109: Chapter 103 Elevator 109: Chapter 103 Elevator Everything was ready,

Just as Luo Di took down the flashlight plugged on the wall,

His gaze caught a glimpse of a piece of paper that seemed to have fallen into the gap between the table and the wall, distinctly different from the yellowed, aged papers on the table.

Luo Di still cared about these details and immediately picked it up.

It turned out to be an experimental report on the elderly.

“Subject ID X-0192”

Age 67, female, suffering from moderate Alzheimer’s disease (attached with current admission and post-injection treatment comparison photos).

Injection dosage: 30ml

Number of injections: 2

After the second injection, the growth hormone concentration in the subject’s blood noticeably increased, and physiological aging showed exponential growth within a week (approximately 3 years of normal aging).

The subject’s Alzheimer’s disease was alleviated in this process, recovering memory, partial cognition, and basic living skills.

Family visits had been approved, with a detailed explanation given to the family about the necessity of aging, and the facility’s bereavement services were duly recommended.

…

A simple report revealed the true nature of the nursing home,

It appeared to be a place dedicated to serving those elderly who could no longer take care of themselves, alleviating family burdens, but in reality, it took the opportunity to test drugs and accelerate the death of the elderly.

According to the aging rate provided by the experimental report, it was estimated that each resident would “naturally” die of old age in less than two months.

However, such drugs that caused aging could indeed bring recovery to the elderly, even those in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease could regain consciousness and self-care ability, and managed to communicate normally with visiting family members.

Just this point alone could make most families accept it, even the elderly themselves would agree.

Such a nursing home was very likely to be fabricated by a Pseudo-Person, after all, Luo Di had not found any information related to this nursing home in the data network.

Of course, the possibility that the Investigation Bureau deliberately concealed it could not be ruled out.

These were not what Luo Di needed to consider, his focus was only on the existence behind the nursing home, and how to hunt it down.

Anna also approached to examine the report and offered her opinion:

“Could it be that an elderly person, forced to undergo the ‘aging experiment,’ formed a Thought Corner in the process of sensing the approach of death?”

Luo Di also tended toward this inference,

“It’s indeed possible, and the drugs tested on them could also potentially induce a ‘pituitary’ mutation, after all, the secretion of growth hormone is directly related to the pituitary.

But these are not important, let’s quickly find the person behind the scenes.”

Departing from the consultation room, the two quickly arrived at the end of the first-floor corridor where the stairway marked [Safety Exit] was located.

Just as they were about to enter the stairwell.

Ding!

Suddenly, the elevator’s alert tone echoed through the silent hall,

Turning their heads to look,

The elevator in the middle of the hall had somehow turned on, the electronic screen’s red pouring onto the floor, strikingly conspicuous in the dark hall, seemingly urging them to hurry over.

But who would take such a strange elevator?

In Luo Di’s view, only the most brain-dead characters in a low-grade horror film would consider it.

[Five minutes later]

Luo Di stood in front of the only powered elevator.

The reason was simple,

There was no so-called [stairwell] in the nursing home at all, the supposed safety exit opened to a solid concrete wall when the door was pushed.

Not only that,

When Luo Di tried to climb the exterior walls of the building, he found that all possible exits to the outside, such as the front door and windows of the nursing home, had vanished or were completely blocked by similar reinforced concrete.

Anna also tried knocking on the walls, even after breaking more than a meter deep, it was still stone inside.

The Pseudo-Person behind the nursing home had total control over this space, and might even be fused with the nursing home, capable of altering the building’s structure under certain conditions.

Now there were only two choices.

1.

Take the elevator.

2.

Stay on the first floor and wait to age.

This form of compulsion and constraint was in keeping with the style of this nursing home.

“Anna, try destroying this elevator.”

“Alright.”

Anna didn’t hesitate to pick up the ax and smash into it.

The sound was loud, the power greater than when previously chopping at the elderly, but the elevator car was only slightly dented, and physical damage seemed almost impossible.

However, this strike yielded some feedback.

A bit of broadcast sound intermixed with electromagnetic interference came out,

“Dear residents, please take the elevator to your designated hospital floor.”

Luo Di still did not step into the car, but with a hook made from an iron wire, he touched the interior floor buttons without entering the elevator, attempting to send the elevator to another floor.

But no matter how he touched the internal buttons it was ineffective; the elevator would not ascend, and even the elevator doors remained open

The same alert tone kept repeating:

“Dear residents, please take the elevator to your designated hospital floor.”

With all conceivable solutions ineffective, and more white hair and crow’s feet appearing, the two had no choice but to compromise, choosing to become the most intelligence-lowering characters in a horror movie.

“Let’s go in together.”

Together, they stepped into the car; for now, it was normal.

The interior of the elevator car used an exceptionally smooth metal material, with a reflectivity that was comparable to a mirror; each side could reflect the virtual image of the passengers.

The elevator panel had only one ‘button’.

This button also lacked any numbers or symbols, leading to a floor that had already been set by the other side.

The elevator doors remained open, seemingly waiting for the passenger to actively press the button.

“Luo Di…

Is this the only way?”

“Since we actively intruded into a Corner-like Space created by someone else, we were already being placed in a passive position.

Hesitation and doubt will equally invite the arrival of death, we might as well take a chance.”

“Okay.”

Anna looked at her reflection on the walls of the car, looking at the crow’s feet and age spots on her face, as if she could already smell the faint scent of death.

Luo Di, on the other hand, had already extended his finger to touch the blank button.

