Chapter 194 of the main text, the labyrinth

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After entering the villa, Vanessa did not stop, but walked directly through the living room, to the back garden, all the way along the gravel path that crosses the lawn towards the lake. ∈↗，

Not long after she walked out, she saw a white shadow flashing in her field of vision, and before she could take a closer look, her right leg was heavy, and when she looked down, a big white cat was hugging her leg, screaming in her mouth, as if she was venting some dissatisfaction.

This is exactly the Siberian tiger cub that 47 gave to Chen Peng that day.

Three months have passed, and it has grown as big as a large dog, and its weight has risen, making Vanessa feel like a heavy weight plate tied to her legs.

"Good girl, King Charlie, I have something to do, go play by myself." Patting the little guy on the head, Vanessa coaxed as she wrenched its paw away.

Since coming to this home, this little guy who was given the name of a dog has quickly become the darling of this family, not only very well-behaved and cute, and even able to understand part of the words, no one has to worry about it, in addition, its beautiful image also adds a lot of points to it, you must know that women always lack immunity to beautiful things, and it just so happens that the most important thing in this family is women, as for its essence is one of the most powerful predators in the world, this fact has been subconsciously ignored.

Although everyone spoils it very much, after all, everyone has been very busy recently, and the time to accompany it is correspondingly less, so that as soon as it sees the family coming back, it immediately comes forward to coquettish and asks someone to play with it. But fortunately, King Charles is very well-behaved and interesting under Chen Peng's tutelage, even if no one plays with it, it will not run around, and it stays at home every day in the previous residence and does not go out, and now that it has moved to this spacious place, its range of activities has been correspondingly enlarged a lot, and the entire back garden is its playground, which is enough to get bigger and bigger for its activities.

Seeing that Vanessa wouldn't play with him, King Charlie rubbed Vanessa's calf with his head, snorted a few times after being coquettish, turned his head and ran towards the pool not far away, swimming is his favorite game to cool off recently.

Vanessa shook her head and smiled, then took another step, and soon came to the row of holly trees at the edge of the back garden, which was also the dividing line of the back garden, and pushed open the quaint and old wooden door, and in an instant a bright and bright building a few hundred meters away jumped into her eyes.

It was a double-storey fiberglass tile building standing on the shore of the lake, boxy, and behind it, you could see a corridor of the same material over the lake twenty or thirty meters to the small island offshore.

The building was originally located on a flat land in front of a small wharf, and the small island is not so much a mound of earth left over from the development of the artificial lake, which is not too large, just enough to accommodate the building above that is estimated to be thousands of square meters in size, and it is more like a ditch between it and the small wharf. Originally, the owner of this place also laid a foundation on it, and seemed to be ready to build something, but for some reason he finally gave up, but was favored by Chen Peng, who came to see the house, and bought it to build a personal room.

After an authentication curfew similar to that in her car, the sliding door in front of her slid open, and she entered the lobby.

The lobby is decorated in a homely style, with more warm colors and a clever combination of bar, salon and semi-open office area, creating a relaxed atmosphere.

Vanessa's gaze swiped and quickly locked on Pan Luyao, who was standing behind a desk, and another young girl, and beside them, a middle-aged Chinese man in a white lab coat, the three of them seemed to be talking about something.

What is very characteristic is that this researcher wears a very special pair of unilateral glasses, the whole pair of glasses consists of an earcup that covers the ears and a light-colored lens, which looks like a combat probe in the comics, and has a sense of futuristic technology.

"Sister Vanessa." At this time, Pan Luyao also saw Vanessa and greeted first.

Another girl followed and said, "Hello president." ”

As for the man who looked like a scientific researcher, his reaction was a little wooden, and only then did he signal to Vanessa.

"Hmm." Vanessa bowed slightly, and looked left and right again, "What about Leon?" ”

Pan Luyao walked up and said with a smile: "He is still in the real room, he said that I will take you there as soon as you come." ”

Vanessa looked at the girl she was already familiar with. Today's Pan Luyao is wearing a royal blue professional skirt, with bright eyes, long hair shawl, eyebrows painted in the shape of short and faint willow leaves, a tall little nose, painted with pink lipstick, the edge lines are drawn beautifully, and the lips are slightly upturned, revealing a confident smile, exquisite makeup with soft light, both appearance and posture are impeccable, and she can be called an elite-level professional.

