Section 2396 Showroom

"I'm not used to the lack of warning of the roar." Nice muttered.

Kant: "Speaking of the roar, I remember that the last time there was a roar, there was an obvious beast cry mixed in."

Nice: "I noticed it too. I guess the nest they explored is indeed a sea beast nest. I just don't know if our guess is right. Will it really be the descendants of Xizi... Hey, mascot, didn't you say there were staff members? Why can't I see any of them? If we can catch someone to ask, maybe we can get an answer."

"Usually the staff are indeed nearby, and I don't know what's going on. Maybe they went to the lower level?" Reynolds' voice came from the mind band. He was very calm about the nickname of the mascot. Anyway, he couldn't resist, so he could only accept it.

"Then go to the lower level. But I remember you said there is also a soul weapon display room on the first floor? Anyway, we have already made it this far, go and take a look." From Nice's slightly excited tone, it can be seen that he obviously wants to do more than just "take a look".

Angel listened to the conversation of the mind band for a while, and then blocked it again, because it was basically just Nice's monologue and self-entertainment. Instead of wasting time listening to him, it would be better to study the magic pattern.

After the air wave disappeared, Angel immersed himself in the study of the magic pattern again.

On the other side, Reynolds went to the exhibition room on the first floor at Nice's strong request.

Along the way, they passed by the experimental center, the storage room and the material warehouse, and Nice went into every room to take a look. His goal was not just to "see", it would definitely be better if he could take it away; but in the end, he just "looked". Because there was really nothing on the first floor that he could take a fancy to.

According to Reynolds, there are only two most valuable things on the first floor: staff and exhibition room.

The staff is the core of the laboratory. Even the staff on the first floor will be involved in a lot of research related to the core, and their value is unquestionable.

Although there is an exhibition room on every floor, and the value increases layer by layer, this does not mean that the exhibition room on the first floor has no value.

Like Reynolds' soul weapon, it was originally a display room on the first floor. The value of soul weapons lies not in themselves, but in the people who use them.

Reynolds led the way in front, while Nice walked and observed the surroundings.

Before, I had always heard Reynolds say that there was no danger inside the laboratory. There were traps, but as long as you were careful, you could avoid them. This gave Nice an illusion that the laboratory didn't seem to be very dangerous.

But when he really walked in the laboratory, Nice realized that Reynolds' words were purely his personal understanding deviation.

Reynolds has lived in the laboratory for many years and has become accustomed to everything here. In addition, many traps will also have authority identification. Reynolds has basically never triggered the traps here, so his cognition is limited.

Now they follow Reynolds in the laboratory, and it seems that they haven't triggered the traps, but this is only because Reynolds leads the way. If he broke in without a guide, Nice believes that he probably won't get any good results now.

As an experienced wizard, Nice has seen several dangerous traps along the way.

Danger is nothing, the most important thing is that the laboratory is not as spacious as imagined. Although it is connected in all directions and has many large rooms - such as the experimental center and the storage room, but most of the places are narrow corridors.

They have been in narrow passages for 80% of the time.

These passages are all mechanical structures, covered with magic patterns and inlaid with energy pipelines.

Nice's magic pattern learning is not very good, but he can still see that if they trigger the magic pattern in such a passage, they will be backfired by the entire magic energy array.

Therefore, walking in the narrow passage, they can't attack the surrounding walls. This makes their safe passage area even narrower.

Moreover, in such a narrow and complicated passage, if you accidentally take the wrong way, you will walk into a dead end and encounter a mechanism that can destroy everything.

If this is not dangerous, Nice doesn't know what danger is.

It can only be said that they are lucky. With Reynolds, a rebel, they can travel freely in the laboratory relatively safely.

After walking for about ten minutes in the passage filled with green light, red light, mechanical valves and energy tubes, they finally arrived at the showroom.

The door of the showroom was closed, and two huge steel doors blocked the route. The nameplate of the showroom was displayed right above the door, and it was lit with normal white light.

It is worth mentioning that the words engraved on the nameplate of the showroom, in addition to the normal common text, also have tadpole-like Quest world text.

