Chapter 183

[Integrity First] Live Room:

"This is??"

"Ah, I remembered! After being touched by that neuron, the 'disease' on the identity card will occur. Speaking of which, what is the anchor's disease?"

"I remember that the initial one seemed to be mentally retarded, oh yes, and then there was a sexual perversion that was judged successful by the identity card."

"I'm going...! Isn't that right?"

Wen Jianyan stumbled forward and bumped directly into the sarcophagus.

There was only a "bang", and the coffin lid, which was only loosely fastened to the sarcophagus, was knocked open and fell along the edge, making a deafening sound.

There seemed to be someone around who was reaching out to him, talking about something.

Vision is messy.

He could clearly hear the other party's voice and the emotions contained in those voices: surprise, fear, panic... But as for the content of the other party's words, it was difficult to distinguish.

Wen Jianyan pressed his hand on the stone slab, and seemed to feel something under his fingertips.

There seemed to be some strange dents on the surface of the cold stone, uneven, rough on the fingertips, slightly painful.

what is it

Not sure.

The young man's arms were tense, and under the pale skin were blue veins, which were raised due to the force, and the scattered hair hung down, blocking the wet skin and dilated pupils.

His brows were tightly furrowed, his breathing was a little uneven, and his expression was forbearance.

Wen Jianyan had never felt such a weird feeling before.

He knows who he is, neither memory nor self-awareness has disappeared.

He was like a small child turned back, the complex memory is like a cabinet that is too big for him, all the contents are there, but he has no ability to call them out.

It was as if something slender and long had penetrated into his brain, slowly and little by little disturbing his brain, turning it into a viscous slurry, his thinking was gradually becoming dull, the inflow of information was simply washed away, he It's like holding a sieve with oversized holes and trying to salvage it in vain, no matter how hard you think, there is always nothing in your hand.

After a brief moment of daze, Su Cheng quickly reacted,

He stepped forward quickly, supported Wen Jianyan, held his ears and held his breath, and leaned closer to the other's lips: "What did you say? Say it again?"

Wen Jianyan's lips twitched, half confused, half obsessed with the words that flashed through his mind before he fell into a coma.

It is already difficult for him to remember the reason, and he just repeats it mechanically under the drive of his subconscious.

Although it was only a few messy words, Su Cheng still pieced together the other party's instructions. He flicked through Wen Jianyan's pocket hurriedly, and quickly took out a tube of antidote.

As the only person who was not infected at the time and was almost unconscious the whole time, Su Cheng froze for two seconds, showing a dazed expression.

The moment he saw the antidote, Huang Mao slightly widened his eyes and screamed:

"This, this is... from that time in the laboratory?"

"This is an antidote! It's decontaminated!" Hearing this, Shaoyao also reacted quickly, and she shouted at Su Cheng: "Inject into his neck!"

"Understood."

Su Cheng nodded quickly. He held the injection in one hand and pressed Wen Jianyan's head with the other.

Suddenly, the other party turned his head, and the enlarged sharp needles were reflected in the amber eyeballs, and the eyes were shining brightly, with undisguised pure fear: "No!"

he screamed, struggling suddenly.

There was a sudden chaos in the field.

"Help me hold him down!"

Su Cheng couldn't hold down the struggling Wen Jianyan, and hurriedly asked his other two teammates for help.

Huangmao and Shaoyao rushed over in a hurry, holding Wen Jianyan's shoulders and arms one by one, and forcibly fixed him in place.

Su Cheng stuck the needle in as quickly as possible.

The bright, cold and sharp needle pierced the skin, and the young man's body, which was forcibly held down, shook violently, and a whimper-like sound came out of his throat.

Under the messy hair, the childlike clear amber eyes were slowly covered with a layer of water mist.

He sobbed pitifully: "It hurts..."

[Integrity First] Live Room:

"Damn, you actually cry because of injections after your IQ is lowered! Thank you, I'm so cute!"

Soon, the injection was empty.

The three breathed heavily, let go of their hands, and stood up. The young man leaned against the sarcophagus, shrunk himself into a ball, covered his neck with one hand, and sobbed from time to time, looking extremely aggrieved.

