Survivorship Bias

Chapter 49: Invasion of darkness

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The first time Yang Erci escaped from the conveyor belt was not to move forward, not to rescue Zhong Yirou who was about to be sent to the embryo transfer cabin ahead, but to run backward desperately.

Because even if she could pull Zhong Yirou off the conveyor belt in time, it would be too late to remove the chip on the back of her neck, let alone take her away who was unconscious and tracked by the chip. They would definitely be killed by the chip-locked robot.

The only way is to stop the operation of the factory.

But she can only gamble.

Yang Erci was not sure that the power distribution room could really be entered, and he could really interrupt the operation of the entire factory.

Fortunately, the goddess of luck really favored her.

Ventured to the invisible door of the power distribution room, she touched it with her hand, and a line of prompts appeared on the door.

[Welcome to B05, there are 12 remaining DNA tuning tasks left on this floor, please complete them as soon as possible.

Do you want to enter? Y/N]

Tuning

Before he had time to think too much, Yang Erci clicked to enter. The door opened, and inside were indeed the power distribution facilities and power system of the surrogacy factory.

In reality, Yang Erci is a researcher in a biotechnology company, and her research department also has a similar biological research power system.

According to his own method in reality, Yang Erci tried it on the main machine, and pulled down all the physical gates.

please.

Two seconds later, the room she was in was plunged into darkness.

The plan was a near-miss success.

Yang Erci immediately opened the door of the power distribution room and came out, but the scene in front of her made her heart hang up again.

In the dark factory, there were countless criss-crossing red laser lines. The door was opened at some point, revealing the cold white light of the corridor. Besides, she could only vaguely see the furnishings in the factory.

The blood on the back of her neck hadn't completely stopped, and it flowed down her neck, soaking her white coat, causing her to grit her teeth in pain. Yang Erci stretched out his hand, put his fingers behind his head, untied the headband that bound his hair, tied it tightly at the nape of his neck, and then took one of the loose long hair.

She covered her wound with one hand, twisted her hair with the other hand, raised her hand, let go of her fingers, and let her hair fall.

Falling onto the laser, it breaks straight away and becomes two halves.

Sharper than expected.

Things got tricky. In front of Yang Erci were two laser beams that intersected from left and right directions, and the intersection point was right on her chest. She could only think of a way to turn sideways, get out from the gap between the interlaced lasers, and walk forward a little bit.

Suddenly the siren sounded in the factory.

[The power supply system is running abnormally, the power supply system is running abnormally, and the protection mode is turned on. ]

One of her feet was raised with difficulty, ready to step into the center of the three interlaced lasers. If she was not careful, this foot might be cut off directly from the ankle.

Step down carefully and finally succeed.

The moment she stepped on it, she heard a voice.

"Yang Erci."

It's An Wugui.

But Yang Erci wondered at this moment whether An Wujiu who was talking to him in the dark was the real him, after all, it was not the first time they had suffered this kind of loss.

She didn't answer immediately, but chose to remain silent, but the other party seemed to have guessed her thoughts in advance, and spoke again.

"You must be very worried about whether I am real or not right now?"

"Be clear, you are afraid of being cheated by counterfeit goods."

An Wujiu didn't seem to intend to beat around the bush as before, instead of talking human words, but straight to the point, "I'll tell you directly, you judge. In the round of the warm-up match when you were a caged bird, I was standing behind you. There is nothing wrong with my judgment, but I expected your judgment, so I switched places with Zhong Yirou."

"Understood? Same as now, I know what you're thinking."

Josh behind him also spoke: "Miss Yang, he is not fake, Wu You and I are also here."

Wu You didn't respond, he looked at Nan Shan's pale and purple lips, feeling a little worried in his heart.

The silence in the darkness lasted a few seconds.

"This laser is sharper than a knife, and it will be cut quickly when it touches it."

Hearing Yang Erci's voice, An Wujiu felt a sense of joy and relief in his heart. This strange emotion made his mind go blank for a moment, until Yang Erci said, "Do you have a weapon?"

"You know?" An Wujiu asked.

"I heard the sound of bullets."

With the gun behind his back, An Wujiu planned to go in like this first, "I'll move to the cabin first and find Zhong Yirou out."

He deliberately used the word "find" instead of saving, and Yang Erci's heart was stirred up.

