Chapter 58

Shen Ti stared at the screen, and suddenly spit out two words, "Dead?"

"Who?" Wu You asked.

"People on the first few floors." Seeing the automatic destruction of the last log, Shen Ti shrugged, "Or I can only explain it as a power outage."

After the log disappeared, the screen returned to its original state, but another email popped up, but it was unfinished in the drafts box.

The title is Research Developments in Psychological Experiments with Children.

He paid attention, but the email soon disappeared too.

So fast.

He felt that there was someone next to him, turning his head on one side, the tip of his nose almost touched An Wujiu's cheek.

"You're so close." Shen Ti said in a low voice.

An Wu Jiu also replied in a low voice, "Is it very close? You are always so close to me."

When he said this, Shen Ti was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

Seeing his smile, An Wu Jiu felt a little uncomfortable again.

If what I'm thinking of right now is that Shen Ti looks good when he smiles, isn't it very out of place.

Josh was still immersed in the previous question, and suddenly thought of something, "By the way, the security system mentioned at the beginning broke down, right, when we first came in."

"Does it have anything to do with the fact that the log is not finished? If there is a problem with the entire building's system, it should have an impact. And the first log seems to have said that there was a bug in the management authority of the E floor."

"The collapse of the system should be an important clue." After Yang Erci finished speaking, he felt that his neck was also uncomfortable, so he reached out and touched it, but the touch was not right.

An Wu Jiu looked at her and said unsurprisingly, "It also appeared on you."

There was an extremely terrifying scar on her neck, the cut wound was filled with coagulated blood scabs, and the flesh turned out.

This is the injury after the throat was cut.

He paid attention to the countdown to the right of his field of vision, and after a rough calculation, they had less than four hours left.

The end time of the game, like the initial time, is close to zero o'clock.

"I have a question." Wu You said, "If they are really dead, who killed them?"

Josh said tentatively: "A02?"

"But on the fourth floor, there is a lot of evidence that A02 is the dead person, the diamond 2 was replaced with a ghost card, the ghost we waited for in the dark corridor, and the sentence displayed on the gate of heaven Then, A02 said 'they're going to kill me'."

Nan Shan also agrees: "And that nursery rhyme, I remember that the original version should be the death of the big rabbit, but the fourth floor is just replaced by the death of the second rabbit."

The fatal wounds that emerged from the crowd were contradictory to the corresponding evidence.

"Let's go out first." Zhong Yirou gradually regained consciousness, "It's already on the fifth floor, let's look first to see if there are other organs and side games, and the final result is not to see if you can escape the building?"

The other six also thought it made sense, so everyone planned to leave the room. Before leaving, An Wu Jiu glanced at the screen and found a line of words on it.

[All for humanity. ]

This is the sentence again.

He still left. When looking for the next door in the corridor, An Wujiu also told everyone all the information he saw about the relationship between A02 and A01.

"A02 has a genetic defect..." Wu You frowned, "Congenital heart disease?"

An Wu Jiu nodded and found that Wu Changchun couldn't come out of A02's story for a long time, a dark cloud shrouded his eyebrows.

When they came to the next corner, they suddenly heard the sound of the door opening, and when they turned around, a door appeared out of thin air on the inner wall of the corridor.

This door leads to the center circled by the cloister.

This floor is relatively easier to come by than other floors, and there are not so many side games as obstacles, so An Wugui feels strange.

"Wait first, be careful that there is a problem inside." He said to the people walking in front.

So several other people also waited and did not go in the first time, but there was nothing but the walls except for the dim light inside, which was even more empty than the central space on the fourth floor.

After waiting for a while, nothing appeared.

"Would you like to... go take a look first?"

Wu You, who was standing in front, glanced at An Wu Jiu, time was tight, An Wu Jiu had no choice but to nod and go in with everyone.

Shen Ti stood beside him, and the two walked at the end. The door slammed shut, and as expected, Shen Ti once again slapped it like a frightened cat.

"Are you really timid or just pretending?" An Wu Jiu turned to look at him.

