As a long-term employee of the Security Department who scrapes a living on the surface, Long Yuehong instinctively straightened his back and became alert when he found that the paper of the "Many Children and Many Grandchildren Talisman" was relatively new, not like something passed down from the previous generation.

He glanced left and right, listened intently for a few seconds, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual, he tried to unfold the paper talisman, which was folded into an irregular square shape.

As the light yellow paper was opened, the pattern outlined in vermilion ink entered Long Yuehong's eyes.

It looked like a distorted human figure, or perhaps several strange characters stacked together.

Long Yuehong studied it carefully for a while, but couldn't find a corresponding thing in his memory, nor did he think it was particularly eerie.

The talismans left over from the "Old World" seemed to be like this.

As for whether it was useful, that was another matter. Long Yuehong felt it was more of a psychological comfort.

There's nothing wrong... I'll ask Team Leader tomorrow. She knows a lot about the folk culture of the Old World... Long Yuehong breathed a slight sigh of relief, preparing to fold the "Many Children and Many Grandchildren Talisman" back to its original shape.

As a result, he failed miserably.

Even following the creases, he couldn't succeed, and only managed to fold it into an irregular square shape, which was vastly different from the original.

At that moment, a picture suddenly flashed in his mind:

Shang Jianyao was standing behind him, leaning close to his ear, and saying in a sinister voice:

"It's over, you couldn't restore this talisman, terrible things will happen..."

Long Yuehong hurriedly shook his head, throwing the ghost story-like association aside.

He planned to ask Bai Chen for help in restoring it tomorrow.

He felt that Bai Chen was much better than him in this regard.

Putting the "Many Children and Many Grandchildren Talisman" away, Long Yuehong got up and went to the narrow bathroom in his house.

............

"Mind Corridor", Room "506".

Shang Jianyao sat on the metal bed, looking around, and found that only he and a series of instruments were left in the current hall, which was as empty as if it had been abandoned for a long time.

He put his feet on the ground, stood up, and sneered:

"What unprofessional villains!

"When abandoning this experimental base, why not destroy the instruments?"

A head suddenly popped out of Shang Jianyao's left shoulder, refuting his colleague:

"Maybe they encountered an accident and had to evacuate in a hurry?"

Impetuous Shang Jianyao "heh"ed:

"Why don't you say that all the humans here evaporated into thin air?"

"It's not impossible." Honest Shang Jianyao argued reasonably.

As they spoke, they jointly controlled the body, allowing it to walk towards different instruments, so that they could confirm the purpose of these things and find corresponding experimental records.

"This instrument is very strange, like a hybrid of a nuclear magnetic resonance imager and an electrocardiograph..." Honest Shang Jianyao took the lead in making an evaluation.

Impetuous Shang Jianyao immediately gave a suggestion:

"Why don't we turn it on and try it?"

"How to try it, who to try it on?" Pudu Chan Shi poked his head out from his chest.

This took the meaning of "Wine and meat pass through the intestines, but Buddha sits in the heart."

Impetuous Shang Jianyao answered without hesitation:

"Me!"

The head that originally belonged to Honest Shang Jianyao drove his right hand, touched his chin, and said with a smile:

"Is there a possibility?

"The owner of the room himself lacked sufficient scientific literacy, and was too flustered, nervous, and rushed at the time, only thinking about escaping, and didn't do any observation, so the instruments in his psychological shadow are a chaotic superposition of various impressions, and don't correspond to the actual ones, so trying it won't reveal the real function."

Honest Shang Jianyao came out from the other side of his shoulder:

"Da Bai said, make bold assumptions and verify them carefully.

"This is just an assumption, there must be a follow-up verification link!"

"I'll do it!" Impetuous Shang Jianyao boldly walked towards the instrument.

After some operation, he felt that he might have just measured his electrocardiogram.

After trying all the instruments and searching all the drawers, the Shang Jianyaos disappointedly entered the corridor, looking for other rooms.

He pushed open the door next door, and his eyes suddenly became a little dazed.

In the room bathed in pure white light, transparent glass pillars stood in different places. The pillars were filled with light yellow liquid, and naked humans were immersed in the liquid.

This was somewhat similar to a scene that the "Old Tune Team" saw in the secret laboratory of the No. 13 ruins in the wasteland.

However, the human bodies immersed here were obviously a bit wrong.

Some of them had two heads, some had vertical eyes cracked in their foreheads, some had soft skulls and deformed upper halves of their faces, some were covered with black scales on the surface, some seemed to have lost their skin, some had fleshy buds growing on their faces, some had five hands and seven legs...

Shang Jianyao sometimes gritted his teeth, and sometimes his eyes lit up, and he walked into the room step by step, going deeper into it.

The closer he got to the inside, the more deformed the humans immersed in the glass cylinder became. Shang Jianyao successively discovered several corpses that could make people have nightmares:

One of them had its head cut open from the middle, with whitish flesh connecting the left and right;

Another had black, hairy patches all over its body;

The most impressive one had extremely atrophied limbs and body, while the head was twice as large as a normal person, floating in the liquid like some kind of jellyfish.

