Translator: ThatLazyPotato
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Editor: yuki_shuichi
The loud sound of the elevator falling to the ground made the people go quiet for a few seconds, then they began whispering. The brave ones stretched their heads out to look, but only the emergency lights were on, so their view was limited. People looked at the supervisor one after another, so the supervisor had no choice but to take out a flashlight from the emergency cabinet and follow the sound to the elevator hall to check the situation.
But in these short few seconds, the same loud sound came from another corner of the base. The loud sounds kept coming one after another. The sound of more than a dozen huge objects falling to the ground made people hold their heads and scream.
Eris laid on the glass of the observation deck and looked on excitedly. “Knicks, another elevator fell! Hahaha, another fell!”
The Puppet Master said quietly from beside him, “It’s exactly sixty seconds right now. All the elevators have fallen, and both the entrance and exit of the cultivation base are closed-off. Does Bai Chunian want to play it big? Eris, go down to check.”
“Okay.” Eris shot twice at the glass, brushed away the shards with his elbow, and jumped down from a height of 30 meters. The cursed golden thread between his wrists was wrapped around the rails and pipes as a buffer, allowing him to slide smoothly to the ground.
Due to the intense loud sounds caused by the elevators falling, the security personnel ran over to follow the noise. Nobody even cared to verify the two gunshots that were mixed in. The researchers were already thrown into chaos.
Eris went to find the supervisor who went to the hoistway to check the situation with a flashlight just now. However, it took time for him to break the glass and jump down. When he placed his attention back on the elevator hall, there was only a flashlight that was still turned on and a pair of leather shoes left in front of the tightly-shut door covered in blood.
“Ah, when…” Eris looked around, there was no trace of the supervisor. “Knicks, I lost him… Did you see where he went?”
The Puppet Master said helplessly, “Don’t look around when you’re chasing your target.”
“Ok, then what should we do now?” Eris tossed the shotshell in his hand boredly. He flicked open the barrel of the gun, caught the falling shotshell in the air, and then flicked closed the barrel of the gun to finish reloading.
“This is probably just the beginning.” The Puppet Master said, “Find a set of clothes and blend in with the crowd. We’ll see what Bai Chunian is planning to do.”
People in the building were fleeing frantically, but the elevators had fallen, and all the safety doors in the stairwell were locked. They banged on the door hard, hit the door with a fire extinguisher, and asked help from the computer AI, but to no avail.
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“Alright.” Eris used his cursed golden thread to force open the elevator door, stepping over the fallen researcher’s corpse and randomly took a bloodstained white coat. He climbed along the steel wire rope inside the elevator shaft to the crowded floor, opened the door, and squeezed out.
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But that did not stop the frenzied people, the hall was then squeezed to the brim. After some people fell to their deaths, the people after them shouted loudly, “There is no elevator in there! Stop pushing!”
But the people behind turned a deaf ear and continued to push forward, while the people in the front were squeezed down one by one. It wasn’t until more than a dozen people fell down, and more and more people shouted “stop,” that this frenzied survival group gradually calmed down.
Taking advantage of the confusion, Eris retreated to the side and watched the excitement with his hands folded. “I didn’t do it, they jumped themselves.”
The Puppet Master laughed and said, “It was to be expected. Human beings are like animals that like to flaunt themselves with empathy.”
At this moment, all the lights suddenly turned on.
The people covered their eyes to relieve the discomfort from the sudden brightness. Eris was not affected; he held his gun and looked around.
The speakers installed in each laboratory area made a hissing sound, and then a voice of a young man sounded in every corner of the cultivation base.
“Ahem, everyone, please go back to your lab area and stay seated. Each area has a screen where you guys can see me…and your supervisor.”
Eris immediately recognized that this was Bai Chunian’s voice.
The Puppet Master thought for a while. “He’s probably in the security room if he is able to use the speakers.”
“Should I go find him?” Eris impatiently asked as he was hit by the chaotic crowd.
“No, you must not meet him. Follow the crowd.”
Eris was squeezed from left to right with the flow of people, then he finally saw the screen of the laboratory area slowly descend. Eris squeezed in with difficulty. Right now, there were not a lot of people who were willing to stay in the laboratory area. On the contrary, it was rather empty and spacious.
The screen turned on—it looked like it was a room. There was only one desk lamp on a curved desk, and the rest of the area was dark.
A tall and slender young alpha slowly came into view, unfolded a chair, and sat at the table. He wore a pure black crystal collar around his neck, with blue patterns all over his arms. The ends of his snow-white hair curled slightly against his neck, and the corner of his lips was raised, revealing half of his canines from time to time.
Bai Chunian pressed down on the speaker button and said, “Dear friends, the game is about to begin. Please return to your seats as soon as possible. You guys only have twenty seconds, the timer starts now.”
He snapped his fingers, and several cultivation pods near the observation platform lit green. One of the experimental subjects, whose cultivation period had expired, twitched. The water level of the culture fluid in their cultivation pod dropped rapidly, and it would drop to zero in just 20 seconds, from the looks of it. The researchers knew very well that after the culture fluid dropped to zero, the hatch would open and the experimental subject would be released.
This was a centipede experimental subject in the cultivation stage. The direction of cultivation was poison.
Someone tried to stop the cultivation pod from opening, but it was useless—the cultivation pod was completely out of their control.
