Chapter 291 The Second Exit
N23 area.
Sunset Hill Test Site.
27 minutes after Bel Hera disappeared.
Sheen handed the hallucinogenic drug back to An Rushi, who took it and looked at her arm, which was broken in two and lying on the ground. The thing was charred and transplantation was impossible unless she went back to Eoubs for regeneration surgery—thankfully she had explained in time, otherwise she and Gu Heng would probably have died here—at the same time, she thought absurdly, it's really good, at least their relationship has become much closer now, sometimes these soft drugs have this kind of power.
The environment here was cold and chaotic, almost like a stairwell filled with junk. Sheen remembered something—she had just pushed open the door to the B2 level when Bell disappeared. In his place were two unfamiliar faces that He Yu had marked on his death list. If An Ru Shi hadn't quickly shown weakness and explained, she would have really killed them.
At that moment, the woman was supporting the incoherent Gu Heng. The first thing she said to her was that they had to cooperate temporarily, otherwise neither of them would be able to get out alive. It sounded like crazy talk, but now it felt incredibly real.
Sheen sighed, took out a recovery potion from his pocket, handed it over, and then said, "Relax. It was indeed wrong of me to act rashly just now, but you are on the opposite side, so my actions were understandable, right?"
The other person remained silent for a while, staring at Sheehan for a long time before finally saying in a gloomy tone, "Thank you so much."
"You're welcome, it's what I should do." Sheen knew perfectly well that An Ru was being sarcastic, but she didn't care at all: "Helping others is a pleasure, anyone with eyes can see that you've been following me, and now you're getting your comeuppance."
They sat silently on the stairs for a while, still on their drugs, neither of them wanting to mention how they could escape from Sunset Hill.
As for Gu Heng, he leaned on An Ru Shi's shoulder, lost in thought. Judging from his expression, his mind was completely blank, as if his thoughts weren't even on the surface. Well, that's understandable, Xi En thought. After all, there had been rumors that these operatives who were close to being loved for a long time would almost always spend a very long period of time immersed in despair and torment that was difficult for ordinary people to understand.
After a long while, Gu Heng suddenly spoke up, saying, "I saw it, that inhuman future."
Wow, that's really amazing.
Sheen suddenly blurted out this sentence.
“This place is practically a hell like Eoubs. There are people monitoring it in cycles, and they won’t let anyone leave. We’re even further away from the real world now, and there’s no way to escape—no… actually, there is a way, as long as we block all the exits.”
“I’m sorry, but ever since I met him, my man has become paranoid.” An Ru clicked her tongue and said with a helpless sigh, “As you can see, we’re still inside right now, no different from any of those ‘anyones’ he’s talking about.”
"No, you didn't understand what I meant." Gu Heng seemed to have regained his senses and retorted very seriously, "Those exits are not to prevent us from leaving, but to prevent things here from leaving."
"As for Bel Hera... she was simply kicked out because it was her turn to play."
Sheen paused for a moment, wondering why this idiot knew about Bell. The man continued, "Yes, all the nobles in Eoubs once thought... the Siberian infected zone would be a land of wealth. Because they possessed unimaginable fragments of the Law of Fate, but things are not that simple. This place contains too many things we cannot understand, it is too terrifying... You, you are simply unable to resist."
He stared downstairs as if he had seen some terrifying monster, his face filled with fear.
"Ah, haha."
"Are you really going down there? The first exit is closed. Yes... you have to go down because there's something far more terrifying and horrifying than taboo objects or operatives."
He continued, saying that the language was fragmented and could not be pieced together: "We are too close to the tipping point. What do you think you will get? I can see all the futures, but they have changed."
Gu Heng stopped, staring blankly ahead, his pupils constricted, as if he had just finished reading some supernatural story.
“It was just… just a nightmare,” he murmured.
An Ru really didn't know what to say. Who knew that Gu Heng would suddenly start spouting some incomprehensible remarks like a madman. She turned her head, saw what Xi En was holding, her eyes widened, and then she smiled with a sigh.
"A map?"
“Indeed, if someone in a team goes crazy, then everyone’s brains will malfunction. And you even brought a map.”
She couldn't help but laugh, as if it were something extremely absurd. "Does this mean we have to keep following these instructions and dying?"
Sheen had absolutely no desire to start an argument; it was completely unnecessary. So she just glared at the other person, assuming that this person must also be having a mental breakdown and might snatch the map Bell had drawn and swallow it, or set it on fire, since everyone was in a bad situation right now.
But that person didn't.
An Ru finished laughing, her expression returning to calm. She turned her head and walked downstairs first. "There's really no other way."
"Let's continue on your plan."
"Anyway, there's no other way."
Sheen picked up the bottle of hallucinogens, which still had a lot left, and followed behind her. For a moment, she wanted to ask the person again about how they got to Sunset Hill, and about the feeling of collapse she felt when the door opened—that feeling was still lingering in her mind. She really wanted to know if Bell was connected to these people, whether the madwoman's disappearance was caused by them, or... something else strange.
Whatever it was, she knew it was a feeling that once something existed, it could never be restored to its former state. An indescribable sense of alienation.
Let's find an opportunity to kill them.
Sheen thought to himself.
Then, she saw the man help Gu Heng downstairs. This time the steps were short, and they reached the entrance to the second basement level very easily.
"I'm opening the door."
"Don't worry, my characteristics are not suitable for combat at all; I can only provide support."
"So there's no need to doubt that I'll do anything here."
Sheen didn't believe the man's story and quickly followed. The next moment, the man suddenly opened the door and went inside, then slammed the door shut. In that instant, she vaguely saw a gray light, but before she could say anything, she felt a huge tremor coming from underground—the amplitude was so exaggerated that it seemed the entire testing site was shaking.
She took a step back, lost her footing, and fell to the ground.
"Damn it, I should have killed you two bastards the moment we met!"
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