Volume 1 - CH 25

The Ghost Hunting team was locked in the B1 elevator, and no matter how much He Suowei shouted and cursed, he could only watch as the floor number increased and eventually stopped at the 16th floor.

He could feel He Wenxiao’s body on his back became more stiff, his health bar dwindling, and his skin cracking. He pressed his lips together tightly, but he still inevitably groaned out in pain.

The communicator was connected once again, and He Suowei heard Bai Chunian say, “Leave this injured member of your team in the elevator. You and the surviving husky alpha walk from the connecting corridor to building C, then go downstairs to the 14th floor to unlock the safe.”

“I will not leave my teammates behind.”

Bai Chunian sneered, “My god, this is just an exam, don’t get too caught up in the drama, you’ll only get eliminated if you die.”

He Suowei hesitantly raised his gun and put it against He Wenxiao’s forehead.

“You want to shoot him? Better not.” Bai Chunian seemed to be able to guess He Suowei’s thought and chuckled, “Let him scream. This is to protect you. Even in actual combat, your team members must be willing to make this sacrifice.”

He Wenxiao Listened to the frivolous alpha’s voice over the communicator, nodded weakly toward the captain, and climbed to the corner of the elevator by himself, gasping and urging them to leave quickly.

He Suowei was silent for a moment, activated his J1 differentiation ability “Total Lunar Eclipse”, left the lunar disk, which can resist damage, next to He Wenxiao, and left the elevator with the last surviving team member.

It was really difficult for He Suowei to listen to his teammates screaming in pain while he left him behind and walked further and further away from him.

“Who the hell are you?” He Suowei pressed the communicator hanging from his ear and questioned Bai Chunian somewhat wearily. “You’re not a soldier, we will never leave our comrades behind.”

“I’m a jobless hobo.” Bai Chunian laughed, “I’m not as noble as you, soldier geges.”

The two people from Ghost Hunting Team finally reached the 14th floor of Building C. Before entering the lobby, Bai Chunian lowered his voice in the communicator and said, “The LED flashlight is still there, right? Place it at the farthest place from the safe after you open it, and walk over to enter the password with your eyes closed.”

“It’s written in our documents that the Snake Girl’s two eyeballs can act separately, and as long as one look at it, they will be petrified, and at the same time of the petrification, they will be injected with neurotoxin, and they will scream very loudly because of the pain.” Bai Chunian said, “Now we can be sure that one of the eyeballs is near you, and the other eyeball is near the tenth floor of Building C where Du Mo died. You guys are actually quite safe.”

Bai Chunian, “First, press the C1 elevator button on your left-hand side to the 14th floor.”

He Suowei, “Done.”

He Suowei, “The elevator on the right came up and stopped at our place.”

Bai Chunian, “Press the door open button. If things don’t go well later, hide in the C2 elevator and close the door.”

He Suowei took a deep breath, closed his eyes, fumbled for the safe with his keen hearing and memory, and entered the password cautiously letter by letter.

He could still vaguely hear He Wenxiao’s screams in Building B. He couldn’t help but choke, he asked He Wenxiao over the communicator, “Are you okay?”

A long time had passed before He Wenxiao turned on the microphone. He couldn’t speak a complete sentence. His voice was hoarse and trembling. He Suowei could hear the sound of fierce scratching in the communicator; bang, bang. Something was violently destroying the Total Lunar Eclipse he left in the elevator for He Wenxiao.

A strange, sharp whistle burrowed into the communicator, followed by the clear sounds of chewing and the splashing liquid as the flesh was torn apart.

The broadcast followed: Experiment No. 1513 eliminated 【Ghost Hunting Team】He Wenxiao.

The keys of the safe were damp with sweat from He Suowei fingertips. He listened to his disordered heartbeat as he struggled to press the letters and numbers one by one.

Bai Chunian cut off He Wenxiao’s contact and said indifferently, “He did a good job as bait. I believe that the one who was attracted by his scream is the Snake Girl itself. Just now I have asked Lu Yan to close the elevator door, the Snake Girl is now trapped in the B1 elevator. You will be safe as long as you don’t make eye contact with those two eyeballs.”

He Suowei lit a cigarette in his mouth and entered the password in silence.

Next to him, the husky alpha said with a shaky voice, “[email protected]@@, ge, that thing just brushed past my face.”

Bai Chunian interjected, “Don’t you have a flashlight, turn it on and stay away from your captain.”

The husky blocked his eyes, lifted his LED flashlight, and scampered into the distance. The moving light spot drew the attention of the floating snake’s eye. As the duration of shaking the flashlight became longer and longer, the husky alpha seemed to find amusement in it. When the eyeball flew towards him out of curiosity, it was hit two meters away by the flashlight, which made it appear harmless.

It was found out that the only way for these two eyes to attack is to make eye contact with the enemy.

Good luck finally favored the Ghost Hunting Team once, six green lights lit up on the safe combination lock, the door automatically popped open, and there was a pile of documents inside, with “File D” written on the cover.

“We got the stuff, let’s go.” He Suowei picked up the documents and walked out of the hall with his eyes closed and his head down. He felt that his teammate had not kept up, so he had to lower his voice and call him, “Gu Wulü, what are you doing?”

The husky also closed his eyes and scratched his head. “Playing ping pong, this eye is really bouncy.”

“Come here for Laozi.” He Suowei pulled the husky alpha and ran, hid in the C2 elevator and closed the door, making sure that the Floating Eye didn’t follow them in before daring to open his eyes.

