After a while, they stood outside a corridor filled with water.
This corridor is completely different from the corridors they passed before. The four walls are made of mercury-like material, like a square mirror.
In such a corridor made of mercury mirrors, there is a layer of water flowing.
Because of the reflection in the mirror, when you stand outside the corridor and look inside, it seems to create an infinitely wide shallow pool, but in fact it is about the same size as other corridors.
"Are you sure the sub-control node on this level is inside?" Nice asked.
"The source of all magic pattern energy flows to the depths of this corridor." Angel's voice sounded in the spiritual belt, "If there is no other way, the sub-control node is inside."
Nice turned to look at Reynolds: "Have you been here?"
Reynolds shook his head blankly: "I had no idea there was such a corridor on the third floor of the laboratory."
Nice sighed and said angrily: "Thank you for living here for decades."
Reynolds looked slightly embarrassed. He had indeed lived here for decades, but that didn't mean he had been to every place. What's more, when they found this place, they also passed through a bathroom with a high serial number.
No one thought that there was a secret passage behind the bathroom with a high serial number.
It can be said that this area is unknown to most laboratory personnel and belongs to the hidden snow area.
Since he could not get help from Reynolds, Ness no longer looked at him, but asked through the psychic belt: "What next, enter inside?"
Angel manipulated the authority and nodded up and down: "Time is running out, we must enter it as soon as possible and control the block of information transmission...Does the Wizard of Nice have any suggestions?"
Nice said coquettishly: "I just think there is something wrong with the water in this corridor. How about I ask the Skeleton Knight to go in first and try it?"
Angel: "There are also magic patterns in the water, so you can't test them at will."
Nice: "Then..."
Before Nice could hesitate, Kanter took a step forward gently: "It's better for me and Angel to go in together. After all, I know some magic patterns, and the Nice wizard doesn't know much about magic patterns."
Nice nodded immediately. He said so much, but he just didn't want to go forward.
Angel himself had never thought about letting Nice follow him, so they could just stay outside.
Kanter: "Shall we go in directly? Or should we observe again?"
Angel: "Wait a moment."
Through the vision of the authority eye, Angel carefully explored the corridor ahead. After all, he was not coming in person, so he had no premonition of danger, but from the dodge of Nice's eyes and Kanter's increasingly solemn expression, it can be inferred that
, this corridor puts a lot of pressure on them, which is also the wizard's early warning of danger.
Because of this, Angel also put away his contempt and observed carefully.
One minute, two minutes... very quickly, ten minutes passed.
Kanter's expression became more serious, because he had arranged the magic pattern that delayed the transmission of information in the medical center. He could clearly feel that the delaying effect was beginning to lose its effect. In no more than five minutes at most, the magic pattern there would
If it fails, the information sent out on the 23rd will reach all floors instantly. When the magic energy array is fully activated, it will be quite detrimental to them.
Although Kanter was anxious, he did not dare to rush. After all, Angel was an expert in magic patterns.
After another minute, Angel's voice finally rang out in the spiritual belt: "Refraction, reflection, diffraction, scattering, and the use of light, shadow, and mirrors to create true and false magic patterns to lay out this corridor.
That one is very cautious."
Nice looked confused: "What are you talking about?"
Angel: "It's okay, Mr. Kanter, you can go in. You must follow my guidance and don't use subjective consciousness to make judgments."
Kanter didn't understand what Angel meant at first. It wasn't until he stepped into the corridor and followed Angel's guidance for a few steps that he gradually understood what Angel meant.
For example, there is a landing point, which should be where the magic patterns converge. Based on past experience and observation, Kanter himself can judge the corresponding location. However, Angel pointed to a very "crooked" point.
Going up there is not at all where the magic patterns converge.
Kanter hesitated again and again, and finally believed Angel's words.
Everything was fine, which meant they were on the right track.
This made Kanter a little confused, why his judgment was invalid? After asking, Angel did not say it directly, but motioned Kanter to look at the wall.
The four walls of Mercury are mirrored, and the real gathering point of the magic pattern is projected onto the wall through the mirror.
