Chapter 307 Invasion of the Brain Cell 15

Chapter 307 Invasion of the Brain Cell 15

So-called strategists would choose not to battle when they knew that they were at a disadvantage, but in a situation where they were cornered, they would not hesitate and push everything against the enemy. Seeing their teammate being flung away, Ambitionist, Autumn Zither, and Weighty Words naturally stood up. They assumed their positions and prepared to face the enemy.

"Want to fight me?" Red Riding Hood turned back, and her gaze scorched the other three. "Humph... Have you decided on giving up your lives?"

"Don’t fight!" Feng Bujue shouted from the distance. "I’m fine!"

With the halting shout from Brother Jue, the three who prepared to launch forward with everything held back.

"Little Red, you will not kill us." Feng Bujue stood up shakily. "We are your boss’ guests. You won’t kill us..."

Red Riding Hood was silent for a few seconds and looked at Feng Bujue from afar. She scoffed. "And how did you come to that conclusion?"

"We, or the travelers from another world in your perspective, have to follow certain rules during this kind of short trip." Feng Bujue tried to explain in words that could be understood by NPCs. "And you... are too powerful. If we fight you, the chance of surviving is zero, absolute zero, zilch"

He repeated that a lot; it was meant for his teammates. As someone with Soul’s Eye, Feng Bujue could clearly see the difference in power level, and against Little Red Riding Hood, they had no chance of winning. Even the bunch of superheroes from Gotham would be no match for this little girl.

"Our journey will not end in this kind of sure death situation," Feng Bujue concluded, rubbing his aching spine. "So, I believe that you don’t want to or cannot kill us. You reigned in your strength when you flung me away. Even if I didn’t do anything, I wouldn’t have died. I would at most be closely dead."

Little Red Riding Hood’s face did not change much when she listened to Feng Bujue, but her murderous aura did disappear.

"I know you are angry... and I deserve what I got," Feng Bujue said, "but... since things have reached this stage, I’d advise you go after the werewolf as soon as possible. The few of us will go to the seventh floor to meet the boss. Everyone has their own goal to accomplish. If you feel that is not enough in the future, you can always come back to kill me."

"Hmm..." Little Red Riding Hood thought for a moment before morphing into a red flash and materializing before Feng Bujue. She walked on the swamp like it was cement and soon appeared before Brother Jue. "Courageous, but you are not wrong."

She agreed with Feng Bujue on the surface, but the mace in her hand still swung without mercy.

"But I don’t like having commands barked at me, even if that person is the boss." Red Riding Hood yanked the bloody mace right out from Feng Bujue’s knee and swung it above her shoulder. She smiled wickedly. "So, this is your extra punishment."

Seeing the pain on Feng Bujue’s face, she nodded with satisfaction and turned to leave. When she passed the other three, they did not dare even breathe and waited quietly for her to pass. No one spoke, and no one lifted their eyes...

It was not until Little Red Riding Hood walked into the elevator and the doors closed that Autumn Zither dared to raise his voice to say, "Are you alright, Brother Feng?"

Weighty Words also scratched his chin and said, "As long as Brother Feng’s status is not dead in the team tab after a few minutes, it means that this path is safe and can safely send us up to the seventh floor."

"Hmm... That is a good plan." Facing the three’s evil calculations, Feng Bujue accepted it with ease. "My leg is injured. It’s too hard to me to leap on my own. If I miss and fall from this height into the swamp, I will definitely die."

Then he took off the hat and passed it to Weighty Words. "For the sake of insurance, keep the plot item for me. After throwing me up there, wait three minutes. If my death notification doesn’t come, come up one after another."

Ambitionist was surprised by how cooperative Feng Bujue was. Actually, he was semi-joking when he gave his plan but the target agreed so easily. Since the plan was made, after discussing some details, they put it into action. Weighty Words, Ambitionist, and Autumn Zither stood in position and held Feng Bujue. They aimed him upright and tossed him headfirst into the swirl of clouds.

Once his body touched the inverted waterfall, Feng Bujue felt blood rush from the bottom of his feet to his head. Gravity seemed to have inversed in that moment, and he ’dropped’ into the water. As mentioned before... Brother Jue did not know how to swim. Of course, in such rapids, it did not make a difference.

Feng Bujue was like something that was flushed down the toilet. He was dragged and pulled along by the water. He could not even open his eyes, and the water pressure pressed around him. But that did not lose him his Life Points. If anything, the cold water temporarily numbed the pain from his left leg. About thirty seconds later, Feng Bujue felt the pressure on him lifting. He leaned against something on his back like he was lying on the ground. He tried to sit up, and this action pushed his upper body above the water surface.

"Hmm?" Feng Bujue opened his eyes, and the bright lights blinded him temporarily. When he saw his surroundings, he showed a rare expression of confusion. He was looking at his own bathroom, and he was lying in his own bathtub.

"What... did I fall asleep while taking a bath?"

So, Brother Jue went offline to take a bath after the Battle of the Cowl and fell asleep while bathing, and everything before this was a dream.

...

But... that was impossible.

This kind of ridiculous plot of ’everything was just a dream’... Feng Bujue refused to accept it.

...

"Current quest updated. Main quest completed," the system announced.

Feng Bujue lowered his head to look and realized that he was still wearing his Joker outfit, and then he understood everything. Taking a deep breath, he crawled out from the tub and inspected the game menu. In the team tab, the names of his teammates were still all there, and they were all alive.

In the mission tab, "All surviving players enter the Detective Club" had not been ticked, but under it, a new quest had appeared.

"Escape the memory space and return to the ’experiment zone’ seventh floor."

Other than that, there was another important change. The items in his inventory could be used again.