It's not too much to say that a beauty is a little bit stronger

When Xiao Huai and Lu Yuanshi appeared in the underground laboratory, several people in white coats walked towards them.

They glanced at the visitor badges hanging around Xiao Huai and Lu Yuan's necks and asked, "Who are you here to see?"

Xiao Huai blurted out: "Steve."

Not Jack, not Rose, but another very popular name.

After all, Jack and Rose knew their identities.

They rubbed their heads and asked, "Do we have a Steve here? What do you want to talk to him about?"

"We are the people sent by the Earl to conduct random inspections."

Xiao Huai spoke elegantly, and even though his face was a little pale, it still couldn't conceal his natural nobility.

When the man in the white coat heard the title of Earl, his expression changed and he raised his eyebrows. Someone came forward with the roster.

This roster is almost as thick as a textbook, and I don’t know how many people’s names are recorded in it.

"Found it. Are you looking for Steve Borrie or Steve Lane?"

Xiao Huai randomly picked a name, and a specialist handed them protective clothing and masks.

"Both of you, Steve is being held in... ahem, a moderate area, and is currently receiving treatment. Please follow me."

Xiao Huai's eyes moved slightly. What he said was "currently in the moderate area" receiving "treatment."

These two keywords illustrate two pieces of information. One is that the residents of the small town who conducted experiments in the underground laboratory had different degrees of illness.

Secondly, he used the word treatment, but what virus specifically was he treating?

Or is it that treatment is just a nice word?

After all, the man originally wanted to say that Steve was imprisoned in a certain place, but later changed his words after realizing that it was wrong.

However, since the diamond factory allows outsiders to visit the laboratory, it means that the truly useful information may be hidden deeper, in a more secret place.

All wards are transparent, with walls replaced by tempered glass, so the condition of the patients inside can be seen clearly from the outside.

Wanting to get to the moderate area, they first passed through the mild area.

In the mild isolation ward, the patients looked relatively calm, wearing white hospital gowns. Some were reading, and some were watching TV.

There wasn't much change in expression on their faces, and everyone seemed quite relaxed, making it difficult to detect any abnormality from their appearance.

Apart from the common feature of having tiny pinholes on their necks, these people all look more or less defective.

Some have buck teeth, some have scars or spots on their faces...

After walking for about three minutes, Xiao Huai noticed a little boy being held in a mild illness ward.

The boy huddled in a ball in the corner, his hair disheveled and his eyes vacant.

His facial features appear more delicate among this group of people.

"Wait." Xiao Huai suddenly spoke, and the guide turned to look at Xiao Huai: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

The little boy had far more needle marks on his body than the average resident, at least twice as many.

Xiao Huai walked to the glass house, slowly reached out his hand to touch the glass, and his eyes fell on the little boy.

The little boy noticed someone was looking at him and suddenly started shaking violently.

"He looked scared."

The guide also came forward, flipped through the documents in his hand, pulled up the boy's file, and then his pupils dilated slightly.

"Oh my God, you're right. He should be transferred to the moderate ward. His blood type is O, so he should be able to start the inoculation now."

The guide quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and said something inside, then looked at Xiao Huai.

"Thank you so much. If you hadn't kindly reminded me, I would have wasted my precious skin."

Xiao Huai didn't say anything. The guide thought he was being aloof because he didn't say anything, so he continued to lead the way.

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The air pressure in the moderate area ward is many times lower than that in the mild area. In the mild area, you can at least hear the entertainment sounds coming from the ward.

But in the moderate area, there was dead silence.

However, Xiao Huai felt that this quietness was more like the calmness of the sea level before a rainstorm.

He smelled the scent of sea salt as the guide used the key to open the door to the central area in front and pushed the door open.

The countless snow-white, transparent and empty wards were filled with a glaring red. Every patient's face was deathly pale, and there were numerous tiny pinholes on the back of their hands.

There was a bag of blood hanging in almost every ward, but it was obvious that the blood was not for them.

It was extracted from them.

At this moment, Lu Yuanshi gently touched him with his shoulder. Xiao Huai glanced at Lu Yuanshi out of the corner of his eye and noticed that he was looking at a certain place.

Following his gaze, Xiao Huai looked towards the ward.

My pupils couldn't help but shrink slightly.

Several crystals the size of pimples grew on that Western-looking face.

These people were very similar to the diamond-covered corpses that Xiao Huai had seen in the manor.

But they are the native residents of the town, why would they be in the same situation as the players?

The first truth about the known world is that diamond guys are all transformed by players. They eat diamonds and turn into monsters. At the same time, when they die, diamonds will grow on their bodies.

So what's going on with these people now?

The purpose of the experiment... could it be to create a new species, a monster that is between players and NPCs?

Just thinking about the intention behind this, Xiao Huai shuddered.

The guide came to a ward and said, "We're here. This is Steve's ward. Would you like to go in and check it out?"

Xiao Huai's current identity is that he is a person sent by the Earl for inspection, so it would be unreasonable not to check him.

He nodded in agreement, and the guide opened the door of the ward.

Steve was about forty or fifty years old, with a full beard and a very weathered look. He lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

Even after Xiao Huai and Lu Yuanshi came over, he didn't react much, but instead raised one hand.

After raising his head for a long time but still not feeling the cool touch, he tilted his head slightly and met Xiao Huai's gaze.

"Aren't you here to draw blood?" Steve's voice sounded weak like a mosquito, with no spirit in his eyes.

Xiao Huai just half-knelt beside him and rolled up his sleeves.

As more and more skin on his arm was exposed, Xiao Huai saw more needle holes and unusual skin texture lines.

Steve was actually...contaminated.

These traces can only be produced by organisms that have been contaminated.

In other words, the laboratory did use residents to cultivate contaminated monsters.

There was no point in continuing to check his condition, so Xiao Huai began to pretend to check, but in fact he was talking in a low voice next to Steve.

"Don't you want to leave?"

All the patients were locked up here, but they did not riot, which means they were not kidnapped.

On the contrary, they most likely came here voluntarily.

There seemed to be a glimmer of light in Steve's eyes, but that light disappeared in an instant.

"Am I not more valuable now?"

He lifted the corner of his clothes with a bit of madness, and a diamond with a diameter of five centimeters had grown on his abdomen.

"Look, how beautiful! I never thought an ugly creature like me could create such beautiful diamonds. Drawing some blood is nothing! The space freed up is just for them to grow more beautifully!"