Immortal I Speedrun Supernatural Game

Chapter 714 Lies and Reflections

Do you know where Wu fell?

Suddenly, the hawksbill turtle spoke up and asked.

Upon hearing the name, Li Shuang revealed a look of intense hatred, saying, "I don't know, but I also want to find him! He has my things!"

"Your things? What things?" Qing Ning was also observing this woman, whom she was seeing for the first time, but whose name she was hearing for the first time.

After all, it was she who found the clues about Li Shuang before, so Qing Ning naturally couldn't trust such a person now.

However, the hatred the other party showed towards Wu Wang didn't seem fake; something must have happened between the two of them.

In response, Li Shuang sincerely stated, "That's an external program I hid in the Wish Showroom. If it's inserted into the deepest part of the data center, it can change the entire factory! We'll never have to suffer from the Smilers and the Bracelets again!"

The effect of this item was quite impressive to the players.

Transform the entire factory?

Could that be used to help them take over the factory?

One of the players, a man who appeared to be refined, stepped forward and asked, "What kind of program are you talking about that alters the factory? Does it directly destroy the bracelet system? Or is there another method?"

Upon hearing this, Li Shuang glanced at him, her lips curving slightly upward, but the upward curve vanished in an instant, replaced by a more cautious expression.

“I can tell you,” she said, “but I need to confirm one thing first—”

"Which side are you on?"

After saying that, Li Shuang's gaze swept over everyone, as if she were also observing the players, and said: "I know that you, as Descendants, have various special abilities, which are methods that the factory does not know about."

“You can choose to take over the factory or you can choose to destroy it. I need to know your choice before I can decide whether or not to trust you.”

Hearing this, the hawksbill turtle remained silent for a few seconds.

Then she laughed, not a normal smile, but a cold laugh that said, "I've seen too many liars."

Then she looked at Li Shuang calmly and asked in a curious tone, "What if we say we want to take over the factory? After all, it's too difficult to really destroy this place. It's better to keep it firmly under our control."

"You seem to want to destroy this place. Then we might not be on the same page."

The hawksbill turtle's words surprised Li Shuang.

She could indeed tell that these arrivals and Wu Wang had different intentions, perhaps because Wu Wang's intentions were too unpredictable.

Therefore, Li Shuang planned to first see what these people really thought before making a judgment.

However, the hawksbill turtle's frankness made her somewhat doubt the truthfulness of the other party's words.

But since things had come to this point, she had no other choice but to follow up with what the hawksbill turtle said: "If it's about taking over, then our ideas might lead to the same conclusion."

"After experiencing the strike and Wu Wang's betrayal, I also believe that it is impossible to destroy the factory all at once. It is better to take over it and transform it step by step into the way I want it to be."

Lime and Tortoiseshell were the most suspicious of this woman.

Hearing this, Qing Ning raised an eyebrow and said, "Then why should we cooperate with you? Since the external program is with Wu Wang, why don't we just find him and take it? It seems we don't need you, right?"

The other players nodded in agreement.

That makes perfect sense.

Why bother struggling with an NPC when you can just take what you need yourself?

However, Li Shuang said very seriously, "Because you don't want to use that program yourself."

"After the insertion program, the user's memories and soul will be extracted and injected into the factory's database. Only then can the smileers be made to go on strike and permissions be granted from the inside, so as to allow outsiders to take over the factory."

"Is any of you willing to sacrifice yourselves to help others complete this step in the database?"

Her questioning silenced the players.

If what Li Shuang said is true, and external programs require sacrificing users, then no player would be willing to go that far.

After all, what everyone was thinking about was conquering the dungeon, not actually rescuing and helping the exploited employees here.

This step really does require an NPC to perform.

Seeing the change in everyone's expressions, Li Shuang pressed her advantage and said, "Everyone, as long as you help me find Wu Wang and get that program, I can infiltrate the data center myself and change everything!"

