Chapter 018 Biological Laboratory (VI)
The players breathed a sigh of relief, then realized it was too early.
Meng Huo patted Eleven's cheek: "Wake up, don't sleep!"
There was no response. If he wasn't still breathing, Eleven would be no different from a dead person.
Meng Huo: "Lao Zhuang, Luo Jiang, lend a hand!"
The three of them worked together to move Eleven off the space walker and lay him face up on the floor.
Just as they were preparing to further investigate Eleven's situation, something strange happened.
Eleven's exposed muscles bulged, his hair follicles became as thick as fingers, his skin was no longer elastic, and spots of moss and mold appeared. It was so fragile that it cracked with the slightest touch, and fragments were scattered sparsely on the ground.
A white mouse half the size of a human broke out of its shell.
11. A human being turned into a mouse, a living, moving mouse.
"You turned the mouse into a living mouse. What a great performance." Meng Huo quickly grabbed the mouse's tail and swung it in the air, saying, "Hey, Eleven, can you understand me?"
Among the few people, Zhuang Xi reacted the most. He took three steps back and stayed far away from the mouse that Yi Shi had transformed into.
Meng Huo: "Lao Zhuang, I didn't realize you were afraid of mice?"
Bai Tao saw that Zhuang Xi didn't seem to be afraid. She had noticed a long time ago that Zhuang Xi always kept a distance from other players and was careful not to have physical contact - he was a mysophobe.
Obviously, touching a mouse with one's own hands was beyond Zhuang Xi's tolerance.
Bai Tao came to the rescue: "Pay attention, be careful not to get bitten!"
Meng Huo became more serious and tried to communicate with Mouse Eleven: "Eleven, are you still alive? If you are, please let me know!"
Mouse: "Squeak, squeak, squeak!"
Meng Huo shook his head and announced, "This is just an ordinary mouse. Eleven is hopeless."
"But is Eleven considered alive or dead?"
"Hey, how can you still laugh at this time?" Luo Jiang glared at Meng Huo, his face was very pale, which was the normal reaction when being frightened.
Meng Huo spread his hands: "What do you want me to do? Make a sad face and bury him?"
Turning into a rat, a new way to die. There are eight rules in the gym. Which rule will turn you into a rat if you break it?
Bai Tao stared at the number 3 on the counting board and picked up the bracelet from the debris.
The third person in the space walker was Eleven. After he completed his training, he was contaminated and turned into a rat.
Throwing the bracelets to the two, Bai Tao said quietly, "Are you sure making loud noises doesn't violate the rules?"
This one sentence successfully silenced the two men.
Now even the most naive person knows that the mouse's schedule is not the basic rule of this weird dungeon.
"What's the big deal? I've been in the dungeon for several hours, but I haven't found the rule paper yet." Luo Jiang couldn't help but get angry.
"Why think so much? The fitness task is not yet completed." Meng Huo called Zhuang Xi back to the bench press rack, where the number of people using it was still 1.
Eleven turned into a mouse in the space walker, and no one wanted to stay there.
Fortunately, the space walker can be used by three people and does not require additional control by the players.
The only equipment left to choose from are the bench press and sit-up bench.
Luo Jiang was discussing with Zhuang Xi where to go.
Meng Huo was disgusted that the Eleven in his hand had become unlucky, so he called out to the other players: "Eleven is quite honest, I'll let him go."
Bai Tao, Luo Jiang and Zhuang Xizou had already left the space walk room, so Meng Huo released the mouse.
The white mouse, which had long been determined to be no different from an ordinary mouse except that it was a little bigger, ran towards Luo Jiang as soon as it was free.
A rat half the height of a man jumped up and bit Luo Jiang's arm hard, biting off a large piece of skin and flesh.
Meng Huo: “!!!”
"Me? I, I, I, that, that"
Meng Huo stuttered as he grabbed the mouse off Luo Jiang.
Luo Jiang was not in the mood to blame him.
After being bitten, his eyes rolled back and he fell to the ground, lying there.
As soon as it fell into Meng Huo's hands, the white mouse that attacked Luo Jiang became obedient again. It did not struggle even when its tail was caught. It was extremely obedient except for squeaking.
