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Hao Ren did not know why a place that was related to evil spirits, curses, and witchcraft had to be so gloomy and scary. The atmosphere did not affect the effectiveness of witchcraft at all. He had sought confirmation from magic experts like Y 'zaks and Vivian. They confirmed that the summoning magic circle did not have to be carved on the black stone, and the demonic runes did not conflict with the golden paint. Magic was flexible, and it was never afraid of decoration.
So, he felt that the crypt where the evil spirit was sealed could be brightly lit with hundreds of fluorescent lights. Two rows of Teletubbies and Pleasant Goat could be placed next to the magic circle. Of course, the evil spirit's coffin could be filled with SpongeBob SquarePants. These things would not affect the effect of the seal itself.
Of course, Vivian scolded Hao Ren for his wild ideas. But he really felt that it was worth a try: at least it would make the atmosphere of the sealed place friendlier, and it would help the warden's physical and mental health. Also, he felt that it would effectively enhance the seal's effect. Imagine the sealed demon and evil spirit pushing open the coffin full of SpongeBob SquarePants and stepping on the jigsaw floor of Pleasant Goat to walk down the altar. On the left was a group of Calabash Brothers, and on the right was a group of Balala Fairies. Even Sargeras would have to tread carefully when he walked down the altar …
Anyway, Vivian had made her stance clear. If one day someone used this style of altar to summon her, she would rather die in the teleportation portal …
But no matter how much Hao Ren complained, the crypt of the Andrea family's ancient castle was still ghostly.
On both sides of the rectangular stone chamber hung a few blurred portraits of people whose faces were almost indistinguishable. On the stone wall facing the ramp was a portrait of the veiled witch. Other than that, there was nothing else in the stone chamber, making it look like a weird gallery.
Next to the portrait of the witch was a small locked iron door. There was a thin layer of frost on the iron door. At first, Hao Ren thought that it was just the underground water vapor freezing on the iron door, but he soon found that the layer of frost was active.
It was like a layer of breathing light, slowly floating on the iron gate.
"Do vengeful spirits like to play tricks?" Hao Ren was terrified by the strange atmosphere, but after checking the capacity of his shield, he boldly pushed the iron door. To his surprise, the iron door opened easily. "No lock? Aren't they afraid of the vengeful spirit escaping? "
"This door isn't meant to stop the vengeful spirits, it's meant to stop humans — it's meant to mark the boundary between the human world and the realm of ghosts, to prevent any unlucky souls from entering." Nangong Sanba gripped his crossbow tightly, looking very nervous. "Once we pass through this door, we'll be out of the normal dimension. The further we go, the more we'll enter the world of the vengeful spirits, and the deepest part is like a crazy place from another world. Don't be careless, I know you're all good at fighting, but it's useless against the vengeful spirit. "
There was nothing behind the iron door, only a pitch-black corridor without any lighting equipment.
Hao Ren took the lead, letting the MDT float in front of him as a light source. At the same time, he rubbed the stone wall beside him. He felt that the stone wall was very fragile, and a gentle touch would cause a large piece of sand-like material to fall off. "How long has it been since someone came in here?"
"Not counting my visit two days ago, at least two hundred years," Nangong Sanba's voice came from behind. "The first few generations of the Andrea Family still had some exorcism and life-saving skills, probably learned from the witch. They could still enter this iron door to strengthen the seal on the surface, but soon the vengeful spirit affected their descendants and completely eliminated the exorcism power from the Andrea Family. It's said that since then, no one from the Andrea Family has ever walked through this iron door... but maybe a few skilled exorcists have gone through, who knows. "
The bricks of the stone wall were rough and cold, and there were some faint rune-like engravings on them. Hao Ren reached out to touch the engravings, but the bricks were more fragile than he imagined, and a large piece of sand fell on the spot.
No... not the sand that fell from the bricks!
Hao Ren looked at his fingers, moved them gently, and then watched his skin and flesh disintegrate like a dry sand sculpture. The yellowish-brown sand fell between his fingers, followed by his palm, wrist, forearm...
"Hallucination." Hao Ren was stunned and confused for two seconds. He then shook his hand hard. He finally felt that his mental strength was fighting against some kind of inexplicable erosion. As the erosion faded, his hand also returned to normal. "Be careful, you can hallucinate here."
