That sound of footsteps quickly rounded the corridor's corner and entered the range of the kerosene lamp's light.

"This is some heavy taste..." Feng Bujue muttered, using the dim light to observe an extremely disgusting-looking creature.

The monster's lower body was similar to a human's, with some remnants of clothing around the groin area, while the exposed thighs down to the feet were a bloody mess. Its soles were actually embedded with iron plates, like horseshoes, with a ring of iron needles piercing through the soles and protruding from the tops of its feet. Just looking at it made you imagine how painful it must be.

The monster's upper body was even more bizarre; its torso was covered in tongues, all over its chest, back, and armpits, and every single one was wriggling…

Its head was covered by an iron mask, which completely encased it from the top of its head to its chin, leaving no holes for breathing or seeing.

Two muscular arms hung at its sides. It had no hands or fingers; instead, bone spurs grew out of its wrists, huge bone spurs almost the size of tusks, one on each wrist.

Feng Bujue immediately activated the Vajra Bell skill on the monster. If it was an NPC, Command One would activate; if it was a monster, Command Two would naturally take effect. In any case, he could tell the situation from the data returned in the menu.

[Name: Servant of Arthur]

[Race: Synthetic Human]

[Level: 26]

[Height: 190 cm]

[Weight: 120 kg]

[Combat Style: Melee, Mid-Range Physical Attacks]

[Weaknesses: Lacks hearing and sight, can only use the tongues on its torso to sniff out and locate targets. The tongues themselves are quite fragile.]

[Skills: Bone Spur Strike, Headbutt, Tongue Bind]

[Danger Level: Moderate]

"Hmm… no related missions, flags, or identity information listed… so it really is a monster…" Feng Bujue quickly scanned the information in the menu, then darted back into the room, closed the door, and slid the bolt shut.

"This thing clearly doesn't have fingers either, ha…" Feng Bujue said. "It definitely can't get in." He thought to himself, "That was probably an optional flag just now. If I hadn't opened the door, the guy with all the finger joints for a lower body would have died outside. Now that I've chosen to open the door, the plot is definitely going to turn into… I saved it, and now it will assist me as an NPC."

Bang, bang, bang…

The sound of the door being rammed started up again. It sounded like the monster outside was using the iron helmet on its head to hit the door.

"Hmph… just as I expected," Feng Bujue laughed. "Now I just have to wait for the one outside to leave on its own…"

Kra—

A bone spur easily pierced through the door panel, creating a hole about the size of a palm. Luckily, Feng Bujue had taken a few steps back after closing the door, otherwise his chest would have been impaled.

"You've got to be kidding me…" Feng Bujue was tense, but he still instinctively took out his main weapon, the pipe wrench. "Could it be that the real choice is… if I stand idly by and hide in the toilet, I won't be discovered at all; but if I choose to save that synthetic human, I'll be attacked along with it?"

Accompanied by the sound of thick wood being torn apart, the toilet door was destroyed by the monster as easily as cutting vegetables. During this process, Feng Bujue was constantly thinking about how to deal with the upcoming battle.

Judging from the data displayed by the Vajra Bell skill, this monster wasn't actually that strong. If they were in a slightly more open environment, a player could easily achieve a flawless kill by holding a ranged weapon, shooting at the tongues while staying outside the range of its bone spur attacks, and retreating while fighting.

Unfortunately, the environment of this script was very cramped, and this toilet was the smallest of all the rooms. Even if Feng Bujue took out his only usable ranged weapon, Death Poker, to fight, he wouldn't be able to use ranged attacks much. At most, he could use the Shield effect to block two fatal attacks.

The treacherous map environment meant that he could only engage in close combat with the monster, which was what it excelled at. Plus, his Survival Value was already low, so it was obvious… that the situation was likely to be dire.

A minute passed, and the toilet door had finally been torn down completely, leaving only the surrounding frame, with the middle completely open for passage.

The monster leaned forward and squeezed through the large hole in the door, approaching step by step. Feng Bujue could only retreat, but there were only a few square meters of space here, and his back quickly hit the wall.

Unexpectedly, after entering, the monster completely ignored Feng Bujue. It took a few steps, then turned to face the other side, approaching the synthetic human in the corner.

"Ugh… ugh… cough…" the guy without a tongue or chin groaned, but no matter how he shouted, it was all muffled and unclear sounds.

Chi chi, two sounds, followed by the splash of blood.

