Embers Ad Infinitum

Those sitting at the conference table ignored Shang Jianyao's soliloquy and seriously discussed related issues.

Judging from their intentions, it seemed that they still wanted to ask Shang Jianyao about some details.

How could Shang Jianyao know this? Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately ran towards the brown door of the conference room.

With no other changes in the scene, he wanted to see if the door could be opened now.

Shang Jianyao stretched out his hand, twisted and pulled, and the brown conference room door moved backwards, no longer holding on to it.

He immediately put his palms together and smiled:

"Sure enough, we have to solve the problems they discussed before we can move forward in the dream."

He didn't leave the conference room in a hurry. He stood at the door and looked outside.

What caught his eyes was darkness, making it difficult to see what the corridor looked like, or perhaps there was no corridor at all.

Shang Jianyao did not hesitate, walked out of the room with his head held high.

A clear and soft light quickly lit up in front of him, illuminating the surrounding environment.

This is still the same conference room, with a long pale white table and chairs of the same style occupying most of the space.

Immediately afterwards, the figures appeared again.

Shang Jianyao was stunned and said without concealing his surprise:

"Do we need to explain it clearly to them before we can truly pass the test and leave here and enter the next scene?"

Without giving him a chance to come forward and communicate, a man among the group of people walked to the side of the curtain, looked at the projection, and began to speak.

Unlike before, this time, those people communicated in Honghe dialect, mixed with a large number of long and complex proper nouns.

Shang Jianyao had a heavy look on his face and murmured to himself:

“I used to understand every word, but I didn’t know what it meant when they were put together. Now, I can’t understand many words...

"It's terrible, it's terrible!"

He tried to back away, only to find that the brown door was closed and could not be opened.

Shang Jianyao thought for a few seconds and walked towards the shadow at the bottom of the conference room.

This time, he left as he wished and returned directly to the "soul corridor".

He passed the door again with great interest and entered "205".

Sure enough, what he saw was still the conference room, but all the voices he heard spoke Honghe dialect.

…………

"No matter what, at least the dream has changed enough." Jiang Baimian, who was leaning on the door of the jeep, comforted Shang Jianyao, "This means there is no problem with our direction."

She pondered for a moment and then said:

"What you need to do next is the same as before. Memorize the issues discussed by those people and tell me bit by bit like an ant moving."

"But I can't understand many words!" Shang Jianyao was extremely sad.

"Remember the pronunciation." Jiang Baimian responded without hesitation, "As long as we are sure that they are discussing biomedical issues, even if you misspell a few letters, I can correct the mistake based on the previous and following words and restore the actual meaning. .”

"Okay." Shang Jianyao did not hide his embarrassment.

Then, with "pain" written all over his face, he said:

“Could it be that the essence of that dream is that there are conference rooms within conference rooms, with questions following questions, each one more difficult than the last?

"If there is no end to this, I will go crazy sooner or later!"

When did you have the illusion that you were not crazy? Jiang Baimian was amused for a while.

She immediately comforted Shang Jianyao:

"Don't be afraid. Anyway, you are a legal patient with a doctor's certificate."

"Yes." Shang Jianyao breathed a sigh of relief.

Du Heng looked on without speaking.

…………

After Shang Jianyao spent several days, he finally brought the problem of the "second place" conference room to reality. Their Jeep had arrived at the headquarters of the Eighth Research Institute.

Of course, they don't dare to go deep yet, they just linger on the edge and determine the situation through various methods.

"It feels like no one is patrolling." Shang Jianyao sat in the passenger seat and looked outside with disappointment.

Du Heng in the back row smiled and said:

"Didn't I say that? Maybe after the Eighth Research Institute discovered that the location of the headquarters was exposed, it felt that it could not be concealed and did not want to hold on, so it simply moved to a backup base."

"But isn't there something important hidden deep in their headquarters?" Honest Shang Jianyao pointed out the problem.

Du Heng laughed:

"Maybe that thing is transferable."

"That makes sense." Shang Jianyao clapped his hands.

Jiang Baimian, who was in charge of driving, looked in the rearview mirror:

"Maybe the Eighth Research Institute relies on satellites in space to monitor the surrounding situation."

"I can't say yes or no." Du Heng said that he didn't know much about these things.

He turned his head and looked out the window, as if talking about what to eat for lunch:

"Let's take a closer look at that mountain."

