Chapter Twenty-Six: Old Knowledge
The two seriously injured and dying phantoms in front of him were the type that Qin Lun had never seen before, this kind of phantasm resembled an octopus, with an oval and smooth head, and there were also eight tentacles with suction cups under the body.
The two phantoms had a large hole in their head, and dark green blood flowed from the wound. The tentacles of the other one were almost completely torn off by brute force, and it looked extremely miserable.
Qin Lun only glanced at it a few times, and then immediately retracted his head. The doctor sat cross-legged on the ground, and even his breathing weakened, trying to lower the characteristics of his life as much as possible, as if he were a stone statue.
From their appearance, these two octopus demons are clearly guards specially deployed in this bone labyrinth. The labyrinth's corridors are narrow, and there are many trap illusions, so there is no need for flexible illusions such as Togaku and Sanmu, nor do you need huge illusions such as Fugaku and Kilusom.
This octopus illusion has eight flexible and soft tentacles, and it can exert its combat effectiveness in such a narrow space. Although they move a little slowly, they are more familiar with the terrain than the enemy, and can completely encircle and intercept them, cutting off the enemy's escape route.
If you want to deal with this combination of octopus illusion and trap illusion, your own combat power must be at least two grades higher than that of the defender.
The first time Qin Lun saw the octopus illusion, he knew that he couldn't deal with it. Coupled with the fact that he didn't encounter any other "hives" along the way, the doctor had already understood that someone had passed through this tunnel before him and cleared those magic traps.
Since the two octopus phantoms are not dead, there is only one explanation......
As soon as Qin Lun held his breath, he faintly heard the sound of a fight in the distance. However, the fighting lasted less than a minute before it fell silent again.
At the same time, next to the two dying octopus phantoms, two figures suddenly appeared. One man was dark-skinned and burly, looking like a big black tower. The other person has an ape arm and a bee waist, his face is like a rich jade, and his face is handsome as if Pan An is reincarnated.
"Hmph, the phantom demon is attacking Paris in a big way, and the outer labyrinth of this base is really much weaker. If it weren't for the Boss being too cautious, we 'Wind Demons' wouldn't have fallen behind so much in the progress of the mission. "The sound of the big black tower is like a bell, sonorous and powerful.
"Panhu, old nature has his ideas, let's do it!" The handsome young man frowned, and suddenly looked up at Yongdao, "Let's go, let's hurry up!" ”
"Lou Win, these two phantom demons belong to you, or to ......" Daheita Panhu looked at the two dying phantom demons and rubbed his hands.
"It's too late to deal with it, let's complete the task first!" Lou Ying said lightly, "Don't lose a big one because of a small one!" ”
“…… Good, good! Listen to you! Panhu was slightly stunned, then grinned, and disappeared on the other side of the road with Lou Ying.
The voices of the two were clear to the ears, but as the two left, Qin Lun's forehead slowly oozed sweat stains, and his breathing was even weaker.
"Whew!" More than ten minutes later, a breeze suddenly blew in the corridor that was only one corner away from Qin Lun, and Lou Ying and Panhu reappeared next to the two octopus phantom demons.
"Little white face, are you wrong?" Panhu said suspiciously.
"Perhaps! The smell of blood here is too strong, and I'm not sure about it. Lou Ying touched his nose and suddenly became angry, "Black charcoal head, who do you call Little White Face!" ”
"Haha, aren't you white enough?" The big black tower panhu grinned and teased.
"Forget it, I won't mess with you, and when this mission is over, I'll settle accounts with you!" Lou Ying's fair face turned red, and he swallowed hard, "Hurry up and solve these two illusions, let's go to the next scene!" ”
"Cut, I'm afraid you won't make it!" Panhu shrugged his shoulders and turned his back, muttering something in a low voice.
The two dying octopus phantoms finally turned into two piles of ashes, and Lou Ying and Panhu left again.
After waiting for more than twenty minutes, Qin Lun was roughly sure that the two would not turn back, so he slowly stood up and walked out from the corner. He walked to the two piles of ashes and searched for them, and found that the two octopus phantom orbs had been taken.
The doctor did not leave immediately, but carefully searched the road, and after finding a three-way junction in the road, his eyes lit up and he ran in a certain direction.
After turning several lanes, after coming to a dead end, Qin Lun finally smiled. When he entered the labyrinth, a space-time portal that was exactly the same appeared in front of him.
Qin Lun took out the space-time energy collector from the storage space and threw it into the space-time vortex, waiting quietly.
In fact, when he met Lou Ying and Panhu, he knew that these two people were either apostles or reincarnators, and they couldn't be ghost warriors in the illusion world anyway. Although the phantom demon will not leave a corpse after death, those ashes will not disappear, as long as you look closely, you will be able to find the space-time node where Lou Ying and Panhu entered the labyrinth.
