Life Dungeon Game

She looked up at He Ao and said, "If something happens to me, I might need you to help me deliver my last words to my family."

He Ao glanced at her and walked down the corridor.

"Follow me, control your emotions, stay calm, and if you have any problems, tell me immediately. If you really fall into a hallucination, empty your mind and imagine that you are an idiot."

This "I'm an idiot" approach is taught during FBI training, and its effectiveness varies from person to person, but it can indeed offer some degree of protection against contamination.

Normally, people with superhuman cognitive abilities like Zhang Yusi are most sensitive to pollution, but if they can persist in resisting it, they can also resist it for the longest time.

"it is good!"

Zhang Yusi nodded and followed behind He Ao.

He Ao didn't say anything more, and the two walked deeper into the corridor.

The corridor was actually not long; after walking only a dozen meters, the two saw the tightly closed gate and the faint bloodstains covering the gate.

Chapter 615 This guy finally opened the door! (Large chapter, please grant me a month)

There doesn't seem to be anything here.

Zhang Yusi glanced around the gate with some confusion. She raised the microcomputer on her arm, and a beam of light shone from the side of the computer. This was the flashlight module integrated into the computer.

This module also comes with a small battery, which can be removed and used separately as a mini flashlight.

There were two layers of bloodstains on the ground and walls. One layer was freshly splattered, bright red, from Asien and his companions. The other layer was dried, dark brown bloodstains beneath this bright red bloodstain, covered with dust and bearing the marks of history.

The dark brown bloodstains are similar to the bloodstains on the metal door, suggesting they were left by the same group of people.

Judging from how dry the bloodstain is, it must have been there for many years.

The cold metal floors and walls preserve traces of what may have been centuries ago.

"Minister He, the bloodstains on this lower layer almost cover the entire floor and most of the wall. The blood of one or two people probably couldn't create this effect,"

Zhang Yusi crouched down and carefully examined the details around her. "A fierce massacre must have taken place here at this gate."

She paused, recalling what Asien had just experienced, "Or perhaps, it's about killing each other..."

Her gaze fell on the gate, in the middle of which was a small, blurry glass window. It seemed to be some kind of special glass, with many scratches on it, but it was not damaged.

In her line of sight, beyond the glass, she could vaguely see a relatively wide corridor outside, and on the floor of that corridor, under the dim light, dark bloodstains were faintly visible.

"Perhaps those people were fleeing from some kind of monster, and then they escaped here, thinking that closing the gate would stop the monster. But some powerful 'pollution' twisted their minds, causing them to engage in self-harm or killing each other."

"Then?"

He glanced out the glass window, his expression calm, and then asked.

Zhang Yusi looked around, picked up her flashlight and shone it on the blood-stained, dark wall, where she found the gate switch, which appeared to be a lever.

She stared at the latch.

"There are obvious black bloodstains on the latch, indicating that among the first group of people who entered here, some of them were 'contaminated' and controlled during the killing among themselves. They reopened the gate, escaped, and were completely killed by the monsters outside."

She paused suddenly, staring at the tightly closed gate. "But why is this gate still closed? Did other people come in between? Or did those who ran out close the gate again? And Asien just said that they fell into hallucinations as soon as they reached this gate, why didn't we feel anything? Has the monster outside already left?"

He Ao walked slowly to the switch controlling the gate and asked Zhang Yusi softly, "Now, what does this latch look like?"

"There's a layer of black blood, and on top of that, a layer of red blood, Asien."

As I just mentioned, he closed the gate.

Zhang Yusi looked at He Ao with suspicion, "Director He, is something wrong?"

He looked down at the 'bolt' in front of him.

It was a mechanical structure with only one piece of iron exposed, riddled with tiny bullet holes, and completely destroyed.

From the remains it left behind, it can be vaguely seen that it may have once been a 'latch' type of switch structure.

He Ao stroked the remaining structure inside with his right hand, then looked up at Zhang Yusi with a calm expression, "There is only a piece of iron left here."

"what?"

Zhang Yusi was stunned. In that instant, a sharp pain surged in her right temple, and the surrounding scenery changed constantly like overlapping slides.

Finally, during this process, the complete 'bolt' in her field of vision gradually twisted and changed, eventually transforming into the destroyed mechanical structure that was reduced to just a piece of iron.

The surrounding scenery gradually stabilized.

What do you see outside the window?

He Ao then asked.

Isn't the corridor outside the window completely empty?

Zhang Yusi turned her head and raised her flashlight to shine it out of the gate window.

Behind that glass window covered in fine scratches, there was no corridor at all, but a gaping, ring-shaped maw covered with sharp triangular teeth.

At that moment, the giant mouth was pressed against the window, wriggling in Zhang Yusi's direction. The layers of ferocious teeth were like scales growing upright on the inside, extending all the way into the depths of the wriggling giant mouth.

"Damn it..."

