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Annie was stunned.
“Su– Su Lin…”
She took a deep breath and stared at the thin, shriveled boy on the screen. “I’ve come to save you… I’ve come to bring you out of here…”
The boy suddenly lifted his head and glanced towards the monitor.
Even with the low-resolution pixels, Ji Dong could tell that the child was really thin.
He wasn’t round and chubby like a normal kid. His palm-sized face was so tiny and sunken that his sharp chin stuck out, and his eyes were unusually enormous, occupying about half of his face at first glance.
“Is it…”
The little boy’s voice on the speaker was getting smaller and lighter, and it was becoming harder to hear what he was saying, “Did you… you come to take me out of… here?”
Although the child on the other side of the phone could not see, Annie still desperately nodded.
“I’m sorry I’m late! I’ll come over now and get you out…”
Before she could finish her words, she was rudely interrupted by Rose.
“Wait!”
The redhead shoved Annie out of the way.
“When did we say we were going to save that little brat?” she asked menacingly, pointing at the displays.
“Don’t you see? There are monsters everywhere, trying to save him is the same as suicide! Do you want us to go and get killed?! Or do you have the ability to save him yourself?!”
The more Rose spoke, the more agitated she became, and her voice grew louder and louder. In the end, she said, with an earth shattering voice, “What we are looking for is the ‘Moon God Stone’, not your son. Don’t you get it?! We have no obligation to save your son!”
Rose, in truth, was not a villain. In other ways, she was merely exhausted and terrified of the [Film] that the [Peach Blossom Spring] had forced her to enter, so she lacked empathy for the people of the [Film].
Rose felt that she was just a ‘participant’, therefore an outsider.
Everything that happened in the [Film] to her was just a “plot” constructed by the [Peach Blossom Spring] to test and make things difficult for her.
No matter how much an online game player likes and invests in a certain game, they knew that the joys and sorrows of each character in the game were nothing but an established process that was virtually constructed by programmers using code composed of 0s and 1s.
It was even more difficult for Rose, an exceedingly cool-headed and dispassionate egoist, to relate with anything that happened in the [Film].
Rose never felt sad when the soldiers who called her ‘captain’ died one by one in front of her, and now that it was Annie and her half-paralyzed adoptive son, she still felt no pity.
So she would never risk her life saving that trapped child.
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Her only quest was simple: to keep herself alive.
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The little eyes resembled a frightened little animal’s, and they made Ji Dong feel that this situation was particularly unbearable. He couldn’t listen anymore.
“That’s enough!”
Ji Dong stretched out his hand and pressed his forehead, “I really want to look for the ‘Moon God Stone’, but a living person…”
He had intended to add, “I, too, want to help others,” but when he saw more than ten Skeleton Monsters roaming about the display screen, the second half of the sentence became lodged in his throat, and he couldn’t speak the words that had reached his mouth.
The security room fell into an eerie silence for a while.
“… ’Moon God Stone’?”
The timid soft voice of a child came from the speaker.
“I… I know where it is…”
According to Su Lin’s recollection, he had seen the “Moon God Stone” every time he was involved in a new drug experiment.
It was a turquoise golden stone with a faint yellowish metallic luster. Its size was much smaller than people thought.
When the child was describing its size, he showed his bony fist at the camera, saying it was about the same as his little hand.
The “Moon God Stone” was radioactive, although the rays it emitted were said to have the effect of repairing and regenerating necrotic cells, no one could guarantee that it would do no other harm to the human body until it was thoroughly studied.
Therefore, aside from when it was being used in experiments, the “Moon God Stone” was usually wrapped in a special fabric and then kept in a specially customized container for it.
After the boy described what the container looked like, Ji Dong knew that the suitcase that Brother Dagen had desperately taken out did not contain the “Moon God Stone”.
Then, they got another more important piece of information.
Su Lin told them that there was an elevator hidden behind his room that could lead straight to the laboratory.
But he couldn’t operate the elevator himself. Usually, the researcher told him to get ready, then they’d take the elevator down, and later, he’d bring him up again.
After hearing this information, Ji Dong’s eyes immediately lit up.
It didn’t matter if the elevator couldn’t be operated, with experience from the last [Film], they knew they could climb the elevator shaft!
It would be much easier for them to go directly from the children’s room into the laboratory where the “Moon God Stone” was placed, get the stone, and then find a way to escape from the Research Institute than going back to the logistics area on the upper floor and searching all the way.
Thinking of this, Ji Dong looked down at his watch.
The flashing pointer was still bright yellow, but the progress bar was a bit further ahead than before.
So it seemed that their current “route of attack” was the right one.
If they wanted to get the “Moon God Stone”, they must venture into the boy’s room and save him!
——Well, this is really some old-fashioned American horror plot!
——In every zombie movie, the protagonist must save a child, so they could be regarded as the light and hope for humanity!
Ji Dong complained in his heart while discussing with Ren Jianmo on how they should go about rescuing the child.
Rose also reluctantly came over.
Annie had little say in the matter, and could only stay on the outermost side, clenching her fists and listening nervously to their conversation.