If it were in other places, facing a closed secret room, the first method of intrusion that Nice would choose would definitely be soul infiltration, but it was different here. The laboratory was almost full of magic patterns, and these magic patterns were integrated and had the function of preventing energy bodies.

There were also similar magic patterns flashing on the two steel doors. In other words, it was also connected to the magic patterns of the entire laboratory. Unless the magic patterns of the entire laboratory were destroyed, it would be basically impossible to get in with the soul.

Nice turned to look at Reynolds: "Is there a way to get in?"

Reynolds hesitated for a moment and said: "Last time I came with Nausicaa, I could get in, but now, I don't know if I can still get in without my body, and I don't know if my authority has been blocked. Let me try first."

Reynolds walked forward and took a deep breath, looking very cautious.

But this solemn atmosphere was easily broken by Nice, who silently said in the mind band: "Mascot, don't forget that you are a soul body now. I am sure you can't breathe. What you breathe is loneliness."

Reynolds almost couldn't hold it. The soul power in his soul body fluctuated for a long time before he forced it down. He ignored Nice's complaints and stretched out his translucent hand to the steel door.

The moment Reynolds' soul hand touched the door, the magic pattern on the door immediately reacted.

The energy flow began to flow towards the nameplate above the door.

The nameplate with the words "Showroom" also changed from white light to yellow light. At the same time, a mechanical eye drilled out from the nameplate.

The mechanical eye looks a bit like the magic eye of the Sky Mechanical City, but it lacks the wings that can soar into the air, and has a few more silver tentacles that look like spider legs. These tentacles allow the mechanical eye to smoothly cling to the nameplate.

After the mechanical eye appeared, the one-eyed man did not look at other people, but stared straight at Reynolds.

Reynolds felt his whole body tense and his heartbeat accelerated - of course, he forgot that he had no heartbeat yet.

About two or three seconds later, the mechanical eye returned to the inside of the nameplate, and at the same time, the nameplate that flashed yellow light turned into flashing green light.

When a "click" sound came from his ear.

"Okay, the door is unlocked." Reynolds also breathed a sigh of relief.

"What was that just now?" Nice looked at the nameplate curiously. When the mechanical eye came out, he didn't feel anything, but later the mechanical eye released a very interesting ripple that covered Reynolds, and the ripple contained a soul power, which made Nice curious.

"The steward of the showroom, or the authority eye."

Almost every showroom has such a mechanical eye-style steward, which dominates the authority to enter and exit the showroom. All people entering and exiting the showroom will be inspected by it. Yellow light means verification, green light means verification passed, and red light means verification failed and the alert mode is activated.

Nice: "You have become a soul, and it can recognize you?"

Reynolds scratched his head: "I don't know, but I once heard a saying that the authority eye recognizes not people, but soul marks. Now it seems that it may be true."

If the authority eye determines the entry authority by identifying the soul mark, then even if Reynolds becomes a soul, he will not be restricted. Because the soul mark itself is engraved on the soul.

As of now, there are two marks X and No. 1 on the face of Reynolds' soul body.

"Identify the soul mark, then the one who tinkered with this thing is probably involved in the force of the Quest world." Nice said secretly. However, he knew nothing about that force and could only guess in his heart.

No further thought, the most important thing is that the door is opened.

The magic pattern on the steel door has been unlocked, and with a rumbling sound, the door slowly opened.

Unlike the other rooms they went to before, when the door opened, white steam with a biting frost rolled in from the crack of the door.

When the two doors were completely opened, the scene inside was also seen by everyone.

The exhibition room has a larger space than the experimental center, and it is as spacious as a small or medium-sized square.

There are large and small metal platforms everywhere inside, and a special transparent container is displayed on each platform.

Because the temperature inside is extremely low, it is covered with white frost everywhere, and it is not clear what is in the transparent container for a while.

But from the overall layout of the exhibition room, Nice thought of the cave that Angel discovered in the Central Empire.

