Chapter 315 I Don’t Want to Know This at All!
There was complete silence in the dark corridor on the second floor of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
The old-fashioned wooden display cabinet, which was tilted between the two walls of the corridor, had its doors wide open and briefly turned into wooden pillars as thick as arms, pushing against the opposite wall. With a "bang", the cabinet automatically returned to its original position.
Two mice that were hiding in the gap between the display cabinet and the ground, looking for food, squeaked and ran out along the wall.
Jing's smiling voice came from the empty corridor: "Sister, the closet is ringing~"
Ai Wanxin gave him a funny look and said, "Thank you. This is the first time I've heard a cabinet make a sound."
"You're welcome, sister~" Jing held Ai Wanxin's hand and stayed beside her, clearing away the debris blocking her way from time to time, and walked slowly with her into the depths of the corridor.
Ai Wanxin was paying attention to the nameplates hanging on the doors on both sides of the corridor. Jing couldn't help but ask curiously: "Sister, why is it so messy here?"
On the first day at the Academy of Sciences, when Yan Shupei took Yi Shenshou down the elevator, Jing visited every floor of the Institute of Biology in order to find them.
There were traces of riots on the walls and some furniture, but overall it was clean and tidy. It was obvious that the Academy of Sciences had organized forces to clean up after Glory City stabilized.
I don't know why this Institute of Astronomy and Physics is still such a mess.
"If no one lives in a house, it will fall into disrepair very quickly, or maybe there are no survivors, so it's not cleaned up." Ai Wanxin guessed.
The two of them didn't care much about this question. After searching for a while, Jing asked softly, "Sister, what are we looking for?"
"I'm looking for Academician Yang Jici's laboratory. I need her decoder." Ai Wanxin then remembered that she had not yet told him the purpose of this trip.
"A decoder that decodes something. Can't I decode it?" Jing asked.
Ai Wanxin paused, her eyes lit up. Yes, why didn’t she think of it!
"Here." She took out a round memory device wrapped in spider silk from the space and placed it solemnly in Jing's hand. "Although the type of decoding required for the data here may be different from that of the hard drive just now, I think as long as it is you, it will definitely work."
Jing held the squishy, soft ball in front of his eyes and asked with a blank look on his face, "Sister, what is this?"
Ai Wanxin said with a smile: "It's a storage device."
Jing stood there frozen for three seconds before he took Ai Wanxin's hand and gently placed the spider silk ball on her palm: "Sister, I'm actually not that good at studying. I don't think I'm that good."
"Click."
There was a faint sound downstairs, like the sound of a door being opened. Ai Wanxin quickly covered Jing's mouth, shook her head, and signaled him to be silent with her eyes: [Shh - someone is entering the building.]
Jing looked down with tears in her eyes at Ai Wanxin's hand covering her mouth. It was the hand that had just held the spider silk ball, sister!
They were in a corridor that was not very spacious. Ai Wan looked around and saw a room with a half-open door a few steps ahead. She immediately put down her hand and pulled Jing into the room.
Jing set up a shadow barrier at the door, and then asked, "Sister, who is here so late?"
Ai Wanxin was also very confused. She leaned over the crack in the door and peeked out, whispering, "I don't know. When someone comes up, we'll follow them and take a look."
Jing loved to join in the fun the most. He put his chin on Ai Wanxin's shoulder from behind and said in a low voice, "I will listen to you. Can you take this back first?"
Ai Wanxin lowered her head and found that the spider silk ball had been stuffed back into her hand by Jing. She simply pulled the spider silk off the palm-sized metal box and sighed regretfully, "It is said that spider silk can detoxify, reduce swelling, and treat bleeding from wounds. If I had no use for it, I would have kept it."
Jing couldn't help but smile, and kissed her earlobe with the emerald earrings: "Sister is so cute, I really like you~"
As they were talking, the sound of rustling footsteps had already reached the second floor. The person who came was holding a dim flashlight in his hand, which seemed to be wrapped in several layers of cloth, and only a small ball of hazy light came through.
Jing whispered: "Being so cautious, it must be something bad~"
Warm breath hit Ai Wanxin's ears. She inexplicably felt that she could hear a sense of eagerness and anticipation in Jing's voice. What was going on?
The visitor paused in front of the display cabinet that had been straightened, and asked in confusion, "Why is this cabinet...?"
It was a man's voice. Ai Wanxin's heart lifted a little when she heard him say that. Then she heard Jing Sisi say, "Sister, it looks like he's been here before?"
It was indeed quite suspicious. Fortunately, the man did not leave immediately because of the inexplicable cabinet. He made a "tsk" sound and said in annoyance: "You didn't ask someone to look for it again? If you don't trust me, why did you ask me to come? It's really hard to make money and hard to eat shit!"
As the sentence got longer, Ai Wanxin immediately recognized that she had heard this voice before.
The doubt did not last long. The man quickly bypassed the obstacles in the corridor and appeared in Ai Wanxin's sight. The dim light of the flashlight illuminated his face. It turned out to be the teacher in charge of the Pilot Academy, Tong Xichuan!
Before coming to the Academy, Yin Yanhan and Pei Junlin had conducted detailed background checks on everyone she might come into contact with or use. Before the end of the world, Tong Xichuan was a small lecturer at the Institute of Energy Technology. Later, he mutated into a C-class sentinel. Because his mental power level was relatively high in the Academy, he was assigned to be in charge of the daily affairs of the Pilot Academy. Apart from that, there was nothing particularly noteworthy about him.
"It's the guy who's really good at making chicken soup. Why is he sneaking here so late at night? Who are you guys he's talking about?" Jing was getting more and more curious. "Also, why is he eating poop?"
Ai Wanxin said with a smile: "I don't want to know this at all!"
Tong Xichuan quickly walked to the door of the room where Ai Wanxin and Jing were hiding. The moment he put his hand on the door, Jing pulled Ai Wanxin away and quickly retreated two steps, removing the shadow barrier at the door and blending perfectly into the darkness.
"Squeak-"
Tong Xichuan slowly pushed the door open. After entering the room, he first confirmed that the curtains were still properly drawn before placing the flashlight wrapped in thick cloth on the filing cabinet at the door. He sighed deeply and murmured, "A greedy man is after money, and the common people are Feng Sheng. Academician Yang, if you are still alive in heaven, please understand me. I am not greedy. It's just that the gold on the bedside is gone, and the warriors have no color. It's too difficult to survive in the end times. If I have offended you, please forgive me. Please forgive me."
After saying that, he started from the filing cabinet at the door and started searching through it inch by inch.
Ai Wanxin and Jing looked at each other. What was he looking for?