Although Zhang Yusi was somewhat prepared when He Ao reminded her, she still froze when she saw this scene, almost unable to breathe. It took her several seconds to take deep breaths and relax.

While she was analyzing the situation, she was standing right next to this window, meaning she was under the gaze of this terrifying, writhing maw the whole time.

This is somewhat outrageous.

He Ao watched Zhang Yusi's entire movement and nodded slightly.

Zhang Yusi has a strong mental resilience.

It's important to know that Asien and his friends were immediately contaminated and began self-harming as soon as they arrived, but Zhang Yusi's visual perception was only altered in part. This proves that the contamination spread here is not enough to directly erode Zhang Yusi's mind and cognition.

After receiving some pointers, she was able to recover quickly.

It's unclear whether it's due to her talent sequence, her own abilities, or both.

He Ao didn't rush to take the next step, but waited for Zhang Yusi to calm down completely before asking softly, "What's your guess now?"

He was consciously training Zhang Yusi's reasoning ability and calm thinking ability in complex pollution situations.

This helps her stabilize her mental state.

Zhang Yusi didn't know what He Ao's purpose was in asking, but she trusted that He Ao wouldn't harm her. She calmed herself down, glanced at the 'bolt' riddled with bullet holes, and tried her best not to look at the terrifying gaping maw outside the window.

Gradually, as she focused her mind on thinking, she felt that she was no longer so afraid.

He Ao stared at Zhang Yusi.

Although he has many methods and experiences in combating pollution, most of them come from Wei'an's super

All knowledge, whether it's the FBI training that Ender remembers or Ronald's wilderness survival knowledge.

He himself had little experience in resisting this level of pollution; strictly speaking, he couldn't even feel how strong the pollution was.

Think about his good friends. They might come and show you the truth, or give you a baptism of knowledge, or even force brainwashing or forced dreams.

Having gotten used to interacting with his good friends, his current reaction to this level of pollution is... well... he doesn't really feel anything.

He could feel the disturbance of this pollution, and sense that it was trying to erode his spirit.

But that was all; these pollutants were like mud oxen sinking into the sea, unable to make a ripple in his mind.

He Ao could sense that this pollution originated from a highly powerful being, and it also felt strangely familiar.

However, the power of this pollution was too weak, and He Ao couldn't discern where this familiar feeling came from.

While He Aosi was pondering, Zhang Yusi had already reorganized her logic. She looked at the 'pulling pin' riddled with bullet holes.

"These bullet holes indicate that the bolt was damaged by firearms, possibly by the same group of people who sabotaged the central control computer. These people may have sensed from the beginning that they might be controlled by the contamination, so they directly damaged the bolt, cutting off all possibilities of the gate being opened by an insider,"

She glanced at the glass window; the monster's hideous maw was still there.

"Theoretically speaking, this kind of gate must have more than one switch, with switches both inside and outside. Since those people have even broken the internal switch, the external switch will not be spared either. Even if they did not break the internal switch, in order to prevent the monster from opening the external switch, they must first destroy the external switch."

"Since the switches are all broken, the reason why the door has been closed all the time can be explained."

She glanced at the bloodstains on the ground. The black bloodstains covering the ground were not an illusion. "If no one can open this gate, then the inside of the gate is equivalent to a safe zone? But judging from the bloodstains on the ground, they should have been contaminated in the end."

"Although the monsters outside couldn't get in, they eventually ended up killing each other."

This deduction makes some sense, but she vaguely felt that something was wrong.

"Where's the body?"

He asked slowly.

Where's the body?!

Zhang Yusi was stunned. Right, where's the body?!

In her hallucinations, running away explained why there were no bodies in the passage, but now the damaged latches reminded her that those inside were very likely unable to escape.

If her deduction is correct, since both the internal and external switches have been destroyed and the gate cannot be opened at all, what about the bodies of those who died in the passage?

The corpses were all twisted into monsters?

But so far, only that one little monster has attacked them. So many people have died, and all they've become is that weak little monster?

She looked up and stared at the giant mouth pressed against the window.

Her focused mind had made her oblivious to her fear; she vaguely realized that something was possible.

can.

At this moment, the giant round mouth that was stuck to the window seemed to realize that it could no longer interfere with Zhang Yusi. It wriggled and contracted its mouth, left the window, and slowly stood upright.

Through the blurry window, one could vaguely see a wriggling, vertical monster, resembling a sea anemone or some kind of coelenterate.

Its head is its mouth, and countless tiny tentacles cover the area around it.

Its body swayed from side to side, and the tentacles on its head trembled constantly.

A piercing shriek suddenly exploded in He Ao and Zhang Yusi's minds.

Pollution has intensified.

Zhang Yusi covered her head, gritted her teeth, and leaned against the wall without making a sound.

At that moment, a slender tentacle, made of some kind of metal and flesh, emerged from the writhing tentacles of the sea anemone monster.