Chapter 208: This is Hell
After "purifying" King Leonardo and eliminating the king's undead warriors, Changle was finally able to set foot in the city gates.
As the black fog is dispelled, the "Demon Castle" reveals its true face in the night.
Chang Le couldn't help but exclaim:
"It's also called a castle?"
Mentally prepared along the way, no matter how horrific the picture is, he will not be too shocked.
However, in front of me is a simple square building, the volume is very large, the shape is unremarkable, there is no arrow tower, there is no spire, the walls are broken, only rows of dark and hollow windows, very monotonously arranged in layers all around.
The roof of the house, which once seemed to have an iron frame, had long since decayed and collapsed, and a few remaining ropes hung in the air, blown by the strong wind, and continued to scream violently.
The so-called "ghost cry" probably comes from it.
"That's not a rope, it's a cable!" Anita shouted with a little surprise as she witnessed all this in the beast soul space, "Master, the world you live in was invaded by technological civilizations, of course, a long, long ......time ago."
"A long time ago? How long ago was that?"
"Please give me some samples to analyze!
So Chang Le waved his hand and ordered, and the army of evil spirit insects swarmed up, pouring into the building from the windows and began to search, and a few climbed up to the roof to retrieve the broken and rusted iron pieces for him.
The results of Anita's inspection were not long in coming, and the reinforced concrete building was three to four thousand years old.
Normally, it would have collapsed long ago, but the reason why it has been so intact is probably due to the special environment of this place, there is no plant growth and erosion, no animal burrowing and destruction, and the strong wind prevents the dust from burying it.
"There are no animals here? hehe, there may be no rats and termites, but there is absolutely no shortage of 'moving things'. ”
Chang Le smiled, slowly walked to an empty window on the ground floor, leaned over and picked up a piece of flake, rubbed it with his fingers, and restored it to clean and transparent, obviously this is glass.
Chang Le has been accustomed to seeing this beautiful material in the beast soul space, but it is all from the other world, from the birthplace of Anita.
The glass craftsmanship of the Yurian continent is relatively rude, and it is impossible to make such a transparent and smooth product, and the price is also very expensive.
For Chang Le, the persuasiveness of this piece of glass is far higher than Anita's analysis, and it clearly confirms that there were once alien invaders with a highly developed material civilization.
"There are technological civilizations here, but they obviously haven't been able to conquer here!" Anita is still babbling, "Master, that so-called magic array just now is more like a helipad, you should look around, maybe there is a hangar!"
These views could not solve Chang Le's confusion, but made him even more confused, the gods and demons, light and darkness and the like were already confused, making his world view chaotic, why did an invader of the otherworldly technological civilization emerge?
At that moment, the evil spirit worm that entered the building began to scream as a warning and report that there was something inside.
Chang Le did not walk through the door, but climbed directly into the window, and then saw the existence of "moving things".
Two evil spirit insects were facing the corner of the wall in a vigilant manner, and there was a figure there, sitting at the table and writing with his head down.
Chang Le cautiously approached, switched himself to the fire-type magic talent, and ignited a small fireball from the palm of his hand.
The fireball can either light up the room or slam into the attacker's face, illuminating and defending itself.
But the figure didn't react, and still struggled to write.
It seems that this guy has been working for a long time, and his clothes have rotted, and he has fallen to the ground one after another when the breeze brought by Chang Le's movement blows.
She was still a woman, and her figure proved that she was not very old, but her face was dry and wrinkled like tree bark, which made her more like an old lady.
The barrel of the pen in her hand had long been cracked and worn bald, and the paper on the table was even more shattered, which could not stop the tireless writing action.
Although the window panes were shattered, the wind and sound outside were inexplicably isolated, and not a single trace entered the room, and the room was suffocatingly quiet, except for the "rustle" of the pen and the table.
Such a scene was so weird that Chang Le couldn't help but shudder.
And as he explores the building, more and more "hardworking" zombies are discovered.
Some people turn the test tube upside down, some people are dazed on the keyboard, and some people are guarding the small precision machine, their eyes glued to the eyepieces and not moving.
Based on what she saw, Anita began to speculate:
"This is a scientific and technological civilization research institution, maybe it came to this world to explore some kind of secret, but it was attacked by a strange attack, and it was instantly transformed into a zombie, and then it kept working and repeated what was at hand for thousands of years!"
But she still doesn't understand, these zombies don't hunt, don't eat, and will continue an action for a long time, where does the energy come from?
"That's the power of darkness. Chang Le replied lightly.
When I came to a more magnificent room, I also saw a pair of strange people, according to Anita's inference, it was about the boss and the female secretary, or the leader and the female subordinate, in short, it was not like a husband and wife.
The graceful figure of the young woman, and the pot-bellied poop of the older man, are still clearly recognizable, even if they are slightly shriveled.
Both of them are on the couch, maintaining an intimate connection and a certain kind of action that continues forever.
"Lucky people, Yishuang is thousands of years!" Chang Le shook his head and turned around to exit, and helped them close the door.
There are lucky people, there are unlucky people, in a certain corridor corner, there is a woman who is slapping a man, the cause of the contradiction is no longer known, only three thousand years of persistent beating, so that the victim is unrecognizable, but he can still stand up.
