Arknights is too real, right?

3 hours later.

Sitting on the bench in the lobby on the first floor of Experimental Base No. 4, Xia Feng sighed sincerely.

Big, big, too big.

Within 3 hours, Xia Feng walked around the entire No. 4 base of Rhine Life. From the first floor to the fourth floor, he visited all the places he could enter.

Obviously, his movements were not restricted. The staff who occasionally passed by just glanced at his name tag and ignored him.

This base covers a very large area, Xia Feng estimates it is at least tens of thousands of square meters. There are many rooms on each floor, but most of them are inaccessible.

There is a fingerprint reader in front of the door of each room. Except for his private room on the fourth floor, Xia Feng can only enter some public areas, such as toilets, smoking rooms, restaurants, entertainment rooms, etc.

Moreover, he also discovered a strange phenomenon.

There are very few staff in the entire No. 4 base. Within 3 hours, he saw absolutely no more than 30 living people, and they were basically on the first and second floors. There were very few people on the third floor, and on the fourth floor, except for Apart from Aina, he has never seen anyone else come up.

Guigui took two glasses of juice and trotted all the way to Xia Feng.

"Big windmill, here it is."

Xia Feng took the cup and suddenly thought of Aina's previous words that he would not be able to eat normal food until tomorrow.

Hey, who cares, he probably won't die.

Xia Feng took a few sips at the straw. It was apple-flavored.

"Gitui, where did you get the juice?"

Turtle pointed to a room at the end.

"It's right there. There's a machine inside where you can pick up the juice yourself. It's free of charge and no one cares about it. I come here often to drink juice these days."

Xia Feng touched her little head.

"How are you? Are you happy these days?"

"happy."

"Just be happy."

"This time you wake up, I will be happier, hehe."

Xia Feng noticed that Turtle was also wearing a slender ring around his neck. He guessed that this should be a device to suppress and monitor ore disease.

He leaned back in his chair and raised his head.

The surroundings were very quiet. He and Guigui were the only two people in the empty hall at this time. The entire base seemed to be completely enclosed. There were no windows in the surrounding walls. The luminous bodies embedded in the walls emitted a soft light day and night, which made people feel at ease. It is impossible to tell the time, and there is no way to know the weather, environment, geographical location, etc. outside.

Xia Feng didn't know where the No. 4 experimental base was. It might be in a large city in Colombia, it might be built on a snow-capped mountain like Chaldea, or it might be in a desolate desert. He didn't know.

Judging from the current situation, he and Turtle are undoubtedly very safe. Not only him, but also Turtle has received treatment to suppress ore disease, and Hemer is quite reliable.

"Didi!"

While he was thinking, the ring around Xia Feng's neck suddenly flashed a few times, and then made a sound like a communicator.

"No. 020, No. 020. Please return to the fourth floor later. Commissioner White-faced Owl will explain some matters to you."

Xia Feng was startled by the voice, but after listening carefully, it seemed to be Aina's voice.

It seems that this ring also has the function of one-way communication. In addition, it may also have a positioning function. Aina knows exactly where she and the Turtle Man are.

It doesn't matter. If you live under someone else's roof, this level of monitoring is acceptable.

Xia Feng drank up the juice in his hand, threw away the cup, and patted Turtle on the head.

"Let's go, I'll go back and see that Bai Mao."

"kindness."

Back on the fourth floor, Aina was standing at the door of the room waiting for him.

"I'm back, what's the matter, Sister Na?"

Aina pointed to a small room next to her.

"Commissioner White-faced Owl is waiting for you inside."

"oh."

Xia Feng asked Guigui to go back first, and then walked to the room alone.

"drop!"

His fingerprint successfully opened the door to the room, which seemed to be an ordinary room such as a conference room.

Opening the door, he quickly saw the white-faced owl sitting in front of the table.

At this time, she was wearing a long white dress, and there was an armband with the Rhine symbol of life hanging on her arm. Under her long snow-white hair, a pair of weird orange pupils shimmered.

To be honest, he was a little nervous when he met a stranger like Aina for the first time, but when he saw the white-faced owl, he was not nervous at all.

Because he had poked her in the head countless times in the infrastructure, watching her funny reaction that was completely inconsistent with her personality with a stupid smile on his face.

