Pengcheng, Shouwang Building, underground.

The messy blond John Cavendish sat cross-legged on the ground, looking desperately at the wooden rabbit in his hand.

Since he was taken to this secret and technological underground space on the 17th of last month, he hasn't left, staying here and "solving mystery" on the "scarred" wood carving of the rabbit.

At the beginning, Mr. Liang gave him two choices, one was to understand the special feature of the rabbit wood carving within 40 days, and the other was to win the giant snake.

John, who had finally escaped from Shekou, naturally made the first choice. Compared with the horrible and powerful "blood beast" giant snake he had seen, a wooden rabbit sculpture looked much harmless to humans and animals.

But for the next more than a month, he stayed with the rabbit woodcarving 24 hours a day, constantly observing, pondering, and fiddling. Every part of the woodcarving and every trace on it has been deeply reflected in him. In his mind, memory.

Even now, as long as he closes his eyes, he seems to see a rough and ugly wooden rabbit carving grinning at him.

But he could barely see that the tools used to carve this rabbit should be very unprofessional. From the various traces on it, he could see the various "tortures" that the woodcarving had suffered, but he still didn't understand whether this rabbit woodcarving actually had it. What's special.

After he took over the task, Mr. Liang basically ignored him. He did not draw a room for him, nor did he give him any equipment and tools. He could only sit on the ground in this hall-the only seat. It belongs to Mr. Liang, he dare not touch it at all.

Mr. Liang occasionally handles some things through the screen raised on the middle platform of the hall. Most of the time he is invisible. From the perspective of the opening and closing and operation of the elevator, Mr. Liang often leaves, but because of his special stealth ability, John I'm not sure whether Mr. Liang has left or not, and the elevator opens and closes up, is it just to tease him.

Of course, regardless of whether Mr. Liang left or not, he had no idea of ​​running away.

It's not that he doesn't want to run, but that he has observed that there are no buttons on the outside of the elevator, and obviously not anyone can use it.

If he can't use the elevator, he really doesn't know how he can get out in a space where he doesn't know how far from the ground is and is surrounded by metal walls.

Moreover, with that Mr. Liang's horror abilities and the various black technologies that have been shown, even if Mr. Liang leaves temporarily, he must be sure to trap him here.You know, besides him, there is at least one "blood beast" giant snake.

If he were not a "blood", he would have starved to death in a month.

But even if it was him, being kept here for such a long time was exhausted physically and mentally, and felt a little crazy.

Especially seeing the passage of time bit by bit, the 40-day deadline is already close, and still unable to find the "speciality" of the rabbit wood carving, John has the urge to smash the wood carving.

He knew that Mr. Liang's "special" definitely did not refer to things that can be intuitively judged, such as the style of the wood carving, the method of carving, and the source of the damaged traces on it.

At the beginning, he wondered whether it was hiding something inside, so he applied to Mr. Liang to cut open the wood carving directly, but Mr. Liang directly showed him X-ray scans of the wood carving from various angles, as well as the results after various instruments. The report data let him know that Mr. Liang has done a lot of scientific tests on this wood carving, and even the various burnt, drilled, cut and other traces on it are all done by Mr. Liang.

Moreover, Mr. Liang also has a large number of reference pictures similar to or next to the rabbit woodcarving image, possible source of the image, and analysis reports of a large number of carving techniques and tools.An analysis of the possible psychological state of the woodcarver provided by psychological experts, the artistic judgments given by some artists, the interpretation of the mood and thoughts of the woodcarver expressed by the woodcarver...

Obviously, Mr. Liang couldn't find the special woodcarving by these methods, so he gave the woodcarving to him. According to a Chinese proverb, "a dead horse is a living horse doctor". I want to see him, a man from Slovakia. "Kindness", can it bring a new perspective of discovery?

He also asked Mr. Liang what angle or method should be used to study this "rabbit wood carving", and the answer was "according to your ideas".

He asked Mr. Liang why he was so sure that this "rabbit woodcarving" was "special"?Mr. Liang did not respond.

John doesn't know if he really finds the special feature of this "rabbit woodcarving", Mr. Liang will let him go, or answer his request to make himself a "loyal servant".But he understands that Mr. Yiliang's behavioral style, if he really can't give an answer within the time limit, the final result will definitely not be good.

