Chapter 274 "Between"

"But there are no other branches along the way." Li puzzled. "Although there are some twists and turns, I'm sure I didn't see any optional forks."

Xia Fan thought for a moment, "Anyway, the trap has been disarmed. Let's go back the way we came. By the way, we can check to see if we missed any details."

This proposal was unanimously approved by everyone.

However, before turning back and taking two steps, Luo stopped lightly.

This time, a rare surprise appeared on her face.

"What's wrong?" Xia Fan stepped forward to take a look, and then froze on the spot. He saw that the passage that was there just now no longer existed, and was replaced by a brown stone wall.

"Fuck..." he couldn't help blurting out.

"It's not an illusion," Li said in disbelief, "This wall is real."

"This was a bend before. We only saw the stone gate after we turned around."

All four people now realize that the purpose of the passage turning here is to lower the stone wall without being noticed and cut off the escape route of the trespassers.

"Stay back." Luo gently summoned the dragon scales and stabbed at the stone wall!

After a burst of sparks, the flying sword sank deeply into the wall, leaving only a small gap. There was no firelight coming through there, indicating that the thickness of the stone wall was beyond imagination.

This is probably because Luo Qingqing failed to notice anything strange here.

It is itself part of the underground structure.

It is not difficult to set up a Dragon Breaking Stone alone.

The difficulty lies in how to make it close silently under such slight movement. Now that I think about it, it must have been the muffled sound when the stone door opened, covering up the noise coming from behind.

"It seems like we can only move forward." Xia Fan said.

"Go to that house?"

"Well, I think... it may not be a dead end ahead. If this place was originally designed just to trap infiltrators, there is no need to build a dark room with its own lighting. There is also the Lihuo sigil on the door. It’s also very strange, it shouldn’t have been carved for no reason.”

"There is no better choice anyway." Qian Yan nodded, "Let's go."

Returning to the stone chamber again, Xia Fan finally had time to look at its layout carefully - in addition to the four large torches on the wall, there were also four stone barrels below, facing each other one by one, which seemed to mean something. But this is not the most special thing. There is a huge statue standing on the wall to the left of the gate.

The statue looks like a monster squatting on the ground, with a beast's head, long arms and legs, and something like wings behind it. Under the dim firelight, its mane-covered face actually looked a bit human, especially its big eyes, which at first glance looked like protruding human eyeballs.

I don’t know which sculptor had such a bad taste to carve a beast’s head into such a terrifying and weird shape.

On the other side, the fox demon has opened the stone barrel.

"There's something wrong with the things in here..."

Luo rushed over gently, frowned and sniffed, "The bucket is filled with kerosene."

Xia Fan's heart sank.

He came to the other wall and opened the stone bucket. It was full of black, thick and smelly liquid. Under the light of the torch, it didn't even reflect at all. This semi-liquid, almost slurry, will burn almost endlessly as long as it sticks to the body.

Xia Fan glanced at the torch above his head and said, "This room is marked "Li". You don't want to think that it is actually a burning chamber. When the time comes, we will all be burned to death, right?"

Even if you are lucky enough not to be burned to death, the high-heat air and the extremely hypoxic secret room will make life worse than death.

"Just in case, I froze them." Qian Yan said.

"Well, let's do this for now. If we can't find an exit here, let the dragon scales directly carve a passage in the stone wall." Xia Fan turned around, and suddenly a chill rushed from the soles of his feet to his head!

At some point, the statue's eyes changed their orientation, from looking straight down to looking down.

Illusion...?

No, he also looked at those bulging eyes at that time.

The black hole before was clearly not facing everyone.

And now, it seemed to be staring at them.

"Stay away from the statue!" Before he could think about it, Xia Fan shouted, "There's something wrong with that thing!"

At this moment, the statue moved.

It leaned forward and grabbed Qian Yan who was closest to it - if its huge palm caught a living dead, it felt like it could crush her into pulp in the next second.

"Shock Technique, Flowing Light!"

"Immortal magic, dragon scales!"

Xia Fan and Luo reacted lightly.

The flickering electric current and the two flying blades shot at the statue at the same time. The former had little effect and could not even slow down its movements slightly. The latter did have an effect, creating a palm-width groove on each shoulder of the statue. . This precise strike also involved its forward posture, and its outstretched claws missed Qian Yan.

Qian Yan snorted coldly, raised her fist and swung it towards the opponent's front door - the ice gathered in her palm and turned into a huge "ice hammer" in the blink of an eye.

Just hearing a bang, the statue was knocked back and sat down on the ground.

The brute strength of the living dead is truly worthy of its reputation!

"What kind of monster is this? Isn't it originally a stone?" Li exclaimed.

"I'm sorry, it really didn't have any Qi response before -" Luo Qing's tone was quite self-reproaching, "It's only now that we can observe the existence of Qi. This thing is not a statue, but a living thing."

"It's not your fault." The fox demon shook his ears, "Since it's alive, why not turn it into a dead one?"

"That being said, this guy's hardness is extraordinary." Qian Yan pinched his fingers, "Even if a Taoist priest who is good at Gen Tu Shu was hit like this, he would be torn to pieces, but it didn't even bleed a drop."

The monster grinned and climbed up. At this moment, it looked less and less like a statue. The original gray shell began to loosen and turned into wisps of coarse hair, and the beast face looked more like a monkey with fangs.

"This guy is too ugly." Li bared his teeth, "It has a monkey face, but its teeth are longer than a wild boar."

"What did you say? Its face looks like a monkey?" Luo was slightly surprised. "Monkey face, wings, claws... What does this monster do?"

"What is that?" Xia Fan asked.

"A rare spirit that only exists in legends, a species of ape. Its nature is shocking, and its fur is extremely tough, so it can be said to be invulnerable to swords and guns." Luo said lightly and quickly, "I also saw it by chance in a book, and according to the book... this spirit is cruel and likes to eat human hearts."

Shocking? Xia Fan thought to himself, so the streamer technique just now didn't have much effect on it?

At this moment, the monster stood up, grinned and let out a low roar, and lightning began to flash around it.

"Pay attention!" Qianyan reminded.

As soon as she finished speaking, a huge thunder ball had already spewed out of the other party's mouth and hit the four people directly!