Looking at the workplace beauty in front of her, and comparing with the weakness and lack of confidence she was when she first arrived at home, Vanessa had to secretly admire the other party's growth speed.

In addition to technical problems, Chen Peng is very concerned about other company affairs, but after all, he is still the chairman of the board of directors, Vanessa really has no energy to take care of this affairs, so the daily chores of Chen Peng are simply handled by his chairman's secretary's office, and Pan Luyao, who is the head of the board secretary's office, can even be regarded as half a chairman from a certain point of view, and her power is very large.

In this case, Pan Luyao has obviously been fully trained, of course, this is inseparable from her own efforts, Vanessa has not seen her learn management knowledge in her spare time.

Perhaps this is the role of a sense of crisis.

Vanessa thought playfully.

Pan Luyao said a few words to the two people on the side, handed over the work at hand in a few words, and then took Vanessa and walked straight to the back.

When passing by that scientific researcher, Vanessa remembered that this person should be a talent recruited by Zhang Danmiao from Huaxia, and Chen Peng took a fancy to him, not only set up a real room for him here, but also gave him the classified AT01 intelligent assistance system to use The unilateral glasses he carried, and the pair of sunglasses that Vanessa used to dock with his car system before was a simplified version.

This system not only represents the owner's authority level within the scope of the system, carries out the corresponding identity authentication, can be connected to the host here to provide users with various information support functions such as information port, analysis and calculation, etc., but also mobilizes the configured working machine to assist various realities, with its help, an excellent researcher can be used as a research team, remove unnecessary internal consumption, and can maximize the release of efficiency.

Of course, this approach also raises a high level of competence requirements for individual researchers, requiring a very outstanding holistic and pioneering mindset.

Thinking of this, Vanessa thought of Zhang Danmiao, the assistant who made her very satisfied. Since Zhang Danmiao went to Huaxia to finish her work, she returned directly to the United States and said that she wanted to finish her studies, but she didn't contact her for several months, and she didn't know what she was doing.

It's a pity, I originally wanted to train her to be a right-hand man.

Thinking as she walked, she and Pan Luyao soon arrived in front of the sensor door at the back of the hall.

The two of them stood still, and the indicator light on the door began to flash red, and beams of light swept over their bodies, and after a few moments, the indicator light turned green, and the sensor door slid open, revealing the glass covered bridge across the river behind it.

The corridor is completely composed of light-colored one-way glass, the floor is not more than half a meter away from the river surface, walking on the covered bridge on the microwave rippling lake surface in full view, the sunlight through the multi-layer glass refraction under the colorful and complex luster, there is a lot of greening in the covered bridge, although it is a new planting, but the flowers and trees have extracted the tender green, the morning glory even silently clings to a long wall curtain, and the high triangular orchid extends down along the outer wall, leaving large and small and different forms of light spots in the covered bridge, walking in the meantime, It's a different view than a boat on the lake.

"How? Are you still used to working? Vanessa asked casually.

Pan Luyao walked without squinting, and responded softly: "It's much better now." ”

"That's good, I thought you would have a long period of discomfort, it seems that I underestimated you." Vanessa smiled, as if there was something deeper in her approval, and after a pause, she continued: "But you know that Leon's personality gives me a lot of headaches, and he doesn't pay much attention to the company's affairs except for research, and he rarely even goes to the company. You must know that there are more and more things in the company, and his position is very important, and now he doesn't care about these things, so your burden will be relatively heavier, and you also represent the image and will of Lyon to the outside world...... Uh, I say that, you understand? ”

Pan Luyao didn't need to turn her head, she could feel the gaze that was slanting from top to bottom at a forty-five degree angle like substance, full of aggression, and couldn't help but grit her jade teeth secretly, but her tone still didn't change: "Well, I understand." ”

Then she felt her shoulders sink, it was Vanessa's hand patted on her shoulder, and then she heard Vanessa's voice with a smile: "I'm relieved, after all, we are a family, we still have to be consistent with the outside world, if you don't understand anything in the future, you can come to me directly, no matter how busy I am, I will leave time for you." ”

"Okay, thank you, sister."