Chang Le stopped moving, spread out his soul power to probe carefully, and found that there were four or five hundred people in the entire building, all of them mechanically repeating the work of the last moment of their lives.
Finally, I couldn't help but sigh:
"It's hell for them!"
But for the souls of the dead from all corners of the world, hell is still far away.
Those "fireflies" like soul fires did not stop after rushing into this building, and continued to march in formation, fluttering and flying towards the lower floors.
Chang Le followed them all the way, down the spiral staircase, and finally came to the black door in the basement.
The soul all passed through the door, but Chang Le didn't have the ability, so he could only reach out and press on the door, hesitated for a few seconds, pushed it open hard, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
It was still a spiraling descending hallway, but there were torches on the walls on both sides.
I don't know how many years the torch has been burning, it seems that it is not a normal fuel effect, but some kind of ghost fire or something.
Every once in a while, one leads to a hall that is dilapidated and empty, devoid of any living creatures, and full of forks in the road.
Which fork in the road should I take?
If you follow the soul fire floating in the air, you should be able to finally reach the "hell", but Chang Le is not here to go to hell, he is here to save people!
Is Betty here or not, and if so, is she safe?
Chang Le gritted his teeth, a tingling pain in his heart, he really didn't dare to think about it, so he could only step up his efforts to urge the army of evil spirit insects, pouring into every intersection, searching every corner pervasively.
"I'm looking for a woman, whether she's dead or alive, human or ghost!"
The wisdom of the evil spirit insect is not high, but the men and women can still be distinguished, and the execution of orders is also faithful and resolute, divided into multiple columns to burrow into the dark passages, like an underground ant colony, crowded but not chaotic, and then divide the troops at every fork in the road, so as not to miss any suspicious places.
Chang Le can't be idle, he chose a path based on his intuition,
Soon after, there were bursts of screams from the front, one after another, echoing each other, Chang Le could understand that this was not the alarm sound of the evil spirit insects, but it meant that they had been attacked, and they directly issued a battle cry!
He immediately quickened his pace and came to an empty hall.
But silence had returned to the place, and the battle was over almost instantly, and the blue and white ghost fire faintly shone on the ground with broken corpses, judging from the skeletal limbs and green viscous blood, they all belonged to the evil spirit insects that had arrived in advance.
Chang Le hurriedly raised his hand to stop the legions surging behind him, and then set his eyes on the other side of the hall.
There's a formidable enemy standing there!
The word "human" in "enemy" may be used inappropriately, it is not a person, but like an evil spirit insect magnified dozens of times, the same skeleton-like exoskeleton, and six more hands and feet, two of which have long legs like grasshoppers, and four arms are as sharp as knives.
The monster's face is somewhat human-like, and it even has an expression, smiling eerily in the darkness.
After only laughing for a few seconds, it began to speak:
"The gates of hell are not to be trespassed. ”
The words were exactly the same as those of King Leonardo outside the gate, but it was shouted not through the mind, but through the mouth, and the voice seemed to have its own energy, reverberating through the hall, forcing the ghostly fire on the four walls to beat brightly and vibrating.
This is not a zombie that has lost its sense of self, but a dark creature that is very similar to the evil spirit bug, and is much more intelligent and powerful!
"What are you, where does the Gate of Hell lead?" Chang Le clenched his sword and walked forward slowly.
"Stupid! The gates of hell, of course lead to hell!"
This guy actually taunts and swears people!
Chang Le was vindictive, and the light power on the armor of "Dark Glory" rippled out again, and at the same time raised the volume:
"Where's Betty?"
"That little girl, hehe, she's gone to hell, you're going to accompany her?"
"Then I'll kill you first, and then smash this bullshit hell!" Chang Le gritted his teeth and rushed angrily towards the monster.
"Hell doesn't accept the living, do you want to go?
With the word "death" coming out, the monster's legs bent and flicked, and the huge figure instantly swept over a distance of dozens of meters, and four knife arms suddenly attacked from four directions.
"Dang!"
With a loud and clear thud, the monster's blade arm slashed into the hard ground, and the sparks were deeply embedded in the splash.
Chang Le disappeared from the monster encirclement, appeared on the side of the hall like a phantom, climbed the iron frame on the high place, and took a deep breath.
The steel sword in his hand was already only half broken, and the texture of the steel was not as hard as the opponent's bones!
The monster roared and pulled out its knife arm, squatted slightly, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a bolt of lightning and pounced on Chang Le again.
The rusty iron frame and escalator crumbled, shattering to pieces under the monster's frenzied slashing.
Chang Le, of course, would not be hit, he gently drilled out of the web of death woven by the four blade arms, and slashed at the monster's slightly slender waist with the sword in his hand.
With the power of Changle, even steel can be cut off, but unfortunately at this moment, he still only hears the sound of "dang", and he doesn't even leave a trace.
The monster smashed the tall structure like a vent, and then climbed on the wall and turned around and sneered:
"Very powerful little guy, it's enjoyable! It's really enjoyable, I can't bear to kill you, play for a while!"