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Upon seeing this number, everyone's expression changed, and they immediately chose to retreat and create distance.

The gloomy man and the two cannibalistic players discovered the seven of them retreating.

Without hesitation, the three of them immediately chose to lure the monsters in and involve them.

The three of them sped up and ran towards them.

Chapter 209: Maybe he can even awaken some spiritual energy?

"Let's go inside the building."

As Fan Xiao retreated, he said to his companions, "Our stamina is limited, and the monsters don't know the situation. Let's assume they won't get tired. If we keep running like this, it's only a matter of time before we encounter them."

“Okay,” Nori nodded. “An encounter after we’re exhausted would be at a disadvantage for us. Let’s find a place to hide first.”

She no longer said that this was a trial, that she wanted to take on the challenge, or that she wanted to fight to the end.

Fifteen monsters are not easy to deal with!

Without the ability to use items, she wasn't confident she could win the battle without taking any damage.

Not only her, but no one else was sure either.

The chances of it going wrong are not small.

Therefore, no one objected to Van Chau's proposal.

The five immediately changed direction and ran towards the nearest building.

Seeing this, the man with the high ponytail and the muscular man followed behind them.

After the seven people entered the building through the main door on the first floor, they all became tense.

Each building has a laboratory.

The laboratory was filled with monsters.

If they make a commotion and attract their attention, they will be in a very dangerous situation, caught between the monsters inside and outside the building.

"follow me."

After reminding everyone, Fan Xiao walked towards the right corridor.

Last night, while searching for the lab, although he flew very fast, he quickly glanced at the signs next to the room doors along the way and memorized most of them.

This was the first building they entered last night, and he had already figured out the layout of the first and second floors.

Led by Fan Xiao, the seven people arrived at a storage room near the stairs, entered it, and locked the door.

The cramped storage room suddenly became crowded.

Fan Xiao chose a spot to stand, and Nori stood next to him in a "guardian" posture.

Fan Xiao lowered his voice and said to everyone, "It should be safe here for now."

"What is the basis for your judgment?" the girl with the high ponytail asked.

Fan Xiao glanced at her and replied, "The Seventh Research Institute during the day should represent the past. As you said before, all the instruments in the laboratory are running, so we should have entered the research institute of the past."

"Of course, it should only be a symbolic past. The most obvious evidence is that those researchers are monsters. They should also only be symbolic researchers, whose role is to supplement the script and build the stage."

“In the past, the research institutes did not have any problems, and the ‘people’ in the institutes were all working normally.”

"Based on this, we can deduce that we can identify several relatively safe places—the storage room is one of them, as it is only used when cleaning."

"but……"

He added, "This is not absolute; we cannot yet determine whether the humanoid monster can lock onto our location."

"I guess it's impossible, otherwise they would have already swarmed out to hunt us down."

"Of course, after they lose track of us and find that we can't be found outside, they may search room by room inside the building."

"If that's the case, we're still in danger unless we change positions in real time."

After hearing Fan Xiao's guess, the head maid offered her opinion: "It depends on whether the monsters search for us separately or all at once."

"If it's the former, there's a high probability of small-scale skirmishes, which shouldn't be too difficult for us to handle."

"If it's the latter... if they stay together, the search efficiency will be very low, and the probability of us encountering them will be smaller. But once we do encounter them... then we'll have to enter the final battle."

"Actually, there is another way to ensure that we can leisurely spend the whole day without any major danger to our lives."

Fan Xiao's words drew everyone's attention to him.

He met the eager gazes of the crowd and said, "The reason the monsters are hunting us now is probably because we did something that violated our identity, such as running around in the research institute."

"If we cooperate with their experiments in the lab, there probably won't be any danger."

"You've all seen the memory fragments on the name tag. The researchers were conducting experiments on the test subjects, constantly stimulating their sense of pain. Given our rate of evolution, this kind of torture shouldn't be fatal. We can endure it."

"...You call this leisurely?" The woman with the high ponytail said speechlessly, "Who would actively seek out torture? What if they die?"

"It's just a guess, you can deny it if you want, but I personally think it's very likely."

Fan Xiao shrugged and half-jokingly said, "Maybe if I go and cooperate with the experiment, I'll be soaked in the pool for a day, and if I'm lucky, I might even awaken some psionic energy along the way."

"You're exaggerating more and more..."

The woman with the high ponytail looked even more speechless.

Not only her, but everyone else took it all as a joke.

The memory fragments on the name tag have already laid bare the cruelty of the psionic experiments.

First, the vast majority of people would die during the experiment.

They either die from the pain, from physical weakness, from being accidentally killed due to a mistake in the experiment, from a mental breakdown, or from becoming an idiot due to excessive injection of neuroactive drugs.

Those who manage to survive this initial stage, even if they manage to awaken psionic abilities, will mostly turn into mindless monsters.

It is estimated that only a very small number of people can successfully maintain their rationality and awaken their psychic powers.

There wasn't even one.