Zhuang Xi leaned over and placed his finger across Luo Jiang's nose. "He's not dead. He's still breathing."
This sentence sounds very familiar. It was used not long ago to describe Eleven who had turned into a mouse.
"Maybe he's fainting from blood." Bai Tao said comforting words that she didn't even believe. She pressed Luo Jiang's philtrum, but he didn't react at all.
"Damn, why don't we stop the bleeding first? If he keeps bleeding for a while, Luo Jiang will be dead if he's not dead." Meng Huo said. If he hadn't still been holding the mouse in his hand, he would have helped stop the bleeding himself if he was afraid of getting too close and causing Luo Jiang to be attacked a second time.
The wound was so deep that the bone was visible, and spots of moss and mold appeared on the bones. Bai Tao and Zhuang Xi were standing close and could see it clearly.
After thinking about it, Bai Tao took out the flesh and blood regeneration reagent and poured it on Luo Jiang's wound. The wound healed, but the mutation did not stop.
Luo Jiang followed in Shiyi's footsteps and re-experienced how Shiyi turned into a mouse.
A piece of debris fell right into Zhuang Xi's palm, and his face turned blue and then white, and then white and then blue.
But he immediately controlled the rat that Luo Jiang had turned into. His technique was similar to Meng Huo's, his movements were neat but he had a sullen look on his face.
Bai Tao, who was a step late, said: Thank you, Bodhisattva!
Meng Huo said with a smile: "Do I have to keep holding these two mice by the tails?" He didn't dare to put the mice down again.
Bai Tao has a bold idea.
"You were standing closest to me at the time, so why didn't the rat attack you, but attacked Luo Jiang, who was between me and Zhuang Xi?"
Meng Huo frowned: "Are you saying that the rat's target is him?"
"It's just a guess. It's good to confirm the rules. Do you want to try it?"
Meng Huo agreed without saying anything: "Okay, stand further away."
Meng Huo and Zhuang Xi all agreed. Meng Huo had the highest fighting power among the three, so he volunteered to be the one to release and subdue the mice.
Bai Tao wanted to release the mouse out of the room, so the three of them stayed in the room to observe whether the mouse showed any aggressive behavior after being freed.
But Meng Huo promised, pointing at his cycling jersey, "This is a defensive prop. Don't worry, I won't joke with my life. Stand away."
At the beginning, Bai Tao called Meng Huo "Ghost Fire Boy" because there were four words "Ghost Fire Boy" on the chest of his cycling jersey.
It's kind of cool, and goes well with [the beloved little motorcycle], but it's a pity that she already has work clothes.
Bai Tao retreated to a safe distance and made an OK gesture to Meng Huo.
After making the gesture, Meng Huo grabbed the mouse's tail and slowly let it down, letting its front legs touch the ground, followed by its hind legs.
The mouse was on all fours, squeaking but showing no aggression.
Meng Huo glanced at Bai Tao and Zhuang Xi and let go of his tail.
The attack on the player did not happen.
Except for being a little bigger and stronger, they are as docile as the mice raised in real-world biological laboratories.
To be on the safe side, Zhuang Xi also planned to put down the mouse in his hand.
The two smart men looked at each other. It was not that they did not believe Meng Huo, but that they wanted to eliminate all variables.
Luo Jiang's performance was the same as Eleven's. The two mice had no hostility towards the three players in the same room.
Including Zhuang Xi and Meng Huo, who grabbed their tails and let them float in the air.
Meng Huo poked the mouse tentatively: "This thing is attacking Luo Jiang. What did Luo Jiang do to make Eleven attack him even after he died?"
Baitao: "..."
"Is it possible that both of them broke the same rule?"
"Are you saying that it was caused by the attack on those humans outside?" Zhuang Xi immediately thought of the three human corpses that were cut in half in the sit-up chair room.
"Maybe it has nothing to do with the humans outside, but it's because they can't attack. Of course, the above are all speculations, I'm not sure."
Zhao Xiaodong took action against the man and became a member of the human rat.
Qingnian and Xiao Zhou kidnapped Zhao Xiaodong together, and then were suspected to be missing.
Next came Luo Jiang and Shiyi who turned into mice.
Those who resorted to violence ran into problems.
"It's better to believe it exists than to believe it doesn't." Zhuang Xi agreed with Bai Tao's guess.
