Chapter 121 Change of Perspective

Before Xiao Tan said that, Gui Xiao had always thought that Xiao Tan, like himself, was the type who could only "play a supporting role in a script with limitations."

But soon... Gui Xiao's opinion changed.

"Anyway, you guys are taking care of the puzzle-solving, and I haven't been much help so far, so..." Xiao Tan said as he walked to the sink, "I'll take care of the dirty work."

To himself, his words meant nothing. To Jue Ge and the others, they meant nothing either.

But to Gui Xiao's ears, they sounded a bit "jarring"...

Although Gui Xiao had contributed a lot to the team along the way, in the end... he only did what Jue Ge asked him to do, and he was reluctant to accept it every time.

Earlier, Feng Bujue's words to Gui Xiao implied, "Since you choose to avoid your weaknesses, we can indeed accommodate you and carry you through... if you think that's appropriate."

Gui Xiao said "sorry" and took on the job of covering the rear for the team because he understood what Jue Ge meant.

However, he was only temporarily forcing himself to face his fears under Jue Ge's guidance; in reality, his mind was still evading.

Until... this moment.

When he saw Xiao Tan, who was just as timid as he was, voluntarily stepping forward and groping beside the sink filled with filth, a pungent odor, and the potential to trigger some kind of terrifying scene, Gui Xiao suddenly felt ashamed.

He realized that there was no such thing as "being good or bad at this type of script." Avoiding or abandoning things you're not good at or don't like, and waiting for others to clean up after you, is how children handle things. Adults, on the other hand, need to be responsible and can't run away from difficulties... No matter what the situation, they should at least do what they can.

Of course, we still have to state an objective fact—Gui Xiao isn't even an adult yet. But there's no doubt that he's an exceptionally ambitious kid for his age.

"Hmm... slimy and slippery..." After groping for about half a minute, Xiao Tan mumbled with a troubled expression.

"You don't need to describe it to us, really," Xiao Ling said with a disgusted look, standing behind him.

"Heh... sounds like describing snot," Feng Bujue added maliciously, as if嫌嫌嫌the words weren't disgusting enough.

"No, not like snot, more like..." Xiao Tan actually replied to Jue Ge very seriously, "Uh... swill or something."

The topic didn't develop further, because after Xiao Tan finished speaking, there was a "glug" sound, and several bubbles rose from the liquid in the sink. Then, the sewage slowly flowed into the drain.

"Whew..." Two seconds later, Xiao Tan breathed a sigh of relief and turned to say to everyone, "The cause of the blockage has been found."

As he spoke, he raised his right hand, displaying an oval object to the crowd.

"This is..." Xiao Ling, who was closest to him, pinched her nose and looked closer for a few seconds, then said, "A soap dish?"

Indeed, it was a soap dish, and a very old-fashioned one at that, basically just a small oval plastic box that could be divided into two parts, top and bottom.

"Yeah, I think so too..." After hearing Xiao Ling's words, Xiao Tan was about to reply.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a sudden change occurred!

From the sink behind him, from that narrow drain... a hand suddenly reached out and grabbed Xiao Tan's lower back.

In that instant, everyone's attention was focused on the soap dish in Xiao Tan's hand, so this sudden attack... really caught everyone off guard.

Half a second later, Ruoyu was the first to react, but because she was standing far from the sink at the moment, she couldn't reach out to help. However, she still made the very correct response—immediately turning on her flashlight and aiming it into the sink.

Feng Bujue and Gui Xiao reacted a little slower than Ruoyu. The former was also standing relatively far away, out of reach, while Gui Xiao... happened to be standing to the side of Xiao Tan...

*Pfft*—

A second later, a muffled sound came.

In that split second, blood appeared.

Xiao Tan's right waist was scraped off a piece of flesh by that hand. In pain, he couldn't help but groan and stagger forward a few steps.

At the same moment, Gui Xiao's hand was already gripping the monster's forearm.

