Hearing Dion's precautions for dealing with monsters made Dio feel a little familiar, and now that he saw this monster with his own eyes, he immediately recalled in his mind a monster that was very taboo in the archaeological world - ghouls.

Ghouls are terrifying man-eating monsters that only exist in tombs from ancient times, hunting and eating any creature that enters their territory. It is characterized by dead gray skin like corpses, hairless, with beast-like claws, extremely fast, terrifying strength and bullets that cannot penetrate their skin, making it an extremely terrifying killing machine. Their normal sensory organs are all decaying and atrophied, losing their senses of sight, hearing, and smell, but their skin is unusually sensitive to the touch and can be used to confirm their surroundings through changes in air currents.

The earliest records of ghoul sightings date back more than 100 years, but it was during a major official archaeological event that people from all walks of life really got a glimpse of what they looked like thirty years ago. The appearance of the ghoul was a great loss to the archaeologists at that time, until the government mobilized elite troops and paid a great price to kill the ghoul, and the specimen of the ghoul now stands in the Royal Museum in the capital Essaro.

In folklore, ghouls are monsters that are transformed into endless fear by travelers who strayed into tombs and got lost, while academics believe that ghouls may be a mysterious creation of an ancient dynasty, specially used to guard tombs and kill invaders, because this kind of monster does not conform to the laws of evolution at all, and does not look like a natural product, of course, how exactly is still undecided.

This kind of monster is just a kind of idle talk for ordinary people, but it is a terrorist threat that needs to be paid attention to by those engaged in archaeology or tomb robbing, and once this monster appears, it means a bloody storm. When he entered the industry, Dior was specially taken to visit the Royal Museum by his predecessors, so he was very impressed.

Roughly the specimen in the museum is about the same as the one that has just passed, but the living one in front of me is several sizes smaller than the one in the Royal Museum, and you must know that the ghoul specimen in the Royal Museum is more than eight meters long in terms of tail, which is comparable to an ancient monster.

But even so, they were trapped underground in the first place, and now there is a threat of ghouls, which is enough to give them a headache.

Dion shook his head with a wry smile, took out a parchment roll from his arms, and showed it to Dior: "It's all because of this ......"

Next, he gave a general account of what happened to him.

It turned out that like Dior, Dion's gang also fell underground due to the explosion, but they were already many people, and most of them were elites, and in the end, they found each other in the underground tunnels and gathered nearly twenty living people. After gathering all the people they could find, they began to look for a way out, when one of Deon's men found a skeletonized corpse in a hidden corner and found the parchment scroll on it, which was the map of the mine.

Ecstatic, they followed the route marked on the map to a secret passage, but after opening the entrance to the secret passage, they were greeted by a swarm of more than a dozen ghouls, and after a fierce battle, their men could only scatter and flee, which was what Dio heard earlier.

"A dozen ghouls?"

Dio looked a little solemn, took the parchment map and spread it out on the ground, looking at the contents under the firelight.

"We are now on the third floor of the mine, according to the investigation of my subordinates, the first layer has been directly destroyed in the first round of explosions, the second layer has also collapsed for the most part, only the third layer is relatively intact, it is difficult to get out of the first and second floors. Deon used his finger to roughly mark out the impassable corridor.

"So if we want to get out, we'll have to take the secret passage?" Dior frowned, feeling a little troublesome.

"That's not to say, there may be other passages that haven't been damaged. ”

Dio thought about it, relying on the three of them to try their luck in this dark underground world, and to be wary of the threat of ghouls, which is really a bit unreliable, and in the end can only hope for the secret passage.

According to Dion, combined with Dior's perception of ghouls, the only nature of those monsters is to kill, and once they feel signs of biological activity, they will never obediently continue to stay in the secret passage, so it is the safest place now, especially now that there are many people in the thorn barrier who are escaping in the underground mines, which also plays a role in dispersing ghouls.

Roughly remembering the route map, Dio stood up and helped Melissa, who was still limp, to walk out.

"Why don't you wait until the ghouls have gone farther?" Dior's quick decision made Dion stunned for a moment.

"It's okay, I have a way to avoid those monsters. ”

Seeing that Dior was so confident, Dion shrugged his shoulders and followed. As far as Dion is concerned, he has estimated that Dior is still inferior to him in terms of agility and speed in the previous short encounter and the subsequent escape, and with the cumbersome little girl next to him, he is still confident that he can run faster than these two.

You don't have to be the fastest runner to escape, but you just need to be faster than your teammates.

Dio, on the other hand, did not tell the secret he had just discovered. When he met Deon and the ghouls appeared, he felt a burning in his chest, and it became hotter and hotter as the ghouls approached. Later, while running, he took the opportunity to touch the hot place, and finally confirmed that the source of the heat was the pendant that Maya had given him.

Originally, Dior never found anything special on this pendant, so he wore it as a souvenir, but he didn't expect it to work in this case.

After that, Dio has been secretly studying the pendant, especially when the ghoul is closest to him, this pendant is simply hot like a furnace, but the strange thing is that his skin is not burned at all, this fiery feeling seems to act directly on the nerves, and when the ghoul is gone, the pendant also quickly cools down, and finally becomes the same as before.

