Survivorship Bias

Chapter 39: Go to sleep obediently

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Hearing how lively they were talking, the Taoist priest followed suit, "What are you talking about?"

"Stop talking."

Yang Erci's voice was also cold and calm, but there was an inexplicable persuasiveness, "The temperature here is very strange, and it seems that it is still going down. From the time we initialized to the present, the body temperature has been dropping. gone."

An Wujiu nodded, "The human body cannot withstand prolonged low temperatures."

"Stuck here all the time, we might all freeze to death."

But there were almost no objects here. Yang Erci came to the display screen, guessed it was a computer, and tried to find a way to turn it on, but all failed.

There was nothing in the room, An Wujiu tried to attack each other. He found that Zhong Yirou was wearing a white coat, which looked like a doctor's attire. Looking carefully, she had a badge pinned to the front of her lapel, but there was only one number on it.

[Containment Center E06]

So he lowered his head and checked the front of his lapel again, and sure enough there was a serial number—[Containment Center A02]

It’s just that his clothes seem to be different from Zhong Yirou’s. They are simple suit pants and a shirt. He wears a white electronic watch on his left wrist. The material seems to be ceramic enamel, but the watch seems to be broken, and the date on it is stuck on October 8 3:20:41 AM.

An Wujiu pressed the button on the side of the watch, but it only temporarily extinguished the led characters, and it reappeared after a second, still at the same time.

He turned to look at Shen Ti, "Do you have a badge on you?"

Shen Ti lowered his head, picked up the badge on his clothes and showed it to An Wujiu.

It says [Containment Center A01].

"Sure enough..." An Wujiu grabbed his wrist and found that he also had a similar electronic watch, but it was black. The black watch was put on top of the black gloves, making it almost invisible.

His time stayed at 3:19:51 on October 8th.

One minute earlier than myself.

"We are of the same style." Shen Ti said.

An Wujiu nodded, seemed to have noticed something, and asked the others, "Are you also wearing work badges?"

Several other people checked and found that there were indeed, not only that, but their clothes were no longer the same as before, and nothing was kept.

Except for the Taoist priest, he put on a mustard yellow one-piece overalls, the clothes were not pulled properly, and the gray-blue Taoist robe was still inside. An Wujiu noticed that there was a breathing filter hanging around his neck.

After the inspection, everyone sorted out the badge information.

An Wujiu and Shen Ti's job numbers start with the letter A, and they dress similarly. They are both elite-class attires, [A01] and [A02] respectively.

And Zhong Yirou is [E06], she looks like a doctor in clothes, but Nanshan [E07], who starts with E like her, dresses like a worker with an unknown job.

Wu You is wearing a dark blue full lab coat, and her job number is [C04]

Yang Erci's clothes are similar to Zhong Yirou's, but she also wears a pair of sterile operating gloves. Not only that, her job number is also different from Zhong Yirou's, which says [B05].

Among all the people, the one with the most outlandish attire was Josh. He was wearing a colorful traditional clown suit, which was exactly the same as the joker on the poker cards, except that there was no clown costume painted on his face, which was somewhat inconsistent.

An Wujiu originally thought that he didn't have a badge, but unexpectedly he did, the initial letter is D, [D03].

Except for Shen Ti and himself, no one had a watch on their hands.

Zhong Yirou thought for a while, "It seems at first glance... that there is no pattern."

The green light on all sides makes people panic, and the temperature in the room keeps dropping to freeze their thoughts. There seems to be some kind of strange atmosphere flowing and condensing in the air, slowly dissipating.

"Perhaps there is a rule." An Wujiu said, "Shengyin said that this detention center has five floors."

Shen Ti quickly followed his words, "You mean, the ABCDE on our badge corresponds to these five floors?"

"It's possible." An Wujiu said conservatively.

While they were discussing, Yang Erci kept trying to turn on the host in the room. When An Wujiu raised this conjecture, she turned her head.

"Shengyin also said that we are on the first floor."

An Wujiu nodded, "If this letter represents the number of floors, or it means that different floors are staffed by different floors."

Yang Erci stood up straight, and said to them, "The overall computer system of a general research institution is distributed, and the hosts in different departments have different permissions, and people in other departments cannot open it."

Zhong Yirou interrupted and corrected her: "This is a charity organization."