"So, what else do we need to do next?" Su Cheng asked.

Huang Mao flicked his sore wristalthough Wen Jianyan's IQ had dropped, his physical stamina was not. It was really difficult to hold this guy down.

He recalled it carefully: "No need, it should be fine."

Su Cheng breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good..."

It's a pity that this relaxed moment only lasted for a few seconds before it was easily broken.

Just as everyone's attention was focused on Wen Jianyan, suddenly, a strange voice came from the dark passage leading to the catacomb not far away.

It sounded like scratching and dragging footsteps, overlapping each other layer by layer in a chaotic manner, as if they were approaching in this direction.

Several people were startled, and subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound.

Oops.

Every time the bell rang, the copy would be irreversibly changed, mutating at a disturbing speed.

Maybe it's just the negative effect of the bell, or maybe it's because they just made too much noise, causing the corpses sleeping in the corridor to wake up and walk in this direction.

"What do we do now?"

Huang Mao's face turned pale, and he looked at the other two beside him in disbelief.

In just a few seconds, the pale corpse appeared at the end of the dark corridor.

The lifeless, half-corrupted face was upturned, the neck bone seemed to have been broken, hanging at an inconceivable angle, the hair was scabbed with blood, and the skull was broken open, revealing an empty dark gap.

"We can't get out." As the only person with experience in dealing with these living corpses, Shao Yao made a decisive decision: "Block them!"

She came in with her teammates, and she clearly knew how terrifying these living corpses were after they were awakened. When they didn't receive any weakening, they just managed to rush into the catacombs while saving their lives. Now, their combat strength is at most two and a half.

Yellow hair counts as half.

But Wen Jianyan was unconscious, and the life and death of the person dragged out by him was unknown, and Shao Yao didn't even have time to confirm who the other person was.

Under such circumstances, it is simply impossible to rush out.

On the contrary, it is much less difficult to block the living corpses.

The passage leading to the catacombs is long and narrow, which greatly limits the number of living corpses that can pass through at one timethat is, as long as this passage is blocked, the chance of survival will be very high.

However, if they do this, they will block themselves in a dead end, and it will be difficult to leave the catacombs easily. If they make a mistake, there will be no more tasks in the catacombs, and they will not be able to open or complete the ultimate main line If so, then doing so would be equivalent to burying themselves alive.

Several people looked at each other and rushed forward tacitly.

They have no other choice.

After all, slow suicide sounds more promising than direct death.

Indistinct and chaotic sounds seemed to be heard in the distance.

Footsteps, yelling, prop activation.

Wen Jianyan frowned, and slowly opened his eyes.

The previous feeling that his mind was getting dulled by being covered by fog had disappeared, and he felt that his thinking ability was recovering, and he became clear again quickly.

Slight pain in the side of the neck.

Wen Jianyan breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that his teammates understood his hint well and injected him with the antidote in time.

only

He raised his hand and touched his chilly cheek, showing a puzzled expression.

How wet?

However, now is not the time to focus on this.

Wen Jianyan supported one side of the sarcophagus and stood up, turned her head to look in the direction of the sound, Su Cheng Shaoyao and the two were trying to block the narrow passage, Huang Mao stood aside, occasionally helping, but mostly It was time to observe the movement of the living corpses in the passage and give them an early warning.

It didn't look like he needed much help, and he had other things to get done.

Wen Jianyan withdrew his gaze and turned to look at the sarcophagus behind him.

When he just rushed out of the confessional room, even though he was already infected, the negative effects hadn't fully occurred. On the verge of chaos, he barely managed to retain a little sanity.

Wen Jianyan remembered that he seemed to have touched something on the board of the sarcophagus...

It was uneven, as if it had been engraved on it, but his mind was not clear at the time, so he didn't know what was on it.

Wen Jianyan bent down and searched carefully inside the sarcophagus.

Finally, he found a crooked notch on the inside of the sarcophagus lid.

"Adam"

a... name?

Wen Jianyan was taken aback for a moment, showing a puzzled expression.

