The two entered the building, got on the elevator, and went directly to the fifth basement floor.

When he saw that there were five underground floors in the elevator button, An Ran realized that this was indeed not an ordinary mental hospital. Not to mention that there is no patient here, even this elevator has a problem.

Isn't it strange that there are only three floors above ground and five floors underground?

According to the positive building standards, the foundation of a three-story building cannot even be repaired with a basement, so why should there be such a deep foundation with five floors underground?

Apparently the asylum is a façade, and its true functions are all underground.

There is another strange thing, that is, Luo Ning is holding a trench coat in his hand. Now it's dog days outside, and it's still too hot to wear short sleeves safely, and I can't wait to take off my skin. Luo Ning actually wore a windbreaker? Even if you don't wear it, it's extra to hold it in your hand!

"It seems that you are really sick!" An Ran cast a sympathetic look at Luo Ning.

But as soon as the elevator opened, Enron immediately regretted it.

As soon as the elevator door opened a crack, cold air squeezed in through the gap. When the door was fully opened, a chill came to his face, and An Ran was so excited that he was beaten hard.

"Crazy, right, the air conditioner is so big?" An Ran muttered.

And Luo Ning deliberately shook his windbreaker in front of An Ran, and on the slow boat, he didn't forget to show off in front of An Ran: "It's so warm!" ”

An Ran's face suddenly darkened, and he greeted the eighteen generations of Luo Ning's ancestors in his heart. This thing obviously knows that it is cold below, so he didn't remind it.

Scheming man!

Luo Ning smiled wickedly and said, "Let's go!" ”

Stepping out of the elevator, it was a long hallway, very deep. There are a lot of doors next to the hallway, but they are all tightly closed, and there is no door number on the door, I don't know what it is for.

There was a double door at the end of the corridor, push the door in, and inside was a large office, and Xia Qinghe was sitting in it to approve documents.

After entering, Luo Ning said respectfully: "Team Xia, people have brought it." ”

Xia Qinghe didn't raise his head, just said "um" and continued to approve the documents.

Luo Ning turned around and made a silent gesture to An Ran, and then walked out of the office, carefully closing the door without making any sound.

The silence in the office was panicking, and An Ran felt very uncomfortable, and he didn't know where to put his hands. But Xia Qinghe still has a very thick document on his desk, and he doesn't know when he will approve it.

After waiting for nearly two hours, Xia Qinghe finally put down the pen in his hand, took off his glasses, and rubbed his eyes. Seeing An Ran, who was still standing, he pouted and smiled: "Very patient!" ”

When An Ran heard this, it turned out that this old guy was doing it on purpose, and he was very unhappy.

Xia Qinghe smiled, grabbed a cane next to the chair, and stood up: "I know you have a lot of questions in your heart, come with me!" ”

While speaking, Xia Qinghe was already sweating profusely, and took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat as he walked.

An Ran followed behind him, feeling cold and swishing, goosebumps already covered his exposed arms. He was very strange, Xia Qinghe only wore a shirt, and the air conditioner was turned on so much, he still sweated?

But when he first arrived, the situation was unclear, and he didn't dare to ask, in case it was someone's sore spot, wouldn't it be embarrassing for him to ask so blatantly?

Following Xia Qinghe, the two got on the elevator again and came to the fourth floor. After stepping out of the elevator, there were many people in white coats in front of An Ran, and Luo Ning was among them.

These people walked around, very busy, and turned a blind eye to Xia Qinghe and An Ran.

In the end, Xia Qinghe took Luo Ning to stop in front of a glass wall. An Ran found that there was a glass room in front of him, which was not very large, more than ten square meters.

The glass was thick, thicker than Enron had seen before, and it was tempered glass.

In the glass house, a ragged, dirty man huddled in a corner. The man was trembling, his body swaying from side to side, his eyes were blank, and his mouth was grunting out some completely incomprehensible and irregular sounds.

An Ran recognized at a glance that in the glass house, it was the madman who bit him, that is, the person who injected an unknown substance into his body.

"Luo Ning said that he was an adventurer who came out of the hollow mountain valley."

Luo Ning couldn't help but ask, "Why did he become like this?" Does it have something to do with the empty mountain valley? ”

Xia Qinghe sighed lightly: "He is infected with the same unknown substance as you, so he became what he is now, no human being, no ghost or ghost." ”

"And whether this unknown substance was infected in the hollow mountain valley is exactly what we want to know."

Infect?

An Ran couldn't help frowning and asked, "If I hadn't found the source of the unknown substance as soon as possible and looked for a solution, would I have become like this?" ”

Xia Qinghe paused, and said earnestly: "It may be worse!" ”

"What do you mean?"

Xia Qinghe took a few steps inside and pointed to another glass house. An Ran took a closer look and almost didn't throw up.

The whole glass house was a mess, there was meat sauce everywhere, there was a big stall on the floor, and you could see the internal organs.

He immediately remembered that when he was in the hospital, Luo Ning had said that if he couldn't find a solution, he would most likely explode and die. Originally, he thought it was just Luo Ning's speculation, but now he knows that it is based on facts.

"This ...... Also infected? An Ran asked after a pause.

"Hmm!"

Xia Qinghe introduced: "This matter has to start with a thing obtained by the Adventure Alliance, which is a brocade box. ”

"Nishiki box?"

An Ran immediately thought of the phoenix pattern brocade box, and couldn't help asking, "What kind of brocade box is it?" ”

Xia Qinghe said: "A very delicate brocade box, with a delicate phoenix pattern on it, is very old, at least more than a thousand years old. ”

An Ran was shocked, it was indeed a phoenix pattern brocade box.

However, in terms of time, it is absolutely impossible for Wang Shengli to take the phoenix-patterned brocade box, because before they set off, these infected people had already come out of the empty mountain valley, indicating that they had obtained the phoenix-patterned brocade box before entering the underground palace safely.

In other words, there is more than one phoenix brocade box.

Now An Ran is most curious about whether this phoenix pattern brocade box has anything to do with the Vermilion Bird King.

Or maybe it has anything to do with the eternal gate mentioned in the mural.

An Ran asked, "Where did this brocade box come from?" ”

Xia Qinghe frowned and said, "Someone sent it to the Adventure Alliance, but this person never showed up and was sent by mail." Also sent was a check for one million, along with a power of attorney. ”

"The other party entrusted us to open the brocade box, take out the contents of the brocade box and give it to him, and he will pay another two million commissions."

An Ran hurriedly asked, "You opened the brocade box?" ”

Xia Qinghe nodded.

An Ran hurriedly asked again: "What's in the brocade box?" ”

Xia Qinghe glanced at An Ran and smiled with satisfaction, because an adventurer must maintain a strong sense of curiosity, and An Ran is qualified.

He continued: "In the brocade box is a map. ”