"Just edit it a bit, add a couple of cool lines, and you can highlight the identity of the Sovereign ntor—do it like this, and the promotional video will have an imdiate impact."
Lu Run thought to himself, but he couldn’t shake off an uneasy feeling.
He really wanted to see what happened to Li Aozi next!
The ga’s detailed handling and the complex portrayal of characters were just too realistic. The more he watched the plot, the more it drew him in. Lu Run found himself unwittingly imrsed in it.
Luo Le and Xue Nian led the way, occasionally coming across charred corpses without feeling scared.
Lu Run walked through rooms filled with rotting bones. This place had once been where Li Aozi indulged in slaughter.
Before this, they found Li Aozi’s thods cruel, but now they thought Li Aozi had actually been too gentle.
For sothing as inhumane as the Mingji, no matter how cruel the ans of revenge, it was considered rciful.
"Oh, isn’t this the ICU!"
During their search, they found the place where the killing had begun. There were hardly any intact bodies left.
"The body of Head Nurse Nodley has indeed disappeared."
Xue Nian pointed to a corner of the wall, where there were charred remains likely left by Qiu Ran’s Arcane Energy.
"Strange, Azure Star shouldn’t have magic, right? Could the body still have so use?"
Luo Le muttered.
They left the ICU and continued to search, but found nothing. To find recordings related to Li Aozi, they had to head to the lower levels.
"Oh, the elevator is broken."
Luo Le tried to hack into the elevator, but found that the entire elevator had already crashed to the bottom.
Xue Nian checked the steel cables. Three of them were broken, with clear signs of corrosion at the breaks, but one was still intact, though it had so odd sticky residue on it.
He pulled out an electric descender, attached it to the steel cable, and cautiously descended into the pitch-black abyss one by one.
"Aren’t you going to drop a glow stick or sothing?"
Lu Run asked, feeling a bit scared of the dark elevator shaft.
"Didn’t buy any. It’s only fifty ters. The elevator crashed to the second level—what, are you afraid of heights?"
"A bit—"
Boom!
Luo Le lifted his foot and kicked Lu Run directly on the butt, the strong wind cutting across his face. Lu Run scread, and a few seconds later, he fell to the bottom of the elevator shaft. A steel cable pierced through his lung. His entire body was almost shattered, and the intense pain nearly made him pass out. His Health Points dropped to the bottom, and he imdiately entered a near-death state.
Hiss—
Xue Nian and Luo Le descended one after another, with Xue Nian complaining about Luo Le’s recklessness. Then, Xue Nian gave Lu Run an injection of Healing Agent, skillfully dressing his wounds, and without even bothering to set the bones, patted his butt, and walked away.
Lu Run sat dazed on the ground, after a while managing to stuff his protruding bone back into his body out of curiosity.
"Aargh—uh?"
After the searing pain, Lu Run jumped up. As his Health Points increased, his fractures and pain eased and nearly disappeared. With his wound healing, his health stopped decreasing.
"Phew. Scared to death, almost died."
"Damn! What the hell is that?"
"Hey, cara guy, co over here and take a look at this! This, it’s absolutely shocking!"
Up ahead, Luo Le and Xue Nian were exclaiming loudly. Lu Run patted his chest and limped forward to catch up.
"Coming, coming!"
The second level of the Mingji Humanity was filled with the sll of burnt flesh. The power had completely failed, enveloping it in darkness so thick you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face.
Lu Run cautiously advanced in the dark. Fortunately, his ntal state had improved a lot; casually touching severed limbs, skulls, and internal organs only made him feel a bit grossed out, but not nauseated.
He felt sothing was off—wasn’t the sensory system of the ga "Starry Abyss" made too detailed?
When his fingers brushed over a corpse, he could even feel the wriggling caused by muscle decay and decomposition. This kind of terrifying detail made him involuntarily think:
’Could it be that the reason countries support "Starry Abyss" is to train people to adapt to combat and violence?’
A long ti ago, when virtual gas were still considered electronic poison, people looked at gas as if they were a plague. Later, as virtual worlds matured, everyone was fighting to join them.
If, just if, "Starry Abyss" were not just a ga, but a real world—
Impossible.
Lu Run imdiately dismissed the idea.
Not to ntion the monuntal contribution of discovering a real electronic world, the discoverer would be showered with awards—players like them, with their near-immortal abilities and identities, were utterly inconsistent with a normal world’s understanding.
But wasn’t this too real...
Qiu Ran, Nomi, and Li Aozi’s images flashed before him one by one.
’Could they be real people?’
With this thought, as he was about to reach Luo Le and Xue Nian, Lu Run tripped over sothing and fell face-first to the ground.
"Ouch—sorry! I’m so clumsy!"
Lu Run quickly got up and apologized to Luo Le and Xue Nian, who were standing there in a daze.
However, the two didn’t respond.
Lu Run looked up and followed their gaze forward.
The glaring flashlight illuminated a massive structure that filled his entire field of vision and the underground space.
It seed like an old god, spreading despair and hideousness into every inch of the air with its jagged and twisted flesh, resembling thousands of writhing worms and venomous snakes, coalescing into an enormous form that defied description.
It might have been a giant, but if it were human, Lu Run could not perceive any similarity from it.
Instead, the fear he felt was hundreds of tis worse than that evoked by corpses or monsters.
From the deepest part of his genes, mories of ’death’ and ’predators’ were instantly awakened. As an ordinary person, he couldn’t withstand this type of physiological discomfort and terror, dropping to his knees as if worshipping a fallen god.
"What... is that?"
Xue Nian murmured in a daze.
Luo Le clutched his forehead. He turned on his cognitive filter to steady himself, activated the Artificial Eye plugin’s Investigation System, and saw the entity’s true identity:
[Na]: BOW—Bayo Kong (Deceased)
[Level]: lv.60 (During life)
[Hierarchy]: Gamma Level (γ, third Greek letter)
"This is the professor’s research result—"
Luo Le exclaid:
"Bayo Kong—Bio-Giant!"
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