Chapter12
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On the contrary, if the vat containing No. 6's body was found first, it might be possible to deceive the doctor and No. 2, giving Lorna some chance of survival.
Luck was obviously on Lorna's side. After the doctor made another choice, the two of them worked together to lift the lid open. No. 2 took a deep breath and saw that the body of No. 6 was thrown inside with his head down and his feet up!
"Here!" No. 2's voice trembled a little when she saw the body of No. 6. She didn't know whether she was relieved or worried.
The tank here is very large. From their angles, they can't see the middle-aged man's face, only his legs that are going up. The doctor frowned and told No. 2:
"Climb to the edge of the tank and take a look!"
He wanted to know how Lorna killed the middle-aged man, and he also wanted to know whether Lorna was hiding under the corpse.
No. 2 was obviously quite obedient to the doctor. After hearing this, she hesitated for a while, but still climbed up trembling. The middle-aged man No.6 was short and fat. After Lorna threw him down, his body filled the jar very full, with his head folded forward, at an angle that was absolutely impossible for a living person to reach.
The face was vaguely visible in the sewage. No. 2 took a look and was terrified:
"No, No.9 isn't here!"
She fell to the ground with a thud. The doctor seemed a little disappointed:
"Really not here? Then let's go look somewhere else..."
When the two of them said this, Lorna, who was hiding in the vat, closed his eyes tightly, and his tense body relaxed a little.
As the doctor and No. 2 left, her heart, which had risen to her throat, slowly settled down. Previously, because the doctor and No. 2 were too close to her, she dared not breathe and held her breath for a long time. The lack of oxygen caused her body to become limp as soon as she relaxed.
The two men reached some kind of agreement to cooperate with each other. If they work together, their chances of survival should be much greater than that of one person at a time like this. This can be seen from the fact that the burly man No. 7 also fell into their hands.
Once these two people leave and their whereabouts cannot be found, this fragile alliance will inevitably disintegrate with the passage of time.
No. 2 and the doctor have been fighting each other all their lives, guarding against each other and even killing each other. Only when one person is left, Lorna has a chance of survival.
She had just let out a sigh of relief, her brain was still empty, and she was just about to check the prompt in her mind when the next second the vat she was in was hit hard by someone. The vat had been there for an unknown amount of time, and the bottom had sunk into the ground. When the first force hit, the vat just shook a bit, but did not tilt, and then the second hit came!
The sudden change made Lorna's scalp numb. Before she could react, a series of "bang bang" sounds rang out.
After two or three times, the big vat finally fell down slowly under the impact of this force.
The vat tilted, and the heavy lid slid down, and the water inside rushed out. Under the force of inertia, Lorna, who was hiding in the vat, rolled out. She hugged her head with both hands, and her shoulders hit the big vat on the other side heavily.
But in such a dangerous moment, in order to prevent being caught and killed by someone the moment she fell, Lorna endured the pain and did not stand up. Instead, she rolled on the ground twice. After feeling that she was some distance away from the source of danger that had hit the vat before, she stood up with her hand tightly holding the mouse, supporting herself with the fallen vat.
"You are hiding in there."
The doctor who said he was leaving did not leave. Instead, the two of them made gestures as if they were leaving. They must have deliberately let Lorna 's guard down, in order to force her out when she was relaxed.
The moment Lorna rolled out of the vat, the doctor and No. 2 should have stepped forward to subdue him, but because Lorna rolled on the ground and created some distance between them, the two lost the initiative, so neither of them stepped forward.
The doctor showed a little regret in his eyes because he lost the good opportunity to kill Lorna at the first moment.
He looked at Lorna . From the outside, No. 9 was still in a very miserable state. The guard uniform on her body was soaked with blood and dirty water, and was wrinkled and stuck to her body. Her hair was disheveled, her face was pale, her lips were tightly pursed, and her nostrils trembled rapidly due to her breathing. Her eyes were surprisingly bright, revealing vigilance, precautions, and an infinite desire for survival.
This woman was the one that was ignored by everyone when she entered the space. She was unremarkable in appearance and her temperament was not outstanding. Except for the fact that she was covered in blood when she just arrived, she was probably the person whose name no one among the nine people would remember after just one glance at her.
