Chapter 26: "Pandora's Key"

No one could have imagined what a seriously injured patient who had dealt with death several times in just a few days would be able to live his life with the addition of a "shit luck" DeBuff.

Not many people noticed that Gong Piqing ran out of the ward, because the sound insulation of his ward was too good, and he didn't attract too many people's attention when his hospital bed collapsed just now, but it wasn't until he got into the toilet that everything began to go into chaos again.

A terrifying roar suddenly sounded in the otherwise peaceful research institute, and when a staff member closest to the toilet arrived, Gong Piqing was standing in the sewer under the toilet, and only half of his body was exposed on the ground, and at the same time, there was a cracked flush pipe on his head spraying water that was originally used to flush the toilet......

A large amount of water gushed out of the broken water pipe and gradually flooded the ground in the toilet, but when the repair team entered the toilet with the tools to repair the water pipe, they were directly stunned by the scene in front of them, because it was not a simple problem as a leaking water pipe, but the entire pit was squatted down by Gong Piqing!

Gong Piqing is probably an addiction to strengthening, causing him to repeat the "buzz" sound of simulated reinforcement in his mouth when he goes to the toilet, and as a result, the toilet under his feet was weakened to (-6) level by him after a while, and the original hard ceramic toilet became as fragile as paper at the moment of entering the (-6) level, and Gong Piqing's weakening effect even affected the things around the toilet, which caused the toilet and the ground below it to shatter along with the toilet, and half of Gong Piqing's body was directly stuck into the ground, Only the upper body was drenched in the water that came out of the flush pipe.

Everyone in the research institute has heard of the magical name Gong Piqing, but when they see the deity today, the terrifying impression left by this name in their hearts is completely revealed, because their research institute is located in the negative three floors underground, and there are dozens of floors above the ground. It also rotted the special metal alloy under the toilet bowl that can't even be punched by bullets......

So the task of the repair team changed from repairing the sewer pipe to rescuing Gong Piqing, and even Gong Piqing's incident attracted many senior leaders of the research institute, including Gong Piqing's "son" - a man in a suit.

After recovering physically, the man in the suit was still wearing a navy blue suit, a white shirt and a black tie as before, and even his hair was carefully groomed, but when he squeezed out of the crowd and saw Gong Piqing, he was so frightened that he almost screamed.

"Son! Son, come and save Daddy! The quality of your toilet here is also too bad, I only pulled half of the and it collapsed! Before Gong Piqing finished speaking, a nurse in a white coat outside hurriedly ran over, reporting the emergency situation that had just been discovered to the man in the suit: "Mr. Zhang! Mr. Zhang! Oh no, that Gong Piqing ran away, and even the bed was dismantled by him......"

Before the nurse could finish speaking, she saw Gong Piqing only half of his body exposed on the ground through the gap in the crowd.

When the nurse's gaze met the helpless look of the man in the suit, they seemed to understand everything.

"Mr. Gong's injuries have not recovered yet, so it is likely to be infected, and he will be given another full-body examination later, so he must take care of his body." After the man in the suit finished speaking to the nurse, he turned to look at a staff member in a black suit behind him, "Help me convey all the C-level leaders, and the meeting in the main conference room will be held in two hours." ”

After the man in the suit finished speaking, he turned around and left, he walked fast, as if he was in a vigorous and resolute style, but he actually just didn't want too many people to see his almost green face, and he didn't want to leave another chance for Gong Piqing to call his son.

He is known as "Mr. Zhang" here, his official position is second only to A-level B-level, to put it bluntly, he is the second-in-command class of the entire research institute, if in this case he is shouted "son" by a neurological patient who is half stuck in the sewer in front of so many subordinates, where should his face go?

But the man in the suit didn't expect that he just symbolically said some words to the nurse to take care of Gong Piqing, and he was already moved to tears by Gong Piqing, he didn't expect that his son was actually a person from the headquarters, and it seemed that he was still a leader, and his son turned around and left after leaving these two words of concern for him, he must not be able to bear to see his father's body stuck in the toilet and the top of his head was doused with cold water......

