Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The elevator that was still going down suddenly paused. Before anyone could react, the door suddenly opened, and a liquid that looked like sea water poured in from the outside world.
“Wait, where did the sea water come from!”
“Is it because of the shock just now? Is this research institute really okay…”
“You all come out.” Fiona’s face had turned cold and he walked out first, followed by other players. Of course, he didn’t stay on the ground.
They did not go down to the bottom level but came to the third to last level. There was a huge water tank in the center of the hall. At this moment, the glass had cracked and the seawater inside was flowing out at an extremely fast speed. As for the creatures in it, they were missing.
“Follow me.” Director Fiona said coldly, “If you don’t want to die, don’t act rashly.”
He was very familiar with this research institute, so he turned and walked towards the very hidden escape passage next to him.
Everyone looked at each other in confusion, with some other thoughts in mind. After all, they just followed Director Fiona down like that without knowing the truth, so they felt very unsure.
But at the next moment, one person suddenly saw a red liquid spreading in the water, and his face suddenly changed, “What is that?”
They then noticed that there was a black mist spreading from the water, and they could still see it faintly. They could even see the ghost’s ferocious face, and the blood was obviously spreading from there.
Seeing ghosts like this, everyone was shocked, wondering if the director was still studying ghosts in this research institute! But how could they dare to stay on the penultimate floor to investigate, so they all followed Director Fiona towards the next floor.
The scene on the next floor was even more terrifying. Everyone just glanced outside and saw that the hall on the penultimate floor was already in chaos. Unknown liquid was flowing all over the floor. There even seemed to be a huge fish swimming in the water.
Director Fiona’s expression did not change after seeing all this, and he just walked down in a hurry.
After arriving at their destination, what they saw was the water tank that Gu Wuji had seen in the ghost’s memories before, and the silver-haired mermaid in it.
Everyone was slightly stunned by the sight in front of them. After all, for most people, this was their first time seeing the mermaid that had been mentioned in this copy.
Speaking of which, this villain boss was much better looking than the ghost bosses they had seen in other dungeons. In addition, he was locked up here and sleeping so honestly. Even if everyone didn’t want to look down upon him, they subconsciously didn’t feel a sense of fear.
But what followed was the increasingly intense noise in their mind, and the illusion of being surrounded by sea water. There was nothing where their eyes could see, but their body could clearly feel the feeling of sea water coming up.
Director Fiona finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was nothing strange here. He looked in the direction of everyone and said, “Come on, you just need to follow the guidance of your own heart. You don’t need to think too much.”
After hearing his words, everyone wanted to curse, what kind of MLM line was this, but with the words of the other party, they actually fell in a daze, and the noise in their minds slowly disappeared, turning into a call that sounded like a call in the deepest part of their consciousness.
The players subconsciously walked towards the water tank ahead.
And the scene they saw in front of them slowly changed. Some people’s hands even couldn’t help but grab their necks…
“You all wake up!” A person who had not yet fallen into the hallucination suddenly said, and everyone woke up from the strange state.
Everyone knew that it was no longer the time to endure it any longer. Even if their props were unusable at this time, they could only fight hard. The person closest to Director Fiona immediately rushed forward and tried to subdue the opponent with force, but the moment he squeezed the opponent’s hand, it came empty, leaving only the foam in his hand.
Director Fiona looked over coldly. The man immediately felt his body stiffen and was unable to move, and Director Fiona’s missing hand quickly recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“Do you think you can do anything to me?”
“Damn it, he’s not a human at all.” Everyone looked ugly. Even though they had known about this for a long time, they still felt that it was difficult to deal with him now.
At this time, Falcon, who seemed to have not escaped from the hallucination, had already walked to the tank.
Falcon had already learned from the other party that these researchers were dead when he obtained information from the NPC… After all, when they were hypnotized, they all revealed all their subconscious information.
Coupled with some information he received before entering this dungeon, he had already vaguely guessed the current situation.
Yes, this place must be a space maintained by this so-called mermaid. As long as he obtained control of this space through some means, he would have no problem clearing the copy.
Falcon was already full of confidence. There was no one in this dungeon who could compete with him for anything. These people had not yet understood the truth of everything… As long as he could seize the opportunity when the mermaid woke up.
Just when Falcon had a smile on his face and was about to touch the water tank in front of him, the mermaid in the water tank suddenly opened his eyes slightly.
The voices in everyone’s minds suddenly stopped at this moment, and it was so quiet that they all felt abnormal.
When the golden eyes that were as cold as a cold-blooded animal looked over, Falcon was horrified. He actually failed to seize the opportunity in front of him but took a step back with a pale face.
An extremely strong sense of fear arose in his mind. Even if he wanted to get closer, the subconscious desire for survival prevented Falcon from getting close to the monster in front of him. Even his outstretched hand was trembling.
“Sure enough, he is a boss-level existence after all. It isn’t so easy to deal with…”
The mermaid’s eyes did not focus on Falcon, as if the person in front of him was just an insignificant speck of dust. His eyes widened and he kept looking around as if looking for someone.
