San Tian Liang Jiao
Chapter 252 Brothers (9)
"This is quite the heavy taste…" Feng Bujue, using the dim light, saw an extremely disgusting-looking creature.
The monster's lower body resembled that of a human, with some remnants of clothing around the crotch, while the exposed thighs to the feet were a bloody mess. Its soles were actually embedded with iron plates, like horseshoes, with a circle of iron needles piercing through the soles and protruding from the instep. Just looking at it, one could imagine how painful it was.
The monster's upper body was even more bizarre. Its torso was covered in tongues, all over the front, back, and armpits, and each one was wriggling…
Its head was covered by an iron mask, which tightly encased its head from the top to the chin, leaving no holes for breathing or observation.
Two muscular arms hung at its sides. It had no palms or fingers; instead, bone spurs grew from its wrists, huge bone spurs close in size to ivory, one on each hand.
Feng Bujue immediately activated the Vajra Bell technique on the monster. If this thing was an NPC, Command One would activate; if it was a monster, then Command Two would naturally take effect. In any case, the data feedback from the menu would reveal the situation.
[Name: Arthur's Servant]
[Race: Synthetic Human]
[Level: 26]
[Height: 190 cm]
[Weight: 120 kg]
[Combat Style: Melee, Mid-Range Physical Attack]
[Weakness: No hearing or sight, can only use the tongues on its torso to sniff out targets. The tongues themselves are quite fragile.]
[Skills: Bone Spur Smash, Headbutt, Tongue Entrapment]
[Danger Level: Medium]
"Hmm… no related missions, flags, or identity information listed… so it really is a monster…" Feng Bujue quickly glanced at the information in the menu, then flashed back into the room, closed the door, and locked the bolt.
"This thing clearly doesn't have fingers either, heh…" Feng Bujue said, "Then it definitely can't get in." He thought to himself, "That was probably an optional flag just now. If I hadn't opened the door, the guy with all the fingers on his lower half would have died outside. Now that I've chosen to open the door, the plot is bound to turn into… I saved it, and now it will assist me as an NPC."
Bang, bang, bang…
The sound of banging on the door started again. It sounded like the monster outside was using its iron helmet to ram the door.
"Hmph… just as expected." Feng Bujue laughed, "Next, I just have to wait for the one outside to leave on its own…"
Kraa—
A bone spur easily pierced through the door, poking a hole the size of a palm. Fortunately, Feng Bujue had taken a few steps back after closing the door; otherwise, his chest would have been pierced through.
"You've got to be kidding me…" Feng Bujue was nervous, but he instinctively took out his main weapon, the pipe wrench. "Could it be that the real choice is… if I stand by and hide in the toilet, I won't be discovered at all; but if I choose to save that Synthetic Human, I'll be attacked along with it?"
Accompanied by the sound of thick planks being torn apart, the toilet door was being destroyed by the monster as easily as chopping vegetables. Throughout this process, Feng Bujue was pondering how to deal with the upcoming battle.
According to the data displayed by the Vajra Bell technique, this monster was not actually very strong. If they were in a slightly more open environment, a player with a ranged weapon could simply aim at the tongues outside the range of its bone spur attacks, retreating as they fought. That would be a sure-fire, damage-free kill.
Unfortunately, the environment of this scenario was very narrow. This toilet was the smallest of all the rooms. Even if Feng Bujue took out his only usable ranged weapon, Death Poker, he wouldn't be able to use ranged attacks much; at most, he could use the shield effect to block two fatal attacks.
The treacherous map environment meant that he could only use the monster's best close combat skills to deal with it. Plus, his Survival Value wasn't even full. Clearly… the situation ahead was not looking good.
A minute passed, and the toilet door was finally mostly torn down. Only a circle of the doorframe remained, with the center completely open for someone to pass through.
The monster leaned forward, squeezed through the large hole in the middle of the door, and approached step by step. Feng Bujue could only retreat, but this place was only a few square meters, and his back soon touched the wall.
Unexpectedly, after entering the door, the monster completely ignored Feng Bujue. It took a few steps, then turned to face the other side, approaching the Synthetic Human in the corner.
"Ugh… ugh… cough…" the guy without a tongue or chin howled, but no matter how he roared, the sounds were garbled.
Two sounds of "chih chih," and blood splattered.
The monster that entered later pierced the chest of the fleeing synthetic human with its two bone spurs. Then, it lifted the entire body up and used the tongues on its torso to adhere the body to its chest, making it look like it was holding a corpse, except without using its hands…
Feng Bujue didn't know if the one who came in first would be killed by such an attack, but he felt that in the current situation, it was best not to disturb these two's intimate encounter.