Kanter seems to be standing in a "crooked" position, but the 'him' projected on the wall is actually standing at the correct point where the magic patterns converge.
To put it bluntly, the magic pattern here is the application of mirrors and light.
If you are not familiar with this, it is easy to walk according to normal logic and ignore the factors of external mirror and light, resulting in wrong steps and wrong steps.
Angel has been studying mirror space recently and has a relatively good understanding of light and mirrors. Moreover, he has not forgotten the common sense of physics that Jon taught him. Even if some of the physical constants of this world are different from those of the earth, light
The characteristics are not much different.
It is precisely because of this knowledge that Angel was able to see through the secrets here in a short time and quickly crack the corridor's trap.
With Angel's explanation, Kanter finally understood. Then he no longer judged the route based on his own experience. He listened to Angel's command and walked deeper step by step...
While Angel and Kanter were walking to the sub-control node, on the other side, Nice was thinking about the previous conversation with No. 23.
Although No. 23 finally committed suicide, it does not mean that they did not get any information.
Among the information obtained, what concerned Nice the most was the sentence mentioned by No. 23 - "That noble, great, invincible existence is still sleeping. As long as your threat is confirmed, he will wake up and use the power of God to
You will be sanctioned!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Judging from the state and emotions on the 23rd, this sentence was not improvised by him.
In other words, what he said is very likely to be true.
Once his message is transmitted, it might really lead to a sleeping strong man.
Who is this hidden 'strong man' who is prefixed with "noble, great, and invincible" on the 23rd?
Ness looked at Reynolds floating in the air and asked his question.
Reynolds looked confused: "I don't know who No. 23 is talking about. Does such a laboratory really exist?"
Nice: "Why do I feel like you don't know anything when you ask questions? I'm very confused now. With how much you know about the laboratory, how did you manage to escape after breaking in with Nausicaa?"
Reynolds scratched his head and didn't know how to answer. He was very familiar with the laboratory's personnel shift arrangement and could easily enter last time. However, this did not mean that Reynolds was familiar with all the secrets of the laboratory.
Reynolds hesitated for a moment: "In addition to the hidden areas, there are also some restricted areas. I am relatively familiar with the situation on the first four floors, but I have never heard of any hidden strong people. I think the person mentioned on the 23rd exists.
Maybe hidden on the fifth floor?”
Reynolds has only been to the fifth floor once, which is the reserved area for the first three sequences. Because he has not been there so often, Reynolds has a lot of reverie about it.
Reynolds: "Oh, by the way. There is an assistant on the 23rd, the serial number is 91. I heard that she is his wife, I don't know whether it is true or not. But what I can confirm is that they often stay together on weekdays.
Maybe she knows something."
Nice's face was expressionless: "Then what do you think of No. 91?"
Reynolds: "...don't know."
Nice: "Then what's the difference between what you said and nonsense."
Nice rolled his eyes at Reynolds and ignored him, but continued to be lost in thought.
Regarding the hidden existence, Nice actually had a guess in his mind: Could the number 23 be referring to the number 00?
When talking to No. 03 outside, No. 03 never denied the existence of No. 00.
However, due to the influence of Reynolds, they preconceptionally believed that even if No. 00 existed, it was not in the laboratory... After all, there have been situations within the laboratory for decades, and it was always the first three sequences, No. 00, who came forward to solve the problem.
The number has never appeared, and has always been in "legend" and has not been seen.
Now that I think about it, No. 03 didn't say that No. 00 left. She just kept silent and didn't want to talk more.
Maybe No. 00 is actually in the laboratory?
After all, No. 03 clearly showed encouragement when he learned that they wanted to go inside the laboratory. Maybe they thought that their entry would trigger No. 00?
If No. 00 is really sleeping somewhere in the laboratory, then their actions must be faster and more cautious and secretive.
Find the information and leave the laboratory as soon as possible to avoid being locked in an urn and being treated like a turtle.
…
Three minutes after Kanter entered the mirror corridor, Nice received a message from Kanter from the psychic belt: "The block for information transmission has been controlled. The message sent on the 23rd has been processed."
