ninth laboratory
"What is this?" Under Eva's leadership, a large room of more than 400 square meters appeared. The room was isolated into several areas by wooden screens. However, when the door opened, under the flow of air, the wooden screen instantly turned into a bunch of ashes and fell on the ground. The girls were not surprised by this phenomenon. Goblin metal can fight against ten thousand years of time, but ordinary wood cannot. Moreover, although the temperature outside is very low, after entering the laboratory, the environment actually returned to the temperature of ordinary winter, making everyone feel like it.
I had to take off a few coats so that I would not sweat all over. In this environment, it is common for things with wooden structures to naturally weather, and everyone has become accustomed to them in various ruins. What made the curious Lina ask was another thing, which were several vertical cabinets placed in the corner of the wall. The surface of the vertical cabinet was transparent, and you could see rows of metal cans placed inside. There were some buttons on the right side of the transparent part, which seemed to correspond to the number below the metal can. On the same side, there was a small gap, as if the card could be inserted.
"Issue cards that can be inserted here," Katherine pondered for a moment and took out the goblin identity card found in the sewer of the Innocence City. Since she was about to enter the goblin-related buildings, each of the girls carried an identity card with her. Although it might not be useful, it is always right to prepare in advance. The Knight Girl stuffed the metal card into the slot. Sure enough, the size and thickness were just right. The machine that had been silent for thousands of years actually started working normally, and the corresponding button on the right lit up at the same time.
"This is interesting." Lina came over curiously, snatched in front of Catherine, and pressed a lighted button casually. But the machine did not react at all. After a few seconds, a few characters were only displayed on the crystal plate above the button, and there was a series of rapidly changing numbers behind it. Lina was stunned and asked in confusion: "Ava, what's going on."
"This is a vending machine, which is part of the free benefits of researchers. If the researcher's identity card is used, it can be obtained for free. If it is a non-researcher, such as other scholars who come to conduct academic discussions, the machine needs to convert the gold coins saved in the person's identity card into credit points within the institute for use." Eva explained: "Look. The conversion has been completed, and you can confirm it by clicking it again."
"Gold coins? Can these cards still store gold coins?" Catherine raised her two beautiful eyebrows: "Then if the gold coins in the ID card are not converted, can there be a place to get them out?"
"If the Goblin Alliance Government is still there, that's how it is." Those who heard it could hear deep helplessness from Eva's emotional voice: "But the Goblin Alliance Government no longer exists, and the financial institutions under it have lost their due function. Therefore, nothing can be taken out. However, if the location of the Union Government vault can be found, a large amount of gold coins can be obtained."
"Really?" Katherine's eyes immediately lit up and she said expectantly: "Do you know where their vault is?"
"Of course I don't know, that is one of the highest secrets of the coalition government and will not retain any physical records." Eva shook her head vigorously and said, "Even if she knows, it's useless. The vault is said to be buried deep in somewhere underground. After so many years, the entrance is probably buried long ago. You'd better give up."
With a "clang" sound, Lina confirmed the button, a metal impact sounded, and a metal can with the same mark display as the corresponding mark fell from the exit below the machine. Lina took out the metal can and looked at it and asked, "This room looks like a lounge. In theory, what is sold here should be food or drinks."
Indeed, this room is a lounge. In several spaces isolated by screens, each space is filled with long metal-shelled chairs. One side is a metal shell, and the other side is guessed that it should be made of some very soft materials. It will be very comfortable to sit or lie on it. However, except for those metal shells, the other materials here have turned into a bunch of ashes, and you can no longer see what it originally looked like. In some compartments, there is a crystal tray more than two meters wide, which stands in front of them. According to everyone's experience, some influences can be played in the crystal tray, and it may be used as an entertainment facility. Some compartments are equipped with small bookshelfs, but only gray ashes are left on the bookshelf.
"It's a drink, the food is on the other side," Eva replied. "All the lounges in the research center offer drinks that are more premium to goblins. Many researchers like to drink."
"How to open it?" Lina couldn't suppress her curiosity and tossed and turned around for a while. She found a way to open the sealed can. After opening the sealed can with a bang, she sighed deeply. In the sealed can, there was no moisture, only a layer of black objects solidified at the bottom of the can, which looked quite disgusting. The priest girl said with regret: "What a pity, it seems that even the technology of the goblins is not so good, and the moisture has evaporated."
