"What about Lorimas, then?"
"That brings us back to the Experimental Subjects who survived and turned into monsters. Although Cheng Xun was determined to create the Elixir of Immortality, he didn't want to become an inhuman monster himself. So after collecting blood from the surviving Experimental Subjects, he mixed it with the original 'catalyst.' With some more time, he could produce a new version of the experimental drug. Then Cheng Xun would inject that new version back into the Experimental Subjects' bodies..."
"I don't really understand any of this, but I heard that all the Experimental Subjects injected with the experimental drug died. It was only a matter of sooner or later."
"After those Experimental Subjects died..." Zhu Nian looked at Lian Xiangyu and Shen Dong'er through tear-filled eyes, as though assessing how much they could take. Only after seeing that both could still stand there and listen did she continue, "Cheng Xun would supply their flesh... to the next batch of test subjects who entered the hotel."
Shen Dong'er finally couldn't hold back and rushed to the sink. Although she hadn't eaten for so long that she didn't end up making a mess in front of everyone, she looked utterly sick.
"I remember that notebook mentioning something like this." By now, Lian Xiangyu could only speak properly when he kept his eyes on Number Eight. "When the person who wrote the notebook entered the hotel to participate in the game, there were lots of vegetables in cold storage that weren't very fresh, but very, very little meat. Yet when we entered the hotel, there seemed to be almost no vegetables in the restaurant, and an enormous amount of meat instead."
"The meat mentioned in the notebook should have been the original 'meat,' Cheng Xun's most precious catalyst. It was