154: Chapter 154 Qiu Min's Laboratory
Under the Divine Seat, there was indeed an all-metal room, but it was a server room, filled with various optical fibers and mechanical devices that Yun Zhuo did not recognize.
The two of them searched around again but couldn't find the so-called entrance.
However, Yun Zhuo found labels for the Zhenxi Group on all these mechanical devices.
Although this cyber guanyin was built by Qiu Min, all the equipment used belonged to the Su Family.
Was it possible for the Su Family to make an identical one?
Or perhaps the Su Family had left backdoors in this equipment, making it easy for them to breach the Nun Village?
"Xiao Zhuo, did you find anything?"
"My discovery is..." Yun Zhuo pointed at a device label and said, "This equipment all belongs to the Su Family. No matter how powerful our goddess is, she probably won't be a match for them."
"Your mother never mentioned that."
"Forget it, let's go up and check other places."
Just as Yun Zhuo put his hand on the staircase railing to go up, he suddenly thought of something and asked, "Last time I saw you moving corrosion crystals, you took an elevator down here, right?"
"Where's that elevator? Why don't I see it?"
"This..." Di Zhenzhen was also momentarily confused.
"Come on, let's go up first."
The two returned to the surface. Yun Zhuo looked at the spot in front of the Divine Seat where the elevator had appeared. "Bring out the elevator car again so I can see."
"Only Jingjing can activate the System. I'll go get her."
"Wait a minute, now that you mention it, I remember. Last time, the car appeared after she knelt on a metal prayer mat and prayed. So, her praying is her way of linking to the System, right?"
"Yes."
"Where is that metal prayer mat?"
Di Zhenzhen walked to the altar, took off the prayer beads from her neck, and placed them on one side of the altar.
The floor in front of the altar opened, and the metal prayer mat rose up.
Yun Zhuo looked at the prayer mat. "Do you think I can connect to the System?"
Di Zhenzhen explained, "In theory, any human can, but because brainwave frequencies differ, the depth of the link varies as well."
"Currently, only Jingjing's link can activate the statue."
It wasn't brainwave frequencies; it was a genetic key.
He had just discovered through Breaking Delusion and Seeing Truth that this prayer mat was a genetic scanner. If the entire System was seen as an access control System, this prayer mat was the punch machine installed on the door.
When Di Zhenzhen said everyone could connect, she probably only meant the nuns of the Nun Village. They could all connect, but their permissions were different.
At this thought, Yun Zhuo immediately sat on it.
Di Zhenzhen said his genes were a 100% match with Qiu Min's. Although he didn't know what she meant by 'match,' she probably wasn't talking about the entire sequence of the whole genome; otherwise, the similarity between humans and dogs would be 95%.
But as soon as Yun Zhuo sat down, he knew. She was talking about the STR loci and SNP loci combinations in the human genome.
Because a holographic screen that only he could see appeared before his eyes. It displayed the reading of these two types of loci, while simultaneously appearing to compare them with some kind of template.
To be honest, it wasn't until he saw the content on the screen that he realized paternity tests didn't compare the entire genome sequence, but rather the STR loci.
[Verification passed! Welcome back, Doctor!]
See, that's what you call professional.
After Di Zhenzhen found that his genes were a 100% match with Qiu Min's, she took him for her son.
Look at this access control System; it knew he was Qiu...
Wait a minute! Am I a freaking clone too?
Did I clone her, or did she clone me, or did we both clone the same person?
And if it's a clone, why is she female and I'm male?
Before he could figure it out, his consciousness seemed to pass through a long time tunnel and arrived in a deep starry sky.
Was there something ahead?
Just as the thought arose, the place ahead that looked like a white line suddenly zoomed in, as if he had been pulled toward it.
A document.
As soon as he arrived, the document began to scroll. This familiar scene reminded Yun Zhuo of the opening sequence of a Star Wars movie.
It took half an hour to read the whole thing, only to find out it was a freaking instruction manual.
There weren't many words, but it scrolled slowly.
After understanding how to operate the System, Yun Zhuo had a thought. "Xiao Zhu, Xiao Zhu."
"Present. How may I help you, Doctor?"
See, there's a voice assistant.
Yun Zhuo was truly impressed by Qiu Min. Something that could have been explained in one sentence, she forced him to waste half an hour reading a manual.
"I want to go back to the laboratory."
"Understood. Opening the passage for you now."
Yun Zhuo's consciousness withdrew.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he heard Di Zhenzhen say, "How was it? Did you connect?"
As she spoke, a blue line lit up on the floor nearby, extending forward and drawing a circle.
A circular elevator car rose from the ground.
Di Zhenzhen looked at the car in surprise. "Xiao Zhuo, you connected?"
"Sister Zhenzhen, how long was I gone?"
"Less than a minute." Di Zhenzhen looked back at Yun Zhuo. "What's wrong?"
"But I felt like I was in there for at least half an hour."
Di Zhenzhen smiled. "If you felt like at least half an hour passed, that's because you were in your mental world."
"For example, when you dream at night, you feel like you've done many things in the dream, but when you wake up, you find only a few minutes have passed."
Yun Zhuo seemed to remember seeing similar movies where someone almost died of old age in a dream, while only a brief moment passed in reality.
Forget it, why obsess over this.
"Want to go in and take a look together?" Yun Zhuo stepped aside half a pace and extended an invitation to Di Zhenzhen, his tone carrying a natural gentleness.
"Ah?" Di Zhenzhen was startled, her footsteps frozen in place. Her eyes were full of surprise, and even her voice trembled slightly. "I... Can I?"
Seeing her eyes filled with anticipation and timidness, Yun Zhuo smiled. "It's fine, let's go. Just think of it as keeping me company."
With that, he took her hand, and they walked into the car together.
The car descended, passing through a long luminous tunnel, and arrived at a white room.
White metal floor, white metal walls, and white light tubes on the white ceiling.
In front of a curved panoramic floor-to-ceiling window sat a white desk and a white swivel chair.
To the left of the panoramic window was a potted green plant, the only different color in the room.
Di Zhenzhen looked around. "Is this Dr. Qiu's laboratory?"
"This should be her office."
As he spoke, Yun Zhuo walked to the desk. Just as he was about to sit in the chair, he suddenly froze.
Di Zhenzhen, who had walked over with him, also had her lips parted in shock.
Outside the panoramic window, there was an even larger space. Inside, rows upon rows of ovoid incubation pods were lying there, numbering in the hundreds.
On the transparent glass covers, red crosses were flashing incessantly.
Beneath the glass covers were pods of brown liquid, filled with decaying humanoid creatures.
"Something's not right."
Di Zhenzhen was startled and subconsciously tightened her grip on Yun Zhuo's hand. "What is it? What's not right?"
"The light is wrong. Look at all those red crosses flashing down there; they've almost turned the whole space red. Logically, we should have seen it as soon as we entered."
"But the fact is, we only saw it after we walked closer."