Chapter 98: Thunder Wing Company (Surprise at the end of the chapter)
The industrial park is relatively remote, but there are still a few tall buildings here. A thirty or forty-storey office building stands on the side of the road, standing tall against the backdrop of several low-rise buildings around it.
There are very few vehicles on the road in front of the office building, and most of the vehicles are parked in the parking lot next to the building. None of them knew how to drive, and they couldn't find a car on the road, so it took them an hour to walk here from the intersection outside the esports venue.
On the way they came, they seldom encountered others, for the direction was to the northeast, where the cities and coasts had fallen under the assault of the Broken Ones. Those who wanted to escape evacuated to the west early.
Thankfully, they only encountered two detached attacks on the way, one alone and the other two. However, with the weapons that several people found from the side of the road temporarily, these two departing attacks failed to harm them.
At this point, they finally stood in front of the building and looked up. The whole building looks like a pencil, with a prismatic shape underneath and a spire above, with only a small platform at the top of the building. Each floor of the building is covered with blue floor-to-ceiling glass, and the whole building resembles a whole blue crystal in the midday sun.
Next to the entrance to the building, there is a sign that reads in blue art: "Thunder Wing Entertainment".
"Thunder Wing Entertainment? What does your dad do? Making games? The fat man asked, looking at the sign.
"Yes, Lei Yi Company makes its own games, and has also done mods for Reboot II, my dad is a programmer and game planner for this company, and I learned a lot of my computer skills from him." Shen Xin replied.
"Well, if there is a father, there must be a daughter." The fat man nodded, and took the lead through the main entrance of the building.
As soon as they entered the hall on the first floor, several people were shocked by what they saw.
It was a huge sculpture in the center of the hall on the first floor. The sculpture is magnificent, massive, and occupies almost the entire space on the first floor, and it also extends upwards to fill a large hollow area on the second and third floors.
The main part of the sculpture looks like a small black hillside from a distance, and when you get closer, you realize that it is a hillside made of corpses. The corpses were dressed in black armor and wore black helmets, and there was not an inch of exposed skin that made it impossible to tell what the people inside the armor were.
At the top of the black hillside stood several people. At the head was a male "kendo master" who held a long sword in both hands and parried a black-armored man in front of him who was holding an axe and flying to slash at him. Behind the kendo master, stood a female "magician", holding her hands upward, unleashing purple magical arrows into the sky, as if attacking some distant enemy.
Behind the two men stood several statues of other professionals, all of whom were fighting enemies in black armor, but there were so many enemies that even if they killed a mountain of corpses, they could not be killed. These people have shadows carved into their faces, and they look very tragic.
Beneath this epic sculpture is a stele with the name of the sculpture inscribed:
"Kuroshio"
Everyone forgot what they were here for, and they all stood in front of the sculpture in a daze, admiring the god-like work.
"Such a magnificent sculpture is placed in the hall, this Thunder Wing Company must be very rich! Kuroshio? It looks like it's something related to Reboot II. The fat man pondered for a moment and said.
"Well, this is a mod for the hit "Reboot II" launched by my dad's company two years ago, and the name is 'Kuroshio'." Shen Xin nodded and said, with a little proud expression on his face.
"Let's stop looking, let's go up and find someone. It's strange here, the lights are on, but there is no one. Gao Zhen suddenly reminded everyone.
"What's strange about this, isn't it because of the outbreak of disconnection, and everyone in the building has run away? The end is coming, who will remember to turn off the lights? The fat man stepped forward and touched the sculpture as he spoke.
The "strange stone ......" sculpture was cold to the touch, and the fat man muttered quietly.
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Everyone finally walked into the elevator under the leadership of Shen Xin. Although the outside of the building is a mess, the inside of the building looks like it is no different. The lights were all on neatly, the elevators were functioning normally, and it was as if nothing had happened except for no one.
In the elevator, Shen Xin directly pressed the "22" button, which was the floor where her father's office was located.
When the group arrived, they passed by a grocery store, where they found some weapons to defend themselves from. For example, knives, steel pipes and pans. At this moment, they all hid in the corner of the elevator, holding weapons in their hands, facing the elevator door. Having watched horror movies, they are very worried that when the elevator stops and the door opens, something scary will climb in.
"Ding!" When the elevator arrived, it seemed like a full hour had passed in everyone's hearts for a short minute. They leaned on me, I leaned on you, didn't dare to make a sound, and waited for the elevator door to open.
The door opened, and what was presented to everyone was a chaotic scene.
The crowd quickly breathed a sigh of relief, for the scene, though chaotic, was static, with no people or monsters.
Coming out of the elevator, you can see that the entire floor is a huge multi-person office, and plastic partitions divide the entire floor into a small single office space. The ceiling of the floor is simple, revealing exhaust pipes and cement columns, which is very special. The floor is surrounded by huge floor-to-ceiling windows, and the front walls are covered with glass with a special film that allows you to see clearly from the inside, but when you look inside, it is blue.
The multi-person office is the same as downstairs, there is no one. But things in the office are scattered everywhere, paper, stationery, office supplies, and even some electronic products, all piled up in a mess, messy, and messy.
It was like a fierce battle had just been fought, with things toppling over desks, chairs lying haphazardly in the hallways, and something hanging on the wall falling to the floor.
Does it mean that someone has broken in? The crowd quickly put aside this suspicion, as they searched the entire floor carefully, and found no traces of blood or fighting, as if the scattered things had been deliberately made to look like this, not because of the fight.
Shen Xin frowned and walked to his father's desk.
Her father's desk, like everyone else's, was a mess, as if he was looking for something in a panic and turned it over. The folders on the table were all pushed up, the files were scattered, a teacup fell on the papers, and the tea flowed out, wetting a large area of the documents.
Shen Xin squatted down, reached out and touched the tea spilled on the document, and a warm heat came from his fingertips.
"The spilled water is still hot, it looks like they've just left!" Shen Xin jumped up from the ground, ran to the floor-to-ceiling window, and looked outside.
After looking at it for a while, she shook her head and walked back, the street outside was empty, only a few leavers who could not find their prey wandering aimlessly.
"Where have they gone?" Shen Xin muttered to herself as she dragged a chair and sat down at her father's desk, she shook her mouse and found that the computer was on.
She knew the password that her father used to use, and after trying it twice, she successfully got in.
After quickly browsing the things on the side of the computer, Shen Xin looked back at them with a blank face, and said, "All the things in the computer have been deleted." ”
"Deleted? Why? The end is coming, the most important thing is to escape, are you still afraid that someone from a hostile company will steal the company's secrets? I don't understand. The fat man also pulled a chair over and sat down.
"Huh? What is it? "Suddenly, he noticed something out of the ordinary.
It was a picture frame, and inside it was a picture of a middle-aged man and a little girl.
The middle-aged man has gray hair, wears a white coat, and wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his face. He smiled very kindly and put his hand on the head of the little girl beside him.
The little girl looked to be only six or seven years old, with short black hair, big eyes, and a puffy face. Gao Zhen recognized at a glance that this was what Shen Xin looked like when he was a child.
The frame is different, not because of anything unusual about the photos inside, but because it's the only thing on the table that sits nicely. Everything else either topple upside down, flipped over, or rolled to the ground, but the frame was clearly not moved.
There is also a yellow sticky note on top of the frame.
Gao Zhen walked over, tore off the sticky note paper, and found a line of letters scrawled on the paper:
“I. V. H. G. Z. I. G.”