There are stone platforms all around the altar in the cave, and there are similar containers on the stone platforms. The situation here is very similar to that in the cave, except that here, the stone platform has been replaced by a metal display stand, and the appearance is more refined.

If it is really the same as the situation in the cave, then the transparent container may contain those... organs.

As Nice was thinking this, the white mist on a small platform closest to the gate gradually disappeared due to the flow of external air.

The frost on the transparent container also began to dissipate, revealing the true appearance inside.

It was a head.

To be precise, it was half a head soaked in a clear yellow liquid.

From the round nose, dark black and rough skin, and big ears like a palm leaf fan, it can be seen that this half head probably came from a "pig".

Or, a pig-shaped humanoid?

This kind of humanoid with a certain beast form is almost non-existent in the Southern Region. However, in the Deluna plane, there are quite a lot of such existences. After all, the outer gods of this plane are beast-shaped.

"It really is an organ for transplantation." Nice approached the platform and carefully observed the pig head. He found that its skin looked rough from a distance, but it was not as simple as rough when he looked at it closely. Its skin surface was covered with very small black holes, and each hole was absorbing external energy liquid.

Pigman - let's call it a pigman for the time being.

The pigman's ears were engraved with some primitive totems, which vaguely pointed to some inexplicable existence. Looking at it, Nice felt a little palpitated.

"This is a believer of an alien god from the Druna plane. He has been baptized many times. If there is a correct transplantation method, he will have a very powerful increase in power." The speaker was Canter. As a well-informed scholar, He recognized the origin of this pig man at a glance.

"That's what I say, but would anyone really choose to transplant a pig head?"

Ness cursed and stretched out his hand, ready to take the container away.

Regardless of whether the pig head is good or not, its value is definitely not low. After all, the ones that can be placed in the showroom have been successfully integrated into the soul weapon.

However, just when Nice stretched out his hand, Reynolds said in the psychic belt: "Sir, the showroom has its own protection system. The number of displayed items fluctuates occasionally, which is no problem, but if there are too many missing items, It may put the showroom on alert.”

"You mean, we can't take more?" Nice looked dissatisfied.

"I don't know the specifics," Reynolds explained. "That's what I heard from people who studied the sequence."

Reynolds once entered the showroom and often saw items coming in and out of the showroom. At that time, he thought that items in the showroom could be taken away at will. Later, a person studying the sequence told him that there is a daily withdrawal amount for items in the showroom, which is convenient for researchers. Once the withdrawal amount exceeds the limit, the showroom will enter an alert state.

At that time, if you want to take the items in the showroom, the people in the first three sequences must make the decision.

This is actually a protective mechanism in the laboratory.

It can not only facilitate the work of ordinary researchers, but also avoid unlimited losses when loopholes occur.

Nice looked puzzled: "Is there such a restriction?"

On the other side, Kanter motioned for Nice to look towards the metal platform. Before, Nice had been paying attention to the pig's head in the container, but ignored the others. Now when he took a closer look, he discovered that there was actually a magic pattern connection between the metal platform and the container.

In other words, once the container is moved, it may really cause the magic energy array to counterattack.

Ness couldn't help but complain in the psychic tie: "This is really unfriendly."

Others were silent.

"Then what should we do now? Can't we take this pig's head?"

Reynolds: "As long as it doesn't exceed the limit, you can take it. Once you get close to the limit, the permission eye will appear and flash a yellow light to remind you. Don't continue to take it at that time... But it's best not to let the permission eye remind you, because This may be noticed by those still in the laboratory."

Although the combatants may have left, the staff are still there, and their authority is not low. If they were alert in advance, they might have hidden some treasures in the showroom below. What's more, if you directly order the permission eye to close the showroom entry and exit permissions, then there is a high possibility that nothing will be gained.

"Then when will the authority eye appear?"

"Generally speaking, if there are more than three items, it may trigger the permission eye prompt."

Although he was helpless, this was the reality. In order to prevent the next road from being difficult, Nice could only suppress his thoughts of collecting everything.

As for this pig's head... Nice doesn't want it for now.

It's better to look at other displays before making a decision.