"[Bleep]!" No one knew what Feng Bujue cursed, but along with this curse that blurted out, he rushed forward in one stride, a large pair of scissors already in his hand.

No sooner said than done! The arm that Gui Xiao had grabbed couldn't be retracted for a moment. Jue Ge, who had rushed forward, seized the opportunity, raised the scissors, and stabbed them into the arm.

*Chi*—*clang!*

How ruthless was Jue Ge? With one stab, the tip of the scissors directly pierced the arm and heavily struck the metal bottom of the sink, making these two sounds.

"Ooh—" Then, a muffled groan came from the pipes at the bottom of the sink, as if the monster lurking in the drain was shouting.

"Are you okay?" Feng Bujue asked Xiao Tan in a relatively calm tone as he cruelly ground the monster's wound open with the scissors.

"I'm okay..." At this time, sweat was already streaming down Xiao Tan's temples, but his expression was surprisingly calm. "It didn't damage any internal organs, and the survival value loss is only 28%. I just need to deal with the 'bleeding' status, nothing serious."

"Okay..." Jue Ge, who received this reply, also breathed a sigh of relief. Then, he began to deal with that arm...

"So... I'm sure you're all curious about how this guy's body is hidden in the drain?" Feng Bujue said, giving Gui Xiao a look.

For some reason, although Gui Xiao wasn't very familiar with Jue Ge, he completely understood Jue Ge's meaning at this moment.

"Uh... I'll leave it to you..." So, Gui Xiao released the monster's forearm and left the sink.

As soon as he took a few steps back, Feng Bujue acted...

He pulled out the large scissors, threw them aside, and then... jumped onto the sink in one go, with his feet on the edge of the sink and his hands tightly gripping the monster's arm.

"Ha~ He's quite strong..." Feng Bujue pulled a few times with this exaggerated posture, as if he was pulling a giant radish, and squeezed these words out from between his teeth.

And the monster... was letting out bursts of screams with each of Jue Ge's efforts.

"I'll help!" After that unexplained tug-of-war stalled for thirty seconds, Ruoyu put the flashlight on the lab table and stepped forward to grab Jue Ge's waist.

At this moment, everyone else was a little stunned. They didn't understand the meaning and result of doing this at all—no matter what, the size of that drain wouldn't allow a human head to pass through, let alone a torso.

Therefore, from the perspective of an observer, Feng Bujue simply wanted to avenge Xiao Tan and deliberately beat up the monster, and Ruoyu... seemed to want to help Jue Ge... no matter what he was doing.

Logically speaking... the result of their pulling would be nothing more than tearing off the monster's arm. The question now was—where would it break? When would it break? And what events would be triggered after it broke?

However, unexpectedly... an even more shocking scene appeared next.

After this cruel double-handed pulling action was carried out for fifteen seconds, there was a strange "whirring" sound, and a whole strip of peculiar substance with a diameter similar to that of the drain was pulled out of the sink.

That thing... was about the same thickness as the monster's outstretched arm, but it looked very strange; to describe it, it was as if a living person had been stuffed into a pastry bag (the kind used to pipe cream onto cakes), and then squeezed out of a pastry tip smaller than the mouth of a bowl... What was squeezed out in the end was this noodle-like state.

Internal organs, flesh and blood, and bones were all twisted into one piece, connected to the back of the arm and dragged out for a full five meters before being dumped on the ground.

Everyone was silent when they saw this scene—mainly because this thing was really disgusting, just looking at it made you want to vomit, let alone comment on it.

"Ha!" But Feng Bujue definitely had to say something. "The good news is, this monster should have been killed by us." He paused. "The bad news is, it seems like it can't provide us with any more information."

"I feel like..." Ruoyu, who had helped him, said at this time, "This monster's nature is similar to the one we encountered at the door of the music classroom... we only needed to force it back, there was no need to go to this extent."

