Volume 1 The Northern Immortal House Chapter 2 Darkness

"Ah....ha, dead people, you, you can't scare me...... Think it's Resident Evil? No, no, it's all an illusion, you're just an illusion, you can't fool me......"

Zhou Qi's fingers shook more often than his teeth. The moment the key was in his hands, he rushed to the cell door in a frenzy, mouthing slurred gibberish, as if this was the only way to move his almost stiff tongue.

It's a key in typical medieval style, cold and heavy. The hand holding the key came into contact with the darkness and gloom of the door for the first time through the gap between the bars of the cell door. His hands fumbled in a panic. The keys kept bumping and clanging on the bar. Through the cell door, he could only judge the location of the keyhole with his previous experience. Of course, it's actually quite simple, if the keyhole is not on the left, then it must be on the right.

"Found it! Got it! After a little nervous grunt, he shuddered and inserted the key into the lock, his fingers gripping the handle firmly, his eyes full of anticipatory nervousness, and twisting it in one direction.

"Kata ......." is like a heavenly sound, and in the hoarse stubborn sound, there is the sound of the lock cylinder opening and closing.

With a "squeak", Zhou Qi struggled to open the heavy prison door, and the moment he stepped out, he turned his head to look at the corner behind him!

There, except for a puddle of foul-smelling liquid on the ground, it was empty!

Zhou Qi instinctively let out a howl like a beast before he died, turned his head and ran, and the result of the instant activation was that his right foot stumbled on the half-foot-high threshold. He stumbled and fell headlong into the darkness outside the door.

At this moment, he vaguely remembered that the moment he turned his head, his nose seemed to convey a message to him, and a strong stench quickly passed by his side.

The ground seems to be paved with irregular granite, rough, damp, and cold.

Zhou Qi used his hands and feet at the same time, ignoring the stinging pain in his palms and knees, and fled. He vaguely heard the sound of dripping water in the corner of the wall, and the sound of old tires dragging in the passage behind him.

It's it! It's alive! It's catching up!

It seems like an endless passage, surrounded by never-ending darkness. Zhou Qi didn't know how far he had run, if it was before that damn digitization, it was estimated that he would have been paralyzed on the ground at this moment. He could only run, because the sound of footsteps that seemed to be dragged by old tires lingered in his ears. It's not far behind.

Zhou Qi struggled to tear open his neckline, gasping greedily, although he felt that his breathing was not so bad, but he just needed this kind of breathing. It seems that only the sound of his own breathing can prove that he is still alive at the moment. Although this invisibly magnified his fear.

Suddenly, there was a light step under his feet, and then there was a "plop", and he fell into the water. Zhou Qi's limbs struggled desperately, full of salty, rotten earthy water, and poured into his mouth.

Thinking he was about to drown, he desperately stood up.

Yes, standing up, I couldn't tell whether it was fear or tears of self-deprecation, and burst out of my eyes. The water seemed to be just over his knees.

Zhou Qi kicked twice in annoyance, making the water surface rattle. Reached out and wiped a handful of water stains on his face. The next moment, he froze.

A faint light of heaven was in the tunnel not far in front of him.

He ran through the water as hard as he could, and when his knees touched the cold wall, he estimated that the pool behind him was about ten meters square.

Zhou Qi was weak and climbed up to the edge of the pool wet. It feels so good to be down to earth again. He struggled to run to the place where the light was. Judging from the tasks he received, he instinctively realized that that light represented hope and life.

The light penetrated through a gap that resembled a sewer well, about 20 meters from the ground where he was to the entrance. Thankfully, on the wall leading to the entrance, he saw an iron ladder clinging to the wall.

At this moment, Zhou Qi is undoubtedly in pain and happy. For the first time, his joy in hope outweighed the fear of darkness.

The rumbling of the pool behind him suddenly stopped.

No! The roar of the pool behind you! Damn it!

Even if you go out, it will be a mountain of swords and a sea of fire. Zhou Qi climbed the iron ladder without hesitation and climbed up hard.

It's close! It's finally closer, and the light is blinding! It was as if he had touched the lead-gray sky at the end of the ladder.

At that moment, a hand grabbed his ankle! It's like an iron hoop, firmly embedded in his flesh and skin!

"Nope! You damn it, let go! Zhou Qi climbed up desperately, his hand was already on the edge of the well, he felt the cold wind, and the moment he looked up, he could breathe the clammy and cold air.

In the passage below "Bang, Bang", the echo of bones rubbing against the iron ladder was so close to him.

"Nope! Die! He Zhou Qi roared loudly in his mouth, and the grabbed left leg struggled to step on a staircase, and his right foot used all his strength to kick down desperately! The sound of bone cracking sounded one after another, along with a hoarse and muffled roar.

Finally, with a light body and a strong arm, he got out of the narrow passage and got out of the ground! In the sewer below, there was a thud, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

"Number 5106 Kill the Geist and get Blood Point 20."

Zhou Qi gasped heavily, and a mechanical female voice sounded in his ears.

"So this guy is called a geist." However, in the thought of the quest to get a hint of 2000 blood points. The joy of escaping death was far away from him in an instant.

