Chapter 109 What the Hell is Going On?

"What the hell is this plot twist?" Feng Bujue said. "The doctor we're supposed to save is actually the villain?" The fragments of his earlier reasoning flashed through his mind, combined with the mission details, leading him to further deductions. After a few seconds, a subtle change came over his expression. "Ashford... Could this guy be the mastermind behind the murders and poisonings? Could the truth be that after escaping the lab, he used some device on the roof of the building to release a mutated virus variant across the city? That's why the virus spread explosively across the city in an instant, leading to me not finding a single survivor until now?" He couldn't help but curse, "This guy is the freaking Lizard, isn't he!"

He was alone at the moment, and there were no working surveillance devices nearby, so the system did not stop or censor these swear words.

"Wait..." Feng Bujue suddenly realized something. "Who exactly are those two... Pan Feng and Hua Xiong? They went straight for the main mission as soon as they entered the building, as if they knew they could clear the level without coming to this underground research institute." He pondered, "Normally, the plot should go like this... the players enter the building, go to the research institute, find the serum, take down a small Boss or something, and then discover some clues that Dr. Ashford is the villain. Then, based on the clues and hints, they go upstairs... But what the hell are these two doing? Directly exposing the Boss's identity and then using force to beat it into its original form?"

Xiao Tan wasn't dead yet, so he was basically sure he was acting with these two, but he didn't like or was good at directing others, and had no reason to direct them upstairs. Besides, the other party was a player with extraordinary strength, so it was unlikely that they would listen to his command.

"So... the two of them are moving forward according to their own will, and they are completely correct..."

The more Feng Bujue thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong with the script. He concentrated his mind, calmed his slightly overexcited emotions, took out the Winchester, loaded it with bullets, and rushed out the door.

Although he was in a hurry when exploring earlier, he was organized in his haste. He remembered all the routes he had taken in his mind, and there were also the corpses of zombies as road signs, so Feng Bujue returned to the elevator very quickly.

Relying on the Jazz Dance running buff, he was able to move towards his destination at a speed that other players could only achieve by sprinting frantically, with almost no stamina consumption.

Ten minutes later, Feng Bujue returned to the elevator leading to the ground floor. When he left here earlier, he was in a hurry and didn't clear the corpses piled up in front of the elevator door, so the elevator door was still stuck and not closed. He spent more than three minutes dragging the seven or eight corpses blocking the elevator into the corridor, then got in and returned to the first floor of the building, where he met Wang Tanzhi in the lobby.

"Hey! Xiao Tan!" Feng Bujue called out to him.

Xiao Tan turned around: "Eh? Bro Jue, how did you come from behind me..."

"Stop talking nonsense." Feng Bujue interrupted him, walking forward while taking an antitoxin serum from his bag and handing it over, "Drink it."

"What is this?" Xiao Tan asked as he took the serum, looking at the item attributes. "How did you get this?"

"I went to the underground research institute just now." Feng Bujue replied.

"Ah? Then the other two..." Before Xiao Tan could finish speaking, Feng Bujue knew what he was going to ask, and replied directly, "They died somewhere else."

The two only exchanged a few words before setting off for the top floor of the building. Along the way, they told each other everything they had experienced and understood.

Xiao Tan's narrative corroborated Feng Bujue's speculation, making him even more suspicious of the two guys, [Unparalleled General Pan Feng] and [Thousand-Man Slayer Hua Xiong]. For Feng Bujue, the strength of these two was still within acceptable limits, but the problem was their actions. They went directly to the top floor to find Ashford without collecting any clues. This was either amazing "luck" or they had some information that normal players could not obtain in advance.

Feng Bujue followed Xiao Tan all the way to the fifty-first floor. Before reaching the forty-seventh floor, they followed the route that Xiao Tan and Pan Hua had taken earlier. Xiao Tan hadn't walked these four floors, but based on the corpses of the monsters on the road, they could still track the footsteps of their predecessors.

