Volume 2 The Return of the Stars Chapter 39 The Demon in the Shadow Pillar

There were no lights or flames in this dark space, but at this moment, Jiang Luo felt an eerie coldness, and the black flesh buds produced by his mutation were extremely sensitive to changes in the surrounding environment.

In the moment when he was thinking about countermeasures after being aimed at guns by more than a dozen people at the same time, the temperature around him dropped several degrees at once! The black granulations that originate from the flesh cone at the heart are more like some kind of independent parasite, but at the moment they are trembling, constantly releasing dangerous signals!

Muscle memory is a kind of conditioned reflex, Jiang Luo swept behind him without thinking, and he couldn't pass the guns aimed at him, in the reaction given by the black flesh buds, it was an existence that was even more terrifying than guns!

A dark black light poured out from the crack in the metal door, and the metal door, which could not leave a trace of bullets, disappeared directly after coming into contact with this black light! Under the black light, the dark and opaque mass was blinded by a strange dazzling feeling, from side to side, it filled the entire door, sucking the black light into the body, and then suddenly, it became more than just a shadow, it seemed to suck heat out of the air, filling the entire space with a bone-chilling cold that was completely like death and void.

Unlike any kind of monster Jiang Luo had ever seen, the sense of oppression it brought was not comparable to the corpse monsters transformed by human beings, the giant mutated animals, and the transparent vampire monsters in Lake City. When Jiang Luo observed it, he only felt dizzy, all kinds of bizarre and terrifying hallucinations were tumbling in his mind, if it weren't for the fact that he was a mutant himself, I am afraid that he would have lost his mind at this moment.

It's not to be looked at!

The shape of that thing was like a reptilian shadow pillar, as big as a giant dragon, and the curled torso behind it was crawling in from the darkness behind the metal door, and in Jiang Luo's eyes, it was changing rapidly, turning, swirling, as if it was filled with the vortex of dark primeval energy. In the moment of approaching the dozen or so gun-wielding ghost-faced men, the shadow pillar was like a dark tongue of fire emitting thick smoke, jumping and stretching to envelop more than a dozen people, and the dozen or so gun-wielding giants stood motionless as if they were frozen in ice.

Everywhere the shadow passed, all the living disappeared silently—except for the clown man, who was now lying on the ground and whispering something, and the pillar of shadow passed by him but did not consume him!

Jiang Luo suddenly remembered that the clown man had locked himself in a metal trough to take blood for sacrifice, and the other five people were brutally turned into meat scraps by him. Could it be that this thing was the object of his sacrifice? What is "sealed" under that six-pointed star pattern?

But the Shadow Pillar would definitely not let him go, and after devouring more than a dozen humans except for the Clown Man, it attacked Jiang Luo again.

The mutated Jiang Luo exploded quickly, but the persistence was not good, escaping in the dark space, Jiang Luo waved away the illusion in his mind, fixed himself and looked back, only to see that among the smoke-like black shadow pillars, there was a giant with no eyes and no limbs! It has no feet but can move quickly, he has no eyes, but at the moment of looking at it directly, Jiang Luo had a feeling that his prey was being targeted by a hunter, and the bone-chilling coldness was transmitted from his optic nerve to his brain, almost making him lose the courage to escape, and quietly waited in place to die.

The image of a giant with no eyes on his head and no limbs reminded Jiang Luo of the huge vertical coffin he had seen on the ninth floor, wasn't the pattern on it the giant in the shadow pillar?

Everyone was introduced to the ruins, and they opened the wall door by "chance", the miserable white monster on the fifth floor, the strange black coffin that can be seen everywhere, and the bloody sacrifice of the clown man...... A series of clues were sorted out in Jiang Luo's mind, and a vague inference gradually appeared. The clown man said that he was a descendant of the Kunyang people, so this giant is the Kunyang people?

