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Shen Cisui completed the first draft before leaving get off work in the afternoon, and after sending it to Zong Mingda, he received a reply with annotations in a short while. The red font almost covered the entire drawing. In short, let Shen Cisui redraw .

After reading the annotations, he cut into the intern alliance group he joined in the afternoon and took a look, and found that he was not the only one like this, but everyone who submitted the manuscript was called back.

Had to stay and work overtime.

There are several windows in Asgard's staff cafeteria for dinner. Shen Cisui went over to eat a little, and then returned to his seat to modify the drawings. It lasted until [-] o'clock in the evening, and finally completed half of the modifications.

The night was dark, and the only office in the entire Asgard Research Institute where Shen Cisui lived was still lit. He leaned back in his chair, raised his head, and moved his shoulders and arms.

"Don't draw, don't draw, the other interns left before finishing the drawing, the one with the surname Zong is just trying to torment you newcomers!" Lo said angrily to Shen Cisui through the headset, "What the hell! In the end, if the proposal cannot be taken down, he is the one to be blamed, not you."

"You seem to be right." Shen Cisui yawned.

Lo told Shen Cisui what he found out: "I wandered around in the afternoon. I heard that even if this thing is taken down, you who make proposals will be given a few hundred dollars in bonuses. You have to participate in the follow-up production to be able to Get big commissions and big bonuses."

Shen Cisui closed his eyes and didn't respond to the words. Lo said something more. A few minutes later, he got up from the chair, put on his coat and went out.

"That's right, that's right." Lo said comfortingly, and Shen Cisui turned off the light for him a second after he walked out of the office.

The research institute was very quiet. After Shen Cisui punched out his off-duty card, he pressed the terminal and planned to call a shuttle to go back to the small building he rented.

When he was two meters away from the gate, Lo suddenly raised his voice and warned: "Wait, don't rush out, those two people outside are suspicious!"

Shen Cisui stopped abruptly and looked up from the terminal screen.

The moonlight outside was bleak, and the street was deserted and deserted. Two people were leaning on the street lamp and the rest chair to smoke respectively. They were both men, facing the gate of the Asgard Research Institute. .

Through the glass door, Shen Cisui and one of them looked at each other. The next moment, he saw that person raised the corner of his mouth and licked his lower lip.This was a disgusting and obscene action, Shen Cisui realized the danger, turned around and walked back quickly.

Seeing him like this, the man smiled even wider, exchanged glances with the other person, took out a card from his pocket, and strode to the revolving door with a cigarette in his mouth.

He held the card close to the door sensor.

Lo's voice sounded: "They have access cards! They swiped their cards to get in—"

Swiping in means that you will not be blocked by robot security guards.Shen Cisui glanced out quickly, and whispered to Lo: "Press the top floor, and then close the door."

"What about you?" Lo did as he was told, asking at the same time.

Shen Cisui didn't answer, and turned into a side safe passage, and went downstairs as quietly as possible.

The place where the Asgard Research Institute is located is a palace called the Old Palace.In this area, there is no garage built underground, and it is full of laboratories one after another.This is the design of the old palace itself. After the Asgard Research Institute moved in, no changes were made, which meant that there was no exit downstairs.

Shen Cisui discovered this problem only when he came to the negative third floor.He glanced up, followed closely, and heard light and heavy footsteps from above.

"Ah Sui, they are divided into two groups, the taller one is going downstairs!" Lo said loudly, "Now, go straight, turn left at the end, there is a utility room with a coded door that is not very used, I'm unlocking!"

The footsteps were getting closer, Shen Cisui pursed his lips and started to run fast.

From time to time in the corridor, there was a weak light, barely illuminating the road, and Shen Cisui rushed to the door at the end with a 50-meter sprint speed.

Lo just opened the door, and he dodged in.

The sound of footsteps was blocked by the closed door, and Shen Cisui leaned against the wall to pant. He hadn't run like this for a long time, and he suffered from hypoglycemia again, and his head was a little dizzy.

"Huh?" Lo's tone was full of doubts, "This is not a room."

Shen Cisui raised his eyelids with great difficulty and looked around.

It's not spacious, but it's empty, nothing is piled up, there are metal walls on all sides, a bunch of buttons and a small screen at the door, showing the word "B3".

—by no means a utility room, but an elevator.

"But this place, in the floor index map of the research institute, is just a room, clearly stated as a utility room." Lo's tone was full of inquiry, "It's an elevator that requires a password, and there are only two floor keys , the first one is this layer, and the second one is unclear, I can’t find out what’s below, otherwise I can go down and try.”

"Now is not the time to discuss this." Shen Cisui sat down along the wall, lowered his eyes and asked, "How is the situation outside?"

"He's looking for you on the third floor...he's outside the door!" Lo checked every move of the people outside through the monitor, "I suspect he's taken drugs, his walking posture is strange, and his body temperature is abnormally high. But in good spirits."

