This aura is deadly

"Attention, attention, the contained items are leaking, the contained items are leaking, please evacuate the site as soon as possible."

Before Parker could calm down and digest the joy of being in control, a mechanical female voice came from the loudspeaker outside the corridor.

In the otherwise normal research room, the white light of the incandescent lamp was blocked by the sudden light of the red warning light.

They didn't feel it at first, but now the surrounding environment suddenly turned bright red, and the three of them felt a pressure.

"Stop talking nonsense, Wang Aileen, you just said you can leave from one-twentyth of the place below the shelter. What does that one-twentyth mean?" Chen Kedao.

"The area near the bottom of the spherical research station has been hollowed out but not used because of fear that the abyss below will affect the experimental results. The last artificial layer is the No. 1 Containment Hall. That place is generally not accessible to people. There is only a maintenance channel leading to the power generation structure." Wang Aileen said.

"Why aren't people allowed in there?" Parker asked.

"Actually... that place is a semi-permanently closed area. This containment station contains tens of thousands of alienated objects. They are all in a series of rooms. Only the items stored in Hall 1... take up a whole room. Layer..." Wang Aileen revealed.

"What is contained there..." Chen Ke asked.

"I don't know. This ball has existed for decades before I came here... It is said that Hall 1 is the first alienated object contained by the institute. I don't have enough authority to see its containment file." Wang Aileen said.

"Have you seen that thing?" Parker asked.

"I haven't seen it, but I heard Professor Mensis say that it is a floating black stone." Wang Aileen replied.

"It doesn't sound threatening. I thought it was some big monster." Chen Ke breathed a sigh of relief and said.

Wang Ailin hesitated to speak, unable to find the words to refute Chen Ke, but she still felt that the stone must be more dangerous than other monsters.

Chen Ke took the lead, pulled away the table blocking the door, and was the first to come out of the corridor. Wang Aileen held a flashlight and followed Chen Ke closely. Parker walked out of the room empty-handed and was the third in line.

According to Wang Aileen, the first floor is the research room. Going down the ring structure will lead to the containment room. However, the elevator has been locked, so the three of them must follow the corridor to find the escape ladder.

Along the way, they met many researchers who had lost their minds. They were either lying on the ground, muttering something silently, or bumping into the wall, causing the wall to be covered in blood.

This is the result of losing reason and consciousness after suffering multiple memetic infections and mental attacks.

In fact, researchers are all issued with earphones like those on Wang Aileen's head, which are designed to block memes and mental intrusions, but many people don't have the opportunity to wear them.

"Will the institute house monsters?" Chen Ke suddenly asked.

Speaking of the shelter, Chen Ke went to the Administration's underground containment and control center in 2006. All the living monsters there were housed, while the institute seemed to only house alienated individuals.

"No, we don't contain living creatures here, so the Bureau will do this." Wang Aileen shook her head, and she roughly explained the containment jurisdiction of the Institute and the Bureau.

The institute is a large research institution. They only house objects with supernatural powers. Most of these objects are alienated objects that have been mutated by psychic energy, but they also include some creations that have extraordinary powers themselves.

The Bureau is more like a prison for monsters. In fact, they house monsters for the research institute. After all, the monster corpses and living samples used in the research are also provided by the Bureau.

Most of the sacred diamonds are also controlled by the Administration, because these things are essentially superpower weapons and can be used.

Moreover, the institute will also help the administration and the army develop psychic weapons, such as psychic firearms and bullets.

Most of the objects housed in the institute cannot be used rationally, or the consequences of their use would far outweigh the benefits.

"No wonder you have to wait for people from the administration to come if something happens here. You have no defense mechanism at all..." Parker complained.

"We are an academic holy place here, and we don't need too many people with guns wandering around." Wang Aileen defended.

The three of them walked for a while and moved forward along the circular corridor. They saw a familiar door on the right with 0451 written on it.

They're back again.

"Did we miss the stairs?" Parker asked.

"Impossible, the stairs are very conspicuous." Wang Aileen shook her head. She shined a flashlight at the door of her research room, and the orange flashlight light was drowned by the red warning lights in the passage.

"Wait a minute." Chen Ke said in a deep voice. A blue light flashed in his right hand, and the Black Ring Sect's candlestick appeared in his hand. The candlestick lit up a blue candle. This flame seemed weak, but it swallowed up the surrounding red light.

Just like in the black box space of Xijin Building, Chen Ke subconsciously thought that they had walked into an illusion.

This candlestick has the effect of dispelling illusions. However, Chen Ke is not intelligent enough and can only use it as a flashlight, but it is different now. There is Wang Ailin beside him.

"Try to see if you can grab this candlestick." Chen Ke held up the candlestick, leaving a space under the handle, and handed it to Wang Aileen.

Only psykers can summon and use holy objects. Ordinary people can pick up holy objects in the form of diamonds, but they cannot touch the summoned holy objects.

But what if two people take it together?

Wang Ailin had a complicated expression. She looked up at Chen Ke, then at the candlestick that Chen Ke handed over, and slowly stretched out her hand to hold the end of the candlestick.

Can be held.

"It actually feels like this to the touch... so cold..." Wang Aileen sighed and kept rubbing the handle of the candlestick.

Just after Wang Aileen came into contact with the candlestick, the blue light became more and more brilliant, and the white light in the heart of the flame became as hard to look at as a hernia lamp.

If when Chen Ke held the candlestick, the light was like a spark, then after Wang Aileen touched it, the spark spread out of control like a prairie fire.

The light blue candlelight turned into pale blue light, and blue fireworks were lit in the sky wherever they went, illuminating the passage.

Chen Ke looked at the candlestick, and a message box popped up in his eyes:

【Gloomy Black Ring Candlestick】

[Durability: intact]

[Enhancement of mysterious attributes: Arcane power increased by 20%, illusion range increased by 20%, magic duration increased by 20%]

[Mental Resistance: The holder increases the resistance to mental attacks by 70%] (Intelligence Amplification: The resistance effect reaches 100%)

[Illusion Dispersion: Dispel low-level illusions within the candlelight range after ignition] (Intelligence Amplification: Dispel high-level illusions within a large area)

With Wang Aileen's blessing, the special effects of this candlestick have greatly improved.

But at the same time, the candles burned much faster. Several candles on the candlestick were weeping wax and melting at a speed visible to the naked eye.