The people shouted and ran toward the laboratory area, locked the bullet-proof glass door, and finally gradually quieted down. A researcher said as they trembled, “It’s 9100’s voice, the Divine Envoy.”
As soon as the words were spoken, the expressions of several researchers who reacted quickly changed on the spot, while the rest of the researchers also recalled the code name. Divine Envoy was the most surprising and regrettable experimental subject they had ever dealt with. From the white lion embryo to his juvenile self, and finally into a full mimic state. If he hadn’t been defeated against the fight with Electro-optic Phantom when selecting experimental subjects at headquarters, which led to a near-death experience and being abandoned, he would’ve been a masterpiece with the highest price in the hands of the research institute right now.
In this cultivation base, everyone knew Divine Envoy.
They stared at the big screen in shock. The camera switched, and they noticed that there were also ten researchers in supervisor uniforms sitting around the long curved table Bai Chunian was sitting at, their hands tightly handcuffed to the table. Their terrified and teary eyes were magnified on the screen.
After everyone had sat down, the centipede experimental subject’s cultivation pod was opened. He bumped open the hatch and walked slowly between the laboratory areas. The floor he treaded on was corroded with burnt purple traces, sizzling and emitting poisonous smoke.
Right now, all the laboratory areas were closed-off, so the experimental subject couldn’t enter at the moment. But at the same time, the researchers couldn’t get out.
Eris went to the door to test it out, but he couldn’t open the bulletproof door.
Bai Chunian unhurriedly explained the rules of the game, his hands were on the table, holding a deck of cards.
“Let’s play cards. Whoever has a higher number than me wins, whoever has a lower number than me loses. The winner can shoot me once. You guys are researchers, so you probably know where the vital points of an experimental subject are.” Bai Chunian pulled out a revolver and filled it with three bullets in front of everyone. He then closed the cylinder, spun it, and put the revolver on the table.
“Of course, if there are too many people, the game will be impossible to play, so I invited the supervisor of each area to draw cards for everyone. There are ten directors in total, each representing ten areas, which should be fair enough.”
Bai Chunian finished saying the rules with a smile, then shuffled the deck of cards and gave it to the first supervisor. “Sir, you first. Shuffle it again before you draw. You guys should know me well, I don’t have any clairvoyant abilities, so the rules are fair.”
The first supervisor was called Chen Wang. He trembled as he took the cards, his hands were already covered in cold sweat.
Before he was promoted, he was in charge of inspecting the transitional period of Divine Envoy. At that time, Divine Envoy didn’t have a code name and number. He was still very young—he had just opened his eyes for a few days. The supervisor had put a few white rats into the incubator to test Bai Chunian. In the end, Bai Chunian was frightened by the big rats and screamed in the incubator. After a few hours, his ears and paws, which had not yet evolved into that of an adult, were mangled by the rats. He threw the seriously injured Bai Chunian back to the old breeder, Bai Tingsen, and asked him to heal him before sending him back. He even spat that the old breeder had ruined a good embryo.
And because of this, the researchers were not too optimistic about Bai Chunian’s future development in the beginning.
The supervisor lowered his head as if resigned to his fate, and tremblingly took out a card from the whole deck. Bai Chunian also drew a card. The two of them turned over their cards at the same time. Bai Chunian was a 3 of Clubs, while Supervisor Chen Wang was a Q of Hearts.
“Woah, a good start, you’re in luck.” Bai Chunian pushed the revolver toward him. “Go ahead.”
Supervisor Chen didn’t dare touch the revolver. He shrank back and didn’t dare look at Bai Chunian.
Bai Chunian got up and went around behind him. He put the revolver in his hand and helped him put his index finger on the trigger. He then took his hand and directed him to put the muzzle against Bai Chunian’s temple.
“Where are you looking?” Bai Chunian hugged Supervisor Chen affectionately. “Oh, you don’t dare to? I know you’re daring enough to handle a rat, but a gun is much easier to play with than that thing.”
Bai Chunian held Supervisor Chen’s hand, directed him to raise the collar on his neck with the muzzle of the gun, and pressed the trigger against his neck.
Supervisor Chen closed his eyes in fright.
But the revolver didn’t sound—this time the revolver did not turn to the chamber with a bullet.
“You saw what happened, I’m also in luck.” Bai Chunian messed with the revolver cylinder again and placed it back on the table. He pushed the deck of cards to the second supervisor and smiled slightly.
The second supervisor, Jason, gritted his teeth as he took the cards.
He used to put Bai Chunian into the shooter simulation training box, maneuvering a machine gun to test Bai Chunian’s dodging skills and agility. This kind of training had a ten-minute interval every hour to give the experimental subject a breather. However, when Bai Chunian was resting on the ground, Jason started the machine gun again before the time was up. As a result, Bai Chunian was shot in the head by the bullet. His skull was reassembled in the aid area, and he lived there for three days before recovering on his own.
“He’s playing for real.” Eris cursed in a low voice and inadvertently stared at Bai Chunian’s dark blue pupils on the screen.
“This guy…”
Eris snorted lightly. Although the bulletproof glass couldn’t trap him, and the centipede experimental subject outside was not enough to get him serious, the toying expression in Bai Chunian’s eyes made him uncomfortable. He was like a cat that caught a mouse, who was not in a rush to kill it, but rather he would toy with them until they became greatly terrified before eating them.
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