When Feng Bujue saw the room, he instinctively blurted out, "Could this be SCP002 …"
"What is it?" Long Aomin asked.
"Ah!" Wang Tanzhi suddenly yelped. "Don't ask him, he'll talk to you for hours!"
Feng Bujue ignored him and continued, "It's a sci-fi set that exists on an online platform and is created by a group of hobbyists."
"You managed to summarize it in one sentence!" Wang Tanzhi gasped. "I remember when you first explained it to me, it took you three whole hours!"
"Because at the time, you looked like you believed me, so I wanted to see how far I could go with this kind of bluff." Feng Bujue smiled, and as he spoke, he walked into the room made from flesh.
The other four followed him in. None of them wanted to stay in the ever-changing corridor outside.
"Let's assume this is the center of the House of Usher's curse." Feng Bujue walked toward the two bodies. "The whole room is built from the souls and physical bodies of generations of the House of Usher. In that case, Roderick and Madelyne's bodies will eventually become a part of this room." He grabbed Madelyne's leg and tried to pull it off, but the intestines were tightly wound, and it was pointless to pull it off from the bottom.
Feng Bujue took out the kitchen knife from his backpack and held it in his mouth. It looked like he planned to climb up the body and cut out the intestines.
"Let me." Passing Rain placed her hand on Feng Bujue's shoulder to stop him.
Feng Bujue turned back to look at Passing Rain, and she looked straight into Feng Bujue's eyes. Passing Rain did not speak but used her finger to point at Feng Bujue and then at the ground.
"Okay …" Feng Bujue understood what she meant. He knelt down on one knee and leaned forward, his back facing the girl.
Passing Rain raised her sword and stepped on his shoulder. She leaped up and drew a semicircle in the air with the tip of her sword. She cleanly cut through the intestines of the two hanging corpses. The two corpses immediately fell to the ground.
After Passing Rain landed, she turned to Feng Bujue and said, "Thank you for your help."
"It … it's fine …" Feng Bujue felt like he was the one who had troubled the girl.
Right then, Roderick's spirit appeared again. He appeared outside the door and stood behind Laughing Soul.
"You … can't change anything …" Roderick said.
His sudden words shocked Laughing Soul. She immediately turned around and shone her flashlight at the door, but she did not see anything.
However, on the ground, Roderick's body started to move, and the intestines around his body loosened naturally. When everyone's eyes turned to the door, the spirit controlled his body to stand up from the ground and attacked Feng Bujue again.
Feng Bujue was very alert. His eyes were on the door, but when he heard the movement behind him, he reacted immediately. He raised the kitchen knife and turned around to block, and the blade knocked into Roderick's arm.
Even though the dead body had regained the ability to move, it was still made of flesh and blood. The blade in Feng Bujue's hand cut into Roderick's right forearm, but it got stuck on the bone and failed to sever it.
Long Aomin's reaction was not slow either. Seeing this, he stepped forward and raised his shield to sweep at Roderick's temple. At the end of the day, Ultron Fragment was an excellent piece of equipment, and the setting of Lesser Adamantium was no joke. Combined with Long Aomin's physique, with one slash, the top of Roderick's head was sent flying.
The brain that was exposed was grayish-black in color. It looked like tofu that had been shredded, and it gave off a rather disgusting smell.
When Feng Bujue saw that half of the man's head had been sliced off, he quickly used his free hand to take out the wrench. He aimed it at the chin of the dead body and jabbed at it several times. His impatient action gave the feeling that … if he did not do something soon, he would not be able to keep the head.
Passing Rain saw that the two could handle it, so she did not help. Soon, only Feng Bujue was left to 'whip the dead body'. He held the kitchen knife in one hand and the wrench in the other. He swung both of his hands at the dead body like he was chopping meat. He did not stop until Roderick's body was a bloody mess. His organs fell out, and most of the bones in his limbs were shattered. He took a deep breath and said, "Phew … I don't think he'll get up again."
This time, even Xiao Tan, who was used to seeing dead bodies, could not help but gasp. "What do you mean by get up? How can someone in this form make a 'get up' motion? You can make dumplings with this pile of stuff … "
Roderick's body was destroyed, but his spirit appeared at the corner of the room again. "It's useless … My flesh and blood have merged with this room. You … are no exception. "
Before he could finish, the door closed on its own. The flesh on the wall started to squirm. Mouths appeared on the wall one after another. They had sharp fangs that were pointed outwards. Judging from their size, they were large enough to bite a person's face off.
"Hey … Brother Bujue, what do we do now?" Wang Tanzhi took out his kitchen knife, but he did not know what to attack. Was he supposed to chop at the wall of flesh?
"If something like a tongue comes out from the wall, I'm not going to entertain you anymore …" Laughing Soul looked at the mouths on the wall and said with disgust.
