Chapter 040 Chapter 40
Then, in the night, two figures, one in gold and one in white, ran towards the factory silently.
Surprisingly, the factory was still running at night.
The spirit body passed through the walls of the factory layer by layer and went deep into the factory.
Xia Meng projected her senses onto Ergou and followed it as it climbed walls and climbed rooftops.
Li Zhou's cat is worthy of being an S-level spiritual being. It is also an expert at tracking and investigating. It skillfully went deep into the long pipes of the factory and saw that there were several workshops in operation inside.
Maomao and Ergou entered one of the workshops.
They hide high up in the pipes, observing this place from above.
Late at night, there were still more than a dozen workers busy at work.
They all wore red armbands and were referred to on the radio as senior workers.
Senior workers are obviously much more efficient than them.
From the huge pipe in the middle of the workshop, pieces of red stones kept falling down.
Every time a stone fell, the workers would immediately step forward, shovel away a part of it, and then return to their workbenches to sort the red stones into three or four small pipes in front of each workbench.
Yes, there are even more pipes in this workshop.
Maomao and Ergou looked here for a while, and made sure that there should be no more special information here. Just as they were about to leave, a "beep" alarm suddenly sounded over the radio.
Xia Meng was startled, thinking that their infiltration had been discovered.
The results broadcast started the next second.
[Danger has occurred in Workshop 5. Workers nearby, please gather and respond quickly!]
[Danger has occurred in Workshop 5. Workers nearby, please gather and respond quickly!]
[Danger has occurred in Workshop 5. Workers nearby, please gather and respond quickly!]
Isn't Workshop No. 5 right next to them?
Suddenly, a door opened on the wall of the workshop, and all the workers rushed to the next door.
Maomao and Ergou also jumped down silently and followed.
The red alarm light in Workshop No. 5 was flashing wildly.
The radio kept warning:
[An explosion occurred in Workshop 5, causing the factory building to collapse. All workers are requested to immediately bring energy stones and begin reconstruction work.]
[An explosion occurred in Workshop 5, and the factory building collapsed. All workers are requested to immediately bring energy stones to start reconstruction work.]
[An explosion occurred in Workshop 5, and the factory building collapsed. All workers are requested to immediately bring energy stones to start reconstruction work.]
Workers came rushing over, some brought carts of crimson energy stones in wheelbarrows, some just picked up a large piece, and two people carried a basket of energy stones like carrying a shoulder pole.
But strangely, in Xia Meng's opinion, this workshop No. 5 is no different from the previous one.
The explosion, collapse, and other dangerous situations seemed to not exist at all.
But the workers seemed to have been accustomed to it. They kept transporting the energy stones over and worked together to stack them up along the wall bit by bit.
After a few hours of hard work, most of the walls of Workshop No. 5 were filled with red energy stones.
Looking around the entire workshop, it is full of red.
At this time, a worker shouted: "Oh no! We are out of energy stones!"
The workers around suddenly stopped.
As if they had a tacit understanding, several workers suddenly grabbed the people around them and pushed them directly against the wall, trying to fill them directly into the hole in the energy stone.
In just a few minutes, the few remaining holes were filled with people.
The human bodies were embedded directly into the wall, their bodies firmly fixed in place, their limbs and heads hanging down limply.
This scene looks as weird as it can be.
Even someone with a big heart like Xia Meng felt a little disgusted when she saw it.
She withdrew her senses somewhat reluctantly.
Bring your attention back to your body.
Li Zhou, who was standing next to her, glanced at her worriedly and asked in a low voice, "Are you okay?"
Xia Meng patted her chest and nodded.
The scene wasn't bloody, but he was a little disgusted by their behavior of using their companions to fill holes without hesitation.
Even the person being filled in didn't think there was anything wrong.
Xia Meng shook her head and tried to exclude the idea of herself as a normal way of thinking from her mind.
This human factory itself is abnormal.
It may be a combination of the mental images of the seventeen sentinels.
Just like the three students before, the mental picture after fusion will always produce a certain degree of change.
However, the last time the three spiritual images were put together in the form of three examination rooms, but this time, the degree of integration was unprecedentedly high.
This time the spiritual picture seems to have merged into a whole.
It became something weird, morbid, and terrifying.
She could feel that it seemed to be trying hard to maintain some kind of order.
But this order itself has long since collapsed.
