Chapter 2 The Second Roar

The second roar came as expected a few seconds later. This time, with Feng Bujue and Kuang Zong Jian Ying's full attention, they naturally pinpointed the monster's location. They exchanged glances and moved together in that direction.

Their pace was slow but silent. Feng Bujue switched his mask back to non-display mode and took the [Eye of Hatred] from his knapsack, putting it on. In previous scenarios, he'd either acted alone or encountered situations like the Death Quiz, so he hadn't used this piece of equipment in a long time. The current situation was perfect for making the most of it.

Although there were lights in the corridor, they weren't very reliable. Every so often, there was an area of bright white light, followed by a dimly lit section of about fifteen meters, then another bright area... and so on. That's why Feng Bujue had taken out the flashlight to explore, mainly worried about missing any game clues in the dark sections.

The two tiptoed along the corridor to a T-junction. During this time, the unknown monster's growl sounded again, even louder than the previous two times.

They stopped at the crossroads and looked to the left. Twenty meters down that corridor was a dead end, with a thick metal door at the end. The monster's roar came from inside the door, which had a rudder-shaped valve on it.

Feng Bujue tilted his head and whispered, "Since the door is closed, this is an optional plot point. Assuming that... this monster's strength isn't weak, and the system is letting us decide whether to kill it or not. If we don't kill it, we can leave from the other side of the crossroads. But if we risk going in to kill it, we should get some reward."

Kuang Zong Jian Ying also lowered his voice and asked, "What if this is a Boss-level monster even stronger than Jason?"

"Impossible. Jason is the strongest monster in this scenario, no doubt about it." Feng Bujue hadn't known Kuang Zong Jian Ying for long, but he found him to be fairly upright and straightforward, so there was no need to be too cautious when communicating with him. He said bluntly, "My title skill directly checks the scenario's final Boss's data. I took a look as soon as I entered the scenario. Jason is the boss of this scenario."

"Oh? You have a skill like that?" Kuang Zong Jian Ying immediately became interested and asked, "Hey, in that Thunderbolt scenario where we fought one-on-one, who did you see as the Boss?"

"Didn't look," Feng Bujue said.

"Why?"

"You rushed up with your sword as soon as I heard the quest prompt. Was I supposed to just stand there and look at the menu?"

"Blame me?"

"Of course."

"Heh... then how are Jason's stats? Is he strong?" Kuang Zong Jian Ying asked again.

"How should I put it... in terms of combat ability, maybe he's not as good as aliens or Predators, but in terms of survivability, he's harder to kill than a ghost." Feng Bujue replied.

The monster's data that Feng Bujue had seen earlier was as follows:

[Name: Jason Voorhees]

[Race: ???]

[Level: 20]

[Height: 190 cm]

[Weight: 113 kg]

[Combat Style: Melee, usually uses a machete, but will also use other weapons or fight bare-handed]

[Weakness: Listens to his mother]

[Skills: Resurrection (Even if Jason is completely destroyed on a physical level, as long as you find some absurd reason, he can reappear)]

[Danger Level: Moderate]

Feng Bujue personally thought that the resurrection skill was just maliciously mocking the producers who had made n movies in this series…

Roar—

The monster inside the door roared again. Because they were closer this time, Feng Bujue and Kuang Zong Jian Ying also heard other sounds, like the sound of metal rubbing together, a subtle but heavy and dense feeling.

"Let's put those irrelevant things aside. Anyway, Jason is already on the spaceship. Under normal circumstances, we won't encounter him until we leave the scenario." Feng Bujue said, "Let's talk about this monster in front of us first. Do we want to kill it?"

"Huh?" Kuang Zong Jian Ying was stunned. "Aren't you the one in charge of strategizing? You're asking me?"

"Oh... is that so..." Feng Bujue muttered, "I just have to kill whatever you tell me to kill, right? That makes things easier." He put the flashlight and steel knife into his knapsack, stepped forward, and grabbed the valve on the metal door. "I'll open the door now. You rush in and start slashing. I'll cover you from behind."

"Hey..." Kuang Zong Jian Ying finally understood... why Feng Bujue wanted to ask for his opinion.

It was too late to say anything. Feng Bujue had already turned the valve and pushed hard. The metal door swung open, and the monster in the room seemed to notice the situation at the door. Before Kuang Zong Jian Ying could rush in, it started moving first.

Feng Bujue took a few steps back after pushing the door open, redrawing his steel knife. Kuang Zong Jian Ying was about to lunge towards the door when he heard the strange sound of metal friction approaching from the darkness again. Almost instinctively, Kuang Zong Jian Ying stopped and braced himself, holding his sword horizontally in front of him, facing the black shadow rushing out of the door.

