Vision, Underground Base, Experiment Zero
Because of the sudden annihilation of the Wolf Gang, the town is noticeably more lively and bustling today compared to yesterday.
Not paying attention to any of that, Bai Zhi went straight to the town center after leaving the Garbage Mountain.
The Town Center is where the Players live, and it's also where Players built this town.
The current Survival Mode in this world is based on large cities and scattered small towns in the surrounding areas. It takes two days to travel from one small town to another, and five days to reach the large city.
Big cities are definitely safer than here, but they are also correspondingly harder to access. In the current world environment, many people never even leave the small town where they were born in their entire lives.
Normally, no one is allowed to approach the very center of town, but just as Bai Zhi had learned from the Corpse Rat, there was no one there anymore.
Based on the information he obtained from his transaction with the Corpse Rat the previous night, Bai Zhi found a passage leading underground after spending a little time.
"Something like an underground laboratory or base...?"
As he pondered this in his mind, Bai Zhi followed them deeper into the Underground Base.
His previous guess was correct; there were indeed some secrets hidden here. The access card that the man who escaped from the thick fog and then burned himself in front of him had thrown out seemed to have quite high privileges in this Underground Base.
So he traveled smoothly without any obstacles.
He didn't find anyone along the way; the place seemed abandoned, with scattered papers and broken parts everywhere.
Although there was no one here, the electricity was still on, and all the facilities were operating stably.
However, for some unknown reason, or perhaps due to some strange sixth sense, ever since entering this Underground Base, even though it was completely empty, Bai Zhi felt as if he was being watched by many people.
The gazes that seemed to be watching him came from all directions, giving him a strange and terrifying feeling of unease, but no matter how hard Bai Zhi tried to find them, he could never find the source of the gazes.
--In those peering eyes, Bai Zhi sensed pure malice.
After searching unsuccessfully, Bai Zhi gave up on this time-wasting approach.
"Never mind that for now... Just be careful."
Feeling that the malicious prying eyes around him had not decreased, but rather increased with the passage of time, [Radiance] silently slipped into his hand, and Bai Zhi let out a slight breath.
"No matter what it is that's secretly spying on me, it should at least figure something out, right? It's just that there might be a lot of them... Six Bullet probably won't be enough, right? Luckily, I scavenged a lot of Bullet from the Wild Wolf Tribe earlier..."
A terrifying insect remains motionless: common deterrent.
A terrifying insect wriggles about: a high-level deterrent.
A terrifying insect suddenly vanishes: Ultimate Deterrence.
What people fear most is the unknown and the mysterious. When the veil of mystery is lifted, the Level intimidation drops by at least several Level.
This is why, in so many horror movies, the appearance of those terrifying Monster is always tinged with a sense of unease, as if they're both welcome and unwelcome.
Although I don't know what exactly is targeting me, if anyone dares to show their Health Bar, I'll kill them all...
After ignoring the malicious prying eyes, Bai Zhi's exploration speed noticeably increased.
About 30 minutes later, Bai Zhi found a place that resembled an Archives Room, and Archives Room, he discovered some chilling truths...
The Giant Black Shadow, its body concealed in the thick fog and pulled forward by thousands of Chains, was once an experimental subject in this Underground Base, codenamed Experiment Zero.
There were many experimental subjects like the Black Shadow in this Underground Base, but due to their special Special, Experiment Zero was the longest-lived.
Since it was captured and brought to this base, it has spent ten years in this Underground Base as an experimental subject, enduring all sorts of inhumane experiments every day.
--Because of its evolutionary ability, which is unparalleled Life and resilience.
The pale yellow powder that Bai Zhi used before to drive away wandering Monster was one of the research results produced from this base.
Some of the videos of various related experiments preserved here even made Bai Zhi frown.
--In the Archives Room, there is no other information about that experimental subject, not even his or her identity or name. He is only referred to by the code name "Experiment Zero".
Therefore, Bai Zhi didn't know whether the other party was Sinner had committed some unforgivable crime and was captured, or an innocent victim who was targeted because of his Special ability... However, these things were meaningless at the moment.
Without giving much thought to this meaningless question, Bai Zhi quickly skimmed over the experimental videos that had no research value and began to pursue the truth of certain things.
He soon made a new discovery.
Until a few days ago, this Underground Base was still operating normally, but the real change occurred a year ago.
In that incident, Experiment Zero, who was being held in this Underground Base, successfully escaped. At the same time, more than 90% of the Staff in this Underground Base mysteriously disappeared.
Even if hundreds of living people were killed or eaten, they would still leave some Spider Silk. But these missing people left no trace. Hundreds of people disappeared without a trace in that prison break.
Among the hundreds of people who disappeared, there were even a few Player.
"..."
The mouse in his hand involuntarily stopped. Recalling the things he had encountered since entering this Underground Base, Bai Zhi's lips twitched slightly.
Several hours have passed since we entered this Underground Base.
As time goes by, the malicious spying Bai Zhi is now experiencing is simply insane.
It's like being locked in a Transparency cage, with hundreds of people standing around watching you inhumanely.
Even those malicious prying eyes seemed to come from above and below...
Bai Zhi thought he had probably found the origin of those malicious glances directed at him before.
A year ago, when the Experiment Zero escaped from prison, the hundreds of people who supposedly disappeared in this Underground Base were not actually missing, because they had always been here.
--They were integrated into this Underground Base.