"So Xiao Ao, are you going to the ruins? Hahaha, you are indeed my Xiao Ao. Even the dean is so optimistic about it. Come over here and let me see it."

On the small computer screen, Wu Lan was putting her face in front of the camera, looking at He Ao carefully.

"alright,"

Yang De, who was closer to the camera, pulled her away. He stared at He Ao outside the screen, "The transport plane to Ellen has already departed. I applied for a prop for you to bring over. The ruins are not safe.

,protect yourself."

"Um."

He Ao nodded slightly.

"Hahaha, Xiao Ao, you have to thank Yang Bu this time. The thing you brought this time is the extraordinary item that Yang Bu bought with his life. The dean promised Yang Bu at the beginning. Although this item belongs to the research

Courtyard, but only Yangbu can use it."

Wu Lan poked her head over again and said with a smile.

"ah?"

He Ao was stunned.

"Okay, stop making trouble."

Yang De pulled Wu Lan back impatiently. He looked at He Ao and smiled, "It's just a C-level extraordinary item. It's not particularly precious. Maybe you can use it. Just use it with peace of mind. It shouldn't be too big.

burden."

Then he paused, "I heard from World Tree that in the information about the opening of the channel this time, it seems that Class C can only bring three extraordinary items in at most. Have you decided what to bring? The extraordinary item in your hand

Is it still useful? If not, I can also find a way to help you get two more extraordinary items with less side effects."

"Enough."

He Ao nodded. In fact, the ruins passage has always had restrictions on the extraordinary items that explorers can carry. However, the previous limit was five items for D-level and below, but for C-level, there are only three items this time.

But usually, the extraordinary people who actually go in only bring one or two items, or they don't bring any extraordinary items at all.

Because almost all extraordinary items have side effects, and there are too many unknown relics, if you are bringing temporarily issued extraordinary items that you have not touched before, the danger of these extraordinary items is often greater than their safety.

According to previous statistics from the research institute, the mortality rate of explorers who bring unfamiliar extraordinary items is much higher than those who bring familiar extraordinary items or those who do not bring extraordinary items.

Through the accounts of those who have entered the ruins with strange supernatural objects and then returned safely from the ruins, the institute has now concluded that this phenomenon is:

After extraordinary items enter the ruins, they will be "activated" due to the rich extraordinary power in the ruins, which will increase the pollution and increase the possibility of attracting abnormal monsters, which will greatly increase the overall mortality rate.

People who have been holding this item have a better understanding of the characteristics of the item, have their own methods of solving side effects, and can control extraordinary items well. Moreover, such people are generally stronger, so their survival rate is higher.

high.

According to this conclusion, for those who hold this extraordinary item for the first time, or just start to hold it for a short period of time, the extraordinary item in their hands is not a help, but a danger.

Therefore, in the later period, the research institute was more inclined to allow ruin explorers to carry technological weapons with no side effects, rather than allocating extraordinary items.

In fact, even if you have extraordinary items that you are very familiar with, the institute does not recommend bringing too many extraordinary items in because it is impossible for a person to be familiar with every extraordinary item.

However, this restriction has little impact on He Ao.

The extraordinary items he planned to bring in were the Miracle Wand, the contaminated mechanical core, and the pirate treasure chest.

The Miracle Wand was brought out from the ruins, and He Ao was already very familiar with the situation in the ruins.

Strictly speaking, the contaminated mechanical core is not an extraordinary item. Its biggest problem is its own contamination, and He Ao is still somewhat resistant to this aspect.

As for the pirate treasure chest, it is a storage item. Its side effect is that when you open the chest and take out something, you must put an extraordinary item in it. If there is no extraordinary item to put in it, you must put in a soul.

But He Ao never opened it when he used it. He always used the ability of "retrieving objects from the air" to directly bypass its rules.

And if the pirate treasure chest can be brought in, it must be brought in, because He Ao wants to control the 'Hao Yi clone' through the puppet crystal ball.

The space inside the pirate treasure chest seems to have a certain isolation effect, which can protect the puppet crystal ball from the environment of the ruins to a certain extent.

Of course, carrying extraordinary items through the ruins passage is an act of exploiting loopholes. He Ao doesn't know if it can succeed. If the pirate treasure chest cannot be brought in, He Ao is prepared to go in directly with the puppet crystal ball.

These items were also chosen by He Ao after weighing the possible risks. Their side effects are all controllable, and they will enhance his strength more than they cause trouble.

"OK,"

Yang De nodded, and then thought of something, "By the way, that thing has arrived. See if you can accept the side effects. If you can't accept it, don't be brave no matter how good the thing is."

