Chapter 524

Chapter 524: Island of Devil’s Maw (30)

“Ah hah!” Feng Bujue shouted suddenly, “I get it now!”

Hearing that, they all turned their gaze towards him and realized Brother Jue was now squatting at the other side of the altar, god knows what he had seen. “We have no time to waste, come on over here now.” Feng Bujue continued to shout.

The rest of his teammates did not find anything valuable in the past 5 minutes so they moved to oblige when they heard Brother Jue said that. Soon the four stood behind him.

“I found two rather obvious hints...” Feng Bujue pointed at a stone slab that protruded out before him. “Take a closer look, there are two pieces of murals here.” As if to demonstrate, he reached out his right hand to swipe lightly over the surface of the stone slab. With that, the originally drab slab started to glow, an orange-colored pattern surfaced and formed two miniature murals.

“The mural on the left is quite clear.” Feng Bujue explained as he pointed at the pattern. “Look, it is depicting a group of people peeing on the altar and showing their middle fingers.”

“My god...” Atobe was covered in cold sweat. “What in the world is this...”

“It probably wants us to desecrate the altar or something like that...” Ambitionist suggested.

“Indeed, and I am a master at that... but don’t hurry to any conclusion because there is this second mural.” Feng Bujue said as he moved his hand to the mural on the right. “This one is rather abstract and it took me some time before I understood it...” he explained, “See... there is something sitting on the altar, on first glance it might look like a sea anemone but it is actually a woman, to be more precise, it is a young woman.”

“Then... this is to tell us to find a young girl to offer as sacrifice?” Pegasus concluded.

“Bingo!” Feng Bujue nodded. At the same time, he retracted his hand and stood up.

“This is so sordid! Such a disgusting deity, let me use my hand of justice to destroy him!” Pegasus exclaimed judiciously.

“Well, we do need to kill it eventually, after all that is part of the quest but...” Feng Bujue paused as he used a meaningful gaze to sweep the rest of his group, “We are given choice on how to summon him...”

“The method that we use to summon him is probably going to affect the difficulty of the boss battle, right...” Ambitionist predicted.

......

“That is the same opinion I held.” Uncle Worthless said, “But... we do not have a female player among us so I am afraid we are only accessible to the worse choice...” His words stopped there because at that moment, he felt a fiery gaze burning into him.

“Brother Feng... what are you thinking...” uncle Worthless asked worriedly.

Brother Jue stared closely at Uncle Worthless like how a sex maniac would view his target and even the tone was equally slimy, “Brother Worthless, you still remember... the magical seal that Leideson has given you, right?” With that reminder, everyone else remembered it as well.

“Oh, that’s a way too!” Ambitionist snapped his finger. Atobe though mumbled, “So the power of disguise...” Pegasus did not give any comments, he merely looked at Uncle Worthless with a face piled up with smiles.

“Don’t get any funny ideas, you guys...” Uncle Worthless replied expressionlessly.

“You said it yourself, in this circumstance, ‘we are only accessible to the worse choice’.” Feng Bujue returned to normal and persuaded. “That means that even you agree that it is not a good idea to summon the boss through the desecration of the altar...” he paused before continuing, “But now... actually it is not that we are only accessible to one choice, are we?”

“I’d rather face the boss at a higher difficulty then...” Uncle Worthless answered. “I’ll carry you all through the battle.”

“As a professional player... you should understand the need to make sacrifice for the team...” Feng Bujue walked forward to pat Uncle Worthless on his shoulder and uttered with a serious and heavy attitude.

“Your salacious and anticipatory gaze has once again belied your real thought...” Uncle Worthless very easily shoved Brother Jue’s hand away.

“Then fine...” Feng Bujue shrugged, “Since you are so against something as exciting as to take on a disguise of a young woman...” as he spoke, he already walked forward to step onto the altar. “Then we will have to use the first method.”

5 minutes later...”Ah... the effect seems to be over.” Uncle Worthless said. The four who were facing away from him turned back one after another.

“Thank god...” Atobe wiped away the sweat. “The time limit for this ‘disguise’ is not that long.” By then they had naturally completed the previous main quest “Within the next 15 minutes, use the altar inside the shrine to summon and defeat Walker, the God of Travel”. The system notified them of that but the next quest line had not appeared.