"I know you may have had plenty of time to slowly probe the factory before, but it's too late now. That bastard Wu Wang is up to no good in the shadows, and he'll ruin everything!"

"He will bring destruction not only to the factory itself, but also to all the employees and to us!"

"Are you really willing to be buried by that guy so carelessly?"

"I've been hiding like a rat in the ventilation ducts of this factory for so long, not to see this kind of ending!"

Li Shuang's tone grew increasingly impassioned, as if a raging fire was burning within her. She said with unwavering determination, "What you can't do, I can do! But I need that program!"

"Everyone, for your own sake, and for the sake of those employees who are being persecuted out of ignorance, please help me!"

The players began to whisper among themselves.

The other party's words were indeed very inflammatory.

The phrase "It's too late now" in particular hit their sore spot.

That's right. Nobody knows when Wu Wang's secret schemes will erupt into something big. Moreover, under his influence, the factory is gradually changing its countermeasures.

Their initial plan for the wishing well to take over the factory is very likely to never actually come to fruition.

Now there's a way to complete the main quest in an unconventional way, how can anyone not be tempted?

Seeing everyone's reaction, the hawksbill turtle remained silent for a few seconds before saying, "Let's think about it."

Li Shuang nodded, took two steps back, leaned against the wall, and closed her eyes to rest.

Her breathing was very light, like a wounded animal pretending to sleep.

Qingning pulled Daimao to a corner and asked in a low voice, "What do you think?"

“She’s lying,” Hawksbill said without hesitation. “At least part of her is lying.”

"Which part?" Qing Ning thought so too, but she couldn't see the specific problem.

In response, Dai Mao squinted and looked Li Shuang up and down again before saying, "At the very least, there's something wrong with the part she said she was hiding in."

"If she really hid in the ventilation duct for so long, without sunlight or communication with people, her skin wouldn't just be pale; she would have more serious physiological problems."

“Her body is very healthy now, and her muscles have not atrophied, as if she has been specially treated, which is abnormal.”

They certainly couldn't imagine at this stage that Li Shuang's body had been partially modified by the talent incubation center. Even if she hadn't reached the level of a Smiler, even if she were to be sold as an ordinary commodity, her health and quality would at least be guaranteed.

But that was enough for them to vaguely sense that something was wrong.

At this point, the hawksbill turtle paused for a moment to think.

He then made a decision: "Don't explicitly reject her for now. Keep her around and observe her. If she really has malicious intent, she will eventually reveal her true colors."

"At the very least, we need to get our hands on the external program first, and then thoroughly understand it through her."

Qing Ning has always supported the hawksbill turtle's decision, but she is a little uneasy about what others will think.

Qingning looked at the group of players and said, "What about Hunya? He seems more interested in that program than we thought. What if he tells Li Shuang too much without warning?" The Hunya she was referring to was the man who had just asked Li Shuang how the external program could change the factory. He always had a refined and polite demeanor.

The player's ID is 【Old Tree and Dusk】.

He was also the technician in this small alliance who was previously responsible for implementing the program to steal wish points, so naturally he would be interested in this special external program.

At that moment, this guy walked up to Li Shuang, and the two whispered to each other.

“I’ll go remind him later.” Turtle sighed and said, “Hopefully this guy won’t suddenly become a liability; we have no room for error.”

After saying that, she looked towards the door.

This massive cleanup that shook the entire factory is probably coming to an end soon.

They came in a hurry, and they left in a hurry.

It's all thanks to some bastard who's hiding in the shadows.

Perhaps Li Shuang's words were full of lies, but at least she was right about one thing—Wu Wang could indeed bring destruction to everyone.

He has to stop!

Meanwhile, the outside world is in complete chaos. Even with the smiles of the staff maintaining order, many employees are hysterically shouting slogans of dissatisfaction and protest. Some of the inefficient asset employees who have been escorted are even planning to go upstairs and force their way into the talent incubation center to question everything.

