Chapter 25: The Labyrinth of Bones

While stepping into the vortex of time and space, Qin Lun only felt that his body seemed to be squeezed into a dark green paste. There is a slight feeling of pressure on the skin all over the body, but the resistance is not great, and you can slide out with a light force.

This feeling didn't last long, and soon Qin Lun felt a light in his eyes and broke free from the time-space vortex.

As soon as he saw the scene in front of him, Qin Lun raised his eyebrows. In front of him was a red and white road, almost three meters high and wide.

The ceiling of the corridor was made up of Mo Ming's flesh, and some of the raised sarcomas were dripping with filthy blood downward. The floor of the corridor is littered with scattered human bones, contaminated with blood dripping from the ceiling, like a damp sewer from hell.

The walls of this corridor are not ordinary building materials, they are made entirely of human bones. In the dense bone wall, numerous skulls stand out. Most of these skulls are decayed and yellowish, although a few still have a fresh pale color.

A very small number of the skulls still have flesh and hair that have not yet been removed, and from their faces, they appear to be some blonde foreigners. Linked to the plot of the ghost warrior told by Lu Kuang, some of them are innocent Parisian citizens.

Qin Lun looked back, and behind him was an arch of bones, and the pillars of the arch were the thigh bones of two unknown creatures. Above the leg bones, each has a skeletal lantern made of human ribs. The bone lamp emits a bright orange glow, and the oil inside is a white, pasty, foul-smelling object.

In the middle of the arch of bones is a dark green space-time vortex, but much smaller than the space-time vortex in Notre-Dame Cathedral, less than a quarter of the latter.

After the Law Body was strengthened, Qin Lun's perception had greatly improved, and he could vaguely feel that behind this bone path was not an entity, but another space.

This seems to be a huge labyrinth separated by a wall of bones, and judging from the massive number of bones that make up the labyrinth, it is definitely not a temporary base built by the Paris Phantom Magic, it should be a place that has been built a long time ago.

"Buzz~~" When Qin Lun was looking around, there was a strange voice in the corridor.

Qin Lun fixed his eyes and saw that on the ceiling in the distance of the skeleton road, two huge blood-colored sarcomas had cracked a gap, as if they had opened a bloody mouth. Clusters of "black hornets" poured out of the cracks, swooping down on him like dark clouds.

It was a defensive trap in the Yongdao, Qin Lun's face changed slightly, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind like a lightning speed, and in an instant, he simulated several response plans, which were overturned by himself one by one. Eventually, the doctor sighed softly, took three seed-like objects from his bosom, and threw them in front of him.

As soon as these three seeds landed, they grew angrily in the wind, and in the blink of an eye, they grew into three tall vine tree people. Perhaps it was because the ground of the bone tunnel was covered with bloody flesh, and the vine tree people who absorbed the flesh had blood-red lines on their bodies, and the body of the tree was covered with red and green vines.

The three vine tree people stood side by side in front of Qin Lun, almost blocking the entire corridor. They waved their vines and slammed the oncoming "black hornets".

Soon, the corpses of the "hornets" were piled up at the feet of the vine tree people, and only a very small number of "wasps" would give up attacking the vine tree people and deliberately attack Qin Lun through the tree vines.

Qin Lun swung his knife to kill a fish that had slipped through the net, and leaned over to pick up this "black hornet" to check. In fact, this small wasp-like creature is not really an insect, but an extremely tiny illusion.

The "Hornet" phantom is dressed in an insect-like armor, with four pairs of arthropods on its sides, two pairs of transparent wings on its back, compound eyes on its head, and its main attack weapon is a dark poison needle on its tail.

Not surprisingly, after this "hornet" illusion turned to ashes, there were no illusion beads left. It seems that their magic orbs should only be in the bodies of the two giant sarcoma "beehives".

The vine tree people can survive on their own for an hour, but with the nourishment of human flesh and blood, it seems that their stay will be extended even longer. Qin Lun didn't wait for the vine tree people to extinguish all the "hornets", this maze of bones was confusing, and it was the enemy's territory, so it was only right to hurry up and solve this trouble.

Qin Lun thought for a moment, then took out a small bottle containing low-concentration holy water from the storage space, tilted his head and poured it directly into his mouth. With holy water in his mouth, he strode up to the vine tree man, puffed out his cheeks and squirted at the hornet.

"Whew!" As soon as the holy water touched the hornet illusion, wisps of green smoke rose up, and the hornet illusions were doused with sulfuric acid and fell from the sky one after another.

After spraying it two or three times like this, Qin Lun could be regarded as having completely used up this bottle of low-concentration holy water. However, the hornet phantoms in the corridor were also empty, and the few remaining hornet phantoms could no longer threaten him.

Emptying these small things, Qin Lun did not stay where he was, and immediately crossed the three vine tree people, ran quickly to the front of the road, took out the FN-500 and blasted towards the two sarcomat-like "beehives".

Two minutes later, Qin Lun cleared out two blood-colored magic beads from the "hive". These two Phantom Orbs are of extremely high quality, each with 15 Soul Points, which shows that they have killed many humans in the past.