"I'll go in too, you might not find it in the dark." Yang Erci also took a step forward to avoid the laser line.

Wu You moved Nanshan to a position against the wall, let him sit down against the wall, and then eagerly wanted to help, "Brother Wujiu, I'll go in too."

It's strange, if at this moment he is still An Wujiu who watched from the sidelines in the last round of games, he won't put himself in a predicament now.

He should have let others save Zhong Yirou, and even lured them to be torn apart by the laser knife. After the achievement was achieved, he would grab those key fragments and enter a higher level alone.

"Be honest." An Wujiu refused him.

"I'm not taking you on a spring outing to see wild flowers."

The laser line is thin and thin, and you can almost see the dust dyed red by the light, floating lightly.

But An Wujiu and Yang Erci who were trapped in the line were extremely difficult. They took every step carefully, and if there was a slight mistake, the laser would pass through it, and they would probably lose their lives directly.

Yang Erci was moving forward along the conveyor belt. What made her feel strange was that all the women waiting to be entered on the conveyor belt had disappeared. She raised her head and looked around the wall. Under the weak light source of the red laser , she could barely see a little trace of a beehive that was about to give birth, but she couldn't see if there were still people inside.

Just when she was about to find the fulcrum to move to the next step, something terrible happened.

The laser also started to move.

"careful!"

An Wujiu heard Josh's voice, and a laser beam in front of his eyes was moving towards his chest, so he had to take a quick look behind him, the laser behind him didn't move, but the laser on his right hand also moved upwards. He reacted swiftly, leaning back with his upper body, retracting his right hand, avoiding the moving light.

At the same time, he also discovered that these lasers do not move all the time, and they will stop immediately when people dodge them.

Yang Erci didn't have time to dodge a laser from the rear, it moved from back to front, and when Yang Erci reacted and turned her head, the laser drew a bloody gash on her chin.

"Hey, Zhong Yirou's embryo transfer cabin is the same as the gate, there is no laser surround."

Yang Erci heard it, and felt relieved, even though she herself was still in danger, her eyes had been fixed on the cabin where Zhong Yirou was. Because of this, she accidentally discovered that the transparent cabin had avoided a moving laser beam. A huge rectangular white shadow will appear behind the body, and the shadows overlap each time, each time becoming clearer.

"An Wujiu, look at the back of the transplant cabin."

An Wujiu raised his eyes, tilted his head cautiously, and allowed himself to enter the narrow safe zone, "I have seen it for a long time, that is probably the gate of heaven on this floor."

Behind him, he heard Wu You's voice, "Brother Wujiu, Josh's physical strength seems to have deteriorated, and he almost fainted just now."

"It's normal. You won't be able to hold on after entering the next level. The winner of this match is doomed from the very beginning." An Wujiu said the cruel reality indifferently. He stepped over a laser line but failed to hold on, and the laser cut through the fabric of his pant leg without hurting his leg.

"This is a personal battle. People on the upper floors have higher physical strength, and people on the lower floors cannot successfully complete tasks at the upper floors. If there is no one to take care of them, the chance of dying directly is unimaginably high."

Wu You knew it, but he was still dissatisfied, "It's not fair."

In the dark, he heard An Wujiu's sneer, "Fair?"

"So I said, why bother with so many levels, why not put all the people who enter the altar to fight in a colosseum, and see who can survive to the end in this level of chaos, wouldn't it be more exciting? ?”

"Chaos is the greatest fairness."

An Wujiu said the creed that he has always believed in, at least what he believes in at this moment, no matter what kind of order is perfect, there are even huge flaws hidden under the shell that is close to perfection, and it cannot be justified. to operate.

It is better not to have rules, not to have order.

"If you put it that way, I want to be the one who survives to the end."

Suddenly, An Wujiu heard another voice, not from Wu You.

It was Shen Ti.

An Wujiu dodged a moving laser, made sure it was still, and then turned his head. The next second, a shining object was thrown towards him. An Wujiu reached out his hand subconsciously and caught it firmly.

is a mirror.

"I found this from the monster's chest outside."

After finishing speaking, Shen Ti picked up the previous topic again, "We can't be the last person, but we can also be the penultimate one."

The moment he stepped into the dark factory, the gate of the factory slammed shut.