Xia Meng asked softly, "Where do you think the seventeen of them are? Are they among these workers?"
Li Zhou shook his head. "Not necessarily. The owner of the spiritual image could exist here in any form. Not necessarily a living person, but a certain space or object."
Xia Meng's thoughts returned to workshop No. 5.
Everything was clearly normal in Workshop 5, so why did the broadcast say that there had been an explosion? A building collapsed?
What exactly does Workshop No. 5 correspond to?
She stood up and walked around the room, but found nothing useful.
As a last resort, she turned around and used her mental power to draw a few lines on the wall.
These are all the routes that Ergou and Maomao have taken in the factory.
At this time, she marked out all the pipeline distribution and workshop locations one by one.
I discovered that just as the broadcast claimed, all the information about this factory, when put together, actually resembled the structure of a human body.
Their entrance to and from get off work is the head.
As we go deeper, we find that Workshop 1 is located in the mouth, Workshop 2 is located in the stomach, Workshop 3 is located in the heart and lungs, Workshop 4 is located in the left hand, and Workshop 5 is located in the right hand...
So, it was its right hand that exploded just now?
To be precise, it felt that its right hand exploded?
Somehow, Xia Meng suddenly remembered a case of mental illness that she and Lao Wang had dealt with before.
The patient had the very rare Cotard's syndrome.
Cotard's syndrome is characterized by nihilistic delusions and denial delusions as its core clinical symptoms.
Patients mainly believe that their bodies and internal organs have changed and some or all of them no longer exist.
Some patients even believe that they are dead and no longer in this world, or that their internal organs have been hollowed out, and they do not think they are alive even when talking to outsiders.
This is a type of cognitive impairment, which is often accompanied by symptoms such as depression, schizophrenia, and paralytic dementia.
Xia Meng and Li Zhou looked at each other.
Li Zhou: "Are you saying that this human factory is now showing symptoms similar to Cotard's syndrome?"
Xia Meng nodded hesitantly: "Very similar."
If this world is the combination of the consciousness of those seventeen people, does this mean that one of them suffers from Cotard's syndrome?
Or perhaps—
Xia Meng couldn't help but have a bolder guess.
Or perhaps, did all seventeen of them suffer from Cotard's syndrome at the same time?
Li Zhou didn't know much about the field of mental illness. He looked at her and asked, "But is this possible?"
Xia Meng lowered her eyes in thought.
To be honest, her impression of the previous case of Cotard's syndrome was already very vague.
She only remembers that treating that patient was not easy.
Because he had no injuries on his body, including his head, he suddenly became convinced that his organs were stolen and sold.
It took Lao Wang a long time to finally identify the cause of the disease. It was because the sudden change in the work environment led to excessive work pressure. The patient found it difficult to keep up with the high-intensity work pace in the new environment. Coupled with the double pressure of life pressure, the patient developed symptoms of schizophrenia and delusion of denial.
Speaking of sudden changes in the environment, the only thing Xia Meng could think of at this moment was the sudden death of the guide.
This should be the crux of the matter.
But what Xia Meng didn't understand was: "They are not close relatives, they only see each other once every three months, similar to a doctor-patient relationship. Even so, can it have such a big impact on them at the same time?"
Li Zhou looked at her seriously and suddenly said, "Don't underestimate the importance of a guide in the eyes of a sentinel. For some sentinels, the existence of a guide is more important than their own lives."
Xia Meng was stunned.
She met his eyes.
For some reason, at this moment, she suddenly couldn't help but focus her attention on Li Zhou.
She really wanted to ask, since the guide is so important to the sentinel, even more important than his life, then surely his engraved guide would be even more important to him, right?
Then why... was he obsessed with killing that person?
This thought turned around in her mind.
She didn't ask rashly.
She did not forget the existence of two other people in the room, nor did she forget that they were in a mental image at this moment. In this world, the owner of the mental image may be everywhere.
There really is no impenetrable wall here.
She turned her attention back to the present.
The fact that these seventeen people fell into a coma at the same time showed that their connection with the guide was closer than they imagined.
The guide means more to them than outsiders imagine.
Xia Meng recalled the information she had read about the guide.
The guide's name was Pan Junwen.
He is in his thirties, has a gentle personality, wears glasses and looks refined.
Everyone who has come into contact with him in the Black Tower speaks highly of him.