Vanessa nodded, and then changed the conversation: "Oh, by the way, now you are alone in the secretary's room, there are too few people, and it is definitely not enough to cope with the current workload, so let's expand it, don't affect the efficiency of the secretary's room." In this way, I have a few candidates here who are very good, and their work ability and ethics are guaranteed, and I will ask the secretary to transfer the file to you when I go back, and you can take a look at it and choose a few of them. Although it was a discussion, what came out of Vanessa's mouth was completely filled with an unquestionable momentum.

"I'll take a closer look when I get back." Pan Luyao took a slight breath.

As a newcomer in the workplace who has no qualifications but suddenly waits for a high position, Pan Luyao can be described as conscientious and walking on thin ice in her work during this time, so as not to give others a handle, and at the same time, because of her own qualifications, she wisely did not spread the stall too wide at once so as not to get out of control, but recruited a newcomer with no other background as her assistant, and completely started and mastered the work of the board secretary office in a cautious groping.

Fortunately, she followed Chen Peng into the company when Transwarp Technology was established, and in the case of the company's grassroots creation and rapid expansion after that, she had time to grow and improve with the company, and she would not be at a loss. With the current stable company structure and the increase in workload, the secretary of the board of directors does need to expand to a certain extent, but Pan Luyao remembered that she had only talked to the head of the personnel department about this matter yesterday, and as a result, today Vanessa came to propose to use the candidates she provided to fill the vacancy in the secretary of the board of directors, although this was expected, but it still made her a little depressed, especially Vanessa was so strong.

Of course, she has a soft temperament and will not have a conflict with Vanessa because of this, out of Chen Peng's position, she must also support Vanessa, and she also understands that Vanessa is doing this in order to obtain various resources to support the good development of Transwarp Technology, now Vanessa and Chen Peng's shares have declined, and there are many new faces on the board of directors, which has changed the situation at the top of the company, although Vanessa and Chen Peng have an absolute advantage in the company, as long as the two of them stand together, So for a long time, no one else can challenge their control of the company, but Vanessa can believe Chen Peng unconditionally, but she will never do the same to Pan Luyao, coupled with Vanessa's strong desire to control, it is completely predictable to take advantage of this time to lay some chess pieces in the board secretary's room, and Pan Luyao has this preparation when she is ready to expand the scale of the board secretary's room.

Seeing that Pan Luyao responded, Vanessa nodded with satisfaction and didn't say anything more.

After passing the covered bridge on the lake, Pan Luyao walked to the electronic lock next to the door, pressed it a few times, and suddenly the light in the shape of a fishing net covered their bodies, and soon turned from red to green and made a ticking sound.

"There's still something to do, I'll go out first." Seeing that the verification was completed, Pan Luyao said to Vanessa.

"Okay." Vanessa nodded, and saw Pan Luyao take a few steps back, and then the metal gate in front of her suddenly shrank into a blue-white arc, which expanded again in the twisted changes, turning into a fantastic dark light door, and the surrounding scene also changed, turning into a series of snow-bright mirrors one after another, staggering to form an endless labyrinth, and Pan Luyao disappeared out of thin air.

Vanessa, who had already experienced it several times, was not surprised at all, and took out the glasses she used to drive before and put them on, and after a burst of verification information on the lenses, a complex three-dimensional space model emerged, with red arrow lines on it to guide the way forward, and the tail end of the arrow was where she was.

Following the guidance of the arrow, Vanessa ignored the scene in front of her and walked forward, directly through the light gate, and the scene suddenly turned into an endless wilderness, the sky was relatively high, and the wind, rain, thunder and lightning followed, but she didn't feel the slightest feeling when she fell on her body.

For Chen Peng's insistence on getting this complex and cumbersome security verification facility, Vanessa was disgusted, in addition to the previous authentication, the last and most troublesome thing was the "Fairy Palace" she is now passing by, a high-tech labyrinth composed of a phantom system with movable walls and floors, if there is no intelligent assistance system with Vanessa to guide, it will be difficult to get out on your own if you fall into it, and under the confusion of direction, you will really think that this is an infinite fantasy world, according to Vanessa, Chen Peng has installed this kind of system and facilities in all the outermost buildings of his real room, with enough space to deal with dozens of people at the same time, as well as physical facilities such as wind blowing, sprinkling, and vibration to simulate various natural environments.

