Chapter 1873

As soon as one of Su Xiao's feet stepped into the stone door, a strange feeling appeared. It felt as if there were many invisible tentacles on both sides of the stone door. As he moved forward, he squeezed through these invisible tentacles with his body and entered the door.

Su Xiao blocked in front of him with one arm. As he completely entered the stone door, the pressure around him eased, and a warm feeling spread through his body along his arm. This warmth came from the Stone of Shelter in the arm guard's card slot; this crystal was emitting a faint reddish light.

Su Xiao turned around and looked outside the stone door. Several figures with orange-yellow trunks and yellow-green edges appeared; this feeling was very similar to thermal imaging. That was the Old Monk and the others.

A dog's head squeezed into the stone door, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang kicked its front paws wildly, clearly stuck. Seeing this, Su Xiao grabbed the fur on the back of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's neck and dragged it into the stone door.

"No, wait, I'm not ready yet, hold on..."

Veronique's voice came; she was both resistant and afraid to shout, making it sound like she was being forced into prostitution.

Just as Veronique came in, Amu also passed through the stone door, and the Old Monk finally entered the stone door after waiting for a long time.

"It's fixed. No matter what happens, you must return the same way within two days, otherwise the seal will close again. At that time, we will be forever imprisoned in the Dead Silence City, eroded and assimilated."

The Old Monk rubbed his temples with one hand, and his gaze would inadvertently become somewhat dazed.

After Su Xiao confirmed that there was no danger around, he was just about to push open the wooden door of the house when a slight vibration appeared on the ground under his feet.

Thump~ Thump~ Thump~

The vibration gradually intensified. Su Xiao raised his hand to signal everyone to be silent. He came to the glass window of the room; the glass window was grey and hazy, with the center covered in grey-brown grime, and only at the edges could one vaguely see the outside.

Through the edge of the glass window, Su Xiao saw a monster that was over seven meters tall, with rough, black-grey skin, looking humanoid overall.

The monster's chest was covered in black rusted armor plates, and its head had no facial features, just like a bulging grey abscess, with only a row of air holes of different sizes where the mouth should be.

The most conspicuous part was the monster's right arm. This seven-meter-tall guy's right arm hung almost to the ground, and the entire arm was covered in tree-root-like barbs, with the diameter of the entire arm being at least three meters thick.

Su Xiao tried to use the Apostle's Eye to probe the monster's information.

【Comparing intelligence attributes of both sides... Comparison complete. Our intelligence attribute is 10.7 times that of the enemy; 100% of the enemy's data has been obtained.】

Data is as follows:

Name: Gatekeeper: Tree-Eater

Category: Resident of Dead Silence City

HP: 82.9%

Power of Death: 3245/3500 points

Strength: 125

Agility: 75

Stamina: 100

Intelligence: 10

Charisma: 2

Skill 1, People of Death: HP +2500 points, no pain sensation, 17% physical damage reduction, 50% holy damage reduction, 50% dark damage reduction.

Skill 2, Destruction: Tree-Eater swings its right arm with full force, causing smashing damage equal to Strength attribute x10, and performs a Strength attribute judgment. If the judgment is successful, it will cause crushing damage to the enemy, the attack intensity will be tripled, and there is a chance of instant death.

Skill 3, Roar: After discovering an enemy, Tree-Eater will roar with all its might, attracting residents from one-tenth of the Dead Silence City area.

Skill 4, Frenzied Destruction: Tree-Eater fully activates the 'Death Tree Roots' on its right arm, bombarding a 10-meter radius, destroying the surrounding terrain, and forming a shockwave that can cause physical dizziness. The attack power is the same as Destruction, and multiple Strength judgments can be performed.

Su Xiao silently shifted his gaze away, waiting for the Gatekeeper: Tree-Eater outside to pass. He was certain he could kill this thing, but once he made a mistake and was physically dazed, he might be smashed to death by this monster's tree-arm.

Gatekeeper: Tree-Eater was clearly not a boss-level entity; it was at most an elite stronger than the ordinary residents of the Dead Silence City. In game terms, this was just an elite gatekeeper monster.

