After Jing Shaowei walked around twice, he resignedly returned to the restaurant and bought a breakfast. While eating at his seat, he complained to Jiang Zhongli about her discovery.
"...Not only is there no lobby or stairwell, but have you noticed that our group and group two have no windows, and there are no windows in the corridor!"
The windows in the dining room are high windows, at least two meters high, and the outside scene cannot be seen from inside. The windows in her dormitory are in a normal position, but the glass is made of frosted glass, which only transmits light and cannot see the outside environment.
She hadn't noticed this problem before, but now that she thought about it, she realized that there was a problem everywhere. Frosted glass was generally used for bathroom windows. Whose normal dormitory windows use frosted glass, and the windows in her dormitory on the 18th floor couldn't be opened at all. She
I thought it was a height issue before, but now that I think about it, this building doesn't want people to know what's going on outside.
Not only the dormitory, but also her office and the research group on the third floor had no windows. She could understand that there were no windows in the office, since it was a strict research area, but what was strange was that neither the corridor nor the bathroom had windows.
She had only vaguely felt that something was wrong before, but she had been too distracted by various things to think about it. Today she realized belatedly that on the entire third floor, in all the places she had been, she had never seen a window, not even a window.
None of them are locked to death.
She has only been to the second research group on the fifth floor once, and similarly she did not see windows in the corridors and offices. Perhaps because most of the time the ventilation function of the windows is replaced by the vents on the ceiling, and the light transmission function is used on the ceiling to keep the space bright.
As if replaced by daylight, she failed to notice the exit of the window.
"Maybe there are airtight requirements, so only mechanical equipment is used for ventilation and lighting, and windows will pollute the environment." Jiang Chongli thought for a while and gave such an answer, and explained: "Some places have strict ventilation and lighting requirements, such as
Laboratories or some precision instrument rooms need to ensure air cleanliness, so when designing, they simply do not use passive ventilation and lighting, that is, windows, and only use mechanical equipment to ensure indoor cleanliness requirements. This is worse than
Windows are better controlled and windows can only have a negative impact in this environment."
Jing Shaowei suddenly understood: "I understand, but what about the high windows in the cafeteria and the frosted glass in the dormitory? There is no need for these two to require cleanliness, right?"
Jiang Zhongli hesitated: "Maybe he doesn't want people to see outside..."
"Also, I didn't find the stairwell just now. Aren't there fire escapes in most buildings? Don't they exist in this world?" Jing Shaowei put down the question about the window and turned to discuss the issue of stairs with Jiang Chongli.
"Maybe, we can't use the common sense of the original world to infer the problems of this world. Many things we take for granted may be unreasonable in this world. Let's see again." Jiang Chongli didn't understand why. What were his strategies?
Observe and summarize, take a step at a time.
Jing Shaowei had finished breakfast at this time. She and Jiang Zhongli had different ideas. She didn't want to take one step at a time. The experimental subject would have his waist cut off. She didn't know how long she could live. The consequences of not taking the initiative to attack
You can only passively endure death.
"Hello, um, did you bring any painkillers? I'm here, it hurts so much..." Jing Shaowei first held his lower abdomen in pain for five minutes on his seat, then slowly got up and walked to the distance from her
In front of the nearest girl, she hunched over and covered her stomach, biting her lower lip and asked softly.
The girl saw that something was not right with her just now, but she did not step forward to ask out of a nosy attitude. Now that the other party came to her for help, she realized what happened.
But who in the right mind would carry painkillers with them? The girl shook her head: "I don't have any. How about I take you back to the dormitory? Which floor do you live on?"
Jing Shaowei shook his head with a pale face and said: "I finished taking the medicine. I wanted to buy medicine after dinner, but I didn't expect the pain to be so severe. Or do you know where there is a pharmacy nearby? I
Just wait for a while and go buy it." After saying that, he squatted down next to the girl's table with a sad expression, as if he was about to die soon.
Jing Shaowei's body originally looked pale and thin, and with Jiang Zhongli's dark circles under his eyes from staying up late last night, she gained the girl's trust with little effort. The girl helped her up from the ground and let her
After sitting on the seat, he said with concern: "If you feel so uncomfortable, don't go alone. I'll buy it for you. You sit here for a while. The pharmacy is not far away. I'll be back in ten minutes."
Jing Shaowei thanked her repeatedly. The girl went to the breakfast window and asked for a cup of hot soy milk for Jing Shaowei. Then she walked out of the restaurant alone to buy medicine for Jing Shaowei, who was pretending to be sick.
As soon as the girl walked out of the restaurant, Jing Shaowei immediately followed her. After watching her walk out of a door, Jing Shaowei returned to the restaurant and quietly waited for his painkillers.
Ten minutes later, the girl came back with a box of medicine. Jing Shaowei thanked her sincerely again, and on the pretext that he had to go back to the dormitory to eat slowly before taking the medicine, he transferred the money to the girl and left the restaurant with the medicine box.
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After leaving the restaurant, Jing Shaowei went straight to the last door where she had just watched the girl leave. Unexpectedly, when the door opened, she saw not the hall she imagined, but a long and narrow corridor.
The decoration on both sides of the corridor was the same as that of an ordinary corridor, but the lights were dim and she couldn't see clearly what was at the end of the corridor. It might be the hall she wanted to go to, it might be a direct link to the outside, or it might be something else.
Jing Shaowei didn't hesitate at all when she was acting, and she didn't stumble when she followed the girl out. But now that the way out was in front of her, she hesitated.
It was hard for her to describe how she felt now. It was just an exit, and she knew what it was as soon as she walked over. In the past, she wouldn't have even thought about it. It was just a matter of time. But now she was extremely hesitant.
It might be a kind of intuition, or it might be another kind of timidity about home. Just in the restaurant, Jiang Chongli and I reasoned out that "the institute does not want employees to know the external environment", but it didn't take long for someone to go out and come back——
The girl bought the medicine and she still had it in her hand.
The contradiction between the two deterred her. Would it be so easy for her to get out here? Wouldn't she know the external environment when she got out? If she could get out easily, wouldn't all the precautions taken by the institute be unnecessary?
She wanted to discuss countermeasures with Jiang Chongli, but she wondered if she would make a fuss out of a molehill, which would make Jiang Chongli laugh at her for being careless.
