The fishing boats dock at the river port on the first floor of A01, near the Moyez Building.

Excavating an artificial river in a boat-shaped three-dimensional city, Zhou Zhi always felt that this design was not very auspicious, as if the bottom of the boat had been chiseled.

In front of him was the low and square above-ground building of the Mayez Building, and the 'barbecue' was led to the stable by a colleague arranged by Su Jian, and the group of four stood facing the gray façade of the building, and they had been facing the wall for half an hour since Thomas said "Wait".

"What are we waiting for?"

Zhong Xiaoguang asked impetuously, he had asked this question more than a dozen times, Zhou Zhen didn't know, a person smoked silently, Su Jian kept wandering, and just shook his head when he asked her, as soon as Thomas left the enclosed space, he immediately began to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and only said two words, "Wait." ”

After another ten minutes, three cracks suddenly cracked on the gray wall, and then the gaps gradually expanded, and a wall of more than ten square meters suddenly retracted, the whole process was slow and silent, like dragging a flat ice brick on the smooth ground.

The wall moved inward about two meters, revealing a cramped and dark passage on either side, and Thomas led the group towards the left passage.

The white-white walls on the interior side of the building, the passage is almost seamless with the ceiling and floor.

When Zhou Zhen walked in the passage, he smelled a faint smell of almonds, which seemed to be permeating from the wall, he frowned, this smell can only be emitted by two things, real almonds or highly toxic cyanide, and then reached out and touched the wall, the wall was actually soft, like a huge quilt.

"What is this?"

Zhou Zhi kicked at the wall as he spoke, and the dust on the soles of his shoes fell straight down on the wall, leaving no marks at all.

Su Jian explained behind him: "Flexible nanomaterials, insulating from gas and sound. ”

Zhou Zhen guessed curiously, "The hour I was waiting for just now was to put down this wall, what is inside the wall?" ”

Su Jian hesitated for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't know." ”

Zhou Zhen faintly felt strange and asked, "What's going on with this almond flavor?" ”

Su Jian shook his head again: "What almond smell, I didn't smell it." ”

Zhong Xiaoguang echoed: "It's not almond flavor, I smell like insecticide, and the insecticide used to clean the rat restaurant during my internship is like this." ”

Zhou Zhen was suspicious, but seeing that Su Jian didn't say anything, he didn't ask anymore.

The passage is L-shaped, and at the end is an ultra-high-speed elevator, leading to the energy laboratory deep underground, Zhou Zhen remembered the last time he came to the energy laboratory, and he also took this kind of elevator, but the last time he entered from the main entrance, he did not pass through this strange passage.

The elevator doors open to one side, and the interior space is spacious and comfortable, because the energy laboratory is located 35 kilometers underground, and the elevator needs to descend for nearly an hour, so the elevator is equipped with row seats, oxygen supply equipment and a thermostatic system.

The four mermaids rushed in, Thomas pressed a button on the panel, and the door on the other side slowly opened, revealing the lobby on the first floor of the Mayez Building.

Zhou Zhen is very familiar here, and when I look back, the seat has also popped up on the iron door when I entered, and it turned out to be a secret door.

"Uncle Zhou."

Thomas pointed out the door and motioned for Zhou Zhen to go out: "Next, Mr. Zhong is safe, so you don't have to continue to send him." ”

Zhong Xiaoguang looked surprised: "Send me?" Didn't Lao Zhou come to see you? ”

Thomas turned his head suspiciously, he thought that Zhou Zhen had made an appointment with Zhong Xiaoguang to meet at A01, but Zhong Xiaoguang thought that Zhou Zhen was here to find Thomas, the two looked at each other in amazement, and found that they didn't know what Zhou Zhen's real purpose was for coming to A01.

Zhou Zhen smiled awkwardly, and said casually: "I'm just here to see if you're okay." ”

Thomas was silent for a few seconds, and then suddenly said, "Uncle Zhou, is it to remove ricin?" Do you want to get the longevity system back? ”

Zhou Zhen immediately denied it: "Of course not." ”

This sentence is not a lie, he really did not come to rob the immortal system, but he can't explain more, Natasha is already an enemy of the Armored Rat Company, and he definitely can't disclose her whereabouts here.

