Chapter 3438: Undead Room

The corpse of the human-faced spider fell to the ground, and then was stirred into a mass of bloody rotten mud by the long sword danced by Miss Kearns.

Her speed of drawing the sword was quite fast and powerful. Although Miss Novare said that Xia De's sword technique was better than Miss Kearns', Xia De believed that purely comparing sword techniques, he was not necessarily better than this veteran hunter.

He just had a better physical fitness.

"This looks like the young of some spider-type evil thing, it shouldn't be our target."

Miss Kearns said this, and then took the candle from Xia De's hand and ignited the spider's corpse with the candle.

"It is indeed not an official guest, I didn't see the room number on its head."

Xia De also said this. Just now he also discovered that the source of the sound was actually the ceiling, but because he didn't know what the other party was, he didn't take action at the first time, and Miss Kearns' speed of drawing the sword was indeed very fast.

After solving the spider, the two continued to walk along the direction just now. If they could first discover the "1908 Holy Object Room," of course it would be best. After all, holy objects might help them deal with enemies. But unexpectedly, after passing eight doors on the left and right, the first to appear was neither a safe room nor a holy object room, but Room 1978 where the monster they needed to "contain" was originally located.

Xia De and Miss Kearns looked at each other, each ignited the matches again to add fire to the lamp, and then Xia De twisted the doorknob, and the door was indeed opened.

He opened the door a crack, and then quickly closed it again. After waiting for a few seconds to confirm that no key fell at his feet, he opened the door again in disappointment and walked in with Miss Kearns.

This room was different from all the rooms explored before. This was an open room, not even having a washroom. In the center of the room was a "small hill." After the firelight approached, the two saw that it was a small hill made of skulls.

On the floor below the skull hill, a strange ritual base was painted with black blood. However, it was not a standard circle, but an approximate rhombus. Because it was not a standard ritual structure, although Xia De could translate the meaning of the runes in the ritual, they could not know the function of the ritual.

"This kind of non-standard circular ritual base is actually common in the mid-to-late Third Era. At that time, people, in order to fight against evil spirits, had learned to master the twisted and unstable power from the darkness."

Miss Kearns said this, but the school she inherited did not master the knowledge to interpret this complex ritual base. But fortunately, Xia De knew how to transform a non-standard ritual into a standard ritual:

"The girl who raised cats for me gave me a manuscript named 'Ring of Rituals' (Chapter 3181). It records the method of transforming non-standard circular ritual bases into standard circular ritual bases through the characteristics of the circular ring 'end-to-end/reciprocating cycle/no lack and no leakage'."

While he was saying this, he took out a notebook and wrote and drew. Miss Kearns continued to check other items in the room, opened the desk drawer, first saw a matchbox, inside were five matches, but there were more eyeballs in small glass bottles in the drawer.

The box under the desk contained some human organ specimens, the wardrobe was drying three human skins, and there was a coffin under the bed in the corner.

She didn't rashly open the coffin, but continued to check other places. Not until Xia De had almost transformed the ritual into a circle did she say:

"Can the function of the ritual be interpreted?"

"The specific function is hard to say, but the approximate function is to transform the environment and generate an area suitable for the existence of the undead."

Seeing Miss Kearns' confusion, Xia De continued to explain:

"Although this inn has become like this because it is located in the Whispering Hills, it is actually not suitable for the existence of the undead. Although powerful undead can exist away from the environment filled with death energy, they still need to return to a similar environment to recuperate after being injured.

I guess the owner of this room is an undead evil thing itself, or at least possesses certain undead characteristics."

Xia De didn't rashly touch that pile of skulls, and then checked the coffin under the bed with Miss Kearns. The coffin was locked as expected, and after the two confirmed together, the "lock" used was the most powerful secret magic lock.

Although the incantation to force the door open or the relic 【Universal Key】 was also effective against this kind of secret magic lock, the object that set the lock would definitely discover that its lock had been opened.

"Isn't this just right? What we are worried about now is that the other party won't come back."

Miss Kearns said, and Xia De also thought this was a good idea:

"Check the room again, if there are no problems elsewhere, then let's take action."

Because it was an open room, the items in the room were clear at a glance. Xia De originally thought so, but he was severely restricted here, and the 【Enhanced Spatial Perception】 that could not detect the situation outside the room, unexpectedly detected that there was space behind the wall where the wardrobe was located.

