"I've never heard of being 'delayed' from entering a script…" Ruo Yu said, looking at Brother Jue.

"Heh... never mind." Feng Bujue's reply sounded perfunctory, but his subtext was, "It's not convenient to talk about it now."

The three members of Hell Frontline understood his meaning, so none of them followed up. As for the other two players…

"Wow! It's Great God Feng! In person!" As soon as Buu saw Brother Jue, he rushed over, as if to pounce on him.

Oubu also stepped forward quickly, approached Feng Bujue, and stared at him with his lifeless eyes, as if he were observing some kind of monster only seen in movies.

"What are you doing?" Feng Bujue was also a little caught off guard by this sudden situation. He reached out to stop the two while shouting, "What do you two want? Are you going to turn me into chocolate and eat me?"

"Um... as expected of Great God Feng, his impromptu retorts are so profound..." Buu said, looking at Brother Jue with admiration.

"Um... as expected of Great God Feng, he's even a little slower than ordinary people when entering a script…" Oubu also nodded in agreement.

"I don't think either of those are things to be proud of…" Xiao Ling said dryly from the side.

"Oh~" Feng Bujue thought for a moment, then quickly realized that the two players in front of him were his fans. He immediately smiled and replied, "You two, just call me Feng Bujue. The title 'Great God Feng' sounds awkward, like I'm some kind of crazy shaman."

"That won't do!" Buu replied seriously, "It's too impolite to call Great God Feng by his first name!"

"Hey hey... this is just a nickname in the game... Besides, even if it's my real name, it doesn't matter, right? People's names are meant to be called…" Feng Bujue thought to himself.

However, Brother Jue remained calm on the surface and offered a compromise: "Well... how about you call me 'Teacher Jue'?"

"Okay!" Buu replied loudly, "As expected of Teacher Jue... even a random title is so profound..."

Oubu also said, "As expected of Teacher Jue... even the titles he comes up with are a little weirder than ordinary people..."

"Heh... heh..." Feng Bujue smiled awkwardly while thinking to himself, "These two are the teammates I was randomly assigned to this time... Should I be happy or annoyed..."

"Ahem." Then, Feng Bujue cleared his throat and steered the topic back on track, "So... let me ask, how is the script progressing?"

"See for yourself." Ruo Yu tilted her head slightly and gestured with her eyes for Brother Jue to observe on his own.

Ruo Yu knew that Feng Bujue could observe the environment from a data perspective, so she didn't bother to say more. However, the others didn't know this…

"Teacher Jue, there are two exits in this room…" Buu eagerly ran to the wall and pointed to the doors on both sides, "Both sides say 'This door is locked.'"

"The smell of formalin is coming from behind that door." Oubu pointed to the door behind Xiao Tan and said quickly.

"Hey... I was the one who found that." Xiao Tan pouted, looking like he had been robbed of his credit.

"There's nothing under the table, I checked." Xiao Ling then added, "Before you showed up, I was planning to jump onto the roof beam to take a look."

"No need to go to so much trouble…" Feng Bujue said, taking a few steps forward and walking to the table, "Could it be…" He reached out and picked up the oil lamp on the table, "...here?"

The next second, everyone's eyes focused on the scene, and they saw... the key hidden under the lamp.

"Oh yeah! How could I have overlooked that?" Xiao Ling said, feeling quite frustrated.

"This is the so-called 'darkness under the lamp'…" Feng Bujue shrugged, picked up the key, and glanced at the item description.

【Name: Faded Copper Key】

【Type: Consumable】

【Quality: Normal】

【Function: Opens a door somewhere】

【Can be brought out of this script: No】

【Note: This key only corresponds to one door and will not be consumed if inserted into the wrong lock.】

Then, he raised the key and showed the item description to his teammates.