At this moment, a familiar system notification sounded in my ears: [Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the task: Got it? ? ? real name]

Reward points: 1000

Wen Jianyan was taken aback.

Wait, when did this mission happen?

And... 1000 bonus points? so much? !

Could this be 05's name?

wrong.

This idea was quickly rejected by Wen Jianyan.

After meeting No. 05 with the face of "Witch Candle", there was no more response on the task bar, and he did not release related tasks for him like when meeting several other people, that is to say, the tasks he has completed now , should have been previously obtained

Speaking of which...ADAM's initials are "A".

The abbreviation of Dr. Reese in the information is Dr.A.Reese.

Only the difficulty level of his real name task is advanced, and the others are all intermediate.

In other words, ADAM is actually Dr. Reese's name?

Wen Jianyan lowered his eyes and rubbed the crooked nick with his fingertips, showing a pensive look.

Some broken clues are strung together in my mind.

First, according to the Bible, Adam was the first human being created by God.

Secondly, Dr. Reiss has always been more like a high-risk patient than a medical staff in the system's identification-he has a real-name mission and can also enter the other world.

Finally, in the special scene just now, Dr. Reiss said that he "experienced the exorcism personally not once or twice"-you know, during the process of completing the exorcism ceremony, all the medical staff will leave the room, only the priest and the sick will be left behind.

If there was only one of them, it would be difficult for Wen Jianyan to draw a conclusion. However, when all three clues were put in front of him, the final result could not be clearer.

Dr. Reiss was before 01, the original patient No. 00, but because of a certain way, he got rid of the identity of the patient and became a key member to assist in completing the "plan".

The second problem arises.

What exactly is a "plan"?

According to the picture book that Wen Jianyan found in patient 03, that is, in the room of Nerlore, it can be clearly seen that they do not have any mental illness, but two souls stuffed into one body.

In other words, their "dual personalities" were artificially created.

The "pollution" of neurons will also produce a very similar effect-that is, turning normal people into lunatics.

Let people who are physically and mentally healthy suffer from mental illness.

And the final number 05 is almost completely non-human.

He is a brain soaked in a specific fluid.

If so, is it possible that the mental illnesses of all high-risk patients are manufactured?

Not just mental illness, maybe...

Are they themselves manufactured?

This thought came to mind, which made Wen Jianyan shudder.

If his guess is true, then these high-risk patients should all be mice bred in the laboratory, all for the purpose of completing the so-called "plan".

That being the case, their names should also be given.

is some kind of code name.

Wen Jianyan was very curious from the beginning, why one of the tasks in this dungeon was to find the real names of high-risk patients, so their names should be meaningful.

In the materials in the data room, they are all referred to by their initials.

Edward, initial "E"

Marth, the initial "M"

Nair Lore, initials "N" and "L"

Uris, initial letter "U"

Dr. Adam Reese, initial "A"

Wen Jianyan raised his hand, pinched the bridge of his nose, showing a troubled expression.

"E" "M" "N" "U" "L" "A"...

Judging from the appearance of this copy so far, everything should have a lot to do with Catholicism.

Suddenly, it was like a flash of light passing through my mind, like lightning illuminating the dark sky.

Wen Jianyan seemed to realize something suddenly, he murmured:

"Emmanuel...?"

Emmanuel.

Derived from Hebrew, it is a variant of "Imanuel" [Emmanuel], which means "God is with us".

Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the hidden task and obtaining the real name of high-risk patient No. 05!

Reward points: 5000

Ding! Congratulations to the host for triggering the ultimate main mission of the Ping An Sanatorium:? ? ?

[Completion time limit: one hour]

[Note: If the task fails, all survival time and points will be deducted, and the live broadcast room of the anchor will be closed immediately]

Wen Jianyan's heart constricted for a moment.

The ultimate main mission? !

Before the system notification had finished broadcasting, the bell suddenly rang again.

"Dang-dang-dang-"

I don't know if it's an illusion, but the bell here seems to be particularly loud, echoing in the huge underground tomb, bringing layers of turbulent sound waves.

With the sound of the bell, waves of living corpses attacking the catacombs seemed to calm down again.