"It should be the same." In the darkness, Yang Erci's face was pale and full of majesty, she looked into Zhong Yirou's eyes and glanced at An Wujiu's badge, "You are A, you come and try."

He is not alone. An Wujiu pulled Shen Ti closer, and the two walked up to Yang Erci together, looking at the projection keyboard. After a while, several others followed.

This projection keyboard is no different from ordinary ones. Yang Erci tapped on it, but it didn't work, and the display was still black.

An Wujiu also stretched out his fingers and tapped on it, but it was different from what they imagined, and there was still no response. Shen Ti also tried, but the result was the same.

"If you don't give us anything, how can you get out?" Josh said timidly.

"It's weird." Zhong Yirou didn't believe in evil, squeezed out a hand from the gap between the people, and clicked on the keyboard. Suddenly, the edge of the dark monitor glows with flowing light.

"It's you?" Wu You glanced at her, "So the first floor corresponds to E."

"Isn't that a Taoist?" Zhong Yirou grabbed Nanshan's hand and tapped on the keyboard a few times.

The monitor lights up and plays a video for them.

A story about the origins of abandoned baby shelters, featuring an American man named Cruz Massa being interviewed.

From the reporter's questions, it can be found that Massa is a wealthy man who owns an astonishing number of companies.

"Looking at this outfit, it looks like something from the old earth period." Josh said.

The Old Earth Period is not an official name, but a stage term that has been widely circulated on the Internet and has become comparable to the official stage. It is generally believed that it ended with several political alliances by the two world-dominating business giants, Satan Corporation and Wantong Corporation. The era of labor colonization of most small countries.

But they are also only in the initial stages of the post-Earth era, which is chaotic and turbulent.

In the video, Massa refuted the reporter's ruthless questions very honestly, and said to the camera, "Infants and young children are the future of mankind. They have unlimited possibilities in promoting the survival and development of all mankind."

Then he said that he hopes to build a large family that is systematic, clean, full of care and love.

He handed over a beautiful blueprint for everyone. Even the architectural design invited the best designers to make it into a blessing pagoda shape, so that all children who go out from here can have a happy future.

He will invite the best babysitters and teachers in the world to take care of and educate them, so that they can have extraordinary wisdom and abilities while having a strong body.

It can be seen from Massa's answer that he is an ideal philanthropist.

At the end of the video, he hopes that the media will not disturb the growth of these innocent children and not define them with the secular concept of orphans.

"All for humanity."

He looked straight into the camera, and repeated himself.

"All for humanity."

Video ends.

Shen Ti didn't feel anything, turned his head to look at An Wujiu subconsciously, and found that he was clutching the clothes on his chest, frowning tightly, seemed to be in pain.

"Are you okay?" He leaned over and asked with his head down.

An Wujiu shook his head in denial, loosened his frown.

After playback finishes, a dark login page appears on the display.

[Please enter the password for the E-layer administrator:]

"I don't know the password..."

Zhong Yirou looked at Nanshan, obviously, the other party didn't know either.

Nan Shan thought for a while, then suddenly became interested, rolled up her sleeves and was about to step forward, "Why don't I input a golden light spell!"

Wu You grabbed him, "Be serious."

The Taoist looked down at him, a child is so old-fashioned.

The two quarreled, and Zhong Yirou checked his pockets casually, but there was nothing else. The temperature in the room is getting lower and lower, making it much more difficult to breathe.

Yang Erci opened his mouth, white gas appeared around his mouth, "Try to record the last sentence in the video just now."

Zhong Yirou had planned to do this, but this cold beauty spoke first.

"So smart." She smirked at Yang Erci, then lowered her head and recorded the last sentence in English in the video just now.

The display lit up again, seemingly passing the verification.

Just as they were waiting for something to happen, a child's laughter suddenly came from outside the door.

Several people turned their heads, An Wujiu was convinced that it was not his hallucination.

"Someone was outside just now." Josh's voice trembled, "Did I hear correctly?"

"No." Yang Erci said rather coldly, "This is just a relatively large orphanage, and it's normal to have children."

"Then, can't they help?" Josh walked to the door and shouted to the door: "Is there anyone! Can you hear me?"

Soon, the huge display screen on the wall flickered twice, and a stable picture appeared.

