Chapter 10 Dance with the Shadow

Feng Bujue had just reached the corner when he raised his hand and, with lightning speed, stuffed something from his pocket into the shrine.

At that moment, “It” and the others’ gazes were blocked by Feng Bujue's back, and the latter's movements were so fast that they didn't see what he put in.

Of course, although “It” didn't know what Brother Jue put in, it was sure that he didn't put in any jade organs. Because... if Feng Bujue had put in one of those miniature organs, "It" would have immediately felt the power surge back.

"What... did you put in?" It vaguely felt uneasy and immediately asked.

However, Feng Bujue didn't answer and... began to take things out at an extremely fast speed.

In the blink of an eye, Brother Jue skillfully and repeatedly reached into his pockets, stuffing several items into the shrine.

And everyone clearly saw the last few items—a belt, a pair of boots, and a wig.

Judging from the last three items, the first thing Brother Jue put in was probably those sunglasses.

Obviously, his actions were not accidental, but deliberate; you could tell from the order in which he stuffed the items...

If Feng Bujue had immediately put shoes or a wig into the shrine, "It" would have noticed immediately and reacted in the first instance. Therefore, Brother Jue deliberately took the smallest item first and quickly stuffed it into the shrine. In this way... "It" wouldn't act without seeing clearly, and would also be stunned for a few seconds out of confusion.

And those few seconds were enough for Feng Bujue to stuff the remaining items in.

"Nothing, just some little trinkets found in this space (previously handed to Brother Jue during the exchange of items in the warehouse on the second floor)." Feng Bujue turned around and replied in a relaxed tone.

"You! You..." In that instant, "It" became enraged. The roar burst out of Watanabe's chest like a series of muffled thunder, "Do you know what you've done!"

"Not really." Feng Bujue continued, "It's just... I saw that this scenario was about to end, but I couldn't figure out where to use these 'items that can trigger hidden plots', so I stuffed them into the shrine, this rather suspicious key object, with the mindset of 'trying it out won't get me pregnant'."

At this point, Feng Bujue smiled slyly, "Heh... judging from your reaction, it seems I put them in the right place."

"Why..." At this time, it was in a state of rage-induced calm, and asked in a low voice, "Why did you do this?"

"Because taking these things out is troublesome..." Feng Bujue replied, "After all, this is a team scenario. Based on the principle of fairness, the puzzle cards formed by these four items, if they aren't used... should be divided equally among the six of us. But 'dividing four items among six people' is a very difficult format (those who have watched *Mr. Osomatsu* will understand), so..."

Here, some of the keywords Feng Bujue mentioned, such as "scenario" and "puzzle cards," were naturally processed by the system, but "It" could still understand Brother Jue's meaning.

"Damn... you..." In the next second, "It" seemed to be stretching its voice, preparing to curse.

But "It's" words were interrupted, and interrupted by a burst of music...

No one expected that at this moment, in this dark, oppressive environment, suddenly... the melody of *Billie Jean* sounded.

Almost at the same moment the music started, a strange laugh floated from somewhere...

The person laughing had a particularly sharp voice, but he laughed quite heartily; here I still have to give that example (see Chapter 252 of this book), this contrast... is like Lin Chi-ling angrily singing *Heroes' Song*.

"Eh?" Two seconds later, Feng Bujue seemed to remember something, and muttered, "This entrance... could it be..."

Before he could finish his thoughts, the darkness around him had condensed over in clumps and patches; those "black tides" surged like living creatures towards the shrine at the corner, and no one knew what they would trigger...

Seeing this scene, the players' expressions were full of surprise and uncertainty, while "It"... or rather, the expression on Watanabe's face, which it controlled... showed despair.

Finally, after about ten seconds, the darkness condensed into a solid black figure.

This "shadow man" was completely black, like a three-dimensional silhouette; and his outline, shape, and posture... were very similar to a music superstar who had passed away many years ago.