“Phew...” Feng Bujue also gave a long sigh. “This mother beep was truly the easiest boss I have ever faced...”

“Speaking of which... you were a bit too ruthless with your attacks earlier...” Pegasus glanced at the broken pieces of the carcasses at the corner. “Do you think you were making minced meat? If not for the protection of the system, even the few of us would be accidentally injured by your cuts.”

“You were right... I was indeed making minced meat out of him.” Feng Bujue’s answer always managed to surprise. “Now... our problem of food is solved.”

“Do you have to resort to cannibalism every chance you got?” Atobe graoned.

“Ah?” Feng Bujue turned his head up like he could not understand him. Then he raised his arm to point at Walker’s dead body. “How is this cannibalism? Is he human? He was a god? At the very least, he was an elf.”

“Even so, it feels strange eating an elf...” Atobe hesitated.

“Qie... how come you don’t have the same guilt and attack on conscience when eating pork or chicken?” Feng Bujue countered. “Your sense of sympathy is invoked when you are faced with a humanoid creature? Then how do you answer to all of the animals that have been killed, eaten and digested by your body and pooped out all these years? If you are that saintly, spend the rest of your lives surviving on button mushrooms then.”

“Why does it have to be button mushrooms anyway... Even if I have to go vegetarian, there are many other choices, aren’t there?” Atobe groused.

“Yes, add in something like carrot, cucumber to pair with those two mushrooms and you’ll have a feast.” Feng Bujue raised his brow to quip.

“Do you have to do this...” Atobe appeared to have heard the sinister implication behind Brother Jue’s words and he added with dissatisfaction, “Your constant harassment through innuendoes is enough to warn a report already, I am warning you!”

“In any case, I am going to eat this time. It is your freedom if you wish to go hungry.” Feng Bujue was too lazy to persuade them anymore, he turned to walk towards Walker’s body. “The next quest might come soon. I need to quickly pick out some flesh to roast so that I can eat some and then preserve the rest for later.”

“Such madness...” Watching Brother Jue walk away, Uncle Worthless commented.

“Such craziness...” Pegasus added.

“Such evil...” Ambitionist also chimed in.

But as the three said so, they too moved to follow Feng Bujue...

“Hey! So you all still moved to follow him?!” Atobe was astonished by this group of people’s morality but after he said his piece, he too started to reveal a face of hesitation. In the end... with the claws of hunger grabbing at his stomach, he too joined the rest...

...

Moments later, a delicious smell wafted through the hall. Juicy meat dripped out from the fatty flesh, dropped on the bonfire and sizzled.

“Hmm... These mocking tree’s branches sure are good fuel. Just by stacking 2 or 3 of them together, we can produce such a long lasting bonfire.” Feng Bujue continued to chat like nothing was out of the ordaniry with his teammates. At that moment, Feng Bujue was holding the cleaver sideways and using the surface of the blade as a makeshift iron plate to roast a piece of meat cut off from the ribs.

“I know you are trying to lighten the mood, but I feel like... it’s best for us to keep silent for now...” Ambitionist said. He was holding an arrow (Ambitionist had a few actual spare arrows in his inventory, they were consumables like ammos) which had a piece of the man’s neck pierced through it roasting on the fire.

“Ha ha... You’re still stuck on that at a moment like this?” Feng Bujue sounded just like the mother hen of a brothel. “From the moment you guys surrounded the corpse and started to pick out the slices of meat, you should have known what will happen....” He shrugged. “Ah... then again, I can understand your feeling... Everything are like that, going from 1 to 2 is easy but going from 0 to 1 is always difficult. The first step is always the hardest.”

“Your tone of a drug pusher, and gaze of a brothel owner... are really helping at the moment.” Ambitionist rewarded Brother Jue with another sarcastic jab.

Actually Ambitionist was the one other than Feng Bujue who adjusted to the situation the quickest.

Uncle Worthless, Pegasus and Atobe did not want to even speak a word. As the atmosphere around them became stranger and stranger, the system announcement came. “Main quest updated. Travel through the tunnel behind the shrine and arrive at the Crystalline Maze within an hour.”