There was a wall lamp at intervals above them, but there wasn't much to see in the dim light.

Xu Zhilan took out a lighting prop from his backpack, which was a prop that Xiao Zhimiao had seen in the puppet town and could levitate and follow, which was very convenient and practical.

In the bright light of the prop, they saw the cramped space as a straight space, and then built a winding staircase against the wall.

A little further up, there is darkness that cannot be illuminated by lighting props.

"That's too high."

She didn't look at the castle from the outside, as if she had cast some kind of magic.

The two of them went all the way up the stairs, and when they were halfway there, Xiao Zhimiao saw a door located not far from above.

It was the only door seen in this long staircase.

Xiao Zhimiao was about to continue walking towards the door when there was a rustling sound below, as if something was crawling on the ground.

The two stopped and leaned against the wall, and Xu Zhilan, who was standing behind Xiao Zhimiao, moved the lighting ball and slowly shone down.

I don't know when the sconces below went out, and it was only dark.

The ball of light moved down some distance, and a black shadow with a strange shape faded into the darkness.

In the next second, the black shadow pounced and devoured the ball of light, and the two of them fell into darkness in an instant.

Xiao Zhimiao and Xu Zhilan reacted quickly, Xu Zhilan formed a magic shield in front of them, and as soon as he used his skills, an object hit the magic shield.

After only three or two hits, Xiao Zhimiao heard a crisp cracking sound.

At the moment when she felt the subtle wind coming towards her, the heroine used the copied Sun Yuyue skill to quickly throw out a soothsayer's card, and a magic array lit up in front of her and extended several chains emitting golden light, locking the shadow monster that stabbed at her in the magic array.

Panel pop-up:

Hidden Ones: Shadowhunters

Level: 200

Attack:???

Features: Hidden in the dark, devouring all light

Weakness:???

Xiao Zhimiao looked at the attribute panel of this monster, and said in his heart that this is somewhat similar to the monster encountered in the first crypt dungeon, both of which will devour light and attack players in the dark.

Xiao Zhimiao watched the black shadow struggle in the magic array, constantly devouring the light of the magic array, and shot an arrow at the black shadow.

The crimson magic exploded in the shadows, and the shadows struggled for a moment before they were devoured.

Xiao Zhimiao said to Xu Zhilan, "Take out all your lighting props, take as many as you want."

Xu Zhilan took out all the lighting props from the system backpack, and more than a dozen lighting props illuminated the entire space as bright as day, and the eyes of the two of them couldn't open the dazzling light.

The lighting props were suspended everywhere, and Xiao Zhimiao saw many black shadows forced by the light to retreat into the darkness, and then devoured towards the light.

In this bright light, the two saw that there was a lot of blood on the wall, Xiao Zhimiao touched the blood, the blood stains had not yet dried, it might be the blood of other players.

Xiao Zhimiao looked at the number of surviving players on the system panel, which was one less than before.

The light was constantly swallowed by the shadows, and Xiao Zhimiao and Xu Zhilan quickly ran towards the door at the top of the stairs.

The speed of the shadow devouring was very fast, Xu Zhilan swung a whip from time to time to force it back, and before the shadow could devour all the lighting props, the two reached the location of the door.

Xiao Zhimiao saw that there were magic marks on this door, and her hand caressed these marks, and she could feel the defensive magic inside from the marks.

Xiao Zhimiao pushed the door open, Xu Zhilan took back the rest of the lighting props before the shadow caught up, and closed the door to isolate the shadow from the door. :

Walking inside the door, a strong rancid smell hit me, making people almost sick.

At the same time, Xiao Zhimiao and Xu Zhilan heard a low panting voice like a beast.

The light in the room was very dim, there were no lighting tools, only a glowing mushroom lighting growing in the corner of the wall, Xiao Zhimiao took two steps, as if stepping on a stream of wet mud, sticky, and made a sticky sound when he walked.

Xiao Zhimiao took a lighting prop from Xu Zhilan, and the small ball that emitted light passed through her hand and was controlled by her, shining up her head and in front of her head as her fingertips moved.

Xiao Zhimiao watched the ball of light fly all the way up, and after flying seven or eight meters, it finally reached the ceiling and hit a wriggling object.

The two of them looked up and saw that the ceiling was littered with scarlet wriggling pieces of meat, like freshly slaughtered cattle and sheep, exuding a bloody smell of fresh raw meat.

Not only the ceiling, but also the walls and floors, all of which were indescribably wriggling pieces of flesh, and there were some strange glowing plants growing on them.

Xiao Zhimiao saw a plant with jagged leaves, the arm-long blades cutting through the flesh in front of it, cutting it off and sending it to its lantern-like body.

