This elevator no longer leads to only one place, unlike the previous one.
There is a button next to the elevator opening, from -1 to -4, but you need to swipe a card to use it.
However, the car was already completely full, so Zhan Yi couldn't get out to swipe his card. He could only stand by the front window and try to reach the card reader, but obviously, it was no use.
Shen Muyu took out a clothesline from his backpack and tied a brick to it with wire. However, the brick was large and heavy, making it look top-heavy.
The area next to it was small, and Zhan Yi was afraid of damaging the elevator sensor area if he couldn't control his strength, so he carefully reached for it several times before he successfully stuck it on.
Shen Muyu first chose the basement level, intending to search for survivors from top to bottom. The task given before was too vague, and who knew how many people were trapped? Shen Muyu could only search little by little, making sure not to miss anyone.
As the elevator doors opened, a pungent odor wafted up from the opening through which Shen Muyu had climbed up the tower.
Unlike the previous putrid smell, this smell was more like the evaporation of some kind of medicine, and it also had a faint smell of rotten eggs.
Shen Muyu suddenly felt dizzy and lightheaded, and the familiar vertigo returned.
With a snap, Shen Muyu closed the partition, and the smell stopped rising. The odor in the control tower gradually dissipated.
Fortunately, after putting Big White into the dimensional space in the villa area, they didn't put it back, otherwise it would probably be overwhelmed by the smell down there by now.
After gagging a few times, Shen Muyu finally mustered the energy to observe the situation in front of him.
Unlike the long corridor just now, this is a completely open space with a large hall in the middle and the rest of the area divided into small rooms using transparent materials.
The partition looked like glass but wasn't glass. Shen Muyu tried to penetrate the transparent partition with her mental power but couldn't.
Fortunately, it's all transparent at a glance, so it doesn't really matter.
At this moment, the floor of the hall was covered with dark brown liquid. The four large transparent jars in the center had been broken by something, and the remaining liquid inside was the same color, but even darker.
Within this somewhat thick liquid, Shen Muyu used his mental power to see several items resembling employee badges, as well as some stained paper documents.
Shen Muyu picked out a few relatively intact ones and scanned them; they were all filled with symbols and chemical formulas she couldn't understand.
"Little A, let's go in and take a look." After scanning the area with their mental energy and visual vision, they didn't see any living people, or even a trace of any living creature.
However, Shen Muyu noticed some sensor areas on the wall next to him, which suggested the possibility of other rooms inside, so he still had to search them.
"My God, what is this thing?" The four jars in the hall were huge, about one and a half times the height of a person. After they were broken, the entire hall was surrounded by that liquid, and there was no way to escape. So Little A had no choice but to drive up.
The liquid was extremely viscous; it even stretched into threads after the tire drove over it. Fortunately, the waterproof rain blocked it, and the liquid was stopped by the blurry light curtain. Otherwise, Shen Muyu couldn't believe what the tire would have become.
The car drove along the left edge of the space. Shen Muyu carefully looked at the small, transparent cubicles next to him, which looked like offices and meeting rooms. There were many tables, chairs, benches, documents, and computers inside.
However, most of the cubicle doors were closed and required a card to open. Shen Muyu didn't want Zhan Yi to put himself in danger for something that would turn to ash, so she didn't check them specifically.
I only explored a few open rooms with my mental power, but since I could only see the few pages of information on the surface, I didn't find anything.
The article repeatedly mentions a project called "Kui Xing," and it's even featured on many covers. Shen Muyu guesses that it's probably a research project from this laboratory.
Xiao A parked the car next to the first sensing zone along the way. Zhan Yi opened the car window and stuck the brick on it, and the flat wall immediately flipped up.
Shen Muyu used his mental power to look inside and found that this should be the dormitory of those researchers. It was not very big, but there were sixteen bunk beds arranged vertically, which looked quite crowded.
Further inside is an external washbasin, which is connected to a large sink that can accommodate eight people at the same time.
Opposite the washbasin is a bathroom with four cubicles.
Shen Muyu looked around and found that there was nothing there, no toilet at all. They really didn't consider the needs of people who frequently get up at night.
There was no one in the room, so Shen Muyu sent Xiao A to the next room, and the door to the previous room closed automatically after a while.
All six rooms were like this, with signs of life inside. Logically, nearly two hundred people should have lived here, but so far Shen Muyu hasn't seen a single living person, let alone a corpse.
Having finished looking at the left side of this space, Little A immediately drove to the other side.
Here, Shen Muyu finally saw the toilet. Not only that, but it was also here that she finally found the ventilation area of this experimental base. Before, she was wondering where the oxygen came from in this tightly sealed space. It turns out it was being ventilated here.