Intuition told Jiang Luo that the clown man was either deceiving himself, or he didn't figure it out. Everything that a madman does is absurd and horrific, how credible can what he say? Although Harley Man has mutated through unknown means, the white monster he has turned into is very similar to the monsters of the fifth layer and the ninth layer that attacked Jiang Luo and them before, and it is possible that they are the same species, and Harley Man obtained their genes through research and modified himself...... The monsters on the fifth floor will not enter the sixth layer, and the entire tomb pit is full of giant totems, and the entire ruin may be a miniature microcosm of civilization: the ninth layer of the tomb represents nine different tribes, and they have a unified object of worship - giants, the giants are sealed at the other end of the tomb, that is, in the metal wall space where Jiang Luo is currently located, and the clown man liberates the giants through mysterious sacrificial rituals.

The shadow pillar behind him gradually approached Jiang Luo, and the dark space was empty and barren, without any objects, just a desperate emptiness. In such a space, you are chased by an incomprehensible existence all the time, and there is not even the slightest life, you will be swallowed by it when you are tired and stop, and you will run all the way without seeing the end. Shadowpillar followed him firmly but kept a familiar distance at all times, like a hunter teasing his prey.

After running forward for half an hour, Jiang Luo finally couldn't run anymore, he turned around to face the huge shadow pillar, and the black in his hand gathered again, condensing into a huge black crystal blade, and he wanted to fight to the death. However, the black blade slashed at the shadow pillar but could only cut through the smoke, it seemed to be unshaped, it was completely a mass of energy, and attacks suitable for solid-state did not work against it at all.

The black light emitted by the shadow pillar enveloped Jiang Luo, and it was possible to imagine what would happen to the human body under the black light! The more than a dozen gun-wielding ghost-faced people from before disappeared directly from the spot and annihilated!

In desperation, Jiang Luo was pulled violently. He woke up from the hysteria and realized that he had never left the place at all, that the series of escapes he had just made were hallucinations, and that the pillar of shadows had never left the platform. Driven by the illusion, he was actually walking towards the Shadow Pillar, and if he hadn't been pulled by someone, he would have been completely swallowed by the black light of the Shadow Pillar!

But the black flesh buds that came into contact with the black light had completely disappeared, as if they had never grown, and at this moment, Jiang Luo had returned to his previous appearance, dressed in tattered black robes, skinny and withered, but there was no trace of black flesh buds on his body.

Jiang Luo looked back, it was a middle-aged man with squinting eyes, he was soaked in a viscous juice all over his body, and it smelled extremely fishy.

Seeing Jiang Luo's doubts, he raised the grimace mask in his hand.

"It's me!"

It was the grimace man who first led Jiang Luo to visit the laboratory, and later disappeared in the panic on the fifth floor, Jiang Luo thought that he had already died, but he didn't expect to appear here and save his life!

"You ......"

"I know you have a lot of questions, but now is not the time, come with me first!"

The Grimace gestured behind him, and the pillar of shadows on the platform seemed to be restrained, surging around the edge of the platform, but never able to get out of it. The clown man who was on the platform before is also gone, but he is seriously injured and is no longer a threat.

The Grimace led Jiang Luo through a narrow passage to a stairwell, and climbed up the metal staircase to a metal platform. The metal platform was the same as before, the ground was a block of metal protrusions, and on the other side of the metal platform was a narrow passage, but at the end of the passage there was a small point of light.

I suddenly saw a little light in the deep and dark space, and its meaning was self-evident, and the outside of this passage was the exit of this ruin, the tomb!

The slime-covered man leaned against the metal wall of the exit passage and let out a long breath.

"Whew! It was so dangerous just now! If it weren't for these liquids, it would be really hard to fool those monsters! ”

He was besieged by monsters on the fifth layer before, and when he was dying, he thought of this method, so he smeared the body fluids of those miserable white monsters all over his body, but he didn't expect to really deceive them, and successfully escaped from the fifth layer, and then accidentally came all the way to the hanging island where Jiang Luo was.

"Yan Shisan, that madman, really let it out, it can't be controlled at all!"