"As expected, it's this guy..." When Feng Bujue saw the other party, his memories became clear; a long time ago, he had encountered this NPC in another scenario (*Brothers*), and he had even used the [Vajra Bell] to see its data.

The name of this shadow man was [Shadow of Dance], a special NPC; even though Brother Jue had used items to check its data, all he saw were the name, height, weight, and the flag information that this NPC could trigger in that scenario... As for the more core information (level, race, abilities, etc.), they were all unknown.

"No... no!" As soon as it saw the figure of Shadow of Dance, "It" shouted, without concealing its panic, "I hate this guy!"

Unfortunately, at this point, it was useless even if it shouted its throat out...

[Hidden plot - Dancing with the Shadow, has been triggered]

Along with a system prompt, Shadow of Dance immediately stomped its feet, straightened its body, and leaned to one side like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, making a difficult "standing sideways" pose that was almost fifty degrees to the ground.

At the moment he struck this entrance pose, four black lights flashed, and then... the long wig, the stylish sunglasses, the sharp tassel belt, and the cowboy boots all bloomed on various parts of the Shadow of Dance's body, merging with it... becoming part of the black shadow.

"Aww~" The Shadow of Dance, having changed its style, let out a high-pitched scream, switched poses, stood up straight again, and spun in place; then, it thrust its hips forward, touched its head with one hand, and made a crotch-grabbing motion with the other.

"Hey hey... what's going on..." At this time, Little Tan, who was standing at the other end of the corridor watching, was dumbfounded, and couldn't help but mutter in confusion.

"Don't know..." Ruoyu replied, "But I don't think we have anything to worry about anymore."

Only now did the players realize what the four "story items that can be brought out of the scenario" that they had found earlier were for; if... the items gave the players a sense of "incongruity" that was completely different from the style of the scenario, then the appearance and behavior of Shadow of Dance had completely made the players lose their immersion...

"Aww~" A few seconds later, Shadow of Dance came up with such a voice, which was too high to be reached.

Before the chant was over, it had already taken a sliding step forward, moving towards "It"; don't underestimate that mere "one" sliding step, Shadow of Dance's sliding step was really the kind of feeling that he could slide as far as he wanted, and after sliding one step, he had already arrived in front of Watanabe.

At this moment, the melody of *Billie Jean* stopped abruptly, and a few seconds later, in a remix of mixed sounds, the rhythm and melody changed in response, and the surrounding BGM became *Thriller*; and Shadow of Dance also changed its dance steps with the song, stepping and waving its hands, dancing the zombie step.

As soon as the dance steps started, Watanabe, who was holding the doll, had a look of horror on his face... turned around and ran straight to the second floor.

Ta-ta-ta...

Watanabe's feet stepped on the corridor floor on the first floor, creating a burst of noise that the players found familiar.

Seeing this, Feng Bujue, standing in front of the shrine, sneered: "Did you forget something?" He paused for half a second, then said, "Don't run in the hallway... it was the restriction you set yourself."

Before the words were finished, "It" had already begun to regret it... because it had indeed forgotten this part.

Although this kind of "restriction" had no effect on it, the Watanabe that was being controlled by "It"...

"Uh..." Two seconds later, Watanabe let out a low groan. Please note... this low groan came from Watanabe's own mouth, not the voice of "It."

Before the voice could settle, Watanabe had already fallen... falling right on the middle of the first flight of stairs.

At the moment of the fall, Watanabe twisted his body with all his might, landing sideways, protecting the doll in front of his chest with his body; of course, he himself didn't fall too badly, after all, it wasn't falling from a high place, just a stumble.

However, the problem was that, after the fall, for some reason... Watanabe, who was not injured, could not stand up.

"Oh! So that's how it is!" The first person to react after seeing this scene was Gui Xiao, "There has always been a trap in this scenario that we haven't discovered, and that is - people who run hard in the hallway will fall... and they will never be able to stand up again after falling!"

