Chapter 21: The Basement Opens the Door

Rick walked around the maze on the first floor, all the candles extinguished. Rick didn't know where the candle he had last seen in the mirror was on the first floor. He touched the wax tears everywhere, hoping to touch one that was still warm, but each one was cold.

Just as Rick was thinking about giving up altogether and escaping from the house, a fancy ostrich fur hat appeared upside down in front of him. Naimo stepped out from under the ceiling.

Namo said, "It's like you're fleeing in the room, why didn't you flee?" Nemo broke off the ceiling, rolled over in the air, and landed firmly on the ground, and Lisina then landed.

"Do you know where the basement door is?" asked Rick, holding Namo's shoulders with both hands.

"I hate it, ask people so seriously, why don't you come up with a gold brick first-"

Before Nemo could finish speaking, Syk slid down, grabbed Naimo's arm, and threw him directly over the shoulder.

Lisna covered her mouth with her hands and smiled, "I said the master is a good sandbag!"

"Say it. Still clutching Namo's arm, Rick said with a grimace.

"Alright, alright, come with me. Do you know how to open it?" Namo slapped Rick's hand away, stood up, and straightened his clothes.

"Yes. 」

"I want half of the stuff in it!"

Naimo led Syk around the labyrinth, turning seven corners. Everything in the maze looked similar, but Naimo knew with certainty which way she was going. They came to a dead end, a place where they would not pass by no matter which room they were going to. Nick touched the candle, and compared to the other candles, this one's wax tears were still soft. Rick took out a flint and steel and lit the candle, and a black swirl appeared on the ground next to him. There was a circular cut in the carpet in that area, as if it had been cut with a sharp blade, and then the cut round carpet was sucked down the middle, revealing a pit. The hole was big enough for the monster to pass through.

"Cool. Namo said with wide eyes.

"Before I go down, I'll warn you, 'that spell' is probably already underway. If you are afraid of an explosion, it is important to try to flee for your life first. Rick said, staring at the dark hole.

Namo tilted his head, "You're going down, aren't you?"

Rick's face tensed, and he said heavily, "I must find someone and help him get revenge. I don't allow those guys to blow themselves up and kill themselves in the way they want. 」

"Then I'll go too. You are busy taking revenge, I am busy robbing, no conflict!"

"Let's go!" said Rick. He jumped first.

Rick fell down in the darkness for a few seconds before touching the ground. He used some buffer-reducing spells, but it seemed to be overthinking. He didn't feel the impact he deserved when he landed. As soon as he landed, he flashed to the side. Naimo followed and landed, and Zuihou was Lisna.

They landed on the damp and soft soil, and took a step forward to step on the ground paved with rotten wooden planks. Rick groped in the dark, the walls were made of brick and covered with droplets of water. After walking a short distance, suddenly many man-made ghost fires lit up all around.

The cold air underneath is mixed with dirty water and the stench of mold. The light of the ghost fire was not enough to illuminate the entire room, and only produced pieces of ground that reflected blue light in the darkness.

The three of them followed the light and walked into an open, bright space. There are magic lanterns on the walls all around the place. Rick took a look, but didn't see any obvious energy-generating devices.

Everywhere there are huge sparkling instruments. The blue straight glass bottle, large enough to fit an entire cow, is a life simulator. Like a galaxy model, the instrument made of various large beads and rings is a magic splitter. All kinds of expensive instruments are placed in this damp, not haode place for instruments.

Naimo couldn't help but scold, "How did you do this?

"I can't stand these rich people. Rick shook his head.

Nemo walked over to the instrument to check its condition. In addition to the unsurprising rust spots, a lot of residue was found that had not been cleaned up after use, and even whole sediment appeared in the boxes and grooves. Pieces of charred hay got stuck in the crevices, and strange mud splattered on the panels. Reminds him of what Hana's workbench looked like before he started cleaning it.

"I can't sell it. Naimo said. These sold to those who collect rags may also be charged a cleaning fee.

