Elevator
Everything is ready.
Just as Luo Di took the flashlight off the wall,
His gaze fell upon a piece of paper that seemed to have fallen between the table and the wall, clearly different from the yellowed, old papers on the table.
Luo Di was still very attentive to these details and immediately picked it up.
It turned out to be an experimental report on the elderly.
"Individual ID X-0192"
The patient is 67 years old, female, and suffers from moderate Alzheimer's disease (with comparison photos of her before and after admission and injection treatment).
Injection dosage: 30ml
Number of injections: 2
After the second injection, the level of growth hormone in the individual's blood increased significantly, and physiological aging increased exponentially within a week (approximately 3 years of normal aging). During this process, Alzheimer's disease was alleviated, and memory, some cognition, and basic living abilities were restored.
Family visits have been approved, and the necessity of aging has been explained to the family in detail. The hospital's aftercare services have also been appropriately recommended.
A simple report can reveal the true nature of a nursing home.
This place, seemingly designed to serve elderly people who are unable to care for themselves and alleviate the burden on their families, is actually a place to test drugs and hasten the death of the elderly.
Based on the aging rate given in the experimental report, it is estimated that each hospitalized elderly person will die of old age "normally" in less than two months.
However, this aging medication can indeed help the elderly recover, and even patients in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease can regain consciousness and even take care of themselves, and be able to communicate normally with visiting family members.
This alone is enough to make most family members accept it, and even the elderly themselves will accept it.
Such a nursing home is very likely a fabrication by Pseudo-Human, since Luo Di did not find any information related to the nursing home on the data network.
Of course, the possibility that the Investigation Bureau deliberately concealed it cannot be ruled out.
These were not things Luo Di needed to consider; his Focus Point was the existence behind the nursing home and how to hunt down its target.
Anna also leaned closer to examine the report and offered her opinions:
"Could it be that an elderly person, forced to undergo an 'aging experiment,' developed Mind Corner while experiencing the approach of death?"
Luo Di also leans towards this conclusion.
"It is indeed possible, and the drugs used on them may also induce pituitary gland abnormalities, since the secretion of growth hormone is directly related to the pituitary gland."
But none of that matters. Let's find the guy behind this as soon as possible.
After leaving the clinic, the two quickly arrived at the stairwell with the sign "Safety Passage" at the end of the corridor on the first floor of the nursing home.
Just as they were about to enter the stairwell.
Bite!
The elevator's announcement tone suddenly broke the silence of the lobby.
Looking to the side,
The elevator in the middle of the lobby was powered on, and the red electronic screen was projected onto the floor, standing out starkly against the dark lobby, as if reminding them to hurry over.
But who would ride in such a strange elevator?
In Luo Di's opinion, only the most brainless characters in low-quality horror movies would be considered.
[Five minutes later]
Luo Di stood in front of the only elevator that was powered on.
The reason is simple.
This nursing home doesn't have any so-called "stairwells" at all; the Safety Passage door you just opened led directly to solid concrete walls.
Not only that,
When Luo Di tried to climb over the wall from the outside of the building, he found that the front door and windows of the nursing home, as well as any area that could lead to the outside, had all disappeared or were completely blocked with similar reinforced concrete.
Anna also tried knocking on the wall, but even after knocking more than a meter deep, it was still just stone inside.
The Pseudo-Human behind the nursing home completely controls this space, and may even be integrated with the nursing home, able to arbitrarily change the structure of the building under certain conditions.
There are only two choices now.
1. Take the elevator.
2. Stay on the first floor and wait to grow old.
This kind of coercion and constraint is in line with the style of this nursing home.
"Anna, try to sabotage this elevator."
"Good."
Without saying a word, Anna grabbed an axe and smashed it in.
The sound was loud, and the power was even greater than when it chopped the old man. The sedan chair that was hit was only slightly dented, and it was almost impossible to destroy it by physical means.
However, this blow also had some consequences.
A broadcast, slightly accompanied by electromagnetic interference, came through.
<Dear residents, please take the elevator to your hospital floor>
Luo Di still didn't step into the elevator car. Instead, he took a wire hook and touched the floor buttons inside without entering the elevator, trying to make the elevator go to another floor.
No matter how I touched the internal buttons, nothing worked; the elevator wouldn't go up, and the doors wouldn't even close.
The same notification tone still plays:
<Dear residents, please take the elevator to your hospital floor>
All the methods they could think of proved ineffective. As more and more gray hairs and crow's feet appeared, the two had no choice but to compromise and become the most idiotic characters in a horror movie.
"Let's go in together."
The two stepped into the elevator together, and things were temporarily back to normal.
The interior of the car is made of a very smooth metal material, with a reflective quality comparable to a mirror, reflecting the virtual image of the passengers on every surface.
There is only one button on the elevator panel.
This button has no numbers or symbols and will take you to the floor that the other party has already set.
The elevator doors remained open, seemingly requiring passengers to actively touch the buttons.
"Luo Di... is this the only way?"
"By voluntarily entering Corner Space created by others, we are inherently put at a disadvantage. Hesitation and indecision can also lead to death, so we might as well take a chance."
"Good."
Anna looked at her reflection in the elevator wall, at the crow's feet and freckles on her face, and seemed to already smell the faint scent of death.
Luo Di had already extended his finger and touched the blank button.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The metal cables on the top of the car could be heard to be moving.
The elevator doors in front of us finally began to close slowly.