Ultimately, they found no clues about the final outcome of the psionic experiment in the memory fragments on the badge.

Perhaps they all failed.

All the test subjects either died or turned into monsters.

"Shh..."

Suddenly, Fan Xiao put his finger to his lips, making a shushing gesture.

A series of hurried footsteps sounded outside; judging from the sound, there were probably three people.

As expected, it should be the gloomy man and those two cannibalistic players.

Immediately afterwards, a series of footsteps that didn't sound like humans came from outside.

The monsters chased them into the building!

Everyone held their breath, trying their best to minimize their presence.

A moment later, footsteps were heard heading up to the second floor.

Only then did Fan Xiao lower his voice and say, "They went to the second floor. Let's leave here first."

"These three guys...!"

Gao Wen frowned slightly.

Are you trying to drag the monsters into the building?

Without further delay, the seven opened the door to the storage room and quietly left the building.

Once outside, Fan Xiao said to the man with the high ponytail and the muscular man, "Let's part ways here."

"...I don't understand why you're rejecting us." The woman with the high ponytail frowned. "Isn't acting together now the best option? What's your motive for rejecting us?"

The muscular man standing next to her also had a gloomy expression. He glared at Fan Xiao first, then looked at Gao Wen and the others, and said with considerable displeasure, "You all just listen to him? Don't you have any opinions of your own? Be careful you don't get sold out!"

"You don't need to worry about that."

Fan Xiao said coldly, "Moreover, we're not looking for a place to hide; we'll take the initiative to gather intelligence."

"You two are only concerned with running away, so you probably won't cooperate with us in doing this. Let's just part ways amicably."

After saying that, he led his four teammates to a building a little further away.

The muscular man looked rather grim.

After Fan Xiao and his group had walked a short distance away, he asked Gao Mawei, "Should we follow them? If we encounter monsters, we can lure them towards us and drag them into the water to reduce our risk."

Do you think all the other players are idiots?

"If we lure monsters too often, they'll definitely team up and deal with us first," said the girl with the high ponytail.

"As you saw before, these five people were very united, and their combined attack went very smoothly."

"The first time they successfully lured the monsters, it was probably because they were very interested in the monsters' strength and made a test attack. It has nothing to do with whether they save us or not. And..."

She added, "They're going to actively gather intelligence, which is dangerous. It might be safer for us to stay away from them and act alone."

"You believe that?" the muscular man asked.

"I believe you. That leader is very intelligent and decisive."

Takama said, "If he's not content with just a low rating, he'll definitely go and gather intelligence, and the other four... they all highly recommend his suggestion."

"This guy... he's really annoying!" the muscular man said. "I'll find a chance to take him down sooner or later!"

“There’s a chance,” the woman with the high ponytail said.

"Oh?" the muscular man asked, "You don't like him either?"

"His presence is an obstacle to our interests."

Gao Mawei said, "Moreover, while they are gathering intelligence, we can reap the benefits."

"It's not that simple," the muscular man shook his head. "That five-person team is very strong when they work together. The chances of us forcing them to talk are very slim!"

"We only need to gather five people."

The woman with the high ponytail looked towards the building entrance and said, "If the three players who just entered the building survive, we'll join them and form a team."

"When the time comes, if there is a suitable opportunity, the five of us will team up to launch a surprise attack and take out the leader of that team first."

"Without that guy's influence, the remaining four are very likely to join us and share intelligence."

"good idea!"

The muscular man nodded excitedly.

……

Meanwhile, Fan Xiao and his group of five had turned several corners and arrived at the building where they had stayed until dawn the previous night.

Nori walked beside Van Shaw and asked, "Earl, is it alright to refuse those two people from joining the team? It's definitely safer to have more people now."

"Your Highness is still inexperienced. How should I put it... people's hearts can be very treacherous."

Fan Xiao explained, "The fact that these two lured the monster without hesitation when they first saw us is enough to show that they are not good people."

“If we run into trouble, they will probably just run away. They will not only not help us, but sometimes they will even hold us back.”

"Moreover, given their selfish and self-serving nature, they probably won't cooperate with us in the search. Letting them join the team would do more harm than good."

"Those two people are indeed wicked."

Gao Wen nodded and said, "It's fine to split up. Our team already works well together, so there's no need to make any changes."

"Are you really going to start intelligence gathering?"

At this moment, the head maid reminded Fan Xiao, "Those monsters are not easy to deal with. If we want to search for information, we will definitely have to sneak through each room one by one, which is too risky and the possibility of encountering monsters will increase dramatically."

"I have a guess about these monsters that I want to verify, and it relates to the second condition for clearing the game."

Fan Xiao smiled and said, "If we succeed, we might be able to spend the rest of our survival time in peace."

This statement immediately piqued the curiosity and anticipation of the four people.

They all looked at Fan Xiao with eager eyes.

Meeting their gazes, Fan Xiao said, "Let's discuss this in detail after we've verified it; I'm not sure about it right now."