Jiang BaiMian was quite curious about the encounter of the person in room "506".
In her opinion, the other party's relationship with the Fourth Research Institute was like that of the "Old Tune Group" to "Pangu Biology." She couldn't imagine what would cause her and her colleagues to leave "Pangu Biology" and be met with unanimous hatred, resentment, and coldness from family, relatives, neighbors, and familiar employees.
Jiang BaiMian couldn't help but suspect that the owner of room "506" had committed some mistake that led to a catastrophic disaster for the Fourth Research Institute.
Only in this way could the situation in that psychological shadow be explained.
Of course, this was just a guess based on the situation Shang Jianyao currently encountered and the details he learned. Once there were clues pointing to other possibilities, it would have to be overturned and started again.
And this guess itself also had certain problems:
The two psychological shadows of room "506" currently mastered by "Pangu Biology" and the third one that Shang Jianyao entered did not involve scenes with emotions such as "guilt," "shame," or "remorse."
Jiang BaiMian didn't believe that someone who never forgot the change in attitude of "people from his hometown" and regarded it as a painful memory would accept his great mistake with peace of mind.
Even if he instinctively deceived himself and hypnotized himself, there would be some reflection in his subconscious.
Unless, he really didn't think it was a mistake and still insisted that he had taken the most correct approach when he looked back on it, but he just couldn't understand why his family, relatives, friends, and neighbors would look at him and treat him that way.
From this perspective, Jiang BaiMian had to believe that perhaps the problem was on the Fourth Research Institute's side.
Combining the distorted corpse that Shang Jianyao saw in the first psychological shadow, she felt that this conjecture had a certain degree of rationality.
Huff... Jiang BaiMian exhaled, withdrew her thoughts, and planned to ask Shang Jianyao tomorrow if he had broken through the psychological shadow of room "506" and how he had done it.
At this moment, the broadcast on the corridor outside rang:
"Hello everyone, I am the news anchor Hou Yi, it is now 8 o'clock in the evening..."
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"Hello everyone, I am the news anchor Hou Yi, it is now 8 o'clock in the evening..."
Long Yuehong sat on the edge of the bed in Bai Chen's room, listening to the familiar, slightly childish voice echoing, and couldn't help but smile:
"I heard that Hou Yi is actually one of the special cases of failed gene modification. She is less than 1.6 meters tall, but she has a cheerful personality and a naturally good voice. She never gives up on herself and has become the most popular announcer among the company's employees in the past seven years."
"Then she's not very old, no more than thirty." Bai Chen nodded. "I thought she was the announcer you guys had been listening to since you were kids, already forty or fifty years old."
"How could someone have such a voice at forty or fifty?" Long Yuehong replied, amused.
Then, he refuted himself:
"Not necessarily. Hou Yi is already twenty-seven or eight, and her voice hasn't changed much."
"Some people have a naturally childish voice that doesn't change until they're over sixty." Bai Chen had met similar people before.
That was in Initial City.
After chatting about Hou Yi for a few sentences, Long Yuehong stood up and said:
"I have to go back."
He had been promoted and received a reward today, and he couldn't wait to share it with his family.
He was now a D8-level employee, and once he transferred to an office job and left the Security Department, he could be directly promoted to D9.
This was considered the highest position that ordinary employees could pursue.
As for management positions, they were hard to come by.
In addition, Long Yuehong chose to go back today because he and Bai Chen had not yet registered their marriage, and it was not too good to always stay over here.
"I'll see you out." Bai Chen stood up as well.
Long Yuehong felt warm inside and didn't refuse.
After leaving the room and arriving at a place called a street but that was actually a corridor, Long Yuehong still held Bai Chen's hand and walked slowly towards the elevator.
Bai Chen was silent for a while before asking:
"What should I pay attention to when I go to your house?"
Long Yuehong thought seriously for a moment and said:
"There's nothing you need to pay attention to. Just be normal and polite, as the team leader said."
Frankly speaking, he didn't have much experience and could only trust Jiang BaiMian.
As for the fact that Jiang BaiMian also didn't have relevant experience, Long Yuehong didn't care too much because Jiang BaiMian told him and Bai Chen that she had always been praised by everyone and was the good neighbor's child whenever she visited someone's house.
At that time, the honest Shang Jianyao said in a low voice:
"Maybe it's not because you're polite and know how to read people's faces, but because your dad is in management."
Jiang BaiMian used practice to show Long Yuehong and Bai Chen what the consequences of being impolite and not knowing how to read people's faces were.
"Mm." Bai Chen recalled the core words of the team leader's teachings—listen more and speak less, praise more and complain less, smile more and move less.
Rarely having the opportunity to comfort his girlfriend, Long Yuehong was about to say a few more words when he suddenly saw someone walking towards them.
The person had dark skin, a pockmarked face, many bloodshot eyes, and average to below-average looks. It was clear that he had not undergone genetic modification.
Long Yuehong recognized this person. He was the external employee he had met in the public restroom on this floor late at night.
