"Bloodthirsty Mr. Monkey, congratulations on joining this great project, starting today, you will have 30 days to complete the task of making the mechanical heart, and if you complete it on time, you will get the details of the TS-010628 file, if you fail to complete it within the time limit, you will bear all the consequences." The sound faded away, and silence enveloped every corner of the room.

"Xiao Meng, do you know the complexity of this task?" Bobo's tone revealed anxiety. Munch didn't speak, just silently adjusted the countdown on the workbench to 30 days, and after clicking the confirmation button, he had no way out. Watching the time pass minute by minute, Munch felt inexplicably frightened, as if he had a pair of invisible eyes, staring at him all the time.

"Maybe Moses Taylor leaked the character information, but what kind of power can achieve accurate transmission of information in dreams? And more importantly, why me? What exactly are you trying to tell me? Maybe it has something to do with the shadow of the anomaly? ”

Munch thought of this, walked to the bookshelf, picked up the white paper, and gently touched the "Apocalypse" with his hand, the dots on the side cover emitted rays, and began to scan from the bottom to the top, scanning Munch's retina, after the identity was confirmed, the bookshelf began to shake slightly, and Bane, who was lying on the ground, became excited with the vibration.

Driven by the upper and lower hidden slides, the bookshelves begin to shrink to the sides, revealing an area in the shape of a flat oval. Munch held the white paper in his left hand and Bane in his right hand and stood up. Sensing the change in weight, the bookshelf expands towards the side of the bed until the shape of the central area becomes circular, and the border is just at the edge of the bed, and the bookshelf stops moving.

The bookshelves at the four corners extend outwards and connect with each other, and the high-strength fiber material quickly fills the gaps in the skeleton, and Munch's "secret room" is built.

In the corner of the chamber, a white plush ball rolls out, which is now a bit like a rugby ball because of the deformation of the extrusion. When Bane saw this, he broke free from Munch's hand and rushed over to take it in his mouth contentedly.

Directly in front of Munch, the wall covered with black padding material is full of various types of prosthetic accessories, such as Minovsky bone connectors, German small-caliber weapon mounts, cicada wing fingertip induction drives, etc., which are dazzling, and the area of the wall is about to be filled.

The wall that originally entered the door was now neatly stacked with countless mechanical boxes, each row of which was of a different color. The keywords projected on the box show the type of small parts contained in the box, such as bearings, gears, chucks, induction units, and so on.

At the bottom of the wall, there is a black area with Munch's casual sketches, TS-010628 written diagonally in white lettering, standing out against the messy background, and an exaggerated question mark that completely encloses the numbers.

On one side of the glass curtain wall, it is now a display wall composed of LCD screens of different sizes, and the switching screens are respectively monitoring the main entrance and exit of the City Security Bureau and the mission information in the "Demon Whisper", and the other half of the area shows the energy radiation value related to the parasitic tower. The workbench that was originally placed in front of the bookshelf has now been moved to the wall of prosthetic accessories in front of it, and the hologram area has also been used as a projection space in the secret room and runs automatically.

Whenever he encounters something he can't figure out, he always likes to enter this secret room that he has spent two years building little by little. The space formed by the black walls and the book structure seems to be completely detached from the original world, and he can think freely about any problem. Of course, the main purpose is to provide cover for illegal body modification.

"Bobo, can you build a dynamic prediction model about Xiao Hei based on the text content of the diary?" Munch pressed his hand to his chin and tapped his index finger lightly against the tip of his nose. He hopes to sort through the diary of the past few months to see if he can find the factors that are most closely related to the shadow movement.

"Absolutely. It's just a question, who is Xiao Hei? Bobo's voice was puzzled. Munch pointed to the quiet black shadow at his feet, and under the light of the secret room, Xiao Hei was not black, but took on a dark gray state. Bobo understood, mobilized the camera in the dark room, and entered the contents of Munch's diary into the system.

"It takes a while to build a model, so you can relax and listen to soft music that will help you think about the problems you're facing." Seeing that Munch did not refuse, Bobo selected a piece of Bach's "Twelve-tone Equal Temperament" from the library, and when the soothing piano music slowly flowed, Munch turned the first page of the diary, looked at the full text, and recalled the experience of two years ago, when he did not know that the trajectory of fate would be completely rewritten on that day.

On May 19, 2073, Munch's 18th birthday, and to celebrate such a monumental occasion, Ovid gave him a ticket to experience the horology in the town of Ubudgarh. Located in the northwestern border area of Totscany, at the foot of the Rusi Mountains, 600 km away from the main city, Ubudgarh is a town famous for making watches and clocks, and several of the most popular luxury timepieces such as Da Vinci, Iron Time, Yongzhun Ke and so on are produced there.

