Chapter 129 Life Science Museum (Ten)

Qu Ge is on the rooftop.

He brought tools with him so he didn't have to touch the glass cover with his own hands.

After the test, he found that the glass barrier surrounding them was curved, and the curve gradually tightened from bottom to top.

He raised his head.

——The location of the devil's moon should be the top of this hemispherical glass cover.

But, hemispherical?

What objects in the Life Science Museum look like this?

While trying to think, he saw an extremely strange scene——

Zhao Xiaoguang suddenly rose up from below.

The boy was spinning and rushing upwards at a very fast speed, screaming loudly.

Qu Ge looked up in astonishment. Yao Feng, who was in the room downstairs, and Lan Lu, who was paying attention to their conditions in the treatment room, also saw this scene.

"How did he fly?!" Yao Feng shouted while leaning against the window.

Zhao Xiaoguang flew into the darkness... After a while, a "pop" sound came from the depths of the darkness.

It was like a bird hitting glass.

Zhao Xiaoguang's screams of fear were also lost in the silence.

There was a commotion downstairs, and it was obvious that other people were also in a tizzy about this.

Qu Ge was shocked and confused.

How can a person fly up? It doesn't look like Zhao Xiaoguang flew up by himself, but rather he was pulled up by a force.

Did he hit the glass cover? But he just stuck there and couldn't get off?

What the hell is this…

Qu Ge's eyes suddenly froze.

He shouted to the people below: "Yao Feng, I'm going in, help me!"

"Oh, okay!"

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Back inside, Qu Ge and Yao Feng ran downstairs and bumped into other people.

He was a little confused when he saw the shrunken version of Mu Yu, but he didn't have time to think about it and said, "Go to the disposal room. There may be something wrong with the rules there!"

Lan Lu is in the treatment room.

Seeing them coming, she pointed upwards and said in a trembling voice: "The contents of his body are flowing out!"

Everyone looked up and saw a golden ribbon "floating" in the night sky.

It is gradually getting longer, like a branch of a river, separating from its mother body bit by bit.

It brightened the surrounding night sky, allowing them to see Zhao Xiaoguang standing still in the darkness with his eyes closed and without moving. It also once again allowed them to see the devil's moon and the pair of strange eyes behind the evil crescent moon.

Compared with just now, these eyes did not change at all. They still stared at them without blinking.

Sun Ya asked in panic: "Zhao Xiaoguang is dead?"

The golden ribbon was flowing out from the back of his head. Was the back of his head broken?

"As long as his contents haven't disappeared by more than 10%, he won't die," Mu Chenxing frowned, "He may have fainted."

"So how do we get him down?"

Qu Ge came to the center of the lawn, suddenly knelt down and started digging.

This action stunned everyone.

Sun Ya was puzzled again: "What are you doing?"

"When you buried Wang Keyin just now, you didn't bury her very deep, right?" Qu Ge asked, panting.

"Of course not. The rule here is that if you bury it too deep, it won't sprout..."

"But the rules may trick players," Qu Ge said, "Dig it down and see, I feel there may be something underneath."

"So we're just going to ignore Zhao Xiaoguang..."

"It's not that we don't care, we have to know how to save him, right?"

Mu Chenxi rolled up his sleeves and walked towards Qu Ge.

Seeing this, others hurried to follow.

Although I don’t know what Qu Ge’s guess is, let’s dig deeper.

It would be a bit crowded if everyone gathered in the same place. Mu Yu looked to the side and pulled Lu Zhongnian's hand: "Shall we go dig over there?"

Lu Zhongnian let him do as he pleased: "Okay."

The small tree that grew out of Wang Keyin's skin was not far away.

Her good karma and the mixture of life had not completely disappeared. There was still a faint layer of golden light, maintaining her human form, and she was gazing at the night sky with her chin in her hand.

Mu Yu and Lu Chongnian were on the left side of the small tree, and the rest were all on the right side.

There is strength in numbers, and the right side can dig faster.

Not long after, Sun Ya exclaimed: "There is really something down there! This, this is——"

There was clearly something like cloth buried deep in the soil in front of them.

Qu Ge frowned, a trace of confusion flashed across his face, and he seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.

Gao Zhanyuan boldly reached out and picked up the mysterious thing, shook off the dirt, and the cloth naturally scattered.

In an instant, the treatment room fell into silence.

On the side, Mu Yu wiped the sweat off his forehead and turned to look over with Lu Chongnian. They were both stunned.

...It was a piece of skin.

