As long as you go crazy, there is nothing to fear about death.

Area B, in a dark and damp cell, three people are locked up.

"Let us out!" Tom kicked the cell door viciously and cursed loudly, but of course no one would pay attention to him. There was silence outside, and Tom could only hear his own roar. He knew that there might not be anyone here, but it seemed that all he could do was vent his anger, or kick the cell door fiercely, hoping that the thing could be kicked out because it was worn down by the years of non-repair.

Behind Tom, Nicole looked at Emily lying on the ground moaning in pain with fear, and wanted to get close but didn't dare. He could only watch helplessly.

Tom cursed for a while, then turned around and saw that Nicole was two meters away from Emily. He went up and cursed: "Why are you hiding so far away? If you were to be infected, you would have already been infected. We have all been injected with something that don't know what it is! What are you afraid of, coward!"

Nicole lowered his head and remained silent.

Seeing Emily turn her head to look this way, Tom immediately stepped forward to help her up, but with just a grab, a lot of meat on Emily's skin fell off.

"Tom, am I going to die?" Emily looked at Tom with tearful eyes.

Tom shook his head: "It's okay. You can get better, it'll be better very soon."

Emily smiled bitterly: "Don't try to persuade me, I know I'm going to die. I'm sorry...for implicating you guys."

Tom: "How can this said to be your responsability? It was that guy Hasen who brought us..."

"Yes, it's him who lied to us, but after listening to his words, the one who supported traveling here was me. If I hadn't been infected, you wouldn't have followed me to this sanatorium too." Emily's voice gradually became shallower. "If I die, just leave me here, flee fast ba."

Tom: "You asked us to leave you, what should I tell your parents..."

Emily shook her head, tears rolled down her face, the tears mixed with flesh and blood turned into dark red and dripped on the ground. She had a weak constitution, the germs had an extremely strong reaction on her body, destroying all the functions of her body. It is not easy to maintain a breath now.

"They won't let the body stay here... If I die, they will deal with me. You take advantage of that time... run..." Emily said intermittently.

Nicole was squatting in the corner crying, Tom's lips were trembling, trying to persuade her, but he didn't know what to say.

Emily smiled slightly: "It's dark, I'll take a na...p..."

Tom rubbed his eyes vigorously to wipe away his tears. It was not that it was dark, but that Emily's eyes were completely unable to see.

It's not that she's sleepy, it's that her spirit is getting weaker and weaker. When she closes her eyes, it's the time of death.

Sure enough, within a few breaths after Emily closed her eyes, her heartbeat stopped.

Tom slowly put Emily down and burst into tears.

***

The other side. Rong Zheng and Bai Leshui successfully followed Dora to meet Pearson.

Pearson was squatting on the ground, slicing open a former researcher's arm with a knife.

The researcher's head was smashed and the ground was covered in red and white. He had obviously been dead for a long time.

"Pearson Green is back." Dora said, putting the things in her hands on the table next to her. "This is the most recent experimental data. It is also the last."

Pearson turned around and said, "Oh, so slow a." He put down the knife and glanced at Rong Zheng.

"Who is this person?"

Dora: "The man Green hooked."

Bai Leshui forced himself not to look at the bloody corpse on the ground that needed mosaic: "Yes, it was hooked." Pei.

"Hey, Karl must be so sad."

Bai Leshui glared: "Why do you mention him? Do I have that kind of relationship with him ma?"

Pearson: "No. He is the only one who was arrested for being gay. If you like men, shouldn't you go to him ma? And is this man trustworthy ma?"

Bai Leshui chuckled: "He is completely mine. Do you think it is credible ma?"

Pearson smiled ambiguously and glanced around Rong Zheng. Rong Zheng let him look at him.

"Now is not the time to discuss this matter." Dora interrupted the two of them by slamming the table, "Pearson, I heard that two people escaped. What happened?"

Pearson sat crookedly on the table, "Just run away ba. Anyway, they won't be able to hold on for long in that kind of environment. They are different from us who are already immune to these germs."

Bai Leshui was very dissatisfied: "Just let it go? I prefer to kill until the last one. Who are the ones left out?"