Then a line of words appeared.

[Welcome back, E06.]

It turns out that this is actually a monitoring system, and the densely packed grids show the conditions of many rooms, but they are all vague.

"It's been a long time since I encountered such a 'silent' system." Wu You said, "It doesn't even have voice."

An Wujiu also felt very strange.

The display screen quickly gave out a second message.

[E06, E07, please finish your work today. ]

With a click, the door of the monitoring room opened automatically. The heavy steel door slowly opened from the inside to the outside, at an extremely slow speed, the light from the corridor shot in for a moment, cold white, like a sharp blade cutting through the darkness.

"Just opened it like this?" Nan Shan raised her hand habitually, her two sleeves were aligned, and she put her hands into the sleeves.

"This is just the beginning." Wu You turned around and walked out with the others. Josh, who was standing by the door, didn't dare to go out directly, and followed behind An Wujiu.

An Wujiu didn't notice it, Shen Ti looked straight at him, so Shen Ti also stuck to him, An Wujiu felt very crowded, when he turned around and saw the two of them were touching his back.

"You don't look very good." Josh asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay. Maybe it's too cold." An Wujiu prevaricated.

After they came out, they found that there were no children in the corridor, it was empty, and they could see the end at a glance.

"Go to the next door and have a look." Yang Erci said.

Wu You agreed, "Yes."

Zhong Yirou was disobedient, "I'll take a look around the corridor first."

An Wujiu did not follow, he stayed outside the door of the monitoring room, and found that the structure of the corridor was different from the normal ones, there was a corner at the end, and another long and straight corridor at the other end of the corner.

The monitoring room is the first room around the corner.

He turned his head, and sure enough, he found the safety evacuation map here on the wall of another corridor around the corner, which was on the first floor.

An Wujiu discovered that it turned out to be a back-shaped building structure, and the passages that people could walk connected to form a closed corridor. It is a large and complete room, 9 times the size of other workshops.

"Oh, the feng shui of this place is not very good."

Hearing the sound, An Wujiu turned his head and saw Nan Shan with his arms clasped, smiling with both eyes.

Shen Ti was also beside An Wujiu, "Feng Shui? What is Feng Shui?"

An Wujiu turned his face and stared at Shen Ti, "Are you Chinese?"

After asking, he felt a little regretful, and he didn't look much alike...but the names were quite similar.

Shen Ti blinked twice as if being asked.

It was Nan Shan who opened his mouth, stretched out his index finger and pointed at the evacuation diagram, "Look, this is a back character. A closed back structure is very bad. The building is for people to live in, isn't it? We must pay attention to luck, although this character can match the straight luck, but the four sides are connected, it will completely block the luck."

He talked a lot about metaphysics. After all, he was a professional counterpart, so of course he talked eloquently.

An Wujiu listened with a serious expression, and asked questions devoutly.

"It was made by the Americans. Does the Eastern Feng Shui metaphysics care about Americans?"

Nan Shan's eyes drooped immediately, "Ah, this..." He pulled himself together quickly, and continued: "Let me tell you, these evil spirits don't distinguish between things. This kind of back-shaped building is paired with evil spirits. Good guy." He clapped his hands together and then spread them apart.

Shen Ti asked: "How do you say?"

An Wujiu found it strange that these two people came and went, like some kind of ancient language performance art.

Nan Shan made a threatening expression, "Of course it's to lock up the evil spirit, and it won't leave for a long time."

"Many schools also have this structure." An Wujiu said, "Maybe it's just to save space."

Zhong Yirou walked along the corridor alone, passed two corners, and suddenly saw a little girl in the middle of the corridor, about three or four years old, with golden-brown hair tied into two small braids, as if sitting Like crying on the ground.

Is this the kid who laughed just now

Zhong Yirou walked towards her and tentatively called her, "Little friend."

Although bold, Zhong Yirou was very cautious. Although the corridor looked bright, but after walking for so long, she only saw a little girl sitting in the middle of the road so strangely.

The little girl raised her face, with tears still hanging on her cheeks, she looked really pitiful.

She stretched out her arms towards Zhong Yirou, "Sister, I'm so cold."

"What's wrong with you?" Zhong Yirou didn't directly reach out to hug her, "What are you doing here?"

