Chapter 507: Chapter 507: Furnace (12)_1 Chapter 507: Chapter 507: Furnace (12)_1 “I think you should be familiar with this face?”
As Fu Qian examined, the voice behind him resounded once more.
“Just like I said earlier, you could’ve left directly, thereby avoiding these troubles.”
“Unfortunately, the moment you saw certain things, their nature changed.”
“Are you referring to that thing above?”
Fu Qian reached up and pointed at the ceiling.
He had noticed it immediately, right above the bed on the ceiling, was a metal net that seemed hauntingly familiar.
Similar to the one that had welcomed him when he fell down.
The difference was that the spikes on this net were more than twice as long, resembling a collection of sharp little daggers. It was exceptionally ferocious.
At this moment, the net seemed to hang from above, clearly covering the entire bed beneath it.
Should it fall, even if the spikes weren’t poisoned, the person on the bed would probably be dead in an instant.
“Yes, her life and death are now entirely in your hands.”
“Additionally, you might be curious about what would cause the net to fall.”
Brother Vertical Saw on the TV affirmed Fu Qian’s question.
Before his words could even finish, a corner of the bedroom’s ceiling suddenly opened, and a soft ladder dropped down.
“It’s simple, just climb up and take a look.”
So well-prepared, huh?
Fu Qian didn’t hesitate to tug at the ladder while silently admiring the thoroughness.
Actually, without looking, he could roughly guess what was up there.
His satisfaction at the moment was because he could almost confirm from the previous Q&A that the person on TV wasn’t a recording but a real person engaging in real-time dialogue with him.
Although he didn’t believe this would be enough to find and defeat the adversary, seizing every opportunity to gain more information was always a good habit.
Quickly, Fu Qian climbed up the ladder with ease and discovered that the space between the two levels of building had already been breached.
Right there in the upper room’s wall, he could indeed see the small window.
At the same time, not far from that window, he could see markings sprayed with eye-catching paint, pointing towards a metal box in the middle of the room.
Above the metal box, there was a glass vial no bigger than a thumb, filled with a pale blue liquid.
As if fearing Fu Qian might not know what it was, there was even a special painted annotation next to it—[Antidote].
So in normal circumstances, if he crawled out from that window, he would undoubtedly see this first thing.
And based on normal thinking, this vial of medicine would undoubtedly be for countering the poison in his body.
Fu Qian didn’t rush to get the antidote but talked to himself while carefully searching around, finding no cassette or similar item.
It seemed that whatever choice was made, after the second test, the communication would shift from recordings to live connections.
With no further information, he, with at least one hand incapacitated and poisoned, would undoubtedly take the antidote on seeing it.
Although the room’s door didn’t seem to be locked, as if he had already escaped to safety,
usually, there wouldn’t be enough time left for him to get to a hospital for help, so whether the antidote was real or not, he would definitely have to drink it.
“No need to doubt, this is indeed the real antidote.”
And just then, the TV in the room suddenly lit up, Brother Vertical Saw’s puppet mask appeared, once again emitting a string of eerie laughter.
“And the dosage is exactly enough to eliminate the poison in you.”
“However, at the same time, there’s a pressure-sensitive device beneath the vial.”
“If you take the antidote, a certain trap set up will be immediately triggered.”
“And the final result is that the person downstairs will be killed by a blade falling from the sky.”
Is that really the case?
Fu Qian let out an unsurprised sigh. He had almost guessed some of it when he saw the manner in which the antidote was placed.
His own antidote was indeed linked to the life of the person below.
“So now you have to face a choice.”
“That is whether you want to move the person below to a safe area before you take the antidote.”
“Originally, you wouldn’t have had to worry about this at all, and this clandestine slaughter would never have come to your notice.”
“So now, do you want to save the person below or not?”
“I know this may cause you some trouble, such as questioning what your real motives are for saving someone? How much influence does that person’s gender and identity have in this?”
“To make it a bit more entertaining, I can tell you something else.”
“This person is also one of your secret admirers who, due to a lack of experience, easily misunderstood your reptilian ways and became wildly infatuated with you.”
“Even to the extent of convincing her parents to let her rent a place to live here on her own.”
“However, nobody knows she lives not far below you, not her parents, not you.”
“And after observing for a while, she even decorated her place to look just like your room.”
“Of course, she has been so careful, so you never knew about her feelings, until this very moment.”
“After hearing all this, is it even harder to make a decision now? Haha—he—”
“Sorry, can I ask a question?”
Fu Qian rudely interrupted the atmosphere-setting laughter and pointed at the bed.
“With all that said, who is she?”
…
Brother Vertical Saw on the television fell silent for a few seconds, which was rare.
“Your classmate Telika. Don’t you remember?”
There seemed to be a change in his tone, no longer wildly excited, and even carrying a hint of helplessness.
“Not familiar.”
Fu Qian casually said, then shook his head.
“Also, isn’t this test a bit too simple? I might not be a saint, but lending a hand to save a life is no big deal, right?”
“Lending a hand is nothing, but there’s one more thing. Telika has also been poisoned.”
Hmm?
“That’s right, the same poison as the one in your body, except she was poisoned earlier and without the antidote, her life will come to an end at sunset.”
Sunset, that’s not even ten minutes away!
Fu Qian subconsciously looked out the window and noticed the sky was growing increasingly dim.
So is this why the mission required him to return before sunset?
At the same time, he naturally thought of another point.
It wasn’t apparent at first, but the essence of this mission turns out to be about saving someone?
“So merely rescuing her from under the blade has no meaning, as her life is hanging by a thread.”
“Considering that there’s only enough antidote for one person here, if you want to save Telika, you will have to give her the sole antidote.”
“So tell me, what will you choose?”