The Onboarding Guide Center has enjoyed an excellent reputation over the years, with reviews stating that he is patient, conscientious, and responsible in his guidance.
Pan Junwen is a full-time guide in the counseling department. He has to counsel at least five to six people every day, and his number is always taken up first.
Moreover, many newly awakened Sentinels would rather come to him for their first guidance, and let him be their guide into the Sentinel world.
These seventeen sentries have basically established long-term communication relationships with Pan Junwen and have great trust in Pan Junwen.
Xia Meng imagined it.
If there is a spiritual mentor around her, and he suddenly passes away unexpectedly one day, will she really not collapse?
If Lao Wang were gone...
Ugh. Ugh.
Xia Meng felt that she could empathize with him.
For the Sentinels, this feeling is only stronger.
She nodded. "We can't rule out the possibility of Cotard's syndrome."
Pan Junwen's death dealt a great mental blow to them.
Perhaps they had not heard the bad news about Pan Junwen when the incident happened, but the mysterious connection between them still affected them.
Losing a trusted guide is indeed like losing an arm.
…
The whole night passed.
Maomao and Ergou finally took advantage of the rising daylight, transformed themselves into spiritual power, and returned to their bodies.
The sun shines in through the window, and the early morning sound of birdsong gradually comes from outside.
Apart from this, there was no other sound. The other workers living upstairs should not have woken up yet.
Xia Meng yawned.
She's a little sleep deprived.
Originally, after deducing the possibility of Cotard's syndrome yesterday, she planned to come back and rest.
However, the "explosion" like last night was repeated several times later.
It's like the aftershocks after an earthquake, repeating over and over again.
So Xia Meng immediately decided to take the opportunity to explore further.
Maybe we can find the trace of those seventeen people.
As a result, she made a major discovery -
She yawned again.
"What's the matter? You haven't slept well even with your two beloved concubines by your side?" Ou Xu rubbed his eyes and sat up. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Xia Meng yawning loudly.
Xia Meng: "Not only did I not sleep well, I didn't sleep at all."
Ou Xu was puzzled, then he realized something and glanced hesitantly at Su Fangxiao who was still sleeping.
Could it be that she did something to Xia Meng at night?
No, no, no, that shouldn't be possible.
With Li Zhou watching her from the side, Su Fangxiao wouldn't dare to do it even if she had a hundred guts!
That’s... Li Zhou?
Holy shit! It's possible!
Stealing from the inside! His heart is damnable! !
For a moment, Ou Xu felt complicated, thinking that Xia Meng had been pushed into the fire pit by him.
Damn it, if he had known last night he wouldn’t have suggested that the four of them share a room!
It would be great if Xia Meng could go to the next room and share a room with those two girls!
At least you won't be killed!
Thinking of this, Ou Xu looked at Xia Meng with eyes full of sympathy and regret.
I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, after just one night without paying attention to her -
Xia Meng gave him a cold look: "Although I don't know what weird things are in your little head, I am very sure that it is not true."
Ou Xu: “…”
Ou Xu coughed and changed the subject: "Then tell me what you did last night?"
Just then, Su Fangxiao woke up. Xia Meng waved at her, motioning her to come over so that the four of them could have a small meeting.
…
"You mean, it's been confirmed, it's really Cotard's syndrome?"
Xia Meng nodded.
Xia Meng: "The entire human body factory is like a giant. To it, every workshop in the factory is a part of its body; those pipes are the blood vessels, esophagus, trachea, etc. throughout its body. Remember those energy stones we shoveled yesterday? Energy stones of different colors represent different things. The blue tubes lead to the lungs, and the blue energy stones may represent gas; the red, green, and white tubes lead to the stomach, and perhaps they represent food. We also saw another form of red energy stone last night, which may represent blood."
Ou Xu and Su Fangxiao suddenly understood.
She said, "Last night, Li Zhou and I split up to try to find the traces of those seventeen people, and we ended up encountering three 'explosions' in a row. The radio broadcast three separate reports of workshops exploding, collapsing, and disappearing. All the workers on the night shift went to the rescue, but in reality, there was no change in those workshops at all. So I can basically conclude that this is a giant suffering from Cotard's syndrome."
Last night, deep inside the factory, she finally heard their voices—those seventeen people.
The sound sounded like the voices of more than a dozen people mixed together.
There are men and women, old and young.
