Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

The mayor of the small town gave an order, and a group of people behind him immediately walked towards the player.

And the actions made by the seven players at about the same time were to hide all the crystal balls on their bodies in their bags.

The luggage and system watches assigned by the system to players are all outside the logic of the dungeon, and NPCs will directly ignore them.Therefore, although the clothes worn by the players were very suspicious, no witchcraft items such as crystal balls were found on their bodies.

Five minutes later, the players were invited into an extremely spacious commercial vehicle.

The players sat in three rows, five men sat in the back, and two girls were placed in the front row, and two people held guns to their heads.

In front of these three rows of seats, the mayor sits in a separate swivel premium leather chair.Facing all the players, he kept scrutinizing them.

"Hello, my name is Ryan." After a long time, the mayor spoke in a deep and pleasant voice.

"Hmm... Although you are all wearing witch clothes, there are five men inside, so the suspicion can be ruled out for now. As for the other two ladies, I'm sorry, we need to conduct separate interrogations on you."

At this moment, Yin Jiujiu lost all strength. She never expected that she had just used her identity as a woman to bring down the rest of the team, but she fell into a predicament because of this identity, and she was actually with Situ Qing The enemy was trapped at the same time.

Now if she excused herself, she would inevitably also excuse Situ Qing, but she had to do so.

There was a sudden feeling of Feng Shui turning in his heart, Yin Jiujiu frowned and said: "The seven of us are tourists who strayed into Lihua Town, and we don't know what a witch is. We were discovered by them in the city, and then we were discovered by them." They took it away. They forced us to wear it too. We are definitely not witches."

"Don't worry. Lihua Town is a quiet, peaceful and peace-loving town. As long as you confirm that you are not witches, of course I will let you go." After the mayor Ryan said this to her, he looked sideways out of the window, " Did you stray into the town of Lihua by mistake? I'm sorry to let you see such a horrible town. Fortunately, we have completed the reconstruction work in the south. What you are about to see... will be a brand new town. Hope It will change your impression of the place."

Hearing this, Zhou Qian also looked out the window.

When they were taken away from that magical town by Sarah and other witches, Zhou Qian only took a look at the new southern town from a distance by the woods, but didn't see the whole picture there.

At this moment, the commercial vehicle was taking the main road in the other direction - a winding mountain road that was not blocked by any tall trees.

Thus, Zhou Qian could clearly see the appearance of the new southern town under the mountain through the high-lying Mount Vail.

The town was very different from what he had first imagined.Each house is designed in a fluid shape, which saves space and at the same time has a sense of technology. Every piece of material in the building there seems to be not simple.

In short, the whole town looks very tall and big.

But from a distance, it can be seen that this is a town with extremely advanced technology.

Withdrawing his gaze, Zhou Qian looked at both sides of the Panshan Highway.

There are railings on both sides, and slogans are posted everywhere on them, all of which are "warning", "scientific research base", "production base", "idle people are not allowed to approach" and so on.

When seeing this, Zhou Qian couldn't help recalling his conversation with Eva on the bus.

On the way to Weishan by bus, in addition to showing Eva the diary and getting a "mobile phone" from her, Zhou Qian also deliberately inquired about the news of Weishan.

He once asked Eva this sentence: "Is Vail Mountain a famous mountain in the local area?"

"A long time ago, the town's electricity came from Mount Vail." Eva said, "There is a power station there. So...well, yes, Mount Vail is very famous, and the residents of the town have feelings for it. They Worship the mountain."

"So...why is there a strawberry garden near the power station?" Zhou Qian asked.

Eva said: "The power station, that happened many years ago. Later, with newer power generation technology, the power station at Well Hill was discontinued. Well Hill Power Station was once an open tourist attraction for people to visit. A great piece of technology that just reopened last year.

"In short... Many people in the small town really worship the mayor and the power station in Vail Mountain. The mayor is the person who leads the technology. The people in the town regard him as a god-like existence, and think that he really brings everyone It has brought a lot of convenience... People like the mayor and Mount Vail, so the tourism in Mount Vail has been developed here, and strawberry gardens have existed."