"Don't say such terrible words with a serious look." Freya was actually very picky about diet. She took a few steps away with disgust and said with her arms in her arms: "If it doesn't evaporate, do you still want to take a sip? That's something that has been stored for ten thousand years."
"It's always OK to smell it." Lina shrugged, put the metal can aside, and waved to Eva and asked, "Does there any record of what these drinks taste like?"
"Sweet." Eva was silent for a while, and her voice was a little depressed: "It has a little spicy."
Lina blinked, cleverly didn't continue asking, quickly changed the topic and said, "Can you see the automatic treatment device by passing through this lounge and entering the front door?"
"No, I need to walk a little longer." Ava's voice returned to her usual coldness, and she replied expressionlessly: "It's actually very big here, and I have to take a lot of ways."
"Then stop being too slow." Lina pushed Vivian, who was working on a vending machine with Freya, and said: "Go away quickly. My biggest hope now is to cure you quickly, so that you can beat you up, hurry up."
After passing through another door, there was a long corridor, and portraits of members of the Medical Hall of Fame were still hung on both sides of the corridor. Catherine had taken a portrait before and studied it. It looked like an ordinary portrait, but in fact the whole was made of metal, so it could last for thousands of years without being destroyed.
Along the way, there were many closed metal doors on the left and right of the corridor, and there should be some different laboratories inside. At the strong request of the two scholars and a pastor who joined in the fun, Eva opened several of the metal doors, and there were some very good-looking things everywhere.
"Hey, Panis, isn't that the metal bed you asked me to make before?" Freya looked at the metal bed in the middle of a room. What she was referring to was the metal bed that Panis specifically asked her to combine when she was performing surgery in Mina's nest a few days ago. The structure of the bed was actually very complex, including many structures that can move up and down and drainage structures on the bed surface. It looked like it was used specifically for surgery.
"I've seen such a bed in a certain ruin of goblins before," Panis replied. "I feel that the design is very interesting, so I recorded the structure and it's very suitable for surgical treatment. Why not just name it the surgical bed?"
"It sounds appropriate." Freya nodded, took out her notebook, and added this new name to her mechanical manufacturing list: "In fact, if it is modified, it is good to take care of patients with mobility difficulties. I'll go back and study it carefully."
In the rooms on both sides, most of the items were unfamiliar to the five people. Aiva reviewed the information in her memory and explained the functions of each item in detail to everyone. However, there are still some things that everyone knows, such as bone specimens, such as corpses that were half dissected and soaked in special solutions. These specimens and corpses are basically goblins, skin, muscles, bones, and internal organs, and are presented to everyone layer by layer. Even with the girls' tolerance for various corpses, they still feel uncomfortable all over when facing these specimens, especially the corpses' eyelids are opened one by one, and the black eye sockets are facing everyone, giving people the illusion of being stared at by the corpses.
"Isn't this really a blasphemy of the dead?" Catherine frowned tightly and said with some helplessness: "Although I know that studying medicine requires studying the human body, is it necessary to make the corpse like this? In this way, their souls will feel angry and it will be difficult to rest in peace."
"No, the source of these specimens is voluntary," Eva explained. "And there are many corpses, and they are researchers at this research center when they are alive. After their death, they voluntarily donate the corpses to the research center for research reference. This is a very honorable thing for scholars."
"These medical scholars are so fanatic. Do they not even let themselves go for the research results?" Catherine still felt a little unacceptable to this attitude, but she was not easy to evaluate the voluntary practices of the goblins without authorization. She could only sigh and leave the room as soon as possible, unable to bear to see these cut corpses again.
"Don't think too much. The goblins of that era only believed in themselves and focused on the present." Panis followed Catherine out of the back and patted her on the shoulder and said, "They doubted the gods and the souls. They only believed in the real body, so they would not care about whether the soul could rest in peace."
"I understand." Catherine nodded, turned the subject and asked Eva, "It's coming soon, I feel like I've been gone for quite some time."
Chapter completed!