ATFBETIBM Chapter 378.2

He couldn’t help but feel a bit skeptical.

Could it be that he really misread it just now?

But he clearly saw 255kg, which is strange.

The elevator doors slowly closed, and the two doctors inside returned to the upper floors.

In the quiet darkness, a figure mysteriously appeared in front of the previously empty elevator.

Bai Lixin glanced at the elevator, then turned and went back to the iron door from earlier.

Standing in front of the iron door, he pondered for two seconds and then used the invisibility card again.

After reopening the iron door, he walked in. The monster inside suddenly raised its head upon hearing the movement.

But when it saw what was across from it, the entire monster froze again.

There was nothing in front of it but the open door.

The monster tilted its head, “?”

Bai Lixin: “…”

It seems that although the black pus seems to block the monster’s vision, the monster could still see things- this doesn’t affect its eyesight.

He took out a healing card from his backpack and aimed it at the monster.

The next moment, he received a system prompt sound.

[Ding! Friendly reminder, the target of your healing card is a humanoid monster, and the healing card cannot be used.]

Bai Lixin: “…”

If he guessed correctly, the monster in front of him should have been a human originally.

So, if the curse reaches 100% and they transform like this, they no longer belong to humans but rather to monsters?

Bai Lixin paused and asked, [Escape system, Sister System, are you there?]

The escape system quickly responded, [I’m here, Master Bai Lixin.]

Bai Lixin: [If players become monsters, can they still return to the game lobby?]

Escape system: [No, once a player becomes a monster, the system judges it as death. Dead players cannot return to the game lobby.]

Bai Lixin: “…”

As expected.

Once it reaches this point, they will be unable to leave, just like Zhuang Guan in the copy of the undead, and Hongyue in the copy for zombies.

Bai Lixin had just obtained this answer when he got a private message notification.

Xia Chi: [Brother, I finished asking. All players have more or less these black spots on their bodies. Like me, they didn’t pay much attention until I asked them, and then they realized. Do you have them, Brother?]

Bai Lixin: [I don’t have them.]

Xia Chi: [Huh, why don’t you have them?]

Bai Lixin: [… I also want to know why.]

Could it be because the mark Dijia gave him is in effect?

He thought for a moment and revealed the Mermaid Heart hanging around his neck.

If the Mermaid Heart can heal humanoid merfolk, theoretically, it should also be able to heal humanoid monsters.

Although the resurrection function of the Mermaid Heart has been sealed, the healing function has always been present.

He aimed the Mermaid Heart at the monster and slowly activated its healing.

The next second, a voice came to Bai Lixin’s mind.

[Ding! Friendly reminder, the Mermaid Heart’s healing target is in good health and does not require treatment.]

Bai Lixin: […]

In good health? No need for treatment?

Even the Mermaid Heart is useless. It seems that to lift the curse from Xia Chi and the others, they can only rely on the merfolk’s faith.

After confirming that neither the Mermaid Heart nor the healing card could lift the curse, Bai Lixin silently exited the room. Under the stiff gaze of the monster, the door opened by itself and then slowly closed.

Two seconds after the door closed.

Monster: “Aooo.”

—There’s a ghost!

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In the live broadcast room

[Is this monster howling because it’s afraid of ghosts?]

[Uh, shouldn’t it know that it’s overthinking? It might be scarier than ghosts.]

[Monster: Are you polite? Who isn’t a little angel in need of a sense of security.]

[Hahaha.]

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Bai Lixin walked to the elevator, calculated the time the two doctors left, and pressed the elevator button.

When he returned the same way, the corridor was indeed empty, there wasn’t a single person in sight.

Passing by the blood extraction laboratory, the previous mermaid was no longer there, replaced by another mermaid with a purple tail.

The needles were inserted into the neck, and connected to the spine. The blood they drew was not ordinary blood from blood vessels; most likely, it was blood from the bone marrow.

Hematopoietic stem cells are also very rare in the human body, and their recovery rate is slow.

Merfolk are probably the same.

The blood, which was already scarce, was pumped out one by one.

No wonder the merfolk he saw in the laboratory looked so weak. The mermaid he saw in Laboratory 21 had tiny wounds on the back of her neck.

Each wound meant one tube of blood, and that had to account for the healed needle marks as well.

One could imagine how much blood had been drawn from that mermaid.

The purple mermaid lay limply on the operating table, motionless.

The previous mermaid was casually thrown on a black oilcloth on the side. Several men in protective suits wrapped the mermaid in the oilcloth and lifted her up with effort before leaving through a special passage.

Seeing them about to leave, Bai Lixin quickly followed.

They soon arrived at an elevator in an area he hadn’t seen before.

Opening the elevator, the two men and one mermaid walked in.

The moment Bai Lixin stepped on, the elevator sounded an alarm.

It was an overload warning.

Bai Lixin: “…”

‘It’s definitely not because I’m too heavy!’

He retracted his leg, and the elevator resumed operation, and the alarm sound stopped.

The two in protective suits looked at each. Through the glass cover of the suits, both saw the confusion in the other’s eyes.

“Is this mermaid so heavy? It even overloads, looks like it needs to lose weight.”

“No way? It was probably just a malfunction earlier.”

As soon as the protective suit personnel finished speaking, the elevator sounded the alarm again.

Protective Suit A: “…”

Protective Suit B: “…”

The alarm rang for two seconds, then disappeared again.

After two seconds, the alarm sounded again, then disappeared once more.

Ringing, disappearing. Ringing, disappearing.

After a minute, the two resignedly dragged the mermaid out of the elevator, opting to leave through a non-elevator passage.

As they walked, Protective Suit A continued to complain, “What’s going on today? It’s like a ghost haunting us.”

