The change that happened in those few seconds could be considered the game's greeting to the players at the beginning of the tutorial.
Normal people would be shocked when their surroundings suddenly turned dark without any warning. Then, they would hear the creepy voice. At this moment, the elevator suddenly sank. Although it was only for a short moment, it was enough to make people's hearts race and give them a fright.
However, Feng Bujue was calm and did not react at all …
After the elevator shook, it started to move down at a normal speed. At that moment, the game menu appeared before Feng Bujue's eyes.
The game menu would only appear in the player's sight, and it would not be able to illuminate the environment. Furthermore, the action of browsing the menu was not public. When browsing the menu, even if there was another player standing next to you, they would not know whether you were looking at the options or spacing out.
There was no system audio, but Feng Bujue saw a notification in the menu. "You can open this menu at any time. Your character's attributes, status, equipment, and items can be checked here."
Feng Bujue saw that most of the menu was covered in shadow. It was not until the line of text disappeared that an area at the top left corner of the menu lit up. There were three rectangular shapes that looked like health bars.
An arrow appeared and pointed at the first bar. It was a green energy bar that was filled to the brim. Then a new message appeared. "This is your Life Points. They are shown in percentage, and the actual value is not visible. When your Life Points reach 0%, your character is considered dead. Current Life Points: 100%. Abnormal status: None. "
The arrow moved to the second energy bar. It was also green, but instead of a percentage, it showed a number. "This is your Stamina Points. The actual value is not visible. Running, walking for a long time, carrying heavy objects, fighting, and using skills will decrease your Stamina Points. Stamina Points can be recovered by resting or using items. Current Stamina Points: 100100. "
The third energy bar was empty, and that was the thing that Feng Bujue needed to pay attention to the most. "This is your Terror Points. They are shown in percentage, and the actual value is not visible. If your Terror Points exceed 100% for more than three seconds, your connection to the game will be forcibly disconnected, and your character will be considered dead. Current Terror Points: 0%. "
As Feng Bujue had read the basic settings on the internet before, he only needed a glance to finish reading the content. He thought that the other areas of the menu would be unlocked, but the menu automatically closed after about ten seconds. He took the initiative to call out the menu again, but there was still no change in the shadowed area.
Obviously, this tutorial was not just about familiarizing oneself with the interface and looking at the words in the dark elevator, or else the system would not have given the warning that the tutorial would be interrupted due to high Terror Points.
Sure enough, the elevator soon stopped. The surroundings were still dark, and Feng Bujue could only hear the sound of his own breathing.
Suddenly, the lights lit up for a second. It was only for a second, and then it immediately returned to darkness.
In that second, Feng Bujue's retina was left with a scene that was enough to make a person jump up in shock.
Everyone should still remember that one of the walls of the elevator was a mirror, and the second the lights were restored, Feng Bujue saw two figures reflected in the mirror.
One was obviously himself, and the other … even though he had only caught a glimpse, Feng Bujue could basically confirm that it was a standing creature covered in blood.
He might as well have stayed in the dark. If he purposely allowed people to look at him, he might as well not look at him at all.
If this was anyone else, they would have screamed already. They would have either retreated to the corner of the elevator or punched and kicked the spot where the blood shadow stood in their memory.
Feng Bujue stood where he was expressionlessly and mumbled to himself, "Hmm … Since this is a tutorial, it is unlikely that the game will throw the player into a certain death situation right from the start. At most, it will lose some Life Points or scare me. Then, there should be some kind of change that will allow the game to continue."
With that in mind, there was indeed a ray of light that shone into the elevator, and it soon expanded. It turned out that the elevator door had opened on its own, and the smell of decay and mold assaulted his nostrils. Outside, there was a straight corridor. The ceiling was made of wood, and the walls on both sides were covered with wallpaper. The patterns on the wallpaper were rather strange, like human eyes. The floor was covered with a green carpet, and there was not a single window on either side of the corridor. There were no doors either. There was only a wall lamp that emitted a dim yellow light at regular intervals.
The corridor appeared to be very long, and the wall lamps looked like yellow dots the size of rice grains from afar. The visibility was less than twenty meters, and anything further than that was shrouded in shadows. Only by moving forward would one be able to see clearly.
A normal person would have probably rushed out of the elevator before the doors fully opened and run for their lives. However, Feng Bujue was not in a hurry. For him, this dark corridor might not be safer than this elevator. Since it was no longer dark, he wanted to turn around to see what the shadow next to him was.
But when Feng Bujue turned around, he saw a bloody claw with ten hook-like fingers coming at his face. He shrunk his neck and barely dodged it. He half-squatted and jumped out of the elevator. When he turned back to look, he finally saw the shadow in full.
It was a skinless zombie, similar to the human muscle model in the health room, but this one was alive, and it was dripping with blood.
The elevator door was slowly closing. The zombie tilted its head and grinned. It stared at Feng Bujue with a half-smile. Just as the door was about to close, it reached out a hand and squeezed its way out.
Normally, I should run from this place, Feng Bujue thought. But this guy doesn't look like he's super strong. Should I try to fight him?
At that moment, the zombie walked out of the elevator. It roared and waved its hand at one of the walls in the corridor. The thick wooden board behind the wallpaper was shattered, and a sack of cockroaches' flowed 'out like a flood.
"You win." Feng Bujue saw this and turned to run.
Since this was a tutorial for beginners, naturally, the purpose was to guide the players. Killing the players was not the main goal. The zombie's action was actually a waste of time. Obviously, it was to give the players more time to run. However, the system had considered other possibilities, such as the players being paralyzed on the ground, or the players trying to fight the zombie with their lives when they got a good look at it. Under such circumstances, the bloody corpse's action could make the paralyzed people scramble to get up and run for their lives. It could also dispel the strong people's desire to fight.