The external light source also disappears.

An Wujiu held the mirror in his hand, "Why?"

"Because..." Shen Ti also stepped into the laser array. In this dark factory, his voice had a strange ethereal feel, as if it was not a human voice, full of a supernatural hallucination.

"If only you and me are left in that Colosseum, I will let you live to the end."

An Wuzuo fell into silence for a short time because of his answer.

His heart ached again without warning, as if it had been pierced and divided by thousands of such lasers, and it was beyond his control.

After so many times, An Wujiu also realized that the symptoms of his heart pain did not appear irregularly and randomly.

Every time it was related to Shen Ti, but he didn't know the reason. He would love to solve the mystery, but seems powerless to do anything but be drawn in.

The pain made An Wujiu's gauze-covered hands tremble slightly, and the mirror in his hand also moved.

At the moment when he was submerged in pain, An Wujiu suddenly discovered a problem. The red light was shining straight and obliquely from left to right, and the end of the light was still at his feet.

But now, the edge of the mirror passes through the path of the light, and the light that should have been cut is reflected by the mirror and goes straight in the other direction.

"This is the laser reflector..." After realizing this, An Wujiu directly called out Yang Erci's name. She was located closer to the transplant cabin, and the laser beams were denser.

"Pick it up. If you can't catch it, let's wait for death together."

The moment he threw it out, An Wujiu scolded himself in his heart as an idiot for throwing out the survival tool so generously.

If he really died in this round, he deserved it.

But Yang Erci caught it, and she was very smart. She made good use of the laser reflector to reflect all the dangerously approaching lasers, leaving room for her own movement.

The probability of success suddenly increased, and the speed of rescue was accelerated.

There are only the last few meters away from Zhong Yirou.

An Wujiu was still advancing with difficulty.

Shen Ti had already come behind him in a blink of an eye, his speed was so fast that An Wujiu even wondered if he was a rubber man, who could change shape at will and pass through these laser arrays.

"What you just said is really touching. But..."

Shen Ti suddenly heard An Wujiu's voice with a frivolous tone.

"I heard from Josh that you even lied to that NPC who looked exactly like me, and you played the emotional card. You killed him after coaxing you with sweet words. It's terrible, even I think it's terrible."

An Wujiu chuckled, "Actually, we are the same kind, don't you think?"

Weird, divisive, extreme, unpredictable, and an existence outside of normal people.

"Stop lying to the same kind, you won't be fooled, what a waste."

As An Wujiu said, he had an urge to see what kind of expression Shen Ti would use in response to his words at this moment, but suddenly, the red laser light around them disappeared at the same time.

I can't see anything, and the field of vision is really dark.

Shen Ti didn't speak any more, his silence made An Wujiu's heart skip a beat several times, but he quickly regained his composure.

Yang Erci's voice reassured them, "It's me, I just opened the transplant cabin, so all the lasers disappeared."

"Where is Zhong Yirou? How is she?" The laser light disappeared, and An Wujiu also walked forward.

"Still unconscious."

Zhong Yirou lay flat on the operating table quietly, the needle shimmering in the dark night, reminding Yang Erci of the doomed spindle in fairy tales, and the sleeping, cursed princess.

She removed the mechanical arm, closed Zhong Yirou's white coat, held her arm, transferred her to her back, and dragged Zhong Yirou to open the hatch.

As An Wujiu said, the white rectangle turned into a gate.

"The door has already appeared." Yang Erci tried, "It can't be opened."

Shen Ti also followed. He walked to the door emitting white light, reached out to hold the door handle, and suddenly there was a loud howling in the darkness.

The whistling sound was somewhat familiar, very similar to the monster that the baby turned into before.

Seeing that the laser line disappeared, Wu You shook Josh who was on the verge of drowsiness. Seeing that Josh woke up and could barely stand up, Wu You took Nanshan's arms again and led them forward.

But at a distance of only two or three meters forward, a huge object suddenly flew in front of Wu You's eyes. The howling sound almost penetrated his eardrums. The opponent came straight and knocked him down.

Josh was unsteady and knelt on the ground. Nanshan also fell down without support, and fell on Wu You's body.

Hearing that there was a lot of movement at Wu You's end, and the howling sound was also coming from that side, An Wujiu turned around, "Little rascal."

