Chapter 53: The Underground Corridor

It was more like a claustrophobic basement, with spider silk on the walls, and it was clear that this was once a place where alchemists worked.

The whole room is connected by countless corridors, and some of the handles of the secret doors are hanging, and the silent gargoyles still maintain the form of petrification, but according to the personality of Serana's mother Valerica, it is estimated that these mechanisms will instantly wake up from the petrification and attack the intruder as soon as someone enters.

European-style claw lamps hang from the roof of the shed, which should be rarely explored, but they are clearly blessed with some kind of magic that makes it never go out despite its swaying in the wind.

The stone slabs on the ground were paved with connecting passages in all directions, and on both sides of these passages were stained black water, and in some places there were even blisters, Lin Xiu picked up a stone and threw it into it, and with the sound of sizzling, the stone had been corroded.

None of this water was harmless, and some special ingredients had been added to it, perhaps Valerica was trying to stop Hakong from entering.

Lin Xiu, who has already learned about the original plot from Xiao Ai, knows a little about it, Serana and Valerika are known as cold harbor girls, and they are said to be the descendants of the original vampires, as for the process of this sacrifice, even in the original plot, Serana never mentioned it, and it shouldn't be a good thing to think about it.

Now is not the time to care about these things, as Lin Xiu enters, the sound of the stone slab turning from above can be clearly heard, and it is obvious that Serana has completely blocked the entrance to this soul stone mound as she said, just in case.

Of course, there was no mention in the original plot that there were other exits here, and now there is no entry into the Soul Stone Tomb at all. According to the original plot, either she was turned into a vampire by Serana, or she sold half of her soul, otherwise you can't enter.

At present, the original plot has been somewhat unrecognizable by this point. Ryan's borrowing has caused Miss Serana to abandon her original plan and start another way to work together.

Once Lin Xiu fails, it also means that he will be left in the soul stone mound forever.

Taking out a copy of the map drawn by Xiao Ai himself, Lin Xiu quickly memorized the route in this passage in his mind, if there was a battle for a while, it would obviously not give him time to observe the map again.

After scanning all the maps, Lin Xiu stood in place, closed his eyes, and his brain tried to recall the only path of the map. For now, this is the fastest way to reach the Soul Stone Shrine without changing the map, but if it does, then I can only think of other countermeasures temporarily.

After repeated verification three times, Lin Xiucai put the map into his package, and had already pulled out the Fallen Dawnbreaker in his hand, and as the stones dispersed, the golden blade emitted a golden light with a buzzing sound.

Silently reciting the countdown numbers in my mind. The next moment, Lin Xiu's eyes were shining, in his mind. At this moment, there is only one way left to break through quickly.

With a sudden force under his feet, he lifted up a few broken stones, and his body had suddenly come out, and he walked forward, and at the same time, the fast figure swept past the gargoyle's side, and there was a bang. The gargoyle has come back to life from its still state of petrification.

"Roarโ€”"

With the roar of the gargoyle, a boulder beside him was dragged in his hand, and smashed into Lin Xiu's back with the whistling wind.

The moment the stone was about to hit Lin Xiu's back, it was like having eyes behind him, and it rolled forward on the spot. While standing up again, one foot spins on the ground, thus pulling the body, and the other foot straddles in the other direction.

The huge stone spun in front of him, slamming into the wall with a loud bang, Lin Xiu's body made a one-eighty-degree turn on the ground horizontally, just like Ling Bo's microstep, without losing his body balance, he did not reduce his speed at all and rushed out quickly in the direction of the left.

"Wang, Wang, Wang"

The awakening of the gargoyle also led to an ambush set up by Valerika hidden in the shadows, several ghost dogs rushed up from the bottom of the stairs, and a hound went straight to Lin Xiu's neck with saliva splashing in his mouth, one hand upward, and the golden cold light flashed in the gloomy basement.

"Whew-"

In the desolate scream, the ghost dog's body had been split in two, and they fell into the pool on both sides.

But the other two ghost dogs were still entangled, especially the gargoyle behind him, although his body was huge, but because of the strange demon wings, his speed was not affected at all, fortunately, he couldn't take off with the flickering of his wings, otherwise he would have already leaped across the pool to Lin Xiu's body to block his progress.

Running quickly through a long corridor, there was already a closed stone gate in front of him, and behind him was not only the ghost dog that could pounce at any time, but also the boulder that the gargoyle kept throwing constantly blocking Lin Xiu's steps.

"Smack"

Lin Xiu's speed did not dare to drop in the slightest, once he was besieged here, it would probably be even more difficult to continue to get out, almost relying on his super memory ability, he didn't have time to think at all, and at the moment he passed through the corridor, he instinctively patted and dragged on the side of the wall.

The iron handle of the ring made a sound like a rusty gear grinding sound as he pulled it vigorously, and the stone door in front of him slowly opened.

Lin Xiu rolled over and retreated, rubbed his feet the ground, and shot backwards backwards, the sword in his hand passed through the air, and the two ghost dogs had already leaped up like crazy.

The momentary stagnation, like a tremor in the air, slowed down all the vision strangely, and the next moment the sword light swept precisely over the bodies of the two ghost dogs.

