The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Li Can frowned. So Lin Wanyan was a teacher.

What he's most curious about right now is what stage in the lives of these players.

Having met her mother-in-law in her later years, Li Can speculated that the whole mystery of the soup happened when she was young or old.

But after actually meeting the person in person, who had an almost 99% accuracy rate, he hesitated.

Lin Wanyan, who was being dragged along by Aunt Guan Ling on the ground, was now completely exposed in front of him.

He stared at her closely and noticed that only her face looked like she was in her twenties, but the rest of her body, wherever her skin was exposed, was loose and sagging, and he could even see scattered age spots on it.

How old is she now?

Li Can was confused, but she didn't show anything unusual in front of Aunt Guan Ling.

He simply stepped forward with a gossipy look on his face and said, "Tell me about it. This test subject really looks different. What do you know about it? Share it with me."

"It really is quite different." She tugged at the woman's long hair again, somewhat annoyed.

Li Can was taken aback; what kind of grudge could there be between these two?

"You can't tell anyone outside what I'm telling you."

She didn't stop walking, and the two walked forward side by side.

Li Can immediately vouched for it, saying, "Of course, we're like brothers."

Aunt Guan Ling walked along mysteriously, gossiping as she went, "The news about Teacher Lin's family has spread all over our area."

"We were from the same village, and we played together naked since we were little."

"She was an only child in her family, which was quite unusual. Later, it seems that someone in her family was killed in a car accident or something, and she was forced to marry someone else."

"I still found a divorced man. He has a little boy in his family. This child has disliked his stepmother since he was a child and makes trouble at home every day."

"But she can't run away, because she was sent there as compensation because we couldn't afford to pay the fine."

At this point, she turned to the side and gave Li Can a look that said, "You know what I mean."

But Li Can scratched the back of his head, pretending not to understand.

"Oh, is that so? It doesn't seem that surprising. And then?"

"I don't really know what happened after that. I moved around, and the next time I saw her was at the hospital where we worked."

"She wasn't sick at all, but her family brought her in. However, I've seen this kind of thing a lot here; most of the time it's done on purpose by the family."

"Later, we went through the procedures and sent her to the second basement level for the experiment, but she was a little different from the others..."

Li Can asked curiously, "Oh? How is it different?"

Aunt Guan Ling stopped and squatted down in front of the unconscious Lin Wanyan. She grabbed the woman's chin, looked her up and down, and then slapped her with all her might.

The smooth, eggshell-like face suddenly revealed the imprint of five fingers.

It seemed out of place on that beautiful face, but the rising blush soon made her appear even more radiant.

"How despicable! More than thirty years have passed, and she still hasn't aged a bit, making me look like someone who's almost halfway to the grave."

Li Can already knew this, but what he wanted to know more about was the reason why she became like this—was it because of this experiment?

But it doesn't seem so; Lin Wanyan's face seems to be naturally like that.

"There's something else, and I'm sure you'll be shocked when I tell you," Guan Ling suddenly said in a sinister tone.

Li Can was startled by the way she looked up at him. Who knew why she suddenly only raised her eyelids and eyeballs, but her head didn't move at all, like a ghost.

"What is it?" He gently stroked the vulture that had landed on his shoulder, his gaze shifting between the two women on the ground.

"I heard that Fang Yi from the hospital, that handsome Dr. Fang, is having an affair with her."

"Tsk tsk, the two of them are more than twenty years apart in age, and she was able to give birth to him. It's disgusting."

"It's no wonder her son sent her in. I think Dr. Zhao Kun did the right thing. Some people just deserve to die."

"All those people we killed deserved to die!"

She became more and more excited as she spoke, gesturing wildly, as if she wanted to sacrifice herself on the spot the next second; she was simply a fanatical cultist.

Although Li Can was unsure whether the rumors were true, he felt that Lin Wanyan's face was indeed very deceptive.

After a moment's hesitation, he continued, "So, Dr. Zhao Kun in our hospital is her adopted son?"

"Yes, you don't know this, do you? Dr. Zhao and Dr. Fang have never gotten along."

Li Can's trip down to the underground laboratory yielded quite a bit of information. According to Guan Ling, the two people "Fang Yi" and "Zhao Kun" will soon be the subjects of Li Can's next investigation.

As for the older woman... she's been thoroughly used up, it's time to shut her up.

"I see, thank you for explaining all this along the way." Li Can smiled and handed over the knife that the old lady had lost.

In the instant she was completely unprepared, the blade suddenly flipped inward and stabbed at her.

"You..." Before she could utter her last scream, Li Can covered her mouth to mute her.

After killing two people in succession, Li Can broke out in a cold sweat.

Ever since he jumped into the vortex and entered the dungeon game, he hadn't been able to relax. Li Can leaned against the cold, smooth wall, his mood very complicated.

He was now incredibly close to the broth, and even the most crucial element, the broth maker, was lying right in front of him, yet he felt absolutely no joy.

Or perhaps a sense of sorrow and despondency lingers in one's heart...

He shook his head, suppressing these inexplicable emotions, and bent down to lift Lin Wanyan up from the ground.

They then summoned zombie puppets to drag Aunt Guan Ling's body to the hidden door where the two of them had just entered.

Li Can controlled the zombie to make Guan Ling open her eyes and identify her pupils. Just as the door was about to open, the sound of people talking suddenly came from the corridor outside the door, which had been completely soundproof.

"Someone's coming."

His plan to take Lin Wanyan back to the hospital had to be abandoned halfway through.

Thinking of this, Li Can quickly led the zombie puppets back and hid in the nearest "barber" laboratory.

The vulture, which could change its size, was left at the entrance.

From the secondary perspective, Li Can saw an old acquaintance and a slightly unfamiliar man.

The two were dressed in white coats, typical doctor attire, but one of them had his long hair styled into a bun, which looked rather odd.

"It would be best if Brother Zhao could help with this matter. Lin Wanyan, are you sure you're with this couple?" Wu Xiuyuan flipped through the medical record book, pausing on the page with a photo of a beautiful woman.

Li Can piloted a vulture the size of a mosquito to fly closer and take a look.

The document above contained Lin Wanyan's personal file.

Name: Lin Wanyan

Gender: Female

Age: 65 years old

Experimental focus: human dissection, blood extraction and circulation, rejuvenation, and resurrection.