Chapter 4004: Shadow of Wither

Everyone had no objection to leaving here, but Xia De still asked the little doll on his right shoulder for advice. The doll lady with beautiful golden hair signaled Xia De to stretch out his finger, she hugged Xia De's finger and kissed his fingertip lightly:

"Go take a look at the bottle on the bottom layer in the corner on your front right."

That was the most inconspicuous bottle in the entire room, and one had to squat down to observe it carefully. Everyone gathered around, and then found a red thin snake two fingers long in the slender bottle. Looking closely, the color of the first half of the red thin snake's body and the second half of the body were obviously different.

Xia De observed carefully for a while, and said somewhat uncertainly:

"Philosopher's Stone?"

"No, it looks more like 【Philosopher's Stone】 mixed with 【Essence of All Things Blood】 and then fused with the snake's original body."

Miss Feilianna dangled her legs and explained to everyone:

"This should be some kind of biological fusion experiment, trying to use 【Essence of All Things Blood】 to shape the body to achieve some special purpose. The role of 【Philosopher's Stone】 is probably to promote fusion. The specimen in this bottle is obviously a failure. The snake is completely dead, but both 【Philosopher's Stone】 and 【Essence of All Things Blood】 can still be used."

Although he knew that greed was not good, Xia De still asked the witches:

"What will happen if we move the collections in this room?"

It was Gina who gave the answer:

"We will be hunted down, and it is a cross-room hunt. A shadow will emerge from the door we came from and hunt us down. Although the shadow must also walk through the door, it ignores spatial chaos, and even if we close the door, it can still pass through the door panel and find us.

But it will stop after chasing for three rooms, so if we take the bottle, we have to fly and run for three rooms."

"How strong is that shadow?"

The witches couldn't answer this question. The information they found only recorded this matter, and they didn't even know how strong the person who left those materials was originally.

So everyone voted on whether to move the bottle. Miss Feilianna did not participate, and the halfling girl expressed:

"I don't have a very good idea, I'll abstain. This way three people will definitely be able to vote for a result."

But unexpectedly, Lady Gustav, who had always been cautious, voted in favor:

"Although the 【Essence of All Things Blood】 here is not much, it counts as a harvest. And there is also 【Philosopher's Stone】. I think such an adventure is very worth it. After all, to obtain 【Essence of All Things Blood】 in the future, we still have to face unknown powerful enemies. What's more, an enemy that can hunt us across rooms might allow us to have a clearer cognition of the rules here."

Gina raised an objection. The pink dragon girl's view was also very simple:

"We are about to reach the next furnace room, I don't think it's necessary to take risks. Let's ignite the third furnace first, this is the most important thing now."

So the decision-making power came to Xia De. He could see Miss Feilianna looking at him with a smile from the corner of his eye, and Xia De gave his opinion quickly:

"After igniting the third furnace, the road ahead will be more difficult, not to mention that we still have to face the 'new life' that may exist as an enemy. Even with Miss Feilianna's help, we must be prepared to face troubles that everyone cannot handle together.

If we can get a piece of Philosopher's Stone, at least we have a chance to turn the tables in a desperate situation. So, I also support taking this specimen."

Gina, who cast the only opposing vote, had no opinion on this:

"Then let's take a look at the situation in the next room first, to determine whether the next room is easy to pass."

This was a very good suggestion, so the specimen was temporarily left in its original place, and the four came to the door of the next room together. After Lady Gustav opened the door, the room behind the door was actually the "Blood Collection Workshop" that Xia De was most familiar with.

"The frequency of this room appearing is the highest."

The old witch said, and then looked at everyone:

"Follow Gina to rush forward in a while. Once we are hunted, I'm afraid there will be no time to search the room."

"I will hold the bottle. If anyone falls behind, I will be responsible for leading the pursuer away."

Xia De took the initiative to take on this responsibility, and everyone knew that although his level was not high, his combat power was very strong, so they all nodded.

So the four stood at the door, and chains shot out from Xia De's sleeve. After the chains came to the specimen bottle, they circled the bottle three times without touching the bottle itself.

"Get ready."

Xia De reminded:

"Three, two, one, go!"

The chains tightened instantly, and then the specimen bottle was pulled fiercely towards Xia De's direction. At this moment, the four people rushed into the "Blood Collection Workshop" together, and before the chains could bring the bottle out of the room—

*Whoosh! *

Another blood-red chain shot out from the door at the other end of the collection room, also binding the bottle. The black and red chains wrestled with each other. Xia De was forced to stop and look towards the room behind him. The shadow wearing a dark red cloak had already passed through the door and entered the collection room.

