The owner of the footstep soon turned the corner of the corridor and entered the light of the kerosene lamp.
“This is really bizarre……”By the dim light, Feng Bujue saw the appearance of a disgusting creature.
The monster was similar to a human from the waist down, with some clothes still in its crotch, and a mess of flesh and blood between its bare legs and feet. It had an iron plate on the sole of its foot, like a horseshoe. A ring of iron needle went through its foot, sticking out from the top of the foot.
And the monster's upper body was more amazing, the surface of its torso was covered with tongue, from front chest to armpits, and each of them was wriggling………
Its head was covered by an iron mask, which covered its head to its chin, leaving no holes for breathing or observation.
Two arms with knotted muscles hung at its sides. It had no hands or fingers. At its wrists, there were spines, huge ones of the size of ivory, one in each hand.
Feng Bujue then used the Vajra Bell to the monster. If this stuff is an NPC, the function 1 will work. If it’s a monster, function 2 will take effect. All in all, he could know the monster's data from the system menu.
[Name: Servant of Arthur]
[Race: Synthetic human]
[Grade: 26]
[Height: 190cm]
[Weight: 120kg]
[Combat mode: Melee, medium-distance physical attack]
[Weakness: It has no hearing and vision, only the tongue on the trunk can be used to sniff to find the target. Its tongues are fragile.]
[Ability: Bone spur critical, head gag, tongue bound.]
[Dangerous level: Medium]
“HMM… No information on related tasks, flags, and identities is listed… Is it a monster…" Feng Bujue glanced quickly at the menu, then slipped back inside the door and locked the latch.
“The thing outside obviously doesn’t have fingers, either… “Feng Bujue said: “Thus it can’t enter the room too. It should have been an optional FLAG, if I didn’t open the door, the guy with knuckles all over its lower body would have died outside. But right now I have opened the door, then the plot will become… I saved it and it will then act as a friendly NPC to help with me.”
BAM BAM BAM…
The knock on the door was repeated, and it sounded as if the monster was standing outside with its helmet on head.
“Hum… As expected.” Feng Bujue laughed, "Then just wait the outside dude is gone……”
CLATTER.
A bone spur pierced the door easily and made a palm-sized hole in the door. Fortunately, Feng Bujue went a few steps back after closed the door, or he had been stabbed in the chest.
“WTF……” Feng Bujue was tense, but he still took out his main weapon pipe wrench instinctively, “Can the real truth be that… If I stood by and hid in the toilet, I would never be found. And if I choose to save the synthetic monster, I will be attacked with it?”
With the sound of thick wooden boards being torn apart, the door of the toilet was destroyed by the monster like chopping vegetables. In this process, Feng Bujue had been thinking about how to dock the battle next.
From the data reflects by the Vajra Bell, the monster is not really very strong. If it's in the slightly open environment, the player only needs to hold a shooting weapon, staying out of the range of its bone spur and aiming those tongue to shoot, it will just be a piece of cake.
Unfortunately, the script is in a very narrow environment, and the toilet is the smallest of the many rooms. Even if Feng Bujue takes out his only ranged weapon Death Poker, he won’t be able to make a few long shots but just use [Shield "Card"] to block two deadly attacks.
The menacing map environment has only left him one way: Fight with melee, plus the fact that he does not have enough survival value, obviously… What comes next will be more ominous.
A minute later, the door of the toilet was finally torn down, leaving the door only a circle around, which was fully accessible for the outsider.
The monster leaned forward through the big hole in the door and came closer and closer. Feng Bujue could only step back, but there were only a few square meters, and his back quickly hit the wall.
Unexpectedly, after the monster entered the room, it completely ignored Feng Bujue. After a few steps, it turned to the other side and approached the synthetic man in the corner of the other side.
“Er… Uh…… Cough……" The guy without a tongue or a jaw began to howl, but its growl was just a muffled sound.
Two yells and plasma spurted.
The monster, who entered after, pierced through the fugitive‘s chest with two bone spurs, lifted its whole body. It then attached the synthetic man with tongues from its torso, as if it was holding a corpse but without hands…
Feng Bujue did not know whether the first one would be killed by such attack, but he felt it best not to disturb the "intimacy" of the two under the present circumstances.
