Chapter 134: The Terrifying Secret Room
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Jian Ningxuan and An Bu, led by the doctor, entered a separate ward. Molly’s father, Mo Dongxiao, was lying quietly on the hospital bed, looking thin and frail, with dull eyes and slightly open mouth, looking foolish.
“Mo Dongxiao.” The doctor called softly a few times, “How do you feel today?”
Mo Dongxiao’s eyeballs moved a few times, and his throat made incomprehensible sounds, whether he was talking to himself or responding to the doctor’s inquiry was unclear.
“How is his condition?” Jian Ningxuan asked.
“Due to brain damage and prolonged unconsciousness, his language function, recognition ability, and memory have all been affected. Even if he wakes up, it will be difficult for him to communicate normally.” The doctor sighed, “If the follow-up treatment goes well, he may be able to recover some behavioral abilities.”
After hearing the doctor’s words, Jian Ningxuan and An Bu knew that they wouldn’t be able to get any information from Mo Dongxiao. That’s fine too, at least they were safe and didn’t have to worry about being targeted by anyone.
The two didn’t stay long. After learning about Mo Dongxiao’s condition, they prepared to leave.
As they turned around, An Bu suddenly noticed Mo Dongxiao’s fingers unconsciously tracing something on the edge of the bed, with a certain degree of repetition.
“Bubu?” Jian Ningxuan walked to the door and found that An Bu hadn’t followed, so he turned back and called out.
“I’m coming.” An Bu withdrew her gaze, took a few quick steps, and hooked Jian Ningxuan’s arm, leaving the hospital with him.
After getting in the car, An Bu kept thinking about Mo Dongxiao’s actions just now, repeatedly pondering. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to her, and she turned to Jian Ningxuan, “Mr. Jian, let’s go see where Molly used to live.”
Jian Ningxuan didn’t ask much, changed direction, and headed towards their destination.
After Molly was adopted by the Jian family, her original residence was left vacant for a long time, with fallen leaves covering the ground, giving it a somewhat desolate look.
An Bu took out the key that Molly had given her before and opened the door.
The furniture and furnishings inside the house remained the same, just covered with a thin layer of dust.
“Bubu, what are you looking for?” Jian Ningxuan followed An Bu into a room where old items were stored, furrowing his brows.
“Molly told me before that there was a secret base in her house, right in this room. At that time, I just glanced at it briefly and didn’t think much about it. But just now, seeing Mo Dongxiao, I found that his fingers seemed to be repeatedly tracing something, and the pattern he was drawing looked a lot like…”
As An Bu spoke, she took down the decorations on the wall, revealing an electronic password lock with a simple flower-shaped icon on it, which was what Mo Dongxiao had drawn.
“A secret room?” Jian Ningxuan glanced at the model of the password lock and asked, “What is this for?”
“If I’m not mistaken, it should be Molly’s parents’ underground laboratory.”
Jian Ningxuan furrowed his brows, looking at An Bu. “Do you want to go in and take a look?”
An Bu nodded. “There may still be a lot of research materials inside. We must seal it off to ensure that it won’t be found by anyone else.”
“Do you know the password?”
“I don’t.”
“Then we’ll have to figure out a way to crack it.” Jian Ningxuan turned and walked towards the door. “You wait here for a moment. I’ll get some tools.”
An Bu was about to agree, but inadvertently, she faintly saw a trace of death energy on him. When she focused her gaze, there seemed to be nothing unusual.
Was it an illusion?
She silently muttered in her heart, subconsciously becoming a bit more cautious.
But shortly after, Jian Ningxuan came back with a toolbox. As he passed by An Bu, the death energy flashed again.
“Mr. Jian!” An Bu stopped him. “This secret room has been closed for a long time and may not be very safe. Let’s come back to check it out when we are fully prepared next time, okay?”
Jian Ningxuan paused, feeling that An Bu’s suggestion made sense, so he put away the toolbox.
An Bu rehung the decorations and quickly walked out with Jian Ningxuan. This secret room was very dangerous, even the lively cat master couldn’t handle it. There’s a saying, “Curiosity killed the cat,” and she didn’t want to personally verify the truth of this saying.
“Mr. Jian, please don’t secretly open the secret room yourself,” An Bu cautioned solemnly.
Jian Ningxuan said lightly, “That should be my line.”
An Bu pretended not to hear and changed the subject. “It’s almost time for me to go to work. Can you drive me there?”
Driver Jian dutifully drove An Bu to her destination.
