Chapter 13 Chapter 12 Divide and Conquer

Hill was swallowed by the crocodile, and her first reaction was to close her eyes and wait for death. But she was unwilling to do so, thinking that she had to struggle at least, otherwise it would be so embarrassing? So she immediately screamed "Ahhh". But she didn't expect to be scared by her own scream, so she closed her mouth in panic. It was not until then that she realized why it didn't hurt, why didn't the crocodile bite me with its teeth? Finally, she mustered up the courage and secretly opened her eyes.

She found herself in a strange hall, surrounded by black shadows, with many stone pillars throughout the hall, supporting the roof more than 30 meters high. She noticed that there were black smoke under her feet, which flowed slowly, and no matter how she drove them away, they could be quickly replenished, but they would not be exposed to the ground.

Turning her head to look behind her, Hill was shocked. She saw a broken stone throne, occupying an area without smoke alone. Sitting on the throne was a skeleton monster wearing a gorgeous gemstone robe. The skeleton was motionless, with an exceptionally large pink skull on its shoulder. The material looked like jade, or maybe amber. The eye sockets of the skeleton were dark, and the inside of the skull could not be seen at all, which was a bit creepy. Just below the skeleton throne, in the open space full of debris, a white-haired old man in a white coat of a researcher was lying on his back, pressing his chest with trembling hands, and trying to squeeze out two words from his slightly open mouth:

Save me.

Hey, it's the common language, and it seems to be the accent of the capital. Hill bravely walked forward, followed the old man's trembling hand, and found the medicine bottle in his jacket pocket. The old man seemed to want to feed him medicine. Hill took the medicine bottle and took a look. It turned out to be an emergency medicine for cardiovascular disease.

He quickly unscrewed the bottle cap, and according to the handwritten instructions on the medicine bottle, he stuffed a pill under the old man's tongue, held his chin to help him close his mouth, and then counted seconds while waiting. This medicine really works. Sure enough, the old man calmed down after counting to ten seconds. His breathing became steady, and his head stopped sweating. When he was able to regain control of his hands, he quickly took back the medicine bottle, swallowed another pill, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

"What were you yelling for just now! You almost scared me to death!" The old man said angrily: "If it weren't for you saving me, I would have sued you to bankruptcy!"

Hill felt wronged and dissatisfied with the old man. She thought: I was eaten by a crocodile, can't I scream? Besides, I saved you, and you didn't even say thank you? Looking at your appearance, you are probably not a good person!

"Help me up." Dr. Buckler stretched out his hand.

Hill hated him even more, but it was just a habit forced by her work unit. She "couldn't help" reaching out and pulling him up from the ground. Alas, she not only hated the old man in front of her, but also began to hate herself. Hill wiped her hands secretly behind her back. On the one hand, she wanted to stay away from the old man, and on the other hand, out of curiosity, she walked into the area occupied by the throne fragments.

"Ouch! My..." Hill suddenly covered her stomach with both hands, took two steps back in a hurry, and dropped a shoe while stumbling.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Don't worry about me, I'm fine, I just had a stomachache, I've always had this problem." Hill waved her hands and stood up unsteadily. Strangely enough, as soon as she left the debris area, her stomachache was gone, as if it had never happened.

Hill thought of a possibility and asked, "Hey, old... old man, have you always had a heart disease?"

As soon as she asked, she wanted to slap herself in the face. The old man carried emergency medicine with him, so he must have been ill for a long time, is there any need to say that? In order not to appear stupid, she quickly added: "I think this area will cause old diseases to relapse, which may be a protective mechanism. What shadow can do this?"

"There are many possibilities. Body control, mental attack, curse, and even all-transformation shadows can do this. But..." Dr. Booker said: "They can't do it so quickly and so accurately. If this area can cause serious diseases, little girl, you should go in and try again."

"Why don't you go!" Hill clenched his fists and stamped his feet.

"I have a heart attack, you just have a stomachache, the risks here are completely different! Well, I know that in an unknown environment, women are not reliable and can only scream."

"Humph!" Hill folded his arms and walked a little further away.

Zhuang Xuteng stood still, watching and listening to all this, secretly happy in his heart. He would definitely not regard the two people who suddenly appeared as friends right away, and the necessary vigilance must not be relaxed. Seeing that they have conflicts, it reduces the possibility of them joining forces, which is definitely a good thing.

The old man saw the awkward atmosphere and tried to ease the atmosphere, considering that his physical strength was at a disadvantage. He asked four questions, trying to resonate with people: Who are you? Where is this? How did you get here? What's going on?

Not only the old man and the young lady had such questions, Zhuang Xuteng also wanted to know the answers to the four questions. Recalling just now, the bell stopped abruptly, and the surroundings suddenly returned to silence. That moment made people extremely uncomfortable. At the same time, the vortex of pink light turned into two green clouds. The old man and the young lady appeared from the clouds one after another, with an interval of about fifteen seconds in between.

