The white walls make the corridor appear more elongated, and the sense of extension of the space makes people feel full of various unstable factors.

ZERO SUBCONSCIOUSLY SQUEEZED PROFESSOR SIMON'S HAND, THE WARMTH OF HIS BROAD PALM GIVING HIM A SENSE OF SECURITY.

"Grandpa... IT'S A LITTLE COLD IN HERE..."ZERO WHISPERED, AND PROFESSOR SIMON SLOWED DOWN BEFORE SMILING, "YOU'LL BE WARM WHEN YOU ENTER THE ROOM." ”

ZERO HUMMED AT THIS, AND CONTINUED TO FOLLOW PROFESSOR SIMON.

"Grandpa... What has Thirteen been doing here?" asked ZERO eventually. He had asked Thirteen more than once about his life in the gray building, but Thirteen had not revealed a word to him. Today, with such an opportunity, ZERO tried to get the answer through Professor Simon.

Professor Simon pondered for a moment before replying, "Learn." ”

The word "learning?" is both familiar and unfamiliar to ZERO.

"SO WHAT DID SHE STUDY?" ASKED ZERO, MORE CURIOUS.

"All sorts of things. PROFESSOR SIMON REPLIED VAGUELY, BUT ZERO DIDN'T HAVE ANY IDEA ABOUT IT AT THIS POINT, SO HE DIDN'T FOLLOW IN.

PROFESSOR SIMON WAS A LITTLE MORE DISTRACTED AT THE MOMENT, AND HE TURNED TO ZERO AND ASKED, "DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE PURPOSE OF LEARNING IS?" ZERO BLINKED, HE COULDN'T ANSWER SUCH A PROFOUND QUESTION.

"To survive. Professor Simon was quick to give the answer.

Obviously, ZERO doesn't understand this, in his cognition, there will be food when he is hungry, and there will be a mattress when he is sleepy, and neither cold nor heat can invade his body, so what is the so-called survival?

PROFESSOR SIMON DIDN'T EXPECT ZERO TO GIVE HIM A SATISFACTORY ANSWER, HE LOOKED UP AND LOOKED OUT OF A SMALL WINDOW ON THE WALL, WHERE THE GRAY SKY SHOWED OUT OF THE GLASS.

"Since the birth of life in this world, the civilization that has accompanied it has been learning. ”

"The beast learns to hunt, and the weak learn to escape. In the most primitive warfare of life, learning became the most important skill. Learners live, not scholars. With the gradual emergence of life balance, the learning system began to take shape, along with the transmission of these life experiences. ”

"Now we have entered an era of human technology blowout, and every minute and every second there are magical technological items born, but human beings have not noticed that behind this prosperity lies a greater worry. ”

"As the saying goes, the extremes of things must be opposed, and human beings have reached an insurmountable bottleneck period while making progress. ”

"There have been no new breakthroughs in fundamental physics for centuries, and human beings can only continue to improve on the basis of their ancestors, and the vast unknown territory has never been explored. Synthetic substances are increasing, and the periodic table has not changed much since Mendeleev. Biomedicine can make human bodies extremely healthy, but it cannot break the shackles of life limitations, and even some stubborn diseases are still stubborn diseases. ”

Professor Simon's face darkened, "Humanity is moving backwards in a seemingly forward pace, and it is not heading towards the previous beginning, but the end of a devastating end. ”

As he spoke, he and ZERO had stopped unconsciously. ZERO STARED AT HIM BLANKLY, NOT UNDERSTANDING A WORD ABOUT HIS TIRADE, BUT HE ALWAYS PLAYED A GOOD LISTENING ROLE.

Professor Simon smiled slightly, "Thank you, ZERO. ”

ZERO DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY PROFESSOR SIMON HAD APOLOGIZED TO HIM, BUT HE REMEMBERED HOW TO RESPOND WHEN SOMEONE SAID THANK YOU.

"It doesn't matter. ”

Professor Simon laughed again, tilted his head and took a deep breath, "We need to hurry, or we won't be able to catch the first class." ”

ZERO FOLLOWED PROFESSOR SIMON IN CONFUSION, AND ASKED AS HE WALKED, "ARE WE GOING TO TAKE ANY COURSES?"

"Thirteen has been studying here for a long time, and if she wants to catch up with her progress and help her, she will have to work overtime to study and not slack off," Professor Simon said. ”

As they spoke, the two of them had come to an exceptionally quiet and dimly lit corridor, in which there were several staff members, everyone was constantly moving around, and they only nodded slightly when they saw Professor Simon coming.

Professor Simon led ZERO to an off-white door made of carbon fiber steel and motioned for the staff to open it.

The staff guarding the gate was a young woman who looked to be in her twenties, with a long ponytail on her head, a pair of round-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose, and a few small freckles on her slightly rough face.

When the young woman saw Professor Simon asking to open the door, she immediately typed in the command to open the door, and at the same time her eyes glanced at ZERO, who was standing next to Professor Simon, and her eyes immediately leaked out of surprise that could not be concealed.

The gray-white door slowly opened from both sides, and a strong beam of light shone on the three people at the door.

ZERO HELD A HAND ABOVE HIS HEAD TO BLOCK OUT THE GLARE OF LIGHT, BUT HIS GAZE COULDN'T HELP BUT LOOK THROUGH THE GAP BETWEEN HIS FINGERS INTO THE LIGHT.

PROFESSOR SIMON NARROWED HIS EYES SLIGHTLY, GRABBED ZERO'S ARM AND WALKED STRAIGHT FORWARD, THE YOUNG WOMAN LOOKING AT THE OLD AND YOUNG FIGURE WITH A COMPLICATED LOOK ON HER FACE, BUT FINALLY ENTERED THE ORDER TO CLOSE THE DOOR.

It's an extremely spacious room, and although there is no shortage of such places in gray buildings, there are very few places for this kind of machine and technology.

The white ceiling, the ground lights have positioned the style of the whole space, and the walls are covered with high-definition screen panels, on which various data charts are realistic, and the complex numbers and letters are constantly changing and alternating on them, which looks dazzling.

Located on both sides of the wide corridor in the middle, there are one experimental cabin after another, some of the hatches are open and some are closed, and on the windows of those closed hatches, you can see that there is a young face inside.

There are also several busy staff members in the room, who are fixing the biomagnetic suction with data connections to the children who are about to enter the cabin, and at the same time debugging the various data of the experimental cabin.

Those children were like corpse puppets on the verge of death, at the mercy of others, without the slightest intention of resisting.

SEEING THIS, ZERO SUBCONSCIOUSLY SWALLOWED A MOUTHFUL OF SALIVA, AND COLD SWEAT OOZED FROM THE PALM OF PROFESSOR SIMON'S HAND.

"Grandpa—" the words seemed to be stuck in his throat and could not be uttered.

"Don't worry, it's just a learning device for the next lesson. ”

PROFESSOR SIMON SAID SOFTLY, AND ZERO HAD A SKEPTICAL LOOK IN HIS EYES.

PROFESSOR SIMON BRUSHED HIS PALM ON ZERO'S FOREHEAD AND SAID SOFTLY, "I UNDERSTAND YOUR FEELINGS, IT WAS THE SAME WHEN I WAS A CHILD WHEN I FIRST WENT TO CLASS, AND I WAS FULL OF NERVOUSNESS IN ANTICIPATION. But I've done some preparation for you today. ”

After that, he pointed to an experimental chamber not far away and said, "That's your learning tool." ”

On one side of the chamber is an extremely numerical number.

13。