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I found a row of lockers in the corner of a room somewhere in the basement. The lockers were unlocked and had a thick layer of dust. The ash is thicker, and I think I can even farm on it.

There are several thicker lab notes in the locker.

If you think about it, it's definitely not the robots' job, and they can write experiment logs and store them in those machines.

In other words, it was inhabited by humans before.

But that was a long, long time ago, and you can tell from the thickness of the ash and the extent of the breakage of the lab notes.

"December 15th...... I didn't write the year. "The first few pages of the notes were so badly damaged that I had to carefully erase the completely unreadable fragments and start with the more recent readable sections.

[December 15: Breakthrough progress has been made in the development of vacuum zero point energy development technology, and the "East" consortium has released a vacuum zero point energy supply system. Maybe we'll be able to use it. 】

[December 16: The Circumlunar Accelerator was completed, and the experiment had to be put on hold due to being invited to the ribbon-cutting ceremony.] 】

The date after that jumped straight to January. It looks more like an experiment diary than an experiment note.

[January 20: The theoretical model is very well developed, but the "Eastern" consortium is still asking us to make some changes. Party A (smeared)】

[January 22: (expunged) Always saying strange things. I suspect he may have been in the lab for too long, and may have been psychologically depressed. Let's give him a vacation next week. 】

[January 29: The pre-experiment achieved relatively good results, and my colleagues were very happy. However, the "Eastern" consortium is not very satisfied, and the group seems to want us to use a higher energy level (to be smeared)]

[(Smeared) is back, and he looks much more relaxed.] 】

It is worth noting that the part that seems to have written someone's name has been erased, and there is a line of small print written next to it, probably added later: [Don't write real names, forget them]

[Feb. 5: The Circumlunar Accelerator is about to begin its first (breakage) hopefully functioning so that our official experiments will go well.] 】

[February 20: The experiment was successful.] (Smeared) seemed excited. I understand what he thinks, he's a typical workaholic...... He should also be happy to see how effective our work is. 】

[March 2: The "Oriental" consortium, as an established group, attaches so much importance to this new project. This may be an opportunity for our lab. Make the most of this opportunity. 】

[March 12: The exploration of the coincidence universe has encountered a bottleneck, and the microscopic channel no longer meets the needs of exploration. However, the technology required for a larger-scale channel has not yet been established even in a theoretical model......]

[March 15th: (smeared) What a genius. Using the infinite vacuum zero-point energy, it seems that it is really possible to forcibly create a macro channel out. However, practical application should be quite difficult, and it will take at least a dozen years for this technology to mature. 】

[March 21: Is the "Eastern" consortium crazy? Actually accepted the (smeared) proposal? But if there is even a micron error at that time, the whole civilization will have to pay the price for their recklessness. 】

[March 28: Tinnitus is getting worse. The lab was given a collective vacation. Their experiment seems to have failed, at least not for me to see them excitedly holding a press conference. But why does it look so happy? 】

[March 29: The "Reality" consortium announced the successful implementation of the Micro Universe Project. Good news. 】

[April 1st: God played a joke on mankind.] 】

Yes?

When I saw this, I was confused.

The recorder should be the owner of the laboratory, and it is a wasteful feeling, a page is a diary for a day, almost a large area is blank, and the writing turns a page a day.

Turning back, there are a lot of jumble lines and some gibberish. For example:

[Ahem...... I... I'm afraid I won't live long ...... "Eastern" consortium...... Remedial measures ......]

[Hiss...... But that's crazy. Crazier than it is now. But...... But there is no way...... Ahem, if you don't do this, no one will survive......]

[The "Reality" Alliance claims that the microuniverse will be transformed into a shelter...... I... Ahem...... I probably can't go. 】

【......】

and so on. Why is this nonsense...... Isn't stammering and coughing in a diary confusing enough?

What kind of drama spirit would be "lingering" under the "intermittent" record in the diary.

I flipped through the back, and there didn't seem to be anything particularly useful. And no more dates were recorded.

Some of the other books are very professional in experimental details. A lot of technical terms make me dizzy. However, there are some pictures that show the interior of this laboratory, and from the overall internal structure, it should be the basement where I am now. However, the instruments and decoration inside are completely different, and it is estimated that the later Yanshi changed them into instruments that are convenient for them to operate.

So is Yanshi a scientist among robots? Or an organization of scientists in some robot.

The contents of the book were written presumably before the "cataclysm", and the events described in it are likely to be "cataclysm". On the first of April? Something must have happened that day, causing the recorder to go crazy later. Well, turned into a drama spirit.

I also noticed that the recorder mentioned that the people in the lab were experiencing collective tinnitus, which was very suspicious, and it was hard for me, who had been bothered by the abnormal tinnitus just now, not to suspect that there was something wrong with it. Could it be that this tinnitus also has something to do with some of the effects of the cataclysm?

Although there were some gains from this trip, the clues I collected were far from being able to spell out the original appearance of the matter.

Just in case, I carpet-searched the somewhat sized lab again, and after confirming that there were no other valuable clues, I shook my head, pushed open the secret door, and returned to the surface.

I was just standing still, about to sigh, when I suddenly heard an alarm in the basement.

What's going on? I was so frightened that I went back to take a look, only to have the alarm go off again.

I've been back and forth a few times, and I kind of understand what the situation is now. I guess the lab has a testing system that can check if there are any living creatures in the lab — and if not, an alarm will be sounded. After all, I guessed before that some of the instruments in the laboratory were used to protect nearby life from certain effects (curing my headache and tinnitus), and if I didn't have a life to do this, I knew that it would be quite energy-intensive.

In other words, I just need to get out of here for a while...... The lab will go into a state of blackout hibernation.

This probably explains why the robot who committed suicide didn't go out to save the Yanshi, although they should be able to send a distress signal remotely over the network, but the only companion can't get out......

I'll smash it, smash it, see that the time is almost up, take out a yellow bead and swallow it, and break away from the dream world.

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