After being poisoned by mushrooms, all the strange creatures became fascinated by me.

The seventh floor.

"Where did Tang Li go?"

Chiu Wan-ting couldn't help but frown as she looked at the pointer on the tracking compass that suddenly stopped spinning, the little devil's expressionless "X" made with his two little hands clasped in front of his chest, and the words "The object you are tracking is not in the service area" that simply appeared on the tracking map.

"Out of service area?" Nanjiang peeked out and clicked his tongue in surprise. "Did your companion accidentally wander into some kind of area under a large-scale no-tracking rule?"

"It seems very likely." Qiu Wanting began to pack away the items. "Let's speed up the game; as long as we finish it..."

Jiang Hui grabbed his wrist.

She stared at the tracking compass in his hand.

"Just now...did its pointer move slightly?"

Doupen Maze.

It turns out that my lover was so excited to welcome Xiaomei's birth.

My abdomen swelled, and purplish-black lines spread along my veins on my skin. Was I absorbing something eerie? I gently stroked those purplish-black lines.

That night, I was suddenly awakened by an exceptionally intense burning sensation. Turning on the light, I saw that purplish-black, writhing flesh had wrapped around my waist. I almost wept with joy. The machine was useful; it had fulfilled my wish.

In just one day, the eerie creature coiled around my limbs from my torso. When I looked in the mirror that afternoon, I discovered that my hair had turned gray. I used to hate those disgusting purplish-black flesh and blood to the core, but when they obediently melted into my body, I didn't hate them as much anymore.

Lei Hong reminded me that the surgery would begin in two days, and they would cut Xiao Mei out of my abdomen. The happiness on my face was so obvious that even someone like Lei Hong probably found it strange; this was the first time I had ever seen him run away in such a panic.

Garbage that tastes neither happiness nor joy.

Tang Li turned the page.

The surgery was a success.

When I saw Jerry take that clean, healthy baby out of my womb, my little Mei finally saw the light of day again, and all the pain disappeared. At that moment, I thought, I would be willing to die right now.

No, I cannot die. As long as I live, my body will remain a cage controlling the strange entity.

Xiao Mei has been taken home. I've already arranged for a trustworthy person to help her, and I've prepared all the necessary documents. Let's start her life anew, healthy and strong, Xiao Mei.

I stayed at the hospital and became their new experimental subject.

It wasn't until then that I discovered that the disgusting Lei Hong and his team had recorded the entire surgery and included it in the hospital's promotional video as a successful case.

Tang Li recalled the promotional video she had watched twice. It turned out that she had seen Gu Xiaoying's true face back then.

The tall man lying on the operating table was Gu Xiaoying.

Tang Li felt an unbearable chill once again: What had he gone through, what kind of experiments had he undergone, to end up in this terrifying state?

How can I describe the evil thought that arose in my mind towards Lei Hong at that moment?

A young man dressed in designer brands arrives with his elderly mother, dressed in tattered clothes; a seemingly respectable man arrives with a girl who has been manipulated into dedicating her entire life to her "partner."

They said: They did it willingly! Quickly pass on the strangeness about me to them!

Those filled with love fall, filthy and their corpses piled up into an upward staircase. At the top, the manipulator clinks glasses with the Dean, celebrating their newfound lives.

I adjusted the machine settings, reducing the number of new test subjects it could accept to the minimum value of 1. Xiaomei and I were the original two test subjects. Theoretically, the machine could only accept one more test subject (number 3) before it would stop working.

Each successful operation of the machine requires two people to enter it. Therefore, if my plan succeeds, the machine will become completely obsolete after Xiaomei and I.

Lei Hong laughed heartily, patted me on the shoulder, and praised me for doing a good job. From then on, they numbered each test subject with "3," which Lei Hong said was the best way to obscure the number of experiments and avoid the risk of exposure.

It turned out to be the case.

Tang Li's mind drifted to Old Ding waving in the corridor, his wristband bearing the number 3.

"Tang Li, can you hear any strange noises?"

At this moment, Xiao Mei, the AI ​​who had been helping Tang Li monitor everything outside, suddenly spoke up.

Tang Li blinked, forcibly snapping out of Gu Xiaoying's past experiences.

She listened intently, and besides the groans and lamentations echoing throughout the labyrinth, there seemed to be other sounds as well.

It was like... pulling a tightly sealed cork out of a glass bottle, the sound of popping and crackling echoing continuously.

What is that disgusting, stinking worm Lei Hong up to now? I wish I could see what he's doing.

Should I use my special ability to create a bunch of tiny pear-shaped figures to run around and take a look? But the figures are too short, and their legs are too short.

Tang Li couldn't help but imagine the scene in her mind: the little man had walked for half an hour and finally reached the giant worm, straining his neck but still unable to see the worm's full shape, only to be crushed into a pancake with a "splat" in the next second...

"I want to see the dean from a higher place..." Tang Li muttered to herself, quickly browsing through the eerie live-streaming marketplace.

Suddenly, a brilliant idea flashed in her mind.

"Xiaomei, can you control the drone?" she asked.

All sorts of mystical tracking tools are useless; what about using technology?

"A drone?" Xiao Mei was stunned.

"W-Is it okay? I've never used it before." Xiaomei hesitated. "But, what if the director finds out..."

Points poured in like water, and tiny drones appeared out of thin air around Tang Li. She raised an eyebrow dismissively, "So what if they found out?"

"Furious? And even more desperately looking for me?" Tang Li chuckled. "I couldn't be happier."

"You just asked me what you could do. Now, it's your time to show your skills."

So, one drone after another silently took off, flying in all directions, each carrying Xiaomei's eyes.

"I saw it," Xiao Mei's voice rang in Tang Li's ears, "Dean, no, the Corpse-Shattering Giant Worm is... splitting apart."

"They've gotten faster!"

The drones, like dragonflies, landed lightly on top of the filing cabinet. The sounds of their flight and landing were completely drowned out by the groans and lamentations of the giant carcass worms.

The giant worm split apart.

It doesn't break in two from the middle of the body like an earthworm, but rather more like... childbirth.

The enormous worm, made up of pieces of flesh stuck together, writhed with all its might, its minced flesh trembling in agony, its head howling, and even its arms, which stretched out in all directions, clenched into fists.

Then its head and tail split open together, and with each thud of its torso, an even smaller, fragmented worm was squeezed out.

These dismembered worms were very fast; as soon as they landed, they scattered in all directions of the maze.

The dean's voice, like the queen insect's decree, echoed repeatedly in their ears: "Find her! Find her!"

The dismemberment worms exhibited an astonishing order; they searched everywhere and could even nimbly crawl in and out of filing cabinets.

"Tang Li," Xiao Mei's voice turned serious, "there are worms approaching you."

Tang Li, still holding the book in her hands, left her hiding place without a second thought.

"Little Mei, Little Mei," she laughed, "show me the way."

Xiao Mei was taken aback, then smiled.

She answered crisply into the earpiece, "Okay, I'm here!"