Chapter 3482: Mimics

Although the direction of advance was changed, as one blood-red wall after another was pierced, the blood-red color around still became thicker and thicker. So Aili tried to change direction again, and after the group turned three times and passed through three rooms and a corridor, the surrounding walls had even completely turned into flesh-and-blood material.

This was a manifestation of truly going deep into the interior of the 【House of Mimics】. After Xia De saw a similar environment last time, he soon fell into the core room.

"Ang~"

The holy white unicorn cried out again. At this moment, its four hooves were slightly sinking into the soft floor. The blessing from the Witch Council and its own power were no longer enough to protect it in such an area.

The pure white luster emitted by the unicorn horn became dim like a candle about to go out, so Xia De's hand also covered its back. Silver moonlight seemed to ignite the fur all over its body. Aili, protected by Xia De's power, recovered from its listlessness.

"Ang~"

However, it also realized that it seemed to have led the wrong way, but Xia De had long anticipated this result. If it were easy to leave the 【House of Mimics】, that would be the strange thing:

"It doesn't matter, I will lead the way next."

He had to rely on direct contact to let his own moonlight cling to the unicorns, so while sitting on Little Liana's back, his left hand was temporarily occupied:

"Winnie, if I really need to let go and fight with all my strength, can you temporarily protect them?"

Xia De asked the maid who was following silently behind. The latter nodded gently:

"Aili can briefly transform its own form, and I can briefly protect another unicorn. But if I really have to face the core of this relic, even ice and snow will turn into flesh and blood."

Xia De had seen a similar situation in the core room last time. He nodded gently:

"Then can you protect your own safety?"

He confirmed again. The crystal-clear maid seemed to smile:

"I have learned quite a few peculiar powers from Her Majesty Chloe."

"I understand, then let's go. Aili, don't choose a direction, just charge forward. I want to see what kind of surprise the mimics have prepared for me."

Aili, whose fur was burning with silver flames, cried out somewhat guiltily, and then was stroked by Xia De and rushed forward.

Layer after layer of blood-red rooms continued to be pierced through, but the core room was still nowhere to be seen. The mimics seemed to still want to continue consuming his spirit. They seemed to be truly afraid of Xia De. Even if things developed to this situation, they were still wary of the "God-Caller" reputation.

【Then what are you going to do next?】

"Her" gentle voice asked. Although there was one-third of the liquid left in the pink essence bottle, Xia De also carried the snow mountain water that could restore spirit obtained from the elders and the "Angel Potion" from Priest Ao Gu Si. But Xia De at this moment was not in a complete state after all.

"Luweiya and the others' reinforcements should be arriving soon."

【Pinning your hopes on others?】

"No, I just believe in the power of the girls around me. Having been in this world for so long, I have long known that I am not alone."

Xia De thought the key now was whether Luweiya and the others would break through the House of Mimics first, or whether the mimics would let him enter the core room first. But the development of things exceeded Xia De's expectations. After smashing through the 33rd room, as the wall broke again, blood-red light illuminated the group from above.

Aili instinctively wanted to continue charging forward, and after charging a few steps with Little Liana, it stopped in confusion.

There was no wall in front. In front was a city. They were currently on a street.

Turning to look back, the hole in the outer wall of the building was where they had just rushed out from. But the city they were in at this moment was definitely not the City of Time, or rather, this was definitely not a normal world.

The blood-red light illuminating the group came from the blood-red "sun" in the sky. However, because there were subtle tentacles that were not easily noticeable around the sun, Xia De was not very sure what this thing was.

The scale of the city before his eyes was far larger than the remote island city of the City of Time. Blood-red buildings were distributed neatly in every corner of the field of vision, or rather, any position that could be seen in the field of vision was blood-red.

The ground was covered with blood-red fungal mats, and there were flesh-colored tentacles swaying in the cracks of the red brick walls. Giant eyes growing on the ground and in the sky would blink occasionally, and when the wind blew, the wind brought dense whispers and the eerie rustling sound of flesh crawling across the ground.

Little Liana shivered in fear and hid beside Aili. Aili also looked very scared, but it was a unicorn that had been watched by an evil god after all, and it had Little Liana beside it that needed protection, so it braced itself and stood in front of Little Liana.

The blood-red light also reflected on Xia De's face. He had absolutely no anticipation of such a situation. There was no record in any document that such a city existed inside the 【House of Mimics】, and Xia De was very sure that everything before his eyes was not an illusion; it was real.

"So, is this what happens in the final stage of the mimics' invasion of the city?"