Protective Suit B replied, “Talk about science, don’t talk about superstition. How could there be ghosts?”

Protective Suit A grumbled, “Something’s wrong today. It’s really unlucky to have to walk so far to escort it.”

As they complained, they started moving forward. The passage they were now taking was the same one Bai Lixin followed Dr. Olay to the laboratory.

The escape system silently asked in Bai Lixin’s mind: [Master Bai Lixin, were you dissatisfied with your weight earlier?]

Bai Lixin: “…”

‘How is that possible!’

S419M: [Definitely not. I assume the Lord Host wanted to leave, but if he walked away without following others, it would be too abrupt. So, he deliberately made those people get out of the elevator.]

Bai Lixin: “…”

‘S419M understands me. Worthy of being an old partner.’

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In the live broadcast room.

[Hahaha, I’m dying of laughter.]

[Even though it’s through protective suits, I saw it. Did you guys notice? They looked stunned just now, hahaha.]

[I just discovered that God Xin can actually make jokes.]

[Suddenly, I feel God Xin is so friendly. God Xin, I’ll confess to you~]

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The two men in protective suits carried the mermaid for more than ten minutes before reaching a secret door in the wall.

Just as one of them was about to place the mermaid aside to open the secret door, the door suddenly opened by itself.

When they carried the mermaid, Protective Suit A was in front, and Protective Suit B was behind. So only Protective Suit A witnessed this strange phenomenon and instantly froze in place.

Seeing this, Protective Suit B urged, “What are you waiting for? Hurry up.”

“I, um, this door…” Protective Suit A stammered, not knowing how to speak. Suddenly, he felt himself being pushed hard from behind, and his body instinctively passed through the secret door and walked through.

Because he was unprepared, he even staggered a few steps. After stabilizing, he turned around angrily. “Why did you push me?”

Protective Suit B looked utterly confused. “Are you sick? Where did I come from to push you?”

In the midst of his anger, Protective Suit A’s heart thumped again.

Right, Protective Suit B couldn’t have pushed him.

Not to mention that Protective Suit B’s hands were carrying the mermaid, the distance between them made it impossible for Protective Suit B to touch him.

The mermaid’s body, along with the tail, was easily four to five meters long.

This was simply impossible.

A frightening thought suddenly flashed through Protective Suit A’s mind, and his body involuntarily shifted.

‘There’s, there’s, there’s a ghost!’

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Livestream room.

[I never thought NPCs could be scared of ghosts. This is eye-opening.]

[This copy probably doesn’t have a supernatural theme, only monsters and merfolk. And they all believe in science. Suddenly introducing something supernatural would definitely make them uncomfortable.]

[Umm, I don’t understand. What does God Xin want? He wants to scare them by pretending to be a ghost?]

[Haha, I don’t know, let’s wait and see.]

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After Protective Suit A entered, he felt both soft and sluggish. With difficult movements, he finally carried the unconscious mermaid to the third floor and placed her in her original laboratory.

All of this was no different from their usual work.

Blood was not extracted everyday. Every once in a while, when the doctors determine that the merfolk is almost recovered by judging the skin and scales, they will start a wave of blood extraction. Their task was to take the merfolk to the underground laboratory and then return them to their place.

They had done this job many times, and it had never gone wrong because it was too simple, with no room for error.

But today, he felt immense pressure.

After swiftly tossing the mermaid into the water, Protective Suit A was preparing to leave when the overhead lights, that were previously bright, suddenly extinguished without warning.

At the moment when darkness came, the wide-open door made a loud “bang.”

The sound did not end after the loud bang. The metal room door seemed to be caught by someone, vigorously shaking and continuously producing violent noises.

Click.

Bang.

Clank clank.

This time, not only was Protective Suit A scared, but even Protective Suit B was thoroughly frightened.

A hand suddenly patted Protective Suit B’s shoulder, and Protective Suit B instantly jolted. “Hey, don’t touch me. I’m scared, don’t mess around.”

Protective Suit A’s voice was trembling, “Wha-what if I say I didn’t touch you?”

In the darkness, Protective Suit A’s two hands stretched out in front of Protective Suit B. “See, my hands are here.”

Protective Suit B vaguely saw two blurry figures stretched out in the darkness.

However, the sense of pressure on his shoulder didn’t disappear. If it wasn’t Protective Suit A who touched him, then who was it?

“Ahhhhh!” Protective Suit B suddenly screamed, “There’s a ghost!”

Infected by Protective Suit B, Protective Suit A, who was already on the verge of collapse, also screamed. Both of them ran out of the laboratory, forgetting to even close the door.

Midway through, Protective Suit B stopped, “It seems like we forgot to close the lab door.”

With a pale face, Protective Suit A: “Should we go back and check?”

Though somewhat frightened, they still had a responsibility, so the two subconsciously looked back.

In the dim light, the open door slowly closed without any external force.

“Ah ah ahhh!”

“Help!”

“There’s a ghost!”

Bai Lixin: “…”

This won’t do? Trash.

He took out the Mermaid Heart from his neck and used it to treat the unconscious mermaid in the pool.

A faint green light illuminated in the dark pool, and then Bai Lixin heard a soft hum. The mermaid slowly emerged from the water, staring blankly around. Her distinctive bright eyes shone like two broght cat’s-eye stones in the darkness.

Seeing this, Bai Lixin reached out and patted the mermaid’s head.

The mermaid didn’t see the form, but felt the touch, and her body suddenly stiffened. However, she didn’t resist, just allowing Bai Lixin to pat her twice and even responded with a “Yiya.”

The tail hidden in the water flicked subconsciously, showing no hostility toward this mysterious helper.