Chapter 53 The Peerless Garlic 7

Chapter 53 The Peerless Garlic 7

"Team Member: Atobe-sama, dead."

"Team Member: So hard to find a name, dead."

The system audio announced their deaths, and Wang Tanzhi quickly opened the game menu to take a look. Both of their names had the status ’dead’ next to them. After recovering from his brief shock, Xiao Tan opened his lips to ask, "Big Brothers, do you think they could have died inside this building’s underground lab?"

"Oh? Why would you think so?" Pan Feng continued to move forward and replied without turning his head. From his tone, it sounded like he did not care so much about the deaths of the two players, like their deaths would not have affected their success rate. Then again, with the combined forced of Pan Feng and Hwa Xiong, there was a basis for that confidence.

"Well, think about it, one of them is level fourteen, and the other level is level twelve. They’re at least stronger than I am, and I am not afraid of the BW Zombies on the street, so they couldn’t have fallen victim to them. If they came to this Allerbmu’s building, saw the layout map, and went to the underground lab..." He paused before continuing. "We’ve not been to that place yet, so there might be great danger. It might even be guarded by a boss. Could it be that they ran into a Zombie Werewolf?"

"Hmm... You have a point," Hwa Xiong said, but his tone implied that he had considered that as well and was merely saying that to brush Xiao Tan off. "But since they’re already dead, we won’t be able to do anything if we turn back now. Plus, we’re already so close to the top floor, so why don’t we finish clearing our way to the top and then..."

"How about this?" Xiao Tan interrupted him. "Big Brothers, you can continue to move toward the top floor while I go back down to the ground floor."

He took out the baseball bat from his inventory. Since he had been free from battle, Xiao Tan had even put his weapon away. "The remaining player is my friend, and he might not have arrived at this building yet, but I’m sure he’ll eventually arrive here. I’ll go wait for him at the ground floor, and when I meet up with him, I can warn him from going to the basement. Then, we’ll come to meet up with you."Nêww chapters will be fully updated at novelhall.com

The two stopped moving and turned to look at Xiao Tan before exchanging a look between themselves. Hwa Xiong shrugged. "Okay then. Little buddy, you’d better be careful. We’ll go on ahead."

Xiao Tan nodded and turned to retrace their steps. He turned around the bend and rushed into the emergency staircase. He had no idea that Feng Bujue was already inside the underground lab and did not realize that his prediction for the location where Atobe-sama and Ming Zi had died was wrong; he was merely acting on his instinct.

After he wandered away, Pan Feng suddenly used a serious tone to say, "Before the two players died, they stayed at the same coordinates for a long time, and that place is very far from this building."

This was obviously a space that was connected to the plot. On the wall facing the door, there was a large metallic valve, not dissimilar to the one at the bank safe. On the left side of the wall was a row of glass tubes. They were one meter tall and around thirty centimeters in diameter. They should have been filled with liquid, but since the glass casing was shattered, the content had flowed onto the ground. It was a kind of half-transparent liquid that was light green in color. The floor of the room was stained with the substance.

The few computers in the room were broken, and the monitors were all black. Next to one of them lay two dead bodies in lab coat. Feng Bujue approached them cautiously and, after some observation, confirmed that they were normal dead bodies, not monsters lying in ambush.

They were both males, and one of them looked over fifty, with a balding head and wearing spectacles. The other had gray hair and small goatee. Both of them were advanced in age. The balding guy had a gunshot wound in his skull, and the goatee had two gunshot wounds on his chest and torso. They were left unmoved after death; the positioning of their dead bodies proved that.

Feng Bujue tried to reconstruct the assault in his mind. The killer should be someone they knew. He entered the lab through the door and suddenly pulled out the gun. At a close distance, he fired the bullet at the balding guy’s head. The bullet entered the skull and killed him on the spot. The balding guy was sitting in the chair, so after his death, his body slipped down from the chair and was lying on the ground.

With the first shot was fired, the goatee, who was several steps away from the computer, was facing away from the door. He turned around when he heard the gunshot, but the killer did not give him any chance to react. He instantly fired two more rounds to kill the man. The goatee’s body was leaning forward as he fell. Before he died, he even grabbed the edge of the table for support before collapsing to the ground.

From the pose, blood stains, and expressions of the dead bodies, Feng Bujue came up with this hypothesis. As a crime novel writer, he was good at reconstructing the criminal process from the crime scene. He had acted out such scenes who knew how many times in his mind. Sometimes, to write out specific murders, he would conduct related experiments. It might sound troublesome, but at the end of the day, they were strategies that came from his mind, so it would be quite meaningless if they could not be replicated in real life.

Feng Bujue looked at the two bodies and laughed. "Since they’re not infected, they must have taken the serum already..."

He faced the bodies and talked to himself. "There are so many people in this base, and I believe that only researchers who have to deal with the virus directly would have a privilege like that."

As he reconstructed the case in his mind, he said, "No matter the purpose, if we make the assumption that the killer is a researcher with the serum, he killed these two people, broke the container with the virus, and then escaped the room with a miniscule amount of the serum. Out in the corridors, he continued to kill and used the virus to cause the zombie transformation. Then, he escaped from the lab and allowed the virus to spread to the surface, but for some reason, the people on the surface transformed into a different kind of zombie.

"Or rather... the killer didn’t have a chance to escape the lab and was killed by security or something. The BW Zombies outside the lab have nothing to do with the virus here, and they’re caused by a completely different thing."

At that point, Feng Bujue was reminded of another thing, and he mumbled to himself, "But the guy at the door had the qualification to enter this room, so he should be a researcher who had taken the serum, so why did he zombify?"

Feng Bujue needed more information to understand the situation, so he inspected the two bodies again and found a key inside the pocket of the goatee.

There was an office table several meters away. Feng Bujue walked over with the key and opened all the drawers. He found two syringes, a stack of papers, some stationery, a stapler, pins, and so on. Only the lowest drawer was locked. He tried the key that he found, and the lock clicked open.