Look, Dog Head

Exploring outside, safety is always the top priority.

The convoy left the subway station early in the morning and arrived at the restaurant of Jinrui Hotel, which had already taken half a day. To understand the situation of the fifth layer, we can only wait until tomorrow, otherwise it will be dark after climbing up, and dealing with mutated creatures will be much more dangerous.

Moreover, exploring at night requires more lights, which greatly consumes the battery's power. Although they can get batteries from nearby digital stores to replenish, it is very time-consuming, and batteries are a big and space consuming thing.

So before the sun sets today, the convoy divided into three teams and explored the first floor of the hotel to see if there were any intelligence or material discoveries.

Tom applied to the 17th to lead a team to the hotel's fire control room, where there is surveillance footage of the hotel. Looking at the surveillance footage may provide some useful clues.

The people in the Special Investigation Department are very loyal to Shen Jiayi because Tom has gained Shen Jiayi's respect, and coupled with his excellent performance in two official combat missions, the people in the Special Investigation Department also recognize his strength and ability. Therefore, since joining the team, the 17th and 23rd have always carefully considered Tom's suggestions.

So Tom's application was approved immediately on the 17th.

So Tom set off with Ouyang Haotian and the shark team led by Zhao Xin, as well as 20 soldiers from the security department, to the fire control room.

According to fire safety regulations, monitoring systems in supermarkets, hotels, and other places must be located in the fire control room. Because the fire control room requires someone to be on duty 24 hours a day and strictly monitor the fire safety inside the facilities.

Although all electrical signals were significantly weakened after the miniaturization disaster, and the data recorded by surveillance cameras throughout the hotel could not be transmitted back to the monitoring host, at least there are still records of what happened before the miniaturization disaster.

As for where the fire control room will be, it is easy to infer with the hotel floor plan.

There are several factors to consider when setting up the location of this control room.

1. Easy wiring, short cable distance, saving maintenance costs.

2. There are no strong interference devices such as large transformers around.

3. It is easy to enter and exit, and in case of emergency, you can enter and exit as quickly as possible.

4. Safe and reliable, avoiding unauthorized entry and exit by unauthorized personnel.

By using the exclusion method, several locations can be roughly identified. However, there is currently a simpler method, which is to directly ask Zhang Tianhui. As an electrician, he must be the most familiar with the fire control room.

Taking the opportunity to inquire about the fire control room, Ouyang Haotian reluctantly obtained some additional information from Zhang Tianhui.

Zhang Tianhui and others did indeed go to the Redemption Shelter, and at that time, the leader of the survivor team was still their manager.

After realizing that the shelter was just a temporary residence for eggs, they no longer fell for it. As for the other survivors around him, he said he had never seen them.

After obtaining the location of the fire control room, Tom immediately led the team to set off. It took half an hour for a large and four small car to arrive at the destination smoothly.

As Zhang Tianhui said, the on duty personnel in the fire control room died when the micro disaster approached. When the body shrank to 12 centimeters, the head exploded and blood splattered everywhere.

After Zhang Tianhui and others explored there, they couldn't bear the strong stench and designated it as a restricted area to no longer venture into.

Now that it has arrived again, the bodies of the deceased duty personnel have been gnawed by insects, leaving only fragmented bones.

After Tom and others entered, they quickly found the monitoring host computer. This time, it was simple, just open the chassis, remove the four hard drives of the host, put them on the big car, and pull them back.

At night, everyone returned to the kitchen to station, and Fan Jie and others naturally attached the hard drives of the two monitoring hosts to the microcomputer and checked the surveillance videos inside.

This is a manual labor, and the Jinrui Hotel is conservatively estimated to have eight or nine hundred cameras, or more. This hard drive has a capacity of 10T, and four of them make up 40T. The storage capacity of surveillance videos inside is astonishing. According to Fan Jie, there may be other hosts with hard drives, but that's all for now.

Monitoring data is one thing, but storing hard drives themselves is also a resource. After the miniaturization disaster, the number of micro and large hard drives reserved by Haiwei Mini Industry itself is there. If you find hard drives when exploring, you can try to bring them back as much as possible. These things cannot be produced in shelters.

Four computer technicians take turns on duty, hoping to confirm the identity of the guests checking in from the surveillance footage.

The microcomputers they carry have a set of image recognition software that can accurately recognize human body features. When playing surveillance videos, hanging the recognition software can filter out similar time periods of videos faster than manual screening, helping them narrow down the scope of inspection.

The guest list they bring is not just names, but also includes photos obtained through the internet and other means. After comparison with image recognition software, a portion of them can be roughly identified.

After more than an hour, the software screened out six guest entry and exit videos for them on the list. After the video time was marked, it can be roughly inferred whether they left the hotel when the micro disaster occurred. This includes the female singer that Tom knows, Zhao Manqing.

As for Tom's sister Luo Xuan, the only photo Tom carries is a group photo of him and his sister when he was a child, and he still carries it in his backpack now. Just that childhood photo does not provide a reference for recognition software. So he could only take advantage of the time when he was not on duty and approach the screen where the surveillance video was played one by one to watch.

In order to see his sister's figure, Tom watched all night, just to find the slightest clue.

As a result, at 4 o'clock in the morning, I didn't see my sister's record, but he saw the figure of another unexpected person.

