Igor couldn't immediately accept Feng Bujue's theory, but he understood part of it.

After thinking for a moment, Igor asked, "Okay, let's say I've really become a... super soldier, as you said. But that still doesn't explain why those devils didn't take me away too, does it?"

"Oh, so... you don't know the reason?" Feng Bujue mused.

"Of course I don't," Igor replied immediately.

"Hmm..." Feng Bujue thought for a few seconds, then said, "Then, as far as you observed, did those devils... do anything unusual to you?" He paused for half a second and added, "I mean, when you only had one head."

"That..." Igor recalled, "Now that you mention it..." He had indeed noticed something, "They... all seemed unable to see me."

"Unable to see you?" Feng Bujue repeated the keyword in a questioning tone.

"Yeah." Igor nodded, "I mean... when they looked in my direction, their gaze never focused on me. It was as if I, like the bed frame behind me, was just part of the background..."

"Oh..." Hearing this, Feng Bujue immediately formed a hypothesis, "Could it be related to 'blood'?"

"Blood?" Igor looked puzzled.

"You said earlier that the researcher they tore in half didn't spill a single drop of blood under a strange effect," Feng Bujue continued, "So I was thinking that the 'devils' abilities might have some connection to human blood..."

"You mean..." Igor wasn't stupid; he belatedly responded, "Because there's no normal blood left in my body, so..."

"So in their eyes..." Feng Bujue took over, "You're like an 'invisible shadow.'"

Igor thought for a moment and chuckled twice, "Heh... heh... if that's the case, it's not so bad."

"It's pretty good," Feng Bujue said as he picked up a syringe and several empty blood bags, heading towards the container of VNO-9 liquid by the bed.

"Uh..." Igor seemed to guess what the other man was going to do, "Mr. Crazy, you're not thinking of injecting yourself with that, are you?"

"No, I have no such intention." Unexpectedly, Jue Ge gave a negative answer, "There's only one experimental log here, which means... you're the only known test subject. Without any other data to support it, I can't be sure if this drug will have the same effect on me as it did on you." His tone was objective and indifferent, as if he were describing something unrelated to himself, "Your body can adapt to this drug, but that doesn't mean I can. Besides... even your 'success story' went through several near-death crises during the experiment. Therefore, I'm not going to take that risk unless absolutely necessary."

Igor only half understood, but he gathered that Jue Ge wasn't going to inject himself, so he asked, "Then what are you going to do?"

"I just want to take some with me in case of emergencies," Feng Bujue replied, "If I'm ever driven into a corner, I wouldn't mind giving myself a direct injection of three hundred milliliters and taking a gamble."

"That... would burst a blood vessel, wouldn't it..." Even if Igor didn't have much medical knowledge, he knew that injecting such a large dose of liquid had to be done slowly or in stages.

"You don't have to worry about that," Feng Bujue's calm demeanor made him seem like a desperate man, "I have my own way."

Seeing his nonchalant attitude, Igor didn't say much more. He simply changed the subject and asked, "By the way, what were you writing for the past few hours?"

"A novel," Feng Bujue replied without thinking as he busied himself with his work.

"Ah?" Igor's first reaction was—did I hear that right?

"I am a novelist," Feng Bujue knew the other man didn't understand, so he explained further.

"Even if you're a novelist and suddenly have a burst of inspiration, you wouldn't be rushing to meet a deadline in a place like this, would you?" Igor asked.

"It's not like I'm writing because I want to," Feng Bujue smiled helplessly, "I'm just being influenced by 'something'."

Then, Jue Ge explained the existence and principle of ***-1011 to Igor, explaining it in as much detail as possible in a way that the other man could understand.

Igor didn't quite believe it at first, but then he thought... I've had my head cut off and seen devils today, so what's there that I can't believe?

So, he generally accepted that setting...

...

More than ten minutes later, Feng Bujue and Igor were both ready.

The two brought all the necessary items and armed themselves... and then walked out of the operating room together.

Jue Ge knew that Igor, this NPC, was a very powerful helper, and that "getting this helper" was quite difficult.

Don't look at Feng Bujue as if he hasn't encountered any particularly large obstacles along the way, as if he's lightly and naturally completed the script to this point, but in reality... if someone else were playing, they might have died more than ten times over.

Even if you put aside all the settings that could "scare people offline," there are at least five or more visible "death flags."

First, experiment room number one...

If you delay in this room for more than twenty minutes for any reason, Barefoot Guy will break down the door, and the result will undoubtedly be—death.

If you attack the mirror in the room, the "person" in the room behind the mirror will try to lure Barefoot Guy over early, and then the player will—die.

Next, after the player leaves experiment room number one, if they stop in front of the statue room door, try to open that door, and the time exceeds five minutes, then... Barefoot Guy will kill from the other end of the corridor at a time when the player can't enter the operating room in time. At this time, if the player doesn't react in time, then—it's death again.

And in that situation, the only effective "reaction" is... to escape back to experiment room number one, close the door again, and under the premise of keeping the lights off, run to the corner farthest from the door, squat down, and "cover" your body with Igor's entire body.

Only by strictly implementing the above actions will the result of Barefoot Guy "not being able to see the player" after entering the room be triggered, otherwise, you know—death is just a word, and I've already said it for the fourth time.

Then again, there's a super obvious instant-death event in the operating room... those who don't hide under the bed in time—die.

In addition, if the player runs in the direction that Barefoot Guy appears when he is walking towards experiment room number one, it will also trigger a death flag...

