I’m the Pay Thief at the Winery

Although Nan Ling didn't know what An Shitou was thinking, he could guess from his eyes that the other party's thoughts might not be polite.

"Stop thinking there," he snorted in dissatisfaction, turned his head and took a few steps forward, pushing open the door at the end of the corridor, "You better think about what you want to ask me for a while."

Nan Ling leaned against the door, and winked at An Shitou defiantly, "Today is limited, any questions will be answered..."

Amuro moved in his heart.

"—Except for those who really can't answer." Nan Ling lengthened his voice and added the second half of the sentence.

Amuro was unmoved.

…Uh.

The heart is still beating.

He sighed inwardly and followed Nan Ling through the door.

The metal door slowly closed behind him, making a crisp locking sound. Amuro glanced back subconsciously.

"What are you worried about, afraid that I will lock you up here?" Nan Ling looked at him amusingly, and said yin and yang, "Then you are worried."

Amuro didn't want to speak.

Nan Ling curled his lips in a dull manner and waved his hand gently upwards. Amuro's gaze followed the direction of his fingers, and the corridor in front of him was completely different from the one he had just walked through.

The smooth white floor was spotless, the corridor wide enough to accommodate four people walking side by side was flanked by the same pure white walls, light gray iron doors were regularly distributed on both sides, and the air was filled with a slight smell of disinfectant.

"Welcome to the m7 laboratory building, Bourbon."

When An Shi came back to his senses, Nan Ling had already turned around and continued to walk forward.

"This is Corridor 105," Nan Ling said casually, "but researchers usually call it the 'Road to Heaven'. One of the reasons is that this is the top floor, and the surrounding area is white..."

He paused, "Bourbon, do you want to guess the third reason?"

"Heaven?" Amuro repeated slowly, looking at the iron gates around him.

- There are no windows on the door. The temperature in the corridor is not high, it is obviously autumn, but it seems to be colder than outside.

He shivered slowly.

"This is... a morgue?"

"bingo." Nan Ling snapped his fingers. There was no excitement in his tone.

He doesn't like white.

An Shitou didn't speak any more, and Nan Ling didn't look back at him again.

The two of them didn't talk to each other for the rest of the way, and there didn't seem to be anyone on this floor—there was no living person. On the way down the elevator, I encountered a few researchers in white coats and holding documents.

Amuro Toru deliberately paid more attention to them. The researchers were a little nervous when they saw Chat, but they didn't have any particular fear.

They obviously understood the reason why curiosity killed the cat. Although they were very curious about the people that Charter brought, no one dared to ask aloud - in fact, most of them just said hello, and then quickly found the nearest floor. down.

The elevators here are also designed with ulterior motives. Although there are only a dozen buttons, the above marks are not floors, but codes such as c3 and e9.

Both letters and numbers are repeated, the letter is repeated twice with the c, and the numbers range from 3 to 13 and are all odd.

Amuro tried to find the pattern, but still found nothing.

They got off the elevator on the floor marked 9. An Shitou found that Nan Ling had brought him directly into a certain room.

It seems to be a lounge. There are several coffee tables in the center of the room, and small sofas and chairs are scattered around. On the bar counters on both sides, there are water dispensers, coffee machines and beverage machines.

Apart from the two of them, there was no one here.

"Are you curious about the floor?" Nan Ling picked out a soft-looking beige sofa chair and sat down, and glanced at Amuro, "...don't be surprised, many people who come here for the first time will be curious. ."

He nodded to a few chairs in front of him, "Sit first."

Amuro Toru also sat down unceremoniously and glanced at the boxes of dim sum looming under the coffee table.

The air here is filled with a soft scent of aromatherapy, and it seems that it is indeed a lounge.

"Indeed," he replied cautiously. "You have different codes for each floor?"

"When the organization designed this place, they consciously considered the possibility of being invaded one day." Nan Ling stretched leisurely, "so they designed this place as a labyrinth, or a three-dimensional version. "

Amuro noticed that Chatter used the word 'them' rather than 'us' when referring to the organization.

"The buttons you see don't indicate floors, they are block codes." Nan Ling said in a relaxed tone, as if he didn't think these things were secret at all, "These blocks are big or small, and some are just a An area within a storey, some spanning several storeys—there are even individual stairs within these blocks.”

Amuro frowned and said tentatively, "There's more than one elevator?"

"Smart." Nan Ling glanced at him admiringly, thinking that it would be convenient to talk to smart people. "Each elevator leads to different blocks. UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com"

Amuro thought deeply.

Not only does this design reduce the likelihood of intrusion, it can also be used to reduce the risk of employee betrayal—each employee's range of activity can be framed by a different elevator, thus dividing the building into different pieces.

Complicated, but quite effective.

If Chart hadn't brought him in, he probably wouldn't have a clue about this place... No, just finding the entrance would be an impossible task.

"The elevator that took us down just now is numbered Beta. The area it can reach is also called the Beta area." Nan Ling shook his finger, "This is the area with the second largest number of people, and the researchers here are doing some Inconsequential experiment."

"The second most?" Amuro asked rhetorically, "We didn't meet a few people along the way."

"Well... There are not many of us here." Nan Ling spread his hands, "Where do you think this is? This is the core of organizational biology research. If it is not a member who is trusted and has outstanding ability, how can it be possible to enter. Come—so thank me well."

In the second half of the sentence, Nan Ling blinked at An Shitou.

"...This is exactly what I want to ask." Amuro said slowly, "Why do you have to meet here?"

It's a good thing for him, of course, but how could Chat let himself benefit for no reason?

Charity must have something to ask for without reason. It's just that the thing that can make Chater ask him for help is definitely not an easy problem to solve.

It wasn't that Amuro was not aware of this. On the contrary, from the moment he heard the meeting location, he knew that the price could not be easy. Chat's unreserved explanation along the way made him even more convinced of this.

But the intelligence of the m7 laboratory building was too important, and he had no choice.