"Hey, you weren't ambiguous when you took action," Feng Bujue said, turning his head.

"I came to help you because I thought you seemed to be a little overwhelmed," Ruoyu said coldly. "Besides... I wasn't sure what the result of you doing that would be."

"Okay~" Feng Bujue spread his hands and looked at Xiao Tan again. "Hey... Xiao Tan, how's the injury?"

While Jue Ge and Ruoyu were "pulling out the monster," Xiao Tan wasn't idle either. He had already used the existing gauze and tape on the lab table to treat his wound in an emergency and stopped the bleeding.

"It hurts..." Xiao Tan's answer was very direct. "But the survival value isn't dropping anymore, and it doesn't have much impact on my movements." He sighed as he said this. "Alas... now that I think about it, I was careless just now. In that situation, it was indeed very likely to trigger a dangerous plot, but I overlooked that point and showed you the soap dish directly. If I could have been more cautious and waited until all the sewage had drained away, confirmed that there was nothing unusual, or simply taken a few steps back before talking to everyone, it wouldn't have..."

"No... I'm also responsible." At this time, Gui Xiao suddenly interrupted Xiao Tan and said, "I was scared again when the hand came out... If I had my normal reaction speed, I should have been able to grab that hand faster. At the very least... I could have turned the flashlight in my hand and aimed it at it, so... your injury wouldn't have been so serious, or maybe even not injured at all."

"Oh~ Your thinking is quite clear this time," Feng Bujue said, looking at Gui Xiao with a half-smile. "Not bad, not bad... a promising child..."

"Stop nagging, even if I really want to find a life mentor, I definitely wouldn't find you," Gui Xiao rolled his eyes at Jue Ge and said. The tone he used when saying this was very subtle, like he was saying "no thanks"...

"Heh... I never intended to be anyone's life mentor," Feng Bujue laughed. "Oh, right, if you really want to find one, I think 'Chou He Tang' would be quite suitable..." Jue Ge immediately made fun of Zen Ge. "Just from his saying 'Don't look at me like this now, I used to be this and that...' you can tell that he's a person with a story."

"Okay, who was it who said to conserve the flashlight's battery earlier? How long are you two going to argue?" An Yueqin was still reliable. She also knew very well that if Jue Ge started the bickering mode, this conversation would never end...

"Okay, okay~ Anyway, the monster is dead, let's continue to look for clues." After Feng Bujue finished speaking, he walked to the lab table and unhesitatingly opened the soap dish that Xiao Tan had placed on the table.

The things in that box were indeed unbelievable...

"Why..." When Gui Xiao saw that thing, he immediately said, "There's a dead frog in here..."

His question was quickly answered.

[Please dissect this frog according to the procedures in the class handout within twenty minutes.] The system prompt rang out as the frog appeared.

At the same time, there was a "click" sound, and one of the drawers that couldn't be opened around the lab table suddenly popped open by itself; without a doubt... the "class handout" mentioned in the prompt was in this drawer.

"Hmm... this time the system is giving clear instructions directly, instead of having the 'ghost' urge us like in the music classroom just now," Feng Bujue said, stroking his chin. "Is this because the 'ghost' in this classroom has been made into spaghetti by us?"

"Hey! Is this the time to care about that?" Gui Xiao's face changed when he heard the prompt, and his voice also raised. "I've dissected frogs in biology class before, and I remember it took me an hour and a half to finish!"

"You are you..." Feng Bujue said, looking at Xiao Tan with a very proud look, "We have a professional here."

Xiao Ling on the side was even more straightforward. Before Jue Ge could finish speaking, she had already taken out the class handout from the drawer and spread it out in front of Xiao Tan.

"Good luck," Xiao Ling touched Xiao Tan's arm. "But don't force yourself if your wound hurts, I can help you."

"Heh... that won't be necessary." When Xiao Tan said this, his eyes and temperament... suddenly changed. "I can dissect this even with my feet..."