Chapter 35 Human-Unknown Biological Hybrid Experiment 06

The things in the photos are all small animals.

But these are not just any ordinary photos of small animals.

The photo spread out in front of Jane Bumian showed a black and white tabby cat kitten.

But the cat was dead.

It lay limply on the concrete floor, silent and fluttering like a feather.

What is even more shocking is the shriveled half of its head.

Its skull was smashed, its thin skin was pierced by gravel, its white brain and blood were flowing everywhere, and its soft hair was covered with gravel.

It was obvious that it was smashed into this state by someone using bricks, and more than once.

It was still alive when it was smashed, its round blue eyes wide open, and they didn't close until it died. Its mouth was weakly open, its tongue hanging out, stained with the fish mince it had just eaten.

It is hard to imagine what kind of pain it went through before dying.

Jian Busian randomly flipped through other photos and found that they were also photos of animals being abused.

The player said: "This is a photo found in the drawer of the zoo director's office."

"Director of the zoo?" Jian Bumian frowned.

There are only two possibilities.

The first possibility is that the animals were abused by others, and the zoo director was the photographer, who might report the photos to the police or post them online.

The second type is that these animals were abused by the zoo director, and these photos are used as a memorial.

Both of these will lead the instance to different endings.

Jian Bumian came to the experimental hall, and the players gathered in the experimental hall just like last night.

Including the beluga whale.

The little white whale still had the director's stuffed doll on its chest. When it saw Jane Bumian, it quickly floated over, chirped a few times in a very friendly manner, then lowered its head and let Jane Bumian touch it.

A player asked Jian Bumian: "Um, Jian Bumian, are we still going to the Human Sea Zoo tonight?"

Last night, the players followed Jian Bumian's suggestion and went to the Crowd Zoo, and indeed found a lot of clues.

Although Jian Busian had not experienced many dungeons, he talked about various methods of searching for clues like a seasoned veteran player.

Another player said: "We have to hurry up, this instance only gives us three days, and it's already the second night."

As soon as he said this, all the players fell silent.

This means that players must find all the clues this evening - clues on how to destroy the laboratory.

Because they have to play roles during the day, they have no time to look for clues.

A player picked up the fire extinguisher again and smashed it onto the laboratory floor without any hope.

Bang!

The smooth laboratory floor still seemed to be protected by an invisible barrier; the bulky fire extinguisher could not cause a single crack in the floor.

The players still couldn't damage the laboratory at all, let alone destroy it.

But how can it be destroyed?

All the players looked pale and confused.

On the floor of the laboratory, still lay the unlucky player who was killed for not following his role.

His body would disappear during the day but would appear in the experimental hall every night. His body had become stiff, with hideous corpse spots visible.

A player glanced at the bodies on the ground and said calmly, "Speaking of which, how many people have died so far?"

Any player who has experienced a dungeon knows that the way the player dies in the dungeon also plays an important role in providing clues.

In some copies, a certain number of players must die before clues can be obtained.

The players muttered, "It seems... the player who didn't abide by his role identity is the one who died."

"Only one person died?"

“That’s impossible…”

Some players counted the number of people and found that there was only one person missing.

Everyone abides by their respective roles during the day, and there is no reason for them to be eliminated.

Moreover, the background of the dungeon is a laboratory, and players and NPCs are equal workers. Such ridiculous things as being killed for not doing their job well will not happen.

But halfway through the dungeon, only one player died.

This copy is too mild.

Never seen before in the infinite world.

Players believe that the most likely possibility is that the copy has not yet started to actually kill people.

When they thought of this, they couldn't help but gasp.

Only Jian Busian was still carelessly rubbing the little white whale's head.

Although the little beluga whale has become a skeleton and has lost its soft flesh, the smooth skull feels... quite good to the touch. Once you touch it, you'll want to touch it again.

Jane thought sleeplessly.

"Chiu~"

The little beluga whale suddenly cried out, shook its tail fin, left the palm of Jane Busian's hand that was stroking it, and floated towards the experimental cabinet.

It used its non-existent fish snout to scratch the bottom of the laboratory cabinet a few times.

Suddenly, all the players heard a cat's meow coming from under the cabinet.

The cat's meow is soft and weak, it is the meow of a kitten.

Jian Bumian: “…………”

He froze.

His little ragdoll cat ran out?

If he was seen by other players, would they mistake him for a member of Team Cat?

Not very good.

If the ragdoll cat was still holding the eggs that were mistaken for fish eggs, Jane would be even more confused.

Players who didn’t know thought that he really laid little fish eggs for the father.

