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A moment later, the wooden door creaked open.

Fan Xiao stared intently as Director Chen emerged from the house, carrying a thin rope and a black bag.

The Lu Xining sisters also saw it, but not as clearly as Fan Xiao.

All three slowed their breathing, trying to minimize their presence.

Director Chen left the main gate and walked deeper into the zoo.

The three of them quietly followed him.

Director Chen was very familiar with the zoo's layout, and even though it was dark at night and some places didn't have lights, it didn't slow him down.

Before long, he approached a place where animals lived.

Then he crouched down and turned over the corpse lying on the ground.

Those are the player's corpses.

It's likely that he got into a fight with another player during the day and was killed.

Director Chen looked at the corpse's wrists, then put the body into a bag.

He seemed to have great strength, and even as he carried the bag containing the corpse in another direction, he did not slow down.

Fan, Xiao, and the other two looked at each other in bewilderment, but said nothing and continued to follow.

Director Chen walked around the zoo, picked out 3 of the 7 corpses, put them in a bag, sealed the bag with a thin rope, and carried it back to the small house at the zoo gate.

Fan, Xiao, and the other two hid behind a rock, keeping a close eye on the house with the lights on.

They lowered their voices and began to communicate with each other.

"Director Chen must be a player."

Lu Xining said, "Three corpses are not something an ordinary person can carry, let alone move so fast."

"Moreover, apart from players, it seems that no one else can currently display special abilities, and even items can only be used by players."

“Perhaps people from other worlds…have different physical attributes?” Lu Baizhi said.

“We’ve seen people from other worlds before,” Lu Xining replied. “They all have one head and two ears, so there’s no difference between them.”

"Director Chen is collecting the corpses of demi-human players and cannibal players."

Fan Xiao suddenly said, "I saw him checking the numbers on the bodies' arms. He only put the gray and black ones into the bag, and he ignored the white ones."

"Gray, black..."

Lu Xining speculated, "Demi-human players and cannibal players both have genes from other animals mixed in their bodies, while humans don't... Could it be that he's targeting demi-human players and cannibal players for this reason?"

"I don't know, let's see."

Fan Xiao didn't draw a conclusion yet, saying, "He only carried back three corpses. Surely he wasn't collecting corpses for the players?"

"Perhaps... as you guessed, Director Chen is a mad scientist, and the corpse is what he needs for his experiments."

"I saw the interior of that small room during the day, and it doesn't have the environmental conditions for conducting experiments."

Lu Xining said, "If we really want to do an experiment, it definitely won't be there."

"Just keep an eye on it."

Fan Xiao said, "If he comes out, we'll keep following him; if he doesn't come out..."

“Either the laboratory is beneath that little hut,” Lu Xining continued, “or…that little hut has a secret passage leading to other places.”

After making their guesses, the three waited patiently.

Fan Xiao focused his attention on the sounds coming from the other side of the house.

About ten minutes later, he found that all he could hear around him was the chirping of insects.

"The person is missing."

Fan Xiao suddenly reminded him, "Let's go take a look."

After saying that, he took the lead and walked towards the house.

Lu Xining didn't doubt Fan Xiao's words and quickly followed along with her sister.

The three arrived at the small house and peered through the square window. It was empty; neither Director Chen nor the three corpses were there. Only the light was still on.

Fan Xiao climbed in through a window without glass, and the two sisters did the same.

The three of them inspected the house, leaving no detail overlooked.

After checking for about 5 minutes, I didn't get anything substantial.

"There is either no space underground, or the thickness is exaggerated."

Lu Xining tapped the wooden floor with her knuckles, but couldn't hear any strange sounds: "I wonder where Director Chen left from."

"Since Director Chen might be a player, he probably used some kind of item," Fan Xiao guessed.

Lu Xining thought for a moment and suggested to Fan Xiao, "How about... you try digging up the ground?"

"I'm planning to do it."

Fan Xiao controlled the blood blade to fly out from his waist and dig into the ground.

The wooden floor was instantly pierced, the blood-stained blade touched the soil, and then continued to dig deeper.

At the same time, he manipulated the "Dustless Shield" to generate a repulsive force, which sent all the loosened soil flying, scattering the soil throughout the entire room.

When Director Chen comes out and sees the scene inside, he will probably be stunned for a while.

It has to be said that after the "Dustless Shield" evolved, it is even more suitable to assist Bloodblade in demolition work.

After digging about five to six meters deep, Blood Blade came into contact with a hard substance.

"There's definitely something fishy going on down there."

Fan Xiao smiled, condensed several blood blades into one, strengthened the weapon, and directly dug through the hard material below.

A hole appeared.

He jumped in first, and after falling a short distance, landed on the floor.

Judging from the feel underfoot, the floor material is similar to granite tiles.