Those dense footsteps and rubbing sounds gradually disappeared until they were swallowed by the darkness again and returned to silence.

The three of them stood at the end of the passage, gasping for breath, with cold sweat on their foreheads, obviously exhausted.

In any case, the most urgent crisis is now finally resolved.

They turned their heads and looked behind them.

The silver-haired young man lowered his head, staring fixedly at the open sarcophagus, as if completely immersed in his own thoughts.

The chaotic mental state just now seemed to have disappeared from his body, and he seemed to have completely returned to a normal state, looking calm and rational.

"you're awake?"

Surprised and delighted, Su Cheng hastily greeted him: "How do you feel?"

Wen Jianyan was taken aback, as if she had just been awakened from deep thought, she turned her head and looked over: "It's okay."

He smiled: "Thank you, you guys responded very quickly."

Not only can he quickly realize that he is in a state of contamination, but he can also dig out the antidote from his clothes and inject him. The whole set of procedures is very tacit, saving a lot of time,

"It's a pity that it's not fast enough." The living corpse was repelled, and Wen Jianyan returned to normal. Although the crisis has not been completely resolved, Su Cheng finally has the leisure to joke.

He looked narrowly at Wen Jianyan: "At least it's not fast enough to record you crying because of the injection."

Wen Jianyan: "?"

He blinked, ignoring what he suddenly realized, and his body froze slightly.

Wait... When I just woke up, I touched something wet on my face, could it be...

Wen Jianyan: "..."

Gan.

As an adult and reliable man, it is a bit embarrassing to actually cry with tears all over his face because of the injection.

Shao Yao is currently checking on the teammate Wen Jianyan picked up.

She lifted the other's head carefully and recognized Luce's face.

He seemed to be alive, but his breath was weak, his body was cold, as if he would die in the next second, and he still couldn't wake up, but in any case, Wen Jianyan did fulfill his promise.

Rescue her teammates within his ability.

Shaoyao let out a long sigh of relief, and turned to look at Wen Jianyan not far away:

"Speaking of which, the task of epic props has been completed now, have you got the props yet?"

Her voice saved Wen Jianyan from the abyss of embarrassment.

"It should have been obtained."

As he said that, Wen Jianyan opened his backpack and took out the epic-level hidden items that were automatically put into it by the system before.

A small, not too big iron box appeared in the palm of his hand.

It was gray and unremarkable, with a Ouroboros logo etched shallowly on the surface.

[Integrity First] In the live broadcast room:

"Oh oh oh! Epic props!"

"I'm looking forward to it, I'm looking forward to it, what will it be!"

Several people all came over curiously.

Wen Jianyan frowned, and looked at the iron box over and over - soon, he found a thin gap in the center, which seemed to be able to be opened, but there was no lock hole for a key.

"...Isn't it?" The corner of Su Cheng's mouth twitched: "After completing so many tasks, what I got in the end is not an epic item, but a box containing an epic item?! And we are now trapped in the catacombs, How do you find the key here?"

Wen Jianyan stared blankly at the iron box in his palm: "..."

Damn, pit than system.

[Integrity First] There was also silence in the live broadcast room:

"...Fuck, this wave is really unkind, the props given are still half-finished!"

"Laughing to death, I'm afraid I have to use a lockpicking tool to pry this thing open!"

"However, this also shows that this item is indeed unusual. It is probably quite out of the ordinary, otherwise the system would not have added so many restrictions to it."

If only he hadn't used up the lock-picking item before...

Wen Jianyan showed a regretful expression.

But that's not a problem. After he leaves the dungeon, he can go to the free market to buy a similar item. In any case, this lock probably won't help him for long.

"By the way, let's talk about it,"

Wen Jianyan put the small box back into his pocket, looked at the people in front of him, and suddenly something sounded and said:

"I have started the ultimate main mission."

No. 05's real name would actually be the trigger point, which was completely unexpected to him.

Several people were startled, and their expressions suddenly became slightly dignified.

The ultimate main mission...

If you complete it, you will naturally get more generous rewards and platinum trophies, but this also means that if you do not complete it within the specified time limit, even if you have met the customs clearance requirements, the live broadcast room will be closed.

