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"The question now is... do you choose to keep moving around to avoid monsters, or take some risks and go out to gather intelligence?"

"Let's gather intelligence."

Nori said, "As long as you don't provoke the lab, you shouldn't encounter a lot of monsters elsewhere."

"The five of us working together should be able to handle small-scale skirmishes without any problems."

The head maid and the head guard did not speak.

Nori's opinion is their opinion.

Gao Wen thought for a moment and said, "Although it's a bit risky, I trust Brother Fan's judgment."

“Okay,” Fan Xiao nodded, “Let’s begin.”

The group of five entered the building and headed towards the far left of the first floor, preparing to begin their search from the left.

Chapter 210 Contradictory Information

The layout of the Seventh Research Institute is not complicated, similar to that of a typical research institute, including experimental rooms, auxiliary rooms, and public facilities.

The experimental facilities include general-purpose and specialized laboratories, all located on the third floor of the building, where a large number of humanoid monsters roam.

To avoid disturbing the monsters, Fan Xiao and the other four tried to keep their footsteps as quiet as possible.

When they needed to talk, they would whisper to each other in the lowest possible voice.

Unfortunately, the head maid's defensive talent can only block things from the outside in, but cannot prevent things from the inside from leaking out.

Otherwise, if she were to open the barrier, it would create a soundproof enclosure, which would undoubtedly make the exploration operation safer.

Fortunately, their exploration on the first floor went smoothly; they did not encounter any monsters, and the monsters on the third floor did not notice them either.

Research studio—this is the room they are looking for.

Unlike laboratory rooms, research studios are used by scientific researchers to conduct theoretical research, prepare experimental materials, consult literature, organize experimental data, and write reports.

This room should contain a lot of information, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

Of course, such a room also poses a great danger.

The humanoid monster symbolizes the researcher.

Wearing this identity, they will definitely do things that are in line with their identity.

They might operate exactly as the researchers have done in the past.

Even if they don't have brains now, we can't rule out the possibility that they might go to the research studio and pretend to be something they're not.

Therefore, if you continue searching like this, the probability of encountering them is very high.

Fan Xiao and the other three were on edge, maintaining maximum vigilance.

Fortunately, when they found the first studio, they did not find any monsters inside.

Fan Xiao led his teammates into the room, locked the door from the inside, and began searching for useful information.

This is not a single-person studio; you can see that there are quite a few workstations.

"There's electricity?" Gao Wen exclaimed in surprise. "And the equipment is working properly?"

"Perhaps the dungeon largely recreates scenes from the past."

As Fan Xiao replied, he approached a workstation and tried to open the computer to view the files, but was stopped by the password lock.

In his storage space, there was a USB drive containing a hacking program he had written himself.

However, given that the operating systems in other partitions are completely unfamiliar, with different data transmission interfaces and languages, his cracking program is unlikely to be of much use.

Fan Xiao turned to Gao Wen and asked, "Do you understand hacking techniques?"

“How would I know how to do that?” Gao Wen shook his head and said, “Before becoming a player, I worked in the car repair industry.”

"Then let's see if we can find any paper documents."

Fan Xiao said.

The five people got busy, carefully inspecting each workstation and every cabinet within sight.

Many of the cabinets were locked, but these locks were easy for a D-level player to crack.

They could tear apart even a metal cabinet with a single rip.

A short while later, the five of them piled up the paper documents they had found.

Fan Xiao took a look and found that there were quite a few.

They began to read it seriously.

Most of the materials are related to psionic experiments, either experimental reports, data listings and analyses, or printed documents, which are very difficult to digest.

From these materials, he gradually gleaned a piece of information—the pool in the laboratory contained a liquid made from a fantasy substance.

After the cerebral cortex of the experimental subject is cut open, the brain is directly immersed in this liquid.

It's equivalent to the brain having direct, intimate contact with imaginary matter.

"Fantasy matter can also help develop psionic abilities?" Gawain asked in surprise.

"It's not just fantasy matter; it's a liquid made by mixing many materials together with fantasy matter."

The head maid said, "Whether fantasy matter has any other uses besides being used as an auxiliary material to build safe zones is currently an undetermined matter."

"I don't know much about this, but I've heard that some people are doing research on it, so it must have some other purpose."

"Does Brother Fan know?" Gao Wen asked Fan Xiao.

“I don’t know,” Fan Xiao shook his head. “I’ve never dealt with this kind of thing before.”

