The moment the surveillance cameras were turned off, Eve issued a warning: "Warning, an unknown hacker has infiltrated the corridor surveillance system."
Source: Unknown.
"In determining the purpose, there are three possibilities: First, to attack the guards. Second, to kidnap the staff. Third, to play a prank."
In Eve's mind, the people imprisoned here were all staff members of the initiation ceremony, and sacrificial offerings were not in Eve's database.
This is an auxiliary building of the Bureau of Divine Service, also known as the Divine Hidden Building. Before the Cyber Disease outbreak, many people here were indeed just staff members serving the gods, but they were basically all Class B citizens, and there were never any people of lower rank.
However, Eve will always serve the gods, and as long as a Class A citizen brings people, Eve cannot interfere with the gods' choice.
She is just an artificial intelligence.
The patrol team leader immediately suspected that someone might be trying to escape, so he quickly locked the main entrance and then arranged for the people who were having tea in the lounge to patrol the room to see if anyone was missing.
This group of usually lazy Class B citizens had never encountered such a reckless situation before. They hurriedly put down their teacups, grabbed their weapons, and began investigating each room.
However, out of some kind of disdain for lower-class citizens, they basically just nodded and left.
"Report: No one is missing from Room 201."
"Report: No one is missing from Room 203."
"Report: No one is missing from Room 305."
"Report……"
As patrol members returned one by one, the patrol leader discovered that there was nothing unusual in any of the rooms.
"It seems someone outside is trying to get in, not a problem inside." The captain quickly concluded, and led the others, fully armed, to wait anxiously for more than half an hour, but nothing happened.
"Hey bro, do you think Eve's gone bad?" one of the team members whispered to his colleague.
"No way... Eve was never bad..."
"Who knows if Eve will still be there to maintain her after we all become infected? It wouldn't be surprising if she broke down."
"Maybe it's just a prank. Didn't Eve suggest that possibility too?"
Listening to the team members chattering away, the captain waved his hand with a headache: "Forget it, let's go back to the rest room first. Everyone else, be on your guard. Anyway, there are patrol robots watching us."
Upon hearing that they could go back and rest, the team members immediately perked up and walked back together, laughing and joking.
The girl naturally heard the commotion outside.
She was terrified when they checked the rooms earlier, but luckily the city folks were slow and only counted the number of people at the door.
But it seems like something really went wrong just now?
Perhaps this is an opportunity.
The girl's gaze drifted towards the woman who had been rude to her earlier.
He was an infected Class C citizen who was arrested because he was physically intact. He arrived a few days earlier than the girl and had a rather irritable temper—which could be due to the effects of the cybernetics, but in any case, it was just right for the girl.
After waiting patiently for a while, it seemed that the people outside were about to begin their regular patrol.
It seems there were two more surveillance issues outside during that time.
But in the end, they were all just pranks.
The girl gripped the chains with both hands, and they began to clang and bang again.
"It's so noisy!"
The woman suddenly stood up and began to walk towards the girl, who screamed and ran around the room, yelling, "Don't come any closer!"
The commotion inside quickly attracted the attention of the patrol officers outside. Soon, the person outside knocked on the door aggressively, speaking in a very unfriendly tone: "Quiet down!"
The woman was so frightened that she dared not move, but the girl took the opportunity to kick her.
"You brat!"
The woman, who was already prone to anger, completely forgot her fear of the high-ranking citizens outside the door after being provoked by the girl's kick. All she wanted was to grab the girl, tear her apart, and devour her.
The woman thought she might be delirious with hunger, and found the little girl smelled delicious.
The person outside realized that the woman hadn't listened to him at all, so he turned to find the captain—only the captain of each team was an A-level citizen who could open the door, while the others were B-level citizens, which also minimized the possibility of a mole among them.
To convince the captain, he added fuel to the fire, claiming that the women inside might be trying to escape.
The girl nimbly weaved through the crowd, eliciting screams from everyone. Some kind-looking women tried to stop their playful fighting, but to no avail. For a moment, the room was noisy, just like a bustling market.
Hearing the noise outside the door, the girl also began to move towards the door.
Click.
The door opened.
A tall, imposing man entered, glaring fiercely at everyone in the room: "Who's causing trouble?"
Now, the woman recalled her fear and humility towards high-ranking citizens, and immediately stopped what she was doing, nervously clutching the hem of her clothes: "Sir... yes... yes..."
"Someone ran away!"
A petite figure darted between the two people at the doorway and instantly rushed to the corridor.
The captain quickly turned around, only to find the corridor empty and deserted.
Is it a hallucination?
"Captain! Someone has escaped!"
It's not a hallucination.
The girl walked down an unfamiliar corridor. Almost the instant she rushed out, she felt that everything around her had been "reconstructed." People she should have seen suddenly disappeared, and the environment was no longer the same path she had come from.
The girl walked forward cautiously, and found the stairs downstairs by memory—she was locked on the third floor.
The empty corridor was deserted, save for a torn piece of paper stuck to the handrail of the first-floor staircase. Luckily, it was written in characters that even a low-class citizen could recognize; otherwise, she would have been completely lost.
1. Infected people can only see other infected people, and healthy people can only see healthy people.
2. Those who cannot see them cannot touch them.
The back part was torn off.
What does this mean?
The girl was a little confused, but if what was written on the note was true, then it was a good thing for her.
Those people can't find her anymore.
Because she had known since childhood that there was a god on the One Star, the girl had no doubts about how all this was done, and sincerely trusted the creator of this rule, bowing to the note on the stair railing.
"I hope I can escape safely."
The girl murmured to herself.
However, the first-floor corridor was completely different from where they had come from. Gone were the winding paths; instead, it was a straight road leading to complete darkness. The notice board that had previously hung on the wall now had a note pasted on it:
3. There is only one road. When you see a fork in the road, please follow the principle of men on the left and women on the right.
4. Darkness in the hallway is dangerous. When the lights are off, find a well-lit room as soon as possible.
5. There is no such thing as eternal light or darkness.
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