Apart from the piece of paper recording information about the Xing Clan, Feng Bujue found nothing else of value in Arthur's bedroom, despite searching it thoroughly twice.
So, he could only leave dejectedly and head to the bathroom.
The bathroom on the second floor was twice the size of the toilet on the first floor. Above the sink in the bathroom was a small cabinet, the kind of white wooden cabinet that appears frequently in horror movies, positioned slightly higher than eye level. The cabinet door had a mirror attached, and inside it usually contained razors, toothpaste, cups, common medicines, and so on...
In various thriller and horror films, we often see characters brushing their teeth, shaving, or combing their hair in front of these small cabinets... Then, as the cabinet door opens and closes, something scary suddenly appears in the mirror, accompanied by a startling sound effect. This trope never fails to work.
Unfortunately, in this script, there was no mirror...
Feng Bujue walked to the sink, looked at the cabinet door, which was recessed by about a centimeter, and sighed, "They actually went to the trouble of removing the mirror... without leaving even a shard."
He opened the cabinet, and the shelves inside were all empty. Only the bottom shelf had a lone key lying on it.
[Name: White Key]
[Type: Scenario Related]
[Quality: Normal]
[Function: Permanently unlocks the white iron door and disappears immediately after use]
[Can this item be brought out of the scenario: No]
[Remarks: Hidden in a white place]
"So far, I've obtained the red, blue, black, and white keys," Feng Bujue muttered. "Are there only the yellow and gray ones left...?" His gaze involuntarily shifted to the toilet.
"Well... let's check the tank again." He took two steps at a time, walked to the toilet, and first glanced into the bowl to make sure there was nothing but water. Then, he opened the tank lid to check, and there was indeed something inside.
[Name: Soaked Blanket]
[Type: Scenario Related]
[Quality: Normal]
[Function: Unknown]
[Can this item be brought out of the scenario: Yes]
[Remarks: For some reason, it was stuffed in a strange place]
This was a small blanket, roughly equivalent to the area covered by four or five towels laid out. It was mottled in color, felt slightly rough to the touch, and had a strange feeling after being soaked in water, with a somewhat slippery surface.
"This is the fifth plot item with an unclear purpose that can be brought out of the scenario, right?" Feng Bujue took the blanket out of the tank, wrung it out as much as possible, and put it into his knapsack. "Apart from the dentures, which had a hint related to the plot, the other soap, perfume, and leather hat, plus this blanket, have all been useless..." He couldn't help but ask himself, "Could it be that the characteristic of this script is having many puzzle pieces?"
Feng Bujue put away the item and turned to the bathtub on the other side of the wall. The bathtub had a circle of shower curtains hanging above it, which could completely enclose it. From Feng Bujue's perspective, only a quarter of the bathtub was visible, and the rest was hidden by the light blue shower curtain.
"Okay, let's guess what's in the bathtub. A, a naked beauty; B, a naked key; C, a naked corpse," Feng Bujue said with a self-amusing mood. "It would be too boring if it was empty or full of garbage."
He reached out and pulled open the shower curtain, and saw something, something that was extremely depressing and terrifying to look at.
"This is like a human pillar..." Feng Bujue frowned.
The bathtub contained what appeared to be a synthetic human. It only had a torso, its hands and feet had been cut off, its ears were festering with pus, its eyes were sewn shut with thread, and its mouth was half-open, revealing no tongue. Considering its condition, it probably couldn't know that someone was watching it, so at the moment, it was just lying quietly in the bathtub, showing no reaction, except for the rise and fall of its chest, indicating that it was still alive and breathing.
Without much hesitation, Feng Bujue took out [Proyambeena's Vacuum Cleaner] and began to suck the monster's blood...
The special effect of this equipment was: absorb the monster's survival value and restore the same proportion of survival value to the player (absorption rate is 0.5% per second, and is ineffective against dead, incorporeal, mechanical, and Boss-level monsters. The vacuum cleaner cannot store survival value, and the absorption effect is immediate. If the player's survival value is full when using it, no recovery will be gained.)
This thing didn't cause any pain, it just reduced the monster's survival value proportionally and added it to the player. When the monster's survival value was reduced to zero, it died instantly.
In every sense, Feng Bujue thought this was a win-win situation. The other party could be liberated without knowing it, and he could recover some health along the way.
A little over three minutes later, the synthetic human died, and Feng Bujue's survival value was full.
He put his hands together and said, "Amitabha, good, good..." Then he picked up the pipe wrench, cut open the synthetic human's throat along the esophagus, and began searching the corpse...
An atheist who sometimes calls on God and sometimes chants Buddha's name was dispassionately performing an autopsy on a corpse that may not even be human, just to confirm whether there was something he needed inside the corpse... If other players were watching this scene, they would probably be scared by Jue-Ge.
"It really was hidden in this kind of place..." Finally, Feng Bujue found the yellow key in the corpse's intestines as he wished.
He used the pipe wrench to hold the key, walked to the sink to clean it, and then put it into his knapsack. Two seconds later, he took the key out again and put it in his pocket. Theoretically, after this operation, there would be no residue left on the key, but Feng Bujue still only wanted to touch it with gloves.
[Name: Yellow Key]
[Type: Scenario Related]
[Quality: Normal]
[Function: Permanently unlocks the yellow iron door and disappears immediately after use]
[Can this item be brought out of the scenario: No]
[Remarks: As expected, it was hidden where there was shit]
Feng Bujue was too lazy to comment on this remark. This line was no different from taunting.
Now, he was only missing the gray key, and he could collect all six and return to the 1st floor underground. Therefore, he quickened his pace, washed off some of the dirt that had splashed on his clothes, and headed to the last explorable room on the second floor.
This room was located directly above the empty room on the first floor. As soon as Feng Bujue pushed the door open, he saw a large, bright red alchemic array on the floor of the room.
After only a glance, he lost control of his body. This time, he didn't even have time to use the iron bar to check for danger, or even step into the room... Just opening the door triggered the CG scene.