After parking the car, An Bu took out a ten yuan bill from her bag and handed it to him generously. “Here, for the fare. You don’t need to give me change.”
Jian Ningxuan: “…”
An Bu leaned over and kissed him on the lips. “This is a tip.”
Jian Ningxuan: “Mmm…”
Teasing the cat master a bit, An Bu opened the car door and walked away briskly.
Meanwhile, shortly after Jian Ningxuan and An Bu left the Mo family villa, a few stealthy figures silently infiltrated the villa. Following the footprints left by the two, they found the entrance to the secret room.
Although Jian Ningxuan had caused trouble for the Apollo Group in secret, distracting them, they still left some manpower to monitor the people around Mo Dongxiao. There hadn’t been any progress before, but today, when they found out that Jianning and An had gone straight to the Mo family villa after meeting Mo Dongxiao, they knew there was a breakthrough.
“I didn’t expect there to be a secret room here.” A sturdy man said to his companion, “How long do you need to crack the password?”
“Ten minutes is enough.” His companion replied confidently, then took out some tools and began the decryption work.
In less than ten minutes, the password lock clicked, successfully cracked. The originally smooth wall suddenly opened a crack.
Excitement appeared on the faces of the few people. They cautiously pushed open the door and entered the secret room one after another. In front of them was a staircase leading downwards. As they descended, motion-sensing lights lit up one by one. At the end of the stairs, there was a connecting isolation corridor. As soon as they stepped in, disinfectant mist sprayed out from all around.
Many small laboratories are equipped with such automatic disinfection devices, which can protect themselves from infection or erosion to some extent.
The group quickly reached the entrance of the laboratory, skillfully deciphered the password, and the tightly closed metal door slowly opened in front of them. The next second, a strange smell rushed towards them. They all covered their noses, looked around, and after confirming that there were no other anomalies, they directly stepped into the laboratory…
Fifty minutes later, while An Bu was playing with the dog at Fu Junyao’s house, her death energy suddenly increased to 5, 7, 5.
An Bu: ???
She was playing with the dog at home just fine. Why did her death value inexplicably increase?!
Quickly checking the Book of Life and Death, she found three unfamiliar names. The deaths of these three people were definitely indirectly related to her, otherwise, the death value wouldn’t be attributed to her, and their deaths occurred within the last few tens of minutes.
An hour ago, she and Jian Ningxuan had visited the hospital and the Mo family villa successively. The most likely place to cause death was the secret room of the Mo family villa. It seemed that after they left, someone had sneaked into that secret room and tragedy had ensued.
Those guys wanted to court death themselves, but in the end, they brought her a wave of death energy. It’s really ironic.
An Bu immediately thought, if there are more people who die in that secret room in the future, will the death value continue to be counted on her?
No, she had to resolve this matter as soon as possible.
“Mr. Fu, I’d like to take the afternoon off.”
After getting permission from Fu Junyao, An Bu went straight to the Mo family villa. She had previously warned Jian Ningxuan not to secretly open the secret room, but ended up secretly going herself.
Walking into the villa, An Bu indeed found many footprints on the ground. She quickly came to the room where the entrance to the secret room was located and saw the door of the secret room wide open.
Following the stairs all the way down, passing through an isolation disinfection zone, she arrived at the entrance of the laboratory in less than two minutes.
There was a strange smell in the air. An Bu peered into the laboratory, and the first thing she saw was a huge cultivation tank on the right. In the cultivation tank was a wilting flower, its shape extremely grim, resembling a thin octopus.
Then, she quickly noticed three people lying on the ground, or more accurately, three corpses. Their skin was rotting, and their appearance was extremely terrifying.
An Bu realized with alarm that she didn’t have time to leave the laboratory, and signs of ulceration began to appear on her skin.
Just as she was about to turn and rush into the isolation decontamination zone outside the laboratory, she thought, since she was already poisoned, why not take a look inside the laboratory?
An Bu immediately stepped into the laboratory and began searching quickly.
Five minutes later, one-fifth of An Bu’s skin began to ulcerate.
Ten minutes later, half of her skin began to ulcerate.
Fifteen minutes later, An Bu’s hands turned into bone claws.
Twenty minutes later, the skin stopped ulcerating, and An Bu dragged her decaying body out of the laboratory. With each step, her rotting flesh gradually regenerated. By the time she passed through the isolation decontamination zone, she had reverted back to the appearance of a “normal” corpse…
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