Chapter 17: Four Days Ago (Part One)

Four, the first of the dungeon opening.

Lu Ming hadn't even opened his eyes when he heard a slightly hoarse male voice:

"Believe, it's definitely fine."

The voice was far from Lu Ming, and a female voice answered: "Best like that, then will make them pay, will let the town's families know this matter!"

"Rest assured, swearing by the Island God, absolutely the most perfect experimental subject."

Lu Ming slowly opened his eyes, feeling a cold sensation all over, discovering he was soaked in a container, a man and woman talking outside the glass.

Seeing Lu Ming open his eyes, the girl's eyes instantly reddened, her hands pressed against the glass, as if eager to touch Lu Ming.

"Brother Chang'an... awake?" the girl's voice choked: "Where still feels uncomfortable?"

Lu Ming lowered his gaze, discovering his body densely covered with inserted tubes, the system's voice followed immediately:

【Welcome players to enter the dungeon!】

【Dungeon: Devil Named God】

【All players' task: unravel the mystery of the island monster】

【Each player plays the same role, will have the same temporary mission side quest.】

"Not yet conscious, can't respond."

The girl looked over, her expression grim: "Then hurry up!"

Next, Lu Ming vaguely saw the man activate a machine, the originally cold liquid gradually boiling, bubbles increasing, a sense of weakness surging instantly.

Lu Ming lost consciousness again.

"This summer vacation, returning to the island from elsewhere."

"The island seems the same."

"Although born and raised there, at the moment of boarding the ship, the blowing sea wind made me feel unfamiliar."

"About the monster that doesn't appear at night, the story heard, and believed it would be some supernatural existence."

"Perhaps some undiscovered creature, next summer vacation returning, the main purpose to investigate this creature, believing using it as a thesis topic would definitely be wrong."

"Liang Shu also investigated the monster, they hit it off immediately."

"What monster? Simply not!"

"What disease did they get? Rabies?"

"After Liang Shu got separated, he was knocked down, clearly feeling the monster's tearing at his chest, the chest cavity ripped open."

"Hearing Xin's voice, I really wanted to shout 'run', but couldn't make a sound."

Opening his eyes again, Lu Ming found himself in a room, his clothes changed to a white shirt, a backpack placed beside him.

"Brother Chang'an..." the girl, crouching before Lu Ming, her fingers sliding across his face.

"Advise, although the experiment was very successful, there is still risk of losing control."

"Ling Chang'an, those monsters!" the girl's eyes only faced the one called Ling Chang'an.

Lu Ming glanced around, the room completely sealed, as if used to imprison something.

【Trigger temporary mission: escape the laboratory】

【Time: 5】

【Mission reward: 10 points】

【Failure penalty: deduct 20 points】

"... as you wish, just now only fed one pill, to be safe, better feed again, can let the memory inside." The man walked out of the room.

The girl's eyes moist: "Brother Chang'an, do you still remember?"

The dungeon difficulty increased?

Lu Ming quickly reacted, his situation seemed quite good, and he also guessed the girl would also be a player, looking at her, should be the dungeon's NPC.

Attempted to manipulate the system backpack, still could open.

【Negative buff: (amnesia)】

【Drug effect onset time: 10 minutes】

"Yang... Yang Xin?" Lu Ming said a name from memory.

The girl lunged, her arms wrapped around Lu Ming's neck, emitting a heart-rending cry.

"Alright, alright, I thought... I thought..."

Lu Ming tried to rise, after a long time without walking, his legs felt weak, saying: "Can we walk now?"

Yang Xin leaned in his embrace, sobbing: "Want to go home?"

"Mm."

"Good..." Yang Xin lifted her face, wiping tears to reveal a smile, taking a bottle of medicine: "Take it, sleep a nap, wake up and you'll be home."

【Hint: research medicine (taking it will speed up drug effect onset time)】

Lu Ming's gaze sank.

A crisp collision sound rang out, Yang Xin poured two pills from the medicine bottle, but as she lifted her head, she faced a black object head-on.

"Crack—"

Lu Ming opened the handgun safety.

"Brother Chang'an?" Yang Xin looked stunned: "How..."

"Step back." Lu Ming rose leaning against the wall, barely managing to steady his body.

Yang Xin looked incredulous, clearly just a second ago she said she wanted to go home, the next second she produced a gun out of nowhere.

"Brother Chang'an, how could there be a gun? Yang Xin, do you remember? You also said the experiment had a problem."

Lu Ming paid no attention, and used a bottle of healing medicine; his leg weakness quickly faded, but the detox medicine did not remove the negative buff, only prolonged the duration of the drug's effect.

【Drug effect duration: 3.12 minutes】

"Get up." Lu Ming said coldly.

Yang Xin found it hard to accept, but still did as told.

"Know how to leave the village?"

"Chang'an Ge..."

Lu Ming's gaze hardened: "Answer."

Yang Xin's face, tears sliding down the cheeks, the known Chang'an Ge has returned, but it's okay; without memory, create memory; without emotion, create emotion; only my Chang'an Ge remains; everything is to be reclaimed.

Even if it turns into a monster...

Seeing those failed experimental subjects with my own eyes, they could even be called living beings, just like the walking dead in movies.

Lin Ran, both a doctor and the town's priest, those monsters are all by their hand; they say death is a 'shutdown', the body is like a computer, and with enough technology the dead can be revived.

Very absurd.

Of course, even I who believe in the theory am absurd, but there's no way around it; not wanting to lose Chang'an, when I saw my childhood sweetheart being torn to pieces by the monster, I nearly broke down.

Clearly we hadn't even had a chance to say love, yet I still wanted to eat together, stroll through town, walk on the beach.

,"That's right, it should be like this..." Yang Xin, eyes blurred with tears: "Chang'an Ge, I like you, no matter what you become."

Lu Ming gradually understood the changes in his body; the Original Owner, while investigating, was killed by a monster, so the present me is a corpse after being altered; thinking, if I had not entered the substitute body, the Original Owner would also be like those failed experiments, becoming a thoughtless walking corpse.

Very little can be done, and resurrection is even more nonsense.

"Lead the way, lead out of the village." Lu Ming kept his distance.

Wanting to waste more time, after all the negative buff is just there, time allows wasting.

"Only Doctor Lin knows the way out." The girl didn't lie; the lab's terrain is complex, also built underground, and it can guarantee the path that can be found.

"Then let's go find it!" Lu Ming said