The wardrobe seemed to be integrated with the wall and could not be moved. After reopening the wardrobe, Miss Kearns pointed at those human skins, meaning she didn't check carefully, but simply didn't want to touch these things.

"Separate."

Xia De waved his hand, the incantation made those human skins hanging like clothes move toward both sides of the wardrobe, and then those human skins all "came alive."

Miss Kearns swung her sword and was about to slash, but was stopped by Xia De:

"Adele's Time Freeze!"

After possessing the World spirit rune, this miracle could select multiple targets, so the human skins were all solidified in the wardrobe, and the surface even showed a layer of crystal luster. Because this couldn't be considered a completely living thing, the spirit consumed was not much. Probably the guy who made this thing didn't expect to encounter an enemy using time power.

Behind the human skins was a trapdoor inside the wardrobe. At Miss Kearns' request, she walked in front, and Xia De followed behind. After the small room behind the trapdoor was illuminated by the lantern, they discovered that this was the washroom of the room.

Of course, it had been turned into a laboratory here. Various specimens of living things were placed on various shelves, but they did not originate from humans but from various monsters. After all, humans in this inn might not appear once in a few hundred years.

Xia De even saw the kind of human-faced spider they encountered just now on the shelf, and the label under the bottle containing the specimen was written 【Offspring of the Silk-Spitting Mother】. Miss Kearns had never heard of the name of this evil thing, but Xia De discovered the record of it in the books of the Otherworld Academy:

"It is said that this kind of evil thing was a spider as big as a calf in the early First Era. It was originally just an ordinary alien species, but later an unknown existence forcibly transformed them into vassals, and then an entire race fell into evil things."

Miss Kearns listened carefully, and even recorded this information in her notebook. This was knowledge she wanted to pass on to the next generation of hunters.

"So the evil spirit living here is still a researcher?"

The hunter lady asked, and Xia De found a research notebook. The text written on the notebook and the label belonged to the Fourth Era, but considering that it was now the early Fifth Era, it was normal for the owner here to come from the previous era.

As for being able to write human text, it was not very surprising. It was normal for high-intelligence creatures to learn to write. If the thing suspected of being undead was a human before, then it was even more normal to be able to write.

As for the other party's research content, it was to dissect and confirm the body structure of these "research objects"

As for being able to write human characters, it was not very surprising; it is normal for highly intelligent creatures to learn how to write. If that thing suspected of being an undead was once human, then it would be even more normal for it to know how to write.

As for the content of its research, it was to dissect and confirm the body structures of these "research subjects" it had captured, and to attempt to transform them into undead creatures.

However, it seemed that its research was quite unsuccessful. Most of the things that could appear here had extraordinary origins. Even if they were not the entity's true form, but rather clones, offspring, or the like, they were not so easily controlled.

In short, Xia De and Miss Kearns finally found 13 matches here, numerous biological spellcasting materials, and meat supplies, though the huntress was unwilling to take those meat supplies. The appearance of that pile of skeletons and those human skins made her suspicious of the source of all the meat food here.

And the most important harvest was a handmade torch. The torch was made of wood, and the head was wrapped in oil-soaked fabric, which could be easily ignited.

"There are very few lamps in this hotel, and not only do the candles gradually become shorter after use, but other lamps also have certain usage restrictions. If it weren't for the fact that the task given by God must be completed, I would actually want to take this torch and go back now."

Miss Kearns said, and Xia De became suspicious:

"Theoretically speaking, these lamps were all truly manufactured, rather than being thrown here out of thin air by God, right? Then why did the owner of this house make this torch?"

The answer to this question was only revealed after they defeated the owner of the room.

Just like Miss Novare's approach at the time, Miss Kearns also divided the matches into three portions. The two of them each took four, and the remaining five were taken back as the harvest from the exploration. Now that he knew she was also remaining vigilant against her companions, Xia De understood the witches' behavior.

"Ahem, excuse me, are there any books or notebooks here? Please come over for a moment."

Xia De finally used the 【Moon Library】 in the room and the washroom respectively. Although this was not a standard library or study area, the miracle still successfully allowed him to find several hidden books and notebooks.

The books were obscure and eerie works on necromancy, two of which involved soul transformation and were top-tier forbidden books in the Sixth Era. As for the notebooks, in addition to research records, Xia De also saw descriptions of the nineteenth floor of the hotel.