About becoming a magical girl

But the most interesting part is—the central structure centered on the working well, and the external structure centered on other equipment and facilities. Try not to make any contact.

Just like the bridge board under the feet, it will only be put down when it is needed, and the two sides are not connected at all in normal times.

The laboratories and equipment on the outside are like boxes that wrap the working wells on the inside.

In other words, this huge tower should actually be two buildings - the deep well inside, and the wrapping building outside.

"Is this a coincidence……"

Evenier looked into the depths of the working well ahead, and the restlessness of the dust made Avenier feel unreasonable uneasiness.

In fact, looking down from the tube bundle area between the corridor and the central well and the central well area, it can be found that this building is not only on the surface - its foundation is much deeper than the first floor, Between the outer layer and the inner layer, there is actually no filling part.

"Even the foundation part must be separated..."

Eveniel walked towards the central well.

Just stepping into the part of the central well, a strange feeling came to my heart, Efnir frowned slightly, and the weapon floated up and clenched tightly in the palm of his hand.

She was on guard for a moment, but nothing happened.

"Is the sound muted here?"

Only then did Evenier suddenly realize that the sound from the outside disappeared completely the moment he stepped into the central well.She took a step back, and the voice of the adjutant reporting the task came from the other end of the bridge board, and when she took a step forward, the voice stopped immediately.

She frowned slightly.

When Code H disappeared... the same phenomenon happened.

Efnir walked forward cautiously, and the inner side of the central well appeared in front of him—a deep and dark well appeared in front of him, even with Efnir's attuned vision, he couldn't see the bottom—but the restless dust was most active in this middle part.

She raised her hand, and the palm passed through the dust, feeling a scorching wind.

"Major General, we can't stay here for too long," the adjutant's voice suddenly came from behind. Because the voice was blocked, Evenier didn't even notice that the adjutant had arrived at the central well area. The adjutant also looked left, right, up and down curiously for a while, "I remember that the radiation here is quite serious—of course, it's not 'fragment radiation' but nuclear radiation. This is the place where collision experiments and control experiments are conducted, and it's one of the areas marked as forbidden to enter."

These are the information obtained by the adjutant from the engineering drawings.

And the engineering drawing is from the information found in the computer of the research institute here, so the reliability should be relatively high.

"Ah."

Efnir glanced down again, and then left through the central well with the adjutant.

……

------------

171. Fourth Floor

Further up is the third floor area of ​​the tower.

From here, there is no clear record of the internal area in the "duty list" and other places, all of which are listed as "no entry" areas, and the approximate distribution of the third and fourth floors can only be inferred from engineering drawings and other materials.

And the fourth floor is an armed control area. These armed personnel are the dispatchers of Kosek's private military contractor who were discovered on the ground before-for a research institute, this degree of achievement also indirectly shows its importance.

The "fragments" are most likely to be stored on the fourth floor.

"Their weapons don't look bad at all, it's hard to see how this would be the level of what a dispatcher from a private military contractor should be."

The adjutant squatted down in front of the mutant's corpse, rummaging through the tattered corpse for the nameplate and the contents of the communication device.

Evenier took off the gun from the corpse and held it in his hand to look at it.

Indeed, the weapons used by these dispatchers are all relatively advanced, completely at the level of a regular army in a city - of course, firearms are not uncommon in this era, but they are very expensive, so standard-spec weapons are by no means bad Main Street stuff.

"It doesn't look like the goods from Xicheng District, or even from our city."

"Our city does not have a military contractor of this size. I have never heard of the name 'Kosek'."

The adjutant replied.

Private military contractors - there are a large number of such institutions in some areas of the old era. At the end of the old era, they often appeared in various areas to fill the gap left by the severely damaged army. At the same time, they also provided private business for some important figures or wealthy businessmen and politicians, and they were active with high commissions.

They were the most powerful armed force other than the army at the end of the old generation. Because of this, they became a group of people with a very high survival rate in that unprecedented war and disaster.

After that, the People's Federation was established, and the private army of the old generation came under the banner of the People's Federation after a brief expansion, and became the current private military contractor and regional armed forces.

