In the early afternoon, Shi Qinghuai, who had completed the work at hand, walked out of the team office, greeted several familiar colleagues, and rushed home by bus along the way. As an online news reporter www.biquge.info his job is much easier than that of ordinary reporters. As long as he sorts out the news materials in his own section and sends them to his superiors to review them one by one, the editor of the page will naturally help him do other things.

It was a quarter past five o'clock when I returned home, Yao Yiyao was watching online dramas intently in front of the computer, and Xiao Yi was sleeping on the sofa with a thin sheet, and there was a deep and shallow breathing sound from her mouth.

"Why does this kid keep sleeping?" Shi Qinghuai expressed concern about Xiao Yi's sleepy state.

"The body of the thunder eagle is still in the growth stage, and its eating method is different from that of humans, and it needs long-term sleep to maintain energy intake." Yao Yiyao didn't look back.

Shi Qinghuai took a closer look and found that the online drama that Nizi watched was actually a youth campus romance movie. Yao Yiyao's expression was extremely serious during the watching of the drama, and her little face was tense. As soon as there is a romantic scene, she will take out the small leather book and concentrate on recording the plot, and her serious demeanor seems to be taking the most important exam in her life.

He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Why, the companion spirit is also interested in human love?" ”

"I'm just studying the special feelings of human beings." Yao Yiyao corrected.

Shi Qinghuai shrugged his shoulders and decided not to care about Nizi's strange thoughts, he sat down in the empty seat on the right side of the sofa, glancing at his watch from time to time. He called Shen Sanwan before he got off work, and the other party should be on his way by now.

A quarter of an hour later, there was a knock on the door, and Shi Qinghuai stepped forward to open the door without thinking, and the first thing that caught his eye was a face that he had not expected.

"Peaches?"

He stared at the girl's arm under the sleeve in a daze, and he remembered that the girl's empty sleeve was refilled, and a few crystalline fingers poked out of the cuff. No one could have imagined that Guo Mengtao's prosthetic surgery would get better so quickly, and it was only half a month before she broke her arm, and she would be able to move freely outside.

"Well, don't you feel pleasantly surprised?" Shen Sanwan, who was standing behind Guo Mengtao, was very satisfied, and Shi Qinghuai showed such a surprised look.

"Is it okay already?" Shi Qinghuai didn't expect Shen Sanwan to bring Guo Mengtao over, and he was still worried about the success of the operation.

"If you don't believe it, you can touch it." Guo Mengtao understood the worry in his eyes, she took the initiative to roll her sleeves up to her arms, and stretched her white and flawless jade arms in front of the man.

Shi Qinghuai carefully rubbed the smooth skin on the arm with his fingertips, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart again and again the greatness of technology, which was infinitely close to the real touch, as well as the unique smoothness and elasticity of women's skin, made him unable to believe that he was touching a mechanical prosthetic limb for a while.

"How do you feel?" He asked curiously about the woman he was touching on the arm.

Guo Mengtao's face turned red: "The skin surface of the prosthetic transplant is equipped with tiny sensors, which will convey to my brain data such as the hardness, heat, and shape of the objects I touch. In general, there is no difference from normal physical contact. ”

"Great!" Shi Qinghuai was sincerely happy for Guo Mengtao.

When the three of them entered the house, Shi Qinghuai carried the little guy sleeping on the sofa into the room, and pulled Yao Yiyao, who was addicted to online dramas, over. The four people who knew each other well sat in a circle around the coffee table, and Shi Qinghuai recounted in detail what happened in the unit today.

"In other words, a group of mortals discovered the location of the 'Doomsday Disaster' by mistake, and actually wanted to attack the Scourge Gate?" After listening to Shi Qinghuai's narration, Shen Sanwan followed and concluded, "Isn't this looking for death? ”

"That's right." Shi Qinghuai nodded, and set her eyes on Yao Yiyao, who knew the most about the characteristics of the "Doomsday Disaster" among the people present.

"I have a problem." Guo Mengtao, who had just recovered from a serious illness, raised her hand like a primary school student, "How long will the scene of 'doomsday disaster' exist?" What are the conditions required to open the door to a natural disaster? Will the Theocrat allow non-Trialists to enter the dungeon space? ”

The three questions made everyone look confused, and a few people realized that their understanding of the characteristics of the "Doomsday Disaster" was almost equal to zero.

It was Yao Yiyao who spoke to solve the doubts of several people: "The essence of the 'Doomsday Disaster' and the 'Gate of the Natural Disaster' is now the entrance and exit of the alien dimension, and it has become the best place for the trialists to be assessed after being transformed by the 'theocratic' organization. Theoretically, space-time gates will appear anywhere in the universe, and the area of the 'gate' will slowly expand from small to large, similar to a black hole that shrinks into a point and expands. ”

"Could it be that if no one cares, the 'Gate of the Scourge' will swell to infinity?" The three audience members seemed to foresee a future disaster scenario.

"Actually, it's impossible." Yao Yiyao shook her head and said, "As the volume of the 'Gate' expands, the more difficult the task set by the 'Theocracy' becomes, and the risks and benefits obtained by the trialists participating in the mission will double. But at the same time, the scene of the 'Doomsday Disaster' will become more and more difficult to hide, and once the diameter of the 'door' expands to more than twenty meters, it will even cause the chain of space to collapse, leading to the extinction of life in the area. At that point, both the government and the trialists with a little conscience will step forward to stop the expansion of the 'Gate of Natural Disasters'. ”

"How can you stop it?" Guo Mengtao did not let go of any detail.

"Get inside the door." Yao Yiyao said succinctly, "As long as someone enters the 'Gate of Natural Disaster', it will automatically close, and the door will not be opened for the last time until the entrant completes the quest or all the corpses are displayed." ”

"That's actually a pretty contradictory thing, isn't it?" Shen Sanwan analyzed, "Trialists need to challenge more difficult dungeon missions to increase their trial points, but the expansion of the 'Heavenly Disaster Gate' is too strong and will bring all kinds of disasters to the world, this is really a dilemma. ”

"Therefore, once many trialists find out the location of the 'Scourge', they will choose to secretly hide nearby and wait, until the 'Scourge's Gate expands to a certain range and meets the expectations in his mind, and the trialist will choose to enter. This process, if you have to use a metaphor, the trialist is like a pig slaughterer, and the 'door' is the domestic pig they raise. For the first time, Yao Yiyao used a "vivid" metaphor in her words.

"Isn't this what the saying goes, 'fatten and then kill'?" Guo Mengtao muttered.

Shi Qinghuai's eyes lit up, and he immediately guessed the original intention of the serial murderer, this person was undoubtedly a trialist who discovered the "Gate of Natural Disasters". Like a poisonous snake lurking in the shadows, he silently watched the growth of his prey, and in the process, he did not allow anyone to leak the news of the appearance of the "Scourge Gate" in the Antong factory.

The factory guards and reporters who died at his hands must have accidentally discovered the existence of a "natural disaster" before they were brutally murdered.