It's time to become an evil god.

Just as Bai Ge was about to take out the insecticide, the swarming insects suddenly stopped advancing and retreated in unison, abandoning their prey.

All sorts of strange and unusual plants curled up into a ball, like ferns that had not yet fully grown. They seemed to sense some terrible threat and frantically burrowed into the veins and channels of the fungal carpet.

"What's going on? Something seems off?"

Genichiro instinctively sensed the approaching danger, his face pale as he cautiously surveyed his surroundings.

A dead silence.

It was as if there was nothing there.

splat, splat

The sticky, slick footsteps came from the empty corridor behind me, as if my feet were stepping on a wet, mushy carpet.

Sensing some kind of threat, the flesh-covered carpet beneath everyone's feet slid back towards the walls on both sides like a receding tide.

A strange, inexplicable smell lingered in the air.

Standing at the back of the corridor, Genichiro suddenly noticed that everyone was staring at him with strange looks, and he hesitated to speak.

"What's going on? Why are you all staring at me?"

At this moment, Genichiro realized that everyone was not looking at him, but rather at what was behind him.

The footsteps grew closer.

I felt as if my neck were a rusty gear, and I slowly and stiffly turned my head to look at the source of the unhurried, slowly advancing sound.

Outlines slowly emerged from the darkness, like monsters emerging from the most chaotic and disordered nightmares. Strange, monotonous syllables filled the corridor, as if something was speaking in an obscure and incomprehensible language.

Its lower body resembles a giant spider, its surface covered with fine, sticky hairs that sway constantly as it moves its chelicerae and palps. Its abdomen and ventral surface are covered with eyeballs that are constantly turning, as if searching for prey.

At the very top of that creature was connected an upper body that could barely be identified as human, with tattered strips of a laboratory lab coat hanging on it, stained with various kinds of blood.

The man's face had a numb expression of utter despair, and his thick beard and messy long hair made him look like a disheveled vagrant.

"Dr. John!"

Bai Ge shouted, and the monster that was moving forward suddenly stopped. Its humanoid upper body suddenly raised its hand to cover its head and let out a painful cry. Its originally cloudy and dull eyes suddenly regained their light, and it looked around in a daze before turning into a frenzied joy.

"I did it! I finally did it! Hahaha! I never thought I'd come back to life!"

"You're awake, Dr. John."

With a shout, the other party calmed down. Bai Ge stared at the monster in front of him, which was no longer human or ghost, and waved the diary in his hand, saying, "You'd better explain yourself."

"I never expected that someone would actually take down that bastard."

Having recovered from his frenzy, Dr. John looked at the group of people in front of him with a puzzled expression: a Superman wearing a tokusatsu suit? There was also an Eastern man who looked like he had traveled from the Warring States period, and two guys who barely looked like normal people.

Dr. John asked slowly, "What time is it now?"

Bai Ge spouted nonsense with a straight face, "Su Erguan had just unified Europe, and the United States was defeated and had to cede territory and pay reparations."

"Are you kidding me? Su Erguan had already disintegrated 20 years before I fell into a deep sleep!"

"Yes."

Bai Ge said seriously, "But Stalin has been resurrected."

"Grass!"

When Dr. John saw the diary in the white singer's hand, those long-forgotten and vanished memories began to resurface little by little.

“Dr. John, the diary shows that you made tentative contact with that thing in violation of security regulations.”

Bai Ge asked coldly, "After that, you kept emphasizing that you opened Pandora's box, so what exactly was that thing?"

"...It really is Pandora's box, and it was opened by human hands."

With the last vestige of human sanity remaining, the doctor pieced together his fragmented memories and recounted the entire incident to everyone.

“I violated safety regulations by coming into close contact with that thing. I initially thought it was just a living being without its own consciousness, but I was wrong. This thing has been deceiving and manipulating everyone! It can actively connect its consciousness with any human being through its tentacles.”