More things, such as what technology the power station uses, Eva doesn't know.

According to her, many people in the small town only know that the mayor is very smart and powerful, born as a scientist.But what kind of science he studies and how great his achievements are in that respect, no one can tell.

But that was the end of the matter, even if Eva hadn't been able to tell more.

Some kind of very scary speculation has slowly formed in Zhou Qian's mind.

He took a look at his life points, and now the number recorded on it was "18".

They didn't waste too long here, but the value has dropped by 4 points.

It can be seen that Vail Mountain is indeed a place with great problems.

Fortunately, ever since I got on this high-end commercial vehicle, the countdown on the card has slowed down again, almost the same as when I was in the witch's base camp.

Seeing this, Zhou Qian temporarily put away the cards.

He didn't say a word all the way, just leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes, quietly waiting for the commercial vehicle to take them to the brand new town.

40 minutes later.The player and his party arrived at a place similar to the small town government building.

The building is built into a ring, and the part of the building that meets the ground is made of translucent materials. From a distance, it looks as if the entire ring building is suspended in mid-air, which can give people a great shock.

The players had just walked into the lobby with guns pointed at their heads, when the accident happened

——Wu Ren, whose life point card had been cleared and scrapped, and the life point of the other card was only "2", fell to the ground unexpectedly.

There was a "bang" between his head and the smooth surface, which attracted the attention of everyone in the hall.

There were quite a lot of staff coming and going here, and they all looked seriously at Wu Ren who was lying on the ground, and exchanged extremely terrified looks with each other.

The mayor, Ryan, was also quite serious. He raised his hand and summoned two of his subordinates, and said in a low tone: "Take him to the isolation treatment room for treatment. Then let the rest go for a unified examination. In addition...bring the two women into the hospital. Interrogate them in the interrogation room to see if they are witches."

At this time, the muscles of Yin Jiujiu, Situ Qing, and Zhou Qian had regained their strength.

Hearing this, Yin Jiujiu immediately held the wine gourd in his hand, as if wanting to resist.She actually knew it, and her actions could be regarded as offending all teammates except Li Buhui.Once she is in jail, no one will come to rescue her!

On the other side, Situ Qing looked at Zhou Qian, as if to see what he meant.

Immediately, she received a message from Zhou Qian through the system. "Eva and the others said before that two fellow witches disappeared in Weiershan. Maybe they are also in the interrogation room. Try to find them and formulate words with them."

Seeing this, the hand holding the bell in Situ Qing's bag loosened.

Under the gesture of the NPC who looked like a soldier, she stretched out both wrists without any intention of resisting, and then she was handcuffed and taken away.

Yin Jiujiu raised his hand and raised the gourd, as if he wanted to fight it out.

But the soldier fired faster, and something that resembled an electrical current struck her wrist quickly.

In the situation where her hands were completely out of strength, Yin Jiujiu gritted her teeth and survived almost by willpower, which prevented her from letting go of the weapon gourd. However, she was indeed unable to release her skills, so she could only breathe out angrily.

Before being escorted away, Yin Jiujiu thought of something, turned around, and looked at Zhou Qian with very complicated eyes.

Zhou Qian met her with calm eyes, and mouthed to her: "You can only cooperate with Situ Qing now."

The implication is that if she refuses to cooperate, Zhou Qian will also refuse to help her.

Upon receiving Zhou Qian's gaze, Yin Jiujiu gave him a hard look, gritted his teeth and was escorted away.

The situation has become more and more unfavorable to the players.

Situ Qing and Yin Jiujiu, the tank and the output were directly taken away for interrogation, and the other powerful output, Wu Ren, was unconscious and taken away.

The only ones still present were Zhou Qian, Qi Liuxing, Ke Yuxiao and Li Buhui.

The four were quickly taken to a place called an "isolation testing room".

The four of them stood on the four round platforms, and then two people in white protective clothing walked in. They all held a huge watering can in their hands. They were just spitting.