Munch took the ticket and looked at Ovid with a look in his eyes full of emotion. This gift represents Ovid's good intentions. For Munch, who loves mechanical transformation, the town of Ubudgarh is simply paradise. The high ticket price should have cost Ovid a lot of his savings.

In the field of mechanical engineering, beautifully designed and complex clocks can make people who like machinery fanatical at any time. A precise mechanical watch, with a constant tick of 5 times per second, is like the human heart, which must function without failing in all kinds of complex situations. Isn't that fascinating? Today, with the rapid development of science and technology, the town of Ubu Garh still maintains the tradition of hand-crafting all parts and components.

In the case of a tourbillon mechanism, a high-precision levitating perpetual motion instrument is placed in a small dial, and the escapement is precisely placed on it. Rotate incessantly to counteract the deviation caused by gravity. In addition to the tourbillon device, it is also necessary to set up a circle of dynamic anti-radiation barriers, and according to the changes in the surrounding environment, a small amount of calibrated radiation waves are sent to the outside at all times to cancel out the interference caused by the transition domain and parasitic tower......

Munch sat on the water drop cart, his head speeding over the various precision-running mechanical units, and his excitement was indescribable. Outside the window is Ovid's slightly rickety figure. The vehicle starts, Ovid's figure gradually recedes, getting smaller and smaller, and countless warm pieces of life rush into Munch's heart......

The 600-kilometer journey is not too far, it took just over an hour on the way, and when entering the town of Ubudgarh, the first thing you see is the whole city of Tozcana, the only low-power parasitic tower, numbered No. 32. The overall size is about half of that of a normal parasitic tower, there is no "green belt" around it, and the coverage radius of the "silver plate" is much smaller.

At that time, when the parasitic tower was located in Ubudgarh, there was a lot of opposition. One is that the parasitic tower has strong radiation, which can have a great adverse effect on the accuracy of manual watchmaking. In addition, the town of Ubudgarh has a population of less than 100,000 and is located on the border of the city, so the parasitic tower built at a huge cost does not maximize the benefits, and should be located in other areas with a larger population and a wider area.

In the end, however, the Sammy-led committee for the construction of the parasitic tower firmly chose the town of Ubudgarh, albeit to reduce the power and size of the parasitic tower to the lowest level. The purpose of this is to keep no town alone, but in fact, everyone knows that the large number of mechanical talents in Ubuggarh Town is the root cause of all this.

The drip cart gradually stopped, and Munch walked out with his bag on his back, this was his first time in Ubudgarh, and he had only learned about it in news reports. Although Munch had imagined it countless times in his mind on the way here, he was still shocked by the city scene in front of him.

The roof of the building is mostly red, with sporadic patches of brown, gray and black. Generally three to five storeys high, the Upper Domain Watch Museum in the centre of the town stands in a pyramid-like shape, with a huge handmade clock statue inlaid on a slope due east, with hands breaking through the skyline. At a certain angle, the statue pointer coincides exactly with the parasitic tower not far away.

The town of Ubudgarh is divided into districts like a regular chessboard, with long, straight streets running parallel to each other, and plots of residential and tabular units evenly distributed on both sides of the street. It is said that this layout was designed to facilitate the watchmakers' frequent travel between their residences and their workplaces. At the same time, it also provides the most convenient transportation conditions for watchmakers to communicate with each other anytime and anywhere.

Munch strolls happily down the street, full of obsessive-compulsive details, which excite him. The building is completely perpendicular or parallel to the four directions, without a single deflection, and the brick lines on the street are perfectly aligned with the boundaries of the buildings next to them. The automatic lighting system is precisely centered in the area...... Everything in front of him made him feel that the smell of engine oil in the air was extremely sweet.

At the first stop, Munch chose to go straight to the watch experience center to unleash all kinds of fantasies about precision instruments in his mind. The experience center is located on the top floor of the Watch Museum, without any guidance, looking at the towering museum building, along the straight street, towards the west, in less than ten minutes' walk, in front of the museum's entrance hall.

Skipping the exhibition content on the first three floors, Munch took the elevator to the fourth floor. The top of the Watch Experience Center is covered with a glass skylight with automatic light adjustment, and the whole space is transparent and bright. Thousands of processes, large and small, are integrated into the space on the fourth floor, from the production of the basic dial, to the design and adjustment of the movement, to the assembly of the escapement.

Munch watched all this greedily, although he did not know much about the process and principle of clockmaking, but the ticking sound of the clock at this moment sounded to him the most beautiful music in the world. But what he didn't know was that the music was just a prelude to the accident.