Help The Villainess Trapped in the Beast World's Drama (by Lotus Seeds) novel Chapter 501

Chapter 501: Chapter 484: Suicide

"Your Majesty, why push me this far?" Vine sighed softly, then suddenly pulled out a silver handgun from inside his jacket.

Shen Tang and the Beastmen turned pale in an instant.

Lu Xiao immediately moved to shield her, and Xue Yinzhou was ready for action, yet in the next second—

"Bang!"

The gunshot rang out! Vine had turned the gun on himself, aiming at his temple, the bullet piercing through his head instantly, spraying a mist of blood!

"Ah!"

"Help, someone died!"

The sudden change stunned everyone. The staff at the institute witnessed the director collapse and die, immediately causing a panic, with some fainting on the spot.

Shen Tang snapped out of her shock, quickly rushing forward to try using her healing ability, but found Vine’s body already rapidly decaying, turning into a pool of blood and bones, emitting a pungent corrosive smell...

"Be careful! Stay away!" Jia Lan hurriedly pulled Shen Tang behind him, simultaneously raising a wall of water to block the toxic gas and quickly clearing the scene.

He muttered under his breath, "To directly commit suicide, this is too extreme, too insane."

Originally, it was expected he would feign ignorance, argue, or resist; no one thought he would actually kill himself.

Now with his death, there is no evidence to follow, and all clues are cut off.

Shen Tang’s face looked grim; this was simply madness!

She suddenly recalled something, grabbing a nearby trembling researcher. This was Vine’s assistant, usually responsible for organizing core data.

In a hurry she asked, "Where is the research data I handed to him a few days ago?"

The assistant’s face turned pale with fright, "Wha-what data? I’ve never seen it!"

Shen Tang’s heart sank.

It seems Vine had no intention of researching that data at all, likely having destroyed it long ago, fortunately, she had the system make a backup in advance.

Yet even with a backup, without a way to decode it, she still could not uncover the true secrets of the experimental base.

The system urgently voiced, [Host, Vine must be tied to the experimental base, otherwise, he wouldn’t have resorted to such extreme suicide.]

[He spent years at the Zero Point Research Institute, surely leaving behind many things in the database. If you let me access the mainframe, we might be able to crack these research reports!]

"How long will it take?"

[At least three hours, using the Light Computer to connect to the lab mainframe.]

"Okay."

Shen Tang immediately followed the system’s instructions to operate.

However, three hours later, the situation was far from hopeful.

The system for the first time cursed in anger, [Damn! That cunning bastard... he actually altered the database in advance!]

Receiving the information from the system, Shen Tang’s face instantly darkened—

"Your Majesty, I wish you well. I guessed you would find this letter."

"Forgive my departure without a farewell. I cannot disclose the answers you seek, but I know what you need."

"Before leaving, I prepared a gift for you, hidden in the secret safe on the left of the entrance of the top-floor laboratory."

"The password is: miracle012."

When Lu Xiao, Jia Lan, and Xue Yinzhou saw this "letter", their faces grew serious.

There’s a saying, "When a man is about to die, his words are good," but with Vine, it seemed especially eerie.

He seemed to have foreseen his own death—or perhaps had long been prepared for his exposure.

If he was truly a traitor, why leave clues? Could the safe contain a trap?

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