The area beyond the gate was quite similar to the previous stretch of road; the dim gray walls and floor exuded a sense of lifelessness, and the overhead lamps were arranged at identical intervals, emitting a cold white light.

Feng Bujue and Igor walked forward for several dozen meters and saw a room.

The door to the room was also made of metal, and it was already open. Igor first peeked inside, not detecting any signs of life. So, at Jue-ge's instruction… he walked into the room and flipped on the light switch.

After the light was turned on, the scene inside the room was clearly displayed before the two…

This was a space of about forty square meters, filled with many strange and bizarre devices, and most of them were—torture instruments.

The room was filled with a foul and unpleasant odor. Feng Bujue speculated that it was a mixture of chemicals, blood, and excrement; the various stains remaining on the floor and torture instruments were enough to corroborate his speculation.

With Jue-ge's style, he naturally had to search the place, and after searching, he indeed found several valuable props.

After all, this was a "torture chamber," and there must be many things inside used to injure people. The weapons found here were naturally handier than those obtained in a surgical room.

Thus, a few minutes later, when the two left the room, Igor had an extra sharp meat cleaver in his hand…

At this moment, this burly "Soviet Captain" (who was very thin when he first entered the base, but his body gradually changed during the experiments), wearing a tattered straitjacket (the straps and connected cuffs of the jacket had already been cut open with scissors in the operating room), with bare, calloused feet, and wielding a murder weapon, was a veritable killing god.

With Jue-ge, this pillar of support, behind him, Igor's fear had eased a lot; and… as time went on, he gradually experienced the strength of his body.

Strength, reaction, and endurance—these obvious improvements aside, just now… while inspecting that unlit room, he also realized… that his eyes had remarkably good vision in the dark; this night vision ability was obviously beyond ordinary people.

"Hmm… although we found some usable weapons, there aren't any plot items…" The two continued to move forward, and Feng Bujue's thoughts never ceased, "After coming out of Experiment Room Number One, we've basically been turning back and forth in the same direction, getting further and further away from 'the room behind the mirror'…" Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think, "It feels like… the flow of this script is going to be very long…"

His feeling was right, the space of this script was very large and there were many explorable plots; the plot up to the point where the players came out of the gate… was only the beginning.

…………

About four hours ago, inside the [Observation Room].

This was the room only "one mirror away" from Laboratory Number One.

The interior of the room was decorated primarily in white tones. Whether it was the console, the seats, or the computer host, everything was streamlined in design, and it could be said to be full of futuristic sense.

"Attention all units, new subject appearing at designated spawn point."

Almost at the same second that Feng Bujue was teleported to Experiment Room Number One, a staff member sitting behind the "mirror screen" and conducting observations quickly pressed the communication button on the console and issued a notification.

In less than five seconds, a woman's voice came from the communicator: "Observer, this is Dr. Cox, please immediately share the data to… Analysis Rooms 3, 4, and 19."

"I've already taken care of it, Doctor." The observer had already completed the operation while listening to the other party's narration.

"Very good." A few seconds later, Dr. Cox continued, "Okay… I've taken over the data on your side, you can stop operating."

"Whew…" The operator heard this, let out a long breath, stood up, stretched, and said, "Then I'll go make a cup of coffee and prepare to watch the show…"

At the same time, elsewhere in the base, in an office…

An intellectual beauty wearing black-rimmed glasses and a white coat was busily working with great interest in front of a console made of virtual projections.

Dr. Cox had a pair of beautiful brown eyes and black medium-length hair. Although she was nearly forty years old, in her era, the signs of aging before the age of sixty were not obvious, so she looked as young and beautiful as a girl in her early twenties.

"Let me see… what kind of setting will it be this time…" Dr. Cox muttered to herself as she pulled up the relevant experimental data.

[Current Mirror Number: Earth 202]

[Time: October 1949]

[Location: Underground Laboratory of the Former Soviet Psychotronics Organization]

[Basic Story Background: During a sleep deprivation experiment, five test subjects persisted in a closed environment until the twenty-fourth day and experienced a "supernatural mutation" accident. Subsequently, all test subjects escaped the experimental area, causing a large number of casualties and paralyzing the base.]

"Hmm… a very typical plot." Dr. Cox only took a few seconds to scan through the content. Then, she raised her right hand and casually swiped in the empty space beside her, summoning another virtual interface.

"Data filing request, ***-3232, password… walnut."

After Dr. Cox said these few words to the interface, a cold, artificial synthesized voice immediately responded:

[Application submitted, verifying password…]

[Password correct, voiceprint recognition complete, welcome to browse the data, Dr. Cox.]

After a few brief voice prompts, a floating virtual window popped up, listing a detailed document…

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[Project Number: ***-3232]

[Project Level: Euclid]

[Special Containment Procedures: Due to the special attributes of ***-3232, there are currently no feasible containment procedures that can be established for it.]

[Description: ***-3232 is a story-type phenomenon that occurs irregularly. There are no clear signs or rules for its occurrence and termination, and its process seems to be completely random.

The Foundation's upper echelons still dispute whether this project actually exists.

Although this project has not shown any direct hostility toward existing human civilization or four-dimensional space, some managers still stubbornly believe that this project should be upgraded to Keter class—relevant applications will be indefinitely shelved before the end of the "Observation Plan."

According to existing observation records, ***-3232 has the following characteristics:

One, ***-3232 has a higher probability of appearing in the form of horror and thriller, accounting for more than [Data Blocked] percent, and frequently involves other *** projects (contained or uncontained).