Zhuang Xuteng didn't understand what happened, but he knew that he couldn't leave the throne, so he decided to stay still and wait and see.

The old man came out of the green mist first, sat down on the ground with his buttocks, and threw away a pair of glasses - the posture was like someone had suddenly pulled out a chair. Because he was facing the throne, the old man saw Zhuang Xuteng at a glance. So he quickly glanced around, but failed to see another silent green mist behind him, and walked straight towards the throne.

At that time, Zhuang Xuteng was shocked, and his left hand had already grasped the golden scepter, ready to give him a stick at any time.

The old man was also quite bold. He was halfway there and had already stretched out his hand to Zhuang Xuteng's pink skull head. Just as he stepped into the debris area, the young lady appeared from the green mist and screamed shrilly. The old man immediately fell down with his chest covered. His sudden heart attack was probably mostly due to that scream.

So there was everything that happened before: the old man was saved by the young lady, and the two looked down on each other.

In fact, that shout scared Zhuang Xuteng so much that his body stiffened instantly. Otherwise, he would probably reflexively try to help the old man who fell to the ground, instead of coming to his senses after a start, and taking advantage of the time when they were arguing with each other to observe each other's expressions.

The old man wore a white coat commonly seen by researchers on the upper body, and casual shorts just above the knees on the lower body, and a pair of loose thick-soled cloth shoes on his feet. He was unkempt overall, and his clothing style basically took care of the appearance, and the rest was comfortable, which just showed that he was not very constrained and might have quite good authority or authority. Well, he also stuffed his badge in his pocket instead of hanging it around his neck. Doing so only made his neck comfortable, but it was actually easy to lose the badge, which was a safety hazard. If an ordinary person did this in an institution, he would definitely be scolded frequently, but he obviously didn't care.

Zhuang Xuteng focused his attention and finally read the words on the badge: Director of the Silent Law Research Department, Dr. Truss Booker, Clearance Level 2-A. Uh, Zhuang Xuteng didn't know what this meant.

The screaming lady looked like an office clerk in her attire. Her clothes were clean and tidy, but a little tight, as if they were half a size too small. Her name was written on her badge, along with a long list of employee numbers. Only the name was useful, and the numbers were meaningless to Zhuang Xuteng. However, when she was saving people, the lady dropped a shoe and also dropped the folder that was sent with her.

The first page of the folder was a checklist, which read: Dingxin Magic Innovation Peak Research Institute-Warehouse Item Check Register (Standard A)-June 25-Warehouse Sequence: First 04A2.

Zhuang Xuteng wrote down this information, and then thought about it while they were arguing with each other. Obviously, the two people didn't know how they got here, and the surprise, fear, panic and extreme curiosity they showed before were all very real.

Combined with his own feelings, Zhuang Xuteng could fully understand their current behavior. He believed that the two people would be wary of each other first, and slowly they would start to cooperate because of the pressure from the unknown environment and try to solve the current dilemma.

Since Zhuang Xuteng couldn't control the behavior of the hall and couldn't leave the throne, he didn't want the two to join hands against him in order to protect himself. Seeing that the two people were getting familiar with each other through introducing themselves, Zhuang Xuteng decided to try his best and mislead them by taking advantage of the fact that they didn't understand the current situation.

So he moved his head and stepped forward with his right foot. The movement was not big, but it was enough for them to notice.

"It moves! It's alive!" Hill Li's hair stood up and he quickly covered his mouth, fearing that he would scream again. "Doctor, what is this?"

"I'm not sure, it could be a lich, a witch priest, a skeleton witch, a necromancer, or even just an electrically controlled skeleton model, or a talking projection..." Dr. Buck shook his head and said, "You don't want to get close, how can I guess! And the most important thing now is not to figure out what it is, but to know where we are!"

"I don't know where we are... No, Doctor, it just moved, will it be very dangerous? Will it kill us?"

"It has the ability to get me here from the laboratory. If it wants to kill me, just throw me into the sea and drown. I can't swim, so I don't even need to throw it to the bottom of the sea." Dr. Buck frowned slightly and said, "I believe it has wisdom, otherwise it can't complete such a fast and accurate transmission. I..."

He didn't finish the sentence, but frowned and secretly glanced at Hill. He didn't know the origin of the pink skull, nor did he know the origin of the woman next to him. Judging from her performance, she was making a fuss, and this kind of person would probably only drag his feet. Even if I figured out something, there was no need to share it with her.

Hill was on guard against that voyeuristic rogue boss all day long. She had practiced a lot, which made her very sensitive to other people's glances! Another old pervert - she obviously misunderstood Dr. Booker's idea - the old man started to think about taking advantage? What means are he going to use, knowledge and insight? Anyway, relying on those old arms and legs, unless they secretly installed a shadow slave device, don't even think about touching me!

Zhuang Xuteng didn't even need to work hard, they have already divided themselves.

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