“It gives me a bit of reasonless feeling, but that’s a hint anyway,” Feng Bujue said, as he looked at the item's notes. He touched his nose. "The red key is hidden in the red, so the yellow, blue, black, white and grey keys are hidden in the corresponding five colours?”
He put the keys away, and the first question that came to his mind was, “Shouldn’t the yellow key be in shit?” With that in mind, he left the kitchen and went to the third room.
The room was on the opposite side of the corridor; there was only a small window, and it was fastened with boards; though the windows of the other rooms will also block light, this one looked much darker than the others.
The room stunk, and the broad wood-paneled floor was covered with a layer of dust. Feng Bujue changed the gloves to visible state, leaving one hand to cover his nose and mouth to withstand the dual effects of dust and stench.
The room was empty, and although there were traces of furniture left on the floor of the walls and corners, it was difficult to judge what the room had originally looked like.
Feng Bujue suspected that the owner of the great house had prepared a special cell when he first began his evil deeds, and this room would probably have been the original temporary prison. Now, of course, he has the facilities on the two floors below, putting crime on his proper track.
“Black key or grey key should be here.” Feng Bujue thought.
Holding up the kerosene lamp, he began a careful search. This kind of empty room was actually easy for finding something. Wall, ceiling, floor…… all at a glance. After a stroll, a badly corroded floor was quickly found just below the nailed window.
He lowered himself to knock on the board. CRACK, the board then broke off easily. He put his hand into the black hole under the floor again, and soon found the item:
[Name: The black key]
[Type: Plot related]
[Quality: Ordinary]
[Function: Permanently unlock the black iron door, and disappear immediately after use]
[Whether can be taken out of the script: No]
[Note: Hidden in the dark]
“I feel like that this finding key mission is very casual… It is only a test of patience and delicacy compared with the maddening puzzles under the ground,” he muttered.
The fourth room he went to was the foyer, which was not technically a room because the foyer was attached to the corridor and there were no interior doors. And outside was the [Can't open] main door.
Almost all of the furniture was gone in the foyer, the rest just lying on the ground messily. There was a clock on the wall. It must have been broken, for Feng Bujue took a glance at the clock when he passed here, and the position of its hour hand and minute hand did not change.
He paused a long time before the clock and a sentence suddenly jumped out of his mouth, “Could this be… It just looks like a clock, but it’s actually a calendar??”
Feng Bujue was struggling about the setting of this world again. The clock was showing twelve hours and there's no difference from the real world, but Feng Bujue likes to speculate… The twelve digits represent the month, and two hands are years and date.
After rummaging in the hall for a while, he did not find the key, but he found another piece of item:
[Name: Feather fur hat]
[Type: Plot related]
[Quality: Ordinary]
[Function: Unknown]
[Whether can be taken out of the script: Yes]
[Note: A leather hat of ordinary workmanship, even if it's decorated with a bright long feather, the maker can hardly mask its poor quality.]
“This is the fourth thing I can bring out of the script.” Feng Bujue said, “Soap, dentures, perfume, feather fur hat… What exactly does that mean… “
After leaving the entrance hall, he went to the last room on the ground floor, the toilet.
Feng Bujue had no idea whether the world’s own science and technology trees are a little off-track, or the system limits them in the script: Downstairs has fluorescent lights, but only kerosene lamps upstairs; The kitchen has a gas range, but the exhaust uses the chimney. The washroom has a flush toilet, but it doesn't even have a light bulb. Next to the door was a small table, on which there was a small empty dish, with some wax oil still in it.
“It’s so scary to go to the bathroom and light a candle in the middle of the night. “He put the lid on the toilet seat and stood on it, trying to see if the small window of the toilet could be opened. He tapped on the frosted glass, which was strong enough, and the size can't allow him to climb out.
“All right all right, white key and yellow key, which one will it be?” Feng Bujue had seen the inside of the toilet and there was only water. So, he opened the toilet tank as he spoke.
The door behind him closed again.
“Another? What could open water tank trigger?” He turned quickly to open the door, but with all his strength, he could not move it. As if a man outside had grabbed the handle. And this time, no system alerts went off.
“I don’t even have a death warning right now, what is this……” Feng Bujue deeply knew how difficult the nightmare mode is, and sudden death flags are everywhere. Even if the player says something wrong to a friendly NPC, there is a risk of being killed in seconds.
