Chapter 251 Brothers (14)

The whole scene was suffused with blood. After a while, the light dissipated and two figures fell on the center of the circle.

About half a minute later, a blond figure stood up first.

“How could this be… What! Ah-” Andrew roared furiously as he watched his skin grow as dry as the bark of a tree and his hair begin to fall out.

A few seconds later, Arthur got up too. From his appearance, there was nothing unusual about him. But Arthur’s eyes were glazed and he looked at his brother, saying nothing.

“Why… How did that happen? There’s nothing wrong with the circle,” roared Andrew. “we should have succeeded. Why would I… Ah –” he began to feel the pain again which was far beyond the enduring capacity of ordinary people.

Arthur seemed to have just come to himself at the moment. He walked up quickly and knocked Andrew unconscious. In fact, even if he did not do that, his brother is about to faint with pain.

“Ha… Ah……” There seemed to be something wrong with Arthur’s body, the simple act made him exhausted and out of breath. But his pain is nothing compared to Andrew’s, at least his body shows no signs of zombifying.

Arthur stood there, his eyes showed surprise and he’s obviously thinking…

About a minute later, Arthur walked up to Andrew who was unconscious. He lifted his upper body, turned his back on him, and ran his hands through Andrew’s armpits. Holding this position, he dragged Andrew out of the room.

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“The two brothers wanted to work together to make something… Failed in the end?” Feng Bujue just see this paragraph CG when jumped out this idea: “Shouldn’t it be so cliché that they want to revive their mother?1) ” He thought, “but this should explain the first few words that Arthur kept repeating… ‘Don’t worry… Everything will be all right… Something must be wrong… I’ll find a way out…’ not only was he repeating these words to his unconscious brother, but he was also saying that to himself.” Feng Bujue thought, “it doesn’t seem that Arthur was evil and turned Andrew into an experiment or anything like that. It just seems that it was a failure and Arthur put me in a cell No. 0 for a while, trying to find a way to save me…”

“HMM… It seems that the whole story has gradually gone to the surface.” Feng Bujue was thinking and walked to the last room, “Anyhow, I should find the gray key first.”

Surprisingly, next second something happened.

Before he entered a room, he had to use the iron bar to test whether there are any physical traps, but there were none. Only this last one, he was careless after watching CG… and he just walked in straightly.

A series of crackling sounds were heard, and the floor of the room began to collapse in all directions from the middle circle. Feng Bujue didn’t see that coming and fell.

Of course, during the fall process, in addition to the physical instinct of crouching, Feng Bujue remained psychological calm. His heart was still steady and he was very conscious.

The structure of the house was in his head, he knew full well that it was only an empty room below; He also estimated the height between the first and second floors, which, with the floor spacing, is just over four meters. As far as his survival value can hold it, he can fall into any position except breaking his neck. Anyway, he is now in full state that will not die for sure.

Less than two seconds later, the fall was over. He didn’t die, but the kerosene lamp was broken…

“Well, it’s a good time indeed.” Feng Bujue sat in the dark surrounded by debris and building pieces that had fallen with him in the rooms above. He could not have known even if the key is within his reach.

“Well, where did that fellow Arthur go when he put me in cell No. 0? He didn’t even show up after all that noise.” Feng Bujue observed his survival value had only dropped by 15%, thinking.

He stood up and wiped the dust from his body with his hands. He had barely tapped twice when he heard a few tinkles.

“What…” Feng Bujue twitched his mouth. He bent down and found the source of the sound.

[Name: The grey key]

[Type: Plot related]

[Quality: Ordinary]

[Function: Unlock the gray iron door permanently and disappear immediately after use]

[Whether can be brought out of the scenario: No]

[Note: It fell out from the broken kerosene lamp and landed on a dusty guy]

“Ha-ha…” Feng Bujue roasted meaningless.

After a few seconds he got the key, the system prompted, “The door somewhere seems to open.”

“Well… Now I have no lighting and I have to go back down.” Feng Bujue said, taking out the iron bar.

The room itself is vacant. So all he has to do was lean out the bar when the bar touched the wall, he could move it a few meters along the wall and find the door.

