Chapter 132 Life Science Museum (End)
Mu Yu shook in the air several times and finally succeeded in sticking his hand to the back of the glass cover that was still intact.
The hole in the middle of the glass cover has become very large, and the black film can completely bypass the hole, but judging from the attempts of the previous groups, some of the film will inevitably attack head-on.
As long as that part can shatter the glass, it's enough.
Mu Yu's gaze fell downward. He stared at the dark entrance of the treatment room, waiting for the arrival of Lu Chongnian's film.
At 3:28, he heard an explosion and the glass cover was shaken by the vibration.
But the direction the sound came from seemed a little strange.
He looked to the lower left...why did it feel like it was ringing in the fog?
illusion?
He calmed himself down.
...However, half a minute passed and Lu Zhongnian's video still did not appear.
The speed wasn't right, because it didn't take so much effort to find him.
Mu Yu thought of the location where the explosion came from and felt a little uneasy.
"Lu Chongnian!" he shouted loudly to the people below.
The huge treatment room and the huge building responded to him in silence.
"Lu Zhongnian, are you still there?!"
His voice echoed, but the surroundings remained quiet.
Mu Yu was suspended in the air, sweat oozing from his forehead, and his heartbeat had suddenly become very fast.
He stared at the entrance to the treatment room and looked down at his cell phone.
...It will be too late if we go any further, the copy time limit is about to expire!
Where did Lu Zhongnian go? Where did he explode?
3:29
Mu Yu threw away his phone and decisively strangled his own neck with his free right hand.
In this copy, biting your own skin will not cause much pain, and this is the only way to make the body feel pain.
Mu Yu quickly tightened his five fingers, and blue veins appeared on the back of his hand.
A strong feeling of suffocation came over me, my head felt swollen, and my heart rate soared to the extreme.
His teeth were chattering and his vision below was becoming blurry.
Lu Chongnian, Lu Chongnian, Lu Chongnian——
Where on earth did you go?
Why don't you come out?
How are you?
My stomach twisted into a knot and my heart felt like it was pierced by a sharp knife.
Mu Yu closed his eyes, and at that moment, a huge light burst out from his body, and his skin was torn apart by a violent force.
…
…
"Mu Yu, why are you here?"
A slender figure walked towards me from the front.
"Who are these two?"
The figure gradually turned from blurry to clear, and the buzzing sound in the ears caused by the explosion seemed like an illusion and disappeared in an instant.
Mu Yu lost all his strength and fell down.
Whether it was Qu Ge who had just walked over, or Mu Chenxi and Gao Zhanyuan who had also returned to this point in time because the copy was over, they were all shocked and stepped forward to support him.
"Brother Yu, what's wrong with you?" Gao Zhanyuan asked fearfully.
Mu Yu's face was pale, his whole body was covered with sweat, and his eyes were dull.
Although Gao Zhanyuan was only participating in the dungeon for the second time, he heard that after each dungeon ended, the players' time would go back to the time before the dungeon started, and their injuries would disappear and their physical condition would be restored.
But why does his brother Yu look so miserable?
Mu Chenxi restrained his expression, quickly checked Mu Yu's pulse and breathing, frowned and asked: "Ayu, what happened next?"
Mu Yu lowered his head, his hair covering his eyes.
Qu Ge looked at the three people with confusion.
Suddenly, he felt that Mu Yu's hand, which he was holding, was trembling slightly. He looked down and was stunned.
"... Lu Zhongnian seems to have had an accident," Mu Yu's voice was so hoarse that it was almost impossible to hear him, "He might have entered the fog."
*
The copy is finished.
But not in the way they expected.
Lu Zhongnian's video clip did not come out in the end, and Mu Yu had no other choice but to force himself to explode.
——He didn't say what method, but they knew it must be an extreme measure that they couldn't imagine.
At the last moment, his explosion shattered the entire remaining glass cover.
A little bit of the contents should have splashed into the fog, but since he was able to get out of the copy, the amount that splashed in should not have reached 10%.
What Lu Chongnian encountered in the end and how he is now has become a mystery.
"Do you want to ask your counselor for leave and go home to rest for a few days?" Mu Chenxi asked him before leaving the Life Science Museum.