Lu Xining and Lu Baizhi followed closely behind and jumped down.

The three looked around and found themselves in a brightly lit corridor.

"This place looks a bit like... an underground research facility?"

Lu Baizhi judged based on the scenes that frequently appeared in the movie.

“We’ve caused quite a commotion; we need to get out of here quickly,” Lu Xining warned.

"Let's hide and gather intelligence at the same time."

Fan Xiao pushed Lu Baizhi in front of him: "Zhizhi, you lead the way, just follow your instincts."

"Oh……"

Lu Baizhi thought for a moment, walked forward for a distance, and then turned left at the fork in the road.

Fan Xiao and Lu Xining followed.

The three walked along the corridor.

As he passed each room, Fan Xiao would press his ear against the door to listen for any sounds. Once he found no one there, he would open the door and go inside to check.

When he encountered a door that he couldn't open, he would use his Blood Blade to break the lock, force it open, and then go inside to explore.

I checked 13 rooms in a row, but didn't encounter a single person.

They did find some empty bottles and jars, such as lab benches, knives, and test tubes, as well as some scattered, oddly shaped bones.

Some of these bones are vaguely human-shaped, while others are completely monstrous.

"Director Chen was indeed conducting biological experiments behind the scenes."

Lu Xining concluded, "These bones, without a doubt, were left behind after humans transformed into animals; some even have completely changed bone shapes."

"Have you noticed that those bones that are still recognizable as human-shaped, judging from their size, should belong to children?"

Fan Xiao suddenly said.

“Maybe they were all children originally,” Lu Xining guessed. “Didn’t we previously speculate that this zoo might have been a large orphanage? The current situation fits that speculation.”

The three men's expressions darkened.

Based on the current situation, it can be basically confirmed that this underground research institute once conducted very cruel human experiments, resulting in the deaths of many children.

I just don't know what the research objective is.

"That looks like an archives room?"

Lu Baizhi raised her hand and pointed to the room at the end of the corridor.

Chapter 84 Will the Demon Repent?

Fan Xiao opened the door to the archives room, and as he had done with the other rooms before, a cloud of dust rose up.

He used his "Dust-Free Shield" to brush away the dust, entered the room, and looked around.

The room was large, with many iron shelves placed on the floor.

However, most of the iron frames were damaged and covered in dust, indicating that they had been abandoned for many years.

The ceiling light was also broken. The Lu Xining sisters followed them in, and with the help of the corridor light, they could barely see part of the room.

Fan Xiao was unaffected by the light; the D-level item "Vampire" granted him night vision, making it easy for him to see things in the dark.

"There aren't many documents left inside, and it's all covered in dust, just like the previous room. I guess no one has cleaned it for a long time."

Fan Xiao reminded the two sisters of something.

He then went inside to investigate and, finding nothing of value, used the "Dustless Shield" to move all the remaining data to the outdoor corridor.

Using the light from the corridor, Lu Xining and her sister began to help each other look through the documents.

"By the way... why is the writing system in parallel universes the same as the writing system on Earth?"

As Lu Baizhi flipped through the pages, she murmured a question in confusion.

“It might have always been the same,” Lu Xining said. “Or maybe the game translated it for us, but we just didn’t notice.”

“When I talked to players from different regions, I checked their lip movements, and some of them sounded off.”

Fan Xiao said, "So it should be the latter. The game has already done the translation for us without us even realizing it."

“This feature is really useful,” Lu Baizhi said. “It would be great if it could also help me translate during foreign language exams.”

Fan Xiao: "..."

Having gathered his scattered thoughts, Fan Xiao began to focus on reading the incomplete documents in his hand.

The above contains a lot of academic jargon, which makes it a bit difficult to read. You often have to read a sentence several times.

It took the three of them almost half an hour to barely finish a small portion of the information.

Fan Xiao glanced at the table of contents of the remaining materials, which were all theories, data, experimental records, and the like.

"It's research about how ordinary humans become evolved beings..."

After reviewing the information, Lu Xining summarized and managed to piece together the sequence of events: "And they even managed to research it successfully!"

Yes, this underground research institute had been studying how to turn ordinary people into evolved beings.

The ultimate goal, needless to say, is to expand the player base in this world.

To achieve this goal, they captured many evolved individuals and secretly conducted unethical human experiments.

In addition to evolved beings, ordinary people are also targets.

Because drug research naturally requires people to test the drugs.

Simple lab rats can't satisfy these crazy guys.

Just as Lu Xining guessed, the predecessor of Xingyi City Zoo was a large orphanage.

Researchers gathered unwanted children together and used them as experimental subjects, constantly testing the latest drugs on their bodies, observing adverse reactions, and recording them repeatedly until they developed the final product—the J4 evolution drug.