Life Game In Other World
Chapter 614: This Guy Finally Opened the Door (Long - , Asking for Monthly Pass)

Chapter 614: Chapter 614: This Guy Finally Opened the Door (Long Chapter, Asking for Monthly Pass)

"There doesn’t seem to be anything here,"

Zhang Yusi said doubtfully as she looked around the gate. She raised the microcomputer on her arm, and a glow shone out from the side of the computer, which was the flashlight module integrated into the computer.

This module also came with a small battery, which could be detached and used as a separate micro-flashlight.

There were two layers of bloodstains on the ground and the walls: a fresh layer that had just splattered, bright red, coming from Yasia and his companion’s blood, and another layer beneath that bright red, coated with dust and the scent of history, a dark brown, dried up set of stains.

This layer of dark brown bloodstains looked similar to the blood writing on the metal door and likely came from the same group of people.

From the dryness of these bloodstains, it was impossible to tell how many years had passed.

The cold metal floor and walls preserved these traces that perhaps dated back centuries.

"Minister He, this older layer of bloodstains covers almost the entire ground and much of the wall surface. The fresh blood of one or two people probably couldn’t create this effect,"

Zhang Yusi crouched down and meticulously examined the surrounding details. "At this gate, there must have been a fierce slaughter,"

She paused, remembering Yasia’s recent encounter, "Or maybe it was... fratricide."

Her gaze turned to the gate, which had a blurred, narrow glass window in the middle. It seemed to be made of a special kind of glass, covered in scratches but unbroken.

Through her vision, outside the glass, she could faintly see a wider corridor where in the dim light, the pitch-black bloodstains appeared and disappeared.

"Perhaps at that time, those people were trying to escape from the pursuit of some monster. Then they fled here, thinking that by closing the gate, they would stop those creatures. But some potent ’contamination’ twisted their minds, leading them to self-harm or massacre each other."

"What happened afterward?"

He Ao glanced at the glass window outside, his expression calm, as he asked.

Zhang Yusi looked around, picked up the flashlight, and shone it on the dark wall covered in bloodstains to find the gate switch, which appeared to be a lever.

She fixated on the lever,

"There are obvious black bloodstains from holding it on the lever, indicating that among the first group to enter here, during the process of killing each other, someone ’contaminated’ and manipulated by someone, reopened the gate and ran out, to be completely slaughtered by the monsters outside,"

As she spoke, she suddenly paused, her eyes fixed on the closed gate, "But why is this gate still closed? Did others come through in the meantime? Or did those who ran out close the gate again? And Yasia just said, when they got to this gate, they fell into hallucinations. Why haven’t we experienced the same? Has the monster outside gone away?"

He Ao walked slowly to the lever controlling the gate and asked Zhang Yusi softly, "What does this lever look like to you now?"

"It’s covered in black bloodstains, with a layer of red on top. Yasia also just said he closed the gate,"

Zhang Yusi looked at He Ao, puzzled, "Minister He, is there something wrong?"

He Ao lowered his gaze to the ’lever’ in front of him.

It was nothing but a metal plate exposed on the outside, riddled with small bullet holes, its mechanical structure thoroughly destroyed.

From its remnants, one could vaguely deduce that it might have once been a ’lever’-type switch mechanism.

He Ao ran his right hand over the inner remnants of the structure, then looked up at Zhang Yusi, his expression calm, "There’s only a remaining metal plate here."

"What?"

Zhang Yusi was shocked, and in that instant, a severe pain surged in her right temple, with the surrounding scenery changing like a series of overlapping slides.

Eventually, during this process, the complete ’lever’ she saw in her vision contorted and changed, finally turning into the destroyed mechanical structure that only left a metal plate.

The scenery around her gradually stabilized.

"What do you see outside the window?"

He Ao continued to ask.

Isn’t that a vacant corridor outside the window?

Zhang Yusi turned her head back, raising her flashlight to shine through the window of the gate.

Behind that glass covered with dense scratches, there was no corridor but an open circular mouth bristling with triangular sharp teeth.

At that moment, the gigantic maw was pressed against the window, squirming in the direction of Zhang Yusi, those terrifying teeth stacking upon one another like scales erected on the inside, extending deep into the writhing abyss.

