Chapter 3432: Stairwell and Corpse

"Blood evolution, huh."

Because Xia De had two high-level vampire friends, Mr. Bernhardt and Mr. Albert, and had also obtained knowledge about vampires, he understood this very well. As long as the other party did not kill people or convert dependents at will, he did not feel that sucking a few mouthfuls of blood was an evil act:

"Then let me summarize—the three of you actually don't want to leave immediately?"

"Yes, so during each outing exploration, the three of us actually maintained a considerable degree of tacit understanding."

The sixth floor and the fifth floor were also quickly passed. At the same time, the light of the lantern hanging on Miss Novare's belt was obviously weakening, but it should be no problem to maintain it for a while longer. Although the time they went out was not long, the distance they moved was really too long:

"I also realized that it's not just this inn that locked us up, the three of us also locked ourselves up. So your appearance is a good thing. If you didn't appear, although we knew that there might be an exit on the first floor, we might never go to the first floor again. My reason tells me that leaving here is the thing that should be done most, but my desire tells me that this place is quite good."

Xia De sighed while continuing to go downstairs closely following her:

"Well, actually I also have urgent matters that need to be handled here."

"What matter?"

"Do you know the 【House of the False】? Because of some reasons, I need to know the method to escape from the 【House of the False】."

"I certainly know that disgusting thing, but I can't help you. The documents of the tribe only recorded the stories of our race dealing with it. The blood of the false people tastes the same as the wax of a candle to us."

Her voice suddenly stopped, and she also stopped her steps, making Xia De behind her almost bump into her.

At this time, the position of the two was between the third floor and the fourth floor, but they had not yet reached the corner position in the middle of the stairs. Miss Novare lifted the lantern on her belt, allowing Xia De to see a corpse lying on the platform at the corner of the stairs.

It looked like a man, but the corpse was severely weathered, the flesh and blood had long since dried up, and now only withered bones and damaged clothing remained. It looked like it had been lying here for many years.

"No, we reached here during the exploration three times ago, and we didn't see this corpse at that time... Could it be that so much time has passed in the chaos of time?"

The vampire girl didn't expect such a thing to happen, but she and Xia De both judged that it was indeed just a corpse.

After the two cautiously approached the corpse, they checked the condition of the corpse. Because of the severe weathering, the cause of death of this person could no longer be judged, but several ribs of the corpse were missing. He fell in a prone position, with his head facing the upstairs position, looking like he had struggled to escape from downstairs to here before dying unwillingly.

The food and other items he carried had also rotted or been damaged, and he was clutching a candle stub in his left hand. Xia De also found six matches in the interlayer inside his belt.

The matches were wrapped in a small paper package, and there were also words on the paper package:

【Room 0301, safe, regularly produces food; Room 0315, dangerous, unknown entity exists, can leave after discarding some bones; Room 0348, dangerous, leads to another building, unknown butcher threat; Room 0380, safe, regularly produces liquid with strange odor in the sewage bucket, but the room is very cold.】

The dense words didn't look particularly clear, and the language used was not the text of this era.

Xia De and Miss Novare guessed that he should be a person who came here in an earlier era. Whether he could use supernatural power was uncertain, but the time he survived should not be long. After all, the rooms he knew were limited to the third floor, and there were only four rooms.

It was just that among these four rooms, the witches had explored Room 0380, but their understanding of this room was completely different from the corpse; "There is a very powerful undead in that room, very powerful. However, the other party was not very aggressive, and we retreated immediately after entering by mistake."

There were no relics or alchemical items on the corpse, but finally Xia De found a black key made of metal in his jacket pocket.

Only then did he think of this question:

"Miss Novare, all the rooms in this inn can be opened directly, right?"

The red-haired vampire girl was also stunned, and then nodded affirmatively:

"Yes, at least all the rooms we encountered can be opened directly from the outside. But the rooms here have a locking function. Didn't our room lock itself when you knocked on the door? As for why our room cannot be forced open, it is because of the power of the Old God protecting the house."

She also looked at the key in Xia De's hand:

"Is this a key he brought from the outside world himself, or..."

The metal key didn't have a trace of rust, while the belt buckle of the corpse had already been covered with rust, which was enough to explain the problem.

Out of caution, Xia De finally turned this corpse into a toy to carry on his body, instead of leaving it in the stairwell. Although this corpse didn't show danger, the appearance of things that hadn't been there before in the stairwell still made the cautious vampire girl not chat with Xia De for the rest of the journey.

