The speaker's voice was so cold that everyone was stunned for a moment, and only responded to his words after a while.
"Police? Public servants!" Xu Qianxing greeted them enthusiastically. "Damn, this was my dream when I was little, but I didn't pass the physical examination when I grew up. OK, OK, I feel more at ease with a police officer in the book."
Chen Bao was very dissatisfied with this person who suddenly stole his limelight. He snorted contemptuously: "Now in the dungeon, what's the use of the police? Can they still enforce the law in the dungeon?"
Whether it was Xu Qianxing or Chen Bao, Su Tang did not respond to their words. Instead, he looked at Yu Qirong and slowly smiled.
"?" Yu Qirong frowned. He had not seen Su Tangxiao very often, so it looked strange to him.
The smile only lasted for a moment. When Yu Qirong's brows moved slightly, Su Tang seemed to realize something and pursed his lips again to act like a cool guy.
"Okay, now that everyone has introduced themselves, let's talk to each other and find out if you have any clues about this book," said the professor.
Yu Qirong originally planned to keep silent, but he found that the professor's eyes were always on him, and he gave him a loving and encouraging smile, as if he had gone too far in being a good student, causing the professor to develop some inappropriate teacher-student relationship.
"I was here as soon as I opened my eyes. Everyone should have the things on the task panel." Yu Qirong had to speak first.
The others nodded in agreement. Qin Dai frowned and said, "I seemed to hear the system say something when I entered the game, something about a mother body, pregnancy or something, but I didn't hear it clearly."
"The most perfect mother will give birth to the greatest creature?" Liu Ke continued.
"It seems to be this." Qin Dai thought about it carefully and nodded.
"Damn, that sounds like some crazy experiment." Xu Qianxing rubbed his hair.
"Come to think of it, did you feel as if some liquid was poured into your eyes before you opened them?" Lin Huanhuan asked silently, raising his hand.
"You felt it too?" Qin Dai looked at Lin Huanhuan with wide eyes, then looked at the others. He got the same answer from everyone. He asked in a trembling voice with some fear: "Are we the mother body?"
"You must be joking. I'm a man!" Chen Bao shouted, patting his belly. "I can't have any children in my belly."
"What if it's not giving birth..." Lin Huanhuan reminded silently.
These words instantly made the atmosphere gloomy.
If it wasn't a child, then it was something else that was scary. In any case, it couldn't be a good thing.
"Don't scare yourself. Let's start with the main storyline analysis. If it's about escaping from the cloning factory, then it should be a room escape." Chen Bao said, "I've read so many books, how could I not know?"
"I, I think so too." Bai Shi agreed in a low voice.
"That makes sense." The professor nodded. "Then let's search each area first, and when we're done searching, we can come back here to meet and discuss."
No one objected, so everyone dispersed and began searching the entire room.
Basically they are in groups of two, the professor and Fang Qian, Lin Huanhuan and Liu Ke, Chen Bao and Xu Qianxing.
Bai Shi glanced at Yu Qirong and wanted to join him, but was frightened by a sharp and bloodthirsty look. Su Tang, who was standing there, looked natural, but frightened Bai Shi so much that he dared not take another step forward.
He had no choice but to turn around and go find Qin Dai with his computer bag.
"We are a group." Su Tang said.
Yu Qirong looked up at him, without saying okay, then turned and walked towards the place he wanted to see.
Su Tang pursed his lips, a hint of danger flashed in his narrowed eyes, but he followed after a moment.
Yu Qirong returned to the place where he woke up based on his memory. He remembered that in addition to a large culture bottle, there was also a desk where he woke up. Maybe there would be something on the desk.
He didn't say anything, and the people behind him didn't say anything either, they just walked along like that.
Yu Qirong walked to the desk and searched for clues that might be useful. Su Tang sat opposite him and looked at him with his chin propped up.
This gaze was too direct and undisguised for Yu Qirong to ignore. He put down the work in his hands and squinted his eyes at the man who was just sitting there doing nothing.
Su Tang raised his eyebrows, but then pursed his lips and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Who are you?" Yu Qirong asked.
Su Tang looked a little surprised. He answered hesitantly, "Why are you asking me this question? I am Su Tang."
Of course Yu Qirong knew that he was Su Tang, and he even came here just for Su Tang. But this Su Tang always gave him a feeling of being familiar and strange.
