Life Dungeon Game

He calmly rolled up his sleeve, drew his butterfly knife, and said, "Thank you for your help."

He Ao retracted the sharp blade of the butterfly knife into its handle, turned around, and looked at the iron chain that had just been cut open by the receptionist.

The body at the front desk, following his sideways movement, grazed the space beside him and fell to the ground with a dull thud.

Accompanying the muffled thud was the crisp metallic clanging of He Ao untying the chains wrapped around the iron gate.

Once the chains were completely removed, he reached out and placed his hand on the doorknob.

At that moment, his bracelet vibrated again.

He Ao raised his bracelet and found that it was a screen projected by Eve, displaying the black market's chat interface.

Blood Wolf sent him two messages. One was sent during his fight with the receptionist, asking him "how his consideration is going?"

One of them was sent out now.

If you perform well in the test tasks, I can assign you more tasks. This is a long-term investment with substantial future profits. You can even join us to gain more extraordinary powers. Your information...

Saying you're a lone traveler is bad news; you should know that secretive, extraordinary organizations like ours aren't easy to find.

It seems that the Evolutionary Path is really short of people.

He Ao glanced at the message and replied,

I was just asking casually.

After the message was sent, it seemed like they had a lot to say, as it kept showing "typing in progress".

He Ao then put down the bracelet, placed his hand on the doorknob, and slowly pulled open the iron door.

A long, quiet corridor came into view.

There were no alarms or panicked crowds around.

The receptionist seemed very confident, thinking she could easily deal with He Ao, so she didn't sound the alarm. She seemed to want to 'devour' He Ao's flesh and soul all by herself.

Of course, this is also related to He Ao deliberately letting her off the hook, pretending not to see the receptionist, which boosted her confidence.

After opening the door, He Ao did not go directly into the corridor. Instead, he turned off the light on the bracelet, turned on the bracelet camera, and pointed it at the inside of the corridor.

A camera hanging upside down at the very top of the wall appeared in the bracelet's lens.

"Enter through the door on the right and walk straight to the right along the wall."

Eve quickly identified the camera model and used a Bluetooth headset to plan a route for Heo in the camera's blind spots.

Following Eve's suggestion, He Ao slowly walked through the open iron gate.

The death of the front desk cannot be concealed for long. Once the higher-ups of the Evolutionary Path discover the front desk's disappearance through some kind of detection mechanism, they will inevitably sound the alarm.

Therefore, He Ao needs to make good use of this short period of time to see if he can find a place to access the building's intranet so that Eve can control the host and copy the data.

This time, the corridor no longer has only two walls, but instead has small white doors arranged in a row along both sides of the corridor.

Each small door has a silver nameplate hanging on it, indicating the room that the small door corresponds to.

He looked around.

The room numbers above the doors are: 'Farming Room 9', 'Farming Room 8', 'Farming Room 7', 'Farming Room 6'.

This corridor does not connect the entrance or exit of the entire area; it is a middle corridor. There is a corner behind breeding room 9 and another corner in front of breeding room 6.

He Ao was standing near breeding room 6. He walked a few steps along the blind spot of the camera and crossed the door of breeding room 6, reaching the corner of the corridor.

The way the rooms are labeled here is very similar to that of a 'farm'.

Based on Sito's experience, federal farms typically locate feed rooms and related intelligent system control rooms—rooms requiring staff operation—at the entrance of the breeding area to facilitate staff operations and improve feeding efficiency.

Although the animals raised here are most likely not ordinary 'livestock', the logic of regional distribution may be consistent, judging from the standard arrangement of this breeding area.

Next to breeding room 1, there should be the main control room and feed room.

It doesn't look like feeding time right now; there are no 'staff' in the hallway.

He Ao stood at the corner, stretched out his wristband, and used it to scan the location of the camera behind the corner.

Eve quickly identified the camera's model and told her...

The blind spot of He'ao's camera.

This time, the camera had no blind spots at the corner of the ground.

He looked up at the ceiling.

The ceiling of this corridor is not high, only a little over two meters, which is not the same depth as the three flights of stairs He Ao had climbed. The corridor is also not wide. If He Ao opens his arms, he can press against the walls on both sides of the corridor at the same time.

It appears that the people who built this corridor tried to minimize its size to make room for other spaces, such as the breeding area.

He Ao took out a butterfly knife, stuck it into the wall, and used the butterfly knife and his cane to climb up quickly to the ceiling.

Then he slowly pressed his hands and feet against the walls on both sides, carefully moved along the ceiling, and turned the corner.