This fairy hall was conceived after the formation of the Illusion System, and was inspired by the screening room that demonstrated the performance of the Illusion System. At that time, Chen Peng wanted to design a kind of experience hall-style amusement place, and Vanessa also gave a lot of construction, which can be said to be the prototype of the super theater they envisioned, but later it was temporarily shelved due to various reasons such as cost and efficiency, and it has not been implemented. After moving to a new house, Chen Peng directly used his real room, and it went from a very interesting toy to a very effective defensive measure.

"If you want to build a company headquarters in the future, maybe it's good to have such a security system?"

Thinking about it, Vanessa walked with still confident steps, not at all disturbed by the unpredictable scenes around her, nor worried about colliding with anything, just following the map in her line of sight to guide her forward and turn, about two or three minutes later, she passed through a curtain of water without any touch, and those illusions disappeared suddenly, and a glass door appeared in front of her, and two arc-shaped corridors behind her, one left and one right, extended in a double helix pattern on both sides.

A faint blue beam lit up and swept over her glasses: "Gardener Twenty-Nine is at your service." Hello Miss Vanessa, what service do you need? ”

"Take me to Lyonna."

"Start Basic Permission Check...... Your access to the second loop has been activated, and Mr. Chen Peng is waiting for you in the third lounge. The glass door moved away softly and silently, and Vanessa saw the permission unlock information on the lens and another road map, indicating Chen Peng's location.

Passing through the access control, she looked around and saw that there were real rooms of different sizes distributed on the corridors on both sides, all separated by special glass, some of which had been equipped with perfect equipment, and the mechanical arms installed everywhere inside automatically controlled the instruments for real or manufacturing, and in some unfinished real rooms, you could see several strange-shaped machine qì people walking around and installing equipment, all of them were in order, but there was no human figure.

The height of the machine is also up to Vanessa's waist, it looks like a deformed big spider, eight mechanical legs stand firmly on the ground, and the boxy body is equipped with four small mechanical arms, the end is split into five petals and can be opened and closed at will, so that various tools can be replaced and used, and the luster of the lens is still flashing inside, this is its "eye", which is a bit of a monster collection in a horror movie.

Although this machine looks very evil, Vanessa has seen the extraordinary things of this kind of machine, flexible hands and feet, strong strength, extremely high operation accuracy, can control almost all tools and equipment, can understand very complex voice commands and deal with a number of different categories of tasks at the same time, under the control of the central host artificial intelligence, it can be used to cooperate with multiple machines to improve efficiency, and the scope of work is very wide, her sports car is modified by several people in half a day.

Such a machine can not only carry out industrial operations, but also be used as a dozen human assistants in practice, which is also the reason why Chen Peng's research team only needs elite R&D talents, and those boring and tedious repetitive tasks will naturally be done by these people.

Of course, the price of being easy to use is expensive, and now the cost of each of these basic materials and accessories has reached more than 700,000 US dollars, and it also involves some patents of mechanical dogs, so it can only be used here for the time being.

Continue to follow the route, along the way you can see that there are many kinds of real yàn rooms, covering a wide range, you may have just passed through an electronic and mechanical real yàn room, followed by a mineral analysis room, and then simply a plant greenhouse, there is no obvious law. This unreasonable arrangement should obviously seem very chaotic and inefficient, but in fact it seems to be in order, these real rooms seem to be different parts of the same machine, each of them is in the same operating rhythm, coordinated with each other, not seeing any human but full of the crystallization of human wisdom, silently and unswervingly working for the same goal, full of an invisible but heavy force.

As someone who has watched this real room be built from scratch, Vanessa feels an indescribable sense of shock every time she comes here, but at the same time, her doubts are getting bigger and bigger, and her familiar brother seems to have turned into a huge mystery, and the face of her original memory is becoming more and more blurred.

The first loop is the real yàn room on the periphery of these buildings, while the second loop is the internal rest and reception area, and the third loop is where the core host and computer room are located.

When Vanessa followed the guide to the third lounge where Chen Peng was, she was greeted first by the sound of a golden iron horse. (To be continued.) )