There are laughter and crying.
There were screams and roars.
But the common point is that they are all calling the same person's name - Pan Junwen.
"——Guide Pan! I've made an appointment with you for next week!"
"——Teacher Pan! Thank you for your guidance! I feel much better now!"
"——Brother Pan! I'm also counting on you to help my child with his first counseling session!"
"——Brother Pan! Where have you been? I've been looking for you for so long! Please help me check..."
Various names, various bonds.
Without exception, those tones were filled with trust and respect for Pan Junwen.
When hearing those voices, Xia Meng also felt a deep sense of powerlessness, as if a part of her body was empty and disappeared, and a gust of wind could blow directly through the hole in her body.
At that moment, she empathized with the seventeen people in the factory.
She felt their helplessness, their anxiety, and their confusion and despair.
Losing Pan Junwen was like taking an organ out of their body, which was heartbreaking.
…
Wang Xiangyi always disliked her for being too empathetic with patients.
But last night, her empathy came in handy.
If she hadn't heard those voices, if she hadn't personally experienced the symptoms and feelings of Cotard's syndrome, she wouldn't have been able to confirm this important clue so quickly.
After hearing this, Ou Xu was still a little confused.
He: "It's just been confirmed now, why do you seem so confident?"
He: "Didn't you just say that it's very difficult to treat Cotard's syndrome? And you only saw your teacher treat it once, right?"
Xia Meng sighed, with an expression that said, "This child is incorrigible."
Xia Meng: "Reality is reality, can it be the same here?"
She said: "It's true that they have Cotard's syndrome, but our goal now is not to cure them."
She: "Have you forgotten? Our goal is to find the door and take them out of here. Whether we can cure them or not, we will discuss it after we get out."
"Okay." Ou Xu thought he had finally caught up with Xia Meng's thinking rhythm.
He humbly asked for advice: "Then may I ask, how do you plan to find the door?"
Xia Meng smiled: "It's very simple. Of course, it's to fulfill their wishes."
Ou Xu felt that he seemed to be unable to keep up with Xia Meng's thinking again.
He said, "I understand the logic, but their wish...isn't it Pan Junwen? Are you going to conjure up a Pan Junwen from somewhere? Are you going to have Director Zhou push him in here from the morgue?"
Xia Meng: "...you should respect the deceased."
Ou Xu slid down to his knees quickly and immediately raised his hands to the sky and bowed: "Oh, I'm sorry, Teacher Pan."
Su Fangxiao asked Xia Meng: "So what do you mean...?"
Xia Meng held up her chin and said, "I suspect that some of Pan Junwen's spiritual power still remains in this world."
Ou Xu: "What do you mean?"
Xia Meng said, "Didn't you see Pan Junwen's counseling records? He worked the entire day yesterday in the counseling department. Of these seventeen people, at least two had just received counseling from him yesterday."
After the guide's mental power enters the sentinel's mental picture, most of it will be used to dredge and purify the mental black spots. Usually after the purification is completed, a small part will remain in it to continue to maintain the purification effect.
Xia Meng suspected that as the spiritual images of these seventeen people merged, the two strands of spiritual power from Pan Junwen also merged here.
Maybe you become a part of the human body factory, or maybe you become one of the workers.
Xia Meng rested her chin on her hand and thought: "I personally tend to believe that he became a worker."
Ou Xu: "Why?"
Xia Meng: "Think about it, if the consciousness of those seventeen people merged into this factory, then if Pan Junwen is also a part of this factory, how could they still not find him? Unless, Pan Junwen's current existence is both part of this world and not entirely part of this factory. In that case, he can only be a worker."
The relationship between workers and factories is simply one of employment.
The consciousness of the human factory cannot fully control the workers, so it divides the workers into different levels and commands them through radio.
The logic of Xia Meng's reasoning is flawless.
Ou Xu couldn't help but raise his hand and give her a thumbs up.
Ou Xu: "So, how exactly are you going to find it?"
Xia Meng rubbed the back of her neck slowly and said, "I've come up with two ideas so far."
Ou Xu pressed on: "Tell me quickly."
Xia Meng: "One is more bloody and violent, the other is more time-consuming. Which one do you choose?"
Ou Xu glared: "...tell me about both?"
Xia Meng readily agreed: "First, while all the workers are here, when everyone gets up and goes to work, we will go out and kill all the people outside."
