The surroundings turned cold and damp. The air was thick with the smell of blood, and it was nauseating.
A horrible, hoarse voice came from below. It kept getting closer and closer, and gradually, it became a strange and deformed shadow.
Gu Jun had fallen into an illusion. Was it triggered by the stone slab? The feeling of the illusion this time was very different. It did not feel like he was in another place. He was still here, on the platform at the end of the spiral staircase. He was still working with others to push the stone slab that blocked the exit.
However, the figures of these people were different. The strange and beautiful clothes were not worn by any member of the team.
They were speaking in a chaotic and panicked language. It was the foreign language that Gu Jun was both unfamiliar and familiar with at the same time.
As the shadow got closer, they began to tremble. Fear twisted every face and every word. They were crying and begging for something. Gu Jun could not hear them clearly. He only heard, "Let us out!" "No, they're coming!" "I don't want to die …"
He seemed to have heard these voices from the delirious Banyan Malformation Disease patients.
Were these people the citizens of Rikers? Rikers had already fallen. They had escaped ten thousand meters from the stone path, and there were already strange creatures chasing after them. They wanted to leave this place so badly, but the stone slab was pressing down heavily on them.
On the surface outside … was there anyone there? Were the screams of these fugitives heard by others?
Why did they block the exit? Why did they not let the strange creatures out? But these citizens of Rikers … had they been abandoned?
Suddenly, those malicious shadows were right in front of them. The stench of blood was extremely strong. Everyone who was struggling to push the stone slabs looked over, and in an instant, their expressions changed drastically. Desperate screams tore through everyone's throats. They frantically slapped the stone slabs, wanting to escape, but there was nowhere to run.
Gu Jun felt his own eyes looking over, and his heart skipped a beat. It was the strange creatures with lamellar bones!
He had personally dissected the chests of these strange creatures, but this was the first time he had seen their faces, and it was from a blurry illusion.
They were humanoid creatures. They also had a head, neck, torso, and limbs, but the surface of their body was covered with dead keratin skin. It was like their natural clothing and protection. Their bodies were a size larger, and their limbs were especially long. The entire structure of their hands was deformed, with fingers and long claws …
He did not see everything clearly, but he only took a few hazy glances, and he broke out in a cold sweat. That kind of structure seemed to be more suitable for climbing.
The illusion began to shake violently. Gu Jun was now experienced and knew that this was a sign that his spirit was about to collapse and the illusion was about to end.
He tried to see them more clearly. They were filthy, monstrous, repulsive creatures to the human eye.
However, the structure of their faces was almost no different from that of a human, except that the skin was also dead skin, and the exposed teeth were sharp, dense, and dark gray. Was that because of a layer of rotting bacteria?
Their eyes were filled with disdain, bloodthirst, and malice, as well as an indescribable darkness.
These were not the eyes of a beast. These emotions were born from intelligence …
The look in their eyes belonged to humans.
Was this strange creature … once human?
"Ah!" Extremely horrified screams suddenly erupted, causing the illusion to shake even more. More screams rang out one after another, echoing in the narrow space at first, but they got further and further away until they disappeared.
Gu Jun saw the strange creatures walk forward and use their strange hands to pull out the people squeezed on the platform one by one, and then casually throw them into the middle or outside of the spiral staircase. It was five thousand meters above the ground.
In the instant before they were thrown down, everyone had already been shattered by fear.
Suddenly, Gu Jun felt himself being pulled out and thrown down, as if he had fallen into an endless bloody nightmare.
Every step of the spiral staircase was filled with mutilated corpses. Some were still dripping blood, while others were rotten and smelly.
The blood of the people of Riker flowed on the stone staircase and splashed on the stone walls. Their flesh and bones would eventually rot on the stone, and time would digest and fuse everything.
Could those dark red lines be their blood …?
Was the evil life force in the stone staircase and the spiral staircase the result of their vengeance?
Gu Jun's gaze moved closer and closer to the floor of the secret chamber. The floor was filled with piles of corpses. Countless limbs, organs, faces … they piled up like a mountain. It was like a glimpse into the depths of purgatory.
Bang! Gu Jun felt like he had fallen. An inhuman pain spread through his body like every blood vessel in his body was being crushed.
But this pain also pulled his soul back. He immediately gasped for breath, only to see the grey light in the sky, the stone slab had disappeared.
"It's open! It's open!" Uncle Dan screamed with joy. Xue Ba, Yang Henan, and the rest had already pushed themselves up from the ground. With the last ounce of energy they had left, they raised their guns and aimed around. Their heavy breathing drowned out Uncle Dan's voice.
"Huff, huff …" Gu Jun's face was pale, and he was covered in cold sweat. He looked like he had just died, but the other people around him did not look any better, so no one noticed his strange condition. He looked around again, and he knew that this was the place in the illusion … but the past had already been destroyed.
But who was it that wanted to repeat this horrible scene?
"That is not a stone slab …" Xue Ba's hoarse voice came from above. Lou Xiaoning and the rest also stood up.
Gu Jun staggered to his feet. Instantly, he saw that the 'stone slab' that they had pushed over was a sacrificial altar. Due to its unique design, the left side was heavier than the right side. Then, he scanned his surroundings again …
"This is strange. This is an altar," Uncle Dan mumbled.
This was a stone altar that was more than ten meters high from the blackened ground. Everywhere was broken and dilapidated. Even the four huge stone pillars that stood on the altar were damaged. Each pillar had a circle of ancient and gorgeous carvings on it, but they were also damaged.
They were standing at the center of the sacrificial altar.
The sacrificial altar was used to place sacrifices, and now, the group of sixteen appeared to be the sacrifice.
Around the sacrificial altar, there was a gray fog that matched the color of the sky. Through the mist, they could vaguely see the gloomy, twisted giant trees surrounding the altar, and the roars of the dead pierced through the mist and came.
Gu Jun could see it, and so could Xue Ba and the rest. Between the giant trees, there were the shadows of countless beasts.
Among them, there were also some figures in black and a few figures in red.
Those people were looking at them.
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