"Deceive everyone?"

Bai Ge had a bad feeling deep down.

Even the monstrous creature, whose body had become deformed, trembled as it spoke of this matter: “Yes, the so-called mutated structural proteins are not gifts prepared for humans at all, but rather gifts given to various viruses and parasites. Humans are merely incidental infected hosts.”

"By the time I was told about this, it was too late. The mutated structural proteins had already spread with the earliest researchers and military personnel who came into contact with them, turning the entire world's organisms into a world of mutants through viral and parasitic infections."

"I don't know what kind of weapon of mass extinction this thing is. It was abandoned on Earth by a malicious civilization. It possesses unparalleled power, second only to the Engineers' black water and the divine seal in the Dead Space."

"No one believed me at the time. My supervisor even warned me that if I kept talking nonsense, I'd spend the rest of my life in a mental hospital. Dejected, I went back home and only wanted to do one last thing: destroy this monster. After some preparation, I planned to blow it up. But an accident happened. The patrol team discovered the explosives. Just as I was about to die with it, the monster, which I had always thought wouldn't attack, suddenly killed all the patrol members and forced me to merge with it, which is why I ended up in this inhuman and ghostly form. Most of the time I'm unconscious. Occasionally, when I wake up, I find many memories that don't belong to me in my mind. From those memories, I learned part of what happened."

"The US government tried to restrict me with something else found on Sentinel Hill, and they sent out wave after wave of suicide squads. I knew I might be in a permanent sleep afterward, so I deliberately left clues in the room, hoping someone could lift the restrictions."

"The last time I was conscious, it was the fourth batch. Then I fell into a deep sleep and haven't woken up since."

"The restrictions were very successful. If we hadn't broken the cocoon, Dr. John would probably have remained asleep here forever."

Bai Ge finally understood that the fungal carpets and human cocoons were not derivatives of what was kept in the Cecil Hotel, but some other kind of strange thing.

"I want to go out."

Dr. John exclaimed excitedly, "I have discovered endless knowledge in Pandora's box. These discoveries will have an immeasurable impact on the progress of human civilization! I now know how to deal with those infectious prions. Humanity is saved."

"I regret to inform you, Dr. John."

Bai Ge said calmly, "You can't get out now."

"what?"

Dr. John, who had been excited, froze on the spot, staring at Bai Ge in shock, and said, "What do you mean?"

"I'm afraid the American government has taken another precaution to prevent the situation from getting out of control. After sealing you in the Cecil Hotel, they have used some kind of technology to take you to another dimension. Even if you regain your memory, you will be trapped here forever and unable to go back."

This is a reasonable deduction made by Bai Ge based on various clues: the dream-sharing device does not share dreams, but rather another strange parallel world.

The news struck Dr. John like a bolt from the blue, leaving him stunned.

"No, no, no, you're lying to me!"

You must be lying to me!

“I’m not lying to you, Dr. John. If you don’t believe me, you can step out of this hotel and see if it’s still the world you’re familiar with.”

Dr. John's expression instantly turned ferocious. Dense, bluish-purple veins suddenly surfaced beneath the skin of the remaining human body. He roared, "I want to go home! I must go back!"

Suddenly, Dr. John's left hand transformed into a giant pincer, striking Genichiro's chest with pincers like a whip, breaking all his ribs and causing his entire chest cavity to cave in.

Genichiro spat out a mouthful of blood and flew out. With a bang, the fragile wooden wall was smashed, leaving a human-shaped crater. Genichiro slid off the wall and fell to the ground, vomiting a mouthful of blood mixed with his internal organs.

If it were a player without immortality, they would have been killed long ago by this attack.

This power is even more terrifying than that of the White Serpent God of the Valley of Serpents.

Dr. John suddenly rushed over, and Bai Ge immediately assumed a defensive stance. However, the humanoid monster ignored him and instead swept past Bai Ge, charging towards Red Superman behind him.