"Is it also doing gene-induced teratogenesis?" Shang Jianyao's expression gradually became gloomy, "Is it a peer with the Company or the 'White Knights'? Or, does it represent a certain research institute of the Company or the predecessor of the 'White Knights'?"

He walked and looked, and didn't encounter any danger, but didn't find too many valuable things.

In this way, he entered one room after another, and walked out disappointedly.

When he felt a little tired, the metal gate of the experimental base appeared in front of him.

"Is it almost over? Going out means passing through this psychological shadow?" Calm and rational Shang Jianyao stroked his chin.

The impetuous him smiled triumphantly:

"This is because I have the courage to face danger. If it were someone else, after being injected with such a large dose of anesthetic, they would mostly be unconscious, and reality would turn into a vegetative state."

"From the perspective of the strategy, this room is indeed quite simple." The Shang Jianyao who seeks novelty and wonder had a look of regret and disappointment.

"Go out?" Pudu Chan Shi Shang Jianyao asked.

Calm and rational Shang Jianyao thought for a while and said:

"Let's go out.

"It seems that there are not many valuable clues that the owner of the room noticed at the beginning."

The Shang Jianyao who hates evil like an enemy immediately said:

"Before going out, I want to blow up the room where the corpses are immersed."

"This is just someone else's psychological shadow, blowing it up is meaningless. Are you so serious when you play games?" The sinister and vicious Shang Jianyao was both angry and amused.

"Yes!" The Shang Jianyao who hates evil like an enemy nodded.

Calm and rational Shang Jianyao smiled:

"Then blow it up."

Boom!

As the corresponding room churned out a huge fireball, Shang Jianyao pushed open the metal gate and walked out.

Sunlight shone into his eyes, and the whole world instantly became illusory.

In an instant, buildings appeared in front of him, buildings belonging to the same group.

Shang Jianyao rubbed the corners of his forehead and chose to exit.

Room 196, Block B, 495th floor.

He opened his eyes and began to examine himself:

"I still can't separate my power and let it integrate into real objects...

"Almost there...

"It should be enough to pass through another psychological shadow."

Shang Jianyao then smiled:

"Room '506' can be explored a little more, try the second psychological shadow."

He didn't plan to try the third one again, because the strategy clearly stated:

"After mastering the key points, this room is relatively safe and can be used as a 'base' for newcomers to temper their spirits. Therefore, it is not recommended to explore to a relatively deep level, so as not to affect the owner of the room. If you happen to encounter fluctuations in his spirit, it is best to provide him with some help, and do not drain the pond to catch the fish..."

As a group of polite people, the Shang Jianyaos certainly didn't want to disturb the owner of the room.

............

The next morning, Room 14, 647th floor.

Long Yuehong stood up, walked to Jiang Baimian's desk, and took out the "Many Children and Many Grandchildren Talisman":

"Team Leader, can you help me see if the symbols on this talisman are normal?"

"Talisman?" Jiang Baimian curiously took the "Many Children and Many Grandchildren Talisman".

Shang Jianyao brushed and came over, and Bai Chen also walked towards this side.

Jiang Baimian unfolded the "Many Children and Many Grandchildren Talisman", and said while looking at it:

"I don't recognize this symbol, I can only say that it is indeed more like those talismans in the Old World.

"What kind of talisman is this?"

Long Yuehong hesitated for a moment, but still opened his mouth and replied:

"'Many Children and Many Grandchildren Talisman', my mother took it from my grandmother."

"Oh." Jiang Baimian resisted the urge to tease.

Bai Chen fell into silence.

Shang Jianyao laughed while slapping the table and hammering the bench:

"If this is useful, wouldn't doing this action be more effective?"

He seriously put on the posture of holding a baby and gently shaking it.

This is the ritual of the "Life Sacrifice" Church.

Jiang Baimian coughed, looked at Long Yuehong, and tried to save the atmosphere:

"What do you think is wrong with this?"

"I think this paper is a bit new, not like something passed down from my grandmother's generation." Long Yuehong said truthfully.

Bai Chen suddenly became a little concerned and once again turned his attention to the "Many Children and Many Grandchildren Talisman".

Jiang Baimian nodded slightly and said:

"I'll go back tonight and search for this symbol for you. I have a lot of information on my home computer.

"You can also ask your mother and grandmother, in case the original one was too old and too broken, they imitated it and made one themselves, right?"

As she spoke, she tore off a piece of paper and began to trace the pattern on the "Many Children and Many Grandchildren Talisman".

Long Yuehong "um"ed:

"Okay."

He paused for a moment and said his worries:

"I'm just afraid that they believe in some Year Star and joined some strange church."

If that's the case, the problem would be very big and troublesome.

Pa pa pa, Shang Jianyao applauded for Long Yuehong.

Jiang Baimian also praised:

"Not bad, you have enough vigilance."

Shang Jianyao immediately crossed his arms and placed them on his chest.

Then, he took a step back, pressed his voice and shouted:

"Vigilance is eternal!"