Chapter 850 Entering the Research Institute

Just as Li Luo was looking at the cameras reflecting the bright light, the door suddenly opened with a "click".

The black door cracked a gap, and the gap flickered with light patterns like ripples.

"Is this to let me in?"

Li Luo looked at the door, then at the cameras, and walked forward decisively.

The door was very heavy, and Li Luo used a lot of force to push it open. She squeezed through the gap in the door sideways and entered the research institute, and then widened the gap in the door from the inside to let the cube float in.

Seeing the cube also come in, Li Luo let go of her hand, and the door slowly closed, tightly closed, as if completely isolating Li Luo from the outside world.

Looking at the tightly closed door, Li Luo was stunned. She actually came in like this.

The research institute was still shining with colorful neon lights. After Li Luo came in, the surveillance cameras in the institute slowly turned towards her again.

Although there was no one, Li Luo felt a thorn in his back.

Just when Li Luo was confused about where to go, a hunched figure appeared in the colorful halo in the distance.

It seemed to be an old man, walking slowly towards the gate.

Li Luo waited there, but the other person walked too slowly, so she went straight to meet him with the cube.

Li Luo didn't stop until she rushed to the figure.

"Young man, don't be so impatient." A hoarse voice came.

Li Luo looked forward and found that it was the old man who was talking.

His hair was a little gray and his back was a little hunched. He seemed to be quite old, but the old man looked very energetic.

He was wearing a black coat with a black sweater lining inside. There was no wrinkle on his clothes. He wore an old mechanical watch on his wrist, which was clicking.

The old man's face was very clean and looked well-groomed. His eyes were still bright and energetic. He was looking at Li Luo with his black eyes.

Standing under the gorgeous neon lights, the old man also reflected colorful lights, but his old-fashioned outfit seemed a bit out of place.

"What's your name?"

The old man took out a thick notebook from his coat and asked Li Luo.

"Li Luo."

"Okay, Li Luo, which Li? Which Luo?"

"Li of dawn, Luo of Luoshen..."

After listening to Li Luo's introduction, the old man nodded, took out a pen from his pocket, opened the pen cap skillfully, opened the notebook, and wrote Li Luo's name on it.

To Li Luo's surprise, the old man also had a good handwriting. He wrote her name in a flying dragon and phoenix style, and then wrote the date of the visit behind her name.

"Why are you here?"

"To the sixth floor of the abyss." Li Luo asked obediently.

For some reason, when facing this old man, she felt a sense of trust in her heart. Although she didn't know his identity, she was willing to answer his questions.

"Going to the sixth floor of the abyss..." The old man wrote the reason for the visit after the date, recording the purpose of Li Luo's coming here.

"Are you the administrator here?" Seeing the old man recording his information so carefully, Li Luo also roughly guessed his identity.

"I'm just a gatekeeper." The old man replied indifferently.

"What's your name?"

"Li Ping, Muzi Li, Ping'an'an." The old man took out a clean nameplate from the inside of his coat and showed it to Li Luo.

The nameplate looked a bit old, but it was still well maintained, and the rope hanging the nameplate seemed to have just been changed.

"Just call me Lao Ping, everyone else calls me that." The old man said kindly, and then put the nameplate back into his coat in a proper manner.

The ink on the notebook had not yet dried, and the old man just held the notebook, waiting quietly, looking unhurried.

Looking at the notebook, Li Luo couldn't help asking, "Why don't you use an electronic screen?"

"I don't use those new things, I just write them down."

The old man raised the notebook, blew it gently, and then flipped it in front of Li Luo. The dense names on it dazzled Li Luo's eyes.

"Written things won't be lost so easily..."

He said softly while flipping through the notebook.

Looking at the old man's stubborn look, Li Luo also understood that the other party should be the kind of person who is not willing to accept new things.

After the invasion of the abyss, many such people appeared. They were unwilling to use various electronic products, unwilling to contact various emerging technologies, and unwilling to learn new knowledge, as if time had stopped before the abyss appeared...

Looking at the age of this old man, he should be a person of that era.

That notebook, it seems, has been used for a long time...

After waiting for a while, the old man slowly put the notebook and pen back into his coat and said to Li Luo, "Please follow me."

His voice did not fluctuate at all. After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked into the colorful halo.

Li Luo was stunned and hurriedly followed.

The old man led Li Luo for a while and suddenly stopped. He opened his coat sleeves, looked at his watch, and then turned to Li Luo and said embarrassedly: "I have something urgent to do, which may take a while. You follow me first, okay?"

"It's okay."

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We were already at the research institute, so of course we didn't need to spend that much time. Li Luo agreed indifferently.

The old man nodded, said "thank you", and then changed direction and walked slowly. Li Luo followed behind him.

Passing through the flashing lights, the old man walked to a building and stood still.

The building stood on an open space in the research institute. The surrounding buildings were very far away. Strangely, there was a guardrail next to the building, as if it didn't want people to go in.

The old man didn't go in either, but just stood in front of the building and watched silently.

He pulled up his sleeves again, looked at his watch, and continued to stand.

Li Luo looked at the strange building in confusion and found that the guardrails were very old, as if they would fall down with just a slight push. There was a shabby seal on the door of the building, and the words on it could no longer be seen clearly.

Suddenly, Li Luo had a flash of inspiration.

"Is this the meeting room where the disappearance happened?"

She didn't even consider that the old man was still beside her for a moment, and exclaimed.

But the old man did not feel offended, just nodded lightly.

"Yes, the disappearance case 20 years ago happened here."

He looked at the watch again.

"Every day at this time, there will be sounds. Although there is no day and night change under the abyss, those sounds still follow the 24-hour system. At seven o'clock in the evening, when everyone is eating together, they start to make noise on time."

As the old man spoke, he stretched out his wrist and let Li Luo look at his mechanical watch.

Li Luo looked at it and it was almost seven o'clock.

She also turned on her electronic screen and scanned the time.

"18:57."

Then, she suddenly thought of something.

"You just said that at seven o'clock, there will be sounds in the conference room? Is the surveillance inside broken?"

Li Luo remembered clearly: as long as the conference room is in a state of "observation", no sound will be made.

Hearing Li Luo's inquiry, the old man nodded.

"It broke down a week ago, but no one has come to fix it, and I don't dare to go in casually."

"Have you reported it?"

"No need to report it. The surveillance is broken, and DreamNet will know about it, but I don't know why no one has come to fix it..."

The old man's face showed a rare emotion, that is -

uneasiness.