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Soon, the wall was directly broken open, and a small room appeared in his line of sight.
The room was similar to a storeroom, with some shelves on the surrounding walls, and scattered cardboard boxes placed on the shelves.
In the middle of the room stood a Lost One, unlike other Lost Ones, although his body was somewhat ethereal, he was wearing clothes.
"Can anyone help me?"
This somewhat special Lost One was shouting loudly, but it didn't look at Yang Tao and the others.
"How can I help you?"
Yang Tao stepped forward and asked, but the other party completely ignored him and continued to stand still, saying:
"I found the light switch here, who can help me turn it on."
Light switch?
Yang Tao looked around the small room and indeed found a white light switch on the wall.
Catherine stood behind Yang Tao and softly reminded him, "This switch is clearly not right, I'm worried that something unexpected might happen if we turn it on…"
Unexpected? As long as he wasn't driven out, he could accept any unexpected situation, but before that, he at least had to take the Royal Rations from the surrounding shelves.
The Lost One in the middle was still tirelessly shouting for help, like a repeating machine.
He walked to the shelf, opened a box, and inside were jelly-like Royal Rations.
Royal Rations are a precious food found only in the Backrooms. Because they are often consumed quickly, it is not yet known, nor is it possible to know for certain, whether they spoil.
Royal Rations are an edible white gelatin. Those who eat it generally agree it is "the best thing I've ever eaten." However, when describing its flavor specifically, people's descriptions vary wildly—ranging from "a slightly sweet and pleasant taste" to "a feast fit for the gods."
Royal Rations
Restores 30 Hunger
Restores 30 Satiation
Saturated I
"The effect is good, but I wonder how it tastes…"
Now was not the time to eat it. The moment the box was opened, Catherine's eyes became somewhat unfocused, and she made a swallowing motion. It was clear that this stuff held an unparalleled attraction for her.
Unfortunately… Yang Tao couldn't even smell it.
He directly threw the Royal Rations and the box containing them into his backpack. This box could block the special effects of the Royal Rations, so it was clearly not a simple item either.
As for the shelves, he didn't touch them. He wanted to wait a while and come back to see if new Royal Rations would refresh on the shelves.
Catherine regained her senses when the Royal Rations were put into the backpack. Recalling the feeling just now, her expression changed slightly as she said, "It's… it's Royal Rations, how could there really be Royal Rations here."
She had initially heard Yang Tao say he was looking for Royal Rations, but she hadn't taken it seriously at all.
But now, Royal Rations were actually found on Level 6. This was explosive news.
However, after a second thought about the environment of Level 6, she extinguished the idea of uploading this news to the database. At most, it would circulate internally within M.E.G..
To avoid a large number of Wanderers getting lost on Level 6.
Hearing Catherine's words, Yang Tao smiled and said, "10 bottles of Almond water, I'll give you a spoonful when we go back, so you can taste it."
Catherine immediately nodded. She had heard of this stuff but never seen it, let alone eaten it. A spoonful for 10 bottles of Almond water was definitely worth it.
"Can anyone help me?"
The Lost One showed no reaction to him taking the Royal Rations and continued to stand in the middle of the room, acting as its repeating machine.
Walking towards the switch, Yang Tao thought for a moment and decided to summon the wooden door first, then said to Catherine and Bertolt, "You two go in first, I'll try to see what happens when I turn on the light."
Seeing one person and one Entity enter the Overworld, Yang Tao raised his hand and lightly pressed the switch.
Instantly, a soft light illuminated the entire room, and not just the room, but even the hallway they had come through lit up.
And the Lost One, which he had been observing, instantly started at zero frames the moment the light came on, rushing towards him like a Licker from Resident Evil.
And its body underwent a great change in mid-air.
Its originally transparent body became solid, its white eyes were now pitch black, and its arms turned into sharp claws.
Health 110 / 110
Click.
Yang Tao turned off the light and stepped aside.
Bang, the mutated Lost One… or rather, the Lost One that had returned to its normal state, crashed into the wall.
After it landed, its mutated features disappeared, and it transformed back into its translucent 'ghost' state.
"I found the light switch here, who can help me turn it on."
A smile appeared on Yang Tao's face.
Click… Click… Click…
Mutate, recover, mutate, recover…
After doing it about a dozen times, Yang Tao felt a bit bored, so he stepped through the wooden door and returned to the Overworld.
Catherine witnessed the entire process of the Lost One mutating, lashing out, and recovering, and she finally understood why no one who explored Level 6 had ever sent back news!
The moment the lights came on, before human eyes could even adjust, the monster was already in their face.
How could anyone play like this?
For ordinary people, it was basically a certain death situation.
"This monster is quite interesting. You two wait here for me, I'm going to make something."
With that, Yang Tao walked towards a nearby box and took out some Redstone from it…
He returned to Level 6.
A simple 0.5-second high-frequency Redstone device was completed.
"Heh heh, let's play…"
Activate.
Instantly, the dim room became like a dance hall, with the incandescent light, of unknown brand, flickering extremely steadily above.
That Lost One stood still in its mutated form, its eyes a half-black, half-white gray.
Can't move… can't move at all.
"When the Redstone runs out of power, you'll be free."
Heh heh…
Yang Tao turned and returned to the Overworld, closing the door, leaving one, or even several, Lost Ones standing still in the disco.
"Let's go, let's taste the Royal Rations."
Catherine asked somewhat doubtfully, "Aren't you exploring Level 6 anymore?"
"Not for now. There's no Smiler in Level 6, and I've found what I was looking for."
"Besides, I have a bit of an emergency here. We'll talk about it later when I want to go to Level 7."
Yang Tao looked towards the wall of mist, where a wooden door with no sign had appeared at some point.
Catherine nodded gently.
Although the exploration time was short, she had gained more information than M.E.G. had in all these years.
Walking to the table, Yang Tao took out a piece of Royal Rations from his backpack. In an instant, Catherine's eyes were once again filled with longing.
"Do you want to eat it?"
Nod.
"Then will you be obedient?"
Catherine hesitated for a moment, then nodded again.
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