"Damn it," Meng Huo cursed, "catching a mouse by the tail doesn't count as using force, right?"
No one knew the answer, and Meng Huo scratched his hair in annoyance.
"Go to the bench press first and complete your fitness mission."
After saying that, he took Zhuang Xi and left.
Bai Tao followed the two men, but was not prepared to follow them to the bench press rack.
There is still one hour before the fitness plaza closes, and Bai Tao plans to have a "talk" with the NPC.
No one remembers Zhao Xiaodong, so Bai Tao has to do this in person.
With the previous experience of Eleven and Luo Jiang as a lesson, Bai Tao's 'talk' was very gentle. She started with the bracelets and then searched their bodies.
Bai Tao held on to a one in ten thousand hope, what if the rule paper was hidden inside?
Therefore, Bai Tao was particularly careful when checking.
Apart from their outward appearance, these people do not look like human beings at all.
However, Bai Tao discovered a new point.
These people's nails are not long and have traces of trimming. There are not many stains accumulated between the fingers, and the skin condition is not bad.
Calluses appeared on his limbs, but those were the wear and tear caused by crawling on the ground.
The lush hair made them look very sloppy, and the players present and Bai Tao were misled by the messy hair on these people.
——The little white mice were carefully taken care of, Bai Tao came to this conclusion.
The mouse will be killed by the robotic arm, but no player has seen the mouse being killed with their own eyes. The players drew this conclusion based on the extra blood on the robotic arm, and they may have been misled.
"Hello?" Bai Tao tried to communicate with everyone.
The only response she got was a chaotic shout, but at a certain moment, Bai Tao heard voices.
"Hello."
The voice was so soft that Bai Tao almost thought she had misheard.
Looking around, there were only a few little white mice lying on the ground, some of which had been examined and some had not.
Bai Tao moved closer, trying not to come into contact with these guys but also to make sure she could hear the sound just now, so Bai Tao's movements were as light as possible.
I listened carefully and finally found the person who was talking.
He is a man with cloudy eyes.
His mouth opened and closed, sometimes making the sounds of a mouse, sometimes uttering human language.
"Man, man, I am, man."
The sound was so subtle that you had to get really close to hear it.
Bai Tao peeled off the bracelet, number D32, he was not Zhao Xiaodong.
Bai Tao tried to talk to D32, but the man could only say two sentences, "Hello" and "I am a human".
His thoughts were confused and he was immersed in his own world.
Sometimes he is a human, sometimes he thinks he is a mouse.
Bai Tao felt around in D32's clothes and found a piece of paper in the gap between them.
1. Your race is human, belonging to the standard humanoid family. Please do not mistake yourself for another species.
2.
The handwriting ends here, the edges are jagged and there are signs of tearing.
The words on it were handwritten, and the material of the paper was different from the regular paper that Bai Tao had obtained before.
Assuming the content on the note is part of the rules...
D32, no, the man might be a player who had entered the ghost story dungeon before. There was only one copy of the rule sheet, and a good memory is not as good as a bad pen. If conditions permit, the player would copy a copy of the rules and put it on his body, and take it out to review at any time.
Dungeon traps are usually not hidden this well.
Is it possible that these more than 80 humans, or even the 600 humans seen in the glass house when waking up, were once human players?
Bai Tao gave up thinking about the cruel story behind this and focused on finding the rule paper.
After D32, Bai Tao conducted a more detailed search.
Although they didn't find the note, they did find Zhao Xiaodong thanks to the bracelet.
The number that was randomly written down at that time became an important proof for identifying Zhao Xiaodong.
He had been missing for just over an hour, and his clothing and hair growth were the same as those of other male NPCs in the dungeon, so he didn't look like an outsider at all.
If there were no signs of ropes tied around his wrists and ankles, Bai Tao would have thought that Zhao Xiaodong's bracelet was worn by another NPC.
When Bai Tao found Zhao Xiaodong, Qianqian finished her exercise and approached her with Luo Hong.
"Bai Tao, we are here to help you." Luo Hong was still bright and beautiful, but she did not recognize at all that the person crawling under Bai Tao's feet was Zhao Xiaodong, the player who entered the dungeon with them.
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