His lax nerves previously were now tightened, and he was ready to use his skills to deal with possible crises. By this time his survival value had reached more than 40 percent with natural restoration, but it’s hard to say what can this survival value do in a nightmare scenario.
A step with another step, Feng Bujue approached the toilet cautiously. His brain had already built thousands of possible horror scenes like the toilet becomes a monster and use its "mouth" to bite him; Or… The monster blew something out of its mouth and flooded the whole toilet… Either way, it’s worthy of the word “thriller.”
Sure, Feng Bujue's imagination did not happen. But the reality was…… There were no other exceptions except the door was locked.
Feng Bujue looked closer at the tank, which has a key at the bottom of it:
[Name: The blue key]
[Type: Plot related]
[Quality: Ordinary]
[Function: Permanently unlock the blue iron door, and disappear immediately after use]
[Whether can be taken out of the script: No]
[Note: Hide in water]
“That changes the rules again…… By this logic, should red keys be hidden in the fire?” Feng Bujue roasted, put the key away.
He did not stop thinking even for a moment, and soon he realized why the door was closed, "I get it…… There were six keys, three on the first floor and three on the second floor. When I found the last key on the first floor, the plot was triggered. Something has to happen next, and then I can go to the second floor.”
“The hallway connects with the hallway, so there are no keys. The kitchen, the empty room and the toilet are all rooms with doors, and whenever I find the third key, I will be locked in any of the rooms above." He then analyzed, “The problem is…… What will happen… Shall I be shut for a moment, and then the lump of meat at the stairs of the second floor will move away or disappear by itself?
PATTER, PATTER. There was a strange noise in the corridor.
Feng Bujue's face expression was changed a bit and he stepped forward to stick the door plank to listen.
PAT-PAR-PAT…… PAT-PAT-PAT…… Something seemed to be moving rapidly across the wood floor.
The noises became more frequent and more intense, like a huge group of cat-like rat rushing up the corridor.
“What the hell…… “Feng Bujue swallowed and imagining that the pieces of meat that glued together are moving like creatures and squeeze together through the hallway. “Players with Intense Phobia may freak out with this kind of psychological imply, but for me it’s…… “
Bang bang —
“Hey! It's even knocking the door!" Feng Bujue didn't even finish his last line and the door plank of the toilet was hit three times unexpectedly, “Wait…… There's no lock for this door right?”
Indeed, the door of the toilet, which has no keyhole, can be opened by turning the door handle. But inside the toilet, there's a latch, which the person can use to lock the door, but the latch was not plugged.
“Oh… I see. The dude outside the door have no fingers and it can't grab the handle." Feng Bujue smiled, at the same time, he locked the door, “Ha…… What shall you do next?"
BOOM, BOOM.
There were some more rapid knocks on the door with some faint noises, "Cough…… Uh…… “
“Aye? Does it still want me to open the door through communication?” Feng Bujue said, “Well…… No, it should be just a roar from its throat.”
The PAT noise went out again, and the thing seemed to start moving again. Judging by the sound, it went around the house and went to the gate, but it didn’t seem to be able to open the door either. After a while, it went back to the door and stroke the door again.
This time, its vague voice became very strange, and Feng Bujue could feel that it was almost sobbing and pleading.
“There seems to be something wrong…” Feng Bujue thought.
And then another voice sounded. It's very clear human footsteps. Footsteps were coming from the second-floor steps and along the corridor.
The banging on the door became louder and louder, and the noise of the thing outside became roaring.
Crack. The door of the toilet was opened.
Feng Bujue opened it.
In the last minute, Feng Bujue had found naturally the door handle can be turned normally again. So he made the inference that, here, it must be a choice, a choice that might affect the result of the scenario.
The creature in the doorway, whose upper body was essentially human, had no hair, fingers, tongue or jaw. Its lower body was more curious, with more than a hundred “feet” connected below the waist, each of which's made up of human finger joints and ten of them formed a "foot".
After Feng Bujue saw this guy, he spoke nothing but just quietly went sideways. He wanted to see its reaction. As a result, it flew through his side and escaped to the corner of the toilet, shivering.
“It's running for life.” Feng Bujue took the kerosene lamp and stuck his head out to make sure the approaching footsteps in the corridor were coming from someone,” So…… What is the real monster?”