They moved on, and another space was stacked with spell materials. Xi Ke saw the familiar biscuit jars again, and many of the ingredients in the sacks were thrown directly on the ground, sucking all the dirty water on the ground. None of these things will work.

Xi Ke saw sweet stamens, bad throat flowers, and the flesh of the frog that he cut haode. He should have made a whole jar, but now there was only a little bit of frog meat left in the jar. The wound medicine I made before shouldn't need frog meat.

They turned a corner, and a strong smell of preservatives came from ahead. Nick finally knew what had happened to those who had gone missing.

Namo let out a soft "wow" sound.

The edge of the glass sink is illuminated by cyan ghostly fires, and linear reflections draw the shape of the two drainage sinks in the room. The sink is set up on the ground, up to the waist of a man. The sink was filled with preservatives, and the outline of a human body could be faintly seen as the soaking object inside.

Rick approached the sink and saw the mutilated bodies of the girls. Some have been soaked in the liquid for a long time, showing a pale and puffy texture. Some have only recently been thrown in, and the skin still seems to be elastic. The people who caused the deaths of these people have a habit of extreme character taboo spell offenders. Just as some chefs are rumored to take only a small piece of meat on top of the whole chicken, this man takes only the part of them that he is most satisfied with. Some people only have their noses missing, some people have missing an eyeball, some have their hair shaved, some have the tip of their fingers cut off, some have only one side of their thigh flesh left, and some have their entire chest stripped away, exposing their ribs. There are also open stomachs, bones removed, and all kinds of mutilations.

Even the equipment that needs to be used again and again is in such a bad state of maintenance, and the condition of these "leftover materials" is even worse. The sink didn't even have a lid, and some of the fat bubbled out of the embalming liquid floated on the surface, and the corpses of insects floated and sank inside. Because there were too many corpses, the sink could not be plugged, and some of the corpses were bent into abnormal shapes and forced into them, and some were exposed to the air, and the condition of those parts was even more terrible.

Just now at the banquet, Xi Ke saw that the two girls were also lying here, and they were no longer breathing. They were not put in the sink, but casually thrown on the ground in the middle. This confirmed Syk's feelings: the spell was already in progress, and they were not afraid that the corpse would rot and pollute the workshop, so they threw it around.

"What a waste. Namo said again, "If this place were seen by the necromancers, it would be mad. He took out a drugged handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose, and handed one to Lisina as well.

Rick nodded, he had seen truly evil mages and seen many terrible rituals. That kind of person is an expert in evil. And now when he saw what the evil layman was doing, he felt even more disgusted with these things here.

Evil experts know what they are doing and how to do it efficiently. They have a reverence for their own madness, which is a kind of piety that normal people cannot understand, another standard of sacredness.

Evil laymen are different, they do all kinds of harm in vain, and they anger others for their mistakes. They don't have a ruler in their hearts, they don't have a standard of behavior, and what they do is pure blasphemy.

Rick counted the number of people, and how many parts they had lost. There are multiple pieces of corpses cut open from twenty corpses. If it is an evil expert, three people should be enough. Coupled with Xiao Horn and the person whose body fell on the scene, a total of twenty-two lives were sacrificed for this spell. God knows if there are others.

As we continued to move forward, the ghost fire grew so bright that it was almost blinding. The walls of the next room were not covered with bricks, and there were no planks on the floor. Only the wooden supports support the roof of the cave, which is better than nothing to prevent it from collapsing. There was a shovel stuck in the ground in the middle of the room.

Nemo stepped forward and examined the clay pots and folders piled up in the corner of the room, with documents inserted, "This is it, archaeological site!"

This is supposed to be the mage who caused the big bang before, and his studio is the same location. Many mages will back up important information and add protective spells to avoid accidentally burning the essence when they miss. There are also many commercially available anti-explosion cabinets that can be used, and the most high-quality ones even claim that they can't blow up even if they get involved in a duel between two archmages. So after the Big Bang, there's still a high chance that the data will be intact, and it's here that Lady Yolan and Hana dig up it.