Walking next to him, Becky seemed to have just woken up from a dream. The smirk on her face quickly turned into anger. "I finally saw a mountain of gold, and it turned out to be a f * cking special effect?!"
Needless to say, Hao Ren already knew what the girl had just seen.
The dark corridor extended to an unknown place, and the light of the MDT was a little weak. So, Lily raised her Flamejoy to help illuminate the way ahead. Her eyes had turned golden, and she used her superhuman senses to forcibly detect the illusions around her. As they walked, Hao Ren could still hear her whispering, "The braised ribs are fake, the sweet and sour ribs are fake, the meat buns are fake, the spicy strips... spicy strips... spicy strips are fake..."
It was not easy for her to move forward while being affected by the illusionary hallway.
As they went deeper, a strange cold wind began to blow in the tunnel, as if there was an exit to the surface in this deep underground corridor. As Hao Ren walked, he felt something strange under his feet. He looked down and found that he had stepped on a thick layer of snow.
The sides of the corridor were getting wider and wider, and the walls were distorted and pulled away abnormally. The empty space left behind was full of stumps and broken columns. Everything was covered with a thick layer of snow, and snowflakes kept falling from the darkness. The strange wind was getting stronger and stronger, swirling towards them. Hao Ren looked up and found that he could no longer see the rock ceiling of the corridor: there was only endless darkness above, and the snow was falling from the darkness.
Becky pulled out a delicate one-handed sword from under her coat, and a layer of flame quickly ignited on the blade. She looked solemn. "Illusion?"
"No, it's real." Nangong Sanba held a crossbow in one hand, and took out a few small bottles from his pocket with the other. "We have crossed the border of reality. This is the territory of the vengeful spirit. Any abnormal scene is real. This is the result of the distortion of space and time."
"MDT, scan." Hao Ren simply ordered.
"Ahead left, there is a phenomenon of energy convergence."
Nangong Sanba immediately raised his crossbow and pointed in that direction. Almost at the same time, a blurry white light suddenly appeared in the dark space in front of them. The light let out a series of blood-curdling screeches, and the corridor walls on both sides, which had already been pulled away to an abnormal position, suddenly became even more distorted. In the blink of an eye, it disappeared from everyone's sight, and the place became unprecedentedly wide.
"Bang!" The bowstring made a soft sound, and Nangong Sanba fired a silver-white crossbow arrow. However, this arrow was not lethal. It suddenly exploded when it flew in front of the vengeful spirit, and a burst of golden light burst out. The vengeful spirit's figure seemed to materialize for a moment under the light. Nangong Sanba took the opportunity to throw the small bottle in his other hand.
The bottle exploded the moment it came into contact with the vengeful spirit, and the holy salt inside immediately burst into flames.
However, the vengeful spirit was not affected at all by such an attack. It just swayed aimlessly in the same place for a while, and then suddenly rushed towards Hao Ren!
Hao Ren had already taken out his gun (he was not sure if his gun could deal with this thing that did not even have a physical body). The moment the vengeful spirit rushed towards him, he raised his gun and opened fire.
"Bang!" The blue and white light exploded, and a large amount of fine sky-blue crystals floated down from the sky.
Hao Ren's gun did hit the vengeful spirit, but the latter's body had expanded into a large area of white mist at that moment, and the psionic gun could only dissipate a small part of the white mist!
The shadow condensed again, but when it was about to launch its second attack, a bright electric net suddenly flew from the side. The electric net was made up of countless small bats, and each bat was a node that emitted a large number of thin electric currents to connect with other bats. They interweaved into a large net that was even larger than the white mist of the vengeful spirit, and in the blink of an eye, the latter was shrouded in it.
The electric net and the vengeful spirit collided, and then the flash disappeared without a trace. Only a swarm of small bats fluttered back to Vivian's side.
Lily scratched her head. "That's it?"
"No, it was just a greeting," Vivian frowned. "That was just a 'phenomenon' caused by the vengeful spirit. We are far from seeing its actual body."
Hao Ren exhaled, looking at the dark snowfield that spread out in front of him. He kept reminding himself that he was in a corridor under Andrea Castle, but the scene in front of him really made him have no idea how to evaluate it.
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