At this moment, the sound of broken glass came from around. The glass that was supposed to be extremely strong could not support it at this time. The sea water from the outside suddenly poured in, and everyone was washed back a few steps. Falcon was no exception, this made him move farther and farther away from the water tank that was originally within reach.
Not only that, even the building itself had cracked, and water was constantly flowing down from above. It seemed that the entire space would collapse soon.
If the main mission hadn’t been solved at this time, the players would have thought of escaping from this place to a safe zone outside… But such a thing was obviously impossible. Not to mention that they didn’t know what the situation above was. None of the staff had the authority to leave this place yet.
Director Fiona’s expression turned extremely ugly. He immediately grabbed a player next to him and walked towards the location of the mermaid.
The player kept struggling, but his body seemed to be imprisoned by the power of the entire world, making him unable to make even a sound, and his eyes were full of despair.
“What the hell is going on!”
The players looked in the direction of Falcon, but Falcon had no time to pay attention to them at this time. Instead, he walked towards the water tank with difficulty, with cold sweat on his face. Apparently the act of walking was still very difficult for him.
A large number of ghosts appeared in the water at some point and started to entangle the players.
What was even more frightening was that as the water level rose rapidly, traces of mermaids also appeared in the water. These mermaids could smash concrete walls with one tail, and players had no courage to compete with them.
Everyone’s expressions changed. Fortunately, they could use the props at this time. Then they barely broke free from the ghost’s shackles and found a place to stand in this place that was not soaked by water.
But even so, their clothes seemed to be stained with water, and they could feel water mist when they breathed.
They immediately noticed that when the ghosts met Director Fiona, they moved away as if they were afraid of something, but the ghosts had a look of deep resentment on their faces, as if they would eat up Director Fiona if they only got a chance.
Director Fiona didn’t care about this at all but walked quickly. The players he dragged didn’t know what was done to them, and they couldn’t even struggle.
Just as Director Fiona and Falcon were walking quickly towards the tank, as if they were competing to see who could arrive first… a figure suddenly emerged from the water and stood directly next to the tank. He seemed to still be a little confused and not understanding the situation in front of him. The strange thing was that his clothes were all dry.
Everyone opened their eyes wide. Could this be some kind of water ghost?
But this water ghost was quite pretty… Wait, this guy was Sun Shi!
Everyone was already stunned. They didn’t know what was going on. Wasn’t Gu Wuji thrown to feed the mermaids by Director Fiona before? And now he appeared in this place unscathed?
Even with props, it would be difficult to survive in such a harsh underwater environment! What’s more, Gu Wuji seemed to be in good spirits.
“Sun Shi is actually still alive?”
“Wait a minute, everyone, be careful! He might be a ghost already.”
Lu Yuanzhou didn’t care about it at all. He had seen Gu Wuji escape from death so many times. He was so happy that if the situation wasn’t dangerous, he would have wanted to rush forward and hug Gu Wuji.
Director Fiona’s face was extremely ugly, and he looked at Gu Wuji with extremely displeased eyes. “You’re not dead? You’re really lucky. You can’t ruin my plan.”
But Director Fiona was also glad that the person who appeared was Gu Wuji, who seemed not to have heard the mermaid’s voice at all. Such a person whose spirit could not resonate with the mermaid was like garbage in this research institute and had no use except for making fish feed.
Although it was strange that Gu Wuji would appear in this place, it was all a dream anyway. Maybe Gu Wuji just got lucky and escaped, which was not surprising.
Fiona immediately signaled the ghosts in the water to attack Gu Wuji. He was the one who gave birth to this dream. Everything in it was controlled by him. Even if the dreamer was about to wake up now, his authority had not completely disappeared.
Everyone immediately saw the ghosts in the water swimming in the direction of Gu Wuji, and their faces became nervous. Although they had no friendship with Gu Wuji, they couldn’t bear to see their fellow players being bitten to death by ghosts.
Lu Yuanzhou spoke even more nervously, “Sun Shi——”
If Gu Wuji hadn’t turned around and glanced at Lu Yuanzhou, with a look in his eyes asking him to calm down, Lu Yuanzhou would have jumped down to help now. Gu Wuji finally came back alive, and he could no longer watch anything happen to Gu Wuji.
Falcon wanted to curse, but even he didn’t have the courage to rush into the water full of ghosts. He could only stand in a safe place a little later.
Gu Wuji stood there motionless, and everyone else almost thought he was petrified. After all, there were so many ghosts and ants killing elephants that it would be difficult for even the most powerful players to deal with them.
Director Fiona seemed to have seen the future of Gu Wuji’s tragic death, and sneered, “You sacrifices should fulfill your mission honestly. From the time you came here, everything was already doomed -“
Then everyone saw that the ghosts, who were approaching Gu Wuji in a fierce manner, suddenly became very…very gentle?
Not only did these ghosts not attack Sun Shi, they even seemed to have a good relationship with him, and their expressions softened a lot.
Everyone: “???”
Director Fiona: “…”
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