The girl had shoulder-length hair, her eyes closed, the corners of her lips slightly raised, and she slept in peace, without showing any sign of pain as all her desires disappeared.

Lan Lu covered her lips tightly, and a whimper of shock and pain escaped from her throat.

It’s Wang Keyin’s skin.

But... wasn't Wang Keyin buried...

Everyone turned their heads and looked at the small tree not far away...

"...What the hell, wasn't Wang Keyin buried over there?" Sun Ya got goosebumps all over his body. "Who buried her then?"

"I," Gao Zhanyuan swallowed, the hair on his arm holding the skin standing up, "I am sure I buried Wang Keyin over there. That tree grew out of her body. This one was not buried by me."

Sun Ya jumped up and shouted, "What do you mean you didn't bury this one? Then could there be two Wang Keyin?!"

Mu Chenxi whispered, "Put her down first."

Gao Zhanyuan reacted and quickly put the skin bag on the ground.

Then everyone froze there.

They have no idea what is going on.

Mu Chenxing suddenly turned around and asked Qu Ge: "How do you know there is a second Wang Keyin here?"

Qu Ge said stiffly: "I don't know, this is not what I'm looking for."

One sentence caused chaos in an instant.

Sun Ya: "Isn't this what you are looking for?! Then what are you looking for? Anything else?!"

Yao Feng: "Say, should we dig under that tree to see if Wang Keyin is still there...?"

Lan Lu: "...Do you want to dig Yinyin out again?"

Yao Feng: "Because it is possible that this skin is the one we just buried, but it moved from there to here?"

Sun Ya: "Huh? Move? How can they move if they are dead? Don't tell ghost stories!"

“——No need to dig, the one in your hand should be the second Wang Keyin.”

Suddenly, Mu Yu's clear voice came from the left.

The argument stopped and they all looked over. They saw that Mu Yu was holding a leather bag in his hand. It was clearly just dug out from the ground. And this leather bag was...

Sun Ya's face was as pale as a ghost.

That's him.

This skin is clearly his...

But he is still here, he is not dead at all, but Mu Yu and Lu Chongnian dug out another him from the ground over there? !

"What the hell is going on... Is there a second group of us in this instance? No, we are the second group? The first group all died a long time ago?" Yao Feng was completely confused. "Then when did this instance start? Did it really start at 2:30?"

Yu Ning thought secretly for a while, turned around and started digging again at the edge of the pit they had just dug.

At the same time, Yan Shaowen, Qu Ge, Mu Chenxi and Mu Chenxing did the same thing.

They all took a step back and expanded the scope of the digging pit.

Three minutes later.

The entire center of the treatment room became bumpy.

All the soil and grass were turned out, and five leather bags were placed on the ground.

In addition to Wang Keyin and Sun Ya, they also dug out Zhao Xiaoguang, Gao Zhanyuan, and a boy they didn't know at all.

Everyone came up to confirm, and in the end, no one knew the boy.

Things are getting weirder and weirder.

Yao Feng was frantic and asked, "Who is this person? Why is he here?"

Sun Ya's forehead was covered in cold sweat. He didn't dare to look at himself on the ground. He said with a trembling voice: "And why didn't they sprout when they were buried here?"

It was because they didn’t sprout that they didn’t know there were such scary things buried underground!

Lan Lu said hoarsely: "Because... 'If it is buried too deep, it will not sprout.'"

Sun Ya: "But why did they bury their people so deep?!"

"Qu Ge, you said that this is not what you are looking for, so what on earth are you--" He turned around to look at the others.

Then I noticed that the atmosphere between the other veteran players was a bit weird.

They stared at the things on the ground without saying a word.

Mu Yu stood in the corner.

He felt that the hand holding his suddenly became very tight, and he couldn't help but look over.

She raised her head again and followed the arm to look at the handsome boy beside her.

The black hair covered Lu Chongnian's eyes. Mu Yu could only see the light in his eyes filled with unknown emotions and felt that the atmosphere around him was somewhat stagnant.

As if feeling his gaze, Lu Zhongnian's body muscles suddenly relaxed.

He lowered his head and looked at Mu Yu.

"Are you okay?" Mu Yu asked in a low voice.

"...It's okay." Lu Zhongnian rubbed his head, then looked aside and said calmly, "Qu Ge, where is the thing you are looking for?"

Qu Ge cleared his throat: "...I want to try digging deeper. We haven't reached the bottom yet."

"Dig to the bottom? Do you want to dig to the center of the earth?" Sun Ya questioned.