"Arthur’s servant" found what it was looking for, and turned to go out of the toilet as fast as the speed it had come before.
Soon after, it walked out of the toilet. From the moment it appeared, until this moment, there was no response to Feng Bujue's existence.
“Can't perceive my existence?” Feng Bujue thought about this and ran out, “I would like to see where you’re taking it.”
For ordinary people, he will be standing in the same place, waiting for the monster’s footsteps to disappear with great fear. But Feng Bujue could determine the condition in several seconds and make his thought into actions.
“Why can’t I be perceived… It can’t smell my smell? Or…… I’m just a ghost?” Feng Bujue was like strolling after lunch and following meters behind the monster. This thing was just a deaf, so he didn’t have to be tiptoe, "Can't decide its sniffing mechanism is based on conventional odours. And if I were a ghost,” he mused, “the truth of the script would be: After the scene in the opening CG, I died in prison zero. From the moment I woke up, everything was a ghost fantasy, only the scene was real. Ha ha… Well, I’m a pretty tough ghost. at least I can open the door and close the door."
He laughed because it was obvious that neither of the inferences was right.
“Aye? What if… “Feng Bujue looked at the monster’s back and said: “It is not imperceptible to my existence, it just doesn't want to hurt me.” The idea came up, and a series of associations began: “Yes…… Suppose I was Andrew, how could Arthur’s servant attack his master’s brother? Whatever happened between the two brothers, at least from limited information, Arthur didn’t want Andrew to die. Otherwise, he could have done it himself at the start of the script.”
Feng Bujue was thinking, and the monster had come to the top of the stairs leading to the second floor. The weird thing was that the pile of meat was still there without any change.
“Heyhey, how did you get down? The footsteps were clearly coming from here……” Feng Bujue just wanted to start his roast.
But… The synthetic man with the body stuck to its chest walking up the stairs step by step…
It just “squeezed” into the meat wall, as if we are sticking our hands into a pile of beans or some other dense material, squeezing and squeezing……
The wall of flesh seemed to be alive, clinging to the outline of the composite human body, leaving almost no gaps. It was moving according to the monster, changing… After it passed, the meat wall was reunited into a complete wall.
“So this is how it pass here?” Feng Bujue was really regretted that he just stuck it with a finger for a few times, “Wait… So why did I find three keys and trigger this dog-eat-dog plot?” He smacked his head. “Oh! This episode is just to remind me, or to show me… The way to go through it.”
Realizing this, he took a deep breath, turned the goblin mask into display condition and stepped forward. Then he pressed himself hard against the meat wall.
But…… He squeezed himself there for a long time, the wall still remains the same. The gap between the meat and the meat even spilled some blood on Feng Bujue's cloth.
The system prompts also sounded frequently: [A fortress controlled by a magic spell, which looks like a heap of dead flesh.]
“What do you mean? If the monster can pass, why can't I? If the monk paws you, why can't I 1)?” He was so angry that even the line in the True Story of Ah Q was jumped out from his mouth.
“Great, why don't you see your daddy's move then?" He took out the pipe wrench and made another [See my move] against the meat wall.
Somehow, when this meat wall encounters high-intensity attack, its surface can emerge a kind of magic field thing. So, Feng Bujue's skill hit the invisible force field and rebounded back. His body flew backwards and crashed on the wall in the back hallway, his survival dropped 10 percent, and he wasted a lot of stamina value.
“Good, good. “Feng Bujue stretched fingers, which's like putting fierce words after the failing of fight toward that wall: “Let's wait and see, your daddy will come back to beat you up later.”
Of course, even if he didn’t say “Let's wait and see”, the wall wouldn’t go anywhere…
Feng Bujue was knocked with and had abreacted himself. Hence, inspiration came. He went back to the toilet and walked toward the corner. At last, his sight moved on the wall.
Turns out, the more violent monster had made two holes in the wall when it was killing the other one.
If the monk paws you, why can't I? The reference comes from The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun. The main character Ah Q said that when he was beaten, so he teased a little nun for disgrace.