Chapter 113 Underground Waterways

Squeak--bang.

Two seconds later, accompanied by a loud noise, the door behind Long Ge and the others closed by itself.

The three of them didn't try to open it and go back, because they were already prepared to explore inside.

As powerful players who had experienced many battles, the Blade members still had a very obvious psychological advantage when facing monsters… compared to other players, they actually found the monsters in the script easier to deal with.

"Whoa~ We just entered… and something's already here to greet us…" Long Ge, who was in charge of scouting the way, stopped less than ten meters after walking in.

At this time, on the cyan-gray ground in front of him, more than a dozen "puddles" about one meter in diameter suddenly appeared; saying they were puddles, there was actually no water, in reality it was just a small piece of liquefied ground, rippling with waves.

About a second later, a zombie with green skin and a hideous face quickly "floated" out of each "puddle"; their mode of action was the same as most low-level zombies… making a low roar in their throats, holding their hands up, and slowly approaching the living.

"The way they spawn is pretty cool." Qi Sha muttered in a disdainful tone, "It's a pity the monsters that spawn aren't that great."

"They move slowly, we can go around them if we can, and just deal with them casually if we can't." Tan Lang instructed at this time, "The space inside this castle is obviously much larger than it looks from the outside, and there are who knows how many monsters inside… we don't need to waste time and energy here."

"Understood." Long Ao Min responded, and took out his spiritual weapon, ready to clear the way.

[Name: Orichalcos Shield]

[Type: Spiritual Weapon]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Defense: Extremely Strong]

[Attributes: Absorption, Isolation, Buffering]

[Effect 1: Orichalcos Barrier (When the Orichalcos Shield is attacked, the user can freely convert the propulsive force, penetrating force, and shock force contained in the attack according to his own will.)]

[Effect 2: Orichalcos Qi (The user can sacrifice 15% of their survival points to invalidate the next attack the shield receives)]

[Effect 3: Orichalcos-Toritos (The Orichalcos Shield has 300% defense against magic and all flying projectiles)]

[Note: A dream shield forged from orichalcos crystal, imbued with the divine power of the god of orichalcos, like an impenetrable mobile fortress.]

As you can see, this is a spiritual weapon whose quality is judged as "Legendary," in the same class as Shiva's "Complete Form Heavenly Dance Hourglass," and its outstanding effects are obvious to all.

And the most heaven-defying special effect among them is undoubtedly "Orichalcos Qi"… this effect is simply "opening invincibility."

In theory, as long as this special effect is activated, no matter how strong the attack, it can be blocked by spending 15% of your survival points, which makes "instant kill" Long Ge an extremely difficult thing…

If you attack him with ordinary means, his defense is right there; if you attack with a powerful killing move… whether it's a destructive death ray or a demon-piercing light kill cannon… as long as he activates the special effect, it's at most a 15% health loss. Considering this, even ignoring the factor of survival point replenishment agents, he can withstand at least six killing moves without dying…

Of course, if the attack speed is fast enough… so fast that Long Ge doesn't have time to raise his shield to block, or doesn't have time to react to "activate the special effect," it is still possible to "instant kill." But the problem is… powerful skills mostly require some preparation to be released, and the fluctuation of energy is often impossible to hide. Furthermore… Long Ge is not some newbie, but an experienced combat expert.

Overall, Long Ao Min, holding the Orichalcos Shield, is truly a mobile fortress, a man like an impenetrable wall of iron.

"Ha… much easier than expected."

In less than a minute, Long Ge led Qi Sha and Tan Lang through the desolate city corridor at a brisk pace. Along the way, they only encountered two zombies that could not be bypassed, and those two monsters were shattered by Long Ge's shield… broken into pieces as rotten as mud.

"That's for sure… if it's difficult as soon as we enter, we can consider going straight out." Tan Lang immediately complained.

As they spoke, they passed through a stone door and arrived at the second space.

Compared to the "corridor" just now, this place was more like a "room" inside the castle. From above, one could see long windows paved with scarlet glass, and candelabras embedded in the walls at intervals; from here on… the candles on those candelabras became the main source of light that the players could rely on.

"Damn…" As soon as they entered, two purple bats flew past Long Ge's head at high speed. Fortunately, Long Ge reacted quickly and ducked, "That scared me…"

"Heh… only at times like this do I feel that becoming a child is a good thing." Qi Sha said with a smile, "Anyway, there are adults to hold up the sky when it falls."

"Hey hey…" Long Ge turned his head and said loudly, "I've become a child too, okay?"

After he said this, many viewers watching the live broadcast laughed for no reason…

"Alright, alright… you should be glad." Tan Lang interjected from the side, "In this script, you're the only one whose melee specialization and equipment bonuses are hardly affected by your size. We don't even have this advantage."

"Okay… I'm so happy, hahaha…" Long Ge laughed drily a few times, and then led the way.

This second room in front of them had a very obvious height difference. Although the ceiling was not as high as the previous room, the bottom seemed to be a different world. After entering… a few meters in front was a wall, with a beveled angle above it, leading to a narrow passage, not knowing where it led; looking further down, there was a downward slope, with a platform two meters below. One side of the platform was the wall blocking the way, and the other side extended in the direction they came from, also not knowing where it led…

"What do you think? Should we split up?" Long Ge asked, turning his head.

"Of course not…" Before Tan Lang could reply, Qi Sha responded, "If we split up in a maze-like place like this, I'm afraid we'll never be able to reunite…"

"I agree too." Tan Lang continued, "There's no advantage to splitting up in this script… Long Ge is fine, but my and Qi Sha's individual combat abilities have been greatly weakened… if we encounter a Boss alone, it's likely to be a bad ending."

"Then…" Long Ge glanced at the two routes in front of him, thought for a moment, and said, "Let's go down, shall we?"