"Da Yang, Chu Wenhai." Pearson replied.

Rong Zheng was surprised: "You know their names?"

Pearson replied: "Know. Is that a secret ma?"

Rong Zheng: "It doesn't count, but our names have only been introduced to Emily few people."

It's okay if Emily and others know about it, other NPCs have no way to be clear. Unless one of Emily's people introduced them to these people.

And without ever having met in person, Pearson was able to identify each of them by name and appearance. So it must have been described in detail.

"You are very smart." Pearson said, "You will meet anyway, so it's okay to get to know each other." Then he shouted to the door next door: "Come out ba."

Clear footsteps came, and someone who had been hiding in the room finally came out, revealing his Lushan true face.

It was a very familiar face.

Not long ago, Rong Zheng just separated from them. At that time, this person still looked worried about Emily, saying that he wanted to find the vaccine as soon as possible.

"Hasen." Rong Zheng called out the man's name.

Hasen smiled at Rong Zheng. The presence of this outsider NPC with a mustache has always been very low. Only when Emily speaks, he will come up and echo a few words, he always follow behind Emily. Everyone tacitly believed that he liked Emily.

Even Emily thinks so. She even considered whether to accept him.

"Was it all false ma?" Rong Zheng sighed, "Who are you?"

Hasen: "My name is Hasen, it's my real name, my last name is Black."

Bai Leshui: "Oh, I haven't seen you before. Are you the one who came to the town recently ma?"

"Haven't seen me before?" Hasen said with a smile, "Green, this is indeed the first time we get acquainted with, but don't mention we haven't met before. Didn't we meet in church ma?"

Bai Leshui pretended to be innocent: "Have we meet ma? It's not like I've been to church."

Hasen looked at Pearson, who said indifferently: "Eight out of ten sentences he said are false, meaningless lies. But he is very capable and is one of our leaders."

"Am I called a leader like this ma? I didn't even know that Hasen existed." Bai Leshui said.

The scene fell silent for a while, Pearson said: "Don't make things difficult, Green. I only just found out about this too. Ann informed me."

Rong Zheng's probing eyes swept over the people at the scene, observing them with great interest, especially Hasen.

Hasen scratched his head: "I didn't mean to hide it. It's just that I want to come here to help my big sister, and it was only confirmed recently. After all, I couldn't find my sister before ma."

Rong Zheng showed a surprised expression: "Your is sister Ann?"

Hazen: "Yes, but she disappeared more than ten years ago. I have been looking for her. It wasn't until I learned about this place through the newspaper three months ago that I came here to look for her."

Then luckily, he met his sister in the town.

That face shape, those eyes, he was deeply impressed by the appearance of his biological sister, he would never forget it. So he recognized her immediately.

Bai Leshui showed a suspicious gaze.

Hasen: "Believe it or not, it's up to you. Just know that my purpose is consistent with yours."

Rong Zheng: "I don't doubt your relationship with Ann. I just don't understand why. People here are doing things that are against humanity. Are you supporting them?"

Hasen raised his eyebrows: "You are also an outsider with no victimization experience? Aren't you the same ma?"

Rong Zheng immediately hugged Bai Leshui: "It's different, I'm here for my lover. Here, he is the only thing that matters to me."

Bai Leshui: Resist the desire to blow this guy's head off.

"Me too, I only have my sister." Hasen said.

Rong Zheng looked at his clothes: "You don't look like a person without a father and mother."

Hasen: "It's stepfather and stepmother. They sold my sister in front of me. Can they be nicer to me ma? Unless they want to sell me. It's a pity that I didn't give them that chance."

"I see." Rong Zheng said, "Although I came here in a daze, I don't know anything about what's going on here. And don't know what to do next? It seems like something earth-shattering is going to happen ba? Can you tell me more about it ma? I'm very interested."

Bai Leshui squinted at Rong Zheng's nonchalant nonsense.

Don't know anything?

Players and ghosts who came here add up probably don't know as much as you do ba.

Pearson raised his eyebrows: "Oh, you want to know? What a coincidence that Hasen also wants to know about his sister's affair."

