"Brother Jue … this … this … is …" Wang Tanzhi was so scared that he stuttered again.
"If I didn't interrupt you, you would have continued to 'beep' like this, right?" Feng Bujue asked.
Long Aomin turned around. "Brother Feng, how did you manage to say the word 'silenced'?"
"Obviously, when I said the curse, I didn't mean it to be insulting, so the system didn't stop me. However, the word itself is not very elegant, so it was silenced," Feng Bujue explained. "Speaking of which, now is not the time to be dwelling on that, is it?"
Ping ping ping … Crash …
The sound of light bulbs exploding and the sound of glass shattering could be heard. The lights around the dining room all exploded at this time, and the room fell into darkness.
Before the dust settled, Feng Bujue had already taken out a flashlight from his inventory. He switched it on and shone the light upward, right at his face. "Why do you have to do this? You can just turn it off. Why do you have to make such a big fuss?" He said as he put on the Eye of Hostility.
Xiao Tan and Brother Long saw the light shining upward in the dark. They turned their backs on Feng Bujue and slowly retreated to his side. At the same time, they took out flashlights from their inventory and switched them on. Each of them lit up a fan-shaped area before them.
[Name: Constant Glimmer Lantern]
Item Type: Tool
[Rarity: Broken]
Function: Light
Special Effect: Never Extinguish
She placed the lantern directly on the long table. Just as the item's description said, the lantern was always lit, and the illumination range was a sphere with a radius of five meters.
Laughing Soul took out a yellow miner's hat. She turned on the round light in front of the hat and held it in her hand. Perhaps because she felt uncomfortable or ugly wearing it, she did not put it on her head.
They all lowered their breathing and listened carefully to see if there was any threat approaching in the quiet darkness.
Suddenly, a few tinkling sounds came from above. Everyone looked up and saw that the large glass chandelier above the dining table was tilted by some kind of force, and the person it was pointing at was … Feng Bujue.
In the blink of an eye, the steel cable above the chandelier suddenly broke, and an object half the size of a washing machine flew straight towards Feng Bujue. His first reaction was to hide under the table.
However, there was someone whose reaction and actions were faster than Feng Bujue's, and by more than one step.
Ruo Li and Ruo Yu lightly tapped their feet, stepped on the chair, and jumped into the air. Her movements were agile, but her figure did not lose the unique gentleness of a woman. The blade of her sword was cold, and so was her gaze. The sword came out as fast as lightning. She neatly cut the flying chandelier in half. After the metal frame of the lamp was cut in half, the object fell vertically as if it had lost its power, and large pieces of glass shattered on the ground.
Ruo Li and Ruo Yu floated down lightly. She used one hand to brush away a strand of hair that had fallen to her forehead. Her other hand held the sword, and even her breathing did not speed up at all. It could be said that she was awe-inspiring, valiant, and heroic.
Xiao Tan and Brother Long were shocked. The scene of Feng Bujue wildly smashing the head of the Green Zombie yesterday instantly became incomparably low-end in their minds … The ruthless female swordsman in front of them, in terms of skill and ferocity, was ten times better than him … Comparing the battle scene between the two of them was like comparing Qin Fanxian to Wind Mark. There was really no way to look at it.
"No need to thank me." Ruo Yu saw that Feng Bujue was about to say something, so she directly said it first.
Feng Bujue swallowed the emotional "Thank you for saving my life" in his heart. He thought to himself, Thank goodness I didn't say it out loud. That was a line used by the small fries in wuxia movies. He cleared his throat and said, "Hmm … Ruo Yu, can you twist that lamp of yours a little brighter?"
"No." Ruo Yu directly replied.
"Hmm … Can you let me take a look?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Why?" Ruo Yu asked.
"I have a skill that can repair broken equipment and tools in a short amount of time," Feng Bujue said. "If that lamp of yours is below normal quality …"
Before he could finish, Ruo Yu nimbly picked up the lamp on the table with her sword and instantly brought it to him. "Broken."
Ruo Yu liked to be concise, and naturally, he understood. He took the lamp and used Hasty Repair, but the system said, "Skill activation failed." Feng Bujue did not pay it much mind because failure was normal. His workmanship mastery was level F, and the success rate of activating the skill was twenty percent. Like last time, when he used the flashlight, he was lucky to succeed on the first try.
This time, he was not so lucky. He used it twice and finally succeeded. The skill that consumed one hundred Stamina Points took three hundred Stamina Points to activate. After the lantern was restored to normal quality, it suddenly lit up and lit up the entire restaurant.
