I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 850 Entering the Research Institute
Just as Li Luo was looking at the cameras reflecting the bright light, the door suddenly opened with a click.

There was a crack in the black door, and light patterns like ripples were flickering in the crack.

"Are you letting me in?"

Li Luo looked at the gate, then at the cameras, and walked forward decisively.

The door was very heavy, and Li Luo had to use a lot of force to push it open. She leaned sideways and squeezed through the crack in the door and entered the research institute. Then she widened the gap in the door from the inside to allow the block to float in.

Seeing Fangkuai coming in, Li Luo loosened his hand, and the door slowly closed tightly, as if completely isolating Li Luo from the outside world.

Looking at the tightly sealed door, Li Luo was stunned. She actually came in like this.

The research institute was still shining with colorful neon lights. After Li Luo came in, the surveillance cameras in the institute slowly turned towards her.

Although there was clearly no one around, Li Luo still felt like a thorn in his back.

Just when Li Luo was confused about which way to go, a hunched figure appeared in the colorful halo in the distance.

It seemed to be an old man, walking slowly towards the gate.

Li Luo was waiting there, but the other party walked too slowly, so she went straight up to him with the cube.

Li Luo didn't stop until he rushed to the figure.

"Young man, don't be so impatient." A hoarse voice came.

Li Luo looked forward and found that it was the old man who was speaking.

His hair is a little gray and his back is a little hunched, and he seems to be quite old, but the old man looks very energetic.

He was wearing a black coat with a black sweater lining inside. There was not a single wrinkle on the clothes. On his wrist, he wore an old mechanical watch which was clicking.

The old man's face was clean and looked well-groomed, his eyes were bright and he was full of energy. At this moment, he was looking at Li Luo with his dark eyes.

Standing under the gorgeous neon lights, the old man also reflected colorful lights, but his old-fashioned outfit seemed a little out of place.

"What's your name?"

The old man pulled out a thick notebook from his coat and asked Li Luo.

"Li Luo."

"Okay, Li Luo, which Li? Which Luo?"

"Li of dawn, Luo of the goddess Luo..."

After listening to Li Luo's introduction, the old man nodded, took out a pen from his pocket, opened the pen cap skillfully, opened the notebook, and wrote Li Luo's name on it.

To Li Luo's surprise, the old man had beautiful handwriting. He wrote her name in a very vigorous style and then wrote the date of the visit behind her name.

"Why are you here?"

"Head to the sixth level of the abyss." Li Luo answered obediently.

For some reason, when facing the old man, she felt a sense of trust in her heart. Although she didn't know his identity, she was willing to answer his questions.

"Heading to the sixth layer of the abyss..." The old man wrote the reason for the visit after the date and recorded Li Luo's purpose of coming here.

"Are you the administrator here?" Seeing the old man recording his information so carefully, Li Luo roughly guessed the other party's identity.

"I'm just a janitor." The old man replied calmly.

"What's your name?"

"Li Ping, Muzi Li, safe and sound." The old man took out a clean nameplate from the inside of his coat and showed it to Li Luo.

The nameplate looked quite old, but it was still well maintained, and the rope hanging the nameplate seemed to have just been replaced.

"Just call me Lao Ping. That's what everyone else calls me." The old man said kindly, and then put the nameplate back into his coat neatly.

The ink on the notebook had not yet dried, but the old man just held the notebook, waiting quietly, looking unhurried.

Looking at the notebook, Li Luo couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you use an electronic screen?"

"I don't use the new stuff, I write it down."

The old man held up the notebook, blew on it gently, and then flipped it open in front of Li Luo. The densely packed names on it dazzled Li Luo's eyes.

"Things written down won't be lost so easily..." He said softly as he flipped through his notebook.

Looking at the old man's stubborn look, Li Luo also understood that he was probably the kind of person who was not very willing to accept new things.

After the abyss invaded, many people like this appeared. They were unwilling to use various electronic products, unwilling to contact various emerging technologies, and unwilling to learn new knowledge. It was as if time had stopped before the abyss appeared...

Judging from the old man’s age, he should be from that era.

That notebook looks like it has been used for a long time...

After waiting for a while, the old man slowly put his notebook and pen back into his coat and said to Li Luo, "Please follow me."

His voice was flat and after he finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the colorful halo.

Li Luo was stunned for a moment, then quickly followed.

The old man walked with Li Luo for a while and suddenly stopped. He opened his coat sleeves, looked at his watch, and then turned to Li Luo and said embarrassedly: "I have something urgent to do, which may take a while. You follow me first, okay?"

"fine."

They were already at the research institute, so of course they didn't mind spending a little more time. Li Luo agreed without any hesitation.

The old man nodded, said "thank you", then changed direction and walked slowly. Li Luo followed behind him at a leisurely pace.

Passing through the flashing lights, the old man walked to a building and stood still.

The building stood on an open space in the research institute. The surrounding buildings were far away from it. What was strange was that there was a guardrail around the building, as if they didn't want people to enter.

The old man didn't go in either, he just stood in front of the building and watched silently.

He pulled his sleeves back again, checked his watch, and continued standing.

Li Luo looked at the strange building in confusion and found that the guardrails were very old and seemed like they would fall down with just a slight push. There was a tattered seal on the door of the building and the words on it could no longer be seen.

Suddenly, Li Luo had an idea.

"Is this the meeting room where the disappearance occurred?"

For a moment she did not consider that the old man was still beside her and cried out in surprise.

But the old man did not feel offended and just nodded lightly.

"Yes, the disappearance case twenty years ago happened here."

He checked his watch again.

"At this time every day, there are noises. Although there is no day and night cycle under the Abyss, the noises still follow the 24-hour system. At 7 o'clock in the evening, when everyone is having dinner together, the noises start on time."

As the old man spoke, he stretched out his wrist and let Li Luo take a look at his mechanical watch.

Li Luo looked and it was almost seven o'clock.

She immediately turned on her electronic screen and scanned the time.

"18:57."

Then, she suddenly thought of something.

"You just said that at 7 o'clock, there will be a sound in the conference room? Is the surveillance inside broken?"

Li Luo remembered it very clearly: as long as the conference room was in a state of "observation", no sound would be made.

Hearing Li Luo's question, the old man nodded.

"It broke down a week ago, but no one has come to fix it, and I don't dare to go in casually."

"Have you reported it?"

"No need to report it. The surveillance is broken. DreamNet will know about it, but for some reason, no one came to fix it..."

A rare emotion appeared on the old man's face, it was a kind of -

disturbed.

(End of this chapter)