Chapter 2673: [Thirteenth Alley]

Xia De continued to walk forward. After the fourteenth turn, he should have returned to the corridor where the stairs leading to the ground were connected, but the fact was that the first doorplate Xia De saw was still "No. 9 Morgue," and there were no stairs leading to the ground beside the corridor.

He stood in place and dazed for a while, which was to communicate slightly with the witch cat through telepathy, and then followed the usual practice of such strange things happening in stories, found an empty bottle from his pocket and threw it by the wall.

By the time he turned the corner again, the bottle had disappeared, but the doorplate on the side of the corridor was still "No. 9 Morgue."

Xia De didn't stop this time, but continued to move forward, and didn't have the intention to open the doors of the rooms around him at all. Just like that, after he turned the corner for the thirteenth time, although the doorplate on the right hand hadn't changed, there were two people in the corridor, and at the end of the corridor behind them, a road sign was erected in the middle of the road.

The two extra people were both men, and both were Ring Mages. One looked quite young, probably just an adult, and the other looked like a middle-aged man. They should both be mid-ring, and the middle-aged man asked suspiciously after seeing Xia De appear:

"Can you explain how you did it?"

"What did I do?"

Xia De also asked, and the middle-aged man replied:

"The Secret Keeper-level relic 【13th Alley】 can only be used in terrain with repeatability. After use, it will turn a certain area into a circular space. Every time you re-enter the circular space created by the relic at the end of the cycle, there is a 90% probability of encountering a supernatural event related to the venue. If you encounter a supernatural phenomenon, you need to solve the event and walk back. If it is a 10% chance of nothing happening, you need to continue forward.

Just like that, walking through the repeating terrain thirteen times, you can get rid of the relic's effect."

He took a deep breath:

"We made advance arrangements for the morgue. You should have triggered ghosts, ghouls, or even more terrifying things. After experiencing frequent battles, you should have seen us... Thirteen times, a full thirteen times, can you explain how you managed to bet on the 10% probability thirteen times in a row?"

Xia De looked at the road sign erected behind them. Not long ago, he was discussing relics that could expand space with the girls at home. He didn't expect one to appear, but it's a pity that the side effects of this relic are too great:

"Is that so? Actually, I'm also a bit curious. Just now I was thinking about when the room doors around would suddenly open, or when the lights would suddenly go out and monsters would appear. It seems that it's just my luck that is relatively good."

Before his words fell, the two standing side by side had already entered the "Rapid Spell" state. The relatively narrow corridor didn't leave any room for anyone to dodge. In the state of straight-line sprinting, the two reached Xia De in the next second.

In the state of rapid spell acceleration, their neural reactions naturally kept up with their own movements. But they were surprised to find that the young man's eyes in front of them could completely keep up with every step they took, and his eyes were always fixed on them.

In the state of rapid spell, most sorcery and curses cannot be cast. This is the most important shortcoming of this sorcery. But Xia De just relied on his relatively fast reaction, so he, who was tense, could slash out a blow at the front in that one second:

"Moonlight Slash!"

The moonlight of the diagonal slash even touched the side walls of the corridor directly. Even the speed of the "Rapid Spell" state couldn't keep up with the speed of light, but at least the two running at full speed, one jumped up suddenly, and one slid on his knees, both successfully passing through the gap between the moonlight and the ceiling, and the moonlight and the floor.

But because of such exaggerated dodging movements, they lost their focus on Xia De. So when the two who landed and tried to stand up looked at Xia De again, the bottom of the black long staff had already hit the ground:

"Principle of Stability!"

The green fluctuation swept across the ground, and then the two were surprised to find that Xia De's movements had suddenly accelerated. But soon they understood that it wasn't Xia De who was accelerating, but they had actually exited the "Rapid Spell" state.

Under the principle of stability, most time instability was smoothed out, and Xia De, whose movements accelerated, didn't rush directly at the two, but raised his hand and cast sorcery:

"Imprisonment Halo!"

A silver halo trailing afterimages flew out. The distance between the three was already close enough, and the two from the 【Tree Hole Society】 didn't even have room to dodge. Thus, the two halos successfully looped over their heads. However, the young man, who looked young in appearance but was at least an Eighth-Order, suddenly pulled his companion, and the two vanished into thin air, reappearing ten meters behind them.

The imprisonment halo chased after them, but was shot down by the two who were prepared.

"Spatial Jump Sorcery?"

