A brightly lit underground proving ground.

The girl's slender hand pressed on what seemed to be just an ordinary lime wall, but it was actually a wall wrapped in steel, and she groped for something, and her hands slowly moved on the wall.

"Where......?"

She must have been looking for something.

"Erin, stop making a fuss, rest for a while......"

The girl didn't feel tired, but the arms of Alice's clones that held her up so that she could reach much higher than she were were numb.

"Hah, hold on a little longer, a little further to the left, it should be almost there. ”

Erin has no intention of giving up - most of the "room doors" in the hallway here cannot be opened, and there are no ladders at all, or even movable tables and chairs that can be used to replace the clones.

"Forget it, I'll give up. Alice's clone was helpless, and she hadn't even eaten her first bite of food after being "born" less than three hours after she had just left the "mother's body". Where did you get the strength to eat without eating?

"It's time, ma'am!" she shouted weakly to the other clone sitting on the floor, and she gently placed Erin on the ground and sat down on the ground - she struck.

There is a limit to messing around with children!

At this time, her heart was full of resentment about "why was she so unlucky to be sent to do this".

"Alas......" The other clone lady on the side sighed, she was also helpless, but helpless, anyway, their task was to stay here with Erin, so that Erin would not interfere with Mo Ye and Alice's 'excavation career'.

Erin was lifted up again.

"A little further to the left!"

How many shifts has this been?

The two clones exchanged glances, saying three on one side and four on the other.

But it doesn't matter, who knows how many shifts it will take to stop this little ancestor?

……

About ten minutes later.

"Hah! I knew I couldn't be mistaken!"

After many years (Alice's clone feelings), Erin finally said the sentence other than "a little more left (right)", but by this time she was more than twenty meters away from where she had first been lifted.

"Oh...... Did you find anything?" though I didn't think Ireen could find anything serious, but out of politeness and resentment of such a long period of manual labor, Alice's clones asked.

"Look!" With a 'squeak' that looked like the mailbox had been opened, Erin opened a secret door hidden in the wall - it was a meter box, or rather, to Alice's clones, it was a meter box, similar to the meter box she remembered.

"Ah, yes, yes, since I've found it, I'll let you go first. At this point, based on the clone's experience, she felt that she should say this to get the most benefit - her hands were already shaking.

"No, hold on a little longer. The words that came out of Erin's mouth made the Alice clone despair.

"Hi...... Sisters...... Come and help......"

Both clones were equally tired, and since they left the "mother", their supply of nutrients had been cut off, and they were almost depleted by this time - this energy reserve was one of the reasons why the previous clones could not escape.

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"Gollum!"

The eerie sound of the collapsing staircase rang out.

"Who?!"

Alice reacted the fastest, pulling out her gun, aiming, and doing it all in one go.

It's just that she didn't find any suspicious targets, only a group of clones blushing inexplicably.

"Ah, let's all rest, I'll go get some food. "All the movements here can't be concealed from Mo Xie, who is standing at the front and moving the stones with his mental power.

The division of labor here is as follows, Mo Xie and those who are already able to use telekinesis are responsible for clearing the passages, while those who are unable to use telekinesis or who have bottomed out their mental power are responsible for transporting the cleared blockages to the adjacent floors with a temporarily modified trailer. These jobs are all physical work, and the consumption of physical strength is extremely high, and everyone's face here is bright under the light of the flashlight.

"Uh...... Is that really what you say...... Ladies, let's find a place to rest......" Alice was obviously dazed by the project in front of her, and it wasn't until Mo Xie offered to "eat" that she realized that she was already hungry.

"Great!"*N, followed by the 'clang' of the tools on the ground.

Under Alice's gaze, her clones sat down in a very unfigurative manner, looking extremely indecent.

The uniform fabric of these clones was originally small, and they were basically lost at this time, but fortunately, Mo Ye's body was fast enough - he was already outside the stairwell at this time, which saved Alice embarrassment.

"Hey, you guys, save me some face, okay?!"

Alice felt that there was something wrong with the memories inherited by the clones, and that she couldn't possibly lie like this dead dog, at least for herself.

After this sentence, Alice also lay down, leaning against the wall and looking like she was only fifty paces and a hundred paces different from her clones.

……

"It's time to eat~!"

Alice stationed clones on each floor, and there were only thirty people to carry out the excavation task, after all, the stairwell was so big, and thirty people already felt a bit of labor overflow. And the clones that were scattered into various layers were also assigned tasks, oh, basically looking for information on biochemical experiments by the umbrella company and the like.

They were called back by Mo Xie's announcement of "meals".

"Sorry, that's all you had for your first meal. ”

Alice took out the food she had collected in the various levels earlier (there was only an injectable nutrient solution in the ground floor of the test ground, which was mainly made of glucose, which had no effect on hunger), and junk food was the majority, and she took the lead in taking a bag of potato chips while pushing a small loaf of bread to Mo Xie.

"I don't need to, I used to be able to go without food for a month when I was practicing. Mo Xie waved his hand and excused himself from this most sumptuous food.

Alice didn't force Mo Ye to accept this piece of food, after all, there were too many of them now and the food was too small, which was originally only enough for two people to barely support the food for a month, and at this time, it had to be distributed to hundreds of people, and these foods might not be able to support even a day.

In fact, after distributing the food, Alice found that her previous idea of "not supporting it for a day" was still too optimistic, and these foods could not support even a meal.

"I'm sorry, no......" Alice looked helpless at a few replicants who hadn't received food, "You guys eat this first." ”

She handed over her packet of chips, but no one took them.

"Don't eat junk food, I'll share some of my food with you. A replica who had just taken a few bites of bread handed over the bread that was only half of it left, "It's all my own, don't think I've bitten it." ”

"Eat me, I haven't had time to bite yet. ”

"Eat me here, there's some cream in it. ”

……

The clones who had been given food earlier lent a helping hand to their compatriots who were still hungry, and a scene of "Kong Rong making pears" was staged in this world illuminated by the light of a flashlight.

“……”

Looking at this scene, who can swallow the food in their hands with peace of mind?

"No need. ”

It seemed to have copied the words that Mo Xie had said before, but unlike the treatment Mo Xie received, even if they said "no need", they were still forced into the food in their hands.

"Let's pray before cooking. Holding back the empty promise of 'Sisters, I'll give you enough to eat when we go out,' Alice said softly.

I don't know how long the road ahead is, until now they have only dug through one and a half floors together, and the stairs that have not yet been dredged are as few as seven or eight floors, and as many as ten or twenty floors, and the road ahead is confused. Whether or not they will get out alive is a question.

Of course, if the 'cannibalism' method could indeed ensure that some people would leave alive, Alice had never thought of this method in the first place.

The only food available is about to be eaten, and even a guy like Alice, who has cursed God countless times, can't help but have the idea of praying.

"Well, let's pray. ”

The clones holding the food had complicated eyes.

Put your hands together, close your eyes, the flashlight is like a candle, and this cold laboratory is the dining table.

"O Lord Almighty...... Please bless us to be delivered from this evil land, and if not, please speak of our souls into the kingdom of God, Amen. ”

It's a very non-standard prayer, perhaps because you have forgotten any prayers because you have been so far away from the last prayer you prayed.

"Mr. Mo Xie, don't you pray?"

Alice looked at Mo Yedao, who was standing against the wall.

"Prayer is a!"

Before Mo Xie could answer, a young and resentful voice came from a distance.