Before, when he had to explain the role and source of the "Holy Blood" in the knife, when the "Holy Blood" was eaten by Mr. Liang, John was still worried and frightened for a moment, afraid of Count Joel’s anger and his own. The retreat was broken, afraid that he would never go back to "Red Rose".

But soon, he understood how powerful Mr. Liang and the organization behind him were. On the contrary, he was a little hopeful that Earl Joel or "Red Rose" would come to the door. By then, he could play some role, or at least provide more. More information, showing other values.

He hopes that the old fellows of "Red Rose" can take a risk when the "blood source" is insufficient and the stage limit is approaching.

I hope they can compete, create some trouble for Mr. Liang and the organization behind him, and give themselves a chance to play a role.

But he also knows very well that the old guys are very patient monsters. They can live so long by patience and carefulness. So even if they know that he has defected, even if the stage limit is approaching, they will definitely look for others first. Alternatives that can be solved in Europe are not a last resort and will not be found.

When he communicated with Mr. Liang several times, he tried to arouse Mr. Liang's interest in Slovakia's "Red Rose" and let him return to Europe as an agent, but all failed.

At least within this 40-day period, it is difficult to expect "Red Rose" to delay or get alternative tasks.

John racked his brains and used the various secrets, secrets, legends he had heard in "Red Rose", and even the plots of wood carvings, dolls, statues and other objects in various novels and movies he had seen. Hope to find a correct idea.

He even asked Mr. Liang to get back the white porcelain knife. Although he didn't have the "Holy Blood" of Earl Joel, he didn't have the kind of lethality to other "blood races" and "blood beasts", but it was still very sharp.

He cut open his hand with a porcelain knife and smeared his blood on the rabbit wood carving, but the rabbit wood carving did not respond.

He also applied for things like garlic, and carried out various baptisms on wood carvings, but it still had no effect.

So at this moment, looking at the wood carving in his hand, John was full of despair. He even began to wonder whether the reason why Mr. Liang made such an option for him to choose was because he simply wanted to play with him and let him experience forty days. Feeling from hope to despair?

Or is it telling him: If he is unwilling to face the giant snake, the end result will be the same torture as this wood carving?

Is it implying that he, like this woodcarving rabbit, is Mr. Liang's plaything?

But considering the various test reports that Mr. Liang had shown him, and the arrogant and contemptuous attitude of "Red Rose" and other "bloods" that Mr. Liang showed, he felt that this should not be the case. There should be a real problem with this woodcarving. Mr. Liang disdains such juggling.

Just as he directly bit the long ear of the wooden rabbit with his teeth in annoyance, the light in the whole hall suddenly dimmed.

John was taken aback, slowly opened his mouth, raised his head to look at the huge brick-like light grid above his head, and felt something was wrong-he has been here for more than a month, but he has never encountered any unstable lights. Case.

At the next moment, the light turned bright again, but the brightness became much brighter than normal, and then it began to flicker again.

A computer screen was raised on the middle operating platform, and the top of the screen was stretched out, as well as various operating platforms that were not known for their usefulness.

"My lord? Is that you?" John called out nervously, but did not respond.

He leaned over carefully, but saw that most of the screens were black, and some of them were scrolling lines of code fast, so fast that they could not be seen clearly by the naked eye.

Soon, those screens all retracted back to the platform, and the lights in the hall went out instantly.

John held his breath and did not dare to move. After a while, the light turned on again, and a giant snake appeared on the wall not far away. John was taken aback. Then he looked at it again and found that the giant snake was closed. The wall turned into a screen again, projecting the situation inside in real time.

Next, the walls next to it lit up side by side, some projected empty rooms, and some also contained strange-looking creatures, obviously other "blood beasts".

Sure enough, more than one "Blood Beast" was shut down here!

John suddenly became nervous, he was a little worried that Mr. Liang, this seemed very high-tech place, the electronic system had a problem.

If all the partitions that closed the "Blood Beast" were opened, and he didn't even escape, he would probably die miserably, right?

However, the huge screens that lit up quickly went out, returning to the appearance of the normal partition wall, but the overhead lights were still unstable and flashing constantly.

