to read, so I'm not very familiar with the current trends in novels, but the stories you wrote... I think they seem very easy. But it seems like you haven't written anything in a long time - have you been too busy lately?"
"Um, I'm writing more. I'll be done when Irene returns the computer to me..."
Yu Sheng was sweating profusely, and he didn't even know what he was saying. After all, he hadn't expected that even though he and Baili Qing were together, he would still be urged to update by this man with a steely expressionless face...
Besides, he couldn't just tell Baili Qing that the work he was working hard on after the masterpieces New Folder and New Folder (1) was called New Folder (2).
As they were talking, they had already walked through the corridor and took the "magic elevator" unique to the Secret Service building through countless bizarre floors, and finally arrived at the "medical area" in an unknown dimension.
The reason why I said "I don't know which dimension it's in" is because as soon as Yu Sheng came out of the elevator, he saw two alien monsters floating outside the window of the medical ward corridor, fighting in space. These two things that make you lose your sanity at the first sight were banging against the shields on the side of the corridor - then a security guard from the inpatient department dressed like an Astartes pushed open the door and came out, blowing away the two aliens...
"...Isn't the medical environment in your bureau a bit too hardcore?" Yu Sheng couldn't help but mutter, "There are so many stable floors, why is it placed here specifically?"
"There's more than one medical area in the building," Baili Qing said calmly. "This area is specifically for 'external use'—the unique environment and treatment atmosphere here can effectively improve patient cooperation."
Yu Sheng opened his mouth and took several seconds to utter a sentence: "Then it seems that you can sit at the same table with those doctors from Qianfeng Lingshan."
(End of this chapter)
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