Bai Ge scratched his head and said somewhat angrily, "I feel like I'm being looked down upon."

Chapter 181 Card Game, Henshin

Finally, after my recommendation, my roommate started watching Water Brother's videos.

However, Red Superman showed no fear. He stepped forward and stood in front of the monster, letting it charge at him. He then said sternly, word by word, "You two run! I'll handle this guy!"

Bai Ge paused for a moment, then nodded and said in a deep voice, "Okay, thank you, Taro!"

He was about to clench his fists to meet the enemy when he almost had a heart attack. With a complicated expression, he turned around and glanced at Bai Ge, took a deep breath, stared at the monster in front of him, and said firmly, "I'm putting my words on the table today. If I back down, I'm not the Red Killer!"

Dr. John, who had already merged with the monster, simply waved his hand, and the entire corridor in front of him instantly disintegrated into fragmented bricks and planks, floating in mid-air as if weightless, leaving Red Superman dumbfounded.

He silently took a step back, turned around, and ran away.

"You give me a luda!"

Bai Ge was stunned and quickly asked, "Wait a minute, didn't you say that taking a step back means you're not a Red Killer?"

Red Superman retorted confidently, "Shut up! Haven't you heard the saying, 'Escaping is shameful, but it's useful!'"

However, he hadn't run more than a few steps when he heard a system notification in his ear.

The three remaining players stood frozen in place.

"The background world has been explored. Now, the final hidden mission begins: defeat Dr. John, who has gone mad! After completing the mission, all surviving players will qualify for advancement."

Ok?

It appears that this mission has multiple completion modes. If the player simply unravels the mystery of the world's background, the mystery digger will win, and the remaining players will be eliminated by the system.

If they solve the mystery and encounter the final boss, Dr. John, they will enter the final trial mission and work together to kill the final boss.

"In that case, I won't stand on ceremony."

After releasing the item from its seal, Red Superman removed his mask, revealing the resolute face of a middle-aged man covered in various scars. He calmly stated, "In our world, there is no peace. It is filled with all sorts of dangerous, unknown life forms: Gurongi, angels, fanged vampires, and Orphnochs. They take pleasure in killing humans. A portion of humans, through various coincidences, were chosen by the system to become players and were given items that grant them the power of ancient warriors. Since I've been given this power, let me deal with it seriously this time."

Upon seeing this, Bai Ge was stunned. "Wait, aren't you Red Superman?"

Red Superman smiled slightly, "Who told you I only have one identity?"

Red Superman's real name is displayed above his head.

Kamen Rider Origin LV12

The man named Origin put on the item and made a signature transformation gesture.

"Come on, hensin."

The next instant, a blinding light emanated from him. Dr. John, who had lived in darkness for a long time, could not adapt to the blinding light for a moment. He vaguely saw a strange man who seemed to be wearing red armor rushing out. Dr. John subconsciously raised his hand, and the next instant, his entire arm was cleanly cut off, and green blood gushed out.

"No, that's impossible..."

Dr. John's expression turned to one of rare horror as he stared at the man in the bizarre leather suit. He hadn't even seen how the man had moved; the intense pain was causing his hard-won sense of control to crumble. Pandora's box itself wouldn't die, but the part of him fused with it might.

"Drink!"

Dr. John suddenly erupted, determined to take one of them with him even with his last breath.

The skin on its underside split open, and a twisted, ever-evolving mouth emerged, lunging at its opponent. The Kamen Rider simply raised his hand, a strange card held between two fingers.

Dr. John instinctively sensed that the thing seemed to contain some kind of destructive power. Its proboscis, which extended like an alien, swept towards Origin's left hand. The doctor, who thought victory was in his grasp, felt a chill in his chest the next second. He looked down and saw a small knife stuck in his chest without him noticing.

Dr. John's attention was completely focused on his left hand, and he didn't notice the other person's subtle movement with the knife.