Chapter 967: Another Experiment (Requesting monthly votes at the beginning of the month)

Lu Mian hid behind a mirror-like object on the corridor wall, gazing at Li Keji's ward through a hard barrier.

He had maintained this posture for many hours, only occasionally adjusting to relax.

He waited all night without waiting for Zarathustra or other Celestial Worthy subordinates to come and eliminate Li Keji.

I don't know how long it took. As the sunlight from the other end of the corridor shone in, the psychiatric ward gradually became lively. Someone sang loudly, someone banged on the door, someone knocked on something unknown, as if calling for breakfast.

Just then, Lu Mian saw a large amount of milky white liquid gushing out from the crack between Li Keji's ward door and the solid ground.

Milk? Lu Mian's gaze solidified slightly.

The next second, he found that the milky white liquid, suspected to be milk, retreated back into Li Keji's ward like a tide, and the ground became clean again, only leaving wet marks of varying degrees.

Lu Mian watched silently.

A few minutes later, with his eagle-like vision, he felt that there seemed to be something indescribable at the door of the ward.

He carefully pressed his face against the mirror surface and penetrated out a little.

The scene before his eyes instantly got rid of the mirror image feeling and became clearer.

He then saw some obvious white dots and strips, and then noticed that there were finer and less obvious white filamentous things around them.

These things as a whole looked like flakes that had intersected and become much thinner, and also seemed to be mixed with countless white fluff.

Compared to the Demoness's spider silk, they were not transparent and were stained with color, but could still be discovered with careful observation.

"Mycelium?" Lu Mian made a guess.

He deduced this combined with Li Keji's own specialness.

After a few seconds, these mycelia retracted in unison, passed through the door crack, and disappeared into the corridor.

A picture spontaneously formed in Lu Mian's mind:

A giant mushroom man, no, a giant mushroom with a strange shape, walked behind the door and carefully extended its mycelium, not knowing what it wanted to do.

Lu Mian was silent again.

He seriously thought about a question:

Whether letting Zarathustra and other Celestial Worthy subordinates eliminate Li Keji is a bad thing or a good thing...

As long as they are prevented from getting Li Keji's corpse to the negative first floor of the Dawn Hospital and letting him gain a new life with the help of the Mother's power, the whole thing doesn't seem to be so unacceptable...

Yeah, Frank Lee's mushrooms in the dream city seem to have superimposed Mr. "Fool's" idealistic cognition, becoming more terrifying and weirder than in reality. By then, if they lose control, I don't know which side it will be favorable to...

No, no, no, fire is also dangerous, but fire can also be used...

This guy is suitable to be locked in a psychiatric ward, and released when needed, or borrow a few mushrooms with unique functions...

Can a psychiatric ward really lock him up? Should I help him check into prison and be controlled by the official authorities representing the main consciousness of the dream?

But that way, it would be very troublesome for us to use him. Moreover, he doesn't look like someone without mental problems. Franca popularized that in the dream city, such mental patients don't need to go to jail, only need to receive long-term treatment in a psychiatric hospital...

Lu Mian shrank his face back and kept a distance from the mirror surface.

At 10 AM, he saw Huang Jiajia and Huang Beibei bring lawyers, accompanied by Police Officer Dunn and a doctor in a white coat, into this ward area.

Only then did he feel relieved, shuttled to the rearview mirror of a car in the underground parking lot, jumped out, and then "teleported" directly back to the rented house in the Xinhong Residential Area.

At this time, Anthony was self-isolating, and Ludwig was taken away by Jenna. Lu Mian ate some bread casually and prepared to lie on the bed to make up for sleep.

Just as he lay down, he felt his phone vibrate.

The message came from "True Sleeve Sword":

"Zarathustra came to the group to visit again. He is on the 16th floor now and hasn't come down yet."

Zarathustra wasn't affected by the whistleblowing letter? A whistleblowing letter needs evidence. Otherwise, the police have to investigate for a period of time before they can get enough evidence to arrest foreign guests? Zarathustra is still very cautious... The identity of a foreign guest is also very clever... Lu Mian sat on the bed, pondered and pushed for a while, and replied to Franca:

"Don't interfere with Zarathustra's visit, but remind Zhou Mingrui to pay attention through Luo Shan."

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Intis Group, inside the Administration Department.

Franca sent a message to Luo Shan:

"If that guy comes to visit the Technical Department later, remember to remind Zhou Mingrui to pay attention to safety.

"Don't be in a hurry for now. What if the enemy chooses to visit other departments or other subsidiaries? Reminding Zhou Mingrui in advance will make him fall into endless suspicion, guarding against everyone around him. In the long run, it will greatly affect his mental state."

Luo Shan replied with a "cat nodding" expression.

What surprised the two was that General Manager Huang didn't bring Zarathustra down to visit. The two stayed on the 16th floor until noon before leaving by a special elevator.

"Alarm lifted, the enemy didn't contact the target, so Luo Shan didn't remind him," Franca reported the situation to Lu Mian during the lunch break.