Finally, the two people left, the door of the testing room was closed, and a puff of white gas sprayed from the ceiling, wrapping and washing the four people all over, and repeated this three times.

About 10 minutes later, the four of them were first invited into the dressing room to change into ordinary clothes, and then they were invited into the reception room.

A female staff member came over and poured water for them, saying that the mayor of Lane would come to talk to them later.

The female staff member was wearing a baggy skirt and had a noticeable bulge in her lower abdomen, which appeared to be pregnant.

She greeted everyone politely, put down the kettle, and planned to leave.

Zhou Qian called her to stop at this moment, looked at her belly intentionally or unintentionally, and then met her pair of brown eyes. "Sorry to interrupt, your child—"

"Oh...just four months." The staff stroked his stomach with a smile, and then he didn't know what to think of, and a layer of sadness appeared in his eyes again.

Her sadness was immediately captured by Zhou Qian.

Zhou Qian narrowed his eyes slightly, and then he sighed and said: "My sister's child died in the disaster. I hope she can be like you, get out of grief as soon as possible, and have a baby with brother-in-law again... Maybe it can be given to you." Let her comfort you. People, we still have to look forward."

"You, your sister's child too..." The staff member's pupils dilated slightly, and then he sighed and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, "Hey, what's the question I asked... What happened to this kind of thing?" Can the children of the family survive..."

"But what's going on? Who did this..." Zhou Qian pretended to be angry, clenched his right hand into a fist, and slammed it on the table, "My niece is the most innocent and lovely. I didn't expect... ..."

"It seems...you are not their accomplice." The staff frowned, and resentment immediately appeared in their eyes, "Of course this is a good thing done by witches! They are constantly hurting people! We, we last year Several witches were executed. The people of the town hate the witches, and the witches hate the people of the town. This is their revenge on the whole town! Fortunately..."

Shaking his head, the staff said in a very thankful tone: "Fortunately, the mayor of Ryan made a plan to relocate the town in advance. The old home was destroyed, and we can live in the new home right away... hey..."

There are more and more doubts about the mayor.

Zhou Qian clenched his hands under the table slightly, and couldn't help asking the staff member again: "But where did the witches get such great skills? How did they do it? I heard that there were fireworks on the night of the music festival? Could it be The birth of evil spirits is related to fireworks? Do you know what happened to those fireworks?"

"Fireworks? I didn't know that the fireworks were set off that night..." the staff recalled, "After the tragedy happened, we didn't go up the mountain immediately. The mayor was afraid that we would have an accident, so he asked us to stay away from the town. Until... until the mayor Let the research institute develop protective clothing that can resist evil spirits. With the protective clothing, he let us act.

"Later, a group of us wore protective clothing and went to Mount Vail to investigate...we found fireworks. They were the fireworks that would be set off at the Strawberry Festival every year. But this year's fireworks were not set off, and they were still at the back of the square on the mountainside. It's sealed in the box."

At this point, there was a "didi" sound from the staff, as if someone was contacting her.

Then she nodded to Zhou Qian and the others, and left quickly.

In the huge conference room, there are only four players left for the time being.

"So... what do you think is going on now?"

It was Li Buhui who asked this sentence.

Zhou Qian raised his eyelids, glanced at him meaningfully, and did not answer immediately.

Li Buhui realized what was happening, and hurriedly said: "You guys have objections to me because of Yin Jiujiu? Don't be like this. Well... I hugged her thigh to have a chance to enter this book. Whatever she asks of me, I will obey her." Ah, I'm her little brother, so I can't help it, I'm just trying to survive. I didn't do anything. It's all right now...they are both locked up. This..."

Zhou Qian looked away, and instead of looking at Li Buhui, he looked at the meeting room.

There is no air conditioner installed in the meeting room, but the walls seem to be able to breathe. Not only does it provide enough oxygen, but it can also keep the temperature at a very constant state, making people feel like a spring breeze and very comfortable.