Shen Cisui did not make a sound. After about 3 minutes, he knocked out the terminal screen and asked Lo: "Are you leaving?"

Lo said: "Didn't leave, he was guarding the door, wanting to go out by himself when you can't hide anymore."

In the next second, he turned up the volume: "Fuck, he found a stick and planned to smash the door! This is not a wooden door, he thought he—"

"You said he took drugs, no matter how irrational his behavior is..." Shen Cisui interrupted Lo, signaling the artificial intelligence to calm down.

Before he could finish speaking, there was a bang on the metal door.

The material of the elevator was very strong, and the drop did not cause a shock, but Shen Cisui still quickly changed the position to the innermost side.

"Don't worry, since this is an elevator door that requires a password to open, it will definitely not be opened violently like this." Lo quickly appeased Shen Cisui.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the voice fell, the alarm sounded suddenly.

Jingle Bell--

Amidst the sharp noise, the elevator descended rapidly.

Lo was shocked. It couldn't find out what was underneath, so it could only keep reporting to Shen Cisui how many meters they had descended.

Shen Cisui was already uncomfortable, such a fall made him dizzy, and his complexion was as white as paper.

The elevator fell for as long as 2 minutes. After stopping, the doors automatically opened to both sides.

It's all white.

The white tiles reflect the white light, and the passage is long and cold, like a hospital corridor without people, but it is wider and wider here.

There are more than a dozen mechanical soldiers lined up neatly, heading towards the elevator door.

Shen Cisui's pupils shrank.He knows these things very well, if they pass the identification, the mechanical soldiers will salute, if they fail——

drop.

The red lights flashed in the eyes of the mechanical soldiers, and they raised their guns at Shen Cisui.

Shen Cisui's first reaction was to retreat to the side and close the elevator door, but before he could make a move, he saw the red lights in the eyes of these mechanical soldiers flashing green, put down their guns, and scattered to patrol.

It seemed that the scene just now was just an illusion.

"I didn't do it!" Lo said in shock.

"...Your intrusion speed is not so fast." Shen Cisui gasped lightly, his tone extremely complicated.

He stood in the elevator, thought for a while, and walked out.

A tree came into view.

A world tree.

The world tree is not a rare thing.It is a tree in ancient mythology. It is said that it has the same height as the sky, and the world is built from its huge branches.

It can be seen in many film and television and literary works. The Asgard Research Institute where Shen Cisui is now has a logo that is also a world tree, but in order to distinguish it from others, some unique changes and modifications have been made.

The world tree here is different from the external logo of the research institute. The world tree looks ferocious and ferocious, as if struggling and roaring. On the top of the tree, there is a huge falcon spreading its wings, which makes Shen Cisui feel familiar.

Shen Cisui couldn't describe his mood at this moment——eight years ago, he dug out Odin's drawings in the dark compartment of his study, and there was such a tree printed in the upper right corner. After the death of his teacher and senior brother, he also drew Came out and searched online, but found nothing.

His eyes widened slowly, he took a deep breath, and took a step towards the World Tree.

At this moment, the mechanical soldiers patrolling in all directions gathered together again, aiming their weapons at it.

"A Sui, go back!" Lo shouted in his ear, for fear that Shen Cisui would be shot into a sieve by the guns in the hands of these mechanical soldiers.

Shen Cisui stood still.

Those mechanical soldiers didn't move either.

Time passed bit by bit, and Lo said again: "The sirens from above have not stopped, and those two people have run away! Ah Sui, we must go up now, otherwise we can't explain why we can enter the elevator to come here, and it is more likely because we have been here before." Here, be silenced!"

"This tree is very important, I know it! Give me some time to crack the defense system here, when the time comes, we will come again!"

The artificial intelligence's tone was full of anxiety.

Shen Cisui remained motionless, his lips were tightly pursed into a line, his pale side face was beaded with sweat, and his dark eyes refracted the light, which was astonishingly bright, fixedly staring at the World Tree standing not far away.

After a few seconds, he let go of his clenched fist, turned around and walked back to the elevator.

"Lo." Shen Cisui called softly.

"I know what to do." Lo responded, but within half a second, he yelled in surprise, "Strange, someone was one step ahead of me! All the monitoring after those two people chased you through the door were deleted. Pretending to be a failure of the monitoring system of the whole building, the method is very simple!"

Shen Cisui frowned, and said in a positive tone: "There are others here."

The elevator went up silently, Shen Cisui leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.

Obviously, someone was secretly helping him, but he didn't want him to explore deeper.

Who is this guy?Why do you want to do this?

And, where did those two people who were hostile to him come from?

buzz-

The terminal worn on his finger vibrated, and Shen Cisui raised his eyelids to see that it was Yuan Hoshino.

He turned the video call into voice, and just said "Hello", the man on the other end said: "The alarm in Asgard just sounded, are you okay?"

"It's okay." Shen Cisui replied.