He could only guess like this, and was very sure that as long as he brought out what he saw at this moment, the 【House of Mimics】 would definitely be abandoned by the 【Skin Hall】 and 【Personality Mansion】, and would be removed from the ranks of the "three most notorious Sage-level relics," officially promoted to a "notorious Angel-level relic."

The ice maid behind him was also reflected red by the blood light, but she looked completely unaffected and even explained to Xia De:

"This is a Wonder."

"A Wonder?"

"A Wonder is born from the mental landscape, reflecting the user's own inner world, spiritual thoughts, and deepest desires. The mimics together constitute a cluster consciousness, and this city was born from this kind of cluster consciousness."

She said in a very soft voice:

"But fortunately, the birth time of this city is not long. The nascent Wonder can only appear inside the 【House of Mimics】. Perhaps after tens of thousands of years, when this Wonder is fully formed, the main body of the 【House of Mimics】 will transform from a building into this city."

"Such a large scale... Wait a minute, Unknowable-level relic?!"

Any Unknowable-level relic is related to gods, and the 【House of Mimics】, which clearly stole power from the space left by ancient gods, already possessed the potential to be promoted to an Unknowable-level relic like the 【Gap of Life and Death】.

"Yes, I have read about this situation in Her Majesty Chloe's library. Although it only possesses the potential to become an Unknowable-level relic, this is still a quite terrifying thing."

Winnie said, and signaled everyone to retreat back into the building:

"The only way to deal with this Wonder is to completely eliminate the 【Mimics】. It's probably because Aili and Little Liana charged too fast that the mimics didn't expect them to rush in here. Let's go back; we cannot stay in the mimics' Wonder for too long."

Without Xia De needing to speak, Aili and the frightened Little Liana retreated directly back into the blood-red building. After returning to the interior of the 【House of Mimics】 and looking at that hole again, the scenery of the blood-flesh city outside the hole became blurred like a reflection in turbid water.

Aili had turned around and was ready to lead everyone to move in another direction, and at this moment, Xia De suddenly had a premonition. Even if the incident of the 【House of Mimics】 was perfectly resolved this time, that flesh-and-blood city would probably not disappear immediately.

He and that eerie city should have another chance to meet.

As the stay in the depths of the 【House of Mimics】 became longer, even with the protection of Xia De's Moon Fire, the state of the two unicorns was still gradually getting worse.

And although the ice maid Winnie solved most of the enemies along the way, in order to protect the unicorns, Xia De was still forced to drink the pink essence again. In this way, not only was there only one last mouthful of essence left, but he had also drunk so much essence in such a short time, and the strange thoughts in his heart all emerged inappropriately.

"Desire" is not just as simple as lust. In the flesh-and-blood environment, he actually felt hunger. But thinking about it carefully, he indeed hadn't eaten breakfast, so the appetite at this moment was not just because of the essence.

The corridor had completely turned into the appearance of a flesh-and-blood biological cavity. Aili's speed of breaking through walls was also gradually slowing down, until the thick meat wall could no longer be easily pierced. Not only did the environment become more dangerous, but Aili also showed fatigue. It was just bracing itself, wanting to take everyone out.

Since it couldn't break through walls, it took everyone to travel through those biological-cavity-like corridors. Xia De didn't know how Aili determined the direction, but he could perceive that the mimics appearing in the direction Aili walked were the fewest. This unicorn indeed had extraordinary talent.

In the 32nd minute of entering the 【House of Mimics】, there were no other doors in the direction of advance. A lonely blood-red door stood at the end of the corridor, and overwhelming whispering elements were telling that this was the destination, this was the core room with the blood pool and the door.

Aili braced its body and wanted to pass through this corridor, but in an instant, flesh-and-blood ropes like blood vessels grew on the flesh-and-blood walls on both sides of the corridor. These flesh-and-blood ropes blocked the group's path in a crisscross manner, like the blood vessels crisscrossing inside a human body.

These flesh-and-blood ropes were thick and thin. The thick ones were like cables used by ships, and the thin ones were even thinner than hair. Xia De's state at this time was actually not good. Being in the core area of the relic also had an impact on his mental state, but he still squinted and observed for a while. If he wanted to continue forward, it was almost impossible not to touch these things.

"Moonlight Slash!"

Moonlight flew forward. After cutting off the nearest flesh-and-blood rope, the entire corridor contracted together like the closing of a sphincter in an instant. The group was at the end of the corridor, so they hurriedly retreated back into the room.

?? P. S.: The picture in this chapter is "Blood-Red City". The reason it is blood-red and not flesh-and-blood is because AI won't draw it. ===== CHAPTER 3483 =====