Including that door... In this reception room, there is no way to see where the door is.The door and the wall are seamlessly integrated.It seems that the technology of this small town has really developed to a very powerful stage.

Then Zhou Qian asked, "What do you think about the 'fireworks' at the music festival?"

"The entrance ticket for the Strawberry Music Festival has a background of fireworks... According to the female staff member just now, there were no fireworks that night." Qi Liuxing said, "But Lili's diary clearly mentioned that after the blooming Fireworks like meteors...the root of the tragedy may be related to the fireworks."

Zhou Qian nodded, and said again: "On the way to Mount Well, I asked Eva, and she said that there was an abandoned power station on Mount Well. What powerful technology was used in the power station, which brought great benefits to people's lives? The convenience. So the abandoned power station was once turned into a scenic spot, but it was closed last year. It can be speculated... Maybe it was reopened this year, maybe it was doing some experiments in secret."

"I think you might as well imagine it boldly at this time." Zhou Qian continued, "If the 'monsterization' of the child's body and the strange transformation of animals and plants have nothing to do with magical fantasy, then it can only be explained from a scientific point of view. For example --'genetic mutation.

"Based on this, it is probably easy to guess what happened in this small town. You see... the mayor and the soldiers he brought are all wearing very special protective clothing. What does the protective clothing protect against? ?”

At this time, Qi Liuxing and Ke Yuxiao whispered two words almost simultaneously: "Radiation."

"Yes. It's radiation."

Zhou Qian said, "I suspect that the power station is probably something similar to a nuclear power station. Assuming our reasoning is all true, the power station was restarted secretly last year, but for some reason... the mayor did not tell the rest of the town.

"So on the day of the music festival, the grand event went on as usual. Everyone sang and ate strawberries... Then there was an accident like a nuclear explosion. The real fireworks that night were not set off at all. But the reason why the children could see The 'beautiful fireworks like a shooting star' was simply a problem with one of the power station's reactors and an explosion."

The power station was built on the highest point of the Vail Mountains.

The music festival is held on the half-slope of one of the mountains.

The power station on the top of the mountain exploded, and the explosives rushed from a laboratory on the top of the mountain into the night sky, producing fireworks all over the sky, and then turned into smoke and dust like fire and rain, falling from the sky one after another.

The ignorant children in the half-hillside square saw this scene and thought it was this year's special edition fireworks, just like shooting stars.

So, the children ran, laughed, played and made wishes in the radiation dust...

But they don't know that every particle of smoke and dust in it has extremely strong radioactivity.

The children went home with a whole body of radiation dust. Affected by the radiation, the genes in their bodies were mutated, and their appearance gradually became weird.

Then they were regarded as "possessed by evil spirits" by ignorant witches.

Lili must have been in terrific pain when she was irradiated and her body "mutated".

But she was locked up by her ignorant mother, and she even cut off her fingers and palms alive, and finally died in endless pain.

However, Lily is just one example among thousands of tragedies.

Countless children in the small town have almost encountered a similar experience to her.

The explosion that night was already a great accident.

But Zhou Qian knew that that accident was only the beginning of the tragedy.

Faced with such a truth, Qi Liuxing really felt his heart was blocked.

He clenched his fists tightly, and it took him a long time to let go. He looked at Zhou Qian and asked, "Then, what happened to Lina's death? Didn't we leave the study after we answered the correct answer?"

Zhou Qian said: "That's just the truth in Lina's cognition. After all, in her memory that night, all the adults went to the next town for vacation, and Lili was the only one with her.

"Also, do you remember that I asked Eva about what she saw when she came home the next morning?"

Qi Liuxing's eyes widened involuntarily, and he murmured: "She said that Lili was in a fainted state. She thought that Lili fainted temporarily because her body couldn't bear the power of the evil spirit...

"Eva also said that she took the opportunity to anesthetize Lily, cut off her fingers, and decided to summon her daughter's soul..."

"Yes." Zhou Qian said, "So, I'm afraid I don't need to explain what the real truth is."