There are no blind spots on the ground, but there are on the ceiling.

Behind the corner was a long, dimly lit corridor, longer than the one He Ao had just come through.

There are seven rooms in the corridor.

There are four rooms on the left: breeding room 5, breeding room 3, breeding room 1, and the 'control room'.

There are three rooms on the right: breeding room 4, breeding room 2, and feed room.

Judging from the distance between the doors, the main control room is a very small room, and the feed room is about the same size as a breeding room, or even larger.

Beyond these seven rooms lies the end of the corridor, where a silent elevator door stands.

The elevator on the first floor isn't located here. It seems that the elevator on the first floor can't actually go down here. After going upstairs, you have to take another elevator down.

That's why He Ao's action of opening the fire exit caught the attention of the front desk.

Ding--

As He Ao scanned the layout of the corridor and carefully moved forward using his hands and feet to brace against the walls on both sides, a crisp sound rang in his ears.

The tightly closed elevator door slowly opened.

Two men in pure white work uniforms slowly walked out of the elevator.

"The notice from above says there's a recent feed shortage, and the new batch of feed will be prioritized for the Xicheng area. We'll just have to wait for the next batch."

The man on the left had curly, brownish-yellow hair. He glanced at the bracelet and sighed.

"Isn't it always like this?"

Beside him was a short, thin man who sighed, "Western City has never lacked feed, because their ranks are higher than ours. Even the minister is there."

"I haven't had any meat for many days."

The man with brown curly hair sighed, walked to the front of the control room, swiped his work badge, and pushed open the door.

"The feed in the feed shed is for the 'livestock,' there's no way we'd get any. If we get caught, the boss will kill us."

The gaunt man sighed, "Don't think about it. We have to get up and work later. I need to take inventory of the feed storage room soon."

"I've heard that those who come from the black market, once they join the organization, basically have enough supplies."

The man with brown curly hair pushed open the door to the control room.

"They can find their own food and source their own supplies, which is different from us,"

The skinny man followed the man with brown curly hair into the room.

In the control room, someone said, "If you really want to compare, we're much better than that woman at the front desk. She looks arrogant, but she sees so much feed coming and going every day and can't eat it herself, yet she has to smile and serve it to people. If it were me, I would have suffocated long ago."

"Hahaha."

His words amused the man with brown curly hair.

The brown-haired man reached out to close the door, but was stopped by the skinny man. "Don't close it yet. I'm going to grab an inventory list and check the stock."

As he spoke, he leaned half his body into the control room and took an e-reader tablet from the wall behind the door.

"Then you do it, I'm going to sleep for a while."

The man with brown curly hair walked into the depths of the control room.

"it is good."

The gaunt man, carrying an e-reader tablet, left the control room.

He walked diagonally across the corridor, picked up his work badge, and swiped it to open the door to the feed room.

Then he slammed the door shut behind him and walked deeper into the feed room.

The door slowly closed, and just as the crack was about to shut, four withered fingers slipped through the crack and gripped the door, preventing it from closing completely.

Then, the hand slowly exerted force and pushed the door open again.

He Ao walked into the 'feed room'.

The first thing that caught his eye was two racks stained with blood. The racks had steel rings on them to secure the hands and feet, and various instruments that looked like some kind of whipping or torture instruments were hanging on or leaning against them.

These instruments of torture came in all shapes and sizes, including clamps, whips, and bloodstained, rusty steel pipes.

These instruments of torture, stained with blood, appeared sinister and terrifying under the dim light.

Next to the shelves were rows and rows of iron cages stacked up.

These iron cages are each about two meters high and 1.5 meters wide, with a narrow door on the left side.

Like bricks used to build a wall, they were stacked one by one, fixed in the middle with some kind of steel frame, forming a wall constructed of an iron cage.

The gaps in the iron cage reveal that there isn't just one wall; there are many more behind it.

The layout of this 'feed room' consists of two iron cage walls back to back, with a narrow passageway in between that allows only one person to pass through, and then another two iron cage walls standing side by side.

Arrange them in order.

Inside these narrow iron cages, many cages were empty, but in many others, a person dressed in rags and with unkempt hair was imprisoned.

Among these people were the elderly, children, men and women. Some were curled up in the iron cage, fast asleep; some stared blankly upwards; and some were looking around aimlessly.

Each of them wore a numbered steel collar around their neck, which was attached to the top of the iron cage by a thick iron chain, thus 'tying' them to the cage.

Many people saw He Ao come in, but they did nothing.

Just like livestock in a farm staring blankly at humans standing outside their cages.