Chapter 35 The Mountain Pool and the Haunted Mansion 2

Chapter 35 The Mountain Pool and the Haunted Mansion 2

Then the quest tab changed. "Explore the house to find a way to escape it."

After reading that, Feng Bujue turned around without a second word to try to open the door. This was a French door that had wooden paneling. Feng Bujue grabbed the two doorknobs and twisted them until they made a tingling sound. Naturally, the door was locked, and it would not open so easily.

Invincible Champion huffed patronizingly. "Plebs will always be plebs. Only plebs would expect the door to open like that."

Creak, creak.

Wang Tanzhi joined Feng Bujue. He used the chef knife and wiggled at the space between the paneling while his other hand worked with the doorknob. He used his action to show support for Feng Bujue.

Invincible Champion started to groan again. "Hey, the little brother that has ’panicked’ in his title, are you deaf? I already said..."

Kuang, kuang, kuang.

The two made it worse. Each pulled on the door and yanked it with the all their might.

"Are you two mad?" Brother Invincible was running out of words to insult them.

Pa! Pa!

Two crisp sounds later, the two doorknobs were yanked off their frames. Well, even if they had the keys now, they would not be able to escape that way.

"Hey! What are you doing‽" Invincible Champion gasped, and for that one second, his Terror Points rose for some weird reason.

Bang, bang, bang...

Then they used their shoulders to ram into the door that had lost its doorknobs. Finally, two minutes of madness later, Feng Bujue turned around, fixed his collar, and cleared his throat. "Looks like this door really can’t be opened."

To be frank, no matter the field, if one wanted to have a long career, then one had to plan for it. A gaming team without a plan was no different from a gathering of random players; they merely had more time to dedicate to gaming.

At the top of the pyramid were top studios like Regulation. They had professional teams to manage the logistic, and the gamers were split into groups to complete their missions. In the six-member group that was responsible to rush their level, each of them had a specific mastery and role to play. The item resources and information were provided by the studio in real life, and all the equipment and Skill Cards collected by the members were given to the level-rush group first.

Even an isolated member like Invincible Champion had his own role. Actually, his level was not that important; his main mission was to increase his fighting mastery and collect information. He could have skipped the other masteries, and it would not have mattered. The same went for equipment as the studio would provide him with those later. For the time being, all Regulation wanted was firsthand information, and Invincible’s responsibility was to test out the actual effects of someone who focused on mastering fighting.

Therefore, whenever a stranger asked Invincible Champion about the studio, his feelings could be summarized in a single word—annoyed. Firstly, that was confidential business information, so he could not talk about it, and secondly, even if he could, he had no interest sharing it with others.

"Okay, but Brother Invincible, you’d better be careful since you’re alone," Feng Bujue said with a peaceful smile.

After hearing that, Invincible Champion shivered. A curious feeling made his Terror Points jump like Feng Bujue’s words were an omen that something bad was about to happen. He turned back to peer at the three in the living room. He turned back upstairs and tossed the thought out of his mind.

Seeing his shadow disappear around the corner of the second floor, Long Aomin asked, "Brother Feng, why did you put on such an act? You have to understand how the system works by now. Obviously, there is no chance that we can escape from the door and windows. Even if you wanted to test that out, there was no need to make such a big commotion out of it, right?"

"Only then will he be able to think we don’t know anything," Feng Bujue answered. "Then he’ll make the reaction that he just did, abandoning us ’dead weights’ and moving away on his own."

"Brother Jue, you’re not planning to do something bad, right? This game bans players from attacking one’s allies," Wang Tanzhi said. He had helped Feng Bujue earlier not because he was cooperating with him but because he really thought the door could be opened.

"I’m not going to harm him; I just thought it is more effective for us to split up for a scenario like this," Feng Bujue explained. "At least the two girls shared the same idea and walked off on their own, but that fella... is most likely not someone who would discuss the plan with us.

"From his perspective, he has the highest level, and he is the most professional. Therefore, it’s natural for him to think he’s the leader. If I suggested for us to split up, there was an eighty percent chance he would deny the idea. When I pulled on the door, he even tried to stop the two girls from leaving, so you can see from that, he was planning for us to move together in a group."

Feng Bujue walked over to wall and squatted down like he was observing something. "But this is for the best; he has wandered off on his own."

He used his palm to remove the layer of dust and spider web on the wall. "We should split up as well. When the main quest is updated, we’ll come back here to meet up."

Xiao Tan was shocked. "We’re going to split up as well?"

"As I mentioned earlier, it’s more effective this way," Feng Bujue answered without taking his eyes off the wall. "Don’t worry, this kind of place usually has a haunted setting, so the main purpose of the scenario is to scare people and set up puzzles. The only way you might get hurt is from traps, so just be careful when you’re exploring."

Before he finished, the system audio said, "Side quest triggered."

The three looked at the quest tab. The original main quest was still there, but below it was a new quest. "Find all six parts of The Haunted Palace. Current Progress: 1/6"