"Brother Jue … that's disgusting," Wang Tanzhi said.
"How is it disgusting?" Feng Bujue asked in return as he ran toward the dead body.
"Be it in terms of thought or action, it's disgusting!" Wang Tanzhi complained. "You can't do this just because you think the reward is not good enough, right?"
"Do this?" Feng Bujue said. "If there's feces or monsters inside, I'm the one who's doing this." He had already squatted down before the second dead body. "There's nothing inside, so that only proves that my analysis is wrong. But if there's something inside … "Feng Bujue paused, and his hand reached into the ghastly wound on the dead body's stomach. He started to search inside the bloated stomach like nothing was wrong.
"Brother Wang … can you tell me secretly what Brother Feng does for a living?" Long Aomin's Terror Points started to fluctuate because of this teammate.
"A novelist …" Wang Tanzhi answered with a dumbfounded expression.
"A novelist is that scary?" Ms. Saddest, who heard that, could not help but interject.
"Obviously … he's not mainstream," Wang Tanzhi added.
"Ha!" Feng Bujue laughed, and it gave the other four a shock.
"Look!" Feng Bujue said proudly as he raised something in his hand. He actually managed to find a piece of equipment from the bloody corpse's stomach, and it was even an Excellent piece of equipment …
Item Name: The Eye of Hostility
Item Type: Armor
[Quality: Excellent]
Defense Points: None
Element: None
Special Effect: Instantly discern the target of the monster's aggro.
Equip Requirement: Character Level 20 or lower. Cannot be traded after it is picked up.
Can be taken out of the scenario: Yes
Remark: Since you've found this item, obviously, it belongs to you. This goggles was made by a necromancer. He had many enemies, and he wanted to use this item to observe other people's murderous intent. Unfortunately, this thing can only observe one target at a time … When he was alive, he carved a small line of words on the top of the goggles — When you look at me, I look at you too.]
The equipment looked a lot like the goggles worn by pilots during World War II. The only problem was that it was disgusting to take it out of a dead body's stomach …
"Like I said, the hints in this police station are all too obvious. There's not a single soul in the entire city, but there's a corpse here. The other two corpses have items that must be present on them, but this one seems to be dispensable. If we could only find a baton from him, then the system wouldn't have placed such an impressive corpse here. It could have just hidden the baton in some corner. "
"Fine, fine … You win …" Wang Tanzhi said. "Time is of the essence. Let's go now. We're almost done with our recovery and search. Our teammates were also shocked by you."
…
After leaving the police station, the five continued to wander down the street. Investigating the police station allowed them to complete the next mission that they were supposed to do earlier. They had gained quite a number of useful items, and that should have boosted their morale … but the strangeness of Feng Bujue was slowly noticed. The fear that he brought to his companions was probably greater than the influence that the game could have on them.
No matter how scary the scares in the game were, everyone knew that they were fake. However, if Feng Bujue's behavior continued to evolve and level up … then it would be hard to imagine. After all, he was a real player in real life. Just the thought of it sent chills down their spines …
After walking for another ten minutes, Long Aomin stopped and pointed ahead. "Look!"
The group looked ahead and saw a plaza, a spacious plaza that was covered in pebbles. In the middle of the plaza was a large door. It was about ten meters tall and four meters wide. One side of the door was shrouded in a strange black fog, and the other side was open.
When the five approached the door, the system announcement said, "Current quest completed. Main quest updated."
They opened the menu and saw the previous quest, 'Search the city and find the Demonic Door.' There was a tick next to it, and two new quests appeared, 'Find the Key of Fire at the police station on East Ninth Street' and 'Find the Key of Wood at the shopping mall on South Fifteenth Street'. The moment the previous mission was refreshed, there was a tick on the right side of it.
After Feng Bujue looked at the quest tab, he rushed to the door. He looked at it for a few seconds and said, "So, that's how it is … Looks like it's not that bad after all. Of the five magic circles, three of them are lit up. This means that we don't need to look for the keys of metal, water, and earth. They have been maintaining the seal on the door."