Xia Feng raised his hand and pulled out the chair opposite the white-faced owl, and sat down on it, as casually as if he was having dinner with his cousin. If the space between the chair and the table wasn't too narrow, he would have put his feet on the table.

The white-faced owl's expression didn't change at all from beginning to end.

She looked at Xia Feng, and a mechanically calm voice came out of her mouth.

"Number 020, you seem to be in a good mood, which is a bit beyond my expectation."

Xia Feng waved his hand.

"It's okay. By the way, where's Hemo? Isn't he still sleeping?"

"Dr. Hemmer left Experimental Base No. 4 half an hour ago and went to the Rhine Life headquarters to regularly report the experimental progress to the person in charge of the Originium project. He is expected to return to Base No. 4 at 11 o'clock tonight."

Sure enough, Helmer is not the person in charge of the Source Stone project yet.

Xia Feng adjusted his sitting posture.

"Xiao Bai, what do you want from me?"

"noob?"

"It's you, it's my pet name for you."

"Number 020, please don't give me strange nicknames. I am the data maintenance specialist of Rheinland Life and Dr. Hemmer's assistant. You can call me by my name, White-faced Owl."

"Okay Bai Gugu."

The white-faced owl stopped talking.

Xia Feng is not nervous at all now, but feels like a broken jar, because he knows that being nervous is useless.

Xia Feng secretly smiled, it was so fun to tease the white-faced owl.

After coughing slightly, he stopped joking and asked the white-faced owl.

"Commissioner White-Faced Owl, I heard that you want to explain something to me. What is it?"

"You saved Experimental Subject No. 019. Dr. Hemmer promised to treat your oriopathy. I'm here to explain to you the preliminary examination."

"Oh, you say."

"According to the imaging test results, No. 020, the outline of the internal organs is blurred, abnormal shadows are visible, the detection of Originium particles in the circulatory system is abnormal, the fusion rate of somatic cells and Originium is 12%, and the blood Originium crystal density is 0.48u/L. Now The stage can be confirmed to be those who are moderately infected with ore disease.”

After listening to the white-faced owl's explanation, Xia Feng felt like an idiot.

"Well, I don't quite understand these data. Little White-faced Owl Commissioner, can you introduce my condition to me in an easy-to-understand way?"

The white-faced owl looked at Xia Feng quietly, as if the whole person had entered a standby state.

Then, a mechanical sound came out of her mouth.

"No. 020, your physique is very special. The fusion rate of body cells and Origin Stone reached 12% in a very short period of time. This is a very scary speed of disease. Fortunately, this deterioration trend has been suppressed now. This is The result of Dr. Hemmer's sleepless, two-day and two-night effort."

So that's it.

After listening to the white-faced owl's explanation, Xia Feng felt warm in her heart. It seemed that Hemo was not just saying that she was dealing with the problem. She was really trying her best to heal herself.

"Aha, then I really have to thank Hermer. Oh, by the way, I mentioned to her before about the abnormal phenomena in my body. I wonder if you have drawn any conclusions?"

After Xia Feng asked this question, the white-faced owl opposite fell into "standby" again.

After a long time, a mechanical sound came out.

"This anomaly is very complicated. Dr. Hemmer will explain it to you personally."

"oh oh."

Xia Feng felt that there was nothing wrong with his question. Why did this guy react so slowly?

He was so tired of waiting that he no longer wanted to talk to the white-faced owl.

"Commissioner White-Faced Owl, is there nothing else?"

"You can leave now."

"Farewell."

Xia Feng stood up from the chair and walked to the door in two steps.

Just when he was about to open the door and leave, his movements stopped.

Xia Feng lowered his head, as if weighing something in his mind. While thinking, he turned back to look at the white-faced owl.

Then, he withdrew his finger that was about to touch the fingerprint recognition, turned around and walked step by step to the white-faced owl.

Under the blank gaze of the white-faced owl, Xia Feng raised her hand and grasped the bunch of feathers standing on top of her head.

Xia Feng held the feather expressionlessly and pulled it gently.

Nothing has changed.

The air fell into a strange atmosphere at this moment.

The white-faced owl still maintains the same expression that has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

"No. 020, I can't understand your behavior at this moment."

Xia Feng let go of his hand.

"Sorry, it's okay. Say goodbye."

He lowered his head and muttered to himself as he walked out.

"Why can't I pull it off? I thought I could pull it off and put it back in. It's weird."