Qi Liuxing's face turned pale. "There's no need to explain. I understand. I wanted to ask... just one or two, why all the witches like Eva all think that their children are murderers and possessed by evil spirits... …

"Everyone was designed. It's a horrific conspiracy. It's so, so terrible...

“Whoever did this kind of thing——!”

Qi Liuxing was unable to say the latter words.

Because the door of the meeting room opened by itself, someone came in.

After the man came in, the door that parted like flowing water and then embedded in the wall slid out again like flowing water.Immediately, the door merged with the wall again, making it impossible to distinguish.

The person who entered the house was Mayor Lane.

This time he was wearing neither goggles nor hazmat suits, just a suit.

He has golden hair and blue eyes as mysterious as lake water.

When he sat down and faced the four players, he asked with a smile in his eyes: "I came here to ask you a few questions. Why did you guys appear in Weiershan?"

Everyone was immersed in the shock of facing the cruel truth.

After a while, Zhou Qian took the lead to answer: "We were forcibly taken away by the witches. They asked us to follow them up the mountain to search. We don't know what they want us to find yet."

After answering this sentence, Zhou Qian turned passive into active, and asked, "What's the situation in this small town...?"

"Why don't you tell me first, what did you all see?" Ryan asked.

Zhou Qian said: "Monsters, giant flowers, there are even things that resemble human faces on the stamens... We also saw corpses, but the corpses were not human at all, but monsters. That's all. Is it some kind of evil? Magic caused all this?"

Ryan has the standard appearance of a Westerner, with extremely fair skin and deep facial features.

As mayor, he seems to have great compassion for the town's residents, and he has a high capacity for empathy.Hearing Zhou Qian's words, he showed great pain and anger.

After taking a few deep breaths, Ryan calmed down and said, "Of course this is all done by witches. 'The horrible flower of evil...it blooms on the edge of hell...', all witches are terrible and vicious flowers of evil. flower!"

The real flower of evil is probably not the witch, but you, the mayor, and a series of sinister intentions behind it.

Zhou Qian mocked in his heart, but he just kept a very ignorant and innocent smile on his face.

All doubts and violations are now answered.

There is only one thing that Zhou Qian doesn't know - what kind of experiments the restarted power station is doing, or what kind of research the mayor is doing.

According to Zhou Qian's understanding, radiation can cause cancer and cause fetal distortion in pregnant women.

In this dungeon, animals and plants have actually produced such a degree of genetic variation. Obviously, the actual situation is much more complicated.It's as if a butterfly has grown human-like feet. It's almost as if it has copied a part of human genes.

Ryan sighed deeply, and looked at Zhou Qian and the others: "Actually, I want to believe that you and the witch are not in the same party. After testing, you really don't have anything like evil spirits on your body. How about it, I will bring you You go to a place to see. Let's feel the new vitality of the town together."

After Ryan finished speaking, he led the four players out of the reception room.

Followed by a dozen soldiers, they reached the 11th floor via the elevator.

The moment the player stepped out of the elevator, the scene the player saw was too unexpected.

——This place is like a maternity hospital. People walking in the corridors and sitting in the rest area chatting together...all pregnant women with big bellies.

And the banners hanging around the floor are all words encouraging childbirth, such as "every additional child is born, you can receive a government subsidy of 3000 yuan per month", "pregnant women can go to the government birth center to be properly cared for".

"Witches are hateful flowers of evil. They killed all the children in the town."

Mayor Ryan's pleasant voice came again, but there was something more chilling in it.

"Fortunately, people have recovered from the pain. With some incentives, people are still willing to have children again. Lihua Town will not be destroyed by witches. The next generation... is coming soon. We humans, or There is a future."

The author has something to say:

1. The remaining part of the truth, if there is still not understood, will be revealed tomorrow;

2. The source of inspiration for this story is the Chernobyl incident.

3. It must be explained that Yibo, Jiang Yuqing, including the mayor here, their characters are all set in the plot of the dungeon, and have nothing to do with Bai Zhou himself.Don't be influenced by the mayor's personality to look at Zhou Zhou.