The headquarters of the Eighth Research Institute is located in a mountain range that divides the north and south of the ice sheet. It was built by hollowing out half of the mountain.

This is somewhat similar to "Pangaea Creatures", except that the buildings of the Eighth Research Institute do not extend underground.

"Okay!" Shang Jianyao responded excitedly.

Jiang Baimian glanced at him:

"Did you memorize the solution I gave you?"

"I've memorized it." Shang Jianyao looked like he couldn't bear to look back on the past.

This refers to the solution to the problem discussed in the "205" dream.

In Jiang Baimian's words, the problems in the "Dawn" dream are too old, and some of them were solved before the destruction of the old world. Why is it so difficult to obtain "Pangu Biology" researchers who specialize in biomedicine?

This seems to further confirm that the incarnation of "Dawn" is a scholar of biomedicine in the old world.

"Go into the 'soul corridor' when you have time, try to solve this problem, and see how the dream will change after passing that conference room."

"Okay." Shang Jianyao agreed quickly, but did not do it immediately.

Because the jeep was approaching the mountain where the Eighth Research Institute's headquarters was located, he had to concentrate on sensing his surroundings, observing the front, and guarding against accidents.

Perhaps summer is approaching, and the snow on the mountains has almost melted. Only the peaks and high places are still white, reflecting the blue sky, which is exceptionally pure.

"There is really no one..." Seeing the entrance of the Eighth Research Institute getting closer, Jiang Baimian couldn't help but whisper.

Du Heng touched the beard around his mouth and chuckled:

"Most of them ran away. I sensed that there was no one inside."

Can it be sensed from such a distance? Jiang Baimian moved his eyebrows.

The jeep is still two or three kilometers away from the entrance of the Eighth Research Institute on a cliff somewhere, and no one knows how far deep it can go after entering.

Under such circumstances, Du Heng actually dared to say in a very confident tone that there was no one inside.

In fact, Jiang Baimian was not surprised at all.

She even felt that this was not in line with Teacher Du Heng's "identity".

"Then let's go in directly." Shang Jianyao said impatiently.

At this point, Jiang Baimian naturally would not stop him:

"good."

She drove the car and headed straight to her destination.

Shang Jianyao is still responsible for the manual navigation responsibly.

Not long after, the concealed entrance of the Eighth Research Institute appeared in front of them.

The heavy, bifurcated, protective-colored door stood quietly open.

"They really all ran away!" Shang Jianyao said with regret.

Jiang Baimian said "hmm":

"Maybe it was moved to the military base where they launched the missiles."

While talking, Jeep passed through the gate and entered the heart of the mountain.

Similar to the layout of the "Pangu Biology" underground building, they were greeted by a wide parking lot.

But there were only a few cars left that looked badly damaged and awaiting repairs.

"Hey..." Shang Jianyao sighed again at the fact that the Eighth Research Institute had been transferred.

After passing through the parking lot, corridors appeared, leading to everywhere. Some connected to various rooms on this floor, and some connected to multiple elevators and safety passages.

"Where to go?" Seeing the jeep stopped, Du Heng asked.

Shang Jianyao asked in surprise:

"Didn't you say that you should go deep into the depths to find that important thing?"

Du Heng laughed and said:

"I said so, but the problem is, I don't know where the depth is."

Shang Jianyao suddenly realized:

"I know this.

“Take the elevator to the fifth floor, where there is a tunnel leading deep into the mountain.

"The place where the Eighth Research Institute's 'Professor Joint Association' holds meetings, the room where several 'New World' powerhouses sleep, and the original dean's office are all outside the entrance of the tunnel, as if they are guarding it."

"Why do you know so well?" Du Heng was a little surprised.

Shang Jianyao straightened his back and replied proudly:

"Because we were the ones who found the headquarters of the Eighth Research Institute, and we were the ones who spread the news."

We didn't spread the news, we just reported it to the company... Jiang Baimian corrected Shang Jianyao's statement in his heart.

Du Heng nodded, smiled and praised:

"You guys are very good. It's worth me guiding you again and again."

"Yes, yes." Shang Jianyao accepted calmly.

This made Jiang Baimian, who wanted to be humble, unable to answer the question.

She parked the car, and Shang Jianyao put on military exoskeleton devices one by one.

Then, they and Du Heng walked to the corridor connecting the elevator area.