At this point, Gui Xiao understood... the reason why the ghost he had killed with the flashlight had been lying in place, not moving until it was dispelled by the light, was this reason. Presumably... that guy was frightened by the flashlight at the window of Class 2-A and ran to the second floor... and then fell at the end of the stairs.

And the Watanabe in front of him was even more unlucky, he hadn't even finished the first flight of stairs... and he fell.

"No... no! Don't! I don't want to!" Two seconds later, the voice of "It" sounded again from Watanabe's chest, and "It's" tone had become like a frantic child.

The players seemed a little surprised by this change, on the one hand, because "It's" performance up until now had been very mature, and on the other hand, because they really couldn't imagine what that dancing guy could do to "It"... to make "It" so afraid.

Fortunately... before long, they got the answer...

However, after dancing for a while by itself, Shadow of Dance clenched its arms, passed the electric current movement through its hands, arms, and shoulders... and then, with that movement... pointed at the doll on Watanabe's chest.

With this point, the doll cracked and popped like a firecracker, and then began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye...

This kind of "transformation" is difficult to describe in words, if you have to say it... it's like a small piece of wood constantly multiplying from the inside like a mollusk, rapidly increasing in volume and weight in a way that is physically unreasonable.

About ten seconds later, "It" changed from a small doll that could be held in the hand to a humanoid creature about 1.6 meters tall.

Although it was "humanoid", "It" was very different from humans -

"It's" head looked like a curved cone, like an inverted horse's mouth growing in reverse, and there were no obvious facial features on it; "It's" voice was closer to a woman, but there were no sexual characteristics on its body; the skin of its entire body was like the shell of a crustacean... smooth and hard, dark red; and the torso part... was currently in the "open" state, looking like a battery compartment without batteries - its chest cavity was empty, without any organs.

"Feng Bujue!" After revealing its original form, "It" knew that it could no longer escape the range of Shadow of Dance's abilities, so it immediately turned all its anger to Brother Jue, and angrily shouted, "You bastard... so you colluded with Blackbeard!"

This sentence was a bit inexplicable, and it took Brother Jue a few seconds to find the logical relationship, and thought, "Oh? Could it be that this Shadow of Dance... is Blackbeard's man?"

"I will remember today's debt, one day... I will make you pay the price!" This intimidation of it had no killing effect, because Feng Bujue had heard this kind of thing so much that his ears were almost calloused.

Deng deng~ deng deng~ deng deng deng deng deng...

At the same time, just as "It's" voice fell, the melody of *Thriller* stopped again, and after a brief silence, a guitar's prelude brought out the singing of *You Never Can Tell*, and the background music suddenly became jazzy.

Subsequently, a shocking scene appeared, and "It", which had been "pointed" at once by Shadow of Dance, seemed to have its body out of control, and after a few steps, came to Shadow of Dance's side, and danced a twist with it face to face... following the music...

"What the f***?" Even Feng Bujue would never have thought that there would be such a scene, and the swear word that burst out of his mouth was not blocked by the system.

Not to mention the others, they each looked at the two non-human guys dancing passionately in the corridor with complex expressions; it has to be said... that the two's dance was really smooth, and even outsiders could see how good they were dancing.

Of course, this "dance king and queen" level of performance had little to do with "It", it was caused by the ability of "Shadow of Dance"...

In this way, the two danced more and more happily, and two minutes later, they were still dancing and walking... slowly moving towards the shrine.

Seeing this situation, Feng Bujue also wisely gave way for them to pass.

Before long, the two had arrived at the corner. When Shadow of Dance's heel was only one step away from the shrine, they instantly turned into two black beams and darted into the shrine.

In the same second, the players all felt a sense of weightlessness... and everything went black.

In the blink of an eye, the six people suddenly found that... they were once again in the classroom of Class 2-A, and were each sitting in the seats where they had been at the beginning of the scenario.

At this time, the doors and windows of the classroom were open, and the summer sunlight shone into the teaching building through the windows, and the dark and oppressive atmosphere around them had disappeared...