Life Dungeon Game

boom--

The skeletal claws slammed into the hard ground, sending stones flying everywhere.

Failed?

The man looked in surprise at the spot in front of him, where He Ao had been standing, now empty.

Immediately afterwards, a sharp pain came from his back as a sharp dagger pierced through his back, which was not yet covered by bones, and emerged from the center of his chest.

Tick-tock—tick-tock—

Milky white blood trickled down the tip of the sword and onto the ground, making a crisp sound.

He Ao drew his short sword, letting his old classmate fall limply forward.

He raised his head and looked in front of him.

The researchers who were conducting the experiment at that moment had somehow raised their heads and were staring at him.

Sharp claws hovered behind them.

At that moment, He Ao understood why the laboratory had windows and why the researchers remained unmoved.

They were no longer 'human', so naturally they wouldn't empathize with the human corpses floating in those pools of blood.

At this moment, some people have already picked up the bracelets, while others are heading towards the laboratory door.

He Ao doesn't have much time.

He suddenly threw his bayonet, shattering the ceiling light in the center of the room, plunging the entire room into darkness in an instant.

Only through the glass did the faint red light from the blood pool illuminate the distorted shadows in the room.

Two muffled thuds came from the darkness.

Those were two people who had raised their wristbands, ready to send a message.

click -

The sound of the lock turning came from the depths of darkness.

The only door leading to the outside world was locked from the inside.

Chaotic shadows danced across the dim wall in an instant.

The twisted attack sent shards of stone flying everywhere.

A test tube containing bright red liquid shattered on the ground, staining it with tiny shards of glass.

A few seconds later, all the fighting stopped.

With a final thud as the body fell, a bayonet slowly emerged from the darkness, a drop of bright red blood staining the shards of glass, tracing an arc on the ground.

A shimmering light rose from the ground, painting a lifelike...

The pattern of trees was lifelike, and then it slowly faded away.

Beside the tree, a small device was glowing faintly; it was an activated wristband, its last stop on a custom-designed, yet-to-be-activated alarm screen.

Eventually, the light on the bracelet went out completely, and it entered a dormant state.

Everything returned to darkness.

click -

The locked door opened instantly, and a figure in a white coat walked out of the room and calmly closed the door.

The moment he closed the door, the words on the electronic screen at the entrance of the testing lab changed.

[Confidential experiment in progress, please do not disturb]

He turned around and walked into the depths of the corridor like a cleaner who had just finished cleaning.

...half an hour later...

As the text on the electronic screen at the entrance of the last laboratory changed, He Ao walked with satisfaction towards the elevator at the end of the corridor.

Why are you covered in blood?

In front of the elevator, a middle-aged man wearing glasses looked at He Ao with a puzzled expression.

He Ao followed his gaze and saw a white stain stuck to the corner of the white coat. "Sorry, I didn't notice it just now, and I got a little stain on it."

"Since you've snuck in, you'd better be careful."

A sigh came from beside me.

Sharp claws descended from the sky.

"Thank you."

He pulled out the short sword that was stuck in the chest of the 'person' in front of him.

Milky white liquid flowed down the tip of his sword.

Normally, human blood is red.

Ding--

The elevator has arrived.

He glanced at the elevator, dragged the body into the nearest laboratory, and closed the door again.

When he returned to the elevator, the doors had just opened fully, and the elevator was empty.

He Ao stepped into the elevator and pressed the button for the thirty-second floor.

Unlike the research institute, which only had one 'lackey', this building was filled with lackeys stained with white blood.

There may no longer be any humans here.

However, most of these people who were 'turned' into henchmen were at the E-level, and some of the leaders were at the D-level, far inferior to Reid, who was at the peak of the C-level.

It seems that Reed's powerful "minions" are not something that can be easily "manufactured".

The elevator ascended rapidly, reaching the thirty-second floor in the short time He Ao had been thinking.

As the elevator doors opened, the environment that greeted He Ao's eyes was completely different from the area below where the enhancement potion was administered.

Here, the laboratories are not distributed along the corridors, but rather a wide hall covers the entire floor, and everyone moves around in the same hall.

The hall is about ten meters high, and is surrounded by steam pipes that are rusty and emitting heat. A series of huge pipes crisscross and cover the entire floor of the hall.

In the center of the hall stood a huge square machine, from which wisps of steam, tinged with a faint milky white, constantly escaped.

The entire hall was filled with a warm atmosphere, not only physical warmth but also spiritual warmth.

The surrounding life force was so dense that it seemed to solidify into a physical form.

He Ao stepped out of the elevator and into this life force.

On the side of the hall

There are some windows along the way through which you can see the city outside, its neon lights gleaming.

The grand city stands in stark contrast to the steam pipe structure in this hall.

However, the city, filled with skyscrapers, was now completely shrouded in a thick, hazy fog.

A thick fog enveloped all the flashing lights.

He Ao walked to the window and looked out. From this vantage point, he could no longer see any figures in the fog.

His appearance did not attract any attention in the hall.

Perhaps the lights here are too dim to see people clearly, or perhaps 'they' simply don't care much about things that don't concern them.

The 'people' that He Ao encountered in the enhanced drug research area below all had similar characteristics.

A creaking sound came from above.

He looked up and saw that the pipe above him seemed to be trembling from the steam, as if it were about to crack open at any moment.

The rising heat continued to permeate the hall.

In the Federation, which relies on electricity, steam and fire seem to be a thing of the past.

He Ao walked to the square machine in the middle of the hall and stopped.

He sensed a powerful energy within the machine, the energy of martial arts 'qi'.

This machine should be the one mentioned in the research institute's materials, the one that can produce 'gas'.

This enormous machine is entirely black, measuring twenty to thirty meters in length and width, and is the most conspicuous and largest object in this hall.

There are rows of tiny, faucet-like things neatly arranged in front of the machine.

Some researchers would take a special test tube to a tap, and after verifying their identity, a colorless, transparent liquid with a slightly white tint would flow from the tap into the test tube.

These liquids look like the 'gas' in a life potion.

However, Qi itself is colorless and formless.

He Ao initially had some doubts about how Qunxing Pharmaceuticals could materialize gas. Judging from this liquid, they did not extract pure gas, but rather used the diluted solution of the Fountain of Youth to 'extract' the gas.

Judging from the hot gas that occasionally escapes from the machine, this extraction may require the steam from the diluted solution of the Fountain of Youth to achieve.

Those huge pipes at the top of the hall must be the pipes that transport and circulate this steam.

He Ao glanced around.

Unlike enhancement potions, life potions do not require development; their preparation seems to be a relatively mature process.

However, even so, this allocation is not safe.

The researchers used robotic arms to manipulate the extracted 'gas' and mix it with a milky white liquid that appeared to be a diluted solution of the Fountain of Youth.

This ratio seemed very difficult to control. Just during He Ao's scan, one test tube exploded, and the researcher who was operating the test tube was blown away on the spot, and the robotic arm was also blown into pieces.

In the instant the researcher was blown away, He Ao saw the protruding exoskeleton on his body. These hard bones shielded him from most of the impact and the flying mechanical parts.

However, he still coughed up a mouthful of white blood and struggled to his feet to leave.

And almost instantly,

The new researcher picked up the robotic arm and sat in his original spot.

These researchers may have all consumed the 'Fountain of Youth' to some extent, been modified by it, and gained inhuman bodies and long lifespans.