"I, I woke up and wanted to pee, so I came out..." the little girl cried, "But, but I don't know how to open the door."

"You know me?" Zhong Yirou pointed to herself.

The girl nodded, "You are the sister who sleeps with us every day."

It seems that she is indeed a manager at this level. Zhong Yirou breathed a sigh of relief, she still didn't hug the child, but just stretched out her hand to pull her up, "Go back and sleep."

"Where are you going?" Zhong Yirou asked her.

The little girl pointed to the wall, "Here."

The place she is worth is actually the large room in the middle of the word "Hui" in the evacuation diagram that An Wujiu saw, but Zhong Yirou still doesn't know the existence of this diagram.

"here?"

Isn't this a wall in the hallway

Zhong Yirou squinted her eyes and looked carefully, only to find that there was an invisible door on the white wall, and only a little frame of the door could be barely seen.

In the upper right corner of the invisible door, there appears to be a raised white button.

"Who can see it when it's done like this..." Zhong Yirou complained, reached out and pressed the button.

A line of words appeared on the invisible door.

[Opener: E06.]

The door slowly opened inwards, and the light inside was soft and warm yellow, embellishing the place in a warm and comfortable way. Zhong Yirou led the little girl in, and the little girl was still talking to her, "Sister, are you going to accompany us alone tonight?"

Inside was one small bed after another, neatly arranged in rows in this room as big as a basketball court, and a cute child slept in each small bed, the small one was very small, and the big one had seven children. Eight years old, with different skin colors, but they all look like little angels.

The little girl kept asking her, Zhong Yirou saw a child who was very close to them turn over, so she made a gesture of silencing the little girl.

"Shh." She reminded in a low voice, "They are all asleep."

The little girl also nodded, and stopped talking very sensiblely.

The children's beds here are all of the same standard, looking neatly like a large matrix. Zhong Yirou looked around, found an empty cot, and led the little girl there.

"Go to sleep." Zhong Yirou touched her face, watched her climb into bed by herself, and covered her with the quilt again.

When the little girl obediently closed her eyes, Zhong Yirou was ready to leave the sleeping room.

She walked to the door, saw a control panel on the wall, looked back, and suddenly saw a child sitting up in countless small beds.

Zhong Yirou looked over, she was still the little girl just now, she whispered to Zhong Yirou: "Sister, it's so cold."

right.

It was only then that Zhong Yirou remembered the problem of temperature. She clicked on the panel, and it displayed the adjustment buttons for light, temperature, and air humidity.

She turned on the temperature and found that the air conditioner setting was only 3 degrees, so she quickly adjusted it up to 25 degrees, which is suitable for human sleep.

After finishing all this, Zhong Yirou turned his head to look again, and the little girl had closed her eyes and fell asleep.

So she also came out of this sleeping room, always feeling weird. The little girl just now should be an npc. After being guided by an npc, something different should always appear, but nothing happened here.

Zhong Yirou was pacing thoughtfully in the corridor when he suddenly saw An Wujiu.

She raised her hand and said hello.

"Did you find anything?" An Wujiu asked.

Zhong Yirou remembered, "Oh, I just found the panel to adjust the indoor temperature. I just raised the temperature a little bit." After speaking, she stretched out her hand and felt it, "Is it not so cold anymore?"

"It seems that they are looking for clues in other rooms..."

Listening to An Wujiu's words, she suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Wait a minute, do you smell a bad smell?" Zhong Yirou asked.

An Wujiu frowned.

Before he could say anything, Zhong Yirou turned her head and went to the central sleeping room just now, she heard An Wujiu following behind her, so the time to press the button was deliberately prolonged.

When he also came over, the hidden door slowly opened.

The warm light just turned into a cold disinfecting ultraviolet lamp, and the children were sleeping soundly on the beds.

The warm quilt to keep out the cold is gone, and only the snow-white sheets are left, covering the top of the head and covering the whole body.

how so.

Zhong Yirou, who usually said "so scary", was thinking about whether she should quit immediately.

"Where is this?" She heard An Wujiu's voice behind her.

Suddenly, the children on the bed, everyone sat up at the same moment, their backs straightened, and the covers on their faces fell slowly.

Creak creak, their faces turned and they spoke in unison.

"Sister, it's so hot."

"I'm about to melt."