"They're eating carrion." Xu Zhilan frowned.

He is very sensitive to smells and can distinguish different sources of odor from these smells that kill people.

Xiao Zhimiao heard what Xu Zhilan said, his eyes looked at other plants, and a very fat mushroom that grew in the corner of the wall suddenly softened into a white piece of meat, wriggling onto a piece of rotten meat and gnawing it, and after eating up the carrion, it returned to its original position and turned into a mushroom that emitted a faint light.

The whole room is wide and high, and judging from some of the old objects placed everywhere, this room looks like a conference hall, and there are many portraits hanging on the left and right walls.

After Xiao Zhimiao made sure that these pieces of meat and plants were not aggressive, she walked up to these portraits with a ball of light and examined them one by one.

The pieces of flesh attached to the portrait are sensitive to light, and will recede to the side when exposed to direct light.

Xiao Zhimiao looked at these portraits as bust portraits, each one was a different person, and there were dates and names on them, and the date was preceded by the words "Appointment", they were all previous city lords of Kane City.

In addition to the common script of the Land of Divine Arrival, there are some other characters used on the image.

This should be one of the quest clues, and the system will give a translation.

Xiao Zhimiao tried to read those words without substituting the translation of the system, although they were not as smooth as the common words in the Land of God's Presence, but they were barely able to understand them.

It stands to reason that in a city as big as Kane City, judging from the ruins she saw when she first entered Ben, there are also some villages and towns outside the city that are attached to Kane City, and the city lord must be a local.

But judging from so many different languages and characters, different hair colors, different pupil colors, and different faces on the portraits, these city lords are not from the same region.

No matter how big Cairn City is, it is only a town of tens of thousands of people, not the kind of metropolis of millions of people.

Either the city lord was sent from above, or the past residents of Kane City came from different places to settle, and the city lord was also selected from these people.

Judging by the main quest given by the dungeon, the latter is the most likely.

Xiao Zhimiao continued to move the ball of light in her hand and looked elsewhere to see if she could find an exit or something. After the ball of light touched a large mushroom, the mushroom moved to the side, revealing a collapsed door.

Xiao Zhimiao took the ball of light and looked inside the door, it was a corridor, there were four rooms on the left and right of the corridor, and the wooden doors of each room had decayed or collapsed, and it was easy to enter inside.

When Xu Zhilan saw these rooms, he first threw a few balls of light into them to illuminate them, and then went in after finding that there was no danger.

These rooms resemble the lounge next to the office hall, nothing special, except that the entrance is probably sealed by the big mushroom, which doesn't have those pieces of flesh in it, just a little damp, and many glowing plants similar to mushrooms.

After Xiao Zhimiao inspected the rooms, she pushed open the last door on the right-hand side, and the rotten wooden door collapsed as soon as she pushed it, making a dull sound

sound, Xu Zhilan, who was checking the room behind her, heard the movement and walked over.

In the bright light of the ball of light, the two saw a large number of picture frames placed in the room, and a corpse leaning against the corner with a painting in its hand, still holding a paintbrush in its hand.

Xiao Zhimiao and Xu Zhilan looked at these paintings one by one, these paintings are very realistic, with medieval oil painting style, Xiao Zhimiao saw a group of people with different hair colors gathering from all directions, and then heading in the same direction, and the end of this direction is Kane City.

Many of the paintings depict the daily lives of some of the residents, giving a glimpse of the bustling city of Cairn's past.

Xiao Zhimiao looked around the paintings and found that the people in the paintings had been dressed very plainly since they came to Cairn City, and some of them were even tattered, and they didn't look rich or even a little poor.

"Look, look." Hearing Xu Zhilan's voice with a little surprise, Xiao Zhimiao's eyes turned to the portrait Xu Zhilan was looking at.

It shows a large church where many residents bow down reverently, and the person they bow to, no, should be a god, a woman with long red hair who is suspended in the air and cannot see her face.

With that long crimson curly hair, and that similar figure, even Xiao Zhimiao herself felt very similar to her.

Could it be that the inhabitants of this place are gathered from Scyca?

The red-haired god was surrounded by a crimson mist, and his hand was slightly raised, as if to bless the devout disciples.

Seeing this painting, Xiao Zhimiao felt very uncomfortable, and even a nameless anger ignited in his heart.

"You've been here before?" Xu Zhilan asked.

Xiao Zhimiao: "You look like I've been here?"

Xu Zhilan smiled, "I mean, your other identity, Lord God."

"Maybe I have, I don't have any of these memories."

Xiao Zhimiao looked at the painting on the wall and shifted her gaze to the corpse holding the painting.