Ou Xu: “………………”
Ou Xu's jaw dropped.
It’s really bloody and violent...!
Ou Xu said quickly: "Let's listen to the second method!"
Xia Meng smiled and said, "To be honest, I think the first suggestion is quite constructive. Are you really not going to give it a try?"
Ou Xu looked at her as if she were a little lunatic.
Somehow, he suddenly remembered many moments before.
In Huo Qingyu's mental picture, there was a scene where Xia Meng stabbed the dagger into her chest without hesitation.
In the mental picture of Jingbei Hospital, she stood in front of the cafeteria engulfed in flames, smiling brightly.
Those two faces suddenly overlapped with the face that just smiled and said that it would kill everyone.
Ou Xu always felt that there was a kind of crazy beauty under Xia Meng's calm expression at this moment.
He couldn't help but wonder, are all their mental states in the psychiatric department so beautiful?
Xia Meng had no idea what he was thinking about, so she continued, "As for the second method, it will take some time and effort. When we enter the human body factory to work, we'll find an opportunity to blend in with the workers of other levels and investigate them one by one."
Ou Xu asked: "How do you mix it?"
Xia Meng spoke without hesitation: "There are many ways, such as stealing a few armbands on the way to work. The workers in this factory basically rely on armbands to judge their status. As long as we change into armbands, we can basically get away with it. Of course, it won't work at the door. Everyone is standing together there, and it will be too easy to expose someone if someone is missing or more. We need to wait until we enter the factory and then find a chance to sneak out."
Ou Xu: "Specifically? How exactly do we escape? I remember that workshop yesterday, apart from the pipes on both sides, there was no way out at all, right?"
He still remembers clearly how the delivery guy died yesterday.
He didn't want to go through that kind of pain again.
Xia Meng glanced at Li Zhou and said, "Don't worry about this. We have a way to solve it."
In that case, Ou Xu has nothing more to ask.
He just needs to follow Xia Meng mindlessly.
It was already bright outside the window.
Their semi-basement only has a short window.
The bright sunlight streamed in through the long window, and I could faintly hear the sounds of people getting up one after another next door and upstairs.
At this time, steam was rising from the teapot on their table again.
Xia Meng skillfully poured a glass for each of the four people.
The bright red tea soup still has the effect of refreshing the mind.
After drinking a glass, Xia Meng felt that the fatigue from not sleeping all night was swept away, and she felt as if she had endless energy all over her body.
She stood up, stretched herself, and then pushed the door open and walked out.
The semi-basement requires a flight of stairs to reach the first floor.
The four of them went up the stairs. Looking up, they could see many people coming out of the rooms upstairs one after another, and they all looked refreshed.
Ou Xu was just about to ask how to steal the armband when he saw Xia Meng give Li Zhou a wink.
Li Zhou didn't say much and walked quietly into the corner. In the blind spot where almost no one could see him, he moved quickly and climbed up along the outer wall of the building.
Ou Xu was stunned.
This skill is even more Spider-Man-like than Spider-Man.
Soon, he watched Li Zhou flip to the black layer.
There aren't many black rooms on the top floor.
At this time, the last room was still closed.
Li Zhou groped his way to the door, held his breath and listened. Within two seconds, the door was opened from the inside.
The burly man in black sleeves who had spoken rudely to Xia Meng and the others yesterday walked out yawning, his eyes narrowed. Before he could see clearly in front of him, he saw a hand reaching out from the side and striking towards him like lightning.
“Hmm!”
The burly man groaned, his eyes wide open as if he was about to die, and fell sideways on Li Zhou's arms.
Li Zhou quickly dragged him back to the room.
The whole set of movements was smooth and flowing, and including the two seconds of waiting at the door, the whole process took no more than five seconds.
Ten seconds later, Li Zhou came out wearing the black armband of a strong man.
After that, he continued to do the same thing and got two red armbands and one yellow armband.
Then he jumped down.
The main force has begun to prepare to go to work.
Xia Meng and others followed at the end of the group, waiting for Li Zhou to catch up.
The four of them walked side by side, watching Li Zhou take out four armbands.
Xia Meng asked: "What color do you want?"
Li Zhou glanced at her and said nothing.
Ou Xu said without hesitation: "Then I want the black one! I also want to experience what it's like to be at the top of the food chain."