"We are not on Earth, so where does the 'center of the earth' come from?" Gao Zhanyuan said this, walked forward, squatted down and continued digging.

"...You also lost another self, so you're not panicking?"

"...Anyway, I'm not dead yet," Gao Zhanyuan said in a low voice, "but I can see that you are panicking. You suddenly become so talkative."

Sun Ya's expression became distorted.

He opened his mouth to curse, but at that moment the others stepped forward and continued to dig silently, so his words got stuck in his throat.

He clenched his fists, cursed softly, and walked away angrily.

They continued to dig.

The five strange skins were placed on the intact lawn nearby.

But at this moment they didn't look or care. They ignored their hearts beating rapidly because of the fear of the unknown and just focused on what was under their feet.

After an unknown amount of time, Gao Zhanyuan suddenly said, "It's hollowed out!"

He had just dug out a handful of soil when a hole appeared underneath, big enough for him to put his hand in!

"There is still space inside?" Yao Feng was shocked. "Is it really the 'center of the earth'?"

Qu Ge finally perked up: "Dig this hole a little wider!"

Everyone worked hard to expand the hole quickly, and then Qu Ge took the lead and jumped into the pit.

He adjusted his posture, head down, feet up, and grabbed the edge of the hole with both hands, and actually crawled in, disappearing from their sight!

Sun Ya and Yao Feng were terrified by what they saw.

Qu Ge was too bold. They didn't even know what was inside the "Inner World"...

"Qu Ge?" Mu Chenxi waited for two or three seconds and called out with narrowed eyes.

"...Come in quickly!" Qu Ge's voice came from the other end of the cave.

Everyone looked at each other.

Mu Chenxi was the second to go down, followed closely by Mu Chenxing.

The veteran players drilled in without hesitation, and so did Mu Yu—even though he had lost his memory, his boldness was ingrained in his bones.

Finally, seeing that Lan Lu and Yao Feng had gone in, Sun Ya felt embarrassed to stay here alone. After all, he felt creepy staying with those five strange skins.

He gritted his teeth, jumped into the pit, and adjusted himself to the same upside-down position.

The head is the first to enter the "inner earth world".

Perhaps influenced by some messy novels he had read before, Sun Ya always felt that the air in the "inner world" might be poisonous.

When he stuck his head out, he subconsciously held his breath.

So what's the gravity of the "center of the earth"? Will he fall right in? Or will he float up like in space?

As he was daydreaming, he looked up and found that all the people who had entered earlier were standing next to him with their feet on the ground.

——It turns out that the other side of the lawn in the disposal room is the ground of the "inner world"?

He breathed a sigh of relief and quickly got in.

Gravity naturally shifted at this moment.

He got up from the ground and looked at his friends who were looking up: "What are you looking at..."

He looked up following their gaze and was stunned.

…

The cold air lingered around them.

Although it was still completely dark all around, there seemed to be a deeper darkness within the darkness.

They were in the shape of a chain, surrounding them in the air.

Two branches extend from the left and right ends of the chain, extending straight upward and meeting at one point.

They seemed to be standing on a large hanging execution platform. These strange things were so huge that they made one's scalp tingle.

Mu Yu tried to turn on the flashlight on his phone, but found that it didn't work.

Lu Zhongnian lowered his head and said to him: "You have already tried it just now. This function cannot be used here."

Mu Yu was stunned: "My eyesight is not very good, can you see clearly what it is? Is it a rope or a bracket?"

"It doesn't look like anything..." Lan Lu looked around and pointed at the sky, "Don't you think there's something else next to us? It feels like there are other people hanging up like us..."

"Yes, there are!" Gao Zhanyuan turned his body and counted, "One, two, three, four..."

Those strange things whose shapes could not be clearly seen were scattered around them!

"There are so many?" Yao Feng's eyesight was not very good. He opened his eyes wide and squinted, but he couldn't see clearly. "Could it be that there are really several groups of players in this instance? Are there our clones in other places?"

"…It's not a clone, right? If it is a 'clone', then who is the man we just dug out, a total stranger, a copy of?" Sun Ya said.

While they were discussing, Qu Ge walked to the edge of the flat ground.

He stretched out his hand, spread out his five fingers, and touched the void.

There was a cold touch of glass under my palm.

From the level of his chest, his hand moved all the way up.

He turned around and looked up into the air again. After a few seconds of silence, he said, "I may know what we are in now."

Suddenly, all eyes were focused on him.

Qu Ge walked over and said, "The glass cover still exists around this platform, and it is still a curved surface. From our feet upwards, the curve tightens all the way."