Bai Chunian asked, “What’s written on the document?”

“It says on the cover, File D: Detailed Description of Experimental Subject No. 1513 Snake Girl’s Ability.”

“1. When the Snake Girl activates J1 differentiation ability, Persistent Eye, the two floating eyes can leave the body to search for the target. When the two eyeballs leave the body, the body relies on the floating eye to transmit vision and the body itself loses vision and retains only its sense of hearing.”

“2. Targets that stare into the Floating Eye will experience limb petrification after 30 seconds, with the length of the stare determining the target’s death rate.”

“3. The Snake Girl’s movement speed will become faster as its food intake increases.”

“4. The attack mode of the Snake Girl’s body: using the claws of both its hands and the sharp scales of the palm to pierce the enemy’s skin. The wound is small, but it can cause a lot of bleeding.”

“5. When Snake Girl enters the mature stage, she will awaken two associated abilities. Associated ability 1: Snake Transformation. The eyes of all corpses petrified and killed by the floating eye will become the new Floating Eye, and the corpse’s vision will be shared with the Snake Girl.

Associated ability 2: Rattle Tail. The snake’s tail tip will evolve into the end of a rattlesnake’s tail, emitting a rattling sound and forcing a random target to resonate with itself, forcing the target to scream so that the Snake Girl can follow the sound and hunt.”

“Weakness: Heart.”

“Wow, it’s kind of impressive.” Bai Chunian sighed. “Your second task is to open the safe and browse file D, right? Now that you’ve done it, you’ve obtained three stars. Your first position is in the bag.”

He Suowei said somewhat dispiritedly, “We can withdraw from the research institute now, wait for the exam to end at nine o’clock, and let the rest of the team face this monster. I don’t want to fight it anymore.”

Bai Chunian, “But I’d love to see what this monster looks like. We’ve come all the way here, we shouldn’t just cop out at the last minute, right? You soldier geges shouldn’t be like this. Don’t worry, I’ll secure first place for your team, just do as I say.”

“Anyways, let’s gather first.” He Suowei took a deep breath to calm his mood. “Are you still in the 10th floor hall of Building A? We’ll come to you.”

“No, don’t come.”

Bai Chuian looked at the computer display screen in front of him. After reading the second chip, there is an EXCEL file on the computer desktop called “Real-time monitoring data of all experimental subjects in this building”.

After opening it, there was a three-page worksheet inside, and the first page was labeled Experimental No. 1513 Snake Girl.

Growth stage: Cultivation period

Prototype: Diamondback Rattlesnake

Food intake: 59% (still rising)

Destructive form: Single point output

Attack intent: Strong

And so on for up to twenty lines of status parameters, the complex parameter content kept changing in real time.

Bai Chunian clicked on the second page of the worksheet to browse.

The label was Experiment No. 857 Electrooptic Phantom.

Growth stage: Cultivation period

Prototype: Manta Ray

Food intake: 91%

Destructive form: Large-scale bombings

Attack intent: None

The file contained a third worksheet. Bai Chunian didn’t click on it, but instead right-clicked to delete the last page.

Rimbaud watched his every move, and his lips slightly raised, “So, is this… Something that… Can’t be said?”

“Not really.” Bai Chunian yawned in boredom and glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer, “It’s six in the morning, and there are still three hours before the exam ends. I’m a little impatient. How’s your injury?”

Rimbaud lowered his eyes to look at his lower body, then faintly replied, “Can… endure.”

Bai Chunian coughed twice as if trying to hide some emotion. He stood up, put his hands on the table, and leaned slightly closer to Rimbaud who was seated on the table.”I’ll let the exam finish quickly, and then take you to the hospital for disinfection. For other things, you take care of it yourself.”

Rimbaud looked away unnaturally. At this time, a team climbed up from Building B’s ninth floor stairway and sprinted across the connecting corridor towards the two men with rifles, who had presumably come for the mission of this computer as well.

Still sitting on the table, Rimbaud lifted the SA80 rifle placed across the table with his bandaged right hand, his eyes half narrowed, and he fired four shots towards the corridor.

【Casually Playing】Rimbaud eliminated 【BUG】 Yi Wen

【Casually Playing】Rimbaud eliminated 【BUG】 Ju Ran

【Casually Playing】Rimbaud eliminated 【BUG】 Shi Zou

【Casually Playing】Rimbaud eliminated 【BUG】 Nai Ka

【BUG】team is eliminated.

“I want, to see, Snake Girl.” Rimbaud said softly as he looked down to change the magazine.

“Okay.” Bai Chunian sat back in the computer chair and leaned back in the soft back of the chair, “Clear this wave of people first.”

“Lu Yan, press the A1 elevator in front of you to the fifth floor.”

“Copy that.” Although he didn’t know what these inexplicable orders were for, Lu Yan was already completely used to listening to Bai Chunian’s orders in the past two days.

After the A1 button was pressed, the B1 elevator, which held the Snake Girl, began to descend and stopped on the fifth floor of Building B.

Du Mo checked the distribution of all the personnel in Building B for Bai Chunian before he died. One team was hiding on the fifth floor of Building B, likely waiting for the rest to finish fighting before ambushing the remaining team.

Bai Chunian held his cheek and knocked on his communicator, “Open the door, da ge will begin clearing those people.”

Soon, the broadcast was full with Experiment No. 1513.