Yang Yi entered the shelter from the Port, planning to head to the Biochemical Laboratory on the third underwater level.
The corridors inside were empty, lit by red emergency lights, with no suspicious figures in sight.
The players who had originally been in the corridors had either entered the Port and been killed by Yang Yi, fled somewhere amid the chaos, or... become corpses lying quietly in the corridors.
Scattered files and miscellaneous items littered the floor.
Yang Yi approached a corpse, crouched down, and touched the remaining blood.
It had not dried. The person had probably died only recently.
He also examined the corpse and discovered a parasitic House Mouse on it. Yang Yi vaporized it with his Beam Cannon, leaving a puddle of scalding mush.
"Looks like not every player had their perception altered by the toxin.
"Fighting broke out inside Area C just now, too."
He suppressed his urge to drink blood and picked up a nearby document to examine it.
It looked like some sort of list or experimental data.
He recognized all the letters and words on it, but put together, they made no sense to him.
Su Na might have been able to understand it.
Yang Yi tried the system's photo function, but a notification said the circumstances were special and photos could not be taken.
So he threw the paper away and headed straight for the stairwell.
There were also some offices along the way. Looking through their windows or doors, he could see overturned desks and chairs in disarray, corpses, and House Mice that appeared and disappeared without warning.
House Mice attacked him several times as well, but he either stomped them to death or shot them dead with his Beam Cannon.
As he approached the stairwell, Yang Yi heard sounds coming