Failed Product

The next floor of the church will correspond to the second card drawn by Han Dong.

[Level 3] No affiliation.

The card surface has only three dots.

Descending the Darkstone, one arrives at a vast, enclosed, labyrinthine Containment Zone, far exceeding the original size of the church.

Below, hundreds or even thousands of independent cells exist, forming a labyrinthine area of imprisonment.

[Ominous Sign - A Product of a Failed Cult]

Fear Value: ★★★

Misfortune: The Order was founded hundreds of years ago during the Crusades. Through the blood sacrifice of war, it accidentally opened the "Door" for the first time, and glimpsed an indescribable life form inside. Its head had no facial features but was covered with twisted tentacles, and it possessed power far exceeding that of humans.

Led by the Crusader priests of the time, they founded the Faceless Cult.

Since then, the cult has been secretly recruiting instructors and has begun to conduct 'communication experiments' in all aspects.

Using the human body as a medium, they hope to establish a connection with the world on the other side of the door, thereby gaining the powerful force to conquer the world.

However, the acquired superpowers are extremely difficult to control.

Even now, some members of the cult are unable to manage it, and the instructors lose themselves and become failures during the 'acceptance' process.

However, even failed attempts can be a valuable Combat Power.

Therefore, local religious groups have built large detention facilities to house failed practitioners, in case of unforeseen circumstances.

[Requirement]: Please find the secret passage exit leading to the Depths of the cult within the imprisonment maze.

"There's no requirement to kill individuals. Is the theme this time about finding your way through the maze? Finding the exit is definitely not as simple as it sounds... Otherwise, the failed experiments imprisoned here would have escaped long ago."

Finding a way out is a challenge.

The remaining challenge lies in the "failures".

If we can't find an exit in a short time, we might all be wiped out.

Since the lower-difficulty Mother Queen Brain Worm can completely kill townspeople infected with the G-Virus, the failed attempts here should also have a way to deal with zombies.

While collective action can guarantee safety, it inevitably makes it impossible to find an exit in a short period of time.

Thinking about this...

Han Dong turned his head to look at the zombie army and asked them to pair up according to their respective mutated functions, forming a group of two.

At the same time, Han Dong used Dark Magic to generate a feather and handed it to each team.

Any discovery can be transmitted to Han Dong via feathers... including 'death messages', of course.

"You come with me..."

After the brain worm incident in the Church Hall, Han Dong had high hopes for the crossbowmen in his team, who had repeatedly made accurate shots in advance and even effectively shot at the mother.

This young man has a bow-like appendage on his wrist and can use ribs to make bows and arrows.

From Han Dong's perspective, this young man was the best G-Virus carrier among all the townspeople, and the changes the virus caused to his body were completely consistent with his superior attributes in life.

Because of consuming the brain worm's eggs, the young man's consciousness became clear, and he was able to control his mutated body normally, just like the protagonist David.

"May I have your name?"

"Kelvin Charles, I will do everything in my power to assist you, sir."

The young man had no prejudice against Han Dong, and after witnessing Han Dong's abilities, he showed Han Dong exceptional respect.

"Um!"

"Strange... why is there nothing there?"

When I first arrived at the underground prison, I was relieved to find that there were no "failed products" in the cells closest to the exit of the surface stone steps.

As Han Dong ventured deeper, walking over a hundred meters, all he saw was an empty prison.

There are no members of the failed cult who lost consciousness due to their inability to control the energy on the other side of the door, as mentioned in the ominous description, below this place.

"Um?"

Han Dong noticed something lying outside a nearby cell and immediately went to investigate.

"This is... a finger? It seems to have been forcibly broken off when it was forced out of the cell, due to the pressure from the iron bars..."

However, if I were the one trapped, and my fingers were squeezed when I forcibly escaped the cell, I would definitely adjust accordingly to avoid completely breaking or tearing the entire finger, right?

Besides, even if my finger breaks off, I'll pick it up and put it back together, right?

The monsters here do possess some basic self-healing abilities.

Unless... this failed individual didn't escape from the cell voluntarily, but was forcibly dragged away by something.

Han Dong continued to examine the remaining dried meat on the iron railings, further confirming his hypothesis.

What terrifying thing is lurking down there...?

As they continued to delve deeper, they still didn't encounter any failed attempts, and the unusual silence made Han Dong feel very uncomfortable.

Such unusual occurrences often indicate greater danger; if the cause of the failed product's disappearance cannot be found, the group may be in peril.

When it goes straight in to the end.

A white steel gate stands at the end of the road.

The door is marked with the cult's ' Faceless Emblem'.

However, the door's surface still had a large amount of dried bloodstains and completely pressed-in handprints, many handprints... causing the door to be forcibly damaged.

"Laboratory?"

In the laboratory area, which could accommodate about twenty staff members, various experimental instruments were scattered all over the floor, indicating that a very tragic killing had taken place there.

I stared at the blueprints of the human body drawn on the wall, and some operating tables in the inner rooms.

Han Dong estimated that the cult's researchers had been conducting experiments on "failed products" here all along... The specific details are indescribable.

"Kelvin, organize all the paper documents in the lab... Perhaps we can find the answer to why all the 'failed products' disappeared, or perhaps we can find information about the export."

"Yes, sir!"

While the two were collecting data scattered throughout the laboratory.

"Instant annihilation?!"

One of the crow feathers that Han Dong assigned to the zombie corps has lost contact, meaning that two people in a small group of zombies have died... This is very strange.

This is a zombie infected with the G-Virus, an existence that is virtually unkillable in the Resident Evil movies.

However, he died almost instantly, without sending back any useful information.

"It seems... what's lingering in the Containment Zone is quite something."

The Level 3 difficulty might only lie in 'how to escape the maze,' while the 'things' lingering in the imprisonment maze surpass even the difficulty of this ominous event.

Therefore, the ominous sign's "requirement" did not specify that we should kill the monster, but only instructed us to find the exit of the maze.

We must gather information quickly, or there will be danger.

All the information has been collected.

"Kelvin, you guard the door... Notify me immediately if any life forms approach! Under no circumstances should you attack first."

"Yes, sir."

Next, Han Dong entered a state of absolute focus and rapid reading.

Han Dong captured many keywords.

Project Chimera, an index alpha exceeding ten times the stable value, discarding failed experiments, completely shutting down the confinement layers...

"These idiots..."

While Han Dong was reading, another feather broke off its connection.