Section 2405 Mirrored Corridor

After a while, they stood outside a corridor full of water.

This corridor was completely different from the corridor they had passed before. The four walls were made of mercury, like a square mirror.

In such a mercury mirror corridor, there was a layer of water flowing.

Because of the reflection of the mirror, standing outside the corridor and looking inside, it seemed to create an infinitely wide shallow pool, but in fact the size was about the same as other corridors.

"Are you sure the sub-control node of this floor is inside?" Nice asked.

"The source of all magic pattern energy flows points to the depths of this corridor." Angel's voice sounded in the mind band, "If there is no other way, the sub-control node is inside."

Nice turned his head to look at Reynolds: "Have you been here?"

Reynolds shook his head blankly: "I didn't know there was such a corridor on the third floor of the laboratory."

Nice sighed and said unhappily: "You have lived here for decades."

Reynolds' expression was slightly embarrassed. He did live here for decades, but it didn't mean that he had been to all places. What's more, they found this place by passing through a bathroom with a high sequence number.

No one expected that there was a secret passage behind the bathroom with a high sequence number.

It can be said that this area is unknown to most of the laboratory personnel and belongs to the Hidden Snow Area.

Since he couldn't get help from Reynolds, Nice stopped looking at him and asked in the mind band: "What should I say next, enter it?"

Angel manipulated the authority eye and nodded up and down: "Time is running out, we must enter it as soon as possible and control the information transmission block... Does Wizard Nice have any suggestions?"

Nice said a little embarrassedly: "I just think that the water in this corridor is a little wrong. Otherwise, I will let the Skeleton Knight go in first?"

Angel: "There are also magic patterns in the water, so we can't test it casually."

Nice: "Then..."

Before Nice hesitated, Kant took a step forward: "Let's go in with Angel. After all, I know some magic patterns, and Wizard Nice doesn't know much about magic patterns."

Nice nodded immediately. He said so much just because he didn't want to move forward.

Angel himself had not thought of letting Nice follow him, so they could just stay outside.

Kant: "Shall we go in directly? Or should we observe for a while?"

Angel: "Wait a minute."

Through the vision of the authority eye, Angel carefully explored the corridor ahead. After all, he was not here in person, so he had no premonition of danger, but from the evasiveness of Nice's eyes and Kant's increasingly serious expression, it can be inferred that this corridor put a lot of pressure on them, which was also a warning of danger for wizards.

For this reason, Angel also put away his contempt and observed carefully.

One minute, two minutes... Soon, ten minutes passed.

Kant's expression became more and more serious, because he was the one who arranged the magic pattern that delayed the transmission of information in the medical center, and he could clearly sense that the delaying effect began to gradually fail. In no more than five minutes, the magic pattern there would fail, and the information transmitted by No. 23 would instantly reach all floors. At that time, the magic energy array would be fully activated, which would be very disadvantageous to them.

Although Kant was anxious, he did not dare to urge him, after all, Angel was an expert in magic patterns.

Another minute later, Angel's voice finally rang in the mind band: "Refraction, reflection, diffraction, scattering, and the use of light and shadow, mirrors, to create true and false illusory magic patterns. The one who arranged this corridor was very cautious."

Nice was confused: "What are you talking about?"

Angel: "Nothing, Lord Kant, you can go in. You must follow my guidance and don't make subjective judgments."

Kant didn't understand what Angel meant at first, until he stepped into the corridor and walked a few steps according to Angel's guidance, and then he gradually understood what Angel meant.

For example, there is a landing point, which should be where the magic patterns converge. From past experience, Kant can judge the corresponding position. However, Angel pointed to a very "crooked" point, which did not seem to be at the convergence of the magic patterns at all.

Kant hesitated again and again, and finally believed Angel's words.

Everything was safe and sound, which meant that they were on the right path.

This made Kant a little confused, why did his judgment fail? After asking, Angel did not say it directly, but gestured to Kant to look at the wall.

The four walls of Mercury are all mirrors, and the real magic pattern convergence point is projected onto the wall through the mirror.

Kant seems to be standing in a "crooked" position, but the "him" projected on the wall is standing at the correct magic pattern convergence point.

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, ignoring the external mirror and light factors, resulting in one wrong step and one wrong step.

Angel has been studying the 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 physical constants in this world are different from those on Earth, the characteristics of light are not much different.

It is precisely because of this knowledge that Angel can see through the secrets here in a short time and quickly crack the mechanism of the corridor.

With Angell's explanation, Kant understood. He no longer judged the route based on his own experience. He followed Angell's command and walked deeper step by step...

While Angell and Kant walked to the sub-control node, Nice was thinking about the previous conversation with No. 23.

Although No. 23 committed suicide in the end, it did not mean that they did not get any information.

Among the information obtained, what Nice cared about most was the sentence mentioned by No. 23: "The noble, great, and invincible existence is still sleeping. As long as your threat is confirmed, he will wake up and punish you with the power of God!"

From No. 23's state and emotions at the time, this sentence was not made up by him temporarily.

In other words, what he said is very likely to be true.

Once his message is transmitted, it may really lead to a sleeping strong man.

Who is this hidden 'strong man' prefixed with "noble, great, and invincible" by No. 23?

Nice looked at Reynolds floating in the air and threw out the question.