Su Tang is A Fei, A Fei is Su Tang, so is Su Tang Su Tang?
This problem is actually very simple, it can be solved as long as there is black fog. The problem is that there is no black fog now.
Yu Qirong poked his cheek with his tongue in frustration, looked at Su Tang who was still waiting for his reply, and pointed his finger at the table: "Stop looking, come to work."
Even without the black fog, he could still tell whether it was a single person or not.
The table was in a mess, with all kinds of papers piled together, not sure how important they were, and leftover foam lunch boxes. Of course, the food inside had rotted and gave off a disgusting stench.
Yu Qirong frowned and pulled the drawer tentatively. It was not locked, so he opened it and found a notebook inside. It seemed to be the diary of someone who worked here.
[The little guy in the culture bottle seems to be more active today. Remember this environmental parameter, 26, or else the little guy will be sad again. ]
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[Today I received the mother body. The little guy is very happy and growing very fast. It seems that the mother body is indeed more suitable for the little guy's growth than the culture bottle. 】
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[The little one is getting bigger and bigger. The normal menstrual cycle takes seven days to come out. How can I speed up its growth? 】
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[Growth environment: ... Hobbies: ... Side effects: ... Damage to the mother ...]
…
The following content was erased with a pen, and the following pages showed traces of pages being torn directly from the notebook.
Yu Qirong twisted the paper and felt that the thickness of the paper was just right. She looked up at Su Tang and tried to test him again: "Where is the thing I gave you?"
Su Tang frowned, but what he said surprised Yu Qirong: "...What did you give me in the other world?"
He did not hide the fact that he had appeared in other worlds, and even admitted that the two of them knew each other before. But he had no memory?
As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Qirong narrowed his eyes suspiciously, "Do you know that we have had contact before?"
"I know." Su Tang nodded calmly, "I figured it out from the first moment you saw me."
He tapped his temples, "I have some problems here. My memory is missing some things. I can't remember what happened in the last world, but with my inference ability, I can guess roughly."
No wonder Ah Fei didn't admit that he was Su Tang. Yu Qirong seemed to be thinking about something.
But could it be that he actually dared to lose all the love letters I sent him?
Thinking of this, Yu Qirong's face showed some irritation that was hard to capture. Su Tang didn't notice it and continued to ask: "Can you give me another chance? I have it in other worlds, and I should have it in this world too."
"No rush, let's talk about it later." Everything else was useless. Yu Qirong packed up the notes in his hand, estimated that the time was about right, turned around and walked towards the direction where everyone was gathering.
Along the way, Su Tang seemed to be very curious about this thing that he didn't get, and kept trying to ask Yu Qirong, wanting to get it from him.
Yu Qirong was annoyed by the noise and quickened his pace, but bumped into another person.
He reacted quickly and took a step back when he was about to collide, so that he and Chen Bao did not touch each other at all.
The light-colored mole on Chen Bao's face almost covered his entire face. Whenever he spoke or made an expression, the mole moved with him. "I thought it was someone else, it turned out to be Rong Qi."
Yu Qirong frowned and wanted to go around him, but Chen Bao blocked him again, and it seemed that he came with bad intentions.
"I don't want to embarrass you, Master Bao. Although you are not a very obedient person, you are still a student after all. How about this? As long as you kneel on the ground, kowtow to me three times, and say, 'Master Bao, I will never dare not pay the management fee again,' I will help you to complete this book. How about it?"
Xu Qianxing followed Chen Bao all the way, originally wanting to curry favor with him, but ended up not only finding nothing, but was instead ordered around to do a bunch of odd jobs. Now seeing Chen Bao bullying a high school student like this, his "Phoenix filter" for Chen Bao suddenly dropped two levels.
"Doesn't your hand hurt?" Yu Qirong remembered Chen Bao when he heard about the management fee. He glanced at Chen Bao's wrist and asked coldly.
This was originally a caring word, but in Chen Bao's ears it was a provocation. His face changed again and again. He knew that Xu Qianxing didn't know that Yu Qirong had twisted his wrist and kicked him, but he felt that he had lost face in front of his new younger brother.
"You are such a jerk, Rong Qi," Chen Bao said viciously, "Don't even think about getting out of this alive."