But it was such a woman who had defeated a man and a woman in the same group in this trial similar to an elimination match and survived to this day, becoming a trouble for the doctor.
"I really underestimated you."
The doctor still had his hands in his pockets. His eyes fell on the hand that Lorna placed on the tank to support her body. The back of her hand was very thin and had several scrapes, but she seemed not to feel the pain. She gripped a wired mouse with such force that you could vaguely see the marks of the metacarpal bones.
The mouse cable was hanging down danglingly, and a corner of the mouse was missing. Looking closely, there seemed to be some blood stains on it.
While the doctor was looking at Lorna , Lorna was also looking at these two people.
It can be seen that killing the burly man No. 7 was not easy for these two men. Both of them had bruises on their faces and bodies to varying degrees.
The doctor's uniform was tattered, and No. 2's image was not much better, with blood all over her body and face.
The one-on-two situation was unfavorable to Lorna , and her heart sank.
But the more critical the moment, the more she couldn't panic. Once she panicked, she might be easily killed by these two people.
The three people were standing in opposite directions, but Lorna noticed that the doctor and No. 2 were not standing very close to each other, and they left some space for each other.
She calmly tried her best to regulate her breathing and force herself to calm down. Her arm that had been hit was still numb and weak, and she almost couldn't hold the phone in her hand anymore. It was shaking non-stop.
"No. 2" Lorna raised her mouth stiffly and looked up. She had been used to being cautious and prudent all her life, and was not very good at speaking. But at this moment, she was forced to speak to alienate the two teams that had temporarily formed a cooperative alliance: "I'm really surprised, how did you survive."
The doctor didn't expect that after Lorna was discovered, the first thing he said was such a sentence.
"The nine people who entered the trial space formed four teams. In the end, except for you, each team only had one survivor left."
She stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, which were extremely dry due to nervousness and lack of water. However, she had not drunk water for a long time, and her body had lost a lot of sweat after several nervous moments, so she was already very dehydrated. When her tongue licked her cracked lips, Lorna felt a stinging pain on her tongue caused by the small cracks on her lips.
"To leave this space, killing each other might be the last resort. Why didn't the doctor kill you? Why did you survive?"
She stared at the two people in front of her vigilantly, not missing any subtle expressions on the face of Professional Woman No. 2, while also paying attention to the doctor.
When the doctor heard her words, his upper eyelids drooped slightly, and his expression was a little cold. The next moment he regained his composure and said with a smile:
"Have you received any hint that leaving the space requires killing each other?"
He put one hand in his pocket and moved up a little casually. As he moved, he saw that Lorna also reacted quickly and moved his body as well, trying to keep a distance from them.
The doctor's eyes fell on Lorna's hand that was hanging down and holding the mobile phone. He noticed that after Lorna rolled out of the tank, this hand had been hanging by her side and had not moved.
Was it because she lost some mobility due to injuries sustained during the struggle while killing No. 1 and No. 6, or was it because of the impact she sustained when she fell out of the tank earlier?
After No. 9 entered the space, she didn't say much except when she introduced herself. But now she started talking abnormally. Was she trying to alienate the relationship between herself and No. 2, or was she injured and wanted to take a break while talking?
While he was thinking, he was still moving slowly towards Lorna . At the same time, Professional Female No. 2 saw his movements and did the same as him. The two of them formed a flanking posture and moved towards Lorna .
"When No. 1 and No. 6 were dying," Lorna noticed the actions of the two people and was extremely anxious, but she did not dare to show any sign on her face. In this situation, if she showed fear, terror and anxiety, the two people in front of her would pounce on her and tear her apart like a wolf.
She gritted her teeth, endured the severe pain in her shoulder, and used all her strength to lift up her left hand that had been hit.
The pain caused her cheek muscles to twitch slightly, and cold sweat poured down her back. She tried her best to suppress her trembling hands and pointed to her head: "You should have gotten the hint."
When the doctor saw her action, his expression paused and he stopped moving.
No. 2 also stopped vigilantly and looked at the doctor with some confusion.
"There is no situation that would justify killing someone in order to leave here."
The doctor spread his hands out of his pockets and said, "I have status and position. There is no need for me to take the initiative to kill people and cause trouble."
"But No. 7 died."
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