Clang clang clang!

The metallic cables at the top of the elevator car seemed to have started moving.

Finally, the elevator doors began to close gradually.

All of a sudden,

Anna felt a burning sensation in her chest and looked down to see the peace charm spontaneously igniting.

But it did not burn her body or her investigator’s uniform; instead, it turned into a golden light that covered her entire body.

Buzz!

An inexplicable force pushed Anna, and just before the elevator doors closed, it thrust her out.

“What!”

Anna had no desire to be separated from Luo Di,

and the instant the peace charm stopped working, she immediately ran towards the elevator car, but it was already too late.

The elevator doors closed completely in front of her,

but just before they closed, through the gap, Anna saw something eerie: a shadowy figure seemed to appear on the metal walls of the car.

It was this shadowy figure that ignited the peace charm, sending her out.

Anna still didn’t intend to give up and picked up an ax to start hammering away at the elevator doors…perhaps out of emotional agitation, or perhaps due to concern for her friend’s safety.

Anna’s muscles unexpectedly became even more muscular than before, her whole body felt larger, with bulging veins clearly visible on the surface of her muscles.

Clang clang clang!

With relentless hammering,

the unbearably hard elevator doors were indeed smashed to pieces.

Just as Anna was about to crawl into the elevator shaft, she froze!

In front of her was not an elevator shaft but solid reinforced concrete; the space had changed again.

At the same time,

a strong sense of danger assailed her, coming from around the lobby.

Anna promptly caught her breath and looked around.

The lobby area, which had already been checked, now had several pairs of eyes watching her, glowing unnaturally red.

As the flashlight beam swept towards these red dots, elderly figures stuffed with red tubes in their pupils were illuminated, approaching from different directions, more than eight in total.

Some were crawling on the ceiling,

others moved forward, twisting like zombies,

and there was an old man who, having lost his legs, had a mass of red blood vessels growing from the wounds, creeping on the ground like an octopus,

There were too many of them,

Anna was confident she could kill them all, but if these elders caught her during the slaughter, if those red things stabbed into her body, her body would likely age rapidly in a short time.

But Anna was not afraid and quickly thought out her strategy.

She soon came up with the best plan: focus on a single point of breakthrough, then take cover in the previous clinic, using the door frame to limit and deal with these mutants one by one.

She must not be surrounded by these elders.

The moment she came up with the plan, Anna had already dashed out, sprinting towards the closest old man.

As she began to sprint, the elders also started to move faster.

Heavy strike!

With the huge muscular strength combined with the Corner-transformed weapon, the old man’s limbs scattered before he could react, with no sound of tearing, only the loud bang echoing through the lobby.

When Anna pulled her ax back, another two people pounced at her from both sides.

[Tornado Slash]

With one foot as the pivot, twisting her waist with the help of the investigator’s uniform,

the 360° arc of the slash cut the approaching elders in half at the waist.

Unfortunately,

slicing at the waist was not very effective and could not kill these type of elders; their upper halves continued to crawl on the ground, not slowing down at all.

While Anna’s attention was drawn to the two upper halves that were not killed.

An old woman with a missing chin somehow had already crawled onto the ceiling above Anna, lunging at her from a position that was almost a dead angle.

Her mouth’s red lines and teeth had already locked onto the back area of Anna’s head.

Even now that she had detected the danger, it was too late to dodge.

Anna’s nape had already felt a sensation like a straw, about to pierce her skull and probe into it.

Buzz!

All she heard was something whizzing by her ear,

and the chinless old woman fell heavily next to Anna, her head apparently pierced by something.

Not only that,

but the old woman who had fallen to the ground was now burning from the head wound, the flames brightening the dark lobby.

A Five Emperor Coin stained with brain tissue was lodged not far away in the ground, it was this Supreme Yang Item that had pierced the brain and triggered the fire.

Black cloth shoes gently landed behind Anna, the figure like a ghost, the young man had just arrived in time.

“Miss Anna, I apologize~ I was trapped in the nursing home’s trap for a long time and only just managed to break free; let’s join forces to fight the enemy.”

In less than ten minutes,

all the elders in the lobby were dead; there was no need for the investigator’s matches, as any elders killed by the Copper Coins would spontaneously combust.

Anna was utterly stunned by the other party’s abilities, even stronger than the Official Investigators who had once trained her, but there was no time for praise or rest, she turned again towards the elevator.

“We must hurry to find Luo Di!”

Just as Anna thought Yu Ze would quickly lead her to the missing Luo Di as before, he stood still and did not move.

“During the time I was trapped, I took a moment to perform divination!

Since I was on-site, it turned out to be quite accurate.

I calculated why the local chose ‘Stay Event,’ this place is extremely important to him personally, and our interference would disrupt it all.

Let’s wait patiently here; he will sort everything out.”

Anna, however, was extremely worried, “The presence behind the nursing home is very special, encompassing both an aging curse and spatial control.”

“So what?

No matter how special it is, it’s just a Pseudo-Person who doesn’t dare to face a Corner, not a real Monster.

At first, I thought the local was merely an initial-level Connector who would use some basic forces.

Now it seems that I have underestimated him.

Whether it’s the ‘World Quality’ he’s connected to, or his innate talent and inherited abilities, they should all be above B.

Moreover, according to the traps he left in the front courtyard, it seems he was able to connect to that world before fully forming and has gained extra benefits.

Such a guy walking down the street, even the Pseudo-Persons would avoid him, fearing to be caught in his gaze.”

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