Chapter 129: Changing the Voice Pack |
"An illusion?"
Guan Shan's pupils contracted as he watched the blood figure disappear like a mirage, feeling momentarily dumbfounded.
"What did it mean by saying I'm not in this room? Where else could I be?"
One thing was clear: the BOSS's main body wasn't in this room; the blood figure was just a projection.
Guan Shan turned around and saw the four NPCs standing in the blood water, their shoes half-submerged.
However, their status bars showed no abnormalities, and their health points hadn't decreased.
For now, the water seemed to have no adverse effects, but if it kept rising, it would definitely drown people...
Guan Shan, feeling uncomfortable seeing the panicked woman with a foreign face, tentatively called out, "Dr. Lu?"
The blonde, blue-eyed woman hurried over, anxiously asking, "Who was that just now? Did he kidnap my father? Is this what you call an... Esper?"
Goodness, her perfect London accent was so authentic it was as if it had the Union Jack on it—absolutely flawless!
This simulator was too damn realistic; it even downloaded a foreign language voice pack for him!
It appeared foreign and was indeed foreign, inside and out!
Damn...
Forget it, this stupid simulator had no physical form to curse.
If Guan Shan's foreign language skills weren't decent, he'd be stumped right now. Communication, let alone gathering intelligence, would be impossible.
But why did the BOSS speak Chinese?
A Chinese ghost in a Westerner's mansion, invoking mysterious oriental powers?
Guan Shan suspected the simulator increased the difficulty because he had people with him and wanted to reduce the challenge.
Dog, this is genuinely dog behavior!
At least the change was only in Guan Shan's perception, and Lu Qiuqiu and the others could still understand him.
Guan Shan calmed himself, nodded, and said seriously, "Yes, it should be him. I didn't expect him to be lying in wait here... I don't know if he's targeting the Special Security Group or me."
He wasn't being narcissistic. With the information indicating he had offended two criminal organizations, it wasn't surprising someone was targeting him...
If the BOSS was after the second Ksitigarbha Statue, he could have just kidnapped Lu Mingyi and taken the statue.
Since he was waiting here, he must have another purpose.
"However, I don't know his identity. Do you have any clues in your logistics database?"
Guan Shan looked at the trio of police officers, A, B, and C.
Seeing their bearded faces, he almost couldn't hold back...
Police officer A replied in fluent English, shaking his head, "There's no signal here... we can't contact the outside or confirm his identity, but he might be the C-level spatial Esper known as 'The Room.'"
To them, the room's sealed state was straightforward. When Guan Shan opened the door, it was just a pitch-black void outside.
But on the other hand, the windows still showed a normal night scene, which was eerie.
Guan Shan asked about the Esper's specific abilities, but the logistics team said they had insufficient information: "We only know his ability traps people in a room, but what happens next... no one who experienced it survived to tell."
The logistics team explained the "Victim List" and mentioned that this Esper, known as "The Room," ranked 291st and was on the Special Security Group's wanted list.
Guan Shan: "..."
In other words, highly dangerous abilities, with a 100% fatality rate? Encountering such a wanted criminal, his luck was unparalleled.
Honestly, he hadn't been that scared initially, but now he was...
"Forget it. For now, we're relatively safe. The blood water isn't rising quickly. Let's figure out how to get out first."
Guan Shan stepped down from the table, walking through the blood water, and switched from the Demon Blade to the Crowbar, saying, "I'll try to force the door open. Be ready."
The others exchanged glances, and police officer A hesitated, "What blood water?"
Guan Shan was puzzled: "You can't see it?"
He suddenly realized his perspective was entirely different from theirs.
Guan Shan pondered, was the blood water symbolic?
Or would it cause death if it reached a certain level, even if it was fake? Lu Qiuqiu widened her eyes, carefully observing his expression, and asked cautiously, "Is your illness acting up?"
Guan Shan remembered that in Dr. Lu's eyes, he had the identity of a mental patient. He chuckled and shook his head, "It's not an illness... you can think of it as my ability. Whenever I'm in danger, the world I see differs from yours."
Lu Qiuqiu seemed to understand, embarrassed, "I see..."
She had been startled by Guan Shan's swift and fierce actions, her heart pounding with anxiety. Seeing the knife and crowbar appear out of thin air, she felt a mix of fear and excitement at her worldview being overturned.
So he was indeed an Esper, and Espers were real! Wait, so those gory scenes he described during his consultations were real?
Lu Qiuqiu's excitement was doused with cold water as she shrank back, realizing the young man before her might have countless lives on his hands...
Guan Shan approached the door blocked by the wall, his thoughts racing: "Combining what the BOSS said and its name, I can boldly speculate that the BOSS's ability might be like '1408' or 'Silent Hill 4: The Room,' creating a separate space. When we entered here, we were already in a parallel space."
That's why you can't go out, see through, hear, or touch...
The pervasive energy reaction detected earlier could be explained by them already being trapped in the Esper's constructed space.
"This ability is strong. If there's no way out, it's a one-way trip. No wonder all victims died."
But unfortunately for him, he encountered Guan Shan.
And Guan Shan's Crowbar.
There was no door he couldn't open!
Guan Shan coldly laughed, grabbed the Crowbar, and wedged it into the door gap, prying it in the opposite direction.
"Crack..."
The brick wall broke and collapsed, revealing another identical room.
This room also had blood water, but it was much higher, about waist-deep, and flowed in, reaching only up to their shins.
Inside stood a stunned, haggard old man.
"Dad!"
Lu Qiuqiu shouted in surprise and rushed to check on him, "Dad, what happened to you?"
Guan Shan raised an eyebrow, "I knew staying up late was bad..."
The Lu Mingyi before him didn't look fifty; he seemed over seventy or eighty, frail and devoid of energy.
Guan Shan squinted, "Wait... does this blood water represent the flow of time?"