Magic Tech’s Lair

Seeing Team Leader Guo leading people in, Team Leader Xu greeted, "Old Guo, you are always the last one to come."

"I'm not idle like you. The team is too busy with work. It's a waste of time to come here early and wait for others, so it's a time-saving for me to come later." Team Leader Guo's Ci Feng It was quite sharp.

Group leader Xu smiled in disbelief, turned his gaze to Cao Yan, nodded slightly, and glanced at Leng Yuexiu again.

The secret library of this association is not spacious, less than 200 square meters in size, it feels a bit like a prison, the walls are sealed, and the material is all metal, cold, thick and depressing.

The strange thing is that although it is called a secret vault, the space is empty and there are no inventory items.

After Ji Wen came in, she looked at some people in the room, and introduced everyone's identities to Cao Yan in a low voice, "The man and woman standing behind Vice President Ji Qianshan over there are two other well-known figures from the young generation in the headquarters. The man's name is Yang Wu, and the woman's name is Jiang Xiaoyue.

They also stayed in the expert group before, and now they have independently led the group to conduct research. The young men and women on the other side are Gu Yan, that's true, Mo Junzhan..."

Naturally, there are not only Cao Yan and his group of young people who come to the headquarters of the association. In the past, the investigation team brought back from the major branches, and many outstanding figures of the young generation stayed at the headquarters. There are indeed many talents.

Cao Yan has only been in the association for a few days, and his main thoughts are spent on making money silently. He doesn't know much about the personnel of the association, but Ji Wen is conscientious and inquires clearly.

At this time, what she introduced to Cao Yan were these well-known young people in the Pet Master Association.

Cao Yan looked at the people introduced to Ji Wen, there were more than a dozen men and women, and he couldn't tell who was who for a while, so he just left an impression.

This time we met in the secret library, apart from the younger generation, there were more than a dozen middle-aged and elderly people.

These people are all technical backbones of the association, old and young, and they all gather here except for those who have jobs and other things.

"Some of you are here for the first time, and some of you have been here many times. Let me tell you the rules. Every month, our association will hold a seminar where technical personnel gather. We will call everyone to the secret library of the association to decipher the research Some precious artifacts collected, excavated, or passed down by the association over the years.

Here, what you see must be kept strictly confidential and cannot be passed on. "

Vice President Ji Qianshan said in a deep voice, "For those who come here for the first time, come and sign the confidentiality contract."

Someone took out scrolls that shimmered with elements, and spread them out on the metal table on one side.

The newcomers refer to Cao Yan, Ji Wen, Leng Yuexiu and others.

The scroll on the table is a spiritual confidentiality contract.

After the contract is signed, it will be spiritually connected with the signer. If you violate the terms of the contract, it will be a great spiritual harm to yourself, so the contract is still very binding.

In fact, the soul contract signed with the magic pet is also a kind of spiritual contract.

On the contract was written a line of contract-limited content, and there was a spiritual imprint at the end. Cao Yan stepped forward to look at it, and wrote down his name in one go.

Ji Wen, Leng Yuexiu and others also signed their names.

The next process,

Just turn directly to the topic of gathering in the secret vault.

On the seemingly flat ground of the secret vault, there was a slight mechanical sound of the machine buckle running, and a platform slowly rose from the ground until it was about 1.5 meters above the ground, before stopping still, just right for people to watch.

It turns out that this secret library seems to be empty, but the secret compartments for storing things are hidden underground.

There is a glittering golden box placed on the hidden grid that rises from the ground, which is obviously something that people gather and prepare to study.

Because all the items stored in the secret vault have a long history, only one item will be displayed for each gathering of this type of academic discussion.

It is equivalent to concentrating the cutting-edge technical force of the association to crack this item with all its strength.

At this time, a metal box about two feet long and more than half a foot high and wide rose from the ground of the secret library. Ancient patterns were carved on the surface and the trapezoidal base, giving people the impression of being mottled with time and having survived for a long time.

The most special thing is that on the surface of the dark gold box, elemental symbols emerge from the inside out from time to time, and then the symbols will burst on the surface of the box, turning into gorgeous elemental spots, and finally hidden in the box again. repeatedly. It seems that there is a mysterious force acting in the box, which lasts for a long time.

"This ancient box, which we call the Magic Box of Symbols, was discovered by the Association when it excavated a certain ruin two years ago. What is in it and what it is used for is uncertain. It is very mysterious. People in the Association have held There have been many technical breakthroughs and many breakthroughs, but the last step of the symbol lock has never been able to be truly opened."

A staff member introduced the origin of the box.

Then it was everyone's turn to watch the changing symbols on the surface of the box that flickered from time to time, and try to crack it technically.

This is also the purpose of letting Cao Yan and the others come here.

Some people have participated in this kind of research form many times before. After seeing this box, they immediately said, "About this magic box. After I saw it last time, I went back and thought about it for a while, and I think it mainly uses the linkage secret lock structure. ...I think we should go deeper in this area and try to open the magic box."

"I also went back and checked some information. I suspect that this magic box is a leftover from before our civilization era..."

"We must know that although the knowledge of semiotics we have now has been inherited for a long time and has existed since the origin of civilization, it has achieved breakthrough development and concluded that the basic characters should be

Using the law is still a matter of nearly a few hundred years. About this box..."

"..."

At the beginning of the discussion, many people expressed their opinions.

On Cao Yan's side, Team Leader Guo still led him, Leng Yuexiu and others to the hidden compartment raised from the ground, and observed the box on the table nearby.

Team Leader Guo watched and encouraged Cao Yan to say, "You two are newcomers, so you should take a closer look. In the past when you brought newcomers over, there were often people who could give valuable advice and inspire everyone. Especially the two of you are so talented. , are among the three or five people I have seen these years, and the association has high expectations for your participation this time."

Cao Yan and Leng Yuexiu nodded slightly.

This kind of mysterious thing is extremely attractive in itself, and both of them looked at it quite seriously.

Pei Luo followed Leng Yuexiu, and asked earnestly, "What do you feel about the symbols flashing on the box?"

Leng Yuexiu looked at it for a while, and the more he looked at it, the more he frowned, "The structure of this box locks on and off, and there is no law at all. I have never seen what force is driving it. I need to go back and study it. There may be clues."

Pei Luo nodded and said, "The difficulty of opening this box is indeed very high. The association has studied it many times, and only got some clues. No one has found the correct way to open it yet."

Cao Yan watched silently from one side, and did not make a sound for a long time.

In fact, only Cao Yan, who had mastered perfect-level semiotics, could understand the operation rules of the flickering symbols on the box.

He was wondering in his heart, "This box is full of semiotic inscriptions explaining the power of death. Could it be a coffin? I seem to have a lot of fate with coffins recently..."

But although I understand it, it is not so easy to really open the box.

And from a subjective point of view, Cao Yan didn't intend to get angry on the spot. He really opened the box. Necessary.

Cao Yan looked at it for a while, then shook his head under the expectant eyes of Team Leader Guo and Ji Wen, expressing that he had no clue.

Seeing the somewhat disappointed eyes of Team Leader Guo and Ji Wen, Cao Yan didn't care about it, and stepped aside.

It's just that as soon as he stood still, the voice of the fake system sounded in his consciousness, "Cao Yan, this secret storehouse is only the No. 3 secret storehouse of the Pet Master Association, and there are two secret vaults, No. 1 and No. 2."

"Well, what do you mean?" Cao Yan asked.

.