With the fall of the blood, only the gargoyle that had arrived from the survey was still chasing after him, Lin Xiu's backward steps brought his body into the next secret room, and at the same time, his hand grabbed the door again, according to Xiao Ai's map, there was also a handle to close the exit just now.

As soon as he probed, he touched the cold steel, which made Lin Xiu's psychology somewhat relieved, and it seemed that the apostle had not made any adjustments in the first secret room, and with the sound of rusty iron chains rubbing, the two iron doors slowly closed.

"Bang"

It was like an eighty-mile car crashing into the wall, and even the secret room above Lin Xiu's head was sprinkled with a lot of dust. The gargoyle's body apparently slammed into the iron door because it couldn't stop.

The loud reverberation in such a claustrophobic space made people's eardrums tingle, but thankfully, the iron doors were strong enough to stop the gargoyles from pursuing.

"All to all"

Behind him, like a general's order beating a drum, the violent sound shook the heart, and it was the stone goyle that was locked outside the second secret room and still unwilling to bang frantically against the iron door.

As soon as I entered the second secret room. In front of me is a suspended bridge that has been lifted, a distance of more than ten meters, and it is conceivable what will happen to those seemingly gentle pools once they are touched.

In such a dimly lit basement, if you hadn't memorized the map by heart, I am afraid that if one of your feet is unstable, it will rush straight into the pool, and what will happen is self-evident.

Fortunately, although Lin Xiu's speed is very fast, his ability to control his body has reached an unbelievable level.

The basement guards who had already been awakened by the gargoyle had already surged towards Lin Xiu, or holding long swords. Or holding a battle axe, although they are all old weapons, and they are all rusty on them, but everyone knows the truth that ants bite and kill elephants, once they are blocked here, then what awaits is a steady stream of all kinds of monsters.

These armed guards have apparently been turned into vampire servants by Valerica, who have been imprisoned here for many years. It seems that it can only rely on the blood of snow rats to satisfy its hunger, and at the moment it smells fresh human. One by one, the excited ones had begun to scream.

"Pow, puff, puff"

It was the sound of fingers hooking arrows, which were originally unique to the Dawn Guard, but for some unknown reason, they appeared here.

Compared to a bow and arrow. There was no need for strong arm strength and time to accumulate, accompanied by the sound of breaking the air, and the distance of only a few dozen meters across the pool began to greet Lin Xiu in an instant.

"Jingle Bell"

A series of crisp sounds of metal clashes, either splitting or blocking, and more than a dozen arrows staggered in front of Lin Xiu's body or fell into the pool. Lin Xiu's judgment was completely based on the faint light exerted by the dawnbreaker's sword, and the distance between the arrows and the arrows was often only about five meters away before swinging.

Being able to judge the direction of the arrow in such a short distance, and quickly slashing it with the weapon in his hand, I have to say that running back and forth twice in the history of thousands of years ago has provided a great improvement for his sword skills.

The arrows were shot down one after another, but Lin Xiu's figure did not dare to stay in the slightest, there was only one chance, once those vampire servants filled the bows and crossbows again, then it would be another round of shooting, and with the arrows they shot attacked, those servants with weapons also rushed quickly in the direction of Lin Xiu.

Lin Xiu stepped on the table of the stone steps with one foot, and the next moment he had already risen into the air, without the suppression of the crossbow arrows, so that he could sit back and relax in mid-air, and he didn't have to worry about the sneak attack of the cold arrows.

"Qiang"

With a crash of steel, the dawnbreaker in Lin Xiu's hand froze in mid-air with his body, and the dawnbreaker inserted into the chandelier hanging above, the copper chandelier shook twice, and dust began to fall on the roof of the shed, obviously this fixed position was not very secure.

But it only took a moment, it was enough for Lin Xiu, with the back and forth swaying of the chandelier, his abdomen bowed hard, like swinging, and his body reached ninety degrees parallel to the ground.

"Whoosh"

Like a bullet out of the muzzle, Lin Xiu's body shot straight at the opposite bank of the suspension bridge, and a vampire servant in mid-air was obviously enraged by Lin Xiu's actions, holding a giant axe in both hands, and jumped into the air, with a strange cry, like a half-moon spreading his belly in the air.

At the moment when he was about to hit Lin Xiu's body, Lin Xiu reached out with one hand, his body staggered the angle of impact with the other party, and he turned over with a rotation in mid-air, and his arm grabbed the opponent's body and threw it towards the pool.

"Squeak"

At such a sound, the vampire's servant had turned into a pile of bones after a probe on the water, and even the weapon in his hand had been corroded.

But these vampire servants have long lost their souls and the ability to control their bodies, and they only know how to resist the invaders, without the slightest fear and retreat, and they are still surging towards Lin Xiu's landing point.

"Click"

Lin Xiu's landing spot had already been filled with those monsters, and he could only step on one foot above the head of a vampire's minions.

"Bang"

The vampire servant beside him reacted extremely quickly, picking up the giant sword in his hand and slashing sideways. Obviously, he wanted to cut off Lin Xiu's legs with such a blow.