Accompanied by a crackling sound, the monster's enormous body emerged from the door. When its full appearance was revealed to Kuang Zong Jian Ying, the latter immediately abandoned the idea of blocking it with his sword and retreated quickly.

The monster came under the light of the corridor, its appearance so bizarre that it defied description.

Imagine spreading out a newspaper and placing a pile of metal objects of various shapes on it, such as coat hangers, screws, scissors, L-shaped pipes, a large ball of barbed wire, etc. Then, wrap these things in the newspaper and apply pressure from the outside, squeezing out the air in the internal gaps. Undoubtedly, the protruding edges of those metal objects will pierce the outer layer of newspaper and stick out. What you get in the end is an irregularly shaped metal mass, covered in a layer of paper full of holes.

The monster that came out of the door was something similar to this shape, except that its surface wasn't paper, but a layer of festering skin. This skin was thicker than a quilt, with many holes in it. Some moving, messy metal objects protruded from the holes. You could see bicycle handlebars, rolls of barbed wire, car parts, iron bars from security doors, and so on... almost all rusty and dilapidated junk.

It was hard to say exactly how big this monster was, but it was about the size of a car. In the room, it could turn into a bun-like shape, and to squeeze out of the metal door, it could also turn itself into the shape of a Mexican burrito.

It moved on the ground using the metal objects protruding from its skin, seemingly crawling like a snail, but in reality, it had countless "feet." The rubbing sound that Feng Bujue and the other heard earlier was the sound it made when it moved.

The low roar came from inside its "body," but even Feng Bujue found it hard to imagine what the core of this monster was, wrapped in a layer of skin a dozen centimeters thick and a pile of living metal...

"Is this thing a machine or a living creature..." Kuang Zong Jian Ying retreated, warily staring at the unknown behemoth slowly moving towards him. It wasn't that he was scared by the bizarre appearance, but he really didn't know how to attack.

Feng Bujue stood a few meters behind Kuang Zong Jian Ying and replied, "Anyway, it doesn't look like a spiritual entity." As he spoke, he took out another weapon from his knapsack. At this time, he had a steel knife in one hand and a pipe wrench in the other, looking ahead. "So I have double insurance."

"How do we even start?" Kuang Zong Jian Ying tilted his head slightly and glanced at Feng Bujue's movements.

"Cut it open." Feng Bujue replied in a very calm tone.

"Easier said than done. It has so many metal 'tentacles' sticking out, and it's so big. Getting close would be very disadvantageous..." Kuang Zong Jian Ying's voice trailed off.

Feng Bujue stepped forward and started hacking wildly with both weapons. The monster did fight back, but unexpectedly... it wasn't very effective. After all, the rusty, old metal wasn't sharp, and its swinging speed wasn't very fast, even the force was average. In short, the monster's attack was basically like a normal person with normal strength swinging a bicycle at you. In real life, it could hurt people, but in the game, the player's physical fitness was different, and Feng Bujue had weapons in his hands, so blocking it a little wasn't a big deal.

After a burst of wild hacking, Feng Bujue cut open the "skin" on the monster's front, exposing a pile of rusty, decaying metal that smelled damp and moldy. He didn't hesitate, raising his knife and hacking. Using [Robots Must Die] to chop at that pile of junk metal was like cutting a cake with a plastic knife, the monster's metal body being cut open, revealing a hideous gash.

When Kuang Zong Jian Ying saw that the behemoth was nothing special, he felt embarrassed about his cautiousness. Without saying a word, he stepped forward and used the skill "Radiant Shadow Slash," launching a barrage of attacks with the bonus of attack speed, devouring the behemoth's body like a human-shaped shredder.

A machine oil-like liquid seeped out of the behemoth's thick "skin," splattering everywhere after being chopped up. For a time, the ground was covered in chopped meat, black oil, and rotten metal fragments...

One strange thing was that the behemoth, which had been growling several times before, was very quiet under the attacks of Feng Bujue and Kuang Zong Jian Ying. Although it continued to move the metal defenses and counterattacks inside its body, it never made any more biological-like roars.

In the next three minutes, the two of them attacked the behemoth in a continuous onslaught, like rats gnawing on cheese. On the behemoth's side, although the counterattacks of its metal limbs didn't pose much of a threat, they never stopped.

Killing this monster was more tiring than they had imagined. If a werewolf or something had rushed out of the door, it would have been more straightforward. Perhaps its attack power would have been five times stronger than this behemoth, but it wouldn't have been so troublesome to kill.

Finally, after consuming about three hundred points of stamina each, they finally saw what the core of the behemoth was. Instantly, the monster's bizarreness rose to a new level...