The place where the hive is located is already the end of this corridor. This is a Yongdao intersection, and there is a bone tunnel on the left and right, which is no different from the Yongdao behind Qin Lun, making him convinced that it is indeed a bone labyrinth.

"Labyrinths, traps, illusions, space-time nodes......" Qin Lun rubbed his temples and fell into deep thought.

According to the information gathered, the clues in Qin Lun's mind slowly became clear. This labyrinth of bones must hold some sort of secret of the illusion, and it is well defended. However, the defense of the maze does not rely on combat illusions, but more on defensive traps similar to hornets.

Don't look at Qin Lun's easy solution to the hornet illusion just now, in fact, this kind of defensive trap is very difficult to deal with. If it weren't for the thick skin of the vine tree and the huge body blocking the entire corridor, he would still have more than half a bottle of holy water in his hand...... Replaced by other apostles to face this hornet illusion, even if they don't die, they will shed their skin.

Qin Lun was equivalent to exchanging a bottle of low-concentration holy water worth 3,500 broken crystals, plus three vine tree seeds for two 15-point soul magic beads, and from a certain point of view, he was still at a loss.

"The space-time nodes of this corridor are different from the space-time nodes of Notre Dame Cathedral, will there be any difference here?"

Qin Lun suddenly turned his head to look at the space-time vortex when he came in, and the light in his eyes swelled......

"Apostle 70053, you have collected an inferior space-time core, and you can ask for it to return through the Apostle Soul Seal. When returning, it must be in a non-combat state, and your side must be monitored as a safe state. ”

"Hint: The Spacetime Core quest is completed with a minimum requirement, and the total progress of this quest is currently 7/100, and the contribution of Apostle 70053 is 1/7. Destroy a space-time node in the Bone Labyrinth to gain 0.012% world exploration, and have not yet severed 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. ”

"Sure enough!" Qin Lun lowered his head and muttered to himself.

He used the space-time energy harvester to collect the space-time core, which took less than two minutes, compared to the space-time node in Notre Dame Cathedral, which took a full ten minutes.

The energy transmitted by space-time at the two points of space-time is supposed to be constant, and the only explanation for this phenomenon is that this labyrinth of bones contains multiple small space-time nodes that connect to Notre Dame Cathedral.

The two-minute wait also allowed Qin Lun to confirm another guess, that is, there were no other living illusions responsible for patrolling in this bone maze except for passive trap illusions. Otherwise, they should have come a long time ago, and the bone labyrinth was most likely just a cover for the outer fortifications of this illusion base.

In fact, Qin Lun was able to obtain this core of time and space, and he had both wisdom and luck. Although the Bone Labyrinth is the periphery of the illusion base, it is not easy to enter.

The illusions regard the Île de la Cité and Notre Dame Cathedral as the core of the Paris strategy, if it weren't for the fact that most of the illusions in Paris are attacking the Place de la Concorde and the Hôtel de Ville; If it weren't for the fact that there were no aquatic illusions defending the Seine; If it weren't for the knife that helped him distract the illusion of Notre Dame......

With Qin Lun alone, he couldn't even enter the door of Notre Dame Cathedral!

Qin Lun looked at the space-time energy harvester in his hand, he couldn't see the true face of the space-time core. As soon as this thing was collected, it seemed to be directly in the dimensional space of the collector, and the apostle himself could not take it out of the collector.

The progress of the Space-Time Core quest is 7/100, which obviously refers to the fact that all the Apostles in the Illusion World have collected 7 space-time cores. As for what would happen after reaching the satisfaction of 100 space-time cores, Qin Lun didn't care.

In his opinion, this is equivalent to a fantasy, don't look at this is only the first day of the mission time, but the difficulty of the subsequent tasks will only get bigger. With the occupation of Paris by the Phantoms, some of their existing flaws will be slowly remedied.

Putting away the core of time and space, a smile appeared on the corner of Qin Lun's mouth. Since it had been confirmed that there were not a large number of active illusions in the bone labyrinth, he was in no hurry to return. Anyway, the Vine Tree Man has an hour of storage time, and he can search around for other space-time nodes.

Even if he encounters other illusions, he can return here and grind the illusions to death with the thick-skinned vine tree people.

Qin Lun put away the space-time energy collector, observed it, and then stepped on the skull on the bone wall of the Yongdao, climbed up the bone wall, and used the evil dagger to cut off a piece of phantom flesh and blood from the ceiling of the Yongdao.

After climbing down, Qin Lun smeared the flesh and blood on his body. He didn't know if illusions could tell humans by breath, but it was always good to be prepared.

After getting ready, Qin Lun ran towards the left side of the three-way entrance. After running for some distance, he suddenly crouched down, grabbed the corner of the road, and looked ahead vigilantly.

Not far ahead, two strangely shaped phantom demons fell to the ground dying, seemingly wounded, but not dead for a while.

"Hey, could it be ......" Looking at this scene, Qin Lun's eyes flashed with a strange light.