"Hmm... I see, that makes it simple." After two seconds, Buu pondered, "Judging from the 'note' on this key, we don't have to worry about consuming the key by choosing the wrong door, nor do we need to make any choices between the two doors. Anyway, this key will only work if we find the 'corresponding' door. So... just try it on the doors directly."

"Hey? Your mind works pretty fast." Feng Bujue looked at Buu with approval.

"Heh... heh heh..." A look that only elementary school students have when praised appeared on Buu's fat face. He scratched his cheek with his finger and said with a smile, "Teacher Jue is too kind, I'm a man who aspires to be a famous detective after all."

"Yes, Buu's reasoning ability is very strong." Oubu nodded in agreement.

"Speaking of which..." At this moment, Feng Bujue said belatedly, "I just realized... you guys are the 'famous detective' and 'old army doctor' combination..."

"Yes, just like Sherlock Holmes and Watson!" Buu replied with glowing eyes.

"Teacher Jue, you must think we're very chuuni, right?" Oubu said in a deep voice, "But it doesn't matter... Dreams that are laughed at are the ones worth realizing."

"No... I think this kind of ideal is quite normal, similar to what I had when I was a kid..." Feng Bujue replied expressionlessly, and glanced at Xiao Tan.

Xiao Tan smiled awkwardly at him.

"Pfft…" Xiao Ling couldn't hold back any longer and started giggling while covering her mouth.

Ruo Yu looked at Brother Jue and Xiao Tan with a helpless expression and sighed deeply.

"Oh! Is that so? As expected of Teacher Jue... even his childhood dreams are so profound..." Buu's admiration surged again.

Oubu's lifeless eyes also gleamed: "As expected of Teacher Jue... even his life goals are a little higher than ordinary people..."

"Ha... haha... let's hurry up and try the key..." In order to prevent these two from praising him endlessly, Feng Bujue quickly chuckled twice, took the key and walked towards the door behind Xiao Tan, "Let's try this one first, the smell behind the door is quite suspicious."

As he spoke, Brother Jue had reached the door and extended the key towards the keyhole, but after trying a few times, he found that it couldn't be inserted.

"Not this one..." Feng Bujue muttered, then walked to the other door, "Then it must be here..."

This inference was also reasonable, because there were only two doors in this room anyway, and this key should be able to open at least one of them.

However... the actual situation was...

"Eh?" Feng Bujue stood in front of the odorless door, his expression changed slightly, "Not this one either..."

"What's the situation?" Xiao Tan asked doubtfully, "Brother Jue, did you insert it backwards?"

"How is that possible... of course I've tried all the ways, front, back, left, and right." Feng Bujue replied, "It seems that this key..." He looked down at the key in his hand and said, "...corresponds to a door somewhere else, and not the two doors in front of us."

"Huh?" Buu said in a daze, "The problem is... we can't go to 'other places' without opening these two doors."

Oubu added, "Um... are we overthinking the problem?" He paused, "The floor, walls, and roof of this room are all just wood. We're all level forty-something, we can just use a skill to break through the wall... why do we need a key?"

"No, that won't work." Feng Bujue immediately denied Oubu's theory, then turned to Xiao Ling and said, "Bei Ling (Brother Jue usually uses game IDs to refer to teammates when outsiders are present, except for Xiao Tan), give me a normal quality pistol."

Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Ling casually took out a Glock 17 from her knapsack and threw it over.

Brother Jue took the pistol, and without saying a word, he opened the safety and fired a shot at the lock.

Bang—

When the gunshot rang out, the bullet had already hit the target, and… bounced back.

A layer of transparent ripples appeared on the surface of the lock. Then, the bullet was bounced out by an invisible force field and hit... Oubu.

After being shot, Oubu didn't react much, he just lowered his head and silently looked at the wound on his thigh.

Buu said thoughtfully, "Hmm... it seems that brute force won't open the door after all..."

"That's right." Feng Bujue tossed the gun back to Xiao Ling and said as if nothing had happened, "This isn't a beginner-level script, but a team script for six high-level players to clear... how could the system allow such a brainless door-breaking behavior?"