However, just an elite gatekeeper monster could kill Su Xiao in a few hits, so the full-form Prisoner: Hera...

"The residents of the Dead Silence City have weakened a lot."

The Old Monk also saw the Gatekeeper: Tree-Eater outside, and he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

"This is... weakened a lot?"

Su Xiao now personally experienced how dangerous the Dead Silence City was.

"That's right. If 'Eater' wasn't in a weakened state, it would have already discovered us..."

The Old Monk stopped halfway through his sentence, because a knocking sound appeared in this small room of only 30 square meters.

Bang, bang...

The sound was very short and very slight; it felt like a brat upstairs jumping on the floorboards.

Su Xiao and the Old Monk exchanged a glance. Veronique, on the side, immediately raised her hands to indicate that it definitely wasn't her. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had long since blended into the environment, and as for Amu, it wouldn't have such 'childlike innocence'.

Bang, bang.

Two more knocks. Cold sweat flowed down Veronique's cheeks. This sudden sound wasn't scary; what was scary was that she hadn't perceived anything.

"Could it be..."

The Old Monk's eyelids twitched, signaling everyone not to move.

The vibration of the ground gradually disappeared; Gatekeeper: Tree-Eater had clearly walked away. Su Xiao's gaze was fixed on the wooden cabinet inside the house. This was a vertical cabinet nearly two meters high, covered in wormholes, with dense cracks all over the dry wooden boards.

Creak~

The double doors of the wooden cabinet opened, and some tattered cloth strips hung inside. At the bottom, a petite figure was curled up, hugging her knees with both hands.

After seeing this petite figure, the Old Monk's old face twitched, and his mouth opened and closed without making any sound, but his lip-reading was: 'Prepare to run.'

The Old Monk's strength was no less than Su Xiao's; if one counted the metal book in his hand, he was even stronger than Su Xiao. But now, the Old Monk said to run as soon as he opened his mouth, without any intention of fighting, which only meant that Su Xiao + Old Monk + Amu had little chance of winning against the petite figure, or the cost of the battle would be too tragic, with the latter being more likely.

"Woo, woo..."

Crying sounds came. The little girl curled up at the bottom of the wardrobe hung her head, burying her face in her knees.

"Save, me."

The little girl suddenly turned her head.

"RUN! Don't look at her!"

The Old Monk suddenly blocked in front of Su Xiao, blocking Su Xiao's line of sight.

Su Xiao turned around without hesitation and rushed toward the door, kicking the door to pieces. Veronique was also quick-witted and turned to flee with Su Xiao, but before she had run a few steps, her baggy pants fell down, all the way to her ankles.

"Take me with you, it hurts."

Veronique's body was falling forward, face-first, when Su Xiao grabbed her hair and tucked her under his arm.

BOOM!

A wall of pure black energy stood in the room, separating Su Xiao and the Old Monk.

Pfft, pfft...

Spikes like hair pierced through the black wall, and bloodstains could still be seen on the tips.

"I command you in the name of the Black King, Ataya, retreat."

The Old Monk's voice came from behind the black wall, followed by a roar.

Su Xiao, Amu, and Veronique had already rushed out of the small hut. As soon as Su Xiao stepped out the door, he immediately tilted his body to the side.

WHOOSH~

A hair-like spike pierced past his neck. If it weren't for the reaction speed honed between life and death, this one hit might have been fatal.

Veronique kept her hands clasped, shielding the nearby sounds, energy fluctuations, etc.

"Is he not coming out?"

In the crisis, Veronique shouted. Clearly, she was touched by the Old Monk's spirit, but she didn't know what Su Xiao had done for the Old Monk.

Su Xiao quickly looked around. This was an empty street, with flocculent grey-white objects floating along the stone road. Both sides of the street were filled with buildings that looked like residential houses, with roofs like black spikes.

"Don't worry about me, go first. Survive, and I will find you."

The Old Monk's urgent shouting came from behind. Su Xiao rushed toward the right side of the street, because he saw a very tall building in the distance.