The firelight of the lantern finally went out between the second floor and the third floor, but immediately a new match was ignited on the wall, allowing the firelight to jump in the lantern again.

The two didn't chat about this but continued to go downstairs. Although the second floor should be considered the safest floor, when the two were preparing to turn downstairs on the second floor, a blood light rushed toward them in the deep darkness of the corridor.

At this moment, neither of them had entered the lower stairwell, and they were backing toward the corridor. However, after the corpse incident, they had been maintaining the greatest vigilance. Xia De, who was closest to the blood light, turned around and swung his sword.

The bright silver light was attached to the blade of 【Dawn of Daybreak】. Although the gold and silver intertwined light was controlled by Xia De not to be particularly bright, the power was not weakened. The long sword collided with the blood light. Xia De originally thought he had encountered a very remarkable attack, but the blood light exploded into a ball of blood mist on the spot.

At the last moment, he saw that it was a black bat. Of course, at this time, it had become bat sauce.

The expression of the red-haired vampire girl was quite ugly:

"That was my bat."

"What?"

"My bat, some of the bats I summoned in this inn would disappear for no reason. Although the one just now was no longer under my control, I recognized it as a bat I had summoned."

They had already retreated to the stairs below at this time. After passing another corner, they would be able to reach the first floor of the inn.

Nothing else appeared in the darkness of the second floor. The sound of blood dripping down the blade of the long sword in Xia De's hand and dripping onto the wooden stairs was so obvious.

So Xia De evaporated the blood with dim firelight, and then turned to look below:

"This only shows that even the second floor is not safe. Let's go, since that thing didn't catch up, we don't need to worry about it, we have reached our destination."

Miss Novare also looked below:

"Last time we stayed on the last step before the corner. After all, looking down from the corner is the first floor."

"Do you have no memory of the first floor at all now?"

Xia De confirmed, and the vampire girl shook her head:

"Vaguely remember that the area of the first floor is not large, other than that, I really don't remember anything."

She hesitated for a moment:

"I'll follow you to go there. Last time I only sensed the situation below through bats. This time with my main body, maybe I can remember some things."

"You just hide behind me for a while."

Xia De exhorted. Although Miss Novare was not sure how powerful Xia De was, since he could be blessed by a god, she was willing to believe in his power.

There were two fixed sections of stairs between the two floors, and each section of stairs had thirteen fixed steps, which only took a few seconds to cross.

After reaching the corner of the stairs, Miss Novare immediately stuck to him, but this time it was not a clumsy charm, she was really a little scared.

At this time, the lantern had been handed to Xia De. He continued to go downstairs with the lamp in one hand and the sword in the other. After walking two steps, he could clearly see the state of the floor below.

The vampire girl was right, the area of the first floor was indeed not large, about the size of the living room plus the bedroom of Xia De's house.

There were two square tables placed here, and a dilapidated counter was against the wall. A human figure who could not be seen clearly at this time stood behind the counter, and when looking at the entity, broken golden light drifted out from the surface of Xia De's skin.

He let out a long breath, it seemed that the guess was correct, the god this time was here.

The first floor, which looked like the front hall of the inn, did not extend corridors to both sides, which meant that the area of the first floor was different from the upstairs. But this inn and the "Whispering Hills" where the inn was located originally had the characteristics of space chaos, so it was normal for the area to be wrong.

The decoration style of the inn lobby was consistent with the upstairs, generally in the early steam era, and even two or three pipes of unknown function could be seen on the wall of the first floor. And although there was no light source on the first floor, Xia De was certain that a coal gas lamp was hanging on the wall behind the counter.

The wall facing the stairs had doors and windows, the windows were still sealed with wooden boards, but the room door looked normal.

He continued to go downstairs, and the vampire girl also noticed the physical abnormality of Xia De at this time, but she didn't dare to ask, and just stuck to him and went downstairs.

And when the two really stood on the first floor, Miss Novare had already regretted not transforming into a bat and hiding in Xia De's pocket just now. The powerful pressure from the direction she didn't dare to look at rushed toward her like a tsunami about to drown an ant. If someone hadn't blocked in front, she felt she would have exploded and died.

And the reason she reacted so strongly was not only because vampires belonged to "dark creatures" and were more fearful of the power of the gods, but also because the person behind the counter was not a saint at all.

This was a True God.