Two, when ***-3232 appears, it will inevitably transport one to six humanoid creatures—namely "***-3232-1"—to the place of occurrence; their transportation methods are varied and the principles are unknown.

Three, all ***-3232-1 observed so far are young humans over the age of sixteen, with a male-to-female ratio of 6:4, and more than 90% are Asian. The appearance of ***-3232-1 is generally handsome and beautiful, especially the females; their clothing spans a wide range, and examples that have been observed include but are not limited to—special forces uniforms, suits, bathrobes, medieval armor, ancient Chinese armor, various styles of casual wear from the late twentieth to early twenty-first centuries, and various costumes of fictional characters taken from novels, comics, and film and television works.

Four, some ***-3232-1 will exhibit special abilities, such as super strength, releasing tangible energy, teleportation, [Data Blocked], etc.; the types of these abilities are very diverse, and the performance of each individual is different. The most common ability so far is "accessing items from a subspace that we cannot observe."

Five, ***-3232 will communicate with ***-3232-1 in some form that we cannot know and give them "missions"; the "missions" can be in plural form or conflicting. When receiving conflicting missions, ***-3232-1 will attack each other and spare no effort to kill the other party.

Six, the vast majority of ***-3232-1 will show disregard or even indifference to their own lives when "in a situation where death is inevitable" or "to help their companions achieve their mission."

Seven, when ***-3232 occurs, it will have some kind of mental impact on all the things involved in it. People affected by this impact usually ignore the bizarre names and appearances of ***-3232-1 and can understand the various languages they speak, even if some of these words are words that the affected person has never heard of. It is not until ***-3232 terminates that the affected person will realize the previous anomalies.

Eight, ***-3232-1 has a fairly high probability of dying or suddenly disappearing during the existence of ***-3232. The latter situation mostly occurs when ***-3232-1 is frightened, after being frightened, and when in a desperate situation; when all ***-3232-1 die or disappear, ***-3232 will terminate immediately.

Nine, when all ***-3232-1 have the same mission goals, the completion of a certain mission will trigger the termination of ***-3232 and cause all ***-3232-1 to disappear together. When ***-3232-1 has conflicting mission goals, one or one party must become the final survivor to trigger this effect.

Ten, the bodies of ***-3232-1 will disappear within seconds of their death, and attempts to collect their DNA have all failed.]

[Appendix: Observation Plan—Even if we cannot contain ***-3232 for the time being, with the Foundation's existing technological capabilities, we can completely induce its occurrence by creating some "environments suitable for the appearance of ***-3232" and make observations of the entire process, and even intervene to a certain extent. This will help us to understand the various characteristics of this project in more detail, and perhaps one day we can control and utilize it.]

[Note: All members of the Overseer Council please read Document 3232-O5]

[Document 3232-O5: Okay, let me get straight to the point. We are facing something projected from worlds parallel to us or in higher dimensions than us. For them, this may be some kind of entertainment or a simulation test or something. But for us, this is not fun at all! Because ***-3232 has the potential to bring in various Keter-class projects from other universes. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then go read Document 3232-L! That way you'll know that those guys who proposed the "Observation Plan" are simply playing with fire.]

[Document 3232-L: Agent Steven's recording transcript—

Time: [Data Blocked]

Location: [Data Blocked]

I think we've been tricked, this guy is definitely not an ordinary D-class personnel, and his name is probably not Rudy Austin either.

I don't know how he passed the review, I only know that this guy is very powerful, powerful enough to make you shudder…

When the power went out, he was standing in the room of ***-173, but he actually managed to escape…

He knows how to use 294 to subdue 173, and he went to 738 to do something; our security team doesn't even know the information about 106, but he seems to know it all; in addition, he knows how to use 1998, and seems indifferent even when affected by 513…

Although he was arrested after being affected by 055, the result was… he subdued Commander Kozmo during the interrogation and seized the opportunity to enter the emergency safety channel.

He and Billy… oh, sorry… and Anomalous-01 obviously know each other. I think he used 914 to process that puppet, making the latter's spatial ability stronger, so he escaped the base.]

[Note: For other activity records of the project, and instances suspected to be caused by the project, please refer to the "Observation Plan."]

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As the main advocate and executor of the "Observation Plan," Dr. Cox had naturally seen this document more than once.

In the known, verifiable ***-3232 activity events, the one recorded in Document 3232-L caused the greatest loss to the Foundation, and the Foundation at that time had not confirmed… or rather, had not even realized the existence of ***-3232 at all.

However, the situation is different now.

This… is the "future"—a future two hundred years after Feng Bujue's "Ultimate Rescue."

The Foundation of this era has the technological level to operate "mirror space" (mainly because they have made breakthroughs in their research on ***-1733). They can simulate, or rather reproduce, events that have occurred in a parallel universe in a specific environment.

For example, right now, the script that Feng Bujue is in is actually a "micro-universe" simulated by the Foundation in a huge facility. In a sense, this is similar to the "script world" generated by "Thrilling Paradise," except that its scale is much smaller.

*Click*—

A little over a minute later, the lights in Laboratory Number One came on.

At this moment, Dr. Cox was watching Jue-ge in the monitoring screen, and Jue-ge was also watching the one-way mirror in Experiment Room Number One… the two formed a peculiar gaze.

"Heh…" The doctor looked at this "experimental subject" and murmured softly, "Come on, mister… let me see what you're capable of…"