Finally, let me mention one more thing... as Feng Bujue predicted, if the player still deliberately triggers ***-1011 again after learning about its characteristics, the system will definitely determine that it is negative gaming. Then it's not just death; at that time, you will also bear various penalties and be kicked out of the script.

All in all, don't look at Feng Bujue playing so easily. In fact... he has been walking on a tightrope. It's just that he hardly ever takes a wrong step or goes astray, so to outsiders, it seems that he hasn't faced much danger.

As for Igor, this "helper," he should be considered a hidden reward-level existence... Generally speaking, players either ignore that head or give him a quick death, and then continue exploring. After all, there are few people like Feng Bujue who would move the body and try to "reattach the head"... and the rewards for the success of this move are obvious to all.

After Igor's body is reorganized, Jue Ge is equal to getting a summon that acts as an "invisible barrier" in front of monsters, and it's the kind with unlimited duration and self-healing abilities. It's more than suitable to let him do reconnaissance work, and even if he steps on a landmine or something, he has a good chance of surviving.

...

"Well, as agreed, you'll scout the way," Feng Bujue said to Igor after walking out of the operating room.

"Okay... okay." Although Igor also knew that it would be more appropriate for him to scout the way, he wasn't as fearless as Jue Ge after all. In this environment, he would still be a little scared.

"Don't be nervous, remember... you're very strong now." Feng Bujue also knew very well that even though his body had mutated, Igor's mentality was still that of an ordinary person, and he needed more encouragement, "Physiologically, you're almost immortal; when you encounter devils, they can't see you anyway; and in the event of any sudden situation, I'll be behind you giving you instructions; in short, you can rest assured."

"Okay..." Igor nodded in response after hearing this, and then took a step forward... leading the way.

In fact, Feng Bujue had already said a lot of similar things to Igor when he was packing his equipment. If it weren't for Jue Ge patiently doing ideological work, it's unknown whether Igor would have dared to walk out of that operating room...

After this period of contact, Jue Ge has also seen that "fear of supernatural things" is the biggest weakness of this NPC. In the subsequent scripts, he must take this factor into account, otherwise he may be tricked.

Of course, Igor, this helper, is already a great weapon from a tactical point of view, so it's normal for him to have some flaws. If the system had set Igor's character to be "a fearless materialist, a staunch fighter who took it upon himself to liberate all mankind," then the next script would have become "Soviet Captain takes you on a tour of Nightmare Dungeons."

Clang—

"Wh...what's that sound?"

Dozens of seconds later, Igor had just led Jue Ge twenty meters away when a strange noise came from the corner ahead, scaring him into stopping immediately.

"It sounds like..." Feng Bujue calmly replied, "The sound of some kind of gate?"

He was just guessing, but... he was right.

A dozen seconds later, the two arrived at the corner. They poked their heads out and found that the corridor ahead had been sealed by a metal shutter that had been closed from both the top and bottom.

"Th...there's no way out?" Igor turned his head and asked Jue Ge.

"I see..." Feng Bujue muttered thoughtfully and turned back.

"Hey? What do you mean, I see? What do you know again?" Igor quickly followed him back.

At this moment, Jue Ge understood two things. The first thing was—when Barefoot Guy walked towards experiment room number one just now, if he had chosen to escape in this direction, then the sound of the iron gate closing would have attracted Barefoot Guy back, and at that time, the player whose path was blocked would have been blocked by Barefoot Guy in the corridor.

As for the second thing...

"There should be a pressure-sensitive device here," Feng Bujue returned to the place where he had heard the "clang" sound just now and said, looking down at the ground.

"What... device?" Igor was obviously a person with limited education, and he didn't understand some words.

"Simply put, it's the kind of mechanism that gets triggered when you step on it," Feng Bujue said as he tried to find the pressure-sensitive point.

"Oh..." Igor responded and lowered his head, helping Jue Ge step on the ground here and there.

However, the two worked there for a long time, but it was still in vain.

"Hmm..." Feng Bujue stopped and thought again, "It's not the kind of mechanism that can be opened by stepping on it again..." At this time, he thought of Barefoot Guy again, "Speaking of... I didn't hear the sound of the gate when that monster came and went... The difference between us and him is..."

Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration struck Jue Ge's mind.

"Heh... okay." After thinking of the answer, he laughed, then walked three or four meters in the direction of the operating room and said to Igor, "Igor, come here for a moment."

"Ah?" Igor was stunned for a moment, then walked towards Jue Ge, "What's wrong? Did you find the location of the mechanism?"

"Yeah, I found it." As soon as Feng Bujue finished speaking, a relatively slow and sustained sound was heard from the corner.

"Hey? Really." Hearing this, Igor prepared to turn back and move forward, but...

Clang—

He had just turned around and taken two steps when he heard the sound of the gate closing again.

"Damn it... is there more than one switch?" Igor looked down at his feet and said.

"No, there's only one," Feng Bujue shook his head, "Starting from where you're standing right now, the entire corridor ahead... is a complete 'pressure-sensitive zone'."

"Huh?" Igor used an interjection to indicate that he didn't understand.

"You go back to where I am first," Feng Bujue continued.

Igor shrugged and walked back again. As he walked to Jue Ge's side, the sound of the gate slowly opening came again.

"Let me put it this way..." Feng Bujue raised his finger and pointed ahead, turning his head to say to Igor, "When an object whose weight reaches a certain level presses on any part of the corridor ahead, the gate will close."