His hand gets licked, for his efforts. She giggles, pretty sure he's definitely not one of the regular people here after all now. So, she responds thusly, "Luckily, you've come across an incredible investigator like myself! I've already figured out some things, so write this down! First of all that this whole situation was first planned out by a guy called Resarci. Who has apparently been disposed of, so the resident I questioned was confused as to why we were here in the first place.

This means people have been brought here before and made to return at least twice.

Anyway, the resident also mentioned that they had been "put on TV" and made to "experience weird things" because the regular townsfolk here enjoyed it. I am assuming he means tortured and forcibly done as a public display for all to see in the name of some twisted enjoyment.

Apparently we're in a place that's "made to look like a town" and there's a abandoned research lab on the other side. Which probably means this is some kind of weird experiment that's going on."