Su Ding's heart suddenly pounded faster, her completely numb body seemed to have broken through some kind of restriction!
Just as the needle was about to pierce her skin, she suddenly rolled to the right, falling directly off the bed.
*Bang!*
A dull pain spread through her limbs, and at the same time, her strength returned.
The doctor, clearly not expecting Su Ding, who had been injected with drugs, to wake up, changed his expression drastically and was about to grab her. But Su Ding was not as fragile as she appeared.
Su Ding quickly got up from the ground, grabbed a scalpel from the laboratory bench, and lunged forward!
The doctor, who had been conducting research in this dark cave for years and rarely exercised, could not possibly react with such speed. Su Ding had him by the neck in just a few moves.
"Wh-what do you want? Everyone here is ours, you, you can't escape..."
The doctor tried to maintain his composure, but his pale face and the cold sweat trickling down his forehead betrayed his fear of death and his nervousness.
Su Ding narrowed her eyes, pressing the scalpel deeper into his flesh. "Speak! Where are Ouyang Kai and Jin Ye? And what is this place?"
The sharp blade left a bloody mark on the doctor's neck. The pain and the fear of death made him wet his pants. "I don't know, I don't know where they are... Miss, please don't be rash. This is a secret pharmaceutical base on the west mountain of Leaving Island. Let me go... I don't know anything else."
Su Ding continued to press: "Where are Ouyang Kai and Jin Ye? Tell me honestly!"
The doctor, sweating profusely from fear, stammered, "I don't know, I know nothing..."
"You won't talk?" Su Ding pressed closer with the knife. Seeing the doctor close his eyes in despair and on the verge of tears, she said, "I really don't know which room they are in..."
Su Ding's heart grew cold. She grabbed the syringe the doctor had dropped and plunged it into his arm, quickly injecting the liquid!
"Ah..." The doctor screamed, his eyes instantly closed, and he collapsed.
Su Ding unhesitatingly threw the doctor to the ground, stripped off his robe, put it on herself, and walked out of the infirmary.
Outside was a dimly lit corridor. It was indeed inside a cave.
There were gaps carved into the cave walls, with lamps placed inside to illuminate the path, which stretched out in a winding, seemingly endless fashion.
Su Ding didn't know the direction and could only follow her intuition, choosing a path and walking down it.
She encountered people along the way, but they all hurried past, and few greeted her. It gave Su Ding a very strange feeling...
The feeling was as if there was no life, only dead people.
Su Ding walked for a long time but still couldn't find an exit.
Just as she began to suspect she had taken a wrong turn, voices drifted from not too far ahead.
"In a little while, we'll be able to leave this dark, sunless hellhole. Thinking about it feels so great..."
"Yeah, our boss even dared to capture the young master. Don't worry, it'll be soon."
"When we can finally leave the island, I heard there are many beauties in the Southern Realm Continent. I must go have some fun. With just us, we'll be considered minor magnates in the Southern Realm Continent, won't we?"
...
Su Ding hid in the shadows, observing the people speaking ahead.
Like the doctor who had injected her, these people wore white coats and glasses. They were the most lively people in the entire corridor.
Her uncle and Jin Ye must be in their hands!
Su Ding felt a surge of excitement; after walking for an unknown amount of time, there was finally a clue.
She continued to follow them, stealthily trailing behind.
Along the way, she also gathered a lot of information. The staff here were indeed puppets, or rather, people who had lost their self-awareness. What was better than robots was that they could react accurately according to the situation, but compared to real people, they had lost their self-awareness and emotional control.
*Creak*
Suddenly, a door ahead was pushed open.