A wall lamp was lit at some distance above their heads, but in the dim light not much could be seen.
Xu Zhilan took out a lighting prop from his backpack. It was a prop that Xiao Zhimiao had seen in Doll Town and could be levitated and followed. It was very convenient and practical.
After shining through the bright light of this lighting prop, they saw clearly the appearance of this narrow place, which was a straight-cylinder space, and then built a winding staircase against the wall.
A little further up, there is darkness that even lighting props cannot illuminate.
"This is too high."
When she looked at the castle from the outside, it didn't look so high, as if some magic had been cast on it.
The two of them walked all the way up the stairs. When they were halfway there, Xiao Zhimiao saw a door not far above.
That is the only door seen in this long staircase.
Just as Xiao Zhimiao was about to continue walking up the door, there was a rustling sound from below, as if something was crawling on the ground.
The two of them stopped and leaned against the wall. Xu Zhilan, who was standing behind Xiao Zhimiao, moved the lighting ball to slowly shine down.
The wall lamps below were extinguished at some point, leaving only darkness.
The light ball moved downward for a certain distance, and a strange-shaped black shadow faded into the darkness.
The next second, the black shadow rushed forward and swallowed the ball of light, and the two of them were instantly plunged into darkness.
Xiao Zhimiao and Xu Zhilan reacted quickly. Xu Zhilan formed a magic shield in front of them. As soon as he used the skill, an object hit the magic shield.
After only three or two impacts, Xiao Zhimiao heard a crisp cracking sound.
The moment she felt the slight wind coming towards her, the heroine used the copied Sun Yuyue skill to quickly throw out a diviner's card, and a magic circle lit up in front of her and stretched out several lines of radiating energy.
The chains of golden light locked the shadow monsters stabbing at her in the magic circle.
Panel pops up:
The Hidden One:Shadow Hunter
Level:200
Attack power:???
Characteristics: Hidden in darkness, swallowing all light
weakness:???
Xiao Zhimiao looked at the attribute panel of this monster and thought that it was somewhat similar to the monster he encountered in the first dungeon. They both swallowed light and attacked players in the dark.
Xiao Zhimiao watched the black shadow struggling in the magic circle, constantly swallowing the light of the magic circle, and shot an arrow at the black shadow.
The crimson magic power exploded in the black shadow, and the black shadow struggled for a moment before being swallowed up.
Xiao Zhimiao said to Xu Zhilan: "Take out all your lighting props and take as many as you have."
Xu Zhilan took out all the lighting props from the system backpack. More than a dozen lighting props illuminated the entire space as bright as day, and the dazzling light made the two of them unable to open their eyes.
Lighting props were suspended everywhere, and Xiao Zhimiao saw many dark shadows being forced back into the darkness by the light, and then swallowed towards the light.
Under the bright light, the two saw a lot of blood on the wall. Xiao Zhimiao touched the blood and found that the blood was not yet dry, so it might be the blood of other players.
Xiao Zhimiao looked at the number of surviving players on the system panel, which was one less than before.
The light was constantly being swallowed by shadows. Xiao Zhimiao and Xu Zhilan quickly ran towards the door at the top of the stairs.
The shadow swallowed up very quickly. Xu Zhilan occasionally waved a whip to force it back. Before the shadow swallowed up all the lighting props, the two of them reached the door.
Xiao Zhimiao saw magic marks on the door. She touched these marks with her hands and could feel the defensive magic inside them.
Xiao Zhimiao pushed open the door, and Xu Zhilan took back all the remaining lighting props before Shadow could catch up, and closed the door to isolate Shadow from the outside.
Walking inside the door, a strong rancid smell hit me, making me almost nauseous.
At the same time, Xiao Zhimiao and Xu Zhilan heard a low gasping sound like a beast.
The light in the room was very dim. There were no lighting tools. There was only a kind of luminous mushroom growing in the corner. Xiao Zhimiao took two steps. His feet felt like he was stepping on a stream of wet mud, which was sticky and sticky when he walked.
It made a sticky sound.
Xiao Zhimiao took a lighting prop from Xu Zhilan. The small ball with light passed through her hand and was controlled by her. As her fingertips moved, it shined upward and forward.
Xiao Zhimiao watched the light ball fly all the way up. After flying seven or eight meters, it finally reached the ceiling and hit a squirming object.
The two looked up and saw that the ceiling was covered with scarlet squirming pieces of meat, like freshly slaughtered cattle and sheep, exuding the bloody smell of fresh raw meat.
Not only the ceiling, walls, but also the floor were all filled with indescribable wriggling pieces of flesh, with some strange and weird luminous plants growing on them.