Being pinned down by the comatose Nanshan, Wu You tried to push away, but couldn't use his strength for a while, so he could only give up on himself and was pressed down. He responded to An Wujiu with difficulty, "I was knocked down by a monster, the sound it made It’s the cry just now, it’s loud, be careful.”

An Wujiu stared at the darkness very seriously, his sight became clearer and clearer from the chaotic darkness, and he could catch a trace of movement.

The monster is like a huge black shadow, its color is darker than the dark environment, and there is a little gleam, like a cloud of fog, without a concrete form, and even the roar seems to be an unknown language.

After watching for a long time, An Wujiu's strong willpower actually wavered a bit.

He looked at Yang Erci, who was staring at the black mist just like him, but her body was completely upright, so that Zhong Yirou behind her fell to the ground without realizing it.

In the darkness, the pupils Yang Erci stared at seemed to be glowing.

Not only him, but also Wu You on the opposite side. He was lying on the ground, his dimly shining eyes kept following the huge black mist, and he lost his self-awareness.

"No, don't look at it!" An Wujiu turned to look at Shen Ti.

In the darkness, those blue-green eyes only looked at himself.

"You don't want to watch..." An Wujiu said slowly.

Heart beats fast.

"Okay." Shen Ti responded to his words, lowered his head and opened the game panel, exchanged for a heavy machine gun, and loaded it neatly.

Well promised, but instead he took the gun, aimed it at the black mist of crashes and missiles that was flying around the factory, and fired hard.

The flames, like twinkling stars, ignited the darkness briefly but intensely.

An Wujiu looked at Shen Ti's profile.

Totally out of control guy.

After cursing in his heart, he also took off the gun on his back, and resisted the unknown black mist that he couldn't see directly.

When aiming at the black mist, An Wujiu could clearly feel the huge impact in his body, every cell was crazily colliding with each other, uncontrollable, his hands and shoulders were shaking.

But in the body, a brand-new powerful force gushed out, which seemed to be suppressing these unstoppable madness.

There was a loud bang. An Wujiu hit the very center of the black mist with one shot, and with Shen Ti's burst of fire, the creature like the black mist let out a wailing roar and fell to the ground.

The black mist dissipated.

Is this the end

An Wujiu put down the gun in his hand, the experience of almost being deprived of willpower made him feel like regaining his mind after drowning.

But he turned his face to look at Shen Ti, and the gate of heaven behind him coated his outline with a layer of faint silver light. He didn't change at all, neither under his own control nor under the threat of this unknown black mist.

"What happened just now..." Wu You woke up and reached out to push Nanshan who was pressing on her body.

An Wujiu was about to speak, but in the next second, the whistling sound appeared again, and he found a strange and unknown black mist gathered above the factory again.

"Don't look at it!"

This time it was obviously a repeat, but An Wugui still missed the best opportunity to tell. The black mist rushed directly to Wu You, attacked with a hysterical roar, and left again. Wu You's eyes shimmered, and he followed the direction of the black mist dully.

They are controlled again.

The black mist is like a huge elastic ball, scurrying around in this factory, touching a wall, and then bouncing back to the ground or the ceiling, messy and without any rules.

Shen Ti and An Wujiu hit, shot, and eliminated it again and again.

But in the next second, the dispersed black mist will gather again and attack their partners again.

Going round and round in the dark, endlessly in mourning.

They get caught in a loop.

For the 32nd time, An Wujiu told them not to watch as soon as the black mist gathered again, but it was useless, once covered by the black mist, they would definitely be controlled mind.

Josh woke up just a moment later, when he was enveloped in black mist, and a huge howling sound enveloped him, but at a certain moment, he realized something, so he told An Wujiu a second before he lost consciousness.

"This black fog! The language it roars is of the same origin as the monsters outside! I, I study linguistics! No blame, I..."

Before he could finish speaking, the black mist left, and Josh's eyes shimmered like moonstones.

37th cycle.

"No." An Wujiu let go of his tired hands, and the gun fell to the ground with a sound.

He looked at his only companion and laughed. The white shimmer fell on his face, and Shen Ti could clearly see his beautiful and slightly crazy smile.

"I don't want to kill," he said.

"It doesn't deserve to die, does it?"