The other party was indeed a real shadow. The face under the hood, the hands extending from the sleeves of the robe, and the hem of the robe were all a mass of black mist. After entering the room, the figure did not walk, but slid towards the "thieves" as if its form was virtualized.

In the places it passed, things like dim yellow crystals constantly emerged from the ground. And the moment he saw the other party, Xia De felt as if the entire blood-red space itself was trembling. The blood-red in his field of vision began to turn black, just as if someone was closing the light source of the 【Filthy Blood Factory】.

The second and third chains of sins shot out quickly, competing with the red chain of the shadow for control of the bottle. Under the situation of three against one, the three chains successfully brought the bottle out of the room and were grabbed by Xia De and stuffed into his pocket. Thus, the shadow slid towards the door while raising its black mist-like right hand.

The three witches also turned their heads to see this thing at this time. When Gina and Miss Bladevi looked at this thing, they also felt the same feeling that the entire blood-red world was turning black as Xia De.

And seeing this thing, Lady Gustav was stunned for a moment, and then her face changed greatly. She almost said that word together with the doll on Xia De's shoulder:

"Wither!"

A dim yellow ray shot from the right hand of the shadow, and then the power of "Wither" hit the door that had just been closed by Gina's tail.

But the shadow soon passed through the door and came to the "Blood Collection Factory". Gina had already pointed out the location of the next door. The old witch led everyone to charge towards the next door, and the dry corpses in the workshop had begun to walk down from the blood collection platform and pounce on the group.

The shadow's right hand then shot dim yellow light rays towards the thieves again, while Xia De, who was holding the spark source in his left hand, turned around and stretched out his right hand towards the back at this moment:

"Spell · Life Ray!"

The life force in the spark source was extracted by Xia De, and then shot out from his right hand. The crimson light collided with the dim yellow light and annihilated each other. Taking this opportunity, the three witches ran a distance again, while the golden-haired doll on Xia De's shoulder reminded:

"The energy contained in your spark source is limited. This thing is suspected to be related to the factory's permissions, don't entangle with it."

"Yes, teacher—Moonlight Slash!"

The brilliant silver moonlight slashed down forward. The shadow stopped moving forward temporarily. A transparent shield flashed past, completely blocking Xia De's blow, but Xia De also took the opportunity to run a few steps and keep up with the team.

"Together!"

Gina turned around and grabbed Xia De's right hand. After taking a deep breath, the two opened their mouths at the same time:

"Roar!"

Pure silver light erupted together with the pink crystalline breath, engulfing the black figure and clearing away some of the mummies that had followed. But after the two's Dragon Roars ended, the black shadow, having stopped its advance, merely withdrew the square transparent shield in front of it and then continued to pursue them.

"This way!"

This door was very close, on the same wall as the door entering the blood collection workshop. Lady Gustav had already opened the door at this moment, and Miss Bladevi stood beside the old witch and shouted at Xia De and Gina:

"The next room is not very dangerous, come in quickly."

"Gina, you go first!"

Xia De blocked in front of the pink dragon girl, and the moonlight greatsword in his hand slashed down towards the shadow that had already arrived in front of him. The shadow really hesitated for a moment when facing the greatsword in Xia De's hand, but then still slid along the blood vessels towards Xia De.

Flight is still prohibited here, but when Xia De slashed the red moon's slashing light towards the front, the shadow actually relied on flight to dodge it.

The dark red chain shot out from under its robe again, and then was cut off by the greatsword in Xia De's hand.

"Iron Snake!"

The red moon greatsword turned into a red long whip flowing with red moon halos and whipped towards the air. The sound of the whip tip exploding in the air echoed repeatedly between the rock walls.

More and more vascular spiders appeared above everyone's heads and under their feet. However, Xia De found that they seemed to fear the thing that was fighting with him, and most of them didn't dare to get too close, just intermittently spitting out some red spider silk that could penetrate steel to harass the people who were fighting.

So the three witches behind Xia De only faced five spiders, and they could barely deal with them.

As for Xia De himself, the shadow obviously didn't expect the greatsword to turn into a long whip instantly. It was hit by the crimson long whip, and the red moon rich in life force split its body, and the shadow exploded into a mass of black mist in this blood-colored space.

But the black mist that scattered into a mass condensed together again, and the shadow returned again.

The dim yellow Wither ray shot downwards. Xia De, holding the spark source, activated the "Night Curtain Seal" immediately, endowing the Night Curtain with the energy of the spark source, and blocked this blow.