Yu Qirong pretended not to hear and just left.
Bai Shi, who was searching with Qin Dai not far away, looked over here, was patted by Qin Dai again, shrank his shoulders and looked away.
Qin Dai: "What's wrong? Any new discoveries?"
Shiraishi shook his head.
Qin Dai looked at Bai Shi typing code with his notebook in his hand and said with some admiration: "Programmers are really good. No wonder they get high salaries. You even opened the password to this computer."
Bai Shi smiled shyly, his face blushed a little, and he waved his hands embarrassedly.
"Do you need me to help you kill Chen Bao?" Su Tang suddenly spoke from behind Yu Qirong.
"?" Yu Qirong turned back in surprise, "Is this something a police officer should say?"
"..." Su Tang licked his lips, "But I want the thing you mentioned, can't you give it to me as a reward?"
"No need." Yu Qirong retracted his gaze. He still felt that there was something wrong with Su Tang. It was like the body was the same, but the soul had changed.
Could it be that amnesia would change Su Tang's personality? In the past, neither Su Tang nor A Fei had so many words.
When they returned to the meeting place, Yu Qirong realized that they had arrived early. The professor and Fang Qian had not returned yet. Only Lin Huanhuan and Liu Ke had come, and they were whispering something to each other.
There were many abandoned office chairs near the gathering place. Yu Qirong moved one and sat down, continuing to read the diary while waiting for others.
Su Tang also moved an office chair and sat next to him.
Not long after, two little girls came running over.
"You are the Rong Qi, right?" Lin Huanhuan asked in a low voice, "The one who went to Yuling Town with Sister Chaochao."
When Yu Qirong heard this name, she inexplicably thought of the eldest daughter of the Leng family who was wearing sparkling lip gloss, so she nodded.
It’s just as Sister Chaochao said.
Lin Huanhuan swallowed quietly, and mustered up the courage to say, "Can you give me your contact information? It will be convenient for us... If we get separated, we can report to each other."
Yu Qirong thought this reason made sense, so she left her contact information.
The two little girls held hands and ran back in small steps.
Turning around and seeing Su Tang staring at him eagerly, Yu Qirong's mouth twitched. Sure enough, Su Tang said, "Can you give me something that I also have in the other world?"
Yu Qirong refused coldly: "No."
The people who had been scattered to collect evidence came back one after another. The last ones to arrive were the professor and Fang Qian, who was pushing a wheelchair.
One of them has weak legs and the other has little strength, so everyone understands that they are late.
When the others saw Yu Qirong and Su Tang move an office chair to sit, they all had the same idea. After searching around, they found that they were indeed very tired, so the professor who had been sitting in a wheelchair was the most comfortable.
Chen Bao turned around and told Xu Qianxing: "Go get me a chair, the biggest one."
Xu Qianxing wanted to refuse, but when he remembered Chen Bao's promise to let him join Phoenix, he went anyway.
After a few seconds, Chen Bao still hadn't waited. He looked back and saw that the office chair Xu Qianxing had moved hadn't even moved at all. He immediately got angry and said, "What are you doing? You're taking so long to move a chair! Did you waste all that muscle?"
Xu Qianxing suppressed his anger and wiped the sweat off his head, "I really can't move it."
"?" Chen Bao walked quickly to Xu Qianxing and looked up and down at the chair.
Although there are no rollers underneath, it shouldn't be completely immobile, right? This Xu guy must be lazy and doesn't want to work.
He stretched out his foot to kick the office chair: "Why can't I move this chair? I see you are just weak...ah!"
Yu Qirong looked up when he heard the sound. Chen Bao hugged the leg that was kicking the office chair, jumped back a few times on one leg, and his back rubbed against the bookcase and he crashed into it heavily.
Looking at the office chair again, it still didn't move at all.
“……”Everyone looked at each other.
"No need to try." Fang Qian sighed and said, "The information the professor and I have collected shows that after the mother body is parasitized, its physical strength will decrease by 70%. In other words, with our current strength, we can probably only move three books."
“Parasite?” Lin Huanhuan’s face turned pale. “Then the one who got drunk at the beginning…”
"Ugh—" Before she finished her words, Bai Shi ran to the side, propped his hands on the surface of the large glass culture bottle, and bowed his head to vomit. When he looked up and saw the green culture fluid and the white plankton inside, he vomited even more violently.
