This is a bizarre rule, isn't it? It's supposed to grant me many children and good fortune

Chapter 586 New Eyes

Lin Feng nodded: "Second location ruled out. Next, the VR classroom."

Su Wan raised her hand and pressed her temples: "Let's exit the simulation and rest for a bit. Three consecutive rounds of in-depth simulations will take a toll on your mental energy."

Lin Feng nodded: "Perfect, I need to replenish my energy."

He grabbed Su Wan's hand, his heart sank, and the gray-white deduction space in front of him rapidly contracted and collapsed like the receding tide.

The two opened their eyes almost simultaneously. The fluorescent lights in the archives were buzzing overhead, and the light was somewhat dazzling.

Lin Feng closed his eyes, adjusted to the light for a few seconds, then raised his hand and, with a thought, two dark chocolates fell into his palm out of thin air.

He handed one to Su Wan.

Su Wan took it, unwrapped the foil, put it in her mouth, and her brows relaxed slightly.

"Hmm... chocolate is still the most effective; it really brought me back to my senses."

Lin Feng put his own piece into his mouth as well. The rich bitterness melted on his tongue, mixed with a just-right sweetness. The feeling of his blood sugar rising made his throbbing temples relax slightly.

He reached in and pulled out a handful of beef jerky, and the two of them quietly ate a few mouthfuls with mineral water.

It took about five minutes for the two of them to finally catch their breath.

"Let's go." Lin Feng tightened the cap on his mineral water bottle. "Next stop, VR classroom."

Su Wan nodded, stuffed the last piece of beef jerky into her mouth, and reached out to hold his hand.

Both of them closed their eyes at the same time.

The gray-white space for deduction unfolded once again.

With a thought, Lin Feng pulled Su Wan and took a step forward—the space distorted for a moment, and when they looked again, the two of them were already standing in front of the VR classroom.

The classroom was empty at this time. The door lock made a soft "click" as Su Wan gently flicked it with her fingertips. The two slipped in and closed the door behind them.

Without saying a word, Su Wan closed her eyes, and her S-level perception spread out like a tide.

About half a minute later, she opened her eyes, and the dark aura in her pupils slowly faded away.

"There is indeed a space underground, very deep, probably on the third basement level."

Lin Feng immediately nodded: "Then let's find the entrance quickly."

The two then split up and spent nearly ten minutes turning the entire classroom upside down.

They knocked on the wall inch by inch and stepped on the floorboards one by one, but they still couldn't find any trace of an entrance.

Su Wan squatted in the corner, wiping the ground with her fingertips, her brows furrowed:

"That's really strange. Could the entrance be outside the classroom?"

Lin Feng remained silent, standing in the center of the classroom and looking around.

My gaze swept over the famous quotes pasted on the four walls—

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. — Yeats

"I think, therefore I am." — Descartes

The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates

"Man is but a reed, the most fragile thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed." — Pascal

……

Looking at these famous quotes, Lin Feng murmured:

"Perhaps... we're doing it wrong."

As he spoke, he walked toward a famous quote displayed in the corner of the wall.

The white adhesive paper had slightly curled edges, and a line of small print was printed below the image, so small that it was almost impossible to see unless you looked very closely.

All the slogans in the classroom had characters at least as big as a fist, except for this one, where the characters were so small it was almost deliberate.

"Wan'er, come here."

Su Wan quickly moved closer, squinted, and read the fine text on the adhesive paper:

"The real journey of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." — Marcel Proust

Lin Feng crossed his arms: "Why this one of them, and why are the words so small, as if they're deliberately trying to hide it from everyone?"

Su Wan tilted her head in thought: "New eyes..."

"VR!" Lin Feng looked up confidently, a glint of light in his eyes. "The new eyes I'm referring to are VR glasses!"

Su Wan's expression shifted slightly: "You mean, this sentence is a hint? We should use VR glasses to view this classroom?"

"Let's give it a try." Lin Feng turned around and walked to the nearest terminal, picked up an individually sealed disposable needle, pricked his fingertip, squeezed out a drop of blood, and pressed it onto the sensor area.

A green light illuminated the sensing area, and the indicator light on the VR glasses in front of me also flashed.

Su Wan followed the same procedure and completed the authentication on the terminal next to her.

The two of them put on their glasses.

The scene before me transformed from a dusty classroom into a gray-blue virtual space, with a simple menu interface floating in the center of my vision, displaying several icons:

[Emergency Medical Procedure Drills], [Doctor-Patient Communication Simulations], [Medical Equipment Operation Training], [Key Points of Hospital Infection Control], [...]

These are all standard hospital vocational training courses.

"Nothing special." Su Wan raised her hand, flipped through a couple of pages of the menu, and frowned.

Lin Feng was also browsing his own screen when he suddenly spoke up:

"Wait a minute, there's a strange app here—'Classic Literature Reading'."

"A whole VR setup, mainly for medical training, who would use it to read books?"

Su Wan's brow furrowed slightly: "The works of Marcel Proust—"

"Remembrance of Things Past," Lin Feng continued, immediately tapping the icon.

The app launch animation unfolds smoothly, and the homepage displays several rows of book covers, with "In Search of Lost Time" prominently featured.

Lin Feng touched the page with his fingertip, and the book turned.

Then--

A pale blue phantom slowly rose from the open pages of the book, gradually solidifying into a middle-aged man dressed in a 19th-century suit.

He had a neatly trimmed beard, and his eyes were gentle yet profound. When he looked down at Lin Feng, there was a faint smile on his lips, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"Congratulations, you have new eyes."

His voice was deep and elegant, and his French-accented Chinese had a subtle resonance in the virtual space.

Lin Feng steadied his breathing and asked directly, "Mr. Proust, where is the underground entrance?"

Proust tilted his head slightly, as if studying him, then smiled gently:

"Are you sure you want to go in? What's behind that door isn't a pleasant place."

"Sure."

Proust nodded and raised his hand with a slight wave.

The entire virtual space floor rippled with layers of water-like light, and a downward-extending metal staircase slowly emerged, with a faint blue data stream emanating from its depths.

"The passage has been opened for you two; please proceed."

The two slowly descended the stairs, and after about seven or eight steps, Proust's phantom spoke again:

"You can take off your VR glasses now."

Lin Feng subconsciously stopped in his tracks, his brows furrowing slightly: "If I take off my glasses, won't this virtual space collapse immediately?"

Proust chuckled and shook his head, his phantom swaying gently in the data stream:

"Don't worry, this place is not just a VR illusion, but a four-dimensional interlayer space."

"The glasses give you the right to 'see' it, and once you see it, you can never go back to the state of 'not being able to see' it."