"Of course it's true. I was scared and cried when I was locked in the room by myself, and you couldn't hear me."

When Shen Ti spoke, his earbuds wobbled, which easily distracted An Wujiu.

He opened his mouth and came, and he found out that there was a problem with the agency early in the morning.

"But even if you hear it, you will definitely not care about my life or death."

Seeing his serious expression, An Wu Jiu turned his head and looked forward.

who said it.

He was thinking about it at the time.

The ground here is sunken, and the seven people walked down the steps and came to the open space in the middle.

"Why is there nothing here?" Josh turned around, "In such a large venue, wouldn't there be zombies to bite us in a while?"

Nan Shan smiled, "I'm not surprised what happens here."

An Wu Jiu looked at Wu You, even though he was never a talkative person, An Wu Jiu was very keenly aware of the change in Wu You's expression.

It seems that he has something on his mind, since he told about A02's life experience.

Could it be that Wu You's life experience is also related to A02's story?

Suddenly An Wu Jiao felt something was wrong, the floor he stepped on seemed to be sinking.

He heard Wu You's voice, "Run up the steps!"

But it was too late, the floor was not sagging, but changed from a solid state to some kind of flowing liquid, trapping each of their legs like a swamp, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get out of it break free.

"No." Yang Erci reminded everyone, "This is a non-Newtonian fluid. The more you struggle, the deeper you sink. Don't move."

Seeing that, the crowd continued to sink, and the fluid from the floor had reached their thighs.

An Wu Jiu frowned, some kind of ominous foreboding haunting his heart.

After a while, a huge screen was projected from the hologram directly above the hall, and text was displayed on it. At the same time, according to the text, the corresponding synthesized speech also follows.

[Everyone is one step away from success. ]

[Your task now is to speculate, by asking questions, what actually happened in this containment center, about each of you, and about the entire containment center, including its ending. ]

Sure enough, in addition to each layer of decrypted side games, they still have to find the hidden plot line after all.

[Ask unlimited number of times, unlimited time, you will get yes or no feedback for each question. When you think you can reason about the real result, stop asking and describe it completely, if it is 80% similar to the truth. The screen will display a celebratory animation and you will be able to escape from the current fluid swamp. ]

"no limit?"

An Wu Jiu's eyes are calm, it is impossible to have no restriction and punishment mechanism.

The so-called unlimited time actually wants to consume the little time left by the player.

[Only one thing. ]

New text appears on the screen.

[If the response to your question is "no", everyone present will sink ten centimeters. Once fully immersed in the fluid, it is considered eliminated. ]

Changing the limit from time to danger not only kills the player's time, but also increases the elimination rate.

[The player who comes closest to the truth will receive the right to pardon, leave the fluid, and open the final gate to heaven. The fate of the remaining uneliminated players will be determined by the pardoned players. ]

It's really a personal battle.

If it was a group of people with different ideas here, the end result would be very dramatic.

[The game starts, players are invited to ask questions. ]

The game started silently like this, and the text on the screen disappeared, turning into a symbol, a strangely drawn sun.

This symbol made An Wugui feel familiar.

"Who asked first?" Josh looked at the others.

Yang Erci said, "I'll come first."

She thought about it and asked a question: "A02 is dead, right?"

A white circle appears on the screen.

"Yes." The synthetic voice replied.

There was such an expression on everyone's faces.

Nan Shan asked: "Did he die in this shelter, and the cause of death was a heart attack?"

The circle shows up again on the screen, "Yes."

The two correct answers gave everyone a little encouragement. The next second, Wu You asked: "Is one of the reasons why A02 was cloned because of his congenital malformation of the heart, so a lot of him was cloned as a substitute and organ supplier? "

This time, a different icon suddenly appeared on the screen, and a red cross appeared in the middle of the white circle.

The synthetic voice replies: "Yes, and no."

Some guessed right, some guessed not.

Everyone didn't know how to calculate this result. Just as they were struggling, they felt their legs sag, but not ten centimeters, only about half.

"I'm sorry." Wu You felt sorry for the punishment he caused, he didn't want to implicate everyone.

