Chapter 35 The Hint

“Hey… hey!” Feng Bujue was stunned for half a second before he started yelling, “You’ve gotta be kidding me!”

“It’s no joke.” Gu Chen actually responded loudly from outside the door.

“Then at least help me unlock these handcuffs!” Feng Bujue said, already standing up from the chair and quickly running to the door.

“When I sat down and spoke to you the first time, didn’t you already dislocate your own thumb…” Gu Chen calmly replied.

“Holy crap… how did you know!” Feng Bujue exclaimed.

“I also know that you’re hiding behind the door right now…” Gu Chen said to Brother Jue through the iron door, in a calm, almost aggravating tone, “Once I agree to come in and unlock you, at the moment I open the door, you’ll launch a surprise attack against me.” He shook his head, “I advise you to dismiss those crooked ideas as soon as possible, and quickly think of a way to deal with the evil spirit in the room.”

“Can’t you give me a hint?” Feng Bujue asked, while simultaneously removing the handcuffs (in fact, he could have taken them off long ago), and quickly resetting both his thumbs.

“You think this is a game?” Gu Chen smiled, “Heh… very well, I’ll give you a hint then.” He paused for half a second, then continued, “First, you have to ‘see’ the target before you can deal with it, understand?”

“Understand my ass!” Feng Bujue said, “Are you telling me to open my Yin-Yang Eyes myself?”

“Hmph… you can slowly play around, I’m leaving first.” Gu Chen ignored Brother Jue’s retort, “If you can survive, I’ll see you in ten minutes.” As he spoke, his voice and footsteps gradually faded away…

“This is bad…” In that instant, Feng Bujue suddenly returned to his usual calm and composed state, his eyes also becoming sharp, “He really left…” He scratched his head, “I thought if I pretended to be a little panicked, the other party would give me more hints… could it be that this guy saw through me…”

As Brother Jue pondered, he didn’t slow down his actions. He quickly went to the table, put the desk lamp on the ground, picked up the table, and took it to a corner of the room. Then, he took a chair and placed it on top of the table.

“Hmm…” After moving everything, Feng Bujue stood there, looking at the table and chair in front of him, and muttered, “The table is 1.2 meters high, the chair surface is 52 centimeters high, which adds up to 172 centimeters, plus my height of one meter seventy-nine, that’s 351 centimeters… as long as I stand on tiptoe and stretch my arms up as much as possible, I should be able to touch it, right…”

He quickly made an estimation, and then climbed onto the table and then onto the chair.

The table was a square, four-legged table, placed against the corner of the wall, so it was very stable, and it was impossible to push it over. The chair surface was also relatively wide, and the base was stable. Under such conditions, Feng Bujue could naturally feel safe doing his movements.

Soon, Brother Jue removed the camera from a corner of the ceiling and returned to the ground.

“Ah… sure enough, there is a built-in backup power supply (once the AC/DC power supply is interrupted, it will automatically switch to battery mode).” Feng Bujue fiddled with the camera a few times, then revealed a screen and held it up to his eyes like a dv, using the camera lens to observe the environment of the room.

“Eh? Nothing…” He only took a few dozen seconds to look through the entire room, but he didn’t find anything unusual, “Did I misunderstand? Do I have to look at it in a different way?” He said to himself, “Or… is that Chief Gu lying to me? Is there actually nothing in this room?”

His mind raced, and after thinking for a few seconds, he felt that the probability of Gu Chen joking with him was relatively small… Moreover, he thought of another method.

“Looks like… I have to turn off the light…” Feng Bujue said, and immediately did so. He walked back to the center of the room, put the desk lamp on the chair that hadn’t been moved, and then… turned off the switch.

Click—

Along with the sound of turning off the light, the room became pitch black.

The next second, Feng Bujue turned on the camera’s night vision mode and held it up to his eyes again.

“Whoa… there really is something…” This time, Brother Jue finally saw some “unclean” things through the lens.

In a bright environment, everything in the room seemed normal. But in the pitch-black darkness… the scenery in front of Feng Bujue’s eyes changed drastically. He discovered that the six walls of the room were not painted with graffiti… but with countless talismans. And in the very center of the ceiling, there was also a huge, worm-like object embedded horizontally. All the talismans seemed to be drawn around this giant pupa, gradually spreading in all directions until they covered the six walls of the room…

“The so-called evil spirit… is inside this pupa…” Feng Bujue raised his head, pointed the camera at the ceiling, and muttered to himself, “I can see it… and it also looks like it hasn’t started moving yet. The problem is… when this thing really starts moving, how should I deal with it…”

Perhaps even Brother Jue himself didn’t realize that his performance at this time was a little too calm… This wasn’t some virtual world, but reality. Even those experts who were famous in the game world were just ordinary people in reality. If they were faced with the situation that Feng Bujue was facing at this moment, they might have been so scared that they were trembling and unable to move.

Of course, some would definitely say… Feng Bujue’s fear was sealed, so this was normal, right?

But I say… that’s not right. Not having fear doesn’t mean that one doesn’t have emotions like panic, shock, or tension.

Brother Jue’s calmness was mainly due to his personality. Even if his fear seal was removed, he would still react similarly…

“Uh…” Suddenly, a low groan came from the pupa, interrupting Brother Jue’s thoughts.

In that instant, a cold feeling suddenly surrounded Feng Bujue, as if he had suddenly fallen into an ice cave, even his breathing became unusually difficult. The muscles all over his body also felt stiff and numb…

“Tch… is this it starting?” Feng Bujue quickly recovered from his brief surprise and muttered in a low voice.

In terms of willpower, Feng Bujue was obviously higher than ordinary people. He could break his own fingers without changing his expression while talking to others… this could already explain a lot of things…

Therefore, when faced with this sudden, terrifying situation, he didn’t panic at all… and immediately took a very constructive action—turned around and turned on the light.

Click—

However… this time, flipping the switch didn’t make the desk lamp light up again.