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Chapter 429: The Other Half of the Laboratory
Chapter 429: Chapter 429: The Other Half of the Laboratory
"Doesn’t the Ghost Shadow only appear following players? What’s the difference?" Wan Yunrong asked.
"Think about it carefully, the Ghost Shadow didn’t appear on the players who turned into ghosts at the same time, which means there’s only one of it, and it’s movable. Since it can move, capturing the players is useless, the Ghost Shadow can run away at any time," Ge Pan said confidently, "So the ghost we need to capture for the mission is the Ghost Shadow, not the players acting as ghosts."
"That sounds really elusive," Wan Yunrong said. "The Ghost Shadow, how do we catch it?"
"How could a real ghost appear in a copy of the field?" Wu Xiaonan said. "That Ghost Shadow might be a special item, or it’s an item or characteristic of a player hidden here. Don’t forget the corpses on the third underground floor, maybe the Ghost Shadow is created by some hidden player."
"But where is he hiding?" Wan Yunrong said. "We’ve searched everywhere here."
There was one place that hadn’t been searched yet.
That was the remaining half of the Deep Blue Laboratory that was sealed off.
"We can’t get through on the ground, we can only think of a way from the side with the metal seal," Miao Yu said. "But we previously tried to break it with our items and failed."
"The third underground floor," Xu Huo said. "The path on the third underground floor is blocked by corpses; whether there are metal seals inside or not is uncertain."
"I think there’s a chance, if there were metal seals, why stuff the corridor with corpses? And if there truly is a player controlling an item, they would at least leave an entrance, right? Otherwise, after the mission starts and the surface entrance closes, the other party couldn’t get through either."
Thus, the group of people reopened the elevator door to the third underground floor.
As soon as the elevator door opened, white dust floated in the air, and the entire third underground floor was like it was stuffed with smog, impossible to see anything.
"It seems Zhu Rumin and Qiu Xiangdong did come to the third underground floor," Xu Huo said.
The players headed toward the corridor at the boundary line of the laboratory, beginning to move the corpses to other places.
"This much pollen might explode, everyone be careful not to create any sparks," Ge Pan reminded them.
The players were very careful in their actions as well, trying to line up to move the corpses out.
During this time, Xu Huo recovered two flying instruments, but due to the crowd, he couldn’t open them to look.
"I don’t understand why this laboratory even made its floor metallic, you might get sparks just by dragging a chair, and then there are all these messy plants grown here, no wonder it’s finished," Chu Yuan remarked.
"Why do you talk so much," Miao Yu said impatiently, "If you’re not satisfied, go find the person who fixed the laboratory."
Chu Yuan sulkily held back his words.
The corpses were also covered in plants, with many entangled together by the plant roots. It took two hours to clear the corridor enough to pass through.
Just as expected, there was a door in the middle of the corridor, not sealed by metal bars. However, the door opened to more corpses inside.
There was no other choice but to continue cleaning.
After the lab was clear on both sides, Xu Huo and the others got to see the full view of the laboratory.
Unlike the cold appearance seen before, this half of the laboratory was described as "habitable." The layout wasn’t the high-frequency repetition of labs and offices but had its characteristics and also fewer in number, more like a community.
Moreover, the outer walls of the laboratory had large glass windows, through which one could gaze out at the deep blue sea.
"This is just a large underwater observation structure," Wan Yunrong walked up to the glass window and peered closely at the whirlpools beyond.
Just then, a palm suddenly covered it from the outside; she stepped back in shock, "There’s someone in the water!"
"That’s not a person, it’s a marine creature," Wu Xiaonan leaned in for a closer look and said, "It just looks a bit like a human hand, you see, it’s covered in suckers."
"This thing sure has a quirky appearance," Chu Yuan remarked.
Xu Huo also took a glance, but the creature that resembled a human hand separated from the window and gradually blended into the dark seawater.
However, the mutated creature just beyond the window was not important, clearly someone had recently been here in this underground third level.
He turned his head toward a corner of this level, fixing his gaze.
After about a few seconds, faint noises came from down the corridor, alerting Ge Pan and the others. Mao Wei immediately threw out several toy-like hand grenades, and in the next second, a mass of pink fluff burst from behind the corridor, entangling several people along with it.
"Dr. Deng," Xu Huo called out to the identity of the middle-aged man who was squeezed into mid-air.
"Dr. Deng? And his bodyguards, I remember; they came on the same boat as us," Miao Yu said with a twisted mouth, a forced smile on her face: "Back on the boat, he said he wouldn’t enter this scenario, yet it seems he still ended up at Deep Blue Laboratory after going around the island."
Dr. Deng and his two bodyguards, still trapped by the fluff, weren’t in a hurry to come out. Dr. Deng said, "We’re not here to play the scenario, just collecting species on the island and resting our feet, that’s all."
"Resting your feet all the way to the third sublevel, quite impressive," Chu Yuan was sharp, "Tell me, is it you guys who are behind this Ghost Shadow business?"
"What Ghost Shadow? I don’t know anything about that," Dr. Deng explained repeatedly before saying, "I’m not a player; I pose no threat to you. At least let me down first, I can show you the specimens I’ve collected, they’re in my bag."
"We are here representing the Beren Clan; if you have any findings, you can sell them to us right here, for a very good price."
Mao Wei stepped forward, took the bag stuck in the fluff, turned it upside down, and various bottles and jars containing plant and small animal specimens rolled out.
"Really," Mao Wei looked back at the other players and prepared to retrieve the special item.
In fact, even if he didn’t retrieve the special item, it wouldn’t matter. Dr. Deng seemed easy to talk to, but his bodyguards might not be the same. The fluff surrounding the man and woman also trapped upfront had already melted, and as they walked out and caught Dr. Deng, tightly shielding him, they revealed their positions.
What caught his eye was that they were armed with guns, bona fide high-powered weapons, which Xu Huo had seen on the common weapons list for Zone 011, complete with the insignia of the Beren Clan.
Before Mao Wei could act, accompanying the buzzing of machinery, the swollen fluff was all sucked into a vacuum cleaner held by a player who appeared behind Dr. Deng with another six people—a total of nine individuals, eight of whom were players.
"Dr. Deng, are you unharmed?" the female player standing close to Dr. Deng asked with concern.
"No," Dr. Deng waved his hands, hurriedly saying, "Everyone, please don’t be impulsive, one side of this laboratory is under extension; if we start fighting, we may end up buried under the island."
But the expressions of the players beside and behind him told a different story.
"Let’s all calm down, there’s no need for this," Ge Pan tried to defuse the situation, "Mao Wei just thought those hiding here were players trying to trip us up, so he made a move. It was just a misunderstanding."
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