Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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As soon as they came to the outside world, everyone realized that something was wrong with today’s situation.
There was no one in the restaurant, no one even prepared breakfast, and the seats had fallen to the ground in a mess, as if something unexpected had happened here.
“What’s going on?” Everyone couldn’t help but look at Falcon.
Falcon himself frowned, as if he felt that the situation at this time was different from what he thought, “Logically speaking, it shouldn’t be like this now…”
The next moment, the building was shaken, and the alarm sounded, reminding everyone that due to some kind of accident, everyone was asked to take refuge in a hall.
Gu Wuji looked around and hurriedly followed the people in front of him. Along the way, he felt that everything around him was full of contradictions, and there was not even a staff member.
However, after arriving in the hall, there were quite a few people gathered inside. It seemed that they had just learned the news earlier than Gu Wuji and the others.
At this time, most people in the institute were gathered here. Just like Falcon said yesterday, something big would happen in the institute today.
This hall seemed to be a place for some kind of experiment. There was a huge pool next to it. But no one could see clearly what was inside or who was inside.
“I didn’t expect that there would be a sudden accident where the experimental product went out of control. You must have been frightened too.” A researcher came up to comfort him, “Director Fiona is now studying how to control the situation.”
“What happened? It was just an experiment. How could an out-of-control product become what it is now?”
“I’m not sure about the situation. Let’s eat something and calm down first.” With that said, the researchers distributed the emergency food to everyone.
Considering what Falcon said yesterday, everyone had a vague feeling that the current situation might be a trap to deal with them, and their expressions changed. If the situation was really that serious, they would directly attack the NPCs here and take action.
Everyone else looked haggard. Only Director Fiona looked energetic, or rather, he seemed vaguely excited.
At this moment, Gu Wuji suddenly stood up and said, “Please wait a moment. Before the work begins, I have something to say about the reasons why everyone in this research institute is having hallucinations.”
“What?” Everyone looked at Gu Wuji in surprise. They didn’t understand why he just did a cool job yesterday, and he didn’t look like he had investigated anything, but now he had something to say.
A researcher had already stepped forward to stop Gu Wuji, but Director Fiona showed some interest in his eyes, “What are you going to say?”
Director Fiona let Gu Wuji say it, so of course the others also had no way to stop him, so they just watched him walk to the middle.
“Actually, I almost understand why everyone will have hallucinations.” Gu Wuji said.
“What do you mean?” The others looked ugly.
The players were all speechless. Could it be that what Gu Wuji wanted to do now was to tell them what they got to know yesterday! What was the point of this other than to alert others?
At this moment, everyone felt like they had met a pig teammate.
At the researcher’s command over there, guards immediately stepped forward and wanted to take action, but Director Fiona asked them to pause their actions and said, “Let him speak.”
“Actually, the reason why you have hallucinations is because Director Fiona has drugged the water.”
Everyone was stunned after hearing Gu Wuji’s words. What, how can this copy have such a scientific explanation? No, this is just nonsense!
The people at the institute laughed even more angrily, “Don’t be kidding me. How could Director Fiona do such a thing?”
“There is no medicine that can cause such an effect. How can an ordinary person like you do it? What do you know?”
“I think you are simply suffering from paranoia.”
Of course Gu Wuji didn’t know anything. In fact, he only found out about it after seeing everything in his hallucination yesterday. Although Gu Wuji himself was shocked that this copy was so close to science…
“What if it was made from the blood extracted from the mermaid? If my guess is correct, the medicine made from this blood should have a strong hallucinogenic effect,” Gu Wuji said: “It was fine when we first entered here, but we had hallucinations at night after dinner. It was obvious that the food had been tampered with. That’s what led to this situation.”
Although he could hear the mysterious voice from the beginning, of course he would not talk about it without thinking about it. Now he was just talking casually based on the truth he knew.
Of course, under Gu Wuji’s acting skills, the whole person was full of the aura of a character who knew all the truth, and the random talk also gave people a feeling as if it was really the truth.
The players were stunned for a while, and they really felt that Gu Wuji’s words were very reliable. They never thought from the beginning that someone might be causing trouble. After all, this was a supernatural dungeon, but when they thought about it, this Fiona really had a problem.
The people in the research institute who were sneering from the beginning, also had their expressions become astonished. They seemed to have finally realized something.
