Infinite Murder Mystery Game: The Beauty with a Delicate Palm

Qiao Yinuo swallowed hard, feeling a chill run through her body. She didn't understand the technical terms, but she understood the cruel reality hidden in those words.

"So... because so many people are dying, and the demand for people's consciousness can't keep up, they're forcibly creating suffering?"

Huang Baien sighed and continued leading the two inside, "They were going to die anyway, and they wanted to make a contribution to society before they passed away..."

He didn't continue speaking. Zheng Zizhou heard those sounds entering his eardrums, and his fists gradually clenched.

This scene is being repeated in every cubicle of this laboratory.

Every degenerate contributes their own trauma to that vast virtual world.

Their nightmares became the soil for the dungeons, and their fears became the prototypes for the monsters.

Their deepest guilt and regret became the tasks that could never be completed and the exits that could never be reached in the other world.

After passing through door after door, we finally stopped in front of a spacious laboratory.

Huang Baien swiped his card, the door opened, and inside was a huge circular space with a high dome, filled with all sorts of instruments whose names he didn't know.

In the very center are two rows of sleep pods.

The cabin was silvery-white with a semi-transparent canopy, through which the outlines of people could be vaguely seen.

"Where is this place?"

Qiao Yinuo asked, and Huang Baien walked to the nearest sleep pod and reached out to wipe away non-existent dust from the pod cover.

A man with blond hair and a high nose was lying in the cabin, and the woman next to him was someone Huang Baien had personally put in.

Adrian and Adele.

"Those are the players who chose to stay in the instance."

"They thought they had found a way to achieve immortality, that they could live forever as long as they stayed in that world."

Huang Baien tapped his fingers lightly on the hatch. "But the replica needs energy to maintain itself, and that energy comes from the consciousness of the main world. When they choose to stay there, their bodies will enter this state of suspended animation."

"What will happen to them?" Zheng Zizhou asked.

Huang Baien turned his head and looked at him with a complicated expression.

"They'll never wake up, their points will be retained, they won't die, they won't degenerate." He smirked. "But they'll also never know they've been deceived."

The echo reverberated through the space for a few moments, and in the end, no one spoke.

*

The woman in the office stood up. A young man in a lab coat knocked on the door, came in, and spoke to her. The woman's expression changed slightly, but she quickly regained her composure.

"Let her in."

"Dr. Ma."

Su Mian walked to the door, put her hands in her pockets, and looked straight at her. Ma Youhui looked back, leaned on the table, and slowly walked forward. The young man closed the door, and the office was silent for a moment.

Actually, calling it an office is more like calling it a converted laboratory. These people spend all their time in the lab working on projects, so nobody uses the office at all.

Apart from a long green office table, the place is filled with various medical engineering instruments. Since the theory of symbiosis between evolution and degeneration was confirmed, the Institute of Biology has devoted itself to other projects.

"You've grown even more beautiful in just six months."

Looking at that increasingly refined and mature face, Ma Youhui couldn't help but sigh, "It's all thanks to your parents' good genes..."

He was initially commenting on her appearance, but then abruptly changed the subject, saying, "Only then can one be born with a pure body."

"What?"

Su Mian frowned, not understanding what she was saying.

Ma Youhui pulled out a stool for her and gestured for her to sit down.

"Your genes are very strong, unique in the world. Why do you get so many diseases but never die? It's not because you're strong, it's because of your genes."

"Your genes give you a fragile barrier, but also a powerful immune system. Your body can accept any weakness, but it will not allow the host to die."

"In a sense, you are an immortal in a short life."

Su Mian lowered her eyes, digesting this huge amount of information, her fingertips rubbing together, before she looked up and said, "So, you're not a psychologist at all. You've actually always been a researcher at the Institute of Biology. You were just investigating me."

Hearing these words, Ma Youhui did not show any surprise. "Smart."

"You are unique in the world, how could I not be interested? What I didn't expect was that you would choose to walk into my trap."

Her eyes suddenly sharpened. "What do you want from me?"

Su Mian stood up. "Someone once told me that the main god of the other world is a human."

Ma Youhui scoffed, "Are you targeting me? Su Mian, my classmate."

Su Mian shook her head. "I don't really want to know who the main god is. I just want to tell her that if things continue like this, more and more people will die."

"Why not change the rules? Since this is a world created by humans, it should benefit humanity, not allow humans to kill each other..."

Before Su Mian could finish speaking, Ma Youhui burst into laughter. She wiped away the tears of laughter from the corners of her eyes, then shook her head.

"You can survive whether you have points or not, and you don't need to enter the dungeon or not. I've already told you that, what more do you want? You're just walking into this trap to find your little boyfriend, aren't you?"

She suddenly leaned forward, her eyes fixed on Su Mian. Su Mian frowned and took a step back.

"What are you pretending to be a hero for? You think the rules can be changed at will? You made them all up!!! It's all your fault!"

She suddenly raised her voice, startling Su Mian.

"Do you know how hard I worked to collect all twelve zodiac animals? Those self-important fools, thinking they come from a higher dimension, thinking they're so great, aren't they just human consciousness?!"

"Change the rules? Those heartless and ruthless arbitrators will allow me to change the rules? Dream on. They'll be lucky if they don't kill me when they find out the truth."

"But every arbitrator has weaknesses that you've never noticed."

Su Mian's shoulders were pressed down tightly by her, her face calm and composed. "You just don't want to try. You're afraid of death. You're selfish."

"Shut up! Shut up!!!"

Ma Youhui grabbed Su Mian by the neck. Su Mian gasped and kicked her. Perhaps because she used too much force, Su Mian hallucinated and saw dark shadows around Ma Youhui.

Just as he was about to die, the door was kicked open, and Zheng Zizhou and the others rushed in.

"Sleepless night!!!"

Huang Baien pounced on him and kissed him directly.

"Don't you dare bully my goddess!"

Ma Youhui released her grip in pain, and Su Mian coughed violently, clutching her neck as she collapsed in a corner, her eyes half-open.

Zheng Zizhou: "If you don't want us to expose your institute of biology, then don't go near her!"

Ma Youhui snorted coldly, "So what if it's exposed? That's all the value a dead person has."