Life Dungeon Game

Where is the problem?

Zhang Yusi suddenly realized—it was a voice! It was a voice!

They claimed they had only walked a hundred or two meters into the metal corridor. The entire space was so quiet that Zhang Yusi could even hear their footsteps as they left. But at such a close distance, if they had engaged in such a fierce battle, why hadn't any sound reached her?

"Is it not?"

Asien stared blankly at Heo, "Isn't that how it is?"

"what!"

He suddenly clutched his head, squatted down on the ground, curled up, and his face contorted in a grimace, as if he were enduring some kind of intense pain from his very soul.

Zhang Yusi subconsciously reached her hand into her jacket.

At that moment, He Ao gently raised his hand to stop her.

"He can still be saved."

He turned around and walked toward the metal door of the control panel he had just opened.

Although Asien's mental state was not right, the energy circuits in his body remained stable overall, which proved that the mental distortion had not yet spread to his physical body.

This person must have a certain level of mental resilience, and resisted the pollution that affected his mind.

Whether he can wake up or not depends on himself.

If he does eventually undergo a transformation, Heo wouldn't mind seeing him off.

Zhang Yusi glanced at Asien on the ground, turned around, and quickly followed He Ao.

He Ao had already crouched down, staring at the words written on the inside of the metal door he had just opened.

He hadn't read the line of text carefully because he was in such a hurry.

Only now do we have the opportunity to view these words written in blood.

The good news is that, after who knows how many years, this text has been preserved in excellent condition.

The bad news is that it's written in the language of Zone 1.

Of the six characters in this line, He Ao only recognized three.

[Don't...see...]

Don't think about anything.

······

I suffered from the lack of education.

"He Bu, are you looking at this? Ancient inscriptions?"

Zhang Yusi came closer.

"do you know?"

He Ao turned to look at her.

"I know a little,"

Zhang Yu pondered, “Everyone in our research group is studying this. He’s a bit strange. None of his results have been published, and we can’t see his research results. However, I happened to provide him with some materials, so he shared some of his results with me, but I don’t know many of them.”

Which of these characters do you recognize?

He Ao asked quickly.

"The first one seems to be 'no,' which means negation. I don't recognize the second character. The third and fourth characters seem to be a word, 'believe.' The fifth character is 'wisdom,' the 'wisdom' in 'thinking.' I don't recognize the sixth character."

Zhang Yusi looked at the words and pondered them as she spoke one by one, “The scholar who studied the ancient script told me that the script on the ancient script is very similar to the script of the Central Plains. They are both pictographic and their grammar is also similar. When you put the sentence together, ‘Do not...believe in wisdom...’, what does that mean?”

He Ao understood that combining "don't" and "appearance" forms the phrase, "Don't trust wisdom..."

Can you write down the words you know?

He Ao turned his head and asked.

"Sure, but I only know about twenty or thirty words. This was just a coincidence."

Zhang Yusi nodded and raised her arm, on which was attached a miniature arm computer provided by the research institute.

Everyone who enters the ruins is provided with one of these miniature computers. There are also combat suits, but this time we came in such a hurry that we had to keep things simple.

These microcomputers all have touch functionality and can transmit data at close range.

Zhang Yusi quickly wrote down the ancient script she knew and its corresponding Chinese script, and sent it to He Ao.

He Ao received the text, glanced at it, and saw that although the number of characters Zhang Yusi had learned was small, only a few overlapped with those He Ao already knew, which was equivalent to expanding He Ao's character library.

"Thank you."

He nodded his thanks to Zhang Yusi.

"I wish I could help you."

Zhang Yusi quickly waved her hand.

At this moment, He Ao looked at the machine in the central control console.

Below this console, where the main unit should have been, it appears to have been subjected to some kind of violent attack, and the main unit inside has been completely destroyed.

He picked up the fragment and examined it. There were obvious bullet holes and traces of laser burning.

It appears to be man-made.

He Ao glanced at the blood-red words on the door, lost in thought.

He turned his head and found Zhang Yusi staring blankly at the huge glass wall.

"What department? The starry sky is changing."

she whispered.

He looked up at the starry sky, which was slightly different from before. If you looked closely, you could see that the endless stars seemed to be 'flowing' in some way.

"It is we who are spinning."

He Ao slowly stood up. "This 'map' is moving. Perhaps we are in a spaceship drifting in space."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yusi was stunned.

Although she had this suspicion in her mind, she didn't dare to believe it.

At this moment, He Ao had already walked towards the entrance of the passage.

Asien's agonizing roars had weakened somewhat, turning into a kind of weary, painful panting.

He Ao walked over

At that moment, he was squatting against the wall, head down, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"I remembered?"

He Ao squatted down a short distance in front of him and asked in a low voice.

"Um,"

Asien nodded, his face still contorted with pain. "Koso and I, the brother who just turned into a monster, we just left here, entered the passage, actually we hadn't gone very far, maybe a dozen meters, maybe a few dozen meters, and then..."

He clutched his head, groaned, and said again with difficulty, "We came across a gate. The glass window showed there was a corridor outside, and we were just about to look for a gate switch nearby... when I saw Koso suddenly attack me with all his might..."

"I tried to fight back, and in the process, I remembered your warning and woke up. It turned out that everything that had just happened was a hallucination. I was actually cutting myself with a knife. At that moment, I saw Koso also self-harming, and I rushed over to try to stop him."

"But I fell into a hallucination again. I saw Koso being controlled, opening the gate and releasing the monster. I saw me fighting with Koso. Then I closed the gate and chased after Koso. In the process, I lost the memory of just waking up from the hallucination."

"I can't recall those memories..."

"Is there anything particularly unusual about the hallucinations?"

He Ao continued to ask.

“A special place…” Asien covered his head. “When I was fighting Koso, I thought of my wife and family at home… Does this count…?”

"Ah."

He Ao nodded and stood up. "Try to control your emotions and hold onto this feeling of clarity. Your mental strength is quite good; you might be able to get through this."

"Lord He'ao, these illusions... what are they?"

"Asien asked in a low voice."

“Pollution,” He Ao said calmly, “pollution that exists at a high level.”

The main world also has contamination, which appears in strange events, but it is not as terrifying or serious as this.

Based on He'ao's experience in the dungeon world, there are no tricks to resisting pollution; unless you have some special extraordinary item, you can only tough it out.

Asien is considered to be a kind-hearted person who knows how to be grateful. Even when he was trapped in a hallucination, he thought of coming back to remind Heo instead of launching a sneak attack like his companions.

So He Ao didn't mind giving him a hand.

While He Ao was speaking, Zhang Yusi also walked up behind He Ao.

She looked at Asien before her; the cautious, confident D-class superhuman she had just seen was still vivid in her mind's eye.

She turned to look at He Ao, "Head of the department, what do we do next?"

"Go check that sluice gate."

He Ao raised his bone sword, looked at the silent, dark passage, and said.

He had roughly explored the entire circular hall; it was time to move on to the next area.

Although this kind of mental pollution is terrifying for ordinary superhumans, he is not too worried.

"Minister He, may I go?"

Zhang Yusi said slowly.

"why?"

He Ao asked casually.

Zhang Yusi must have overheard He Ao and Yasien's conversation and knew that there was dangerous pollution over there.

"I have a feeling that things aren't as simple as they seem."

Zhang Yusi spoke frankly, "Staying in this hall might not protect us from danger, so I want to go with you and see how I resist. I don't want to be a burden to you. If only one of us can survive, I hope it's you. Your life is more valuable than mine."