Looking at the group of people inside the elevator, Bai Shinian was struck by a strange feeling. Even though they were also bound by despair and their eyes were filled with pain and sadness, they were different from the other residents of the cryptic world.
Bai Shinian did not know how to describe it but he wanted to become that kind of person from the bottom of his heart as well.
Hearing Han Fei's invitation, Bai Shinian moved forward involuntarily. When he reacted, he was already standing beside Han Fei.
He had become one of the group of people, he was standing together with them.
Pressing the button, the silver doors slowly closed and the elevator started to move down.
"Erm … I still don't know how to address you." Bai Shinian stood among the ghosts and spirits, he did not dare speak too loudly.
"My name is Han Fei, I'm the manager of Happiness Neighbourhood Block 1. I'm also a part-time patrolling teacher at Yi Ming Private Academy. I also own a small shop." Han Fei signaled for Bai Shinian to calm down. "They're my neighbours and colleagues, they won't hurt you for no reason."
The blood red numbers on the elevator screen kept changing. The deeper they went, the thicker the stench in the air. However, the ghosts inside the elevator did not seem to mind that. They just followed behind Han Fei and they headed down a certain direction.
The mottled walls of the elevator started to bleed. The dark red blood vessels crawled around like they were alive. Soon, the elevator was dyed red.
Drip, drip …
The blood dripped to the ground. Xu Qin reached out a pale hand to cover Han Fei's forehead as if she did not want the blood to fall on Han Fei's face.
The ghosts appeared to be standing casually but upon closer inspection, one would notice they were clustered around Han Fei. Should anything happen, the ghosts would be the first to protect Han Fei.
Seeing this, Bai Shinian could not imagine what kind of charisma the man before him was hiding to be able to convince so many ghosts and monsters.
He lowered his head silently as he was reminded of the way Han Fei waved at him earlier.
He had not seen the expression on Han Fei's face before. His teacher had not told him that in a world like this, there could be people with light and hope in their eyes.
The temperature inside the elevator continued to drop. The air was enveloped in the stench of blood and stench.
Soon the numbers on the screen turned to minus 4. After a dull thud, the elevator finally stopped.
The elevator doors opened to both sides, and a restricted area appeared in front of everyone.
The walls were covered with plants that looked like blood vessels. Occasionally, unknown insects would pop out from the cracks. The ground was piled with a large amount of flesh and blood. Every few steps, one could see bloodstained uniforms.
"This is the real face of Yi Ming Security Company, everything outside is just a facade."
The landlord's ring kept emitting a chilling aura. It felt like there were many things hidden in the ring.
"Everyone, don't stray too far away."
Walking out of the freight elevator, everyone looked at the passage in front of them.
B4 was just a general name. This place had been dug out, and the cement walls were full of holes.
Some of the caves had carts, while others had cutting tools.
"Many security guards will enter basement four to complete the final 'process' here before they start their job." Bai Shinian had already remembered a lot of things, and her heart was full of regret. "My master is responsible for guiding new people, he doesn't need to go to the Ziggurat, he's just replacing me."
B4 looked like a large waste disposal plant, Han Fei could not imagine what kind of 'process' the security guards would need to complete here.
The faint red lights on the walls dimmed. Neither Han Fei nor Bai Shinian knew which corridor was the exit. They could only follow their experience and head towards the place with the heaviest stench.
After walking for several minutes, the thin Weep stopped. He tilted his head to look at a spot on the wall and slowly reached out his finger.
The walls of basement 4 were crawling with blood vessels. The tiny blood vessels looked like the roots of some kind of plant. They intersected and grew layer after layer on the wall.
Weep used his finger to pry away the blood vessels on the wall. He saw a bright flower among the blood threads.
The flower was small, about the size of a fingernail but it was very delicate. Every petal was stretching.
His fingertip touched the flower. The tiny red flower appeared to be alive, it appeared to be able to communicate.
Weep's fingers tightened. Just as he was about to pluck the flower, Drake suddenly stopped him.
Gently lifting it up, the slender stem of the flower was connected to a rotten eyeball.
Looking down, there was a dead body in a security guard uniform embedded in the wall. The red flower grew out from the dead body's eye socket.
"This place is man-made, that flower is not a good thing." Drake exerted strength in his fingers and snapped off the stem of the flower. The bright red flower instantly withered, and black, stinking blood flowed out from the broken stem.
The flower was beautiful but the juice inside its stem was nauseating.
"I've seen this kind of flower at Cattle Alley before. They grow on flesh and absorb the nutrients from the dead. They keep wilting and blooming, they are the favorite food of certain curses and bugs." Xu Qin stared at the fallen flower and stepped on it. After living in the cryptic world for so long, she did not like the romance of flowers, she preferred the fragrance of flesh.
The stench in the air thickened and the number of flowers on the wall increased. When they reached the end of the corridor, everyone was shocked by what they saw.
At the end of the fourth underground floor was a huge pit. In the pit, there was a small hill full of red flowers. In the middle of the hill, where the flowers were the densest, there was a blood puddle the size of a washbasin.
"Red flowers need flesh and blood to grow. This hill of red flowers should be filled with lingering souls and rotting bodies."
Ever since he entered the cryptic world, Han Fei had not seen such a beautiful scene. It was breathtaking, breathtaking and chilling.
"I'm reminded of something. Master mentioned before that some security guards will drink red blood, he should be referring to the blood puddle at the center of the sea of flowers."
Before Bai Shinian had finished speaking, the spiky Great Evil tumbled into the deep pit, its body instantly submerged in the sea of flowers.
It happened so suddenly that no one could react.
The neighbours turned to look at Han Fei. Han Fei wondered what kind of reaction Great Sin had received.
But he was not too worried about Great Sin. Studying the sea of flowers and the mountain of bodies, he realized this place was very similar to the environment Great Sin was born in.
Great Sin was born in the pit under the pet shop. The pit was filled with the lingering souls of countless animals and wild beasts.
Although there were no animal corpses filled with resentment in the pit, there were countless vengeful spirits and the remains of monsters.
'Great Sin is an anomaly bred from animal nature. Normally speaking, to turn an egg into a butterfly, it needs a large amount of human nature.'
While Han Fei was thinking, the sea of red flowers was overwhelmed. Great Sin crawled on the mountain of bodies and then came to the blood puddle.
It was about to reach its spiky body into the blood puddle when the sea of flowers suddenly rippled like waves. The mountain of bodies shook and a black snake tail whipped Great Sin to the foot of the mountain.
The petals fell and wilted in the air. The slanted ground rose up and children's heads poked out from the sea of flowers.
Shrill laughter echoed in the pit. Han Fei finally saw the monster in its full form.
It had the heads of 8 children and its lower body was like a black snake. However, instead of scales, its body was covered in strange patterns that looked like butterfly wings.
'What is this? It looks so scary. Can it be a pet? '
The system would only give Han Fei the result after he touched it.
"8 heads? Isn't this thing inside the Ziggurat? " Drake recognized the monster inside the pit. He was shocked. "When I followed the paper doll to deliver the goods, I saw it inside the Ziggurat. At the time, it wasn't this big."
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