Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Then the door to the hall in front of them opened, and a beautiful young man with light blond hair hurried in, claiming to be the director, who would assign their work next.
He was completely different from the serious researcher that everyone thought. His clothes were draped around her randomly. There were water stains on her white clothes. His hair looked messy and unkempt. His whole person looked like it had a casual atmosphere and seemed very approachable.
“I’m sorry for being late by accident. There was something wrong with the experimental product just now.” The blond young man showed an apologetic smile, “I am Fiona, you can call me whatever you want.”
But everyone was keenly aware of it. About this experimental subject mentioned in the NPC’s words, they already had some ideas in mind.
When entering through the door, Fiona reached out and pressed her fingerprint on the lock beside the door, and then said in a relaxed tone: “Your fingerprints have also been entered into the system. But because you have just arrived, you don’t have any authorization. If you want to go out, come to me.”
Others listened to her words and already felt trouble. According to Director Fiona, they were almost imprisoned here and couldn’t leave, if they encountered any fatal danger then, wouldn’t it be a big trouble?
“Of course, as long as you work hard and don’t make any mistakes, your authority will be upgraded soon.” Fiona seemed to know what they were thinking and said with a smile.
When everyone heard this, many people were already thinking about tying up this NPC to open the door if it was no longer possible. But no one would do this kind of thing unless it was absolutely necessary. After all, who knew whether this NPC was a human or a ghost. If you accidentally tie up a BOSS, you will be asking for your own death.
This research institute was quite large. The outside world could only see the first floor on the top of the cliff, but there were several more floors inside.
Entering the cliff through the elevator, before everyone could hear Fiona’s introduction, several staff members rushed out with pale faces. They were all stained with blood and looked very embarrassed.
“Director Fiona, the test subjects over there are out of control again!”
Listening to the anxious words of these people, Fiona looked calm. He smiled and told everyone that he had something to deal with, and then assigned one of the researchers to take them to visit the institute.
Compared to Fiona, who was quite individual and approachable, the others were all indifferent and seemed unwilling to deal with players… However, this made the players feel more at ease. Fiona’s character was what created doubts.
Someone tentatively asked the researchers what happened to the accident just now.
The researchers just said indifferently, “This is just a common experimental product that went out of control. It’s nothing to make a fuss about.”
“But the blood looks too scary. Did something happen to someone…”
“The injured people will be sent to the hospital for external treatment. And our institute also has complete medical facilities and experienced doctors, so there is no need to worry about such problems.”
After that, everyone made various insinuations, but they couldn’t find anything.
The players’ accommodations were all single rooms. Although they were not as luxurious as hotels, the conditions were very good. Although they could not communicate with the outside world, they could still have entertainment such as watching TV movies and playing games.
As for the three meals, they were served in the staff cafeteria. There were sumptuous foods delivered from outside. You could also ask for advice on what you wanted to eat, and the chef would prepare it freshly. If it saved trouble, you could bring your own nutrient solution to drink.
In addition, there were various facilities such as gyms, and the benefits were quite good.
In addition, there were very high annual salaries and bonuses, and huge compensation would be given to the researchers’ families in the event of an accident.
Except for the lack of freedom and the inability to communicate with the outside world, this job could be said to be perfect. But obviously, this was no ordinary research institute at all.
According to Fiona’s revelations and the news they had received before, this research institute existed to study some rare creatures… Based on past experience, this research institute was probably studying monsters, or simply ghosts.
It was impossible for the players to really work here. Things would definitely change within a few days. If they could not complete the work and find more clues within a few days, they would probably die in a subsequent accident.
What’s more, they had no relevant experience in this field. It was estimated that the people in this research institute just want them to die.
The job assigned to Gu Wuji was to go to the office to sort out information. Other players were also more or less assigned jobs, but at first these jobs were not directly related to the creatures being studied.
If it were in reality, everyone would definitely start to complain about whether the sponsor behind this research institute was out of his mind and why he spent so much money to hire talents.
Gu Wuji came to the office. The job was shockingly simple. As long as he could read and have basic common sense, he could complete it. Besides him, there was a taciturn brown-haired woman in the office.
The brown-haired woman’s skin was very pale, and cold sweat would flow down from time to time. She looked like she was sick.
Gu Wuji tried to communicate with the brown-haired woman and said hello tentatively, “Hello? You don’t seem to be feeling well. Do you need a rest?”
But the other party didn’t mean to talk to him at all, and just glanced at him. Then she couldn’t help but look at Gu Wuji’s face a few more times.
After all, admiring handsome guys was physically and mentally pleasurable.
Gu Wuji saw that the other party really had no intention of communicating with him, so he began to look at the information in his hand carefully, trying to find any clues from it.
However, the reality was cruel. Gu Wuji couldn’t understand any of the data above. He realized that he had to find an NPC in the dungeon to help him interpret it.
The brown-haired woman looked at Gu Wuji’s focused look and suddenly said, “You’re not here just for work, right.”
“What?” Gu Wuji looked at her.
“I’ve seen too many people sneak into this copy, thinking they can find something that will make them famous, but in the end they died here.” The brown-haired woman whispered, looking at Gu Wu with cold eyes, “…you will also become one of them.”