Arthur's Servant had found what it was looking for, and turned to walk out of the toilet, moving at the same unhurried pace as when it came.
Before long, it walked out of the toilet. From its appearance until this moment, it had not reacted to Feng Bujue's presence in any way.
"Can't sense my existence?" Feng Bujue, thinking of this, immediately chased after it. "I want to see where you're taking it."
An average person would probably still be standing in the same spot, not daring to breathe loudly, waiting for the monster's footsteps to disappear. But Feng Bujue would make a judgment within seconds and take action.
"Why can't it sense my existence… can't it smell my scent? Or… am I just a ghost?" Feng Bujue was strolling as if he was taking a walk in the park, following the monster at a distance of about a meter. Anyway, this thing had no hearing, so he didn't need to tiptoe. "Hmm… it's not yet clear whether its sniffing mechanism is based on conventional scents, so I can't speculate further," he mused. "And if I am a ghost, then the truth of this scenario should be… after the opening CG scene, I died in Cell Zero. From the moment I woke up, everything has been a ghost's fantasy, except for that scene just now, which was real. Heh… in that case, I'm quite a powerful ghost, at least I can open and close doors."
The reason Feng Bujue laughed was that both of these inferences were clearly wrong. He felt that they were a bit outrageous halfway through his thoughts.
"Eh? Could it be…" Feng Bujue, looking at the monster's back, muttered, "It's not that it can't sense my existence, it just doesn't want to hurt me." This thought popped up and triggered a series of associations. "That's right… assuming I am Andrew, how could Arthur's Servant attack its master's brother? No matter what happened between these two brothers, at least based on the limited information, Arthur doesn't want Andrew to die, otherwise he could have done it himself at the beginning of the scenario."
While he was thinking, the monster had arrived at the staircase leading to the second floor. Strangely, the meat wall at the staircase was still there, and looked exactly the same.
"Hey, hey, hey… how did you guys get down here? The footsteps just now were clearly coming from here…" Feng Bujue was about to complain.
But then he saw… the Synthetic Human with the corpse stuck to its chest, step by step, walked up the stairs…
It just squeezed into the meat wall, as if we were reaching our hands into a pile of red dates or some other dense substance, squeezing and squeezing, until it squeezed in…
The meat wall seemed to be alive, closely following the synthetic human's body outline, leaving almost no gaps, approaching and changing with its movement… After it passed through, it closed again to form a complete wall.
"So that's how you get through here?" Feng Bujue really regretted that he had only poked it a few times with his finger just now. "Wait a minute… then why did I trigger this dog-eat-dog plot after finding the three keys?" He slapped his forehead. "Oh! This plot is to hint at me, or rather, demonstrate for me… the method of passing through this wall."
Thinking of this, Feng Bujue took a deep breath, switched the Goblin Gas Mask to display mode, stepped forward, and squeezed hard against the meat wall.
But… he pushed for a long time, and the wall didn't change at all. From time to time, some blood was squeezed out from the gaps between the meat, splattering all over him.
System prompts were also frequently ringing: [A barrier controlled by spells, appears to be made of piled-up corpses]
"What does that mean!" Feng Bujue said unhappily, "The monster can pass, but I can't? What's good for the goose is not good for the gander?" In his anxiety, he even blurted out a line from *The True Story of Ah Q*.
"The hell with it, if the tiger doesn't show its might, you think I'm Hello Kitty…" He picked up the pipe wrench and used the "Watch Out!" skill on the meat wall.
Who knew that when the meat wall encountered a high-intensity attack, a layer of magical force field would appear on the surface. Feng Bujue's attack hit the invisible force field, and part of it was even reflected back. He flew out backwards, his body crashing into the corridor wall behind him, his Survival Value dropping directly to 10%, and he also wasted a lot of Stamina.
"Okay, okay, okay… you've got guts, you've got guts, you've got guts…" Feng Bujue pointed his finger at the wall, like someone who had lost a fight and was making threats. "You just wait, I'll come back and take care of you later."
Of course, even if he didn't say "you just wait," the wall wasn't going anywhere…
Feng Bujue was bumped and vented his emotions. Then, inspiration struck. He returned to the toilet and walked towards the corner of the wall. Finally, his gaze settled on that wall.
It turned out that when the more vicious monster had stabbed the other monster to death, it had left two holes in the wall.