Mu Yu shook his head slowly.
Gao Zhanyuan consoled him, "Fox... Lu Zhongnian might be fine. You'll be able to see him next time you do that, Brother Yu."
Mu Yu still didn't react.
Mu Chenxi was silent for a moment, then said, "Go back to your dorm and have a good rest. We'll talk about this topic again in a few days."
...Qu Ge followed behind them, listening attentively, frowning from time to time.
Mu Chenxi turned around and said to him, "Qu Ge, go back. You don't have to see us off."
Qu Ge paused: "How do you know my name?"
Mu Chenxi: “…”
Qu Ge stared at him straight in the eyes: "It seems that we didn't introduce ourselves to each other just now. There are no extra memories in my mind, nor any sense of déjà vu, so I should not have participated in your mysterious incident as an unrelated person. How do you know me?"
"Or is it that you know me from another world?"
Gao Zhanyuan was almost scared to death: "Fuck, you——"
What the hell?!
Mu Chenxi calmly asked back: "Aren't you Ayu's high school classmate?"
Qu Ge: “?”
Mu Chenxi: "I know your name is not normal? It's not like Ayu hasn't mentioned you before."
Qu Ge: “…”
Mu Chenxi: "Does your mind always go through twists and turns? Be careful not to overthink. Overdrawing your brain power will make you stupid."
Qu Ge: “…………???”
…
Everyone in the group knew nothing about Lu Zhongnian's affairs. They only knew that Mu Yu and the others had completed another copy, so they celebrated for them.
After Mu Yu returned to the dormitory, he climbed onto the bed and buried himself in the quilt.
He closed his eyes, replaying the last three minutes of silence in his mind.
That horrible, empty silence.
Mu Yu couldn't breathe.
...He vaguely remembered that before parting with Lu Zhongnian, Lu Zhongnian put his palm against his face and said to him gently and soothingly: "I will self-destruct in two minutes."
Then the boy turned around and left decisively.
He disappeared from his sight.
Mu Yu opened and closed his eyes, recalling the scene and the explosion in a self-torturing manner.
He tried to deduce what had happened in the building during the moment when he couldn't see it, but his thoughts were extremely confused and he couldn't make sense of anything.
He was drowsy and sweating in the cold winter. He woke up suddenly at three in the morning, staggered out of bed, and went to the toilet to vomit.
…
The next day, everyone in the group heard about Lu Chongnian.
Jiang Shuyue came down privately to knock on Mu Yu.
"I think we shouldn't be pessimistic yet. We don't know the specific situation in the foggy world yet, and players may not necessarily die if they enter."
"Although the few people who entered the dungeon before were left with only their bodies after the dungeon ended, no different from the dead players, I actually thought that if entering the dungeon meant certain death, then there was no need for "He" to deliberately create a 'space' and the fog. Wouldn't it be simpler to just set the entire area outside the dungeon to a void of black?"
"So I think there is a certain chance that the player can get out of there. They just need to find a way. The reason why the three people before couldn't get out was..."
Ye Sui also sent a WeChat message to Mu Yu.
"Have you recovered a little?"
"I think we can try to think about what caused Lu Chongnian to enter the fog at the last moment. It is impossible for him to go in on his own initiative for no apparent reason. He must have encountered some external force..."
Mu Yu’s private message list is filled with all kinds of concerns and greetings.
But he didn't reply to any of them.
Five days later in the evening, he was picked up from his dormitory bed by Mu Chenxi.
"I told you to have a good rest, but this is how you rest?"
The three roommates watched in fear as Mu Chenxi pulled Mu Yu down from the upper bunk like a mop, and did not dare to step forward to stop him.
"The counselor has asked for leave for you. Come home with me."
Mu Yu said dejectedly: "...Brother, does it matter whether I go home or not?"
"Why not?" Mu Chenxi said in a cold voice, "I said I would come to talk to you about this in a few days. Now, we can talk about it."
*
Ten minutes later.
The car was driving on the wide road in the university town.