The other party, wearing a gray-green camouflage uniform, was in a hurry and quickly brushed past them.
Bai Chen glanced at Long Yuehong:
"You seem to know him?"
"The time I went to the public restroom after pulling a prank, I met him smoking inside." Long Yuehong said truthfully.
Bai Chen said "Mm":
"His name is Wang Xi. He just joined the company last year.
"I heard that he has a bad temper and often argues with people. If it weren't for the company's Order Supervision Office, they might have fought."
"Really? He has a pretty good temper." Long Yuehong said that in his brief contact with Wang Xi, the other party had been quite polite. Although he had been too rash at the time, which had led to an awkward scene and Wang Xi being a little embarrassed and angry, he had not been verbally abusive.
Bai Chen glanced at Long Yuehong's mechanical arm and said:
"Former wilderness wanderers can't always be irritable. People like that don't live to this age."
She paused and recalled something:
"He seems to go to the public restroom often late at night. Several neighbors have run into him."
"That's normal. It's probably a habit." Long Yuehong said nonchalantly.
At this time, the two had arrived at the elevator. He reluctantly waved goodbye and pressed the button representing the 495th floor.
Before going home, Long Yuehong went to the material supply market and specifically bought some more fruits and snacks.
"Wow, more delicious food!" As soon as Long Aihong saw her brother enter the house, she ran over and took the bag from his hand.
Gu Hong complained with a smile:
"Why did you buy these again?
"We just finished the last ones!"
Long Yuehong took the opportunity to say:
"The rewards for our mission have been issued. There are 30,000 contribution points."
"Another 30,000!" Although Long Aihong was used to her brother receiving large rewards every time he came back, she still couldn't hide her joy.
Long Dayong was both gratified and a little regretful.
Gu Hong's smile widened, and she asked in a low voice:
"Did you get promoted?"
Long Aihong immediately perked up her ears.
"D8." Long Yuehong was increasingly able to say his promotion with ease.
He no longer needed Shang Jianyao to help him promote it.
"Ah, thank God." Gu Hong clasped her hands together and shook them casually.
Long Aihong said expectantly:
"Brother, you'll definitely have no problem with D9. If you can get into management one day, I'll be assigned a good job in the future!
"My classmates are so envious of me. Many of them want to be my sister-in-law!"
"What are you thinking? Do you want to implicate your brother? Interfering with job assignments is a big taboo!" Gu Hong scolded her daughter. "That's how I know it's done: don't interfere with job assignments, wait a year or two, and then find an excuse to transfer the position."
"This is all pie in the sky." Long Dayong muttered softly, then said to Long Yuehong, "Look at them, sigh..."
Long Yuehong smiled and said nothing.
As long as they're happy.
Anyway, he never thought he could become management.
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The next morning, on the 647th floor, in room 14.
Shang Jianyao told in detail about the "sadness" and "heartbreak" he encountered in the Fourth Research Institute's family area.
He said with some doubt:
"What exactly is the problem? Why can't I get through it even when I make everyone treat me the way they used to and I myself believe it's real?"
Jiang BaiMian, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen all fell into silence, searching for possible reasons.
One guess after another was put forward and then rejected.
Suddenly, Jiang BaiMian had a flash of inspiration and remembered something Shang Jianyao had mentioned before:
"You seemed to have said last time that after the explosion, when those people looked at you, their expressions were cold and the muscles on their faces were stiff, like emotionless corpses."
"Yes." Shang Jianyao nodded.
Jiang BaiMian became pensive:
"Maybe those people really became corpses.
"After the accident in the Fourth Research Institute's family area, those people may have all died. What the owner of the room can't get rid of in his mind is their attitude towards him before they died, and he knows that this can never be changed.
"Therefore, this has become his psychological shadow, and no matter how you change those people's attitudes, he subconsciously knows that it's false."
"It's possible." Shang Jianyao stroked his chin. "Then how did the owner of the room overcome the corresponding island and reconcile with himself?"
Jiang BaiMian thought for a moment and said:
"This may have to start from the reason why those people changed their attitude towards the owner of the room.
"Only by figuring this out can there be a basis for reconciling with oneself."
Then, Jiang BaiMian spoke about her guess from last night—the owner of the room had made a mistake or discovered some secret that led to a catastrophic disaster for the Fourth Research Institute, and the people there had unanimously changed their attitude towards him.
Long Yuehong felt a palpitation in his heart:
"I really can't imagine anyone betraying the place where they were born and raised."
This was the same as how he couldn't imagine himself leaving "Pangu Biology."
He felt that if something similar happened to him, he would probably commit suicide.
Upon hearing this, Shang Jianyao suddenly sang a song:
"Living like this for thirty years, until the collapse of the building..." (Note 1)
Jiang BaiMian glared at this guy and was about to say something when the phone in the office rang.
Su Yu had received Shang Jianyao's report and agreed to his request for a meeting.
Note 1: "Kill the Person in Shijiazhuang," Omnipotent Youth Hotel