With furrowed brows, he woke up a sleeping computer expert and asked him to help enlarge the video and make it as clear as possible. Finally, seeing the enlarged and optimized screenshot of the video, Tom confirmed his concerns.

"Wen Si Tian... No, or Wen Yi Ku. Two days before the Miniature Cataclysm, she actually came to this hotel?" Tom was surprised and immediately asked the expert to input this screenshot into the matching database, quickly filtering out surveillance videos related to her entry into the hotel.

The video recording shows that she entered the Jinrui Hotel at 1:36 noon on April 4th with a large suitcase, went straight into the elevator to the 18th floor of Building 1, and then entered Room 1807. Afterwards, I left my room at 5:57 pm on April 5th, stayed on the fifth floor for four hours, and finally left the Jinrui Hotel at 10:11 pm.

This surprised Tom a lot. What did Wen Si Tian or Wen Yi Ku come to Jinrui Hotel for? At 2am on April 6th, it was the time when the micro disaster occurred. She appeared here at this nearby time, so there must be some reason.

Besides that, there was another thing that surprised Tom even more.

Since the room number where my younger sister is staying is 11602, which is Room 2 on the 16th floor of Building 1, Tom checked the video of the 16th floor for a week and didn't see anyone like my younger sister when she was a child.

Did my younger sister undergo plastic surgery?

This speculation surprised and depressed Tom.

In this case, it means that even if he sees his sister, it is difficult for him to recognize her.

With Wen Si Tian's discovery, Tom turned around and woke up on the 23rd, which had only closed his eyes for two hours.

"There is a high possibility that there is information about the Darwin Order in rooms 6 and 11807!" said the 23rd person solemnly, tapping on the hotel floor plan on the table. "To address the security threats on the 5th and 6th floors, we need to move the campsite to the 6th floor in order to consolidate the exploration route."

Tom nodded, he was in favor of the idea on the 23rd, but it still needed to be approved on the 17th.

Returning to the computer, Tom didn't give up and was still flipping through other surveillance videos in the hotel. He just stayed up until 5am, when Ouyang Haotian got up and took turns, which drove him to the sleeping box to catch some sleep.

At 7am, everyone got up to prepare, and after studying on the 23rd and 17th, a decision was made to move the campsite to the 6th floor.

Zhang Tianhui and others are reluctant to go to the 6th floor, as they are reluctant to part with the kitchen camp they have been running for half a year.

On the 17th, they did not insist on leaving themselves in the kitchen. After six days, the 17th will send a team to transport intelligence and collected materials back to the subway station. Then, take them back by the way.

For this, on the 23rd, six soldiers were left to guard the kitchen camp, and then they began moving towards the second floor.

The emergency safety staircase is difficult to climb, so in order to drive the convoy up, it is natural for Tom and others wearing Awakened Armor to be responsible for laying the canvas passage. In order to explore the hotel, the Tianlong ship transported a whole vehicle of bundled canvas rolls twice, which was enough to handle.

They went smoothly all the way to the fourth floor. But according to Zhang Tianhui's intelligence, there may be threats from mutated dogs and other mutated creatures on the 5th floor. So for safety reasons, Tom and Ouyang Haotian changed into male ant armor. With this large armor that is 16 centimeters tall and uses level 5 red crystal, with a power increase of 160, even if they encounter mutated dogs, their chances of winning are still very high.

After all, male ant armor not only has great strength, but also has a 9mm caliber Type 92 cannon, which can be used with solid Type 54 pistol bullets. Facing a dog may not have a high stopping effect, but at least being able to harm it is already the best weapon.

After all, most pet dogs that can enter and exit hotels are small ornamental dogs such as Jingba dogs and Teddies.

Wearing the male ant queen, Ouyang Haotian carefully walked up the stairs, followed closely by Pan Mingda and two others wearing the armor of the awakener.

After climbing the stairs to the fifth floor, the male ants were on guard and they nervously completed the laying of the canvas passage, allowing the convoy to drive to the fifth floor.

Liu Lian sat on the armored vehicle, nervously driving the sound radar, striving to detect the enemy situation as soon as possible.

Along the way, the crowd was on high alert, anxiously wary of mutated dogs that could emerge from any corner at any moment. However, as they walked through the tall and bright marble paved corridor, the thick dust around them reminded them that there seemed to be no mutated dog mentioned by Zhang Tianhui.

After walking for a while, the huge glass door on the left reminded them that it was the rooftop garden outside. At this time, the glass door was tightly closed, and the good enclosed environment made it not so easy for insects to enter the garden, which also eliminated the possibility of insect threats.

However, the sight of the rooftop garden surprised everyone.

Vines, still unknown, cover all the artificial facilities in the garden. They can only determine which ones are chairs and which ones are tables based on their contours. This is not the most special. In the center of the garden, a cluster of tall plants is so eye-catching, with lush branches and leaves growing in a spiral upward direction, adorned with several bright red flowers.

The red flowers are so huge that they can still see each petal clearly from a distance.

"That... look at that!" Fan Jie, holding a telescope, shouted loudly, "There is a dog head in the red flower in the middle, it's a dog head!"

On the 23rd and 17th, they quickly raised their binoculars and locked onto the largest red flower.

"The head of a... Jingba dog, and... it's still so lifelike! How could it be?"