Wang Tanzhi and the rest walked over and followed Feng Bujue's gaze. The open door was filled with darkness. It felt like even a strong light would not be able to penetrate it. Near the door frame, there were five magic circles of different colors. They were arranged in the shape of a pentagram. The five formations were inscribed with obscure divine inscriptions. At this moment, three of them were lit up.
Feng Bujue took out the Key of Fire and placed it in his palm. He raised his arm and approached the door. However, there was no response. He put the key away and said, "Hmm … We'll probably have to wait until both keys are collected and the next quest will tell us how to fix the seal." He paused. "There's no time to lose. The interval between the first and second darkness was about thirty minutes, and it has been eighteen minutes since the second darkness came. If the interval is the same every time, then we'd better get to the shopping mall within twelve minutes and kill the monsters there, or else …"
When Long Aomin heard that, he led the charge. "Quick! Follow me! "Even though he did not have the foresight, he could still make some predictions. If they ran into another strengthened monster, he would be the one fighting it. Earlier, he had been beaten up by the zombie, so he did not want to be beaten again.
With Brother Long leading the way, the five jogged toward the south. There was a city map at the plaza where the Demonic Door was located, and there were street signs and street names for the various directions. Therefore, without needing Feng Bujue to give him directions, Long Aomin soon found the location of South Fifteenth Street.
They ran one kilometer in five minutes and reached the entrance of the shopping mall. This was a distance that was neither too long nor too short. Basically, anyone with a normal physique in real life could complete this, but they would need to catch their breath for at least two minutes after the run.
"There's electricity …" Long Aomin was the type of person who could run a marathon in real life. One kilometer was like child's play to him.
There was a new concept here — 'Inconspicuous Attribute'.
This was an attribute that was everywhere. Even in the virtual world, it could not be fully quantified. Using Long Aomin as an example, as a player with a stronger physique in real life, there was a difference in the exhaustion of his Stamina Points compared to other players. Compared to the female player, Loneliness, who had the lowest Stamina Points, Long Aomin exhausted less Stamina Points. Even though it was only a difference of ten Stamina Points, this kind of small difference existed even at the later stages of the game.
In other words, if the maximum Stamina Points were the same, and they ran at the same speed until they were exhausted, then Long Aomin would be able to run further than Loneliness. This was the so-called difference in Inconspicuous Attribute.
Another example was a person who knew how to use a gun in real life and a person who had never used a gun in real life. Both of them had trained their marksmanship mastery to level A (Mastery Level A: Mastery, has a chance to learn the skill of the mastery on their own. When the mastery reaches this level, the mastery of the mastery of the mastery has a one hundred percent success rate). If they used the same skill and shot at the same target, then the damage and accuracy of the mastery of the gun in real life would be slightly higher. Of course, this was something that the player would not be able to notice. Only the system would know the exact difference.
As the game progressed, the overall ability of the player would become stronger. After level thirty, they would be close to the level of the Matrix. By then, the difference in Inconspicuous Attribute would be harder to notice. If one had to define this setting, it would be turning 'talent' into a kind of resource that would benefit the player.
"Just like the police station, it looks like places related to the main quest will have things that other places don't have, like lights and dead bodies," Feng Bujue said.
"What should we do next? Wait for the monsters to attack us? "Wang Tanzhi asked.
"Why is the system so bored? Why does it use the same method every time? " Feng Bujue replied. "Let's go in. Don't expect another zombie to break through the wall. There must be other monsters inside …"
He led the way to the door. It was a large glass door that moved horizontally. It was still open, and Feng Bujue strode in.
The shopping mall was huge, and it was hard to estimate how big it was. The lights inside were bright, and the elevators, escalators, vending machines, and other devices that required electricity were all working normally. However, many of the shelves were damaged to a certain extent.