It took him a dozen seconds to find the door by this method, and then he went over.

Once you know where you are, you can move on. For he had the map of the house in his head, and he knew the length of the passage in a few steps.

Humans are born with a fear of darkness. The shrinking of the visual field means the expansion of the unknown field, and the degree of vigilance of a person will increase as the amount of information he/she has decreased so that his/her “self-preservation” will remain above a certain level.

That is, the fear of darkness comes from the psychological need to maintain the intensity level of the will to preserve itself. Fear can make people attach great importance to small and superficial information leaked in the dark.

However, there is no fear for Feng Bujue, and he does not need to rely on the fear of instinct to bring positive or negative effects.

With his memory of his surroundings and his ability to imagine, he could be completely blind and have the way out in his heart.

In a minute he had found the storeroom. Then he went straightly to the door of the underground 1F.

At this point, the door is unbound. Turning the handle of the door, Feng Bujue opened it easily, the light from the underground passage lightened his vision.

Before Feng Bujue went down the building, he had taken all six keys out of his pocket and held them in his hand when he came down the stairs.

The two doors that are closer to the stairway are blue and black respectively. As soon as the lock was unlocked, the key disappeared, and he tried to push the door, but he heard this message: [The red door is not opened yet].

“Oh… Need to be in order, right…” Seeing this message, he decided to change all 6 doors to [unlock].

After more than a minute, when he consumed the last key, the system prompt sounded: [The current task is completed, the main task is updated].

The task of [Exploring 1F, finding out the six keys of red, yellow, blue, black, white and gray, then returning to the underground 1F to open the six doors] was ticked, and the emerging task was: [Exploring the six rooms of the underground 1F in the order of red, yellow, blue, black, white and gray.]

“OK, let me see what you two brothers are doing.” Feng Bujue reached the red door and pushed the handles.

He stood at the door and looked. The inside of the room was red, too. The whole room is filled with red light but there’s no source.

Feng Bujue again took out the iron bar to test. But as soon as he had thrust the rusty bar into the room, an arm appeared from the side of the door, grabbed the bar, and tugged at it with all his might.

Feng Bujue caught off guard. He let go so as not to be taken in with him.

It should be noted here that Feng Bujue’s hand was equipped with both equipment [Spider Silk Gloves] and costume. His costume was a pair of dark leather gloves. Normally he would show his hands bare, and if gloves were needed, he would show clothes but not equipment. If there has to be a reason, it’s he thinks the look of the Spider Silk Gloves is pretty low…

But no matter what the exterior setting is, as long as the equipment is in gear, it will be used naturally. And what these gloves do… Aside from its ordinary defences, the effect of it is to – stick objects.

Because of this little difference, the act of letting the stick go did not help Feng Bujue. He was led in by the iron bar…

Feng Bujue’s reaction was very quick. When he stumbled and didn’t step firmly, he opened [Body-Spirit Congregation Technique] and took the pipe wrench out. Higher moving speed gave him space to adjust his body.

Feng Bujue took an opportunity to rush forward and turned over by one hand, got several steps far with the enemy behind the door and turned himself toward the enemy.

He thought it was another monster, but when he looked at it, he saw that it was a man, too.

It was a man in his early thirties, dressed in what looked like a military uniform. The right arm, which had just grasped the bar, was a metal arm.

The man saw Feng Bujue and his facial expression changed, he coursed viciously: “You monster… Do you want to kill me? I wouldn’t…”

“Wait!” Feng Bujue stretched out a hand, “I don’t want to fight with you.” He looked at the bar, which had been broken in two, and thought, “This guy has extraordinary fighting power, and the hardness of that mechanical arm is obviously above my pipe wrench…”

“Hum… You don’t want to fight?” The man sneered and stepped toward Feng Bujue: ”Are you joking! Do you expect me to believe you!”

Indeed, Feng Bujue doesn’t want to fight, but he also didn’t cancel Body-Spirit Congregation Technique. Seeing the man tried to attack him, he can only launch a battle helplessly.

1. The reference came from Fullmetal Alchemist.