"Uh... I say... Brother Jue..." Xiao Tan finally couldn't help but speak, "Aren't you being a little too calm... that guy is bleeding from being shot by you!"

"I didn't do it on purpose." Feng Bujue spread his hands, "In fact, I can't 'deliberately' accomplish this; because we're teammates, if I have any subjective intent to harm, the system will definitely stop me." He pointed to the lock, "In short... based on practice, we can conclude that forcibly assaulting this room won't work, the attacks will be randomly bounced back and cause damage to the six of us."

"As expected of Teacher Jue... he can analyze such a simple phenomenon so profoundly..." The admiration in Buu's eyes intensified.

"That makes sense..." Oubu, who had been shot, actually echoed, "As expected of Teacher Jue... his explanation is also a little more intuitive than ordinary people..."

What was shocking was... Oubu even used two fingers to "pinch" out the bullet that had been shot into his leg while he was speaking. Throughout the whole process, his expression didn't change much, he was still in that weak and malnourished state, and there wasn't a trace of pain on his face...

"Whoa~ This brave warrior... is that the legendary Russian bullet extraction method?" Seeing this scene, Xiao Tan, as a doctor, couldn't help but want to吐槽 (tu cao - offer sarcastic comment).

"Hehe... you flatter me." Oubu smiled proudly, "I just used the title ability—【Magnetic Fingers】." He explained, "I can continuously release a certain amount of magnetism from my fingers at a very low cost. Therefore... when extracting things like bullets or shrapnel, I don't need to use tools, nor do I need to further expand the wound, I just need to use the right 'force' to suck the thing out." He held up the blood-stained bullet and added, "I'm lucky that the surface of this bullet is nickel-plated, if it were a pure brass shell, I wouldn't be able to 'suck' it out."

Speaking of this, Oubu gently stroked his wound, and the bleeding on his leg stopped as a white light flashed (obviously he had used a healing skill): "By the way, my medical and machinery specializations are both B-grade, which can be considered worthy of the name 'old army doctor'."

"Very good, very powerful." Feng Bujue gave him a compliment with a very appreciative look.

But in his heart, he thought, "Excellent! These two guys look pretty funny, but their strength is still very good; the fat one... has excellent puzzle-solving and analysis abilities; the skinny one belongs to the most sought-after medical machinery flow player in the game. And they admire me so much, which means they are all conscious and idealistic young people. Hmm... I'll add them as friends after we clear this level."

"Could you temporarily put aside that narcissistic and slightly despicable thought in your head..." Suddenly, Ruo Yu looked at Brother Jue and said coldly, "And focus your attention back on the script in front of you."

"Hey... how did you see that? Are you a mind reader!" Feng Bujue was genuinely surprised.

"I can tell from your eyes what you're thinking..." Ruo Yu imitated Brother Jue, touching her chin, and sneered, "...'Hmph, these two guys are useful, since they're my fans, they must be very conscious men'... dialogues of that kind."

"Wo cao (slang - damn)..." Feng Bujue said a sentence that should have been blocked by the system, but wasn't. At this moment, only these two words could accurately express his feelings.

"Ha! I've got it!" Just as they were talking, Xiao Ling, who hadn't said anything for a long time, thought of an idea. She immediately walked to the oil lamp on the table and said, "Everyone, be careful, I'm going to turn off the lights."

She didn't care whether the others were ready or not, and after saying hello, she simply twisted the oil lamp to extinguish it.

Just a second later, everyone was plunged into pitch darkness.

"Hmph... as expected." A few seconds later, Xiao Ling's voice sounded again, "Look... there are words on that door."

Since the surroundings were pitch black, the others didn't know where to look. However, after briefly recalling their positions, they all found what Xiao Ling was referring to.

Before long, several faint characters emitting a faint green glow were imprinted in everyone's vision.