“As for the sudden death of people who have not had hallucinations, it may be because the body is incompatible with the medicine.” Gu Wuji looked at Director Fiona over there, and said slowly and logically: “You did this? What’s the purpose of this thing? It’s actually just to satisfy your own selfish desires and take revenge on the people in the institute… After all, it’s because your fiancée died in the accident of the experiment.”
Everyone looked at Gu Wuji in shock. Looking at Director Fiona aside, many people in the institute had already realized something, with disbelief on their faces.
“What you said makes sense.” Director Fiona nodded immediately after hearing this, “But unfortunately, these are just your imagination.”
The others breathed a sigh of relief. If Director Fiona denied it, what Gu Wuji said must be nonsense.
“Actually, I don’t want to take revenge on the people in this institute. What I want to do is to fulfill her dream and complete our research.” Director Fiona said indifferently: “But it is a pity that the research is really not going well. We haven’t been able to find the person we need. If this continues, it will be troublesome if the mermaid wakes up.”
Everyone else was shocked when they heard this. They couldn’t believe what they heard.
“You are very smart for being able to see my problem. Of course, you said that this choice is wrong.” Director Fiona looked at Gu Wuji, with murderous intent in his eyes, “Do you think now that the situation is like this, can you still deal with me?”
All the researchers around had blank looks on their faces, it was really a huge blow to them now.
“W-what is going on? Could it be that Director Fiona is the villain boss?”
Everyone found that the noise in their minds suddenly increased, making them unable to even stand up, let alone use props, they could only hold on and continue to look at the situation in front of them.
Gu Wuji looked at the other party, but he still maintained his composure, “I don’t want to deal with you, I just want to ask the truth about all this. What’s going on with the fact that there are far more ghosts in this research institute than in the outside world?”
It’s impossible for the copy to really approach the end of science like this!
“That’s enough chit-chat.” Fiona looked over coldly, “You already know too much. People who are of no use like this should be used as feed for experimental subjects.”
Only then did Gu Wuji pay attention. He didn’t know when his feet were entangled with black mist and red blood threads.
“You…”
“After all, I heard that you are quite strong.” Fiona said, “Otherwise, there might be trouble.”
Gu Wuji immediately wanted to struggle away, but felt an extremely powerful force oppress his body, as if he was rejected by the whole world, making Gu Wuji unable to move.
“You…” Gu Wuji looked at him in surprise.
“I believe you will die quickly and there will be no pain.”
Lu Yuanzhou couldn’t stand it anymore and wanted to take action, but at this moment, a noise suddenly appeared in his mind, making him sweat all over his face, which led to him falling to his knees directly on the ground.
At this time, even those who could not hear the sound clearly heard the noise ringing in their ears.
Following Fiona’s words, Gu Wuji’s body was pulled by the black mist and fell into the pool next to it.
When he fell into the water, Gu Wuji immediately saw the shadows of several mermaids swimming towards him. These mermaids seemed to be the same ones that Gu Wuji had fed yesterday. After they saw Gu Wuji, they also felt very friendly so they came over and rubbed against him.
This was obviously not the place where he went to feed the mermaids yesterday. Did Fiona specially change the place for these mermaids?
But compared to these, what Gu Wuji was even more concerned about was the black mist emanating from the evil ghosts floating in the water.
After seeing the appearance of the ghosts in the water clearly, he couldn’t help but open his eyes wide. The ghosts in the water were exactly the same as the ghosts he saw yesterday.
“What’s going on…haven’t all these ghosts been purified by me? And this is obviously not the same room as yesterday…What’s going on with this copy?”
This astonishing sense of familiarity shocked Gu Wuji.
However, compared with yesterday, the attitude of these ghosts today was much better. Even their faces were not so ferocious, and he could still vaguely see what they looked like in front of him. Even the way they looked at Gu Wuji was… one could say it was kind.
Gu Wuji almost suspected that he had seen it wrong, but after a few more glances, he found that these ghosts really welcomed him.
“Maybe they have vague memories of yesterday, so their attitude has changed? So what happened yesterday was not my dream.”
Gu Wuji thought.
And if he looked more closely, he even saw similarities between these ghosts and the people in the institute.
It was only because these ghosts looked so hideous and he hadn’t seen many people from the institute that he didn’t notice it yesterday.
“Could it be that… the people in this research institute were all dead from the beginning? Then what is the position of us players in this dungeon…”
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