"Holy shit..."

Although He Ao had warned her, Zhang Yusi still stiffened at the sight, nearly unable to catch her breath, and it took several seconds before she could take deep breaths to relax.

When she had been analyzing earlier, she was standing right beside this window, which meant she had been under the gaze of this terrifying, squirming mouth all along.

This was somewhat absurd.

He Ao watched Zhang Yusi’s every move and nodded slightly.

Zhang Yusi had strong mental resistance.

Yasia and his friends had been contaminated and began to self-harm almost as soon as they arrived, but Zhang Yusi’s vision had only been partly altered, proving that the contamination spreading here was insufficient to directly erode her mind and cognition.

After being prompted, she could quickly recover as well.

Whether that was due to her Talent Sequences, or her own qualities, or perhaps both played a part.

He Ao didn’t rush to the next step; instead, he waited for Zhang Yusi to completely calm down before he softly asked, "What’s your speculation now?"

He was consciously training Zhang Yusi’s reasoning ability under complex contamination situations, as well as her capacity for calm thinking.

This would help her stabilize her mental state.

Zhang Yusi didn’t know what He Ao’s purpose was in asking, but she trusted he wouldn’t harm her. She steadied her mind, glanced at the ’bolt’ riddled with bullet holes, and tried hard not to look at the dreadful mouth outside the window.

Gradually, as her mind focused on thought, she felt less afraid.

He Ao watched Zhang Yusi.

Although he had many methods and experiences of resisting contamination, most were derived from Vian’s Transcendent knowledge, or the training from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Ande’s memory, or Ronald’s wilderness survival skills.

He himself had no actual experience in resisting contamination of this level; strictly speaking, he couldn’t even actually feel the strength of this contamination.

Thinking of his close friends, who either introduced you directly to the Truth upon arrival, gave you a baptism of vast knowledge flows, or somehow enforced brainwashing or dreams.

After getting used to interacting with such friends, his feeling when facing contamination at this level was... well... not much of a feeling.

He could sense the disturbance from the contamination, feel those trying to invade his mind.

But that was all; these contaminations vanished without a trace in his mind, stirring not even a ripple.

He Ao could sense that this contamination stemmed from a being of a very high level, and it also held a strangely familiar sense.

However, the force of the contamination was too weak for him to discern from whom this familiar feeling originated.

As He Ao pondered, Zhang Yusi had already sorted out her logic again. She looked at the ’bolt’ covered in bullet holes,

"These bullet holes indicate that this bolt was destroyed with firearms. It’s probable that it’s the same group who sabotaged the central control computer. Perhaps they felt they might be controlled by the contamination right from the start, so they destroyed the bolt directly, cutting off any chance of the traitor opening the gates,"

She glanced at the window, the monster’s ferocious mouth still there,

"Theoretically, such a gate will not have just one switch. Both inside and outside should have controls. If these people destroyed even the interior controls, then the exterior ones likely were not spared. Even if they hadn’t destroyed the internal switch, to prevent the outside switch from being activated by the monster, they would have had to destroy the exterior controls first.

"Since the controls are damaged, then the issue of this door always being closed is explained."

She glanced at the bloodstains on the ground, the black bloodstains that spread across the floor were not an illusion. "If no one can open this sluice gate, does that make the inside of the gate a safe zone? But judging from the bloodstains on the ground, they must have been contaminated in the end?"

"Even though the monsters outside can’t get in, in the end, they fell into mutual slaughter."

This deduction made sense, but she vaguely felt something was off.

"Where are the bodies?"

He Ao asked in a soft voice.

Bodies?!

Zhang Yusi was taken aback. Yes, where are the bodies?!

Before, her illusion of running out could explain the absence of bodies in the corridor, but now the broken absorbent bolt reminded her that those inside were likely unable to escape.

If her deduction was right, and both the internal and external switches were damaged making the sluice gate inoperative, then where were the bodies of those who died in the corridor?

Had all the bodies turned into monsters?

But so far, they had been attacked by only that one small monster. So many people had died, only to become such a weak little monster?