The monster that had entered later used its two bone spurs to pierce through the chest of the escapee. Then, it lifted the entire body and used the tongues on its torso to stick the body to its chest, making it look like it was holding a corpse, except without using its hands…

Feng Bujue didn't know if the first one who came in would be killed by such an attack, but he felt that in the current situation, it was best not to disturb the two of them in their intimate contact.

The Servant of Arthur found what it was looking for and turned to walk out of the toilet, its speed neither fast nor slow, just like when it came.

Before long, it walked out of the toilet. From its appearance until this moment, it had not reacted to Feng Bujue's existence in any way.

"Can't sense my existence?" Feng Bujue muttered to himself and immediately chased after it. "I want to see where you're taking it."

An average person would probably still be standing in the same spot, not daring to breathe loudly, waiting for the sound of the monster's footsteps to disappear. But Feng Bujue would make a judgment and take action within seconds.

"Why can't it detect my existence… can't it smell me? Or… am I just a ghost?" Feng Bujue strolled along as if he was taking a leisurely walk, following about a meter behind the monster. Since it had no hearing, he didn't need to tiptoe. "Hmm… it's still unclear whether its sniffing mechanism is based on ordinary smells, so I can't speculate further," he mused. "And if I'm a ghost, then the truth of this script should be… after the opening CG scene, I died in cell zero. From the moment I woke up, everything has been a ghost's fantasy, and only that scene just now was real. Heh… in that case, I'm a pretty powerful ghost, at least I can open and close doors."

The reason Feng Bujue laughed was because both of these theories were obviously wrong. He realized they were absurd halfway through thinking about them.

"Eh? Could it be…" Feng Bujue said, looking at the monster's back, "It's not that it can't sense my existence, it just doesn't want to hurt me." This thought popped up and triggered a series of associations. "That's right… assuming I am Andrew, why would the Servant of Arthur attack the master's brother? No matter what happened between the two brothers, at least from the limited information, Arthur doesn't want Andrew to die, otherwise he could have done it himself at the beginning of the script."

While he was thinking, the monster had already arrived at the staircase leading to the second floor. Strangely, the wall of flesh at the staircase was still there, and it looked exactly the same.

"Hey, hey, hey… how did you guys get down? The sound of footsteps was clearly from here just now…" Feng Bujue was about to complain.

But he saw… the synthetic human with the corpse stuck to its chest, step by step, walk up the stairs…

It just squeezed into the wall of flesh, as if we were reaching our hands into a pile of red dates or some other dense material. It squeezed and squeezed, and then it was inside…

The wall of flesh seemed to be alive, closely following the synthetic human's body outline, leaving almost no gaps, moving and changing as it moved… After it passed through, it closed up again into a complete wall.

"So this is how you get through here?" Feng Bujue really regretted that he had only poked it a few times with his fingers just now. "That's not right… then why did I trigger this dog-eat-dog plot after finding the three keys?" He slapped his forehead. "Oh! This plot is to remind me, or rather, demonstrate to me… how to get through this wall."

Thinking of this, Feng Bujue took a deep breath, switched the Goblin Gas Mask to its display state, stepped forward, and squeezed hard against the wall of flesh.

But… he pushed for a long time, and the wall didn't change at all. Blood was occasionally squeezed out from between the flesh, splattering all over him.

System prompts also rang out frequently: [A barrier controlled by magic, seemingly made of piled-up corpses.]

"What does that mean!" Feng Bujue said unhappily. "Monsters can pass but I can't? What's good for the goose is good for the gander?" In his anger, he even blurted out a line from The True Story of Ah Q.

"Damn it, just because I'm not showing my might doesn't mean I'm Hello Kitty…" He picked up the pipe wrench and used the Look Out move on the wall of flesh.

Who knew that when the wall of flesh was subjected to high-intensity attacks, a layer of magical force field would appear on its surface. Feng Bujue's move hit the invisible force field, and part of it was even reflected back. He flew out, his body crashing into the corridor wall behind him, his Survival Value dropping directly to 10%, and he wasted a lot of stamina.

"Okay, okay, okay… you've got guts, you've got guts, you've got guts…" Feng Bujue pointed his finger at the wall like he was saying harsh words after losing a fight. "You wait, I'll come back and deal with you later."

Of course, even if he didn't say "you wait," the wall wouldn't be able to run away…

Feng Bujue was hit and vented his emotions, so inspiration came. He returned to the toilet and walked towards the corner. Finally, his gaze stopped on the wall.

It turned out that when the more vicious monster had stabbed the other monster to death, it had left two holes in the wall.