I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 841 The Disappearing Uncle

The explanation given by "bowing and serving the powerful" is not self-contradictory, but what he said is really hard to believe.

"Do you really have an uncle?" Li Luo asked curiously.

"Really!" the other party replied eagerly.

"Then why doesn't your uncle care? Since the first batch of robots for the Terror Force were developed by him and he is still working at the Mengdu Research Institute, he should be able to report to the authorities and have these robots scrapped, right?" Li Luo found a loophole in the other party's explanation and pressed for answers.

Although twenty years have passed and things have changed, the authorities will not ignore this problem. If those unstable robots are left there, any major accidents may occur.

Those are not ordinary robots, but a vigilant force equipped with a variety of forbidden technologies, responsible for the security of the entire Dream City. Once something happens, the consequences will be extremely serious.

As a researcher at a scientific research institute, I will certainly not sit idly by.

After raising his question, Li Luo waited for a long time but received no reply from "bow your head and serve the powerful". Li Luo even felt that the other party had been pointed out by him and could not think of a suitable reason, so he stopped answering.

But after a while, the other party sent a message that shocked Li Luo:
"My uncle is missing."

Just a few words made Li Luo stunned.

Mo Ling, who had been looking at the electronic screen, was also a little surprised. He didn't expect that the other party would reply with such a sentence after holding it in for a long time.

However, what neither of them expected was that the other party's next words were even more unexpected:

"Not long after the first batch of robots were put into use, all members of the Mengdu Research Institute's entire team responsible for developing robots disappeared, without exception, including my uncle."

disappeared?
When Li Luo saw the news on the electronic screen, he was shocked at first, and then he became suspicious.

She went directly to the homepage of Mengwang, clicked "Search", and began to search for the missing cases mentioned by "Bowing and Serving the Powerful and Rich".

Unexpectedly, I actually found it.

"The disappearance case at the research institute."

This case seemed to have caused a sensation at the time.

……

One day, the Mengdu security team received a report from residents living near the research institute. They said that screaming and fighting sounds were coming from a building in the institute, and something might have happened inside, so they asked the security team to go and take a look.

At that time, although the first batch of robots had been put into use, they were still used as auxiliary tools to assist the guard team in their work, and did not form the later vigilante forces.

So, after receiving the report, the guard team immediately rushed to the research institute.

The door of the research institute was tightly closed. Because it was a government-affiliated research institute, the guards did not have the authority to open the door directly. They could only contact people in the institute through DreamNet and various channels, but found that they could not get in touch with them.

It was not until a member of another research team received a notification from the guard team that he hurried to the research institute.

"Why are you going in?"

A member of the other team asked curiously, not knowing what was going on.

"We received a report from a nearby resident..." The guard patiently explained the whole story.

"Why didn't you let the security guards open the door for you?"

"We can't get in touch with them. We can't get in touch with anyone inside."

The guards were also helpless. They tried various methods, but none of them worked. If it weren't for the arrival of this researcher, the guards would have almost broken down the door and rushed in.

"There should be only one team in the institute now, and that is the team that develops security robots for you." The researcher pointed to the robots in the guard team and helped the guard team open the door while introducing them.

After the gate was opened, the guards quickly entered the institute and carefully checked the building where the reporter said the sound came from.

However, there was no one in the building. There was only a banquet table that had not yet started. The table was full of food and drinks, and there were some simple decorations inside the building.

"What is this building used for?" the guards asked the researcher who arrived.

"It's the conference room. We usually discuss things here and also have gatherings here." The researcher looked at the table that had not yet been opened and said curiously, "I remember my colleagues in the robot team told me that they were going to hold a celebration banquet to celebrate the robot's commissioning. We all got off work yesterday, but the members of their team stayed, probably for this celebration banquet..."

"But where did everyone go?"

The food and drinks at the banquet had not been touched, the tables and chairs were neatly arranged, and the pots, bowls, plates and chopsticks on the table were all neatly placed, as if no one had ever been at the table.

What was even more strange was that the soup in the pot and the dishes on the plates were still slightly warm, and didn't look like they had been left out for a long time.

"How long has it been since you got off work?" the guard asked the researcher.

The researcher checked the time and replied, "Ten hours. It's almost time to go to work now."

Because there is no alternation of day and night in dreams, the working hours of different units are different, and the hours of each unit are not fixed.

The guard team did not know the specific working hours of the research institute. After getting the answer from the researchers, they searched the database and confirmed this.

"Ten hours? Then why isn't the food cold yet?"

Everyone present had the same question in their mind.

After realizing something was wrong, the guards immediately ordered a blockade of the scene and tested the food at the banquet.

Soon, the test results came out.

“It’s all normal food.”

There was nothing wrong with the food except the temperature was always on "lukewarm".

"Have you identified the people who attended the banquet?" the security team leader asked the team members who had returned from the investigation.

"It's confirmed. There are twenty-one people from the research institute's robot team, and one person in charge of security, a total of twenty-two people."

"Why are the security guards in there too?"

"They must have been invited. The working environment at the research institute is relatively closed, so it's normal for the people there to have good relationships with each other."

"What about the rest?"

"Everyone is off work. According to the surveillance footage, when the case was reported, there were only these 22 people in the entire research institute, and they all participated in the banquet."

"Have you found any surveillance footage inside the conference room?"

"No, because confidential meetings are often held here, so surveillance equipment cannot be installed. However, the surveillance outside the building shows that these twenty-two people entered the meeting room, first the members of the robot team, and finally the security guard."

"Everyone went in? No one came out?"

"No, they...none of them came out."

(End of this chapter)