Xiao Zhimiao saw a plant with jagged leaves. The arm-long leaves were cutting the pieces of meat in front of him, cutting them off and sending them to its lantern-like body.
"They are eating carrion." Xu Zhilan said with a frown.
He is very sensitive to smells and can distinguish different sources of smells from these smells that can kill people.
When Xiao Zhimiao heard what Xu Zhilan said, he looked towards other plants. A very fat mushroom growing in the corner suddenly softened and turned into a piece of white meat. It wriggled onto a piece of rotten meat and gnawed on it.
, after eating away the carrion, it returned to its original position and turned into a mushroom that exuded a faint light.
The entire room is wide and tall. Judging from some ancient objects placed everywhere, this room looks like a conference hall, with many portraits hanging on the left and right walls.
After Xiao Zhimiao determined that these pieces of meat and plants were not offensive, he walked to the portraits with the light ball and looked at them one by one.
The pieces of flesh attached to the portrait are very sensitive to light and will recede when exposed to direct light.
Xiao Zhimiao looked at these portraits, which were all half-length portraits. Each portrait was of a different person, with a date and name on it. In front of the date was "assumed". They were all previous city lords of Kane City.
In addition to the common characters used in the land of God's presence, the characters on the portraits also use other characters.
This should be a type of copy clue, and the system will provide a translation.
Xiao Zhimiao tried to read those kinds of texts without using the system's translation. Although they were not as smooth to read as the texts commonly used in the land of gods, they were still understandable.
Logically speaking, for a city as big as Kane City, judging from the ruins she saw when she first entered the city, there were some villages and towns outside the city that were attached to Kane City, so the city owner must be a local.
But judging by the different languages and characters, the different hair and eye colors in the portraits, and the different faces, these city lords are not from the same region.
No matter how big it is, Kane City is only a town of tens of thousands of people, not a metropolis with millions of people.
Either the city lord was appointed from above, or the past residents of Kane City came from different places to settle, and the city lord was also chosen from among these people.
Judging from the main tasks given in the dungeon, the latter is the most likely.
Xiao Zhimiao continued to move the light ball in his hand to look elsewhere to see if he could find an exit or something. After the light ball touched a huge mushroom, the mushroom moved to the side, revealing a collapsed door.
's door.
Xiao Zhimiao took the light ball and looked inside the door. It was a corridor. There were four rooms on the left and right of the corridor. The wooden doors in each room were rotten or collapsed, making it easy to get in.
When Xu Zhilan saw these rooms, he first threw a few light balls into them for lighting, and then entered after finding that there was no danger.
These rooms are similar to the lounges next to the office hall. There is nothing special, but the entrance is probably blocked by the big mushroom. There are no pieces of flesh growing in it, it is just a little damp, and there are many luminous plants similar to mushrooms.
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After Xiao Zhimiao checked the rooms, she pushed open the door of the last room on the right. The rotten wooden door collapsed after she pushed it, making a dull sound. Xu Zhilan, who was checking the room opposite, heard it.
Movement came over.
Under the bright light of the photosphere, the two saw a large number of picture frames placed in this room. A corpse was leaning in the corner holding a painting, with a paintbrush in his hand.
Xiao Zhimiao and Xu Zhilan looked at these paintings one by one. These paintings were very realistic and had the style of medieval oil paintings. Xiao Zhimiao saw a group of people with different hair colors gathering from all directions and then moving in the same direction. And in this direction
At the end is Kane City.
Many oil paintings depict the daily lives of some residents, from which we can get a glimpse of the lively and prosperous past of Kane City.
Xiao Zhimiao looked around at these paintings and found that the people in the paintings were very plainly dressed before coming to Kane City, and some were even in tatters. They did not look rich or even poor.
"Xiao Zhilan, look." Hearing Xu Zhilan's slightly surprised voice, Xiao Zhimiao's eyes turned to the portrait that Xu Zhilan was looking at.
The painting shows a huge church, where many residents kneel down to worship devoutly, and the person they kneel down to, no, should be a god, is a woman with long red hair who is suspended in the air and cannot see her face.
With her long crimson curly hair and similar body shape, even Xiao Zhimiao himself felt that he looked very much like her.
Could it be that the residents here were gathered from Scythia?
The red-haired god was surrounded by crimson mist, and his hand was slightly raised, as if blessing those devout believers.
Seeing this painting, Xiao Zhimiao felt very uncomfortable, and even a kind of nameless anger ignited in his heart.
"Have you been here before?" Xu Zhilan asked.
Xiao Zhimiao: "You look like I've been here before?"
Xu Zhilan smiled, "I mean, your other identity, Lord God."
"Maybe I have been here, I don't have these memories."
After Xiao Zhimiao took a good look at the paintings on the wall, he turned his attention to the corpse holding the paintings.