Mu Yu looked at the evening scenery passing by quickly outside the window and said softly, "Brother, I just need to wait a few more days. Anyway, no matter what, the two worlds still have to overlap and the copy still has to be cracked. My goal has not changed. I can't commit suicide for love or anything like that. I'm not that stupid."
"But Lu Zhongnian is in trouble. It's impossible for me to recover all of a sudden," Mu Yu said calmly. "It's hard for me to be blindly positive without any basis. If he entered the misty world intact, it would be fine, but I'm sure I heard the sound of the explosion."
Mu Chenxi controlled the steering wheel without looking around.
"I'm not asking you to be optimistic like a fool, but so many days have passed, haven't you thought about this matter carefully?"
"How do you know I don't have it?"
"If you had, would you still be like this now?"
Mu Yu turned her head to look at him, her lips tightly pursed and there were dark circles under her eyes.
"Let me analyze it for you." Mu Chenxi stepped on the brakes when they encountered a red light. "Theoretically, there won't be any accidents in this copy."
"The progress of destroying the demon generator is within your expectations and control. The bad causes of Wang Keyin and Zhao Xiaoguang have been dealt with, and they will not attack you again."
"In that situation, there were only you and Lu Zhongnian in the entire building. What could have attacked him or even put him in the fog?"
Mu Chenxi said calmly: "Who else could it be except Him?"
Mu Yu clenched his hands and said hoarsely: "Of course I have thought about this, but how did He——"
"You don't have to think about how He did it. He is a high-dimensional creature. What can't He do? He has many ways that we can't imagine - controlling Lu Zhongnian's body itself, or controlling other inanimate objects. Can you imagine the power of 'God' as a human being? No, so there is no need to dwell on this issue."
"You have to think about why He chose to make such an interfering move at that time?"
Mu Yu was stunned.
"The rules and levels, He made the dungeon so complicated. His real purpose was to see how we died while trying to survive, not just to watch us die. You have always understood this, right?"
"……Um."
"So, seeing that we seemed to be about to pass the level, he quickly intervened and wiped us out - He has never done such a thing before. Then, why did He go against his usual behavior this time and attack Lu Chongnian?"
Mu Yu moved his lips and gave an answer.
“…He is anxious.”
"Yes," the red light turned green, and the car drove forward. Mu Chenxi spoke at a steady pace. "Actually, you are right about one thing. The power of the guardian has been weakening. Of course, it is definitely not as weak as you thought before, but he must be slowly losing the upper hand."
"Because if the Thief wanted to stop something by attacking you, He should have done it in the first two copies. But He didn't finally do it until this copy. Why?"
...Is it because it was only until now that He was finally able to break free from the guardian's control?
Mu Yu frowned, and finally perked up and followed Mu Chenxi's thoughts.
——But this kind of escape seems to be limited, otherwise He would not have to wait until the end of the copy to take action.
All signs indicate that He is still restricted.
Mu Chenxi continued, "So, the Thieves and the Guardians have been competing with each other. But if the Guardians' power keeps declining, there's no need for the Thieves to worry. It's obvious that He is like this now because there are other things threatening Him. We have discussed this issue before, and it should be the power brought by the proximity of the two worlds."
Mu Chenxi was silent for a few seconds and said, "The two worlds themselves may be created by the guardians, but the power to win them over should belong to you. Two high-dimensional creatures and a group of humans, the three forces formed a triangle, this is the current situation."
"Let's look back at the Lu Chongnian incident. If the Thief is most wary of the two worlds getting closer, then all of His interfering actions should be aimed at blocking this process."
"That is to say, if Lu Zhongnian died, then the two worlds should stop getting closer."
"But..." Mu Chenxi glanced over, "Have you not observed the reflection world recently?"
Mu Yu trembled.
At this moment, as if a lamp was lit, a huge reflection on the earth appeared brightly.
Mu Yu turned around quickly, leaned over to the car window, and looked out anxiously.
He was almost dazzled. The buildings in the reflected world were confused with the real world. He couldn't tell where the underground world had moved to, and how different it was from five days ago.
"In five days, it turned a total of 15 degrees, and the speed did not slow down at all."
Mu Chenxi's voice came from behind.
"Lu Zhongnian is not dead yet."
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