Reynolds looked confused: "I don't know who No. 23 is talking about. Is there really such a thing in the laboratory?"

Nice: "Why do I feel that you don't know anything? I am very confused now. Given your understanding of the laboratory, how did you break in with Nausicaa and escape successfully?"

Reynolds scratched his head and didn't know how to answer. He was very familiar with the shift arrangement of the laboratory's personnel, so he could easily enter last time. However, this does not mean that Reynolds is familiar with all the secrets of the laboratory.

Reynolds hesitated: "In addition to the hidden areas and some restricted areas, I am relatively familiar with the situation on the first four floors, but I have never heard of any hidden strongmen. I think the existence mentioned by No. 23 may be 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 been there less, Reynolds has a lot of fantasies about it.

Reynolds: "Oh, right. No. 23 has an assistant, serial number 91. I heard that she is his wife, I don't know if it's true or not. But what I can confirm is that they often stay together on weekdays, maybe she knows something."

Nice said expressionlessly: "Then where do you think this No. 91 is?"

Reynolds: "...I 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 fall into deep thought.

Nice actually had a guess in his mind about the hidden existence: Could No. 23 be talking about No. 00?

When talking with No. 03 outside before, No. 03 never denied the existence of No. 00.

However, because of the influence of Reynolds, they preconceived that even if No. 00 existed, it was not in the laboratory... After all, there have been problems inside the laboratory for decades, and the first three sequences are always the ones who come forward to solve the problems. No. 00 has never appeared and has always been in the "legend" and has not appeared.

Now that I think about it, No. 03 didn't say that No. 00 had 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 an instigating mood when she learned that they wanted to go inside the laboratory. Maybe she just felt that their entry would affect 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 trapped in a jar and being treated as a turtle.

…

Three minutes after Kant entered the mirror corridor, Nice received a message from Kant through the mind band: "The information transmission block has been controlled. The information sent by No. 23 has been processed."

About ten minutes later, Kant walked out of the mirror corridor with the authority eye.

Nice hurried forward and asked: "What's going on inside?"

Kant: "Nothing, it's similar to the previous sub-control nodes, just pure magic patterns."

Nice: "Did Angel find anything?"

The reason why Nice asked Kant about Angel's situation was because the eyes of the authority eye were closed at this time, and Angel was silent in the mind band. Obviously, Angel blocked the information from the outside world again.

Kant: "I didn't ask specifically, but Angel said that he could try to crack the location of the main control node. He is probably cracking it now."

"Let's go, let's go to the exhibition room on this floor first. According to Angel, you can take two items from the exhibition room on this floor. If you exceed the number, it will trigger an alert."

Nice nodded naturally. While looking for information, getting more exhibits is also good for him. Even if he really doesn't find the information, he can still use these exhibits to study soul weapons.

On the way back, Nice asked: "Apart from the magic pattern, is there nothing else in the sub-control node? Is there a hunting sequence?"

Kant nodded: "Yes, the hunting sequence numbered 3 is sleeping inside."

Nice: "So, each sub-control node has a high-sequence mechanical puppet."

Kant: "That's right."

The first layer is the hunting sequence numbered 5, the second layer is the hunting sequence numbered 4, and the third layer is the hunting sequence numbered 3. According to this rule, it is not difficult to deduce that the fourth layer may be numbered 2, and the fifth layer is numbered 1.

But if we really follow this rule, a problem will arise.

"Each sub-control node on each floor has a hunting sequence, and as the number of floors 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 guard one each.

The main control node is obviously more important than the sub-control node. Will there also be a "guardian" in the main control node? Will it be the legendary No. 00?

Nice felt a little uneasy.

Kant told Nice not to think too much. Even if there is really No. 00, its strength should not exceed that of other sequences by much. At most, it is the level of a second-level true knowledge wizard. Kant thinks he can still deal with it. Even if it reaches the level of third-level true knowledge, Kant thinks there is a way... to escape.

Rather than worrying about No. 00, Kant is more worried about the person who can blur his memory that Ferro met.

That existence may be the real hidden boss.

...

A few minutes later, they returned to the medical center.

Before, because they were in a hurry to find the sub-control node, they did not stay in the medical center for too long. Now that they have time, they naturally cannot 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 is very familiar with this place. 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 soul weapons.

Although there is a gap with the imagined situation, from a theoretical point of view, these also involve soul weapons, and there are some gains.

Moreover, from the medical records, they also learned one thing.

No. 23 took the initiative to enter the cold liquid to recuperate a day ago, that is, before the combatants went to the nest.

The reason for recuperation is that No. 23 was attacked by a monster, but the specific monster was not recorded in the medical records.

From the scorched injuries of No. 23, Nice guessed that it was probably a monster that was good at using fire.

But when Nice asked Reynolds if there were similar monsters in the laboratory, Reynolds shook his head.

Shaking his head does not mean denial, but ignorance.

What Reynolds knew was that the monsters kept in the laboratory were basically water-based sea beasts, and there were no fire-based monsters. However, because the laboratory often needed monster organs, it was normal to have fire-based monsters in the laboratory occasionally, but they would be chopped into pieces soon.

Because he could not determine the specific situation, and this 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 exhibition room.

They did not encounter any obstacles along the way and arrived at the exhibition room smoothly.