“Meow…”

The little white whale was scratching around at the bottom of the cabinet, and the soft cat meows became louder and louder. Then a skinny little thing rolled out from the bottom of the cabinet.

…The player who provided the photo clue to Jian Bumian couldn’t help but screamed: “Isn’t this the abused kitten?!”

This kitten looks exactly like the cat in the photo, both are black and white tabby cats, two or three months old.

The cat is so thin that its ribs are barely visible, and the whole cat is only the size of a palm.

Its head was deflated on one side like a squeezed fruit, and even one of its eyes was squeezed invisible by the twisted skull and skin.

Only one big blue eye was left, looking at the players in confusion.

"Meow?"

Even though it was a dead kitten, it still looked so cute that all the players couldn't help but feel their hearts tremble.

"so cute……"

"Who made this kitten like this?!"

“Is this kitten the same clue as the little white whale?”

A player wondered.

Because there was an example of a harmless beluga whale in front of him, he let down his guard towards the kitten, squatted down, raised his hand, and tried to stroke it gently.

The player was in his early forties, slightly plump, with a stubbled face, and looked like a common middle-aged man on the street.

As soon as he touched the kitten, it suddenly let out a scream.

All the players were startled and looked up at this player.

They saw nothing.

This player disappeared out of thin air.

There was no blood, no limbs, only a weak scream.

But the kitten did not disappear. It didn't understand why the person who touched it disappeared out of thin air.

It meowed a few times and walked towards another player, wanting to be touched by him.

The player looked like a high school girl. She could tell with her nose that the player's disappearance was related to the cat.

The corners of her mouth twitched, and she backed away, saying in a trembling voice: "Although you are cute...but, but let's forget it."

"Meow?"

The kitten blinked its one good eye and its brain curiously popped out of its head.

As soon as the female player finished her words, her expression suddenly became ferocious, her pupils shrank to the size of pinholes, and her eye sockets widened, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying.

Pop.

She disappeared too.

The players were immediately excited: "How can a cat disappear even if you don't touch it? What's going on?"

"Where did the missing players go? They weren't wiped out!"

"Oh my god, what did she see before she disappeared? Why did she look so horrified..."

Obviously, people started to die in this copy.

Not long after, several more players disappeared one after another. Before they disappeared, they all let out shrill screams, or had ferocious expressions, as if they had seen something terrifying, or made distorted movements at the moment of disappearance.

Jian Bumian noticed that this poor little kitten with half of its head shrunk was a cat from a completely different world compared to the chubby little ragdoll cat.

He was curious about where the players went after they disappeared.

He hooked his finger and whistled at the kitten.

Jian Bumian looks gentle, with a slim body and fair skin, and he doesn't look intimidating at all.

Naturally, this is also the type of biped that small animals like most.

"Meow~!" The kitten twisted its butt back and forth, and with the force of its waist, the whole cat jumped onto Jane Bumian's body like a small ball of fur that was launched out.

The soft pad of flesh just touched Jane Busian's shoulder.

Jane Busian disappeared on the spot.

*****

When Jian Busian opened his eyes, what he saw was no longer the dim laboratory hall, but a long path.

The weather was clear and the sun was shining brightly. Jane Busian was so blinded by the sudden bright light that she couldn't open her eyes.

After his vision adjusted, he could see the path clearly.

There are dense and deep woods on both sides of the path, and the air is filled with a light scent of grass and trees.

There were no heart-wrenching screams of players, no dull hum of experimental machines, and no harsh electronic sounds of the dungeon system.

There is only the sound of breeze rustling through the leaves, the gentle and soft singing of birds, and the subtle sound of leaves falling to the ground.

Everything is quiet and beautiful.

Jian Busian immediately understood why he came here.

...This is the most common way to screen players in the infinite world, illusion.

Each copy has a different illusion, but the final routine is the same.

Players who can leave the illusion will be counted as alive, whereas players who cannot leave the illusion will be wiped out forever.

But isn’t this fantasy world where Jian Bumian is staying too beautiful?

The scene looks like a narrow path you pass by while taking a walk.

At some point, Jane Busian smelled an alluring aroma.

It's the aroma of red wine.

It is mellow and strong, and just smelling it will make people feel tipsy.

As it happened, Jane was sleepless and hungry.

The man only fed him a few small seafood barbecues yesterday. How could that satisfy him?

Jian Bumian walked quickly along the path until he reached the end of it.

What appeared in front of him was a small villa. The overall color of the villa was snow-white and sea blue. The floor-to-ceiling windows had blue gauze curtains, and the small garden was full of blooming flowers.

It's like a little house that only appears in fairy tales, full of happiness and warmth.