As they approached the top floor, Feng Bujue asked, "When you went up with them for the first time, did you ever backtrack or encounter dead ends?"

"Hmm..." Xiao Tan recalled, "Actually, no." He then said, "But the route we're taking now is already winding around, and we've changed several elevators, and we have to cross several floors and take the stairs in different places." He paused for a moment, "Eh? That's not right... how would they know which floor to change stairs on..."

"Even the route?" Feng Bujue pondered.

As the two were talking, they arrived at the fifty-second floor.

Coming in from the stairs, there was a corridor in front of them. Every ten meters or so in the corridor, there was a large flower pot. Directly opposite was a glass wall. Through the Ailebu logo printed on the glass, they could see that inside was a very large office area, and this space connected the entire floor. There were many cubicles in the office area, and the furnishings were very ordinary, such as office desks and chairs, computers, water dispensers, miscellaneous shelves, etc. At the ends of both sides of the area, there were several independent offices.

It seemed that this floor was indeed as written on the floor plan on the ground floor—"office area," nothing more.

They walked along the corridor for a while and entered this vast office area through an automatic door. They had not seen any signs of blood or zombie activity on this floor. This was not a good sign, but a sign that a Boss-level monster was active.

Feng Bujue had just scanned the environment inside and had not had time to conduct any investigation, when he felt a shock under his feet and heard a loud bang in his ears. He saw the ceiling dozens of meters ahead suddenly break open, and a deformed humanoid monster broke through the roof from the rooftop. The broken concrete blocks smashed to the ground with a crackling sound, and a cloud of thick dust immediately bloomed at the collapsed ceiling.

Then, two more figures jumped down from that hole. Needless to say, those must be the two great gods, Pan Feng and Hua Xiong.

In the rolling dust, three figures could be seen fighting in a团, the light of axes and the shadows of spears intertwined and overlapped, and from time to time the sound of weapons breaking flesh could be heard, and the ground was gradually covered with a layer of blood.

After about a minute of such attacks, the smoke and dust gradually dissipated. Seeing that it was difficult to resist, the monster turned its head and rushed towards the outer wall glass of the building. Pan and Hua also knew that it was going to run, and of course they didn't want it to escape, otherwise their plan to end the script process here would be ruined.

Hua Xiong bent down and rushed to the monster's side and front, swirling around in a sweep and push, the tip of the spear pointing directly at the monster's head, the spear shaft turning into a phantom and whizzing away. Pan Feng was slower because his weapon was heavier, so he could only take a step forward and get closer to the target, and vertically chop down at the monster's back with his mountain-opening long axe.

The two of them pursued relentlessly and pressed closer step by step, leaving Ashford's mutated body with no way to escape. At this time, in order to escape, it did not hesitate to endure the stab of the spear. The tip of the spear penetrated from the monster's left eye socket and protruded through the back of its head, bringing out a splash of dirty liquid.

But this kind of injury was still not enough to kill the mutated body. It curled its body forward to resist the blow, successfully escaped Pan Feng's axe, and came to the outer wall glass. Then it used the serrated bone protruding from its elbow to slam the thick glass, smashing a crack, and then its entire body balled up, broke through the window, and flew out of the building.

Pan Feng and Hua Xiong rushed to the edge of the outer wall, looking down at the mutated body rapidly falling. After falling a certain distance, the latter used the suction cups and mucus on its body to cling to the outer wall, and then swam quickly to the ground, escaping the sight of the two.

"Tch... it still got away." Pan Feng said.

"As expected... if we two directly open the Boss without the accompaniment of other players, its intelligence and reaction will change." Hua Xiong responded.

"You two." Feng Bujue's voice rang out behind them, startling the two.

They turned their heads and saw Feng Bujue with an unkind look and Wang Tanzhi with a bewildered expression.

"Can you explain to me..." Feng Bujue asked directly, "Who exactly are you?"