Gu Wuji: “Thank you for reminding me.”
“I’m not reminding you.” The brown-haired woman frowned and said, “I just want to tell you, don’t think that the job here is so good… It’s better to find a chance to escape from here, as far away as possible.”
After these words, no matter what Gu Wuji asked, the brown-haired woman never said anything. She didn’t speak, and her face became more and more ugly, and she seemed to be getting more and more uncomfortable.
Of course, it was impossible for Gu Wuji to leave. Of course, he knew very well that there would be dangers here, but even without the constraints of the main mission, Gu Wuji’s character would still force him to stay here to uncover the truth.
This first day was just for them to get used to it, and soon it was time to get off work. When Gu Wuji was about to leave the room, he suddenly seemed to hear the sound of water flowing from his ears, but when he listened carefully, he heard nothing.
“What is that…”
In reality, he might have suspected that he was hallucinating, but in the copy, every detail had its own meaning.
The brown-haired woman behind noticed something strange about Gu Wuji and looked at him in shock, “Did you hear that?”
Gu Wuji immediately felt something and asked the brown-haired woman carefully, “Do you know what it is?”
She immediately shook her head, as if remembering something extremely scary, “I don’t know, I don’t know anything.” She picked up her bag and hurried out, and when she passed by Gu Wuji, her voice was so soft that it was almost inaudible: “If you… see him, absolutely don’t…”
Before Gu Wuji could stop her, the brown-haired woman’s figure had already disappeared around the corner.
“What exactly did she mean?” Gu Wuji became even more confused.
Gu Wuji came to the staff canteen. At this time, everyone else was basically staying here. He sat on the seat diagonally opposite Lu Yuanzhou as if nothing had happened. The two of them casually exchanged what happened today as if they had just met each other.
“My mission is to clean a certain room.” Lu Yuanzhou frowned, his expression very ugly, “There is a huge sink in that room, but there is nothing in it. The things inside are really difficult to clean, and some of them look like internal organs, flesh and blood. Something…of course it should be the feed for that creature.”
In such a supernatural copy, this so-called feed made people wonder.
If Lu Yuanzhou hadn’t been well-informed and didn’t have a relatively good psychological quality, he would probably have had a psychological shadow when he saw that scene.
“I see.” Gu Wuji nodded and told the story of his encounter with the brown-haired woman.
As for the others, he didn’t know if they refused to exchange information with others because they were competitors or if they already knew something in their hearts. And they were very confident. After all, they thought this was just an ordinary intermediate copy, and they would have no problem passing it.
This attitude made Lu Yuanzhou not help but sneer. Let alone the intermediate dungeon, even if these intermediate players went to the low-level dungeon, accidents could easily happen… These people would have to pay the price for their arrogance sooner or later.
It didn’t matter that Gu Wuji didn’t care. If others didn’t want to talk about it, they won’t talk about it, and it didn’t have much to do with him.
Everyone was eating dinner quietly. Suddenly, a researcher at the next table suddenly changed his expression and lay down on the ground, covering his ears. He looked extremely panicked and screamed and wailed from time to time.
“It’s not me, it’s not… don’t come to me!!”
The people around him immediately tried to comfort the man, but to no avail. The researcher became more and more crazy, and finally picked up the knife on the table next to him used for cutting food and then suddenly plunged it into his heart.
As the blood splattered out, the researcher’s face finally showed a look of relief, and his expression was actually very peaceful when he died.
The other people next to him looked at him with very complicated expressions. They seemed to be more worried about themselves than sympathetic, and amid their fear, there was actually a hint of envy.
This discovery couldn’t help but make the players’ hair stand on end. What were they envious of? Could it be that for these people, death was some kind of relief?
The researcher’s body was quickly taken away, the scene was cleaned up, and everything returned to calm very quickly. Other researchers also had numb faces, as if the person who had just died was not a person.
The players’ expressions suddenly became serious because of this sudden change. From the attitudes of these people, they could infer that this kind of thing must have happened many times before, which was why these people were so numb.
At this time, Director Fiona also rushed over and quickly appeased everyone, saying that they would increase their bonuses. At the same time, he expressed regret for the death of the researcher, and finally said: “Maybe it was due to staying in a confined space for too long, so psychologically there was something wrong. Everyone must be careful. If you feel uncomfortable, you can tell me.”
Everyone smiled and nodded, but no one knew what they were thinking.
After washing, everyone was arranged to rest in their respective rooms.
Gu Wuji entered the room and lay down. There was nothing wrong anyway, so he closed his eyes and prepared to sleep.
While half asleep and half awake, he suddenly felt like he was being submerged in water. The water flowed over his body, and Gu Wuji couldn’t help but hold his breath.
He wanted to open his eyes, but he felt that his eyelids seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and he could not move at all. On the contrary, the song that had sounded at an unknown time sounded in his ears more and more clearly.
The voice was gentle and sweet, not like a voice that could be made by humans at all, but more like it came from the mouth of some kind of creature that should not exist in this world.
This song carried a deep bewitching meaning, making the consciousness of those who heard it gradually fade away, as if they were sinking into the deep sea together with the song.
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