"Woooooooooo......oo What a dutiful son...... I'm going to tell the headquarters that my son is a qualified and extremely good cosmic warrior! Woo woo woo ...... "Gong Piqing cried, was carried to a stretcher by the medical staff, and was sent to the medical department again......

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Two hours later, in the conference room of the Institute of Mental Illness, all the B- and C-Class leaders gathered here because of the new discovery of the mysterious ruin.

A docent dressed in formal attire is standing under a large screen at the end of the conference room, presenting their new discoveries to the leaders, which may even change the fate of their institute in the future.

On the big screen is a physical model in motion, which looks like an abstract solar system, with many round objects rotating around a center, and these objects can occasionally form some strange shapes, which are both a model of the solar system and a mechanical transmission structure.

"This is our biggest recent discovery, and we've come up with this model after a sufficient amount of mathematical reasoning, and we'll call it the 'Pandora's Key' for the time being." The narrator said, using the computer to rotate the complex model, while introducing another, more complex model at the edge of the screen.

"We can assume that Pandora's Key is a key that rotates automatically, there are many locks near this key, and the various branches of Pandora's Key rotate randomly, but there is always a time to achieve the so-called 'Seven Stars Alignment', when all the keys converge in a straight line, Pandora's Key will open the corresponding door, and at the same time, the portal in the well ruins will open, forming a portal connecting our two worlds, and the monsters in the other world will come to our world through the machine well ruins."

The narrator points a laser pointer at the mechanical structure on the screen and explains in detail.

"Let me interrupt, as you all know, first of all, the things in that well are completely beyond the scope of our human knowledge, how do you use the physical models that humans know and can make to simulate this thing that is beyond the scope of our knowledge?" A B-level officer in the meeting asked.

"Because our group has been studying since the first appearance of monsters in the well, we have analyzed the time and environment of each monster appearance, and finally came to this conclusion through simulation, this plan was originally drawn in the form of a diagram, but the content of the final diagram has no regularity, so we concretized the abstract table into these spheres that move in a circle around a certain center, and finally obtained this model."

"You mean that this model can predict when a monster will appear in that well?" Another member of the meeting asked.

"That's right, now I want to emphasize that if we weren't too sure, we wouldn't have called the leaders here for a meeting, because before that, we had already used this model to calculate the time of the last two monster appearances, but before we could inform you, the institute was attacked by those monsters."

The narrator's words shocked everyone present, and just as the members of the meeting were dumbfounded by this horrific conclusion, the narrator again used multimedia to bring up another image from the big screen, which was a photograph of their group's research records on a certain day, and the symbols in the record were so complex that they resembled Darwin's notes on the Origin of Species, but only two dates circled in red ink were particularly eye-catching.

They were all people who had come through these two waves of catastrophe, and of course knew what had happened on those two dates.

Because that was indeed the date of the last two monsters in the remains of the shaft, and in the corner of this record, there was also the date when the staff recorded the note.

"The model now accurately predicts the date of the two well ruins, right?" The man in the suit sitting at the end of the conference table asked, staring at the model on the screen.

"Yes, it can be accurate to the day or so before the well ruins are triggered, and now the body of this model is still in the main computer of the research institute's computing group, I am asking people to make the physical model as soon as possible, so that we can be prepared to deal with those monsters in advance." The narrator replied.

"But what you're talking about now is the law of Pandora's Key, but is there a pattern to which door it points to?" The man in the suit asked again.

"Mr. Zhang, that's the case, because this model is a complex three-dimensional structure, what we see from the big screen is only a two-dimensional plane embodiment, which door this key will eventually point to, we have not yet calculated, because the Pandora's Key alone This model consumes a lot of energy and computing power, and if we want to calculate which door this key will eventually point to, I'm afraid it will take more time."

The narrator said, pausing slightly, "But I guess that the models of those doors outside are really completely irregular, just like when the spectacle of the seven stars in our solar system appears, we have no way of knowing which constellation the line formed by the seven stars will point to, to put it bluntly, what kind of monsters we will encounter in the future, this is all up to luck......