He actually knew a little bit about it—fantasy matter could be used to create some infrastructure for mental replicas, and to some extent, it could even be directly absorbed as mental power to enhance oneself.

The transformation of "Wangxiang Town" into "Fairy Tale Town" was thanks to that train carriage that fell from the sky, filled with fantastical elements.

However, directly absorbing fantasy matter as spiritual power... this is just his guess, and even Yan Keke doesn't dare to try it.

Because the spiritual energy inside is too chaotic, absorbing too much of it might turn you into a madman or an idiot.

"The reason why fantasy matter is called 'fantasy' is because it leans towards spiritual attributes."

Nori interjected, "Using talents consumes mental energy, and talents are fragments of psionic energy. Fantasy matter is more mental... Perhaps there is some kind of pattern in this."

"We don't need to figure out the experimental principles; that's not something we players should be doing."

Fan Xiao reminded his teammates, "Keep looking, and focus on finding information related to the researchers and the test subjects."

The five continued to look up the information.

About five minutes later, Nori suddenly spoke up: "Found it."

She unfolded a stack of papers in her hand, which contained basic information about some people.

Fan Xiao and the other three went over and took a closer look.

"Wood, male, 33 years old..."

"A3 Experimental Zone, Employee Number 44..."

"Family situation..."

After quickly scanning a few sheets of paper, the five people discovered that it contained information about researchers.

The information is very detailed, including name, gender, age, education, work experience, projects in charge, experimental area division, employee number, etc.

Even many direct and collateral relatives in the family structure were included.

It's so detailed it's almost... abnormal.

Fan Xiao quickly read through the information and memorized all the details about the seven researchers.

"The number of researchers in one building should be more than seven. This can be inferred from the number of monsters that chased the players before."

Fan Xiao said, "There should be more than one research studio in this building. The other researchers' data should be stored in other rooms."

"You want to collect all the researchers' data?" the head maid asked. "What's the purpose? This data... doesn't seem to be of much use to us right now."

"We'll talk about this once we've gathered all the information."

Fan Xiao replied, "Let's keep looking and see if there's any detailed information about the experimental subjects."

Upon hearing this, everyone continued their investigation.

After a short while, the usually taciturn head guard suddenly spoke up: "Found it, it's here."

He placed a stack of papers in front of everyone.

On the first page was a two-inch color photo of a boy who looked to be about thirteen years old, with his basic information written next to it.

"Malen, male, 13 years old..."

"Experimental Area A3, No. 49..."

"Family relationships..."

"Time of death..."

……

"Lucius, male, 12 years old..."

"Experimental Area A3, No. 41..."

"Family relationships..."

"Time of death..."

……

"Ruth, female, 14 years old..."

"Experimental Area A3, No. 52..."

"Family relationships..."

"Time of death..."

……

"Qiao Ya, female, 15 years old..."

"Experimental Area A3, No. 55..."

"Family relationships..."

“异变时间：2068年7月17日下午4：22。”

"Status: It has merged into the concept and become a psionic monster capable of manipulating fluids."

“处理结果：已于2068年7月17日下午5：00，实施了消灭。”

……

The experimental subjects had more data than the researchers, totaling 55 people.

Of these, all 51 people died.

The remaining four were transformed into psionic monsters and were eliminated by the research institute on the day of the incident.

"Just how many people did this research institute arrest for human experimentation?" Gao Wen frowned. "There are files on 55 people in just one workshop. If you add up the data of the entire institute..."

"Now is not the time to think about that."

The head maid frowned and said, "After the five test subjects turned into psionic monsters, they were all eliminated, and the elimination was carried out on the very day of the mutation."

"I think the fate of other mutated test subjects should be the same. This research institute doesn't seem to want to take the risk of studying psionic monsters. They just kill them when they appear."

"So... where did those monsters we encountered last night come from?"

"This one……"

Gawain speculated, "Could it also be a symbolic monster created from the dungeon? Just like those researcher monsters?"

"The characteristics of the researcher monsters are very consistent; they are simply monsters with great strength."

Fan Xiao said, "But psionic monsters... their abilities are very diverse and very strange. It's hard to imagine that a D-rank dungeon could create such psionic monsters at will."

His "Fairy Tale Town" was once known as one of the most difficult D-level dungeons, and it was only through mental suggestion that he was able to create characters with multiple abilities.