About ten minutes later, Kanter walked out of the mirrored corridor with authority eyes.
Nice quickly stepped forward and asked: "What's going on inside?"
Kanter: "It's nothing. It's almost the same as the previous sub-control node. It's just a pure magic pattern."
Nice: "Did Angel discover anything?"
The reason why Nice asked Kanter about Angel's condition was because the eyes of the authority eye were closed at this time, and Angel was silent in the psychic belt. Apparently Angel had blocked information from the outside world.
Kanter: "I didn't ask specifically, but Angel said that he can already try to crack the location of the main control node. He is probably in the process of cracking it now."
"Let's go, let's go to the showroom on this floor first. According to Angel, you can take two items from the showroom on this floor. If you exceed it, the warning will be triggered."
Niss nodded naturally. While searching for information, it would also be good for him to obtain more exhibits. Even if he really didn't find the information, he could still use these exhibits to study soul weapons.
On the way back, Nice asked: "In the sub-control node, is there nothing else besides magic patterns? Is there a hunting sequence?"
Kant nodded: "Yes, the hunting sequence numbered 3 is sleeping inside."
Nice: "So, each layer of sub-control nodes has a high-sequence mechanical puppet."
Kanter: "That's right."
The first floor is the hunting sequence numbered 5, the second floor is the hunting sequence numbered 4, and the third floor is the hunting sequence numbered 3. According to this rule, it is not difficult to deduce that the fourth floor may be the hunting sequence numbered 2 and the fifth floor.
It's number 1.
But if we really follow this rule, a problem will arise.
"Each layer of sub-control nodes has a hunting sequence, and as the number of layers increases, the sequence number increases, and the strength also increases... If this continues, what about the main control node?"
There are five sub-control nodes on the fifth floor, and the first five hunting sequences each guard one.
The main control node is obviously more important than the sub-control node. Will there also be a "guardian" in the main control node? Could it be the legendary No. 00?
Nice felt a little uneasy in her heart.
Kanter told Nice not to think too much. Even if there really is No. 00, its strength should not be much higher than that of other sequences. At most, it will be at the level of a second-level gnosis wizard. Kanter thinks he can still deal with it. Even if he reaches the third-level gnosis,
Level, Kanter thinks there is a way... to escape.
Rather than worrying about No. 00, Kanter is more worried about the person Ferro meets who can blur his memory.
That being may be the real hidden boss.
…
A few minutes later, they returned to the medical center.
Because I was in a hurry to find the sub-control node, I didn't stay in the medical center for too long. Now that I have time, I naturally can't skip it hastily.
Such a medical center must have some experimental records.
Finding the experimental records may be of great help to Nice's future research on soul weapons.
Because Reynolds was "born" in the medical center, he was very familiar with it. Under his leadership, Nice quickly found a pile of records.
Most of them are medical records, and the remaining small part involves experimental records, all about the experimental subject numbered X, and related research on the compatibility with the soul weapon.
Although there is a gap between the situation and the imagined situation, from a theoretical point of view, these also involve soul weapons, and there is always something gained.
Moreover, they also learned something from the medical records.
No. 23 was recuperating in the cold liquid that the combatants voluntarily entered one day before going to the lair.
The reason why he needed to recuperate was because he was attacked by a monster on the 23rd, but the specific monster was not recorded in the medical records.
Nice guessed from the scorched injuries on No. 23 that it was a monster that was good at using fire.
But when Ness asked Reynolds if there were any similar monsters in the laboratory, Reynolds shook his head.
Shaking your head doesn't mean denial, it means you don't know.
What Reynolds knows is that the monsters kept in captivity in the laboratory are basically water-type sea monsters, and there are no ones that are good at fire. However, because the laboratory often needs monster organs, it is normal to occasionally have fire-type monsters in the laboratory, but they
It will be torn into pieces soon.
Because he could not determine the specific situation and it was not a very important matter, Nice did not continue to explore. After packing up the relevant experimental records, they left the medical center and walked towards the showroom.
They arrived at the showroom smoothly without encountering any obstacles along the way.