CH 44

Translator: Bambootriangle

Translation Checker: Carolin 

Editor: unedited

Proofreader: Khun

Bai Chunian leaned against the incinerator to rest, took off the micro communicator in his ear, tapped on it, and put it back in his ear. The communicator’s switch was always on, but there was completely no movement on the other side.

The incinerator made a rustling sound. 

Bai Chunian took two steps back and raised the gun with his left hand to point at the incinerator drawer. When he came in, he checked and clearly saw that the incinerator was empty.

Suddenly, the drawer ring moved, and the incinerator’s door slowly opened as if an invisible person was operating the machine.

In a blink of an eye, there were two more bottles of mineral water on the ground in front of him.

When Bai Chunian was still hesitating whether the two bottles of water were poisonous or a trap, Rimbaud had already swallowed a bottle of water and was safe and sound.

Bai Chunian picked up another bottle, unscrewed the cap, poured water on the moisturizing bandage on Rimbaud’s upper body, and added water to cool the fish. Finally, he took a small sip and moistened his throat.

“What’s this… A stage reward?”

This might mean that the Invisible Stalker affirmed his train of thought. Bai Chunian glanced around. Maybe 324 was peeping from a corner very close to them, or maybe he was standing in front of them facing them, looking at them at this moment, but they didn’t realize it.

The communicator finally sounded, but there was only loud noise, and an alpha’s heavy breathing could be vaguely heard. 

“We were attacked…” He Suowei said in a very weak voice, “I was shot and the bleeding have almost stopped, but now we are crushed under the rubble, my arm is pierced by a steel bar, and I can’t move for a while.”

“Wow, it’s good that you’re still alive.” Bai Chunian focused most of his attention on the drawings left by the writer and asked them casually, “You guys went out of the room? Don’t do this, I don’t want to see you turned into a pancake. It will make your face look big.”

“We went from that weird taxi room to an even more weird room.” He Suowei described it with difficulty, “The layout inside looked like a roughcasted room of a residential building that has not been completely built yet with only light bare load-bearing columns and concrete floor, but there red wallpaper sticking on the walls. Our watch said it was 5 p.m.”

“We just stepped into this room when all of a sudden bullets started firing at us from all sides. I used my J1 ability Total Lunar Eclipse and blocked a part of it. These bullets had no source at all, they just appeared out of thin air… And the bullet that hit me has the PBBw logo engraved on it.” 

“Tbe erfv sbeg A1 jylilas?” Djl Jtecljc ogbkcfv, “Xgfja. Rbk, beg jigfjvs vloolmeia rlaejalbc tjr yfmbwf kbgrf.”

Lf Vebkfl gbjgfv: “Qf kfgf jii ublcu ab oemxlcu vlf lc atja gbbw lo P vlvc’a erf ws jylilas, raeqlv!”

“Cigluta.” Djl Jtecljc jrxfv jujlc, “Cgf sbe uesr ralii lc atf gbbw atja olgfr yeiifar?”

“We stumbled into another room. We were so panicked that we couldn’t remember which door we entered. The room we’re in now looks like the last roughcasted room of the second floor.” He Suowei was panting quickly. It sounded like the injury was a little serious, but soldiers weren’t used to talking about their injuries. 

“I also looked at my watch and it showed that it was fine at 6 o’clock in the afternoon. The walls were the same red as the first floor, the ground was rough concrete, and the load-bearing beams and columns were already falling to pieces. This should be a tofu dregs project that was called off… When we passed under the load-bearing beam, the beam collapsed, smashed on us, and the broken steel bar in the beam stabbed into my left arm, uh…”

Bai Chunian memorized while listening: “17:00 red room, the first floor of the building, scattering bullets. 18:00 red room, the second floor of the building, the load-bearing beam collapsed.”

“Don’t worry.” Bai Chunian thoughtfully comforted, “When we go out, we will tell the brothers outside to come and save you. I estimate that the outside of the triangular pyramid cabin is already blocked with the people from the Alliance Police Dept. and the PBB Army soldiers.”

He Suowei gritted his teeth: “Hurry up, don’t dawdle.” 

“I am counting at this moment.” Bai Chunian held up the note with the three-dimensional drawing of the escape room, “There are 11 squares circled by the writer and marked ‘blue’, and it happens that the time of our incinerator is eleven o’clock in the morning, so I labeled it 11, and it’s reasonable to assume that all the blue rooms are the scenes of the 109 Research Institute, and the time sequence numbers are before eleven.”

“What are you talking about?” He Suowei was puzzled.

Bai Chunian briefly summed up the situation. He Suowei paused for a while and took out a note from his pocket with difficulty: “I also found something… I found it in the taxi room… ahem, a wedding invitation.”

Bai Chunian’s eyes lit up: “What does it say?” 

He Suowei read the text, his articulation was unclear because of the pain, but Bai Chunian still captured some key words in it:

We, who are immersed in sweet happiness, would like to hold a wedding ceremony on June 20 of the Gregorian calendar, K030, at 12:18 p.m. We will set up seats in the dining hall in Zhengyuan Restaurant and prepare for the wedding banquet. We welcome you to come.

This year was K033. This wedding invitation letter was from three years ago. It was hurriedly dropped on the car by a passenger who went to Zhengyuan Restaurant for the wedding banquet, so it was copied along with the entire interior scene of the taxi.