Thomas stared at Zhou Qian's eyes for a few seconds, nodded with a gloomy face, and said: "You don't have to worry about ricin, as long as it lasts until next year, when the Armored Rat Company takes the position, I will definitely replace Jiro Oshima and control the energy experiment, and then Oshima will be at your disposal, but now we still need him, and the agreement made by my father cannot be broken." ”

"I know."

Zhou Zhen smiled bitterly and said, hold on until next year? If you can't detoxify in time, you won't even be able to survive the next month.

Zhong Xiaoguang was confused on the side, and asked, "Old Zhou, what are you here for?" ”

Zhou Zhen shrugged: "Just... Just hang out, buy some supplies, nothing. ”

Zhong Xiaoguang scratched his head: "Procurement? But you don't have the energy..."

Zhou Zhizheng didn't know how to answer, and Thomas interrupted: "Uncle Zhou, you should go." ”

Zhou Zhen snorted, as if he was about to go out if he was amnestied, Thomas grabbed his arm and whispered: "Let Natasha not fight Oshima's idea, this is one of the conditions for me to let her go." ”

Zhou Zhen was awe-inspiring in his heart, he actually ignored Thomas's judgment, with his intelligence and acumen, how could he not guess that Natasha was with him, so he had to nod calmly, and shook his arm away Thomas's hand.

The elevator doors closed behind him, and a sense of foreboding sprouted in Zhou Zhi's heart.

When he came to the lobby, he thought of the smell of almonds he had just smelled, and just when there was nothing else to do, he went around to the front of the passage.

Contrary to the darkness of the passageway, there is a large, brightly lit compartment on the front with a sign that reads: "Alliance Retiree Activity Center." "The compartment was crowded with old men with white hair.

Zhou Zhen felt funny, he understood the retirement policy of the enterprise alliance, after the age of 60, he could take the initiative to apply for retirement, the pension is about half of the salary, and when the age is reached, he will be forced to retire if the performance appraisal is not up to standard.

He himself had received a retirement application, but he couldn't remember whether it was used to wipe his butt or to pad the corner of the table.

But the strange thing is that the area is wrong, estimating the length of the channel, the space separated by the flexible nanomaterial should be much larger than the compartment area.

Zhou Zhen approached the door, and was about to take a peek, when an armed security guard flashed out from behind the door and stopped in front of him: "What are you doing?" ”

Zhou Zhen said with a hippie smile: "Don't do anything, I just want to see it and look forward to retirement." ”

The security guard looked Zhou Zhen up and down, and saw that he was about thirty years old, and scolded angrily: "Look at it, this is not the place for you to come, hurry back to work." ”

Zhou Zhen squeezed out a submissive smile, nodded and took a few steps back, hiding behind a marble pillar, and peeked at the situation in the activity center with his peripheral vision.

Suddenly, someone behind him scolded: "Fuck, I've been smoking for ten years, and I haven't been able to hit it once." ”

Zhou Zhen looked back and saw that an old man in his seventies was tearing up a piece of paper and throwing it into the trash can behind the pillar.

"When you're old, don't be so angry."

Zhou Qianxiang persuaded him.

I don't want the old man to be furious: "Stunned Qing understands a fart!" Lao Tzu can't sign you to raise your son? ”

Zhou Zhen was not angry, but curious, he took out a cigarette, handed one to the old man, stroked his back and comforted: "Big brother, don't throw fire on me, tell me, what happened?" Maybe I can help? ”

The old man took the cigarette and threw it into his mouth, reached out for a match, lit it and took a sharp puff, and the cigarette burned into half of it: "Good things, we old waste, we can't even afford cigarettes." ”

Zhou Zhen struck while the iron was hot and asked, "Tell me, what's wrong?" ”

The old man took a sip and said hatefully: "Lottery, the glory and wealth will be drawn, and the old man will have nothing to rely on if he can't draw it." ”