Longzang

Chapter 1104 Exploration
This world is inexplicably strange; if you believe, it exists; if you don't, it doesn't.

Wei Yuan tried to make a small cut on his arm, and a similar cut appeared on his arm in the real world.

This instantly alerted Wei Yuan; it seemed the harm he suffered in the virtual world wasn't an illusion after all. If he thought he had discovered the secret between the real and virtual worlds and continued recklessly, he might very well fall into a trap.

Wei Yuan walked out of the office area, glanced at the elevators that were still going up and down normally, and instead of taking the elevator, he walked into the emergency exit and ran all the way to the top floor.

There were multiple security facilities in the safety passage. Fortunately, the security room Wei Yuan had just entered had an absurdly high level of security, which allowed him to shut down all the defensive facilities in the entire safety passage.

Just outside the top-floor door, a dense network of detection lasers blocked the entrance. Meanwhile, two automated laser turrets were mounted on the ceiling.

Wei Yuan's heart skipped a beat. The security facilities listed in the security room didn't include these two laser towers. It seemed these two laser towers had higher control authority.

In the real world, the detection laser emitters have long since decayed and fallen off, leaving only dark, empty holes in the walls.

The two laser defense towers were reduced to scrap metal, covered in a sticky substance, as if some disgusting creature had once nested there.

The floor door was half open, with several cables hanging down from it, each with a component attached to its end—it was unclear what kind of security trap it was.

In the real world, Wei Yuan only needed to walk directly into the floor door; all security measures would be rendered ineffective.

So Wei Yuan walked towards the tightly locked door to the floor, passing directly through the beams of green lasers. Two laser defense towers immediately rotated, locking onto Wei Yuan and continuously broadcasting warnings.

Wei Yuan ignored it and rammed into the door of the building, only to crash into it with a loud thud. Normally, he should have been able to pass through it directly, but instead, he was bounced back!
The two laser towers had locked onto Wei Yuan and immediately fired two super-powered lasers, which struck Wei Yuan directly!

But the instant he was bounced back, Wei Yuan suddenly used the rebound force to shift to the side, moving out of the laser beam's range, and then fired two shots, destroying the defensive tower.

Wei Yuan ejected the spent cartridge, feeling a burning sensation on his back. In less than a tenth of a second, the high-energy laser beam had sliced ​​through his bulletproof vest, ripped through his well-protected researcher's work clothes, and left two deep scorch marks on his body. Had Wei Yuan not worn a bulletproof vest beforehand, he would have been pierced through by the laser.

Wei Yuan looked at himself from the perspective of the real world and saw two deep wounds on his body.

This world is indeed full of traps. Fortunately, Wei Yuan was meticulous and conducted tests beforehand. Otherwise, he might easily have assumed that since the real world doesn't exist, there would be no harm in the virtual world. In that case, he would have run headfirst into the door of this floor and been caught off guard, killed by the laser defense tower.

The traps in this world were set up with great skill, specifically targeting cultivators who could quickly see through illusions and perceive the true world. Fortunately, there was a Heavenly Demon in Wei Yuan's sea of ​​consciousness, which was an unsolvable fallacy for this world, thus allowing Wei Yuan to directly see the true world and arouse suspicion.

After destroying the laser tower, Wei Yuan fired several shots at the floor door, destroying the lock, and then entered the top floor.

Wei Yuan had been to the top floor before and had even been to Ji Liuli's office, so he was familiar with the floor plan. However, having learned from his previous experience, Wei Yuan dared not be careless and cautiously made his way forward until he finally arrived at the door of Ji Liuli's office.

Wei Yuan pushed open the door, and the moment his hand touched it, he immediately stepped back. Instantly, multiple laser beams shot down from above, weaving a dense net. Had Wei Yuan been even slightly slower, these lasers would have sliced ​​him in two.

Wei Yuan raised his gun and fired at the ceiling, destroying more than a dozen laser emitters in the blink of an eye, one shot at a time. These laser emitters blended perfectly with the ceiling when not activated, but once activated, the ceiling instantly became transparent, allowing high-energy lasers to pass through.

After destroying all the lasers, Wei Yuan took one last look at the real world. In the real world, two large cast bronze doors were leaning outwards, their frames torn apart, as if violently struck from the inside. Wei Yuan knew very well the defensive capabilities of these two doors; the cast bronze exterior was lined with multiple layers of ultra-strong alloy, capable of withstanding close-range bombardment from large-caliber armor-piercing rounds—they were simply beyond human capability to destroy.

However, judging from the real world situation, Wei Yuan felt that even a superhuman could not unleash such power.

Wei Yuan reloaded his ammunition, then broke into the security room next to the entrance, changed into a new bulletproof vest inside, and returned to the door to test the access control.

Unexpectedly, after the access control system scanned Wei Yuan's eyes, the door slowly opened.

Ji Liuli's office area can be described as vast, with a huge space of several thousand square meters that looks like it could fit an army.

The office area spans three floors, with ceilings exceeding twenty meters high, creating a spacious and expansive feel. The decor blends minimalist style with extreme luxury. Huge floor-to-ceiling windows face the distant mountains, where the setting sun slowly sinks into the valleys, bathing the entire office area in a golden-red hue.

But the once magnificent floor-to-ceiling windows now have several large holes, and the office area is in a mess, as if it had just been through a storm.

Wei Yuan had exceptional eyesight; he could tell at a glance that what had happened in the room was not a storm, but a fierce battle.

At least several hundred fully armed soldiers fought here; the walls, ceiling, and even the furniture are riddled with bullet holes and scratches. There are large patches of purplish-black stains everywhere, but they don't look like human blood.

In the entire office area, only the desk facing away from the floor-to-ceiling window was spotless and undamaged, standing out starkly from its surroundings.

Wei Yuan slowly walked to his desk, his mind automatically reconstructing the scene of the battle from the surrounding traces. In this area, hundreds of Umbrella Corporation's most elite security forces fought a bloody battle against an unknown enemy, among whom were more than a dozen powerful superhumans.

Their opponents were not human; judging from the traces left behind, they appeared to be asymmetrical monsters. Faced with these monsters, the Umbrella Corporation's security personnel were completely outmatched, almost unilaterally slaughtered.

Strangely, Wei Yuan remembered that this kind of monster had not appeared in his previous experience in the outer world, and there had been no battles in Ji Liuli's office area.

When did this battle take place? Was it after Wei Yuan left last time? But the fragments of that otherworld clearly disappeared.

Wei Yuan reconstructed the battle process and arrived at his desk.

There was a microphone on the desk, and judging from its placement, it seemed that someone was sitting at the desk broadcasting something to the outside world.

The desk was much taller than a normal desk, and the chair was exceptionally wide, with the microphone positioned there as well. In Wei Yuan's mind, he pictured a gigantic woman, over two and a half meters tall, sitting perfectly behind this desk and chair.

In the real world, the desk and the surrounding three feet are also spotless, as if time has stood still, out of place with the surrounding environment.

Wei Yuan didn't step within three feet of the desk, but stopped at the edge, then slowly squatted down and even bent over to look under the desk.

Sure enough, there was a sticky note stuck under the table, with a few words written on it in extremely messy handwriting:
kill me.

(End of this chapter)