The four shared a look, and it was Autumn Zither who said, “I’ll open it.”
Then, he walked forward to grab the door handle.
“Wait.” Feng Bujue halted him. “Aren’t you afraid of instant death when you open the door?”
“But someone must open the door,” Autumn Zither replied. “It is unreasonable for the system to set up a fatal trap behind the only pathway because that will be the system purposely trying to minimize the number of players in the team.”
“Oh…” Feng Bujue nodded and retreated shamelessly. “Then, you won’t mind if I walk back a bit and watch from afar, right?”
“Er… Okay…” Autumn Zither replied. After that, he exchanged a glanced with Weighty Words and Ambitionist. The three shrugged with a helpless expression. At that moment, the three were thinking, This Feng Bujue sure is inconsistent. Earlier, he did something so rash, but now he’s being so careful…
Actually, it was because they did not understand Feng Bujue.
Who was Brother Jue? In the solo scenario, he was always careful whenever he needed to open a door. He would use a rod to test for traps before entering it. For a scenario like this, they wanted him to stand the door while it was being opened? If Feng Bujue was a straight shooter, he would have said, “It’s fine if you want to die, but don’t dirty my outfit with your blood.”
In his eyes, there could be a grenade behind each door, and a Garen hiding inside each brush. So… unless it was necessary, he would not take the unnecessary risk.
Autumn Zither did not hesitate for too long and naturally did not bother with Feng Bujue, who had run ten meters away. He adjusted his breathing, turned the doorknob, and pushed it open. There was another large space behind the door. The space was rectangular, and it was about twenty meters wide. The only exit was that white door. The overall size of the rectangular room was not as large as the hall outside, but the ceiling was obviously higher—the ceiling of the hall was less than five meters tall. The room was empty except the strange object that was placed in the middle of the room. It was hard to describe its shape. It was like a polygon that was shaped like a ball with a size slightly larger than a basketball. After opening the door, none had the intention of rushing into the room. They were all smarter than monkeys. Seeing this strange set up, it was natural to look around first.
“I thought there would be a stairs or elevator behind the door,” Weighty Words said.
“I too think it’s weird,” Ambitionist said with confusion. “We have inspected the whole floor. The only pathway was that door, but now this space has no more doors. It’s another sealed area.”
“Hmm… then, it will be one of two situations. First, this rectangular room is the so-called Detective Club and the quest will be completed once we step into it,” Autumn Zither said. He paused before pointing at the object inside the room. “Two, that thing there can help us leave here.”
“Is it a device that activates some kind of mechanism… or a teleportation device?” Weighty Words followed his hypothesis.
“Oh? You believe it’s the second scenario?” Autumn Zither said.
Weighty Words was slightly startled. “At least I don’t think this room looks like any club. There isn’t even a window. When the door is closed, this place should be quite dark, and air ventilation will be a problem.”
“That is hard to say. The Detective Club might not really be a club. If the system was willing, the name could be given to a public toilet,” Autumn Zither argued. “Furthermore, ’All surviving players enter the Detective Club’ might be the first of a series of quests. The system did not say that completing this quest will clear the scenario. Perhaps the meaning of the mission is for all living players all enter this room.”
“Hmm… You have a point. After all, we have already seen a supernatural set up.” Weighty Word turned to look at the wall of light. “Perhaps, after we enter the room, the space inside will change.”
“For the sake of security, someone should enter the room to check what that object inside the room is,” Ambitionist suggested. “After saying something like that, it seems uncouth to have other do it, so I… shall volunteer…”
“Ah!” Feng Bujue suddenly screamed to interrupted Ambitionist. Autumn Zither, Weighty Words, and Ambitionist were all shocked by this sudden scream, and their Terror Points flickered slightly. After the door was opened, Feng Bujue had sunk into silence and used a strange gaze to study the object inside the room. At the moment, who knew why he screamed and swiftly retreated.
“Don’t go in there! Get away from that thing now!” Feng Bujue shouted. “Come over to this side!”
The other three did not have the time to think. Seeing the seriousness on Feng Bujue’s face, they moved quickly and retreated to his side. Several seconds later, the four had retreated more than twenty meters away from the door. Ambitionist asked, “What’s wrong this time?”
“I just saved your life,” Feng Bujue answered.
“Huh?” Ambitionist was seventy percent confused and thirty percent feeling like hitting someone.
“You should ask, why is that?” Feng Bujue directed.
Ambitionist thought this was funny. He scoffed and then added with a bitter smile. “Fine… Why is that?”
“I believe it’s better if you do not know,” Feng Bujue replied.
“I say, Brother Feng…” Weighty Words now advised him sincerely. “Seriously… can you please not disturb us?”
“I’m not kidding,” Feng Bujue replied with the same seriousness. “I recognize the thing in the room and know what it is. But if I tell you the information about it, it’ll be very dangerous if you get close to it again.”
He spoke very fast, and his tone showed a confidence and reliable feeling.
“If we wish to continue this scenario, we have to borrow the power of this thing, and to do that, we have to cooperate.” His eyes scanned the three semi-confused and semi-suspicious faces. “The property of this thing is that those who do not know about it will be safe to come into contact with it. But if there’s someone who can recognize it within its range, everything that contradicts its law will be destroyed.”
Feng Bujue paused for his teammates to digest this information.
“And I am the one who can recognize this.” He turned to look at Ambitionist. “And from the information that I currently hold, Ambitionist, you are in violation of its law. Thankfully… when you opened the door, I was far enough from the thing, or else the moment I recognized the thing, Ambitionist would have died.”