The faces of the others were also not looking good. Anyone who knew that he had been infected before even starting the dungeon would feel as if the sky was falling.
"Then why is he okay? Isn't he infected?" Chen Bao pointed at Yu Qirong who was sitting aside, looking at his palm thoughtfully.
Yu Qirong retracted his hand, and glanced at Su Tang who had also picked up the office chair, with a calm expression: "I am naturally strong."
"Okay, now is not the time to be busy with internal strife. Let's exchange the clues we found first." The professor stopped their conversation and turned to Yu Qirong and Su Tang: "What did you find?"
Yu Qirong handed the diary over and said, "I found a diary. It should have been left by the experimenters here."
After everyone passes it around, they continue to discuss the next clue.
Lin Huanhuan and Liu Ke found a map of the cloning factory. After comparing it with the map Bai Shi found after cracking the computer password, they confirmed that the place they were in was called the "parasitic room."
Everyone's faces looked unhappy, as if after hearing this name, they confirmed that they had been parasitized.
When Xu Qianxing and Chen Bao were asked, Xu Qianxing blushed. He followed Chen Bao and touched things in the corners, but found nothing except dust on his hands.
Chen Bao also said that he was an expert at escaping the secret room, but now it seems that he was just bragging.
It was not surprising that there was no harvest at all. Fang Qian sorted out the existing information and summarized to everyone: "What we know now is that we are all the mothers in various notes or diaries. It should be through some method that some unknown creatures will be hatched and born. And our goal is to leave the factory."
"I really want to give birth?" Qin Dai touched her belly, a little dazed, "What can I expect to give birth to?"
Probably no one would want to know.
"Don't worry," the professor said, his calm and experienced voice calming everyone down. "I'm also a researcher of biology. Cultivating organisms is not easy. It requires a sufficient cultivation environment. Many laboratories even kill their cultures. According to the experimental log, if there is no catalysis, it should take seven days for this thing to take effect."
"After searching around, everyone must be tired. We are in a closed environment and cannot see the sun outside, but we must maintain good work and rest habits. According to the computer time, it is now 8 o'clock in the evening. Let's take a rest first and talk about it tomorrow morning."
"It's already eight o'clock," Lin Huanhuan stretched and yawned, "I was wondering why I was so sleepy. I'm going to the mall to buy some food and then have a good night's sleep."
After that, she paused and asked, "Where is the mall? Is the system mall closed for maintenance?"
After hearing what she said, Yu Qirong also opened the system mall, and sure enough, it showed a blank screen.
"It seems that the mall is disabled in this copy. It's worthy of being an S-level copy." Xu Qianxing's face was pale. He was ordered to do a lot of work and was already exhausted. Moreover, his muscles were consumed a lot, and the feeling of having an empty stomach was not good.
Most people are used to exchanging food directly from the mall when they are hungry, and there is not even any food left in the warehouse.
Fang Qian and the professor looked at each other, and Fang Qian spoke up, "I still have some spare food in my warehouse, and you can come to me to get it. But ten people are too much. Even if each person only eats one meal a day, it will only be enough for two days. You should save it for yourselves."
Although Yu Qirong didn't need to eat, his identity as an NPC couldn't be exposed, so he followed suit.
It was a few packs of compressed biscuits and two bottles of water. Yu Qirong threw the water into the warehouse and took a bite of the biscuit. The taste was not very good, but there was nothing to complain about.
The ban on the mall means that this copy may have a serious food and water crisis. Everyone understands this principle to some extent, but they dare not say it out loud, for fear that if they say it out loud, the defense line in their hearts will be gone.
This office chair can be lowered a bit, so Yu Qirong decided to sleep on it.
It seemed that Su Tang had no intention of staying too far away from him.
Others turned off the headlights to simulate a quiet and dark atmosphere.
Before he closed his eyes, he heard a fierce quarrel on the other side. Yu Qirong turned on the small lamp on the table and looked over there.
"It's not much to begin with, why should I give it to you?" Xu Qianxing's angry roar echoed throughout the room. Everyone turned their heads to look, and Chen Bao felt that he had lost face again.
"What's your attitude? Do you still want to join Phoenix?" Chen Bao raised his eyebrows and pointed at Xu Qianxing's nose and asked.