"Is the trend of change opposite to that of the underground world?" Mu Chenxing asked sharply.

"Yes, the land we are standing on now is the first floor of the hospital. The location of this land should be the largest section of the glass cover. From this platform, whether going up or down, the glass cover converges inwards."

Yao Feng immediately asked, "In the end, it turns into a ball? We are in a glass ball?"

Qu Ge shook his head and pointed to the sky: "Look, the chain appears in that place, which means there is a place where it can be stuck. In other words, the glass cover should have a reversed surface at that place."

"In the underground world, the glass cover is indeed folded into a hemisphere, because Zhao Xiaoguang is indeed attached to the top surface of the glass cover. But this place we are in now is definitely not the same."

"Since the glass cover has a reversed curve where the ring chain appears, it cannot be folded into a hemisphere," Qu Ge put down his hand, "It may be the shape of an open flower pot. The entire glass cover should be in a shape similar to a sachet or a lucky bag."

Everyone was stunned.

"Why?" Mu Chenxi looked at him inquiringly, "What on earth is this?"

Qu Ge sighed at this time: "Senior, do you still remember the senior sister who talked to you before the copy started? The theme of that hall is 'The Birth of a Person', and it was arranged by her."

"There was a crib next to you at the time. The crib itself was a purchased model, but the pendant on the crib... was brought by her. It is said that it was originally a pendant hanging on her child's crib."

"Crib ornaments?" Lan Lu was startled and immediately looked around at the other shadows hanging in the dark. "Ah, it's an ornament!"

Looking at it now, the model structure composed of those things and the object they are in now is absolutely obvious. They are from the same set of crib ornaments!

Everyone was shocked.

Qu Ge continued, "I just thought of this. Zhao Xiaoguang could fly upwards and stick to the top of the glass cover without moving. There must be a force on him. But no matter how strange the setting of the copy is, it can't be illogical. What kind of force could that be? I suddenly thought, could it be gravity? Because if he turned it upside down, wouldn't he be like falling from the building headfirst?"

"Will it be that only when our feet touch the ground of the hospital, the force of gravity is downward, and once our feet leave the ground, the true force of gravity will be reflected, which is in the upward direction?"

Everyone immediately started brainstorming.

Mu Chenxing pondered, "Indeed, if we are suspended above the crib, then the orientation of the hospital in the ornament must also be the crib, and we are equivalent to standing upside down in the air. When our feet touch the ground, they are sucked by the ground of the hospital, unconscious. Only when we jump up can we feel the real gravity. Are those eyes in the air the eyes of the fake baby in the crib below?"

Gao Zhanyuan suddenly understood: "No wonder, I was wondering why those eyes were motionless and didn't even blink. They looked fake. It turns out they really are fake!"

Mu Chenxing's eyes swept over the short Mu Yu again: "However, to be precise, as long as our bodies can still touch any corner of the hospital, the real gravity will not act on us. Because when Ah Yu fell from the roof before, his body was stuck between the hospital wall and the glass cover, and the gravity he felt was always downward."

Mu Yu blinked, looking completely confused about these things that he had no recollection of.

After this analysis, the truth has surfaced and everyone is a little excited.

Qu Ge sighed and said, "I only remember that my senior's pendant was in this shape, with a building stuck inside. She had it custom-made on Taobao, but I never knew what the building was."

Sun Ya was shocked: "But it's a bit weird to bring your own child's crib ornaments to the exhibition hall, right?"

"The reason is a bit complicated. Her child died a year ago. In fact, she was not originally in charge of that department. Graduates usually don't participate in such projects. But it seems that when the senior sister returned to school to visit the principal, she heard about it and volunteered."

Qu Ge was silent for a moment, then said, "I think it might have something to do with her state of mind."

"The senior sister told us that no matter how many people she saved, she couldn't save her own child. Sometimes she found it ironic. Of course, she later figured it out. It's because humans are a complex system, so this happens."

"She witnessed the birth, aging, illness and death of different people every day in the hospital. 'It is the place where life is most desired and death is most relieved.' The human body is too complicated, and human emotions are also complicated. She once said to us, wouldn't it be great if everything could be simpler?"

“——So it has become this simple?!” Sun Ya was dumbfounded.

People's diseases are simply attributed to causes, as if as long as the "cause" is found, the disease can be cured.

Qu Ge shook his head: "After the senior sister said this, she immediately said--"

【But any life is precious because it is complex enough. 】

It is obvious that the copy maker has once again maliciously distorted the true meaning of humanity.