Hasen: "Because she didn't say a word about her past, I only know that she had a bad life here. I want to know more, so I can only ask you."

Rong Zheng found a place to sit down and listen quietly.

Dora was not that interested. She put down her things and said with a cold face: "I don't want to hear that kind of rubbish. If you are interested, just talk with yourself. I'm leaving. Look for me when we set off."

After saying that, she really left here quickly.

Pearson looked at Bai Leshui.

Bai Leshui slumped in his wheelchair: "I'm not interested in listening, but I'm too lazy to walk. You tell ba. Treat me as if I'm not here."

Pearson: "You came here earlier than me, obviously letting you speak would be a bit more clear."

Bai Leshui tilted his head, as if he didn't want to pay attention.

In fact, he didn't know at all.

Pearson smiled and began to speak briefly. Moreover, he started from the beginning. It was obviously very dark content, but he said it in a wonderful and high-spirited way. The only person who would cut his old wounds open again and happily show them to others was Pearson.

Pearson is sixteen years old this year, when he came here three years ago, he was only thirteen years old.

But before he was thirteen, he was passed through several foster homes.

Pearson was an orphan and lived in an orphanage since he was very young.

In fact, if he can always live in an orphanage, even if his daily life is a little simpler and harder, he will still have food to eat, he will not be abused, he will not grow up as a test subject, even if he may develop a cowardly character, even if he didn't experience much happiness. At least he don't know what pain and despair are.

The orphanage where Pearson once was as a child was pretty good.

The smiling and kind old dean, the nun who cooks and washes clothes for everyone, and a dozen happy and lively friends.

But at age seven, Pearson was adopted.

The family that adopted him had no children, so they had no choice but to adopt. But unexpectedly, the mistress of the host became pregnant, and things at home became a mess. The host thought about how to divorce the hostess, and the hostess thought about how to kill the mistress.

Finally one day, the host was found dead in the bed.

Of course it was the hostess who took action.

One of the parents who adopted him died, the other was executed, and the remaining mistress was clamoring for more property for the child in her belly. The unwanted Pearson was about to return to the orphanage, but the hostess's brother took him away and claimed to raise him.

But that was a lie. The hostess's brother had accomplished nothing and made money every day by cheating. He just found that it was easier to make money by cheating with a child. Then just took Pearson away.

A few years later, Pearson's uncle was discovered to have committed fraud and was imprisoned. Pearson was young and had been coerced, so the judge spared him. It's just that there is only one Pearson left in the world.

Then, a kind-hearted man who seemed to be rich learned about Pearson and took him away.

It was really a relaxing and happy day.

However, these day did not last long. The man only took care of Pearson for a year and a half before bringing him here.

"From the very beginning, that guy raised me just to get a new test subject." Pearson said in a relaxed tone. "The experiment failure rate is high if the age is too small, so I had to be raised for one year."

Pearson still remembers the man's name.

His last name is White.

That's right, he was the original owner of the house where Bai Leshui live.

For money, that guy has cooperated with this place and started a business of looking for children.

Only after arriving here did Pearson know what hell was.

There is no safe place here. Everyone is given a code. People here never call them by their names, but by their code.

The experiment with which number was injected with what medicine today and what kind of reaction it had.

Once they are dead, they will be thrown into a meat grinder in front of all the dishonest experiments, then feed them to the modified experiments in the underground prison, and throw the rest into the river.

This is a good warning device.

No one thought of escaping.

Except Ann, there is also Green.

They are naturally rebellious.

They are mentally ill.

As long as you go crazy, there is nothing to fear about death.

Warning, will only make them more excited.

Because of their existence, the originally fearful people here gradually became mentally abnormal.

Originally, one-third of the experimental subjects here were real mental patients.

People who have been abandoned by this society and their families. Under such pressure, they decided to abandon the world.

The author has something to say:

Pearson: Yes, I am sick because I have been hanging out with them for a long time!

  1. 钓上来 (diàoshànglái) mean to catch a fish with a hook and bait
  2. 庐山真面目 (lú shān zhēn miàn mù) = the truth of sth
    It is a metaphor for the truth of things or the true colors of people