Chapter 717 Cause of Death
There are many offices on this floor.

However, the brand name Liu Sheng only has a code name, and does not specify any information such as the company or position.

Even the tablet has a universal program interface that only displays the situation on the second underground floor and nothing else.

At this moment, Liu Sheng had a deeper understanding of what the employee meant by "the company is stingy".

This also made Liu Sheng a little confused, and he didn't know which office to go to.

However, her grey uniform was clearly inferior to other employees' bright yellow uniforms. Whenever she passed by, those people would show disgusted expressions, and some even covered their noses exaggeratedly.

So when they saw Liu Sheng and his teammates standing there in a daze, there were more and more suspicious looks and the atmosphere became increasingly unfriendly.

[This cannot happen anymore…]

With a thought in mind, Liu Sheng led his teammates to the door of an office.

The person inside the door immediately showed disgust on his face and shouted at her: "This is not the place for you, get back to your cubicle!"

Seeing that Liu Sheng was still motionless, the man became even more annoyed and pointed in a direction impatiently: "You don't remember where you are, do you? It's at the end of this corridor! Get out of here!"

Liu Sheng got the message, turned around stiffly without saying a word, and left with his teammates.

There was laughter from behind.

"As expected of someone who deals with those things, he smells like a corpse..."

"As dull and lifeless as a corpse."

"No wonder, I feel a little scared when I see their dead faces..."

"That's right... When I saw them just now, I felt a chill down my spine."

Liu Sheng curled the corners of his lips stiffly and walked to the end of the corridor.

On the doors on both sides of the corridor are written the names of various departments: Sales Department, Marketing Department, Human Resources Department, Finance Department...

Although it looks small, it has everything.

Then I saw the ritual department, the spiritual department, the cleaning department...

It seemed to be getting weird.

The further we got to the end, the more foul the smell in the air became.

Then there was a loud bang - it seemed like the sound of a toilet flushing.

Only then did Liu Sheng notice that his sense of smell and hearing seemed to have recovered.

【It’s really timely...】

Liu Sheng complained secretly and noticed that his "teammate" also frowned, obviously he also smelled the uncomfortable smell, but because his limbs were out of control, he could only endure it.

It was Liu Sheng who blocked his nasal cavity with his small tentacles.

A biological current fluctuation representing gratitude immediately spread through the other person's brain.

Next to the toilet is an inconspicuous small office with no official sign on the door, and under the toilet sign, it was almost thought to be a toilet.

Just a scribbled handwritten note - Corpse Department.

[What a miserable department name.]

I heard the roar of flushing in the toilet again.

Just then, a man came out of the toilet with a foul smell, and shook the water on his hands, which splashed onto Liu Sheng...and the teammate next to him.

It was because the teammate took a step back for some reason and just blocked Liu Sheng.

The man glanced at him strangely, muttered "He really has a spirit of dedication", then walked away with a pout.

Liu Sheng pushed open the door, and a foul smell hit him in the face - the smell of mold, sweat, stinky feet, toilet and rotting corpse.

These smells made Liu Sheng, who was emitting a faint smell of corpse and preservatives, feel safe.

In front of me was a pile of crooked file boxes. I had to go around them to see that there were ten spaces squeezed together among the various sundries and files, and only two of them were empty.

I guess this is their location.

Liu Sheng was originally worried that they would be noticed if they came in under a different appearance. But the facts proved that the employees here were indeed as the outside world said - lifeless.

They were so busy with their work that they didn't even bother to raise their heads. The cold light from the computer screen shone on their pale faces, which were half blocked by the towering file boxes. Their movements were stiff and repetitive, like a group of real zombies.

Liu Sheng walked carefully to an empty seat and sat down, and his teammates also sat quietly in another seat.

The teammates could only let the little tentacles control them. They turned on the computer and pretended to watch, but in fact they clicked on Minesweeper to play. Liu Sheng, on the other hand, was serious and searched for files in this simple system according to the label on the door of the morgue.

After a while, she found a more detailed death report.
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【Death Archive Report】

Report number: SPC-ALD-0457-DXX
【Recorder】:RTTE8754
[Number of participants]: 58 people, including 33 females and 25 males.

[Method of Death]: The death process is triggered by a high-pressure gas suppression system, accompanied by the injection of a lethal dose of drugs, causing the organs throughout the body to quickly stop functioning and complete physiological termination.

[Analysis of Dedication]: Afterwards, through the analysis of residual brain wave data, it was found that the consciousness fluctuations of the deceased before death showed the characteristics of active termination, and it was initially speculated that it was a voluntary choice to end life.

See the appendix for details:

·Psychoelectric bioelectrograph (Figure A1)

Changes in neurotransmitter concentrations (Figure A2)

【Faith Standard Analysis】:
During the death process, the conscious activities of the participants show a synchronous resonance phenomenon, and the devotion promoted by the ritual reaches the synchronization standard of faith.

See the appendix for details:

Consciousness resonance diagram (Figure B1)

·Belief component analysis report (Figure B2)

Conclusion: Meets the conditions for entering the next stage.

[Strange elimination situation]:
The attached photos of the bodies and the records of the decontamination process show the following data:

Abnormal elimination rate: 100%
Purification agent usage: 75% (meets the standard of less than 80%)

Evaluation results: No remaining strange characteristics, all individuals have returned to normal human state and can enter the next stage.

See the appendix for details:

·Comparison pictures before and after abnormal removal (Figure C1, Figure C2, Figure C3...)
[Ritual Completion]:
Current completion level: 75%
Brain wave activity needs to be checked regularly. If slight fluctuations are detected, please move to the "Ascension Room" immediately.

Please refer to the following appendix for the relevant indicator monitoring report:
·Ceremony Completion Progress Chart (Figure D1)

·Slight fluctuation detection record (Figure D2)
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Liu Sheng blinked his eyes.

So the cause of death was a fatal overdose?

No, that's just the direct cause.

We should think about why we would voluntarily end our lives.

Liu Sheng's focus rested on "dedication" and "fulfillment of faith".

So, this is a kind of dedication, in order to achieve a certain belief?

Her gaze moved to the "ritual completion degree".

I am afraid that this is a ritual of faith that can only be achieved with absolute devotion.

Then the highest level of dedication may be to pay with one's life.

This is the only way to complete the ceremony step by step.

Until...ascension?
Liu Sheng stared at the three words "Ascension Room" for a long time, and his thoughts became clearer and clearer.

Therefore, these collective suicides are probably not simply an end, but to complete the religious rituals and achieve the so-called "ascension".

At the same time, along with the rumbling sound of a flushing toilet, a reminder sounded:
【Ding! 】

[Congratulations, you found the cause of your death! Mission three completed! ]

【Progress is very fast! 】

【Reward: A pair of high-quality earplugs. 】


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