But Lin Xiu's figure had already quickly soared into the air again and leaped forward after a moment, and this sword directly exploded the head of another companion beside him, like a sword shattering a watermelon.

With his hands and legs in his hands, and in the posture of rolling forward in front of the two regiments, Lin Xiu fell behind these vampire minions, just such a staggered time. Lin Xiu had already quickly rushed to the entrance of the next secret room.

Those crossbowmen were ready for another round of attacks, and a wall had already appeared in front of Lin Xiu, obviously this was a dead end, but Lin Xiu resolutely chose this route.

"Woo Woo Woo"

Like a live target playing with mobile shooting, Lin Xiu shuttled through such a dense sound and arrows, stepped on the top of the corridor again, and shot his body directly to the balcony on the second floor with his strength.

With one hand reflexively grabbing on the balcony verandah, a dexterous reflexive body was sent in, followed by a rain of arrows that fell one after another.

Another round of shooting. But as the bows and crossbows fell, Lin Xiu's figure leaned out of the balcony again, and ran on the wall with lightning speed.

The advantage of speed allows him to not slip even if he does such a difficult action, all because the speed and friction have reached a certain balance point, so that his body moves strangely parallel to the ground.

That balcony was not the next exit at all, but a hidden mechanism to open the stone door, and Lin Xiu had already understood this design. But now there is no time to complain about the thoughtfulness of this Valerika.

"Boom"

For Lin Xiu, this kind of sound is now as pleasant to the ear as beautiful music. This sound means the melody of the door of the next chamber being opened.

The moment they landed, those vampire servants had learned a lot more wisely this time, and they surrounded Lin Xiu's body between them before and after dividing their troops into two ways.

There was a moment of silence, Lin Xiu held the sword in one hand and the Dawnbreaker was swarming back and forth, and there were more than a dozen vampire servants swarming in front and back, panting for white air in their mouths.

This intermittent pause is precisely for the purpose of launching an all-out blow. There was no whistle for the game, and there was no time to prepare, and when the breath of both sides reached a plateau, the screams and the blades rose into the air.

- Sweep through thousands of armies.

The moment you make a move is nirvana, and any reservations in this case may leave you with lifelong regrets. Therefore, Lin Xiu's shot has no reservations.

"Buzz"

The swiftly swept golden sword qi shook the air, and strange ripples vibrated out, forming a wave of qi that spread out, pushing the vampire servants behind them backwards.

At this moment, the Dawnbreaker in Lin Xiu's hand was like a poisonous dragon that suddenly burst out of the cave, a splash of blood rose into the air, and the head of a vampire servant also broke away from the body.

"Bang"

The Dawnbreaker's light attribute skill triggered, and the blue light of the soul shock exploded violently in the air, making the entire basement buzz and tremble in the loud noise.

The vampire minions who had approached the Daybreaker had apparently fallen victim, and their bodies were knocked out into the pool of water under such tremendous thrust and explosion.

The roar of the sword like a dragon's roar keeps harvesting the blood of vampire minions, because vampires are judged to be undead creatures, so they can also use the special attributes of the Dawnbreaker.

But despite such a strong blow, those outlaw vampire minions still did not retreat in the slightest, and Lin Xiucai rushed out of a distance of two steps and swarmed up again.

"Qiang"

The Dawnbreaker struck the weapon of a vampire minion, paused for a moment, and then cut off half of his body neatly.

- Backhand sword.

The gap in front of Lin Xiu's body was only a sword away, and with the flying sword qi, the figures of vampire servants around his body were constantly knocked away, or cut off, or split by the middle where he stood directly.

Blood stained the walls and ceiling red, but it didn't stop him in the slightest, and the entire corridor had become a red rendering, and everywhere he passed was a mess.

"Ahh

Lin Xiu grabbed the last vampire servant with one hand, and with a backhand twist, his body reflexively hugged his body, and the Dawnbreaker plunged through the back of his heart.

With a flick of his hand, he threw his body into the cistern, which seemed to have risen a little, perhaps because of the accumulation of corpses.

Lin Xiu stood in place, adjusted his breathing, and the distance of nearly 100 meters behind him was a long corridor paved with corpses formed by the left and right branches, and if you looked closely, there was not even a single foot in the open space.

Continuing to walk forward, Lin Xiu pulled the mechanism of the stone gate with his hand, completely isolating the Shura field-like scene behind him.

The next room, which should be the last secret room, is filled with all kinds of utensils and props that alchemists need.

And in this room, I can't feel any breath of life, but this is what makes Lin Xiu really feel troublesome.

Four gargoyles stood on the platform, their eyes and hideous faces, as if ready to attack at any moment. (To be continued......)

PS: The first shift on the 11th will be sent, and I'll get up late tomorrow morning without me, and the second shift will be at noon, more or less, depending on everyone's, I said it.

Thank you Qinghe Kaimu for the reward of 10,000 yuan, the reward of the third senior sister, the monthly ticket of Jiulan, and thank Brother Long for the reward and ticket support.

There are also people who send me red envelopes, your name is still a number, I won't say it for the time being, after changing the name.

Thank you for your support, I also have a board with Lao Ma today, haha.