The main building alone had five floors, and there were two cylindrical elevators that could go up and down. There were escalators on every floor, and the fire escape did not look like it was blocked. There should be a normal staircase inside.
After entering through the front door, there was a large supermarket that stretched as far as the eye could see. There were at least thirty cashiers, and they formed a wall like they were lined up neatly. There were many other shops on every floor, including clothing, restaurants, KTV, billiard rooms, and so on … If there was enough time, the players would be sorry if they did not ransack the place.
Feng Bujue did not say anything. He stood in front of the sign at the door and quickly scanned the main business of each floor. However, since this was a shopping mall, it had basically everything, and it served to confuse the players.
"Where could the Key of Wood be … A place that sells furniture? A place that sells toys? "Mr. Loneliness was also in a hurry to come up with an idea.
If there were five Feng Bujue in this team, they would have each taken a floor and split up to carry out a three-light operation. However, the problem was that there was only one Feng Bujue in this team, and there was only one Feng Bujue in this world. There was no point in splitting up. Not only would they not get the biggest benefit, they might even be in danger.
Just as Feng Bujue was coming up with a plan, suddenly, the ground under their feet shook, and there was another change.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of crashing noises came from underground. About ten meters away from them, a piece of ground slowly rose up to form the shape of a volcano. The tiles on the ground shattered, and the surrounding shelves were pushed aside. After seven or eight such crashes, finally, a monster broke through the ground and appeared before them.
"I'll bet fifty cents that we'll find the key after we kill it," Feng Bujue said as he looked at the 'tree'.
Half of the monster's' body 'was still buried in the ground, and what was exposed was a charred tree trunk about two meters in diameter. At the top of the trunk were branches that extended out like claws. There were no leaves, and there were things that looked like facial features on the trunk. Of course, they were also made of wood.
Long Aomin was not in the mood to joke. He said, "From how I see it, this thing is unable to move. Even if the branches can be used as hands, the range of its control is limited. As long as we stick close to it, avoid its mouth, and go around it, we'll be in its blind spot."
As Feng Bujue listened to him, he slowly took out the Eye of Hostility from his inventory and put it on. Items that were placed inside the inventory would become clean after being taken out. Even weapons that were covered in blood and flesh would return to normal as long as they entered and exited the extra-dimensional pocket. Therefore, the goggles that Feng Bujue was wearing did not have any strange smell or foreign substance, but other people would still associate it with …
"Hmm … Let me take a look first … His current target is …" Before Feng Bujue finished, his expression shifted, and he slowly raised his head. He turned around and looked at the edge of a handrail on the fifth floor of the mall.
It was a blind spot, and there was a human-shaped shadow squatting on the edge of the handrail. When Feng Bujue and the rest turned around, the shadow seemed to know that it had been discovered. It opened a pair of bat wings and dived down the wall at high speed.
"What's going on? Batman? "Wang Tanzhi said.
"Personally, I'm more inclined to think it's a demon … Get down!" Feng Bujue suddenly shouted, and he was the first to fall to the ground.
At that moment, Feng Bujue had already figured out that the monster's target wasn't any of them, but the black tree monster that had emerged from the ground.
Sure enough, the demon changed direction when it was about to hit the ground. It turned in an arc and continued to accelerate, pouncing straight at the tree monster. The tree monster, on the other hand, opened its mouth and let out a deep roar that sounded like a horn.
The sound wave seemed to have substance, and it stirred up a strong wind. The five people on the ground instinctively covered their ears. But to the demon that was flying over, the sound didn't seem to be anything. The demon also opened its mouth that was filled with fangs and continued to fly forward as it roared.
This was a mournful howl. It was sharp and penetrative, like a fingernail scratching glass, causing one's internal organs to go numb. One of the two monsters had a bass voice and the other a soprano voice. The two howls complemented each other, but it didn't bring pleasure. Instead, it brought pain and torture.
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