Of course, if the players were too scared to stand up or wanted to risk their lives, then it would be game over and a new tutorial would be generated.
First, there's an eighty percent chance that I won't be able to break down the wall. Second, even if I do, there's no way out. Third, I'll be dead if I fight this monster. Very well … Feng Bujue arranged the situation that he had confirmed. It looked like he did not have many choices in this tutorial.
After walking for a long distance, Feng Bujue saw the end of the corridor. There was a door there, and it looked like a very sturdy wooden door!
He turned the doorknob, and it opened! He did not have time to consider whether there was danger on the other side of the door. He had to go in first because the zombie was too close for him to waste any time. At that moment, Feng Bujue understood. He should have run when the elevator door opened. That was the normal choice. Staying for a while made his plan very urgent.
He slipped into the room and closed the door. He realized that there was an iron bar on the back of the door that was used to latch the door. Feng Bujue did not hesitate to latch the door. Almost at the same time, the thing outside started to slam into the door.
Feng Bujue ignored it and turned to look around. He was in a square room about sixteen square meters. There was no furniture in the room, only a wall lamp and two doors. One of them was being slammed by the zombie, and the other was in the middle of the opposite wall.
He walked to the door that was the only escape route. He pulled on the handle and realized that it was locked. He tried to kick the door, and it seemed to work. However, his kick was not strong enough. He would need to try a few more times before it would work.
The next second, the game menu suddenly appeared before his eyes. A shadowed area in the menu was unlocked. A number appeared, but it was currently 0. "This is your Skill Points. The actual number can be seen. Skill Points can be used as currency. They are accumulated according to the character's actions. Any action that increases the efficiency of the game will reward Skill Points. Current Skill Points: 0 "
"Is this a hint that there is a shortcut?" Feng Bujue glanced at his Terror Points in the menu. It was still 0. It had not changed at all.
He sighed and turned back to look at the door that was being slammed into. The iron bar was slightly warped. It did not look like it would last much longer. Under the pressure of a monster that could burst through the door at any moment, even a bystander would not be as calm as he was.
Feng Bujue looked around the room again. There was indeed a hint in this seemingly empty room. High up on one of the walls, there was a piece of wallpaper that had a corner peeled off. It did not look that obvious, but if one paid close attention, one would not miss it. When Feng Bujue stood on his tiptoes, he reached out to grab the corner. He tore the wallpaper off, and on the wooden board behind it, there was a symbol drawn in blood. The symbol looked like a circle, and it was connected to the shape of the character "Bu". It should be the picture of a key.
Then, a roar came from behind him, accompanied by the sound of wood being shattered. Feng Bujue turned back to look and saw that one of the zombie's claws had already pierced through the door. It had reached in through a hole the size of a bowl and was waving its claws wildly. It was unclear whether the zombie's intelligence would allow it to open the door after reaching the latch.
This no doubt meant that the zombie was about to enter the room. Be it solving the puzzle or kicking down the door, time was running out.
Feng Bujue hurriedly used his elbow to hit the wooden board with the symbol of the key. The pain was so real that it felt like it was coming from a real person, but the wooden board was obviously more fragile, and it was easily broken by the elbow. He thought that there would be many bugs coming out, but there was none. There was only some dust. Behind the wooden board was a small space, and lying in the middle of it was a key.
When Feng Bujue picked up the key, the game menu appeared again, and another shadow was unlocked. "You have obtained an item. Since the inventory and equipment slots have not been unlocked, you can only hold it in your hand or discard it."
Then, he saw the item's description in the new menu.
Item Name: Rusted Iron Key
Item Type: Consumable
Quality: Normal
Function: Open Door Lock
Can be taken out of the scenario: No
Remark: I think you know what to do. "
Feng Bujue felt like the remark was filled with malice, but he did not have time to dwell on it. After glancing at the item's description, he closed the menu and ran toward the locked door. After the door was opened, the key disappeared, and at the same time, the system announced, "You have obtained 30 Skill Points. This announcement will only appear once. In the future, you can check the changes to your Skill Points in the game menu."
Feng Bujue did not have time to care about things that he could not use for now. He continued to move forward. Behind the door was a stone staircase that led upward. It was surrounded by stone walls on both sides, and there was no ceiling. He could see the night sky, and the moonlight shone down on the staircase. However, he could not escape from the top because the stone walls were very high, and the surface was very smooth. The distance between the two walls was more than two meters, obviously to prevent him from climbing up.
After running for a while, Feng Bujue took the time to glance at his Stamina Points and realized that they had dropped to 24100. He calculated in his heart. After leaving the elevator, he had run for several hundred meters, kicked the door, smashed the wall, and climbed up the staircase. These actions had depleted three-quarters of his Stamina Points. The exhaustion rate was much faster than he had expected. His Life Points had dropped to ninety-eight percent. It seemed like the elbow strike on the wall had caused some damage to him.
The zombie behind him had broken through the door about five seconds after Feng Bujue opened the door. It chased after him. It started to laugh wickedly, and the sound was like it was right beside his ears. It was incredibly creepy, but Feng Bujue was completely unaffected by this level of disturbance.
At the end of the staircase was a slope, and there was a large sword stuck into the slope. Under the moonlight, the blade reflected a chilling light. When Feng Bujue's eyes fell on the sword, the zombie seemed to sense it. Its speed increased madly, and the distance between them shortened instantly.
This time, Feng Bujue was really running. He did not want to be killed at such a crucial moment. He staggered to the side of the sword and grabbed the hilt with both hands. To his surprise, he easily picked up the weapon. It was not as heavy as it looked.
When he turned around, the zombie was already before him. The blood-curdling wail pierced his eardrums, and a pair of bloody claws came at his face.
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