Player Reload
Chapter 340 - 312: The Five Senses

Chapter 340: Chapter 312: The Five Senses

In the narrow corridor, one dog and four people were walking briskly.

Bai Jixiong, transformed into a Border Collie rescue dog, led the way at the front, diligently sniffing the increasingly faint scent of perfume in the air.

Zhao Zijing and Hyena followed behind with flashlights, their expressions solemn and tense.

To avoid being defenseless in case of danger, Talisman Nail drew a paper, with vivid lions and tigers on it, only the eyes weren’t painted.

Swish, swish.

The sound of pages turning was particularly noticeable in the silent corridor.

Talisman Nail couldn’t help but glance to the side, only to see Li Cheng with a blanket over his head, holding a small flashlight in his right hand and reading a book with his left.

"..."

Rationality told Talisman Nail not to pry, but his artistic sensibility and curiosity made him ask, "Mr. Ant, what are you reading?"

"Oh, I’m reading Abe Shinzo’s book."

Li Cheng turned the cover, showing "Abe Shinzo: Japan’s Decision." "This book is part of a series; the other ones are ’Hillary: Born for the Presidency,’ ’Park Geun-hye: Despair Shaped Me,’ ’Rui Chenggang: Between Reality and Illusion,’ ’Ning Caishe: If You Dare, Don’t Run away’."

???

What an illegal collection of figures, to get such rare books, is this publishing house intentional, or intentional, or intentional.

Li Cheng, ignoring the constipated looks of the others, passionately explained the intricacies of this series of books. Zhao Zijing silently glared at Talisman Nail, blaming him for being so talkative.

"Shh,"

Bai Jixiong suddenly spoke, "I smell something else."

Everyone instantly fell silent, following quietly, passing two airtight doors, they indeed smelled the faint scent of blood in the air and heard dense, chaotic human footsteps.

It was a huge space, more spacious than the hydroponic room, filled with cylindrical metal containers over five meters high.

Some containers were violently damaged, with liquid nitrogen used for freezing leaking out, forming thick frost on the ground.

In the frost lay many glass spheres slightly larger than eggs, containing unformed human embryos.

Dr. Noah’s interstellar colony project needed a vast workforce, and these massive embryos were undoubtedly the best manpower source, able to absorb Dr. Noah’s knowledge and thoughts like a blank sheet of paper.

Tap, tap, tap, tap.

Dense footsteps sounded from the other end of the room. Zhao Zijing took out several orange glowing sticks from the Backpack, used telekinesis to float and push forward.

The glowing sticks illuminated the darkness, revealing six human corpses lying scattered on the ground in the distance.

Beside the corpses, a tall, strong human figure faced the corner of the room, running frantically as if bugged.

He still panted heavily while running.

The strange scene left Hyena dumbfounded, and Li Cheng couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

The burly man running in place looks familiar; he clearly belonged to the Templar Knight guild and was Father Andre.

"..."

With furrowed brows, Zhao Zijing decided not to disturb Andre but used telekinesis to flip the human corpses face-up.

These six people were recorded in the GOC database as Transcendent,

having varied, differing injuries, including frostbite, burns, and cuts, consistent with the surrounding environmental damage.

The only two common points were that they had died within the last two hours and had nosebleeds.

It seemed they had suddenly started to kill each other for some reason. In the end, only Andre survived.

"Let’s move back."

Zhao Zijing took big steps backward until completely exiting the embryo freezing room, then called out to Andre, "Father Andre, can you hear me?"

Andre showed no response to Zhao Zijing’s call, still running blindly in place, suddenly turning and taking a step in another direction.

Crack.

He stepped on a thick layer of ice, slipped, and fell, but even so, he kept flailing his limbs, making bizarre movements.

Illusion Technique? Spiritual Control? Or a battery leaking in his pocket causing electrocution?

Li Cheng’s mind raced. The next moment, without any warning, absolute silence descended.

Footsteps, the hissing of liquid nitrogen leaking, even his speech, Li Cheng couldn’t hear any sound.

He turned to look at the others, including Bai Jixiong, all their expressions were bewildered, mouths open, tongues moving, but unable to hear each other.

Zhao Zijing tightly pursed his lips, using telekinesis to float backward while picking up frost from the ground, which formed a line of words in mid-air, [It’s a trap, retreat]

Everyone ran back along the original path but hadn’t yet exited the embryo freezing room when darkness suddenly enveloped their vision.

After their hearing, now their vision was also deprived.

Next was... touch.

Li Cheng stepped back half a pace, placing his palm on the cold metal wall, the sensation and temperature rapidly fading till completely disappearing.

Finally, smell and taste.

Li Cheng stood stiffly in place, with sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste deprived, he seemed to be thrown into an endless darkness, unable to perceive the outside world or even himself.

For Transcendent used to superhuman bodies, this helpless experience was like an infernal torment, but Li Cheng’s mind suddenly cleared.

He used his intention to open the player panel on the consciousness level, finding his Spiritual Power Value, Physical Value, Sanity Value, and other attributes hadn’t significantly decreased.

I see.

The six players lying dead, belonging to different guilds, average Level over Lv18, definitely weren’t weak.

They were likely deprived of their body senses by something, unable to perceive the outside world, so they flailed and attacked blindly, trying to eliminate perceived threats,

resulting in mutual slaughter. With pain equally deprived, they didn’t know if they were injured, bleeding to death in the endless darkness, leaving only Andre alive.

As for Andre, he’s still in the sensory deprivation state, trying to escape the area but can’t find the way, continuing to run in place...

"Andre is still alive, proving the thing causing sensory deprivation doesn’t immediately attack players or mobile targets. I still have time."

Li Cheng’s mind raced, used his consciousness to command his body to take deep breaths, while counting time in his mind.

After more than two minutes, his consciousness remained clear, proving his physical body was genuinely breathing in the real world.

"Whew, at least I won’t die of suffocation from forgetting to breathe for now."

Li Cheng breathed a sigh of relief; his consciousness crystallized into a small figure, floating in chaotic darkness, his eyes becoming sharp, "Next, I need to regain my senses."