radicalducati Chapter 182 Opening the Door to Kill and Arrows
Chapter 182 Opening the Door to Kill and Arrows
Chapter 182 Opening the Door to Kill and Arrows
"What the hell?! They just opened the door and killed me?"
Xia Zhaozhao's dissatisfied complaints echoed in the ventilation room.
At her feet, several pools of dark, sticky liquid were slowly spreading out.
Just now, these things had a relatively complete human outline, except that the places where the brain and skull should have been were empty.
At first glance, they looked intimidating, but after the initial shock, Xia Zhaozhao quickly realized that these guys were quite weak and didn't have any fancy attack methods.
"Just as brainless as he looks." She curled her lip, giving a precise assessment.
Thus, what should have been a tense encounter quickly degenerated into a boring skirmish, devoid of any technical skill.
She sighed and asked Xiao Lü, "Is it still an illusion? Similar to what we encountered in university?"
"Probably not," Little Green replied casually.
"I feel—the room, and the monsters, these things are all physical entities."
She took out the Shannon counter and switched it to ambient mode.
【0.85】
The reading was low, but not outrageous.
Xiao Lü remembered Bai Shuyuan's warning: once it enters the true cognitive interference field or the range of malformation influence, then this value is likely not higher than 0.7.
She held the instrument and paced slowly in the ventilation room.
The counter's value didn't seem to change much within the room.
But she soon noticed something was wrong.
As she approached the two iron doors in the corner and several vents near the ceiling, the numbers on the screen began to drop significantly.
【0.85】————【0.82】————【0.79】——
She stopped, flew backward back into the room, and the numbers bounced back.
interesting.
Xia Zhaozhao moved closer to Xiao Lü, also staring at the numbers on the counter, and felt a little strange.
"Why did it change so quickly?"
However, she didn't pay too much attention to it.
She simply summoned her greatsword on her own initiative and, like poking a hornet's nest, thrust it directly into the vent with the abnormally high readings.
"what?"
With a soft exclamation, Xia Zhaozhao stopped moving, as if she sensed something was amiss.
"I can clearly see that it's empty inside, but when I put my sword in, it seems to disappear—"
She could see the cross-section of her greatsword, making her look like a sword saint with a broken sword.
Even stranger, her greatsword seemed to sense some kind of sticky resistance. She frowned and drew the greatsword.
The sword was covered with a thick, grayish-white liquid that resembled mud, which was slowly dripping down the blade.
In addition, it emitted a pungent chemical odor.
"Holy crap! What's going on? What did I mess up? My greatsword is dirty now!"
"————How many times have you used this thing to pry open manhole covers? It's never been clean, okay?" Little Green complained.
Once it's extended through the door, it disappears from sight; however, when the sword is withdrawn, it can bring back matter from another dimension.
"It seems," she came to a preliminary conclusion, "that every door and every passage here could lead to a completely random room."
She simply concentrated her magic to completely drain the moisture from the viscous liquid on Xia Zhaozhao's sword.
Xia Zhaozhao looked down and saw that only a layer of mineral powder with a slight metallic luster remained on the sword.
"It should be mineral slurry," Little Green concluded.
"It feels like the vent leads to a large container filled with slurry."
Xia Zhaozhao nodded: "This kind of place is suitable for you to explore alone, Xiao Lü. I'll wait for your triumphant return here."
"What is all this nonsense?! We definitely can't split up, can we?"
"Besides, why should I plunge into this disgusting slurry?" Little Green complained.
"After all, no matter which door we go through, we probably won't be able to come back. It's similar to the situation we encountered when we first entered this mining company."
"In other words, if it were a sealed container, we could be trapped inside and die."
"That's true."
Xia Zhaozhao flew up, found a random spot, and scraped off the mineral powder from the greatsword.
Then, he inserted the greatsword into the other ventilation vents and stirred it around.
This time, there were no obstacles.
"These rooms seem pretty normal," Xia Zhaozhao said.
Little Green nodded.
Since there were no more clues, Xia Zhaozhao gave up thinking about it.
She randomly picked a door that looked pleasing to the eye, and without saying a word, she dragged Xiao Lü inside.
"Wow—it's a dormitory!" Xia Zhaozhao exclaimed in surprise as she looked at the scene before her.
A standard construction site room for eight people, with beds and tables and chairs somewhat messy.
She immediately switched to "never leave empty-handed" mode, looking around and soon dragging a huge snakeskin bag out from under the bed.
"—What are you doing?"
"To store things," Xia Zhaozhao replied matter-of-factly.
"No, you just have to be obsessed with this toothpaste—watch out!"
The little green dog instantly became alert when it sensed an enemy.
The moment Xia Zhaozhao took her first step, a shadow suddenly appeared on the ceiling above her head!
It was a hanging, brain-like monster, grayish-white in color, with constricted grooves that were twisting and turning. It had been lurking there, unnoticed by the two of them.
In the blink of an eye, the monster launched its attack.
Suddenly, a crack appeared on its ravine-covered surface, and a stream of liquid gushed out, heading straight for Xia Zhaozhao's face. Xia Zhaozhao reacted extremely quickly; she instinctively raised the snakeskin bag in her hand and held it in front of her.
"Zi"
A wisp of smoke rose, and the surface of the snakeskin bag was instantly corroded, leaving it pitted and crackled, and making a sizzling sound.
"Oh no, my toothpaste!" Xia Zhaozhao cried out in anguish.
"What time is it and you're still thinking about your lousy toothpaste!"
Little Green shouted, and its magic poured out.
The moisture in the air condensed instantly, and a thin layer of ice spread across the ceiling at an astonishing speed!
At the same time, several ice bullets whistled as they shot toward the monster.
The monster seemed to sense the danger, its two limbs retracting to block the attack, but its reaction was a beat too slow. The ice bullet struck its body precisely, causing its upside-down form to sway.
The frost on the ceiling was already approaching, and the monster clearly didn't want to be frozen into a block of ice.
Its sharp feet, which were attached to the ceiling, suddenly loosened, and its entire body plummeted downwards!
"You've ruined my toothpaste! You're courting death!"
Xia Zhaozhao shouted loudly, and slashed at the falling monster with her greatsword and machete!
Monsters are not magical girls; they don't have the ability to fly or change direction in the air.
In the bathroom, that brain was precisely sliced into three pieces in mid-air, losing its vitality.
"Why do I feel like this thing actually has a brain?"
Xia Zhaozhao shook the slime off her machete, looked at the remains on the ground, and made a comment.
"Of course, it's basically a brain."
Little Green chimed in.
She held the Shannon counter towards the dormitory exit, and the reading remained stable with little fluctuation.
It seems this door doesn't lead to any unknown places.
"Stop thinking about your pile of worthless loot and get out here!"
"oh----"
Xia Zhaozhao responded, then reluctantly dragged another snakeskin bag, emptied the moldy quilt inside, and followed Xiao Lü out.
Back in the corridor, Xiao Lü was hesitating about which door to choose when her gaze inadvertently swept to the floor.
At a fork in the road, she saw an arrow drawn in chalk.
"what?"
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