Obviously, the situation is not over yet.

John faintly heard the sound of fine sand falling on some metal parts above his head, which seemed to be in the ventilation duct, but the sound was very small, and it happened for a while, making him a little uncertain whether he heard it wrong, maybe it was just Other ventilation systems or cooling systems of certain equipment are working.

Suddenly, under the dim light, on the ground not far in front of him, a whole piece of meat suddenly appeared-the cut surface was neat and clean, and it did not look bloody, but it seemed to have been processed, ready to be sliced ​​or cut. Ingredients for the next pan.

And don't know why, as soon as he saw that piece of meat, a thought came to his mind-this is rabbit meat.

It was an extremely strange feeling.

He subconsciously looked at the rabbit woodcarving in his hand and found that his hand was a little trembling.

This is a little weird to him. He always thought that he would only tremble and be afraid because of strength and death, and would not be afraid of such weird and mysterious things, because he felt that he was originally in the weird and mysterious. One member.

But at this moment, a chill surged, and he inexplicably thought of some stories he had read as jokes before, and suddenly understood the feelings of those people in the story.

It turned out that the "blood" would also be afraid of such things.

He didn't know what it was, the fear brought by the unknown, sometimes even stronger than the threat brought by absolute power.

At this moment, the three-level underground maintenance area above John and the Shouwang Building above are also affected. There is no signal in the entire building, whether it is WIFI signal, mobile phone signal, Bluetooth, 2.5G device signal, all Lost.

Fortunately, it is more than 11 o'clock in the evening, few people are still working, and not many people are affected.

But the computer restarts automatically, the lights go out automatically, and the power is temporarily interrupted, which is still very maddening.

Whether it’s John, the maintenance personnel on the third basement floor, and the "Shenxing Technology" staff in the Shouwang Building, what they don’t know is that these phenomena are not deliberate or scary, but someone who feels that they have already The "perfect" "digital life" is trying to forcibly read the side effects caused by the large storage device hidden in the deepest part of the underground secret space of "Shenxing Technology" without any network.

Before being fully integrated into the "super-sensing item system", Alice could already control and influence some electronic devices through the super-connected object, even if they were not connected to the network.

However, it is impossible to obtain detailed data stored on electronic devices and transmit them directly through the "super-sensing article system", and then convert them into digital information in the outside world and present them on other electronic devices.

With the help of Little Apple, after completely entering the "super-sensing item system", both Xiang Kun and Alice thought she had to do this by getting out the things in the large storage device under the Shouwang Building. In theory, the conditions have been met, and the rest is only a matter of time.

Alice is also very clear that Xiang Kun is looking forward to and eager to see the information now, and thinks that the information has a high probability to help him answer various questions raised by "Shenxing Technology" and Mr. Liang, and may even get some "variations" The secret of the roots of "biology".

The result is that on the one hand, it has just been completely incorporated into the "super-sensing item system", and has not found a universal method for the essential transformation of this kind of data. On the other hand, it is too impatient and there are not enough "super-connected objects" around it, which makes her In the process of data conversion and acquisition, it caused great movement.

Not only did it cause short-term troubles and troubles to the staff of Shouwang Building, but also caused a powerful impact on John Cavendish's mind that he thought was immune to supernatural frights, and almost burned the storage device.

Knowing this situation, Xiang Kun was really a little bit dumbfounded, because the task he had originally arranged for Alice was a long-term task. It was safe and not in a hurry.

As a result, Alice completed the experiment tonight. After successfully transferring the data from the hard disk on an old desktop computer without internet access to Xiang Kun’s laptop in Chongyun Village, she took the initiative to apply to Lao Xia and then used Xiao Lao. Xia's appearance appeared, with one hand on his hips and the other pointing the scalpel towards the sky, facing Kun boasted down to the sea: "Before the sun came out, Alice helped the boss get those data!"

Then, this is the situation...

Alice, who was not successful, did not apply to Lao Xia again, and did not even make a sound. Instead, it displayed in text on the computer screen: "That device is not connected to the power source. If it is not powered on, it will use more ultra Only by connecting things can complete data acquisition, there are not enough super-connected things over there, so apply for more super-connected things."