"Since we're going to be swallowed sooner or later, why did you do this? Why did you possess your own body to attack me?" Feng Bujue grumbled. He raised the flashlight to shine on Roderick's spirit, but the latter did not seem to be afraid of the light anymore.
"Oh … You're not afraid of the light in this room, are you?" Feng Bujue said as he walked to Madelyne's body and pretended to squat down.
Roderick was clearly surprised. "What are you going to do?"
"Madelyne's soul is unwilling to become a part of the House of Usher. Her image appeared briefly in the cellar, and she called me for help." Feng Bujue said. "Now that I think about it … the 'let me out' probably didn't mean that she wanted me to rescue her from the coffin because she had already escaped from the coffin when she was alive." After confirming Roderick's reaction, he stood up and smiled. "Madelyne wanted me to release her body from this room so that she would not be assimilated into this house like you."
Roderick's face turned scarier, and the face of a demon completely replaced the human features. "Look around you … How are you going to bring her out?"
Feng Bujue asked, "Do these things really exist? If this house can consume people so quickly, there would be nothing left of the two of you, wouldn't there? "He swaggered to the wall and reached out to touch the gaping maw on the wall.
The others did not say anything, and they did not show any intention of stopping him. Feng Bujue's confident tone and steady movement gave off a sense of confidence.
Roderick could only glare at him angrily, but there was nothing he could do.
Feng Bujue's hand passed through the illusion of flesh and reached the real wall, a normal wooden wall. "I knew it … The illusion has covered up the real appearance of this room. Then, now I only need to find …" He suddenly paused. "Haha, I'm too slow. Where else could it be?"
Feng Bujue walked to the corner where Roderick was standing. The latter's expression was one of terror, and he roared angrily. However, Feng Bujue ignored this translucent spirit completely. He walked through him and used his hand to explore the wall behind Roderick.
Several seconds later, Feng Bujue raised his hands to a height slightly higher than his waist. His palms reached forward, and he pulled open a window.
[The current mission has been changed. The main mission has been updated.] The voice message sounded.
In the mission tab, the main mission read, "Explore the house and find a way to escape." Finally, a new mission appeared. "Destroy the magic circle and escape from the house."
The red light of the blood moon shone in through the window. When Roderick came into contact with the red light, he disappeared without a trace. At the same time, the light banished all the illusions, returning the house to its original appearance.
This was just an attic made of wood and brick. There was no flesh, bone, or hair. The thing that hung the body was not intestines but two thick ropes.
There was nothing in the room except for a strange magic circle carved in the middle of the floor. This could be a random pattern generated by the game, but there was no way to prove it.
At that moment, the only scary thing in the room was the body that was chopped up by Feng Bujue.
The other four sighed in relief. Wang Tanzhi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "You made me so worried. So, you can't harm anyone in this house."
Feng Bujue walked to the magic circle on the floor and used the knife to carve out some scratches on it. "This room is like the 'head' of the whole house. After the members of the Usher family die, they are sent here and 'fed' to this house like food." He glanced at the pieces of meat next to him. "Their bodies will disappear, and their souls will meld with this house and morph into many strange things. Perhaps those twisted sculptures and ugly portraits are reflections of some of the family members. "
After he finished drawing the magic circle, he put away his weapon and stood up. "Also, when I came in and saw the two corpses, I had some doubts. Madelyne engraved the words' he knows' in the coffin. Maybe the 'he' she was referring to was not Roderick …"
"What? Could it be the main character of the novel? "Long Aomin asked.
"No, the main character is obviously innocent, but …" Feng Bujue replied. "Other than the two owners of the House of Usher, there are other people … About that, there is only one or two sentences in the book. I remember there was a 'silent servant who walked on tiptoe' and a 'family doctor with a cunning expression who panicked when he saw the main character's back'."
"You mean, the members of the Usher family might be victims as well?" Laughing Soul asked.
Feng Bujue looked around like he was looking for something, and he replied rather distractedly, "Perhaps the Usher family was targeted by some strange religious group and became their experiment … no, sacrifice. After they died, they would be sacrificed to this house. Who knows what is going on with this house … Perhaps the power of this house comes from a made-up evil god. "
"Up there," Passing Rain suddenly said.
Feng Bujue immediately lifted his head. On the slanted roof, he saw the last part of the haunted palace.
"Now, the visitors have stepped into the valley,
Through the window that reflected the bloody light,
Saw the eerie shadows,
Danced to the shrill music,
It was as turbulent as the terrifying Styx.
Barged through the pale palace door,
The demons have arrived,
Laughter filled the ears, no longer smiling. "
"Side quest completed," the system said.
Feng Bujue sighed in relief and said, "Alright, now the magic circle is broken. The house should be back to normal, and we should be able to find a way out soon. "
"How about we just jump out from this window? It took us so long to find an exit!" Wang Tanzhi suggested.
"Then jump." Feng Bujue picked up Madeleine's body and walked toward the door. "I wish you success."
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