Lu Mian replied quickly:

"Then I will execute the step of hinting at the existence of extraordinary power to Zhou Mingrui this afternoon, and be a little more aggressive. You, Jenna, and Anthony, from now on, don't contact me, delete the chat records, and even my WeChat and QQ numbers. Wait until tomorrow afternoon to add them back."

"Will this be mixed with the results of Anthony's probe of Peng Deng? If he is kicked out, we might not be able to distinguish whether it's Peng Deng's problem or whether it's implicated by your side," Franca raised a detailed question.

"No, Anthony and I isolated each other last night. The experimental results between us won't affect each other," Lu Mian had already made preparations yesterday.

From the moment Franca's consciousness returned to this body of "Luo Fu," he started preparing.

At 4 PM, Lu Mian arrived at the Intis Group in advance and enjoyed an early dinner.

Then, he and Old Xia replaced their colleagues and patrolled the floors.

After finishing this, they replaced their colleagues who were in a hurry to go to the cafeteria and watched the surveillance.

Lu Mian appeared to be observing the situation on different floors, but his attention was entirely on the inside of the Intis Group, on that part of the area on the 10th floor.

Finally, he saw Zhou Mingrui leave his workstation, walk out of the Technical Department, and head to the public restroom in the middle of the aisle.

Lu Mian stood up with a swish, covered his stomach, and said to Old Xia:

"The food just now was too spicy, I'm going to the toilet."

Without waiting for Old Xia to respond, he left the surveillance room straight away.

Old Xia looked at his back sideways and said almost silently:

"Learned to ask for a shit leave after working for only a week?"

In the aisle, Lu Mian avoided two security personnel coming out of the elevator, turned into the stairs, melted into the shadows, and flew downward.

In less than thirty seconds, he arrived at the 10th floor.

Then, he pretended to be confirming the problems he found when patrolling the floors before, entered the corridor between the Administration Department and the Technical Department openly, and came to the outside of the restroom.

He looked left and right, walked quickly into the men's side.

At this time, Zhou Mingrui was cleaning his hands in front of the sink.

Lu Mian glanced inside the restroom, confirming that there was no one in front of the urinal, and one of the four cubicles seemed to be locked.

Zhou Mingrui turned around and happened to see him.

Lu Mian took out a lighter and revealed a smile.

His thumb pressed virtually above the lighter, without contact, but the lighter sparked a string of crimson flames.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Mingrui, who was already suspicious, tightened his spirit instantly.

Is this extraordinary power or some kind of magic?

Lu Mian took two steps back, pressed his other hand on the edge of the men's restroom door frame, and secretly activated a black mark on his body.

"Bottle of Fiction"!

He isolated this area of the sink from the restroom itself and the outside space.

Lu Mian looked at Zhou Mingrui, who seemed to be ready to attack at any time, and smiled slightly:

"I drank a kind of drink called 'Hunter'."

You really have a problem... Zhou Mingrui's eyes narrowed imperceptibly. His suspicion and worry for many days finally became reality.

Lu Mian tilted his head and glanced at the urinal direction:

"I'm looking for you to remind you to be careful of that foreign guest named Zarathustra."

Zarathustra... Zhou Mingrui had a deep impression of this long name.

He once, as a technical staff member, was assigned by General Manager Huang to pick up Zarathustra and was responsible for being the translator and guide. As a result, the other party either had mechanical failure on the flight or encountered a thunderstorm, making him unable to pick him up.

Later, because he listened to a song and got sick and asked for leave, he missed Zarathustra's first visit to the company.

Later, he scrolled through the group company's propaganda and knew what Zarathustra looked like from videos and photos.

Reminded by Lu Mian, Zhou Mingrui suddenly remembered that the old man standing at the door of the Business English class yesterday seemed to be Zarathustra.

"Luo Shan's reminder was also pointing to Zarathustra?

"How did she know Zarathustra was visiting the Dream Cram School?

"Right, Li Ming was at... yesterday...

"Li Ming and Luo Shan are in the same group?

"Luo Fu only joined the company one day later than Li Ming..."

While thoughts flashed through Zhou Mingrui's mind, Lu Mian didn't explain, lifted the "Bottle of Fiction," and walked out of the men's restroom.

Zhou Mingrui looked at his back, suddenly feeling that the undercurrents hidden around him were much fiercer and more exaggerated than expected.

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Lu Mian, who had finished patrolling the floors again, stood at the window of the office, watching the last bit of golden-red afterglow of the sunset being swallowed by darkness.

Night had officially arrived.

And at this time, Luo Shan, Luo Fu, and Zhou Mingrui had all left work, and the latter had just left a few minutes ago.

Lu Mian looked at the brightly lit buildings, lifted his chin slightly, hooked the corner of his mouth, and waited for the possible "banishment."

This time, if he were kicked out of the dream, Zarathustra shouldn't be spared either.

One-for-one is very worth it!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 968 =====