Only then did he straighten up suddenly, nervously looking at his surroundings in the dazzling skylight.

Under a bleak sky, he was in a medieval castle-style courtyard. In front of you are two huge doors about 10 meters high. The gate was ajar, just enough for a person to pass through, and on the black ice surrounded by muddy silt, the remains of buildings were scattered and littered with pools of dry brown marks, which Zhou Qi was almost certain was the color of the dried bloodstains.

Despite the weakening of the pain, the biting cold wind still swept mercilessly through his damp clothes and pants, bringing him a deep cold.

This is the sky before the snow. Let the whole space be full of oppression.

Zhou Qi kicked away in disgust, and still firmly grasped his half of his arm on his ankle. A slight elegant spit out a national curse in his mouth.

In the cold wind, he shivered, feeling that he seemed to be a lot more energetic, and gradually calming down his emotions also made him more careful about his surroundings.

The gate was the only exit, and after circling the courtyard twice, Zhou Qi cautiously felt towards the gap between the doors that opened and closed.

On the other side of the gate, there is a larger courtyard, about half the size of a football field. The castle-like building connects the corridors and the houses, connecting countless secret passages and basements. A large open space is naturally formed between the corridors.

Obviously, the place in front of you is naturally not the garden of the ancient court and the martial arts arena. Judging from the skylights with iron grilles at intervals on the ground, and the tall and sharp walls around the roofs, this is more like a prison for prisoners! God knows, I'm locked up in what floors.

Zhou Qi walked forward cautiously, the black ice under his feet did not completely cover the ground, and he could clearly see the ground paved with rough granite on one side. He looked around, and in front of him, as in his back, were two huge iron gates, locked. In the corridor around it, there are two rusty gates more than 3 meters high on the left and on the right. A floodgate was half-closed, and the lower mouth was full of sharp spikes like spearheads. There was a gap under the gate that just happened to be passed by one person. This again seems to be another only exit.

Zhou Qi slowly approached the gate, and when he saw the darkness inside the gate, he shuddered, and the memory of the scene half an hour ago that impressed him once again surged a chill in his body.

Fierce! With a loud "boom"! It was as if a tank had fallen to the ground from a height of 500 meters. The entire ground seemed to let out an unbearable moan.

The strong tremor bounced Zhou Qi's whole person off the ground. Then his jaw slammed into the cold ground. The violent impact made him dizzy for a moment.

Zhou Qi, who seems to have the potential of a frightened bird, instinctively used the classic dodge skill after a short period of dizziness, and rolled on the spot, maybe a few years later, he will sigh at the roll at that time.

Then there was another "bang", and the sound of the heavy metal and the ground crashing was deafening. It was only then that he regained some of his hearing, and was ravaged again. A few splinters of splintered rubble, blades flying by, slicing a few bloody cuts in his face.

In the dust and smoke all over the ground, a giant axe, with a chaotic spark, slashed at the place where he was standing just now! At the end of the axe's handle, a mountain-like figure stood.

"Oh! No, what the hell is this! Zhou Qi roared almost groaning.

"Roar!" With a thunderous roar, heavy and slow footsteps rang out. Get out of the fog! He finally saw what the mountain in front of him was!

Beneath the sharp horns of his forehead, his blood-red eyes reflected the huge mouth covered with canine teeth. The body was 10 meters tall, and it was deformed and bloated, and its dead gray skin was covered in sores and spikes. Its thick limbs barely supported its fleshy body, and at the tail, the dragon-like snake tail and whip were constantly whipping the ground. And in his hand, he was holding a strange-shaped battle axe the size of a door. Although far away, Zhou Qi could already smell his body and the musty smell of sulfur emanating from the giant mouth.

"Hell! It's a demon, a demon! Zhou Qi screamed in shock! Despite the hint of the mission, he recognized at a glance that the huge creature in front of him was a living demon!

The demon's blood-red eyes teasingly looked at the prey in front of him, revealing the innate chaos and ferocity, and his huge tail flicked behind him, already closing the door when Zhou Qi came. At the same time, accompanied by a harsh grinding sound. Zhou Qi saw that the half-closed gate was closing!

If he hadn't fled before the gate fell. The devil's rocky canine teeth were slit, and the saliva left behind had already revealed his fate in the near future.

"I'm in the devil's kitchen!"

Almost without any thought, Zhou Qi turned around and rushed towards the closing floodgate. Maybe it was too much fright, but at the moment he was unusually calm and focused. All his strength seemed to be poured into his feet, and the distance of 20 meters seemed to fly by the soles of his feet in an instant. He had never felt that death was so close to him.

Sprint, leap out.

The floodgates fell, stirring up a cloud of smoke. Beyond the floodgates, the demon's roar came from far to near. The demon's giant axe slammed into the gate, and the loud sound of the steel colliding made the one-foot-thick iron gate let out an unbearable moan.

"Warning, Contractor No. 5106 is below 50% health and enters moderate damage"

In the dark, Zhou Qi lay weakly on the ground, his eyes lost and stared at the endless darkness in front of him. The roars of demons behind him from time to time told him that he was still alive, but what was waiting for him ahead?