Chapter 589: 589: Up and Down

Chapter 589: Chapter 589: Up and Down

“The level of secrecy here is no less than that of other Knight Regiments…”

Using the crossroad where Han Dong stood as a vertex of a cube, he performed a spatial fold on the surrounding streets.

Finally, he folded it into a square space.

The grey structure where the Secret Language Knight Order resided was precisely located at the top surface of the cube.

The originally “upside-down” grey building thus returned to normal.

Unlike the situation in “Dream Space”, stepping onto the wall here does not change the direction of gravity.

Flying was also completely banned.

Han Dong had to climb his way to the first floor of the grey building.

With the transformation of the G virus…

Strings of adhesive flesh-like tissue shot out from his left and right hands, quickly scaling to the first floor of the grey building.

Using his left hand to adhere himself, he hung his body over the main entrance of the first floor.

Ding-dong-ding!

He rang the doorbell.

Soon, there were footsteps heard from inside, light and quick.

The one who opened the door was a bald young man with a pen in his mouth, ink all over his collar, and dark circles under his eyes like he had been having severe sleep deprivation from overworking for more than ten days stop.

The young man seemed to not care about the image he showed of himself.

“You’re the second newcomer, right? It’s quite late for you to be reporting in…”

“Sorry, something held me up.”

“You should go directly to the Captain. I don’t have time to guide you right now… You just need to walk straight ahead without taking any left or right diversion, and you’ll find the captain.

I heard you caused quite a stir at the Convention, you should be able to find the Captain’s office yourself. Just remember the keyword: straight ahead.

If you drift into the left or right side, you might get lost in there forever.”

“Thanks for the advice.”

“Don’t just say thanks, hurry up and become a staff to help us share some of the workload…”

After passing the message, the knight seemed slow-moving, yet each time Han Dong blinked, he had already moved some distance away, quickly disappearing from sight.

“Go straight ahead, huh?”

In front of Han Dong was a hallway laid with a red carpet, approximately twenty meters long.

At the end, he could only choose between two paths, to the left or right.

However, there was also a portrait of a man hanging on the end wall, and there seemed to be something in the man’s eyes.

“Is this… a Penrose Staircase? The central library of the Secret Museum has this kind of structure.”

In the man’s eyes, a simple Penrose staircase was reflected, as though some special message was being conveyed through the image in his eyes.

The painting itself showed nothing unusual and there were no traps set either.

No matter how Han Dong manipulated it, there was only a wall in front of him.

“From the entrance to the place with the painting, there is just one corridor about twenty meters long… which is like walking in a straight line.

The problem lies in the ‘space’.

The headquarters of the Secret Language Knight Order itself is located in a folded space.

It is logical that the spatial issue inside the gray building is more complex.

The Eye symbolizes inversion.

The Penrose Staircase symbolizes circulation.

Considering the structure of the grey building itself… the so-called ‘straight line’ spatial issue should be…”

Han Dong turned around and walked back to the entrance, then turned again and walked back to the end with the painting.

He repeated this cycle four times!

Han Dong’s conjecture was simple, every time he went back and forth in the corridor, it was like ascending one floor in the grey building.

As seen from the outside, the gray building had five floors.

Therefore, after going back and forth four times, it should be equivalent to reaching the top floor of the building… in other words, Captain Hugo’s office.

“That should be correct.”

Han Dong, who had walked back and forth four times, came back to the entrance again, and as he reached out to turn the cold doorknob…

The view in front of him was exactly Captain Hugo’s office.

That is, the most mysterious office in the Holy City.

Its confidentiality and the secret files it contains are on par with the archival vault in the deepest part of the Supreme Council.

“Excluding the time of communication, the actual time taken was 1 minute and 53 seconds… a pity you were two seconds slower than Charlie, otherwise, you would have broken the record.”

Charlie Lebron Bermanchev.

The Symbolic Knight who easily defeated Hell’s Kid in the Knight Conference, like Han Dong, was from a background of Mysticism, a master of Stitching… the top rank of the election ten years ago.

What differed from Han Dong was…

Charlie had practically steamrolled his way to the top back then.

“Sorry, Captain Hugo, I got held up outside the city… I made you wait.”

“As long as you have arrived today.

This is the Newcomer’s Manual for the Secret Language Knight Order, you need to finish reading it within a day.

Our Secret Language Knight Order’s headquarters has another name – the Secret Museum.

Everything in the Holy City that is confidential, 80% of original manuscripts, and a large number of reserve files are all stored here.

Therefore, we need such sophisticated spatial methods to ensure the security and confidentiality of each file room.

The confidential files are simply managed by us for the convenience of the Supreme Council… our real tasks mainly consist of two parts.

1. Deciphering the Demon Tablet.

2. Guarding the Oddity.

As the Big Expedition is approaching, the task of deciphering the Demon Tablet is very critical; and simultaneously, a lot of confidential files need to be sorted out and summarized, strictly screening the ‘knights available for expedition’ and the ‘knights to be held in reserve’.

At present, you have just joined the team and have merely figured out the up-down issue of the Secret Museum.

The left-right problem is a hundred-fold, even a thousand-fold, more complex.

You need to use the Newcomer’s Manual to gradually get familiar with the structure of the Secret Museum and be able to reach the corresponding file room within ten minutes.

Also, you must understand the most basic ‘hierarchical system’ in the Secret Museum, clarifying the areas that personnel of different grades can enter and the confidential files and oddities that they can touch.”

“Alright!”

Han Dong didn’t feel the tasks were cumbersome, he found them surprisingly interesting.

This was the type of Secret Language Knight Order he wanted to join… even if Captain Hugo hadn’t assisted him, Han Dong might have chosen to come here.

Captain Hugo pointed to the files on the desk that were half a meter thick.

“For the rest of today, apart from studying the Newcomer’s Manual… you also need to review these investigation reports given by the knight squads that went outside the city for investigation thirty-five to forty years ago.

Write down the report content with problems and the suspicious knight names in your notebook.

Make a brief conclusion, and provide the corresponding file number and specific page and line numbers that your conclusion refers to.”

“Yes, sir…”

“Also, this is your office keys.

When you have completed all these tasks and fully read the Newcomer’s Manual, come to find me… then we can talk about the female corpse that the council member gifted you.”

“Understood.”

When they discussed the female corpse, Han Dong got a slight shock internally.

However, with the help of Captain Hugo, he might be able to make the most of the female corpse.

“Emm… when that time comes, I would also like to discuss about the ‘True Fate’ with you, captain.”

“Complete everything I said within twenty-four hours to standard, then I’ll talk with you.”

“No problem.”