Different from Xijing City, which was built with some survivor settlements as its core—even some cities were built relying on such a powerful regional private army, the core of the government and army was its leader.

Until now, some cities of this type are still doing their old business, sending combat employees in exchange for resources from other cities or regions.

But the adjutant didn't have much impression of the name "Kosek". Simply put, there probably didn't exist a city named after "Kosek".

"Yeah, it looks like it might not be someone from a city near us."

Efnir raised the gun, loaded it skillfully, took aim, and then frowned slightly.

"This way, these corpses seem to have all died at the same time. Don't you think it's strange? Their weapons have never been used, not only the guns in their hands, most of the equipment in their bodies are intact, even if there is something missing. Leaves traces of use."

"Hmm... I think it's suspicious too."

The adjutant shook his head, "Perhaps the situation at that time could not allow them to shoot, but if you think about it this way, maybe they encountered an accident before they had time to shoot—everything just happened in an instant."

"People instinctively seek self-defense when faced with serious threats, and this is especially true for these well-trained fighters-they are not fighting for their beliefs, they should be aggressive and self-interested."

Efnir handed the weapon in his hand to the soldiers beside him, "I think I'm more inclined to the latter."

"I found it, the communicator. It seems to be in good condition." The adjutant picked up a communication terminal and inspected it.

"Take it back first and see if you can find anything. Let's move on."

Under the leadership of Avenier, the team moved forward again.

The third to fourth floors are separated by thick metal doors—but the metal doors are still open from the outside, similar to the appearance that Avnir found on the bottom floor and suspected to be pierced by someone.

"Someone has been here too..."

Avenir didn't think much, and stepped into it first.

The fourth floor—it may be somewhat inaccurate to say this, because the fourth floor shown in front of Evenier’s eyes is not composed of empty rooms as drawn on the engineering drawing, but a huge metal disc, relying on the outer structure with two ends wide and the middle narrow, the space on the fourth floor is maximized, while the outer area surrounding the central well is a three-dimensional open area formed by a total of five layers of duplex multi-layer structures.

To put it simply, it is like stacked stadiums. Standing anywhere on the fourth floor, you can clearly and clearly look towards the central well area, and witness the "something" suspended in the center above the central well. ——It was the flame of a solid fire that seemed to be burning, without any support, it was like the sun suspended in the mid-air at the very center of the central well.

Efnir narrowed her eyes slightly—the light was so dazzling that ordinary people could never see it, but with her agent's eyesight, she clearly observed the small object at the core—a semi-curved object of unknown material.

It looks like a broken ring, very similar to the shape in the description.

but……

Efnir stared straight at the location of the fragments, frowning unnaturally—it was strange that she couldn't feel the flow of dust on the "shards", or in other words, the central well area where the dust should be restless, At this time, it was very quiet, and there were "dust" floating slowly like plankton in the air.

"Found...'fragment'..."

The adjutant and other soldiers also followed Avnir to the bottom area of ​​the fourth floor. They were immediately attracted by the light suspended in the central midair, and exclaimed, "That must be 'Shard'! It is exactly the same as in the description..."

"But now it seems to be 'activated'..."

Eveniel frowned slightly, "It shouldn't be like this - don't the instruments here always have sufficient energy supply?"

"We'll try to turn it off."

There are two engineers and researchers inside, which exist precisely to deal with this situation.

The adjutant is worthy of being Kuo Maki's capable clerk and deputy second only to Shino Mi Nami. He quickly planned the mission and then assigned it.

Everyone took action—and at this moment, Evenier suddenly noticed something subtle and wrong.

"Wait a minute," Evenier suddenly stopped the adjutant. She raised her hand and said loudly, "Stand where you are, don't move for now."

"what?"

The adjutant was puzzled, while Evenier stared at the adjutant, walked slowly towards him - then passed him by, and stopped not far behind him, in a seemingly empty place.

Eveniel frowned and reached forward.

Nothing happened.

But Evenier clearly felt something different—the flow of dust.

……

------------

172. Angel

The adjutant was still standing there, watching Evenier raise his hand and grab it towards the empty place.

"Sir, what did you find?"