“It’s okay.” An Wujiu comforted him, “At least we know, if it’s not completely right, it will sink 5cm.”

"So the first half of the sentence is wrong or the second half." Josh thought about it, and felt that the first half should be fine, and the second half seemed to make sense.

"It shouldn't be as simple as supplying organs." An Wujiu explained, "A02's heart problem stems from genetic inheritance. Even if it is cloned, the cloned person will have the exact same DNA as his, and the same will have a deformed heart."

Shen Ti on the side was in a passive strike state, yawning and stretching. Hearing this, he raised his hand and asked a question: "Did A01's father propose to clone A02?"

"Yes."

"A01 and A02 are lovers?" Shen Ti asked a very evasive question.

The circled cross from before reappeared on the screen, "Yes, not exactly."

Following this feedback, the crowd sank five centimeters again, and the fluid adhered tightly to their legs, unable to move at all.

"It's definitely not exactly. In name, they should still be brothers." Josh said.

Zhong Yirou thought of something, and said weakly, "I want to ask... Did the ghost of A02 appear in the building?"

"Yes, not exactly." The circle-crossed symbol appeared on the big screen again.

They sank by five centimeters again.

“Not exactly…” An Wu Jiu thought for a while.

"The ghost that appears is not A02's, it's his clone, right?"

"Yes." The screen gives a positive circle symbol.

Nanshan sorted out the clues, "So before A02 died, many clones were cloned and stored in the freezer, but not only A02 himself, but also his clones died."

Yang Erci thought of the previous log, "It was written in the log that the lifespan of clones is very short." Thinking of this, she asked a question, "A02's clone died naturally, not murder, right?"

"Yes, but not quite."

Another incomplete answer.

"It's natural death, but it's not exactly..." Wu You frowned, "You mean, some clones died naturally, and some were killed?"

"Yes."

They got an affirmative answer.

Wu You asked again: "Is it because the A02 clone was killed after learning the truth?"

"Yes."

Josh asked again: "Is the clone of A02 going to avenge everyone else?"

"Yes."

Adopted, cloned, and died of congenital diseases, this is the fate of A02. A02's clones continued his life, either by natural death or by man-made disappearance, and the result seemed to be utter tragedy.

An Wu Jiu listened to everyone's questions and felt that something was not quite right.

Wu You looked at the others and remembered something: "Are these injuries from the revenge of the A02 clone?"

"Yes."

"The staff log of the BCDE layer is not finished, is it because the person who wrote the log is in danger or killed at the moment?"

"Yes."

"Is it the ghost of the A02 clone who came to take revenge?"

"no."

Everyone suddenly sank ten centimeters.

This time, everyone has sunk by a total of 30 centimeters, and the fluid that didn't reach the thighs is now about to reach the crotch.

Not the ghost of the A02 clone, who else would it be?

Zhong Yirou asked again, "It was the A02 clone who found out that he was just a clone, and the memory he got was implanted, so he was very angry and wanted revenge, didn't he?"

The results again deviate from their imagination.

"Yes, but not quite."

It was thought that the clones would be so angry when they discovered the truth about the clones, but the truth seems to be not so simple.

When everyone was silent, Shen Ti jumped and asked another question: "A02 does not have permission to enter other floors of the containment center, unless the people on that floor give him permission to the corresponding location, such as a circus, right?"

"Yes." He got an affirmative answer.

Shen Ti asked again: "So, the black surrogacy factory and various human experiments behind the containment center, A02 and A02's clones are not aware of it from beginning to end, right?"

The screen lights up in a circle, "Yes."

With this addition, Josh immediately asked: "That's when the clones of A02 learned about these bad things they did by accident, and found out that they were actually just clones, killed while resisting, so the ghost came to them for revenge, right ?"

"Yes, but not quite."

Still missing something.

The face of things has been pieced together bit by bit in their questions and each other's responses, but there seem to be some inconsistencies and gaps that are hard to fill.

Nan Shan thought for a while and asked, "It was said earlier that the clone of A02 died abnormally. Was it because several other people besides A01 killed the clone of A02?"