Under normal circumstances, the Smilers could easily suppress such unreasonable behavior with force.

But the current situation is really too strange.

Employees who originally possessed extremely high value and desire have also become inefficient assets.

Their discontent even far exceeded that of the struggling employees on the fourth floor.

The factory has not yet given a clear response, and Smiler doesn't dare to forcibly dismiss all employees on the spot, lest it cause even bigger problems.

All they could do was use their unparalleled, modified power to keep these people from causing any major disturbance.

Just then, the factory's loudspeaker came on.

[The value of desire is abnormal; no external interference was found; the data is confirmed to be authentic and valid.]

[Current average desired value of all employees in the factory: 1.5]

[Percentage of inefficient assets: 98.5%]

The broadcast stopped when the announcement reached this point.

The entire building fell into a deathly silence.

Then all the lights flashed at the same time, as if the voltage was unstable or some huge device had suddenly lost too much power.

All the screens were flickering, including the elevator indicator lights which were flashing on and off, and even the wristband screen was flickering abnormally.

At this moment, the smiling people stood still, caught in a strange state.

Their smiles remained, but their bodies were trembling slightly.

Take away inefficient employees, cancel current actions, await factory instructions, take away inefficient employees...

The instructions in their minds were constantly switching.

It's unclear how much time passed before the smilers calmed down. The last instruction they received was—cancel the current action!

The factory could not detect any external interference, since the drained desire value that Wu Wang spread was the factory's own doing.

It cannot deny the judgments it has made.

The Great Purge was halted due to this conflict!

This massive purge, which caused widespread panic within just one hour and could have resulted in the elimination of a significant portion of the factory's workforce, was abruptly halted at an unbelievable speed.

Everyone felt a great sense of relief.

Especially for employees like Tie Jian, who were just one step away from being escorted into the talent incubation center, their hearts finally settled down.

The news of the end of the Great Purge came like a passing breeze.

The wind quickly swept through every corner of the building, but what remained afterward was not warmth, but a deeper chill.

The employees who were taken away were released, but most of them did not return to their workstations to start working.

Instead, they stood in twos and threes in the corridors, tea rooms, elevator entrances, and other places, chatting quietly.

Some people are crying sadly, some are laughing helplessly, and some are sitting silently in the corner with their faces buried in their knees...

Nobody knows what will happen next.

The factory offered no explanation for this swift and sudden large-scale cleanup.

The Smiler has left, but part of the elevator remains locked, and the gray-white numbers on everyone's wristbands are still flashing.

These circumstances all suggest that things are not over yet.

But from that moment on, employees on both high and low floors began to reflect on one thing:

What do I mean to the factory?

Especially those who believe they have made outstanding contributions to the factory, or those who have worked hard even if they haven't done anything particularly meritorious.

When they discovered that no matter how many perfect work tasks they had performed, once they were judged as inefficient assets and had no value to the factory, they would be immediately thrown away like trash.

Their resolve to climb higher wavered.

In the midst of this farcical aftermath of disaster, and the cold abandonment by the factory, the heart, which had been completely blinded by greed and desire, seemed to crack open slightly, from which another kind of desire, etched into the deepest part of the human soul, emerged.

Its name is—the will to survive.

This is the most primal and strongest desire.

It can temporarily suppress other desires, allowing a person to truly see themselves clearly in a moment.

After all, normally no one wants to die.

Even those who commit suicide, what they truly want to end is simply the various forms of suffering they face.

Rather than their own lives.

Admittedly, death is the quickest way to escape pain, but it is also a way that offers absolutely no second chances.

If there really were a way to instantly solve all the problems and pain we face, who would choose to commit suicide?

Of course, there is one exception.

This is also one of the most important reasons why the factory and other players could not predict Wu Wang's way of thinking.

He really wanted to die.

It's just that it's impossible... (End of Chapter)