The dining room was quite large. In fact, it was the largest room that they had passed so far. At that moment, in the corner that was furthest away from them, they saw a shadow, or rather … a ghost.
It was a middle-aged man. He was wearing a classic black suit. His skin was pale, and his eyes were sunken. His facial features were clear, and his forehead was wide. His jaw was square, and he was unforgettable.
According to popular legends, the appearance of a ghost, such as their attire, was usually how they looked when they were alive or how they looked when they were alive. Based on this man's appearance, he was probably Roderick Usher.
Initially, the ghost was hiding in a corner that even the flashlight could not reach, hiding in the shadows. However, at that moment, the sudden light from the lamp made it impossible for him to hide.
Roderick seemed to be afraid of the light. He used his hands to shield his eyes, curled his body, and growled.
Feng Bujue held the lantern and showed no fear. He approached the spirit with steady footsteps, and his tone was confident. "Mr. Usher, please tell us, how do we leave this place?"
"Don't come any closer …" Roderick said. "Otherwise, you will …" Roderick's tone was gentle at first, and it even made people feel that he was a little weak. However, when he reached the last few words, he removed his hands from his face, revealing a distorted face. He roared like a hysterical beast, "… pay the price!"
Feng Bujue stood one meter away from him, but he did not react. The people behind him were, to varying degrees, shocked by Roderick's sudden change.
"What are you going to do? Control the chair to hit me on the back of my head? " Feng Bujue knew that this man was an untouchable spirit. He could only control the things in the room to attack him.
At that moment, a chair floated into the air and flew toward Feng Bujue's back.
This time, Long Aomin was closer. He took a big step forward and extended his arm to block the attack for Feng Bujue with Ultron's Fragment.
"There are five people here, and you seem to be interested in me," Feng Bujue said in a menacing tone. "Where is Madeleine's body? You placed it next to yours, didn't you? "
"Ah!" Roderick roared, and the plates, cutlery, candlesticks, and other objects on the dining table floated into the air.
Without another word, Feng Bujue took out the Slowing Sand from his inventory and tossed the bottle to the ground.
This item could only slow down the 'monsters' within a radius of one hundred meters by ten times, but it could not physically slow down the movement of the 'objects'. However, after Roderick was slowed down, the unknown force that kept the objects floating in the air seemed to be affected, and the objects that floated in the air fell to the ground.
If one had to make an analogy … the 'telekinesis' of these ghosts was like riding a bicycle. If the movement was slowed down by ten times, it would not be slowing down but falling over.
Feng Bujue raised the lantern and aimed the flashlight at Roderick as well. Facing this formless spirit, he had no way of attacking, so he tried to use the light that the spirit was so afraid of to exert some influence on him.
Roderick let out a long and muffled sound. He turned around very slowly, as if he wanted to use his hand to block the light and escape. However, his movements were too slow, and it was of no use at all.
"The difficulty of this scenario is not that high … As long as we have strong lighting, stay alert when facing the traps in the room, and don't get tricked by illusions, we don't have to worry about Life Points," Feng Bujue said. "This should be a scenario that mainly tests courage and not combat ability." His hand that held the lantern passed through Roderick's body. The light made the spirit more transparent, but that was not enough to kill him.
One minute soon passed, and Roderick retreated into the wall. Feng Bujue shrugged with disappointment. He returned to the table and put down the lantern.
"Let's organize our thoughts." Feng Bujue picked up a wooden chair and sat down. "The plot item that was transferred after Brother Invincible's death should be nearby. We need to find it first …"
Laughing Soul took out the letter and said, "This is it, but the information provided is limited. The most we can deduce is that … the owner who wrote the letter is not in his right mind and is haunted by illness. He invited a friend to visit him."
"Can I take a look at it?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Of course." Laughing Soul handed the letter to him and added, "If you're looking for some hidden message like the first line of letters or romanization, there's nothing in this letter." She had only skimmed through the letter, and she had confirmed that.
Feng Bujue studied the letter for a minute and said, "Players who have read the novel might be able to guess that this is the House of Usher from the content of this letter, and players who haven't read the novel might be able to understand the basic plot setting from this." He returned the letter to Laughing Soul. "This item cannot be taken out of the scenario. Looks like it's just a normal plot item and won't be able to push the game forward."
Laughing Soul said, "Then please explain the situation in detail. You seem to know this story well, and … the spirit was obviously targeting you, but I was fine even though I had the plot item. There must be a reason for that, right?"
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