Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 225 - 223: The Cause

Chapter 225: Chapter 223: The Cause

Opening the box, there were some chess pieces and a set of chessboard; it appeared to be a tabletop game.

However, this game came without an instruction manual or any essential information like the manufacturer’s details, clearly making it an unbranded product.

Among the chess pieces, the largest was something resembling a bronze statue, and strikingly, the rest of the pieces bore the cartoon images of everyone present!

Wen Wen was about to delve deeper into the box and its contents when they vanished into sparkles of light like fireworks, disappearing into the air.

Moreover, the little girl who had been struggling in front of Chu Wei had stopped moving, her mouth curled into a cold smirk as she indifferently watched Wen Wen.

"Tsk, so you are the boss of this inn," she said.

Wen Wen sat down on a table and looked at the little girl, saying, "We must be inside that game now, right?"

The little girl did not respond, but her expression grew darker.

"And you," Wen Wen pointed at the little girl, "are the initiator of this game, controlling everything."

Having seen that box, Wen Wen had roughly understood the predicament he was in and he solemnly told the little girl, "End this game, or I will forcefully destroy it!"

Having said that, Wen Wen pulled out the Blazing Tiger and fired a shot directly at the ceiling.

The powerful bullet blasted a big hole in the ceiling, beyond which was not the sky, but something hazy and indescribable.

The thing was slightly torn open by the bullet, allowing a beam of sunlight, as thick as a cucumber, to shine into the inn.

But the small gap quickly closed up, and the damage to the inn was repairing itself.

"Look, I have the power to destroy this place," Wen Wen said as he tucked the gun back into his bag.

Chu Wei’s eyes sparkled; he loved this kind of violent stuff, and he excitedly said to Wen Wen, "Brother, that’s a powerful gun you have, will you sell it to me?"

Wen Wen gave him a look but ignored him, continuing to watch the little girl.

After a moment of silence, she said, "If you cause enough destruction, the game will be forcibly ended, and everyone here will die."

Wen Wen confidently said, "At least, I won’t die."

"But they will," the little girl pointed at the others and said.

"Er, I won’t die either," Chu Wei stood up and said.

The little girl was momentarily taken aback, then said furiously, "The game is still ongoing, only those who complete the game can leave, fend for yourselves!"

After dropping those harsh words, her body completely transformed into a heap of fluttering colorful paper strips, filling up the floor.

Clearly, she had already left the game.

Wen Wen looked at the remaining three ordinary people in the room, ignoring Lu Yu who was shivering aside, and approached Zheng Shengli and Wu Fengxia.

If it weren’t for these three ordinary people, Wen Wen’s task would be much easier, just forcefully break through.

But with these three ordinary people, Wen Wen also had to look out for their safety.

However, their presence was also useful, at least Wen Wen could ask them what exactly was going on here.

Wen Wen believed that both Zheng Shengli and Wu Caixia were in the know.

"Speak up, what exactly is going on here? Matters of life and death, stop hiding things," Wen Wen demanded authoritatively, sitting in front of the two with a cigarette holder in his mouth.

"Sir, we really didn’t hide anything, we told that person everything we knew," Wu Fengxia said, her face a picture of grievance, pointing at Chu Wei.

Chu Wei nodded and said, "Everything I knew before was told by her, in great detail."

"Don’t interrupt," Wen Wen rolled his eyes at Chu Wei, then said to Wu Fengxia, "What you told him before is not what I want to hear."

Wu Fengxia’s face stiffened as she asked, "Then... what do you want to hear?"

Wen Wen said methodically, "I want to know your relationship with that girl."

Wu Fengxia and Zheng Shengli glanced at each other, then remained silent.

"Hey, actually I’m a good person..."

Wen Wen whistled, and Three Cubs’ body swelled like a balloon, pushing all the tables and chairs aside, transforming into a thick serpent.

The serpent, fiery red and hugely muscled, roared deafeningly at them, its stinky saliva almost spraying their faces.

The two were terrified out of their wits, retreating continuously, how can this be considered a good person?

Wen Wen’s lips downturned, his body leaning forward, his eyes boring into them like a ferocious beast choosing its prey.

"Speak or not speak, if you don’t, you’ll turn into snake dung."

The two looked at each other, still facing Wen Wen with faces full of fear and confusion, as if they didn’t understand what he was saying.

Wen Wen sighed and turned to Wu Fengxia, "Sigh... you warned me before I entered, so I still have a favorable impression of you, how good it would be if you just told me everything."

Having said that, Wen Wen’s eyes turned blood-red, and he said in a bizarre tone, "Tell me, your relationship with that girl!"

Wu Fengxia’s mind immediately became confused: "Her name is Zheng Yi, she’s my daughter, his granddaughter, seven years old this year."

"Fengxia, how could you..."

Zheng Shengli tried to stop Wu Fengxia, but the head of Three Cubs immediately pressed against his face, silencing him.

Wu Fengxia continued, "A month ago, she got this toy from somewhere and came to play with me, but I was too busy with work to accompany her."

"At first, I didn’t pay much attention, but since then, she came to ask me and her grandfather to play with the same thing every day, and her mood became more and more agitated, as if she was possessed."

"Seven days ago, I couldn’t stand it anymore and slapped her. That night, we ended up in this game and have been repeatedly playing this death game ever since."

After she finished speaking, Wen Wen thought for a moment, raised two fingers and said, "I have two questions: first, that little girl seemed older than seven years old. Second, this game has been ongoing for seven days, according to the rules, you couldn’t have survived this long."

Wu Fengxia immediately said, "Since we entered the game, she’s changed every day, as if aging a year each day."

"Also, although we two have been in this game, she has never harmed us."

"We won’t be the prey, random deaths won’t be us, even the statue will protect us within the rules."

"As long as only the two of us are left alive, the game will temporarily end, and the next day the game will start again as usual, we’ve been trapped here all this time, fortunately, there’s food in the kitchen, so we won’t starve to death."

After ending the hypnosis, Wen Wen turned to Chu Wei.

Chu Wei nodded and said, "The missing cases here began seven days ago. During this period, a Demon Hunter came to investigate but also disappeared. That is why The Undead like me had to deal with this matter."

Wen Wen ended the hypnosis, Wu Fengxia’s expression was somewhat dazed, her eyes lifeless, as if she had lost her soul.

This is also why Wen Wen initially didn’t want to do this, for the mental control used by the Blood Clan was a skill developed for hunting. Mildly influencing some behaviors was one thing, but forcing someone to reveal unwilling information could cause some permanent mental damage.