"Why did you save me when you were with him?" Jiang Luo always felt that this person was very problematic.

"As you can see, everyone else who followed him was eaten by that thing! It's not something you can control at all...... At first, Yan 13 told us that as long as we obtained its power, we could do many incredible things, and in his eyes, it was like a god...... A few months ago, we entered this ruin, and his followers, either attracted by the techniques he demonstrated, tried to gain the strength to protect themselves in the last days, but then they were not satisfied with more than the ability to protect themselves...... According to what it says in that book, that thing is incredible, capable of performing miracles! But who knew it wasn't a god, it was a demon! He carefully told Jiang Luo the ins and outs of the matter.

In the three days that Jiang Luo was tortured by the clown man Yan Thirteen, the monster that was "sealed" was gradually unsealed, at first it was just a wisp of black smoke, but after devouring the human race, it began to grow larger, and he saw with his own eyes that under the feeding of Yan Thirteen with more than a hundred people, the wisp of black smoke grew to a height of four or five meters now. One can imagine what will happen once it devours more people.

"We've got to get out of here, and then lock this place off completely, hell knows what he's going to unleash!"

"How can I trust you, knowing that I was almost killed by you. Moreover, this thing was also released by you. ”

The middle-aged man smiled wryly, "It's not an incomprehensible existence for humans at all, and it's not a relic of the Kunyang people here, it was wrong from the beginning, if he is really a madman, we shouldn't believe him...... That book, in fact, was handed down by my family's ancestors, and the official of the Yuan Dynasty was my ancestor......"

"At first, we thought that this was the relic of the Kunyang people, and the Kunyang civilization was a very high-ranking project of the organization, and if it could be excavated, it would be a great help...... But we are all wrong, my ancestors were not ignorant, superstitious, cowardly, and sealed here not treasures but devils! ”

The middle-aged man looked frustrated, completely ignoring whether Jiang Luo could understand what he was saying, more like he was talking to himself.

"You have to trust me! If I tried to hurt you, I wouldn't have saved you! This one is for you, you take it out, if you can leave Lake City, you will ......" The middle-aged man instructed, and handed a badge pendant to Jiang Luo, and there was a pattern of a passage on the badge, and there were three opposite arrow signs on the passage.

"This is the organization's passport, and I have all the information about this incident on my records...... The case has gotten out of control, and the researchers have changed...... I know you're worried about your body's mutations, but it's the end times! All abnormalities will become normal, you just have to go to that place, and all your doubts will be answered. For anomalies like yours, the organization will provide containment and protection, so you don't have to fear! There are many people out there just like you...... Alright, you get out of this passage! Yan 13 was seriously injured by you, and that thing couldn't leave the ruins for the time being because it hadn't been completely lifted, but soon it would break through the ground! When the time comes, the whole Lake City will be eaten by it! ”

After the middle-aged man explained the general situation, he planned to go back and destroy the metal totem wall that was drawing blood.

"If I'm not mistaken, if that thing is destroyed, it won't be able to make it all here....... That's not a seal, it's a summoning! Creatures from another world! ”

Regarding that organization, Jiang Luo had also heard a few words on the dark web, thinking that it was just a novelist's fabrication, but he never thought that there really was one in reality!

Members of the organization that study anomalies, anomalous relics that have been misjudged, and catastrophic horrors that are about to be unearthed...... Whether it's true or not, Jiang Luo just wants to escape from this place first. He was initially included in the Mask Organization with his encounter, but he didn't expect to die for the rest of his life.

Jiang Luo crawled along the passage for dozens of minutes with a complicated mood, and finally climbed out of the metal passage. Outside the passage turned out to be a mountain top, and some grass covered the exit of the metal passage, and the surrounding area was lush and full of trees.

Jiang Luo, who saw the light of day again, had a feeling as if he was in a different world, he processed the entrance of the passage, and hurried down the mountain, his intuition told him that the thing would be truly "born" soon.