Hearing this, Xia Meng smiled slightly and said meaningfully, "I think you didn't understand what I just said in the room."
Ou Xu: "Ah? What do you mean?"
Xia Meng didn't answer, but looked directly at Su Fangxiao: "What about you?"
Su Fangxiao and Ou Xu are different.
She had obviously guessed the meaning of the armband from Xia Meng's previous words.
If the colors of the energy stones represent the food, liquids, and air we eat, then this armband should also have a corresponding meaning.
For example, in the process of processing energy stones.
Energy Stone - what will happen to food after it enters the human body?
Through absorption in the stomach and intestines, nutrients will be absorbed by various human organs, enter the human body, and become nutrients in the blood.
As for the remaining residue, it will be eliminated through excretion.
Obviously, the job of the workers with yellow and black armbands is to deal with this food waste.
The yellow armband is 2-4, and the black armband is 9. To some extent, it can also indicate the extent to which the energy stone has transformed from food to residue.
Compared to food residues, blood seems to be a better choice.
However, understanding is one thing, but daring to choose is another.
Su Fangxiao silently looked at Li Zhou's deadly gaze and decided to give in: "...Then I'll choose yellow."
Li Zhou withdrew his gaze with satisfaction.
So Xia Meng took one of the two red armbands and put it in her pocket.
Xia Meng: "We'll see what happens later."
…
In front of the spherical fortress at the factory where everyone came.
I didn't notice it yesterday, but now I see that this spherical building does not look like a perfect circle, it really looks like a head.
The sound of countless gears turning gradually grew louder.
The gate of the spherical fortress opened on time.
Just like yesterday, a number 9 popped up above the gate, and workers wearing black armbands lined up and entered.
Then the number gradually decreases until it reaches 1.
What’s different from yesterday is that there are a few more unfamiliar faces today.
These people had puzzled and bewildered expressions on their faces, as if they had no idea why they suddenly came here.
Like many people yesterday.
Xia Meng sighed. It seemed that the influence of this spiritual picture had expanded again, unknowingly drawing more people in.
They have to hurry.
More than a dozen people walked into the gate one after another.
The moment the door closed behind them, the last ray of light disappeared, and the ground beneath their feet was empty again. Everyone fell to the ground amid the unexpected screams of the newcomers.
This time, there was no need to wait for Li Zhou to take the initiative to protect her. Xia Meng had already very consciously hugged his waist and rolled directly into his arms, showing her initiative and active cooperation.
Li Zhou was distracted and hugged her, while his other hand was not idle either. Taking advantage of the moment when everyone fell, he seized the opportunity and swung out an iron rod that he had taken out from somewhere, and inserted it straight into the gap of the metal door. He successfully blocked the gap at the moment when the door of Workshop No. 1 was closed.
Everyone fell to the ground.
The newcomers fell all over the place.
On the other hand, the few who were there yesterday seemed much calmer, and they all got up one after another.
Luo Jiajia spotted the iron rod immediately and looked at them in confusion: "What are you doing?"
Xia Meng didn't plan to hide it from them: "We plan to go out and take a look."
Luo Jiajia's eyes widened in shock. "What? You're a bit too bold! What if we get caught? Have you forgotten what happened to Chen Zhenxing yesterday?"
When mentioning the delivery guy, Luo Jiajia subconsciously lowered her voice.
Xia Meng didn't say much.
Luo Jiajia then looked at the others, trying to find an ally to help her stop them.
However, among those people, Ge Yue was not prepared to meddle in other people's affairs, and the lawyer also looked indifferent. The soldier hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice: "Do you need help?"
Xia Meng thanked him and said, "No thanks."
Awu is probably the only one who stands on Luo Jiajia's side.
He looked at them with disapproval and whispered a warning, "If you wander around the factory, people will get killed."
Xia Meng looked at him and felt that something was wrong.
Why is he so sure?
Didn’t he just come in with them yesterday?
The reactions of the other few people were normal.
Xia Meng was cautious.
The broadcast is about to begin.
It would probably be too late to leave by then.
Xia Meng signaled the other three to act immediately.
Li Zhou walked towards the door that was previously blocked by an iron rod. With a little effort, he successfully pried the door open to create a gap large enough for a person to pass sideways.
The four of them successfully squeezed out through the crack in the door.
As soon as they came out, the four of them put on the armbands they had snatched in the morning.
