Chapter 903: The Side Door and the Terrifying Indentations
King Vulture and Kitty had no distrust whatsoever in Fu Luo's abilities or his decisions.
It was just that, as Players, coming to a place like this once a week for a death lottery-like life-risking experience, very few Players completely disbelieved in "superstition" and "luck."
Not to mention...
In many worlds, items and certain Class abilities had already proven that luck and fortune truly did exist.
So...
Although Fu Luo's judgment might have been sound, given how unlucky he had been ever since entering the ruins, King Vulture and Kitty couldn't help but feel that this "ruin" was clashing with Fu Luo.
In that case...
"Do the opposite of whatever Lord Furbollo decides" seemed like a decent way to eliminate a wrong option.
Since Fu Luo thought the main entrance was fine, then they should look for a side door!
And after carefully circling the main building, they actually did discover another entrance.
A door glowing with a red light, equally thick but noticeably smaller in size, a "back door"!
Standing on the shaded side of the main building, Fu Luo complained, "Are you serious... this thing clearly looks way more dangerous than the main entrance!"
He flipped through the map on his screen, then spoke up, "This should be an employee passage, so the security level is naturally higher... I still think we should go through the main entrance. Look, there are even small flying guards patrolling around."
Watching two small flying drone-shaped guards pass by, Lin Yu spoke up.
"No worries, these should be ordinary flying guards... we just need to destroy their internal circuits to take care of them."
The moment Lin Yu finished speaking, King Vulture raised a snake crossbow.
"Shwoosh!"
"Bang!"
The bolt flew through the air and exploded between the two small guards, and the green smoke caused them to lose balance, spiraling down to the ground.
"Careful, that green mist is continuously corrosive. You two, make sure not to get touched by it. Stay clear of it."
King Vulture reminded them.
Watching the two of them, one commanding and one acting, Fu Luo said indignantly, "Damn it, don't act like everything I say is wrong... I admit I've been a bit unlucky this whole trip, but this time I'm sure the main entrance is better."
Just as he finished speaking, a loud crash came from the other side.
"BOOM!"
Then, two faint voices drifted over.
"Ninja Technique, Heaven and Earth Myriad Phenomena!"
"Hey hey hey, don't hit him, please—ouch! I said don't hit me!"
At the direction of the main entrance, a fierce struggle seemed to have broken out.
"That sounds like Chlorpromazine and Nineteen... those two aren't slow either."
King Vulture remarked.
Kitty chuckled. "But next... they're about to slow way down."
Fu Luo lowered his head to look at the screen in his hand, and saw that on the ground in front of the main building's entrance, where there had been no marking before, a huge red warning symbol had appeared.
He didn't know what it was, but clearly...
The Psychological Society and Marauders pair over there had run into big trouble.
At this point, even Fu Luo himself stopped being stubborn, after all, he was never someone who cared too much about saving face.
"Let's go... while there's chaos, let's hurry to the side door."
Fu Luo said, then couldn't help muttering to himself, "Why have I suddenly become so cursed? Could it be that I spent all my good luck earlier, so now my karma is balancing out?"
However, he didn't dwell on it too deeply.
Following behind Old Yao, Fu Luo, King Vulture, and Kitty quickly approached the side door.
Beside the door was a lock that looked like a safe dial.
"I'll handle this. The predecessor civilization of the Misty Islands has locks pretty similar to what we've seen before... I can open this one!"
Lin Yu volunteered.
Fu Luo nodded. "Alright, I trust you!"
After all, although the Ten Realms were each different, they were still similar in the end, just like convergent evolution, things with such fixed principles as locks wouldn't have any particularly novel variations even across worlds.
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Especially the Misty Islands' predecessor civilization, before the mutation, it had even felt quite close to the modern feel of reality.
Lin Yu crouched down and started fiddling with the lock's dial, putting on a show.
Imitating the top agents and master thieves from movies, he pressed his ear against the wall and began twisting the dial back and forth.
Click-clack, click-clack, the mechanical sounds reached his ears, clear and distinct.
And as Lin Yu listened to those sounds...
He couldn't discern a single thing!
Of course, Lin Yu didn't know how to pick locks. Although he knew a wide variety of miscellaneous skills and a ton of random knowledge, he wasn't omnipotent.
However, Lin Yu still took on this lock-picking job.
That was because...
He knew the password.
Feeling that he had put on enough of a show, a look of delight appeared on Lin Yu's face.
"Found it!"
He said, rapidly spinning the dial, and then the light above the side door turned green.
"Beep!"
Fu Luo pressed the stopwatch.
"Two minutes fifteen seconds, Old Yao... impressive. Truly, every trade has its master."
"I bet you weren't some petty thief before, you're practically a master criminal!"
Lin Yu waved his hands awkwardly, his dark face flushing with embarrassment. "Those are all criminal activities... the more accomplished and skilled you are, the greater the social harm."
"Brother Furbollo, please, stop teasing me."
Kitty laughed. "But this skill of yours just came in clutch and made a real contribution!"
The door swung open, revealing behind it... a second door.
Fortunately, though, this second door was already wide open!
It had even been destroyed!
Fu Luo looked at the smashed recognition system beside it, his expression turning serious. "Damn, this door actually has a facial recognition system... and judging by the model, it might even have the ability to read shallow-level thoughts like those guards from earlier."
"Good thing it's been destroyed!"
As he said this, King Vulture also teased, "See? Not listening to you, and our luck turned around... this is the first time we've had good luck since entering these ruins!"
Fu Luo couldn't refute that, so he could only rub his nose again. "Am I really that jinxed?"
He said, then shook his head and studied the deformed door. "Well... but we still need to be careful. We can't let our guard down."
"There's probably some terrifying thing inside this main building, and it's one of those rare close-combat types on the Misty Islands. Look at this door. Though it's not as thick as the main entrance, it's still solid metal, yet it looks like some creature just smashed it open bit by bit."
Fu Luo ran his fingers over the indentations and remarked, "It must have used some kind of hammer-type tool... though the material of this door is truly special. Even though it was probably broken a long time ago, these indentations still look as fresh as new, and even with the paint knocked off, there's not a trace of rust."
Lin Yu looked at those indentations and spoke up, "Damn, it actually smashed this metal door to pieces... that really is terrifying."
"Looks like we'll have to be very careful!"