Jian Busian looked at the small villa and felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

What puzzled him even more was that he couldn't help but think of this small villa as "home".

...This is too ridiculous.

In an infinite world, neither players nor NPCs have a so-called "home".

What's more, Jian Busian has lost his memory in the real world. Even if he has a home in reality, he can't remember it.

Jian Bumian felt something was wrong, so he stopped and looked alert.

However, the aroma of red wine emanating from the villa was really tempting.

Jane Bumian is really hungry.

He hates to put himself in a difficult position the most.

Inadvertently, he saw a person sitting on a small table and chairs in the garden.

...is his owner.

The handsome man was wearing casual clothes, sitting in the garden, drinking afternoon tea. His every move was full of laziness, like a lion taking a rest.

The man turned his head and saw Jian Busian. He gave him a somewhat evil smile and his thin lips slightly opened.

Although Jian Busian couldn't hear what the man was saying, he could clearly tell from the way his lips were opening and closing that he was saying -

"Come and eat me."

The man's words were like a strong poison, causing Jane Bumian's pupils to shrink and the long-hidden blue light to flicker in her eyes.

eat……?

In fact, even if the man had agreed to be his owner and feed him regularly.

But Jane Busian still felt a little regretful.

After all, if you do this, you won’t be able to eat the other party.

Compared with the food fed by the owner and the owner himself, the owner himself is definitely more delicious...

Besides, wasn’t his original goal to eat the other person?

Jian Busian licked his white little canine teeth, raised his foot, and walked uncontrollably towards the villa that was so warm that it was a little weird.

“Meow——!”

A shrill cat cry dragged Jane's sleepless thoughts back to reason, and the blue light in her eyes disappeared.

“Eh…?”

Jian Busian came back to his senses and was a little confused.

He looked towards the place where the cat's cry came from, which was in a small corner on the side of the path.

A fat middle-aged man with his upper body naked was rummaging around in the grass, looking very excited.

The next moment, Jian Bumian saw him... catch a cat from the grass.

It’s that little black and white tabby cat!

The man's action of catching the cat cannot be called "catching" at all. He roughly grabbed the kitten's tender head and pulled it out of the thorny grass. The sharp branches scratched its skin.

The kitten in the illusion was still alive and its head was not deflated.

It was frightened, its chest heaving violently, its limbs waving helplessly in the air, and its cry was broken, hoarse and shrill.

“Meow, meow, meow!”

Jian Busian saw the middle-aged man holding the cat in one hand and a brick in the other!

Jian Busian immediately understood what this illusion was trying to express.

This illusion is a re-enactment of the process of the kitten being tortured.

but……

Jane's sleepless gaze turned toward the villa at the end of the path.

Why did the villa and its owner appear?

As soon as he looked towards the villa, he could smell the strong and mellow aroma of red wine.

It stimulates his empty stomach and hungry soul all the time.

Want to eat...

The man sitting in the villa garden stood up and faced Jane Busian.

The man raised his hand and unbuttoned his collar, revealing his muscular wheat-colored chest.

His series of actions seemed to be whispering in Jane Bumian's ear -

Take off your clothes and come over to eat. I won’t resist.

Jian Busian's pupils constricted, his expression was excited, and his heart couldn't help but beat wildly.

If he just took a few more steps, he would be able to go over and eat the man, thus satisfying himself completely.

But Jian Bumian always felt that... something was wrong, very wrong.

In his confused consciousness, he still retained a trace of rationality.

He seemed to have something more important to do.

Jane Busian forced herself to look away from the man.

He saw a little tabby cat kitten on the side of the road.

The little tabby cat was roughly pulled up and even had its thin neck pinched. Its eyes rolled back and it was barely breathing.

……ah.

Jane Bumian remembered it.

He can only choose between eating the delicious food and saving the kitten.

Jane Bumian chose to save the kitten without hesitation.

At the moment when the kitten was about to be hit by the brick, he walked over quickly, raised his foot, and kicked the fat man who was abusing the cat.

"Bang!"

Although Jian Bumian was thin, he was very strong. Within a few seconds, the fat man was kicked in the head and fell to the ground without even a scream.

Half of his head was kicked flat, his skull and scalp were horribly deflated, and his brain mixed with blood quickly flowed all over the floor.

“Meow…”

The kitten that survived the disaster didn't react and curled up into a ball, its skinny body trembling.

Jian Busian squatted down and stretched out his hand to the kitten.

The boy's palms were warm and soft, and in front of the kitten's eyes, they were like a piece of soft white cotton.

The kitten endured the pain in its body, slowly crawled over, and rested its little head on the boy's palm, trying its best to absorb the warmth brought by the other.