Outside the door was a long corridor with lights on.
One end of the corridor seemed to be the fortress gate they had entered, and the other end stretched endlessly into the dark distance.
There are several colored lines of light painted on the floor of the corridor, red, yellow and black, pointing in the direction of each workshop.
Xia Meng and Li Zhou had been here once before and were very familiar with the layout here.
She said: "The four of us will split up and you just follow the light of the corresponding color."
All they had to do was go to the corresponding workshop and confirm whether Pan Junwen was there.
As Xia Meng said before, it is not difficult, but it is time-consuming and laborious.
The four of them walked along the corridor and soon came to an intersection.
The first to go their separate ways was Su Fangxiao, who headed towards Workshop No. 2 wearing her yellow armband.
The next people to turn the corner were Xia Meng and Li Zhou.
Only Ou Xu was wearing his black armband and heading straight for Workshop No. 9 in the distance without hesitation.
Xia Meng watched Comrade Ou Xu go away with sympathy.
If she guessed correctly, Workshop No. 9 was where the dirty work was done and the stench was terrible.
That’s good, at least Ou Xu is not a sentinel.
It is a blessing in disguise that I don’t have an overly sensitive sense of smell.
Xia Meng withdrew her gaze and followed Li Zhou forward.
Workshops 5-8 are all red.
Some correspond to the internal organs, and some correspond to the limbs.
Xia Meng said, "How about this, let's split up and I'll be responsible for checking numbers 5 and 6, and you'll be responsible for numbers 7 and 8."
Li Zhou had no objection.
So, when they reached the next intersection, the two of them tacitly split up into two groups.
Workshop No. 5 connects the heart and lungs.
This is probably the most core area of this human body factory and also the largest workshop.
Xia Meng stood outside the door. She did not have the destructive power of Li Zhou, so she could only stand outside the door, using her spirit body's ability to pass through walls to project her senses onto Ergou.
Ergou skillfully climbed up the eaves and walls, climbing to the top of the workshop silently, and looked down at everyone in the workshop from above.
There are a lot of people in Workshop No. 5.
Everything that happened last night seemed to have no impact on this place.
After the "explosion", the energy stones that were transported for emergency repairs have been cleared away.
It was as if everything that happened last night left no trace here.
Xia Meng compared each face one by one.
None of them could match the face of Pan Junwen in the information.
"He should not be here. Come back, Ergou." Xia Meng murmured, and withdrew her gaze from Ergou.
She was about to turn around and head to Workshop No. 6, but suddenly stopped when her eyes swept across the wall of the corridor.
There was a wall of honor hanging on the wall in the corridor.
There are two rows of photos on the wall of honor.
At the top it says [Outstanding Employee of Workshop No. 5].
There are five photos in a row, with a total of ten people's headshots pasted on it.
What caught Xia Meng's attention was one of the photos.
It was a face that she felt looked very familiar, so familiar that she had just seen it in Workshop No. 1 a few minutes ago.
Isn’t this——Awu?
How could he be an outstanding employee of Workshop No. 5?
In a flash, many small details that she had originally ignored or put aside suddenly emerged before her eyes.
Why are there only nine shovels in Workshop No. 1?
Perhaps it was because there were only nine entry-level workers who were supposed to be there!
At that time, Xia Meng felt it was a bit strange. Why would a human factory that should focus on work efficiency have a scene where ten people fight for nine shovels?
Also, why at the end of the day, the radio announced that their overall performance score was 126.
If the points were divided equally among the nine people, each person should have received 14 points.
But later Xia Meng checked her performance score and found that she had received 15.75 points.
This means that the 126 performance points are divided equally into eight parts.
Just now, he looked very familiar with this place.
Obviously, a junior worker wearing a white armband should not have access to any information other than Workshop No. 1.
Why could he say so confidently that it was dangerous outside?
He is different from Luo Jiajia, a girl who has read too many infinite flow novels.
When the little girl mentioned the outside world, she was more afraid of the unknown.
But he was truly afraid and terrified.
Xia Meng is very good at reading micro-expressions. This is probably the best lesson she has learned from Wang Xiangyi.
This course is very interesting. It allows us to judge a person's thoughts and emotions by observing the extremely subtle, almost fleeting micro-expressions on his face.
And at that moment, all of Awu's micro-expressions told her: he was lying.
——Who is he?
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