Chapter 177

Chapter 177: Despicable Me (9)

Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma

"You've returned safely from my hands, but it doesn't show how clever you are .

"You've craved for inferring objective facts, however, as for human thinking, can you measure it precisely?

"There're so many people who participated in my game . Those people, who had destroyed lives, didn't have any regard for lives . And you… what makes you different from them?"

Having heard that, Feng Bujue suddenly had a feeling the other was implying something . And, what the puppet was about to say would soon confirm his supposition .

"When there's an unknown shadow that lingers in their brain, most people will feel desperate and terrified, which then leads to indignation and hysteria . These come from their attachment to life .

"And you, you've never told or asked for help from anyone . You continue living your boring life numbly . You didn't show the human instinct, the strong desire to survive .

"Your behaviors show that you have no gratitude for being alive . This is disrespect towards life . Even a trapped animal will struggle when being besieged . But you, you're calm and relaxed as if you've already given up .

"I hate those generations who are not thankful .

"Do you think that you can avoid justice when you have no fear?"

While Feng Bujue was listening to the other's narrative, he thought about…The first virtual character who had ever told him that he got some kind of sickness in his brain was X-23 . However, this puppet had contacted him earlier . Moreover, in that scenario, Billy had shown that his capacity was beyond the default setting . Although the system could measure and find out the shadow in his brain through the game cabin, or the related information captured after his nervous system was connected to the game, when someone told him these things, it still created a certain psychological pressure .

Billy continued, "Death's always a surprise party unless your heart's dead .

"But in my eyes, your heart is still as lively as a normal person's, and your mind is more active than theirs . You have seven emotional states and six desires like what other people have . But you don't care if you'll be dead in the next second .

"Now, let's see if you can maintain this attitude until the end .

"Now, you have to pay a lot!"

Grumbling noise from heavy machines sounded under Feng Bujue's feet . The metal floor of the chamber started to split . From the door as the center, it began to crack open as the floor was moving to both sides of the room . Anyway, the speed wasn't too fast as Feng Bujue had enough time to jump aside .

Underneath the floor was a full pond, with depth not much different from the height of this room, about seven or eight meters . Anyway, it was enough to drown someone who didn't know how to swim or dive like Feng Bujue .

"The liquid in this pond isn't water . It's gasoline . Soon, you will lose your foothold .

"As a person who doesn't know how to swim, you need to gather enough guts to struggle against the survival instinct to find the chemical bottle hidden at the bottom of the pond . "

The puppet paused here for a while before continuing again with more details, "When the floor ultimately retreats into the two walls, the gasoline level will reduce . At the same time, the floor will start to close . When the liquid level reduces to half of the original depth, it will stop . And, at that point, the floor above your head will close forever . Even if you enter this room again, it won't be opened…"

While the puppet was speaking, Feng Bujue suddenly heard a thunder splashing noise . Apparently, he had jumped into the gasoline pond .

Indeed, he didn't know how to swim, but he knew how to hold his breath . He took a deep breath, clenched his jaw and pinched his nose, jumping into the pond with both feet downward .

Then he went like that sinking to the bottom of the pond .

According to the rules Billy had described, he got only one chance for this game . Once he failed, it was the permanent failure . Feng Bujue got it even before the puppet finished saying 'Even if you enter this room again . ' Even if when he got drowned in the pond and used the Contra Medal to resurrect and come here one more time from the corridor, the floor wouldn't open again since whenever the floor closed, it would 'close forever . '

Besides, when the floor closed, the gasoline level would reduce . This was to prevent the case of Feng Bujue successfully taking the chemical bottle and getting back to the liquid surface, clutching on the edge of the floor to climb up to the room again .

In short, this game was to let a person, who didn't know how to swim or dive, dive into a gasoline pond, seeking for an item while the light above his head was being narrowed and finally closed forever . If he drowned before he could find it, it was a failure . If he found the item and luckily swam up to the surface using dog paddle style, and the floor hadn't closed completely, it was impossible for him to clutch on the edge of the floor and crawl up .

Using this information to guess, the usual method to complete this challenge was… to jump into the gasoline pond, find the chemical bottle and then put it into the bag . After that, he had to resist his survival instinct to drown as quickly as possible . Then he could use the Contra Medal to resurrect and teleport away .

In fact, to someone who knew how to swim, it wouldn't be so strenuous to find the bottle . There was air in the space between the pond and the floor . If one could maintain his patience and distribute his stamina reasonably, even when the floor had completely closed, he could still swim back and forth between the bottom of the pond and the surface to find the bottle and breathe . Anyway, the bottom area was limited . After the gasoline level had reduced half the way, the depth would be around three or four meters . At most, it would take dozens of times swimming back and forth to search the whole area at the bottom of the pond .

Of course, when using this method, he had to pay attention to two points: eyes close tight and do not let the gasoline enter the lungs .

The first point is common sense . It can cause burns when the mucous membrane contacts with petrol . If it's just one or two drops, one should immediately wash and rinse it thoroughly with water . It will be alright when the gasoline evaporates, but if he purposely kept his eyes open in a petrol tank, it was absolutely a self-harm act . Moreover, when that large floor completely closed, there was no light in this space . Even if he opened his eyes, it was just a dark area .

The second point was extremely unfavorable to Feng Bujue, who didn't know how to swim . Just say that he could struggle enough to float up on the gasoline surface, which is lighter than water, but to a person who had never learned how to breathe underwater, it's easy to get choked . If he did get gasoline flow into his lungs, he could only wait for death in extreme pain .

Feng Bujue knew these situations already . He was thinking about the countermeasures while listening to the rules .

When the floor started to move, Feng Bujue, of course, threw his attention to the bottom of the pond . The light shining on the pond was just a narrow line at first, but it was gradually expanding . Since the light located in the middle of the ceiling, when the floor hadn't opened completely, the whole pond had been illuminated . However… Looking from above, it seemed nothing was down there .

After Feng Bujue had confirmed those details, he determinedly jumped into the pond . The angle and direction he had jumped toward were based on the location of the chemical bottle he had guessed—it should be where the iron cage shadowed on the pond .