If the two of them were reincarnators instead of apostles, Qin Lun guessed that they should not destroy the space-time node, so naturally they would cheapen him for nothing.
However, judging from the reactions of the two, their strength was very strong, and they almost discovered Qin Lun's storage. The shape just now was extremely sinister, and if the doctor had turned around and fled, it was estimated that the two would have discovered it long ago.
Fortunately, the two of them thought very highly of themselves, and they didn't come to look for it in person except for using perception. However, Qin Lun, whose whole body was covered with phantom demon flesh and blood, could have escaped.
"Apostle 70053, you have collected two inferior Space-Time Cores, and the total progress of this quest is currently 9/100, and the contribution of Apostle 70053 is 2/9. Destroy the two space-time nodes of the Bone Labyrinth to gain 0.024% of the world's exploration, and have not yet cut off the space-time connection between the Phantom Base and modern Paris. If the promotion conditions of the task evaluation are not met, there will be no other additional rewards. ”
Qin Lun put away the space-time energy collector with satisfaction, and a few minutes later, returned to the three forks where he had just met the two reincarnators.
Thinking of the conversation between the two reincarnators just now, Qin Lun frowned slightly and glanced in the direction where the two left. After a while, he sighed regretfully, the strength of these two people is too strong, and playing the autumn wind behind them is no different from walking a tightrope.
The risk is not proportional to the benefit, no matter how curious you are, you can't do this kind of death-seeking thing!
After figuring it out, Qin Lun turned around and ran in the opposite direction of the two, but what made him strange was that there was no longer the original hornet illusion in this direction.
Just turning two corners, Qin Lun slowed down and began to be vigilant, and it seemed that someone in this direction had also cleaned up the illusion trap.
Finally, after bypassing a road again, Qin Lun found a lonely phantom demon at this fork. However, when he saw this phantom demon, a hint of surprise flashed across his face.
This phantom was different from a normal phant, and although its arms had changed into sickles, and its skin was a dry dark brown, its head was the same as that of a human. From its staggering steps, it was easy to tell that it had just become a phantom.
The most important thing is that Qin Lun knows this phantom demon, it is wearing a striking sanitation suit, it is one of the newcomer reincarnators who entered the illusion world with Qin Lun, the middle-aged man in the sanitation suit.
Qin Lun raised his eyebrows, in fact, among the three newcomers who left with Matthew and other veterans, he was the most optimistic about this middle-aged man, he didn't expect him to die here first.
"Whew!" Seeing the doctor come out of hiding, the middle-aged man turned into a sword mantis illusion, turned around and roared and pounced on him. It's just that its ankle seems to have been injured, and not only is it sluggish, but it also has a little wobbly even when it walks.
Qin Lun didn't kill it right away, but instead circled around it, carefully observing the wounds on its body. When killed, the Phantom will turn to ashes, and some clues on it will not be visible.
"The fatal wound is in the chest, and the wound in the leg is ......" Qin Lun sighed slightly, as a medical expert and dissecter, he could deduce the murder weapon from the wound.
The middle-aged man had an erosion wound on his chest shaped like a bowl, which reminded him of the octopus illusion with round suction cups on its tentacles. The wound on the phantom's ankle was different, with only a laceration like a baby's mouth.
The wound was located in the heel and injured the tendon. However, the wound was very shallow, and the tendons could not be completely cut, obviously it was not the phantom demon who shot, but a murderer with little strength, which suddenly reminded Qin Lun of the bewitching girl among the newcomer reincarnators.
The doctor can fully imagine the situation at that time, Matthew and his gang entered the labyrinth, where they encountered the octopus illusion. Probably because they were outnumbered, the gang fought and retreated, and the girl with the worst body fell to the end, and maybe was knocked to the ground by the octopus illusion.
At this time, it is estimated that this middle-aged man couldn't bear to abandon his companions and turned around to save people. As a result, he was betrayed by the girl who fell to the ground, gave him a knife in the ankle, and used him to drag the octopus illusion, thus escaping by himself.
"Since you left Lisa's mother and daughter for the sake of your youngest son, why can't you persevere to the end?" Qin Lun smiled calmly and raised the FN-500 towards the Sword Mantis Phantom Demon.
The Blade Mantis Illusion Bead only has 3 Soul Remains, and it seems that these illusions transformed by humans are weaker than the lowest-grade Blade Foot Light, or they are not yet long enough to complete the transformation completely.
Knowing that it was Matthew and the others in front of him, Qin Lun put his mind at ease and began to look for the time and space node where Matthew and the others came in.
This time, he didn't waste much time either, and soon found the third space-time node in another cul-de-sac in the labyrinth.
However, the three-way intersection here is different from the previous one, and the space is much more spacious. On the left side is a deep, dimly lit cave with a strong smell of blood and rancidity. On the right side is also a cul-de-sac, with a dark red bronze door at the end.
This was the first time Qin Lun had seen something that was not composed of flesh and bones in the labyrinth.