Bai Chunian noticed some details and asked back: “When did the major of the Storm Forces lead people to encircle and kill Invisible Stalker three years ago?” 

He Suowei pondered for a few seconds, and replied with surprise: “The record on the file is June 20th. The day of the wedding was the same day as the team who was sent to kill Experimental Subject No. 324.

“Location?”

He Suowei said with enlightenment, “It’s an unfinished building near Liren Square in Tongkou City.

“Then it completely matches. Let me review the situation.” Bai Chunian scrutinized the blueprint and distractedly recounted the speculation, “The institute found that 324 was not executed by incineration but escaped, and requested the PBB troops to assist in the arrest. It’s a fixed procedure, nothing to say here. Then Major Panther led the Storm troops to encircle and suppress 324. 324 was forced to escape from the restaurant and fled all the way. At 17:00, the troops forced him to the first floor of the unfinished building, and opened fire.” 

“That’s why the room you entered was full of flying bullets, 324 can fully replicate the scene at that time, and those flying bullets are of course included. The PBBw logo engraved on the warhead is proof.”

“324 couldn’t resist, so he escaped on the second floor and used his imitation ability to learn Major Panther’s J1 ability, Gravity Manipulation, causing the whole building to collapse. Your major’s arm was probably injured because of this; it was penetrated by a steel bar.”

Bai Chunian looked at the incinerator, stared at a lump of air and asked, “No reward this time? I don’t want mineral water, give me a bottle of cola.”

There was no answer. However, the incinerator drawer slowly closed. 

Bai Chunian didn’t take it seriously and continued: “The last room we pass through is the bedroom. The time in the bedroom is 20:00, and the serial number of the bedroom is 20. I guess the exit is in the last room. You guys try your best to save yourselves, then find the exit while Rimbaud and I start investigating the missing hostages from Room 1.”

When all the hostages were rescued, let the PBB army outside directly flatten this weird man-eating cabin and block the exit and blast it, letting 324 and his self-righteous cabin be destroyed to ashes together.

According to the three-dimensional map left by the writer, the blue rooms were all located to the west, and Bai Chunian numbered each blue cube from top to bottom, from 1 to 11.

“Let’s find all the blue rooms first, push the rooms to the left, enter each room once, look at the numbers on the watch, determine the serial number corresponding to each room, and then arrange them in order, understood?” 

Rimbaud nodded.

Bai Chunian picked up a clasp and put it on Rimbaud’s wrist: “Let’s do it separately, be quick. I roughly calculated the severity of the gunshot wound to the abdomen and the arm penetration injury, and he should be able to hold on from three to five hours.”

Rimbaud nodded, released the electromagnetic force to be adsorbed above the incinerator and hit the south wall.

The room began to translate in the direction of the impact. During the translation process, the door to the west wall gradually appeared. Rimbaud grabbed the door frame with both hands and flexibly swung into the next room. Electric sparks lit up the entire room. 

Bai Chunian stomped on the floor again in the same way, sinking the room, and entered the room connected to the door.

The wallpaper in the room was blue, and the watch showed the time was 01:00 in the morning, which meant that this was the first scene where Invisible Stalker passed by.

A huge glass vessel filled half of the room. Dozens of tubes of different colors were connected to the glass vessel. The inside of the vessel was filled with light green liquid.

A touch screen control panel was connected to the outside of the instrument. The display screen was bright and shows some data: 

Special Operations Weapon No. 324: Invisible Stalker

Nutrient solution concentration is normal.

Experimental subject embryos are growing rapidly.

Cultivation target: Help reduce low-quality populations and lessen the impact on the planet Earth. 

This was an experimental embryo cultivating cabin. Bai Chunian stared at this huge glass instrument, and an inexplicable sense of familiarity rose in his heart. Some people live in cages, and their lifelong wish was to escape.

Bai Chunian tried to operate the control panel, but the screen showed that a researcher’s fingerprint was required, so he had to give up temporarily and first check the data rack next to the instrument.

The data rack was filled with various files, making him have to marvel at the amazing copying ability of 324, which made him able to reproduce the contents of all files that were placed in the room.

Bai Chunian picked up the top folder and flipped through it. 

Observation diary of Experimental Subject No. 324:

1. Compared with other experimental cubs I take care of, 324 is too introverted. Today I took him to the testing room for an examination, and the examination results showed that 324 has autism.

2. Today I bought building blocks to play with him. He was very interested and said to me his first sentence since I met him. I should record it to commemorate it. His voice was sweet and soft, saying, “I’d like a playhouse”.

3. He has finally grown to the cultivation stage. Today is the day we say goodbye. In the future, he will undergo a lot of cruel training. He carefully gave me the dandelions he planted on the balcony, but the window was not closed that day, and the wind blew his dandelions away. 

“It’s all nonsense, is there anything useful…” Bai Chunian rummaged through the file shelf.

Finally, he picked out the seemingly useful information in the corner. Bai Chunian sat on the ground and flipped through it, his expression gradually changing from relaxed to solemn.

Experimental Subject No. 324 Invisible Stalker’s detailed ability description:

“1. When Invisible Stalker uses his J1 ability “Man in the Mirror,” it will reproduce the differentiation ability that was shown in front of him, but the power will be reduced by half. 

“2. Invisible Stalker’s M2 differentiation ability is “Mirror Domain Enhancement,” which can increase the differentiation ability of the imitated by 200%. The duration is determined by the gland’s energy. After it expires, the stealth state is released.

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