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Chapter 17 An Unexpected Encounter with Other Chosen Ones

“What? You don’t trust me?”

The staff member in the red overalls lowered his head. The sorrow on his face gradually disappeared, replaced by a sinister smile.

Shen Wei’s heart skipped a beat. An ominous premonition arose within him.

“No, I sympathize with your situation. But you’ll be in danger without a work pass. I couldn’t bear to see you risk your life, especially since we’re brothers!…”

“Oh, really? You’re so noble…”

“We’re all just looking out for each other…”

The staff member named Tan Wei slowly raised his head. His narrow eyes were slightly squinted, revealing a hint of abnormal, faint red light. He slowly approached Shen Wei, who retreated under the immense pressure.

However, his retreat was purposeful. He was slowly approaching the exhibits. When he was close enough, he suddenly erupted, pulling open the glass doors of one exhibit after another.

Among them was a snow-white, eerie skeletal model, a grotesque woman seemingly parasitized by some kind of spider, and a blood-red corpse resembling a flayed toad…

As the glass doors of each display case were opened, the expression on the staff member called Tan Wei finally changed, becoming extremely solemn. He put his work pass back around his neck and drew a bloodstained machete from behind his back.

Shen Wei took the opportunity to run. He zigged and zagged through the halls of the Inhuman (Modern) Pavilion. Now, even he didn’t know where he was.

At this moment, he leaned against the back of a glass display case, covering his mouth and nose with his hand to minimize the sound of his breathing. At the same time, he tried to calm himself down, preventing the fear in his heart from growing.

“Rule number 6 of the visitor's guide: Do not trust what the staff says, or at least, don’t believe everything they say. It seems to be true. The staff isn’t safe either. Communicating with them might trigger a dead end. Where did I violate the rules just now?”

“The work pass! The rules in the Bizarre Museum Visitor’s Manual are incomplete. Hidden rule: Do not accept work passes offered by staff! If you see a dropped work pass during your visit, ignore it. If a staff member tries to talk to you, pretend you can’t hear them. Luckily, the staff and the exhibits seem to keep each other in check, or perhaps dealing with escaped exhibits is the number one priority… what would have happened if I had accepted the work pass?”

Shen Wei didn’t dare to imagine the terrifying consequences.

“You might have replaced him as a staff member of this Bizarre Museum, trapped here for all eternity. This Daddy is telling you, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, nor is there a shortcut to success…”

Shen Wei’s eerie right hand had already seen through his thoughts, promptly pouring him a bowl of lukewarm, poisonous chicken soup for the soul.

“I need to leave this Inhuman (Modern) Pavilion as soon as possible. It’s already fraught with danger. Out-of-control humanoid exhibits, staff members with ill intentions… I’ve already seen three exhibits, and the visit has probably lasted about half an hour. As long as I visit one more exhibit, I can leave this Inhuman (Modern) area…”

Shen Wei kept comforting himself in his heart as he surveyed the rectangular glass display case in front of him.

Inside the display case was a deformed human, with three heads and six arms. The three heads were indistinguishable in gender, all with distorted faces and long fangs bared. His six arms were disproportionately thin and long, and each hand held a bloodstained weapon: a dagger, a hammer, a sickle, an iron saw, a hatchet, and an iron hook! The only normal part was their lower body, which was no different from ordinary people, except that their legs were thicker.

Shen Wei looked at the terrifying deformed human and couldn’t help but swallow. He suppressed the fear in his heart and looked at the exhibit description!

Exhibit 32: Unique Variant

Legend has it, it is the offspring of a “God” and an unknown creature! Naturally brutal and bloodthirsty, with不死 (busi) characteristics (immortality)!

Source: Donation from an enthusiastic visitor.

“So the so-called ‘Gods’ have such heavy tastes, actually birthing offspring with unknown creatures. So he can be considered a demigod, but this source is a bit strange. What kind of visitor would donate such a monster? First, his strength is terrifyingly powerful. Second, he, like me, is a chosen one, parasitized by this monster’s limbs, and he didn’t control it well. In the end, he was taken over by this thing, which seized his consciousness and body, evolved into a complete version, and was finally absorbed into the Rule Anomaly, then controlled and became an exhibit in this Bizarre Museum. This can be considered a form of life imprisonment…”

Shen Wei looked at his dark, ghostly hand in horror and suddenly realized that the encroaching area had already passed his wrist!

“I’m… drinking poison to quench my thirst…”

“What are you looking at! Brat, I’ll gouge your eyes out if you look again…”

The dark, ghostly hand instantly flew into a rage.

“I’m considering cutting you off and locking you in a display case here…”

Shen Wei said with a straight face.

Dark Ghost Hand: “…………”

Just as Shen Wei was distracted, the originally motionless three-headed, six-armed monster waved its weapons and roared, attacking him through the glass of the display case.

The sudden attack of the terrifying monster startled Shen Wei, who was seriously observing. This guy clanged and banged, constantly waving its weapons and hacking at the thick glass of the display case.

But the glass of the display case seemed to be made of some special material; it couldn’t be damaged at all.

“A low-end ‘pseudo-god’ and an unknown life form hybrid dares to threaten this Daddy so arrogantly. Brat, lend me 200 years of your life, and I’ll beat him into dust…”

Shen Wei’s dark, ghostly hand seemed very emotional, as if its dignity had been provoked and trampled upon.

“200 years of life? I think your brain is fried. I only have 19 years of life left in total. If you want to become an exhibit here, I’ll lend it to you right now. I’ll just die…”

Shen Wei mocked mercilessly, completely giving up!

“Hehe, then forget it. A moment of patience brings calm and tranquility, a step back brings boundless horizons. This Daddy isn’t that petty…”

The dark ghost hand said with an embarrassed smile.

“Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling…”

“Help, help, don’t come over here…”

The crisp ringing of a bell, accompanied by a series of miserable cries for help, sounded from a display case not far away.

“Is it another chosen one? Is he in danger? What is it? Is it a terrifying exhibit or that strange staff member? No, that direction is towards the next exhibition hall. Is there something scary over there? If that’s the case, then I won’t be able to go to the next exhibition hall…”

Shen Wei flipped through the Bizarre Museum Visitor’s Manual, comparing it to the museum floor plan on it and analyzing his location.

“Right-san, I want to perform the next simulation…”

“Alright, one year of life, no bargaining.”