It's a life-and-death struggle.

Suddenly, Shao Yao seemed to think of something: "By the way, how much is your item collection now?"

Wen Jianyan blinked and replied, "One more."

Shao Yao took a deep breath, took out something from her pocket, and handed it to Wen Jianyan:

"Try this."

The moment you touched it, a familiar system prompt sounded in your ears:

"Congratulations to the streamer for obtaining the hidden item (normal) in the dungeon!"

"Collect 10/10"

Wen Jianyan was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously looked down into his palm.

It was a palm-sized glass jar, dusty and inconspicuous.

This is actually... the last hidden item? !

He looked at Shao Yao standing in front of him, with a look of surprise in his eyes.

"It's just an ordinary level, and it's not very useful to me," Shaoyao shrugged, "But it's different to you. After you collect all the props, it will give you hints about the ultimate main mission. Moreover, we all Being locked in the catacombs, it is very difficult to complete the points task in a short time, so it is better to leave more ways for yourself."

"In case I don't have time to collect the points, maybe it will depend on you to complete the ultimate main mission and take us all out."

Shao Yao paused, raised her eyes, looked at the young man in front of her seriously, took a deep breath, and said:

"Besides, I don't seem to have had time to thank you yet."

"Thank you for catching me in the lab earlier."

At that time, although her whole body was covered in scarlet flesh, she still had some vague and fragmented memories, and as time went by, these memories gradually became clearthe other party was even if her palm was cut by a fishing line. , scratched, and there were delirious teammates attacking him frantically behind him, but he never let go...

It is precisely for this reason that Shao Yao believes that the other party can rescue her teammates in Nightmare, a place full of intrigues. For this reason, she is even willing to sign an unequal treaty and transfer epic prop tasks to him.

Ding! It is detected that all the hidden props of the anchor have been collected, and the core prompt of the hidden line is now issued:

Seven bells, end to end

A brain in a vat forms its own world]

Wen Jianyan was stunned for two seconds.

...7?

7! !

After careful calculation, there are a total of seven high-risk patients with names.

No. 00 Adam Rhys, No. 01 Edward, No. 02 Uris, No. 03 has two people, Nair and Lore, No. 04 Mars, No. 05 Emmanuel.

The entire Ping An Sanatorium has six floors.

There are two floors underground, four floors above ground, and above the fourth floor, there is a hidden seventh floor.

Seven bells, and they've been through exactly six now, and they're short of the last...

Speaking of which, in Catholicism, the number "7" is actually very special.

It took seven days for God to create the world, and God designated the seventh day as a holy day, which is the day of worship. Even the legendary flood that destroyed the world is also inseparable from "7".

"Take seven males and seven females of all clean animals, one male and one female of unclean animals, and seven males and seven females of the birds of the air. Because in seven days I will send rain on the earth for 40 days and nights, Destroy from the face of the earth every living creature that I have made." 1

That is to say, in Catholicism, 7 is the cycle of creation and destruction, whether it is the creation or destruction of the world, it is closely related to this.

So, could this so-called "plan" in the Ping An Sanatorium be...

Wen Jianyan choked for breath.

Suddenly, the content on the sign seen outside the laboratory suddenly jumped into his mind.

In the vaguely broken text, the words "spiritual" and "uroborus" can be vaguely recognized...

"uroborus" is ouroboros, beyond doubt.

But another word is different.

If their laboratory is researching mental illness, then the word should be "mental".

The term "spiritual" is more often used in relation to "religion" and "supernatural spirits" than to mental illness.

Wen Jianyan gritted her teeth.

Although he can speak English, he didn't grow up in that kind of language and culture background, so he ignored such a conspicuous reminder!

Seven test items were manufactured.

The last one is a huge brain floating in the liquid.

Seven bells.

Plus that name that symbolizes "God is with us"...

Wen Jianyan stood there in a daze, a guess slowly emerged in his mind, which sent chills down his spine and his whole body.

This so-called "plan"...

Why does it look a bit like creating gods and worlds now?