The main reason he chose this was because his size was relatively large, and he felt it wouldn't be very convenient to go through the passage above.

"Sure, let's go." Tan Lang didn't say much. Anyway, it was the exploration phase, and it was the same no matter where they went.

So, the three of them slid down the slope a few steps and jumped onto the platform below.

After they stood firm and turned their heads, the other side was also a downward slope. The three of them continued downward and reached the bottom of this second room. Not far away, there was a red door. According to normal spatial common sense, the other side of the door should be located below the zombie-spawning room just now.

And if they didn't go through this door, they could also go in another direction… There, there was a pool of water about the size of a swimming pool, with a metal floating platform in the center of the pool. On the platform was a carved pillar, and at the top of the pillar was a glowing circular orb, whose light illuminated the entire pool.

"Don't ask me." Before Long Ge could ask, Tan Lang said first, "This is my first time here too, just follow your feeling."

"Okay~" Long Ge responded with a drawn-out voice, and stepped forward to push the red door.

Although this was a heavy wooden door inlaid with metal, it was relatively easy to push. Long Ge easily opened it with one hand.

After the three of them walked through that door, they entered a dimly lit corridor.

This corridor was entirely made of white stone, and was generally in the ancient Roman architectural style. Two rows of columns and fences stood on both sides of the corridor, with the stone piers at the bottom of the columns and the fences alternating regularly, and the tops of the columns connected in an arch shape; huge bat reliefs hung on the high walls, and many small reliefs resembling demons echoed symmetrically on both sides.

From outside the fence, you could see red light shining over, but you couldn't see what the light source was or how far away it was… No matter whether you looked up or down, it was like gazing into a blood-red abyss, and looking horizontally into the distance… you could see many similar corridors, like white passages between illusory spaces, floating in this red tide.

"Whew… what was that just now…" After passing through the white corridor and pushing open another red door, Long Ao Min breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It felt so oppressive…"

"Are you sure it was just now…" Qi Sha interjected, "I felt oppressed as soon as I entered the city gate…"

[Underground Waterways]

Just then, the system prompt suddenly sounded again, announcing a place name.

Buzz—

Suddenly, just as the system voice was not finished, a cyan-white crescent-shaped flash flew out of the shadows in front of the three of them.

"What the hell?" Long Ge muttered, and instinctively raised his shield to block.

As a result, the flash disappeared in an instant when it touched the Orichalcos Shield…

"It's some kind of long-range energy attack…" Qi Sha said, taking a step sideways and staring into the distance.

In less than two seconds, he saw the culprit of the attack in the shadows high above… it was a small red monster, with short limbs, horns on its forehead, a pair of bat wings, and a small tail behind its butt.

"That's… a little devil?" Tan Lang quickly saw the little monster flying in the air, and said a name that matched the monster's image.

"No matter what it is, we can't let this monster go like the zombies…" Qi Sha said, and joined his hands together, releasing a move towards the little devil—[My Dao Fist].

Perhaps many friends have not heard of "My Dao Fist", so let me explain here… My Dao Fist is one of Dan's (ie "Huoyin Dan", a very special character in the Street Fighter series, a product of CApCom and snk company's cross-space provocation, shamelessly copied the appearance of the two protagonists of "Dragon and Tiger Fist", and deliberately designed to be weak as hell) signature skills, "improved" from the famous Hadoken.

Of course… visually speaking, this move is just releasing a fist wave from a distance…

Swoosh—boom!

My Dao Fist shines, killing intent breaks the wind.

The little devil's flying speed was not slow, but it was still faster than this fist light. In the blink of an eye, this monster was blasted into a meat sauce with one punch.

"Although this monster can use long-range attacks… its ability to withstand attacks is not much different from the zombies outside…" Qi Sha retracted his move and looked down at his hand, "Even the My Dao Fist released after my body has shrunk can turn it into a pulp…"

"Alright… stop showing off in disguise, let's get going." Long Ge didn't give Qi Sha a chance to continue bragging. He turned his head and urged, then continued to walk forward.

Tan Lang and Qi Sha also followed closely behind, stepping on the downward stone steps… into the humid air…

…………

At the same time, at the castle gate, outside the moat.

"My God…" Hill muttered, with an unbelievable expression on his face, looking at the castle in front of him, "…What happened here…"

A dozen minutes ago, he finished beating the man in the suit and drove back on the road.

It wasn't until he drove all the way to the address of the old house on Yuan'an Creek Road that he found out… this place seemed to have been renovated.

"What's going on?" Hill twitched the corner of his mouth and muttered to himself, "Count Duckula (Count_duckula, a British animated film released in 1988, in which the castle where the protagonist lives can be instantly moved to various parts of the world and even travel through space with a built-in spell device)?"

"You're finally back, Mr. Hill." Just as Hill was standing outside the moat in a daze, Feng Bujue's voice sounded from nowhere and entered his ears.

"You…" Hill was immediately nervous when he heard the sound. He looked around and said, "…How did you…"

"Above the right pocket of your coat, in the middle of the two layers of fabric." Brother Jue's voice replied.

Hill groped around his clothes as the other party said, and sure enough, he felt a flat, round, hard object in that position, and he quickly realized… that Feng Bujue's voice was coming from there.

"Found it?" Feng Bujue continued, "This is a tracker, and it also has communication functions. Of course… only I can actively establish communication from this side."

"Where are you?" Hill then asked loudly, "And what's going on with this castle?"

Feng Bujue didn't answer his question, but instead asked, "Did you get your hands on Van Helsing's diary?"

Hill's expression changed slightly, and he snorted coldly, "Hmph… I've already hidden that book in a safe place." He paused, "You help me remove the chip and ensure my safe departure, and I'll tell you where the thing is."