"nothing……"

There was nothing in Avenier's hand.

Although I can feel a sense of disobedience—Evenir can clearly feel the energy in his body being active, as if he is about to rush out of his body, and something is connecting with the energy in his body, trying to "take" them.

And the other end of the connection line is the small "shard" in midair.

"Could this be what happened to Yanila and the others? They couldn't feel it from the outside, but at this distance, there are finally some signs?..."

Evenier squinted, fingertips swept over the strange feeling of dust flowing, but apart from these two points, Avenier didn't notice anything special from it.

She withdrew her hand and glanced at the adjutant.

"In short, get the 'shards' as soon as possible, we are running out of time."

……

The process of obtaining "fragments" is very cumbersome.

Because the researchers sent here have never touched similar relics, and they don't know much about the programs here. The first thing they did was to interpret the computer programs in this research laboratory, and then they began to formally obtain them. debris.

The soldiers are responsible for guarding against possible mutations at the entrance, and at the same time reporting the current situation through wired communication lines.

Efnir walked aimlessly on this huge fourth floor alone.

The entire fourth floor has no windows at all, or in other words, there is no such thing as a "window" in this tower.But the fourth floor is particularly special--Evenir has carefully inspected most of the fourth floor, and found that the entire fourth floor seems to be built and wrapped by metal, and the interior space of the fourth floor is larger than that of the first three floors. The sum is even bigger, which can be said to be the core of the tower's external structure.

In fact, there are layers of checkpoints set up on the passage from the third floor to the fourth floor. According to Avenier's observation, ordinary people cannot forcefully pass through the third floor to reach the fourth floor. However, before Avenier and the others came here, those checkpoints were always open.

Moreover, in addition to this, Evenier has another thing that he is very concerned about-there is not even a single person on the entire fourth floor.

No mutants, no mutant vines, no corpses.

Although some places look a little scattered, and some bottles and cans have been destroyed, there are no other signs of damage.

"too weird……"

At this time, Evenier was standing at the top of the double-entry ladder, leaning against the solid metal wall, and looking at the "fragment" suspended in the middle of the central well.

Seen from this angle, the entire space on the fourth floor is like a semi-arc disc, firmly supporting the fragments in the middle—this reminds Evenier of a kind of equipment, radar, which is rare in Xijing City, but Evenier has seen a lot in the occupied areas outside Sakai.

"Buildings with this kind of structure are rare...Even if it is a research institute, is it necessary to design this place specially?"

Eveniel muttered to himself.

The entire fourth floor was full of weirdness. After thinking for a while, Evnil jumped directly from the top, with silver lights shining under his feet, and lightly landed beside the adjutant.

At this time, the adjutant was taking a cube metal box from a soldier. When he saw Avenier, he immediately stopped what he was doing and saluted Avenier, "Sir."

"What is this box in your hand?"

Evenier looked at the adjutant, or at the metal box in his hand, "Is this the 'container' you prepared?"

"To be precise, it was prepared by the researchers here," the adjutant replied, "—Of course, I mean those who originally conducted experiments here. This is an item that our investigation team obtained from the bottom research institute, according to the records , this kind of box was originally a special storage container used by the researchers here to transport the 'fragments', and it can weaken the radiation intensity of the 'fragments' leaked to a certain extent, which can be reduced by 10% to 30%. In fact , The peripheral part of the fourth floor of the tower seems to have used this technology to isolate the radiation spillover."

After listening to the adjutant's explanation, Evenier turned his eyes to the box and frowned.

"Is it any wonder... But even so, Yanila and the others have all been affected by 'radiation', we need a more 'sealed' container."

"Don't worry, we have prepared enough containers to ensure that the degree of radiation spillage is minimized, and a helicopter will be dispatched to help you quickly reach the target location."

"It can only be this way……"

Evenier nodded, "By the way, do you have the engineering drawings?"

"it's here."

The adjutant handed the engineering drawings to Evenier, "Did you find anything, sir?"

"Well, there are some strange places."

Evenier took the engineering drawing, found a nearby table, pushed away all the things on the table, and then spread the drawing on the table.

She stared at the drawing for a while.