Xi Ke didn't think that Mrs. Yulan would do such a dreamy job, probably Hana was digging alone. There is only one shovel too. Rick's imagination of Hana sweating and digging in the rain is somewhat similar to his own hard work in the studio.

Nemo and Lisna were busy packing their things, and Rick walked forward alone.

In a room in Zuihou, he finally saw his goal.

Zuihou is also the largest room, and a magic circle that glows fluorescent green almost fills the ground, emitting a strong light that renders the entire room. Rick judged that one-third of the circle was valid. He sees the structure of transformation, the symbol from beginning to finish. A third was useless, and he saw the symbols that Hana had painted on his clothes. It's good to put it in the comics to enhance the momentum. The remaining third is simply unintelligible, and has no function other than to disrupt the flow of mana.

Xi Ke took a step forward and saw that the insect powder used to draw the circle had not been ground thoroughly enough, and there were complete insect heel insect wings inside.

This room, like the archaeological room, has bare dirt on the walls and floor, probably to make it easy to draw the energy left over from the last explosion and use it to power the circle. Wick didn't see any devices that provided the driving energy, and Hana probably thought that residual energy was enough, like the magic lamps in front of her.

Rick also saw that the soil on the walls was incoherent, and that something was buried in one place.

As he calculated, there were three female corpses stitched together from so many corpses. They were placed on chairs, each at an equal distance, facing inwards around the circle. They sat with their heads bowed, their hands folded on their abdomen, in a stereotypical posture of a woman who was obedient and obedient. The way the corpses were stitched together was extremely crude, each part was not aligned at all, and the limbs were delicately twisted. The stitches are not spaced at different intervals, the length of the two sides of the stitches is not equal, and the skin of the whole body is like a garment pressed to the bottom of the box for a long time, full of wrinkles. There are almost bones that almost break through the skin, and there is no muscle to fix the haode bones. The black powder used to absorb water at the broken area forms an unsightly lump.

Miss Hana stood outside the circle, chanting incantations in a heartless manner. Lady Youlan stood in the center of the circle, her hands outstretched, she looked up, and her gaze seemed to penetrate the roof of the cave, and also through the house above it, and saw some kind of paradise beyond the edge of the universe in the distant sky. She noticed that Rick had entered, looked down at Rick, and smiled, "I'm going to rebel against my fate, just watch there, man!"

The circle glowed so brightly that Rick had to cover his eyes with his sleeve and wait for the light to subside before putting it down. Mrs. Yulan was gone, and only her clothes had fallen there. Two people appeared in circles at each end of the circle.

One is the monster who kidnapped the girl at night. The other is a man in a silk top hat. Both of them have seen it. One was on the street, trying to attack him but being beaten away. One is to see his back through the round steel mirror, and he used to talk to Hana in Hana's office.

This was the first time he had seen the front of the man in the silk top hat. He was full of height, almost as tall as Seren. The shoulders are narrow and the neck is long, which is a little scary. He stood with his legs clamped, and he didn't relax much as he walked, and he used this movement to approach Xike. He clasped his arms and looked down slightly at Xike, pinching the brim of his hat with one hand and two fingers, and Xike could see his face by the light of the circle on the ground.

That face is the male version of Lady Yolan. The contour is much straighter, the chin is wider, and the eyebrows are thick and thick, and the brow bones and cheekbones are more prominent. But that face had a feminine look. A hostile gaze peculiar to women, who would want the other party to know, but not intimidating, and a reserved smile, made Xi Ke feel very uncomfortable.

"Rick, ah, Rick. The man in the top hat deliberately kept his voice low, but his voice was already in the male range, and it seemed unnatural to lower it any further. He said in a knowingly questioning tone, as if he were forcing the other party to admit his guilt, "What are you doing here?"

"I've come to trouble you, ma'am. Xi Ke deliberately emphasized the word zuihou.

"You must call me 'Master'!" the man in the top hat roared. When a man roars, it is usually the dantian force, and the woman is mostly throat force. He was now straining in his throat: "I'm not that ugly piece of fat!"