"No, whoever wants to come in can come in!" Xu Qianxing angrily slapped his hand away and walked to Qin Dai and Bai Shi.
The two men spread a mat on the ground with clothes from the warehouse, and Shiraishi was a little scared when he saw his muscles, so he moved to the side.
Although they already have some understanding of each other, they still stick together as a small team.
This is normal. The first crisis has already occurred. Food and water resources are in short supply. Everyone has to be on the lookout for each other and store food and water in warehouses to prevent them from being stolen.
Maybe because he slept too much in the inner city, Yu Qirong couldn't sleep. After tossing and turning, he took out a new university textbook from the warehouse.
The professor wiped his glasses and found that he was not mistaken. It was not because of the dim light and his old eyesight, but it was really a university textbook.
He moved his wheelchair to Yu Qirong's side. "You, what are you looking at?"
Hearing this, Yu Qirong looked at the cover of the book and answered honestly, "Foundations of International Economics."
The professor praised, "Even in this situation, you still remember to study. When you go back to take the college entrance examination, you will definitely do very well."
"..."Yu Qirong, who originally wanted to use this thing to hypnotize others, rarely felt a sense of "guilty conscience".
He was not the only one who couldn't sleep. In this high-risk situation, everyone's nerves were on edge. Even the few who didn't seem nervous were secretly playing with their phones to relieve their anxiety.
Lin Huanhuan's face was glowing white, she was almost done with the game. In fact, it would be better to listen to the soothing music with headphones, but she was afraid that she would miss some crucial sounds.
As Yu Qirong read on, he felt a little sleepy, so he closed the book, put it into the warehouse, closed his eyes and went to sleep. After a while, he began to breathe slowly and peacefully and fell asleep.
Su Tang, who was lying next to him, suddenly opened his eyes, turned his head, looked at the sleeping Yu Qirong, and a determined smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"..." Lin Huanhuan's head was swollen from playing games. She looked up to follow the light of the small lamp and saw Su Tang smiling like that. She actually felt an inexplicable sense of weirdness. It was not until Liu Ke turned over that she came back to her senses. Maybe she was too nervous.
She tried to hypnotize herself, turned off her phone and closed her eyes.
After a while, the whole room was full of people falling asleep.
Qin Dai vaguely felt that Bai Shi, who was sleeping next to him, went out and came back, so he asked in a low voice: "Where did you go?"
"Pee." Bai Shi replied in a low voice.
"Oh oh." Qin Dai fell asleep again.
After a while, Qin Dai heard someone biting something very hard, as if they were chewing wood. He was already a little neurasthenic and had a light sleep, and now the noise made it impossible for him to fall asleep.
"Shiraishi, if you're hungry, go eat somewhere far away. I can't sleep."
"I didn't eat it." Bai Shi said aggrievedly.
Qin Dai suddenly opened his eyes and looked around for the sound he heard, but he couldn't find it anywhere. Finally, he guessed that it was in his stomach.
Click, click.
It was as if the unknown creature in his stomach was gnawing at the compressed biscuits he had eaten, or as if it was gnawing at his stomach.
Qin Dai broke out in a cold sweat, turned over and sat up, and tried to induce vomiting again. As a result, he vomited out all the compressed biscuits he had just eaten.
When he made such a noise, Bai Shi and Xu Qianxing, who were sleeping next to him, also woke up.
I took a picture of the vomit with my cell phone and felt a little nauseous.
"What's wrong?" Xu Qianxing asked.
Qin Dai looked pale and took out a bottle of water from the warehouse to rinse his mouth: "I heard a crackling sound."
Xu Qianxing and Bai Shi held their breath and listened for a while, "No, maybe he's hallucinating because of hunger."
Xu Qianxing looked at the pool of vomit on the ground, feeling disgusted but also a little sorry, "It was a waste of food."
They couldn't sleep where there was vomit, so the three of them had to pick up the clothes on the ground and sleep on the floor somewhere else.
"Let's go to sleep first," Bai Shi held his computer bag, put it on his belly, and whispered to Qin Dai, "We have to explore other places tomorrow."
Qin Dai closed his eyes in panic, but he indeed didn't hear anything else.
Yu Qirong slept soundly. He heard nothing, dreamed of nothing, and slept till dawn.
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