She looked up, gazing at the huge mouth stuck on the window.

Her focused thinking had made her disregard fear, and she vaguely realized a possibility.

At this moment, the circular giant mouth stuck to the window seemed to realize it could no longer interfere with Zhang Yusi. It squirmed, contracted its orifice, left the window, and slowly stood upright.

Through the blurry window, she could vaguely see a vertically squirming monster, similar to a sea anemone or some kind of coelenterate.

Its mouth was on top, surrounded by countless tiny tentacles.

Its body swayed from side to side, and the tentacles on its head trembled continuously.

A piercing shriek suddenly exploded in both He Ao’s and Zhang Yusi’s minds.

The contamination intensified.

Zhang Yusi clutched her head, clenched her teeth, leaned against the wall, and did not make a sound.

At this moment, metal and flesh combined slender tentacles emerged from the swaying tentacles of the sea anemone monster.

What is that...

Zhang Yusi stared blankly at everything.

The tentacles reached the edge of the sluice gate, and following their movement, Zhang Yusi’s gaze also moved to the edge of the gate, where there was another blown switch.

The slender tentacle slid into those fine bullet holes, with a faint glow flashing along the mechanical parts on the tentacles.

Thud thud thud—

With the sound of heavy footsteps, two humanoid monsters appeared behind the sea anemone monster. They were over two meters tall, covered in fresh blood, with arms transformed into metallic spikes and multiple spines on their backs.

Just then, the sea anemone monster’s tentacle, which was jammed in the switch, suddenly retracted.

Boom—

The next second, the grand mechanical operation roared to life.

The closed sluice gate slowly lifted.

Indeed, it was just as she had guessed...

Zhang Yusi stared blankly at the scene.

The worst-case scenario had occurred, they couldn’t open the gate from the inside, but the monsters outside could open it.

From the beginning, the monster had been toying with them; it had more than just mental contamination at its disposal.

Years ago, the people who similarly hid behind the sluice gate were probably toyed with in the same way.

They were contaminated, controlled, and killed each other.

In that cruel slaughter, perhaps some with strong mental resistance, like her and Yasia, regained their sanity and even survived to the end.

But when those last survivors thought they had finally escaped all pursuit and could survive.

The monster outside effortlessly opened the closed sluice gate.

What oppressive desperation.

And now, this despair had turned on her.

Zhang Yusi watched the slowly moving gate.

As the gate slowly raised, two more humanoid monsters appeared behind the sea anemone creature outside the glass window.

Four of them!

The oppressive feeling from these four monsters was in no way inferior to the monster that had just mutated from the brown-haired man, and might even be stronger.

It seemed these four monsters were the final form the brown-haired man was about to mutate into.

This was probably the strength of four C-level combatants.

In the main world, Zhang Yusi had never seen four C-levels standing together.

Was this really the relic that was theoretically supposed to have a new player protection?

She clutched her head as the piercing screech in her mind grew worse, eroding her thoughts, twisting her will.

She recalled what He Ao had said, trying to keep herself calm, and then her hand reached inside her jacket.

Minister He was far stronger than herself, his speed far exceeded hers.

The best solution now was for her and He Ao to retreat immediately, with her covering the rear, trying to delay the monsters first, then Minister He could use his speed advantage to call back Yasia, and if all three of them took action together, there might be a glimmer of hope.

The only flaw in this method was that she, who fought first, had the highest mortality rate, but it would help He Ao conserve his greatest strength, giving him a chance to survive until the end.

If He Ao was covering the rear, her chances of survival would increase, but it would reduce He Ao’s strength, lowering everyone’s likelihood of making it to the end.

This relic scene was perhaps more dangerous than they had initially thought.

So, providing rear cover was the most rational choice.

"Minister He..."

All her thoughts were almost instantaneously completed; a delicate heavy pistol was drawn from her jacket as she turned her head to look at He Ao.

She was clear that with He Ao’s wisdom, he would certainly understand her plan instantly.

However, in her field of vision, all she saw was He Ao yawning and lifting the bone sword in his hand.

At this moment, He Ao’s thoughts were simple:

This guy finally opened the door.