Ren Jianmo casually took out a pen from the pen holder on the table, turned over the sign-in book, and drew a map on the blank space of the back cover.
“We are here now.”
He drew a small box in the lower right corner of the map, marking the current location of the crowd, and then drew a cross in the upper left corner.
“Su Lin’s room is here.”
“Tch!”
Ji Dong knitted his brows, “It’s so far away, it’s all diagonal.”
Ren Jianmo nodded.
“There are only two security cameras in the corridor, and there are only two Skeleton Monsters, so it shouldn’t pose a threat to us.”
He used a pen to point out the images of two Skeleton Monsters on the security cameras, and smiled at Ji Dong. His words were subtle, but the tone was confident. He obviously did not take the threat of the corridor area seriously.
“But after this part, there will be a difficulty.”
Ren Jianmo drew a huge box in the center of the map. “We’ll have to go through the laboratory on the inner and outer floors to reach Su Lin’s room after,” he said, tapping on four displays in the upper row with his pen.
“In this laboratory, there are thirteen Skeleton Monsters and two Canine Skeleton Monsters.”
Ji Dong drew a breath of cold air after hearing the exact number.
This laboratory was quite large, and the internal structure was also very complex. It was impossible for them to hold their breath and rush over to their destination in one breath.
What’s more, the laboratory was also divided into internal and external layers and was separated by a glass wall in the middle. It would take a long time to open the door. Not to mention that they had suffered from the intelligent voice prompt not long ago and the prompt sound of “opening the door” almost got them killed in the kitchen.
“Can we use the phone?”
Rose tried to give her opinion.
“Use the intercom to gather them in a corner, then we’ll rush over to…”
“I don’t think that will work.”
Ji Dong shook his head, “The intercom will be destroyed in a second or two at most, it won’t distract the Skeleton Monsters for long.”
“Right.”
Ren Jianmo nodded, stood up, and very casually patted Ji Xiao’niao’s head.
“So, I have a suggestion.”
———————
Ten minutes later, Ji Dong, Ren Jianmo, Rose, and Annie stood in front of a glass-walled laboratory.
Rather than a laboratory, it was more like a “preparation room”.
There were many Skeleton Monsters wandering inside, even more than they had seen in the kitchen, indicating that most of the people working here had not been vaccinated and did not have access to the core research.
Ji Dong took a deep breath, then turned his head to look at Ren Jianmo, who was standing beside him.
Ren Jianmo nodded towards him.
Ji Dong took out his ID card and opened the door.
The four of them held their breath and walked into the lab.
But instead of rushing across the room, they ran towards a cabinet by the door.
There was a fire cabinet with a stack of gas masks inside.
Rose quickly opened the cabinet, first took a set for herself to put on, and then carefully tried to breathe.
The closest Skeleton Monster to them was less than ten meters away, but it didn’t respond to the red-haired beauty’s breath.
Rose felt a boulder in her heart “thud” drop and dissipate.
Ji Dong, Ren Jianmo, and Annie also quickly put on the gas mask.
—— This really is a barren landscape. Without a doubt. And there’s a village, dark willows and blooming flowers!
After putting on the gas mask, Ji Xiao’niao wiped off the cold sweat gathering on his neck and let out a long sigh of relief.
Originally, he thought this would be another near-death challenge, but it turned out to be easy mode, which could be easily passed.
Just when he was happy, Ji Dong felt Ren Jianmo gently nudge his shoulder, signaling him to hurry.
——Yes!
Ji Dong froze suddenly.
The gas masks they are wearing were for emergency use and the amount of carbon dioxide that could be filtered through the storage was very limited; it would probably only last about ten minutes, and there were no more than four gas masks in this fire cabinet, so it was completely impossible to rely on them to “cheat” all the way through.
Thus, several people put on masks and rushed through the maze of scattered machines and wandering monsters towards the door to the inner layer.
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😊 Ren Jianmo treating Ji Dong like a puppy is so cute 💕
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Is our muscle teacher really dead?😣
Honestly, i came to dislikes Ji Dong in this ARC. Maybe too much OP and calm MC makes my expectation higher, so wheneer i saw Ji Dong distracted, slow, or freeze i am like “😕” OK
but what can you expect from a 19-years-old boy though. ANDDD I’ve been dying to write this but too lazy before, why can’t Ji Dong be the first or second to come down or get out of some room? Why is he always be the last?
Don’t come at “Because he holds the Gun or holds the UV” you can just give that to Ren Jianmo and let him be the last (since he seems to be strobg and can freeze the enemy) rather than him as a weakling? I get that he is responsible and want to protect his teammates but stil…. recognize you streght?
That is it. I hope Ren Jianmo can take MORE initiave to STOP Ji Dong from being a “naive and want to protect everyone” thingy and let himself be the one who take the risk….
And honestly, reviews in NU that talked about “MC is naive but not stupid!” Honestly, now i’d rather he is stupid (as in doesn’t understand anything and can not think fast) rather than naive…..
Maybe it is simply because i am not a fan of “Want to protect everyone” and become a saint act…. I do rather Ji Dong become selfish tho