"Yes and no."

The crowd continued to sink deeper and deeper.

"Yes or no." Yang Erci frowned and made an unreliable guess, "Could it be... A01 was also involved?"

A white circle appeared on the screen.

"Yes."

Everyone froze in place for a moment, and their backs were a little cold.

Josh was stunned, "I thought... A01 cloned him because he loved A02 so much that he couldn't accept A02's illness and death, so he cloned him as if he was still alive. If A01 really loved him, he wouldn't kill A02's clone. body."

The truth is starting to get weird.

Shen Ti pouted, "Maybe this A01 is also a lunatic."

An Wujiu said softly, "Don't you think that the reason for adopting A02 was strange from the very beginning? A01's father is none other than the director of an abandoned baby shelter, and he has all the resources and reasons to adopt a healthier child. , but he adopted a child with a congenital disease."

"Maybe it's the fate of the eyes?" Josh finished speaking, and denied his own statement, "Indeed, in this kind of game copy, there are usually antecedents."

An Wujiu closed his eyes and went through everything that happened in this shelter.

There are many pictures in my mind, like watching flowers on the fly, and finally staying in the laboratory on the fourth floor.

An Wujiu raised his head and raised a new question: "A02 was taken in because of his congenital disease. A01's father wants to use his genetic defect for experimental research, right?"

"Yes, but not quite."

This result caused the seven people present to sink again, but at the same time it also opened up a new idea for them - there is a hidden meaning behind A02's adoption.

Not exactly...An Wujiu frowned and thought about it, indeed, there should be many children in the abandoned baby center with congenital defects, if you really just want to choose one such child, you don't have to choose A02.

He carefully recalled the image of A02, and found that in the second layer of Josh's video, he should be the closest to the real A02. At that time, he was kind and just, running for those intersex babies to find the truth.

Kindness... Could this be one of their criteria for choosing A02?

Or do they want A02 to be that person?

Everyone's thoughts began to diverge, "Could it be that A02 is A01's father's private property?

give birth

? Are they related by blood? "

"no."

"Is it because A02 actually has some kind of special physique, such as the higher success rate of cloning, or the higher success rate of gene editing?"

"no."

The feedback from several questions in a row is a red cross, and the situation is not optimistic. The fluid gradually engulfed their bodies from bottom to top, and the slightly shorter ones were about to reach their chests.

"In short, they used A02 as a test product, right, and they chose him from the beginning. They are good to him. In fact, they want to use him to verify the experimental results." I don't know if it is because the fluid is about to bury itself, or because of these As the truth gradually approached, Josh felt very suffocated. It would be terrifying if a person adopted himself, just like adopting a mouse.

"They are also full of people for people and people, it's crazy and hypocritical."

for humans?

An Wu Jiu narrowed his eyes slightly.

Suddenly I heard Shen Ti muttering to himself, "Everything is for human beings."

An Wu Jiu turned his face to look at him, Shen Ti also turned around and looked at each other.

Their brainwaves seemed to hit the same signal at some point.

An Wujiu said, "I always thought that the phrase 'everything is for human beings' sounds strange, this kind of words has the nature of a typical slogan and can give people a very strong sense of belief."

"It's like a cult organization that uses such bright and righteous slogans to control believers. The purpose is actually very different from the slogan."

He thought of the unsent emails he had just seen on the host under Shen Ti's authority.

Maybe it was what he thought, albeit absurdly.

An Wujiu raised his head, "I want to ask, apart from being the subject of gene editing and cloning, is A02 the subject of another kind of psychological experiment?"

His conjecture was confirmed.

"Yes."

"The other?" Josh looked at An Wujiu, "What is it?"

Shen Ti thought of the contents of the work log. No matter who the log was, it basically stated some experiments about A02, but one was very unclear. It was referred to by a noun and appeared in the work of the character Josh.in the log.

Shen Ti raised his eyes and asked the system: "Is this experiment called a growth show?"

After a while, the conjecture was verified.

"Yes."