At this point, he was completely sure that the pendant Maya gave him could determine the location of the ghouls away from him by heating up, which is why he was now so confident that he could avoid the ghouls.

Dior's performance afterwards fully confirmed that his self-confidence was not without reason. Under his leadership, the three of them were always able to avoid the passing ghouls or simply prepare in advance to deceive these monsters, and none of them made a mistake.

For Dior's "perceptual ability", Dion is very admired, and the leader of the thorn barrier in the region, who is second only to him, is also a person with a very strong perceptive ability, but in comparison, Dior is undoubtedly superior.

"It's just a natural fit for people who walk in the dark. ”

Dion secretly gave Dior an evaluation.

The three of them were not heading to the secret door where Deon had released the ghouls, but to another entrance to the secret passage.

After moving forward for more than half an hour, they came to the entrance marked on the map.

It was a lounge-like grotto, with more or less damaged wooden furniture, dusty floors, and a large rusty iron cabinet that looked fairly intact.

As soon as they entered the lounge, Dior and Dion worked together to move the heavy iron cabinet behind the door, and held the iron door against it to ensure that it would not be knocked open for a while.

"Let's split up and look for it, the entrance is here, there may be a mechanism. Dion looked at the map and said in the affirmative.

The three of them immediately split up and searched for it in the lounge.

In this regard, Melissa took advantage of her feminine carefulness, and was the first to find a secret door behind a black cloud of carbide on the wall, and when it opened, there was a valve-like mechanism.

Dio came over to take a look, and the mechanism was basically intact except for a lot of dust on the surface, so he pulled the valve and began to exert force, only then did he realize that it might be too long to make the machinery a little old and rusty, and he made a lot of effort to make the valve turn slowly.

Titicaca......

The sound of machinery clashing and the screeching of metal rubbed sounded, and the dust on the wall leaning back suddenly shook up, and a door slowly sliced open, revealing the passage inside.

It may be that this mechanism has not been used for many years, and the reaction has become a lot older, and the door opens very slowly, and it took two minutes to open a finger-wide slit, which can't pass through people at all, but at this time, the pendant on Dior's chest has begun to heat up, and the temperature is rising rapidly.

Obviously, there are already ghouls who have noticed the movement here and are rushing here, and according to Dior's experience, there are more than one or two ghouls.

Dio gritted his teeth, and the muscles of his arm continued to squirm and grow, bringing out all the power and turning the valve as fast as possible.

Soon, the ghouls' characteristic gasps were heard, and they kept moving in their direction.

Melissa and Dion immediately became nervous, they were now trapped inside, it could be said that there was no way back, once they were broken in by ghouls, the consequences were clear without thinking.

They nervously watched as Dior turned the valve, if it weren't for the fact that the secret door was only enough for one person to reach in and operate, they would have been eager to go up together to help Dior with strength. But now they could only hold their breath, and none of them dared to say a word more, lest they attract the ghouls, but even so, in this quiet darkness, the sound of the mechanism turning was like a gong in the ears, and the attention was as if an open fire had been lit in the darkness.

Time seemed to be very long all at once, and I don't know how long it took, the ghoul gasps had reached the door, and the wheezing sound kept coming through the steel gate, Melissa and Dion's mood became more and more nervous, and then, they heard the sound of steel grinding against the door, which was clearly the monsters attacking the gate with their claws.

"Hurry up, hurry up ......"

Dior's face turned red, his muscles coiled like small snakes around his bulging muscles that seemed to burst in the next moment, and his thick knuckles kept trembling, which was a sign of the extreme use of strength.

Boom!

There was a loud bang, and there was a sharp bump on the position where the steel door was not blocked by the iron cabinet, and Melissa felt as if her heart was about to jump out of her mouth, and she shrank tightly beside Dior, as if she could find a trace of courage there, and Dion had quietly shrunk into the shadow of the corner, and the whole person seemed to disappear out of thin air.

The loud noise at the iron door kept coming, and the bumps became more and more dense, and finally, a sharp claw tip pierced the iron door, and in a piercing friction sound, it tore a crack in the iron door, and the terrifying face of the ghoul appeared behind the crack, and after seeing the living people inside, the monster behaved even more crazy.

"Alright, Deon go first, Melissa second, my highness!"

Just as Melissa felt like she was about to suffocate, a voice like heaven came into her ears. She turned her head to look at the secret door, and saw that a crack had opened for people to cross across.

It worked!

Before she could have a second thought, a dark shadow passed by her with great speed, came to the secret door, and quickly crossed it, and it was Theon.

"Don't be in a daze, get over quickly!"

Under the urging of Dior, Melissa came back to her senses, and hurriedly learned to walk through the gap in the secret door horizontally, in the hurry, her dress was hooked by some bulge, and after a few strokes, she couldn't get it down, she gritted her teeth, suddenly exerted force, hissed a crisp sound, her body suddenly loosened, and fell into the secret passage at once.

Before she could get up, a hand grabbed her by the crook of her arm and pulled her up, it was Dio, who followed in.

I saw him glance left and right quickly, tapped a bulge on the left wall, and then pulled Melissa and ran quickly into the depths of the secret passage.

Bang!

The sound of a heavy object falling to the ground rumbled, and a piece of iron falling from the top blocked the entrance to the passageway, blocking out the ghouls' angry roars on the other side.