Suddenly,
Anna felt a burning sensation in her chest. Looking down, she saw that the Peace Talisman had spontaneously combusted. However, it didn't burn her body or the Investigator uniform; instead, it transformed into a golden light that covered her entire body.
Buzz!
An inexplicable external force pushed Anna out just before the elevator doors closed.
"What!"
Anna had no desire to be separated from Luo Di.
The moment the Peace Talisman failed, she immediately ran towards the sedan chair, but it was too late.
The elevator doors closed completely in front of her.
However, just before the doors closed, Anna saw something strange through the crack; she saw a dark shadow seemingly emerging on the metal wall of the carriage.
It was the danger brought by this dark figure that ignited the Peace Talisman, sending her out.
Anna still didn't give up, so she picked up an axe and started banging on the elevator door... Perhaps she was emotional, or perhaps she was worried about her friend's safety.
Anna's muscles had become even thicker than before, making her look a size bigger, and clearly visible blood vessels were bulging on the surface of her muscles.
Ding ding ding!
The continuous smashing,
The incredibly sturdy elevator door was indeed completely smashed.
Just as Anna was about to climb into the elevator shaft, she was completely stunned! There was no elevator shaft in front of her, only a completely sealed reinforced concrete space; the space had changed once again.
at the same time,
She sensed a strong aura of danger emanating from the area surrounding the hall.
Anna quickly took a breath and looked around.
The lobby area, which had already been inspected, was now being stared at by several pairs of eyes, which appeared strangely red.
As the flashlight beam swept across the red dots, it revealed elderly people with red tubes crowding their pupils. They were approaching from different directions, more than eight of them.
Some crawled on the ceiling.
Some wriggled forward like zombies.
There was also an old man whose legs had been severed, and numerous red blood vessels were growing from his wounds, making him appear to crawl on the ground like an octopus.
Too many
Anna was confident she could kill them all, but if she got entangled by these old men during the killing spree and had the red thing pierce her body, her body would probably age rapidly in a short period of time.
But Anna was not intimidated and made a decision quickly after careful consideration.
They quickly came up with an optimal solution: break through at a single point, then hide in the previous consultation room and use the door frame as a barrier to deal with these mutants one by one.
We must not allow ourselves to be surrounded by these elderly people at the same time.
The moment Anna came up with the plan, she sprinted out towards the nearest old man.
As she began her sprint, the elderly people also started moving faster.
Chop it down hard!
With immense muscular strength combined with the Corner-transformation weapon, the old man's limbs were sent flying before he could even react. There wasn't even a tearing sound; only a deafening roar echoed through the hall.
As Anna pulled back her axe, two more people pounced on her from both sides.
Whirlwind Slash
Using one foot as a fulcrum, and with the aid of the Investigator uniform, twist your waist.
The 360° arc slash cut the elderly man, who was lunging from the left and right, in half at the waist.
pity,
Cutting them in half at the waist wasn't very effective; it couldn't kill these old men, whose upper bodies continued to crawl on the ground at a considerable speed.
Just as Anna's attention was drawn to the two upper bodies that had failed to be killed.
An old woman without a chin had somehow climbed onto the ceiling above her head and pounced on her from a near-blind spot.
The red line in her mouth and her teeth had locked onto the back of Anna's head.
Even if they sense the danger now, there's no time to dodge.
Anna could even feel a straw-like sensation on the back of her neck, as if it was about to pierce through her skull and penetrate her.
Buzz!
I heard something brush past my ear.
The old woman, missing her chin, fell heavily beside Anna, her head seemingly pierced by something.
Not only that,
The old woman who fell to the ground suddenly burst into flames from the hole in her skull, and the flames illuminated the dark hall.
A Five Emperors Coin, stained with Brain Tissue, was stuck not far from the ground. It was this Yang-attuned item that pierced the brain and caused it to burn.
The black cloth shoes landed lightly behind Anna, just as the ghostly young man arrived.
"Miss Anna, I'm so sorry~ I was trapped in a snare set by the nursing home for a long time and it was only with great difficulty that I managed to break free. Let's fight the enemy together."
In less than ten minutes,
All the old men in the hall were dead, so there was no need for the investigator's matches; any old man killed by the copper coins would spontaneously combust.
Anna was completely shocked by the other party's abilities, which were even stronger than those of the official investigators who had once mentored her. But before she could even admire or rest, she pointed towards the elevator again.
"Let's hurry and find Luo Di!"
Just when Anna thought Yu Ze would lead her to find the missing Luo Di quickly, just like last time, the other party stood still.
"During the time I was trapped, I took the time to do a divination! Because I was on the ground, the divination was quite accurate."
I figured out why my fellow villager chose to Stagnant Event here. This place is very important to him personally, and our intervention would only disrupt everything.
Just wait patiently here; he'll handle everything.
Anna, however, was extremely worried. "The existence behind the nursing home is very special, combining the Aging Curse with spatial control."
"So what? No matter how special he is, he's just a ' Pseudo-Human ' who doesn't dare to go to the corner, not a real 'monster'."
I initially thought my fellow villager was just a basic Connector, only capable of using some basic powers. Now it seems I completely underestimated him.
Whether it's the "World Quality" he's connected to, or his own talent and inherited abilities, they should all be at least B.
Moreover, judging from the traps he left in the front yard, it seems that he was able to contact the other world even before it was fully formed, and had already gained additional benefits.
If this kind of guy walked down the street, even Pseudo-Human would keep their distance, afraid of being even glanced at.