Xia De raised his eyebrows in surprise, watching the two turn and flee to the other end of the corridor. And behind them, two shields overlapped, and the defensive sorcery used by the two in cooperation exerted a very good effect.

Xia De didn't chase them or try to break their defense, but left the corridor from the opposite direction with the 【Yggdrasil Staff】.

As for the two trying to escape, when they approached the end of the corridor, they saw a huge brown bear suddenly appear from the corner. The bear even had to bend down to keep from hitting its head, but at least its claws were agile enough to just gently flick the road sign to change its direction, and the two whose faces changed drastically disappeared into the corridor immediately.

"How is it?"

Xia De, who had circled the corridor, appeared from the corridor corner behind the brown bear, and the bear turned back into an owl and flew onto Xia De's shoulder:

"They are trapped by the relic. According to my understanding of this Secret Keeper-level relic, they will have to spend at least half an hour to get out."

Actually, during the third cycle of the corridor, the knowledgeable witch basically determined what relic they had encountered. And while Xia De was confronting the two from the 【Tree Hole Association】, she circled counterclockwise, which successfully used the other party's relic to trap the two.

However, Xia De and the witch, who were not at ease, checked the vicinity again, and finally determined that there was no third person ambushing here. And during this period, the phantoms of the two trapped by the relic kept appearing in the corridor like ghosts.

In this state, Xia De and Miss Lei Lei Qianya couldn't interfere with them, and could only watch them fight with some abnormal phenomena that appeared in the morgue corridor that the outside world couldn't see.

The Ring Mages of the 【Tree Hole Association】 obviously didn't have Xia De's luck. They didn't encounter the 10% probability even once. And while the two were still fighting with the abnormal phenomena that appeared in the morgue corridor in the relic, Xia De also checked the road sign.

The main body of the Secret Keeper-level relic 【Thirteenth Alley】 is this somewhat rusty road sign. The road sign itself is square and connected to a metal tube through welding, allowing it to be inserted into the mud, but according to the witch, that metal tube is just an ordinary item. In fact, the relic body only contains the road sign itself.

It can work by standing upright, or by fixing it on the wall, but every time it is fixed in a position, it can only exert its effect on the first people to appear, and it needs to be re-fixed to be effective again. As for its negative characteristics, they are abnormal events and monsters generated by the relic for the scene. A very small part can actively break away from the relic's range after all the entrants die, becoming truly existing "relic derivatives."

This has led to the 【Thirteenth Alley】 road sign being one of the relics with the most types of relic derivatives. Miss Owl even said that this relic has generated more than one recorded Angel-level relic:

"Cloud Whale, Giant of the Night Mountains, and event-type relic 'Falling into the Deep Sea'. Fortunately, generating this kind of high-risk event requires extremely strict venues, and just a morgue won't cause such big trouble."

And the words on the road sign belong to the Third Era, which also shows that the origin of this relic is quite ancient.

To prevent the relic from suddenly interrupting the effect, Xia De didn't touch it with his hands, but he could still see a string of denser and finer letters below the letters "Thirteenth Alley":

【This is a warm home that makes people reluctant to leave.】

"So, is Professor Kunto's death related to the Tree Hole Association?"

Xia De asked with a sigh, and the owl spread its wings and flew up:

"I'll go take a look at the professor's body and try to communicate with the soul. You watch these two here, be careful."

She flew toward the No. 5 morgue, opened the door by herself, and flew in. However, she didn't come back long after, and after landing on Xia De's shoulder, she turned back into a cat, and her tail even rubbed against Xia De's neck:

"They arrived early to deal with Professor Kunto's body, and the soul communication failed."

"Then wait and see, see what they actually did."

Miss Danister, who was left at the hotel, thought that the two who went out on a rainy night would return soon, but she and Miss Bell waited until ten o'clock in the evening, and even wanted to let the witch followers downstairs go find them, before the owl, which was like a drowned chicken, grabbed the cat that was also soaked in the rain and flew to the window.

Miss Bell hurriedly opened the window, so the two cats landed on the windowsill, and then shook their bodies frantically with almost identical movements. Miss Bell went to get a towel, and after wiping the rain off the two cats, they changed back.

The metal road sign was placed upside down on the windowsill. Xia De sat on the sofa, holding his forehead, looking a bit exhausted. The red-haired girl poured him a cup of tea herself, her tone very gentle:

"Did you encounter a sudden event? I noticed you brought back a relic." ===== CHAPTER 2674 =====