"You're not fat. Rick frowned. He meant it. When Mrs. Youlan was still a woman, she was in very good shape, and men couldn't take their eyes off it, and women were envious. A pair of ** makes those women who spend money on breast augmentation jealous.

"It's disgusting, that kind of thing is growing on me, it shouldn't have happened. The man in the top hat muttered, pacing from side to side and in an angry tone, "But those days will end today. Today is the day I am born again!"

"Impossible, no—probably. Wick raised his hand in the shape of a knife, and swung sideways to the side near the height of his neck, making a contemptuous veto: "This spell can't be successful. Just by looking at your studio, you know that the basic management work is so poor, and you can't even get the medicine for injuries. It is impossible to perform any spells here that require precise calculations. You're still going to do the precision spells of precision spells. Again, even if your miracle really succeeds, and the police are eyeing you, what new life do you want? Some of your crimes will be beaten up in men's prisons, and you will not have a good life. 」

"I'm not going to get caught. The man in the top hat roared, and then his gaze drifted away again: "I will leave here, and I will take my little goblin with me, and I will give her the most beautiful wedding, and she will wear a pure white veil to symbolize her immaculate purity to me." I will pamper her, I will command her, I will not treat women like men, she will be willing to obey and serve me, she will be rewarded accordingly, and I will know that I am the only master who will not make her miserable. The man in the top hat suddenly became hoarse, "As long as I overcome this only obstacle today!"

No matter what Rick heard, she just wanted to inflict the damage she had done on Lenno. "You want to rob my friend's wife, and I can't allow that. Lino was Valu's wife, and that was something that everyone, including the most important Lino, agreed.

"No one can stop me, it was mine!" the man in the top hat shook his fist and yelled hysterically.

At the same time, as if in response to his rage, the monster opened its bloody jaws and pounced on Syk. The fangs in its mouth stretched out several times at once, and the blood-stained yellow teeth pointed at Xi Ke, protruding out of the mouth, and spewing a strong stench.

Xi Ke knew that this monster would do it sooner or later, and he was already prepared. He threw out the bones of the pigeon's wings and recited the zuihou of the incantation with the sacrificial knife in his hand. The bones turned into three solid iron balls with a diameter of sixty centimeters, smashing into the monster's face, hands, and lower body, and disappearing after a second of impact. The monster didn't see the external genitalia in its lower body hair, so he thought that smashing the iron ball over there wouldn't have any effect. It was just one of the vital points of the human body that he was used to attacking. The monster was smashed backwards and rolled twice on the ground, confusing the circle. However, the circle was already a mess, and Xi Ke didn't think it would make a difference if the circle was a little more mushy. The monster quickly got up and didn't seem to be hurt.

But the man in the top hat put his hands on his lower body, screaming and kneeling, his back arched and his face twisted. It seems that I feel a sharp pain that a woman can't experience.

The monster crawls on all fours in a circular path. It wasn't hurt, its bloodshot eyes watching Xi Ke's every move. There is no retreat option today, and the winner is to be decided here.

"I've watched her since she was born. The man in the top hat inhaled deeply and straightened his body to stand up, but his back was still a little arched, and his neck could not be straightened: "No one knows her better than me, I have been watching her, I know that she is pure. Unlike those lowly women who are willing to serve men and regard a small favor given by men as a great favor! This world is full of dirty men and women, but she is pure!

"In order to protect her, I have endured great pain by all means to face the evil of this shijie. She should be united with someone as pure as she is, so that she can maintain her beautiful heart. If she were to marry a man like any other dirty woman, she would be forced by him to become a dirty man! Only those who have the authority of a man and the purity of a woman are worthy of her. It's a shame that I'm the only one in the world who meets this standard!

"But that abominable little youkai. The monster that has been parasitic on my heart and liver since I was even born. It was she who caused me to suffer so much, and the reason why I was nauseous and vomited all the time was because my body wanted to exclude her, and she climbed on my little goblin and came to this shijie through the shadows!

"That nasty thing isn't a woman at all, she's an alien. She's going to ride horses in her pants and she's playing ball with men! That's a monster sent by a man to drive a wedge between us!"