"Um."

He Ao nodded.

"Xiao Ao, please protect yourself. You have to come back and stay up late with your sister online. Let me tell you, didn't you agree to me using your photos for publicity before? You are very famous within the institute now...

····”

Wu Lan looked at He Ao, smiled and blinked, "And don't lose Yang Bu's things, it's his fate...well..."

Yang De directly stretched out his hand to pull him out of the camera, looked at He Ao, and said with a smile, "Protect yourself, don't show off, if you lose something, you lose it. Life is the most important thing. The dean will directly give this quota to you. It must be

Seeing that you have hope of being promoted to B-level, the future funding problems of our field department will fall on your head."

"good!"

He Ao smiled and nodded.

Although he wanted to ask Wu Lan what "famous" meant, but after thinking about it, it probably didn't matter.

After the previous Mysterious Shadow incident, He Ao's identity was no longer kept secret since he had been exposed to the World Tree and Moonlight. At that time, Wu Lan did ask if his photos could be used for publicity, but He Ao did not ask in detail.

, I agreed directly.

After all, his photos are just a few ID photos posted on the official website of the institute. Since there is no confidentiality requirement, as long as internal personnel can see it, there is nothing surprising.

"That..." Ji Po scratched his head. He had just been watching a few people chatting without saying anything. After a short pause, he looked at He Ao, "Come on! I'll wait for you to return to China."

Come on, I’ll be the host and treat you to dinner!”

"Ji Po, you iron rooster has actually plucked its feathers..." Wu Lan rushed back into the picture, bared her teeth and rushed over, "We have been colleagues for so many years, and I have invited them every time we have dinner. I am so emotional."

Well, it’s not love enough, right? Xiao Ao can eat it but I can’t eat it, right...”

He Ao smiled as he watched the two people fighting. He turned his attention to Yang De, "Yang Bu, who is the other one of the two quotas this time?"

"Oh, yes, that's what I was going to tell you,"

Yang De patted his forehead, "Those are also the young talents produced by the institute in the past few years, but they are not from our field service, but from the back office... Lao Zhang, Zhang Anxia and the others are from the back office.

"The boy selected this time is also pretty good, but you haven't been in the institute for a long time, and you have been sent abroad all the time. You probably haven't seen him before. His name is Ye Yun, and he is the person in charge of Nandu."

"Don't listen to Yang Bu's bragging,"

Wu Lan came over again, "Buy Yang hates that kid. The back office has been bragging about that kid before, saying he is a 'young talent'. He is the fourth B-level in the institute. Is there no one in your field department~

Every time Department Yang comes back from a meeting with the back office, he is always glaring."

When Wu Lan spoke, she pinched her orchid fingers and spoke in a high tone, as if she was imitating the tone of the back office staff.

"In the past, when Yang went to have a meeting with the internal staff, he would walk with his head drooping and his ears drooping, and he would sigh when he spoke.

"Ever since you came, especially that time on the Velora, you rushed in to save people and killed so many C-class World Trees and Moonlights. After that, Yang rushed out of every meeting with high spirits.

, He didn’t even bring anything to eat, and when he came back from the meeting, he even described to us the miserable faces of the back office staff during the meeting.”

"You only have a lot of idioms, right?"

This time Yang De finally picked up Wu Lan and threw her out of the camera frame.

"Well..." Yang De turned around and looked at He Ao with some embarrassment. Finally, he said softly, "Pay attention to safety."

"Um!"

He Ao nodded.

End of the meeting.

He Ao raised his head and looked out the window at the sunset setting at the end of the city.

Night has arrived.

——

At the same time, in a cafe in the corner of Ellen City.

He Ao's Hao Yi clone logged into the information network jointly established by the three organizations that Li Cheng gave him.

At the moment, this information network only has a rough framework. Most of the information you click on is in the process of being uploaded, and only some old information can be accessed.

There is a lot of information in it, even more than what He'ao could have obtained by directly accessing the institute's intranet using his deputy ministerial authority.

Of course, major organizations are not all fools, and we cannot just believe what He Ao says. What they are giving us now are empty promises.

We must wait until the ruins are opened before we can gradually fulfill our promise.

He Ao logged out of the website and logged into the official website of the institute using the account given to him by Li Cheng.

The institute is very honest. All information is open to the public, but copying and copying are not allowed, nor are they browsed too quickly.

The institute's information is updated very quickly, so there should be a dedicated research team doing this.

Compared to the other two major organizations, Moonlight and World Tree, the institute spends the most money on research every year, even several times that of Moonlight and World Tree.
To be continued...