...This is the redemption it has been waiting for for a long time.

Crossing life and death, going around in circles, I finally came to it.

*****

Jian Bumian woke up again. He opened his eyes and saw no longer the little cat.

He returned to the experimental hall and was lying on the ground.

He sat up and found that the other players had also returned to the experimental hall.

...But the number of players has decreased a lot, almost half.

Most of the players who disappeared were wiped out by the system.

Jian Busian recalled everything he had experienced in the illusion.

When he smelled the tempting aroma of red wine in the illusion, he forgot that he was still in the copy illusion.

He almost ran over and ate the man.

But he ended up rescuing the cat.

Compared to eating, Jian Bumian actually thinks that saving a dying life is more valuable.

That kitten shouldn't have died.

In addition, Jian Busian always felt that there was some forgotten experience that prompted him to do this.

The voice of a player broke Jane's sleepless thoughts.

"You all met the cat in the illusion?"

"right."

"That's right."

The players echoed one after another, and Jian Bushian nodded.

The player continued, "Then something you wanted for a long time appeared in the illusion, but you gave up on it and chose to save the kitten?"

“Yes…” A female player nodded: “I met my mother in the illusion. My mother asked me to go back for dinner, but I remembered that she didn’t know how to cook, so I woke up and went to rescue the kitten.”

"Me too, I met my girlfriend."

"I love animals very much. No matter what happens, I will save the kitten."

All the surviving players did so by saving the kitten.

Jane's sleepless gaze stayed on the place where the first player who disappeared was.

The moment the middle-aged player disappeared, the item in his pocket accidentally fell out.

It is an employee ID card of a certain company.

Jian Busian picked up the work badge, pondered for a moment, and opened the live broadcast room.

Among the numerous barrages of comments, Jian Bushian saw several high-level players who used props to peek into the illusions experienced by other players in this copy, and uploaded the recordings of the illusions to the live broadcast room.

...After all, everyone has a desire to pry into other people's private lives.

Among these illusion videos, there was the disappeared middle-aged player.

Jian Busian was a little curious about what those disappeared players experienced in the illusion, so he clicked on the video.

The one who appeared in the video was the first middle-aged player who disappeared.

The illusion that the middle-aged player was in was not exactly the same as Jian Busian's.

He was on the sidewalk of a large road, surrounded by high-rise buildings, a constant flow of traffic, and a bustling crowd.

He was wondering why he suddenly appeared here.

But gradually, he realized that this was the city where he worked, and this sidewalk was the only way for him to go to and from get off work.

He even wore a corporate suit and carried a briefcase.

...Have I returned from the infinite world?

The middle-aged player thought in disbelief.

...Everything he experienced in the infinite world should have been just a nightmare on his way to and from get off work.

He glanced at his watch and found that it was almost time to clock in for work.

The middle-aged player's heart tightened, and he quickly quickened his pace and walked towards the end of the sidewalk.

As he was walking, he suddenly heard someone calling him.

When he came to his senses, he saw a fat middle-aged man squatting on the side of the road.

In the fat man's hand, was a dying kitten.

The kitten's neck was nearly broken by his enormous strength, and its voice was hoarse and weak.

The fat man said to the middle-aged player nonchalantly, "Help me get a brick from there."

“…”

The middle-aged player looked in the direction the other party was pointing, and there was indeed a brick there.

Moreover, the other party's intention of wanting the brick was obvious, which was nothing more than to torture the kitten.

The middle-aged player glanced at his watch and saw that there were only five minutes left before the deadline to clock in for work.

If you are late, a fifty-dollar attendance fee will be deducted.

Fifty dollars! !

The middle-aged player was too lazy to argue with the fat man, so he just did whatever the other man said.

He picked up the brick and handed it to the other person very naturally: "Here you go."

As the fat man took the brick, the middle-aged player passed him and ran quickly towards the company.

Almost at the same time——

The hard brick fell heavily on the dying kitten.

puff.

□□A dull sound of being hit was heard, and the kitten was thrown to the ground. It did not die, but struggled in pain on the ground, its limbs twisted into a hideous shape, and its neck raised high.

Half of its head was smashed to the ground, like a pancake, mixed with brain matter and blood.

Its remaining eye was filled with tears.

It didn't understand why it was being punished like this.

****

Jian Busian couldn't bear to watch any further, so he turned off the video halfway through and let it play automatically in the live broadcast room.

Jian Busian raised his head and said to the players in a deep voice:

"Zoo director Li Re should hate those who abuse animals and those who have the ability to save them but stand by and watch."