Chapter 716: Deep in the Mine

After glancing at the three life rings in front, Xia De looked at the surrounding environment again.

The position where the lifting platform fell was in the middle of a mine pit, like a mine tunnel abandoned for many years extending to both sides, and one couldn't see the end at all.

Scattered on the ground were skeletons, stones, pickaxes, glass shards, and a series of messy things. Every distance, there would be thick wooden pillars in the center of the mine tunnel to support the top of the tunnel to prevent this place from completely collapsing.

The temperature and eerie degree in the mine pit were even more terrifying than the abandoned village on the ground. The undead wandering around were almost to the extent that ordinary people could see them with the naked eye. But those evil spirits attracted by the fighting of the 【Truth Society】 Ringed Shushi still wouldn't attack Xia De and the black-dressed girl, and would even take the initiative to bypass them.

Those evil spirits weren't even simple spiritual bodies. After the 【Truth Society】 Ringed Shushi eliminated them, skeletons and flesh and blood remains would even fall out of the fragments of the souls.

Because the black mist in the mine pit was thicker, Xia De also tried to inhale a mouthful of black mist that was extremely sparse after being filtered by red butterflies, and thus learned that this black mist had the functions of undead curse, flesh and blood mutation, and soul distortion.

This mountain village did not originate from the local Xikar Mountains, and it was not even a village in the Central Continent of the Fifth Era, but in this era, it was incomparably consistent with the disaster in Mid-Hill Castle at this time. If the relic went out of control and the evil spirits entrenched in this abandoned village ran out, the church's sealing ritual would probably be postponed for a long time.

"Professor, do these disgusting things really have research value? The undead disaster samples of the Fifth Era we have already preserved; aren't those samples more valuable than these rotten meats?"

The young apprentice carried the middle-aged woman, the high-ring Ringed Shushi stood at the very front, and the mid-ring Ringed Shushi collected the flesh and blood residues left after the twisted evil spirits disappeared.

"Undead disaster of the Fifth Era?"

Xia De heard a new term again.

"Everything is developing forward; if one indulges in the glory of the past era, then what truth is one seeking."

If this group of people could be a little more normal on the road to seeking truth, they might truly be able to bring progress to human civilization.

The Ringed Shushi of the 【Truth Society】 stood at the front, holding a tattered map that seemed to have been found in the village, continuously going deeper into the mine pit. They should have completely explored the village and solved most of the puzzles.

Xia De and the black-dressed girl followed behind under the protection of the red butterflies. The two of them were of course not just walking; the latter told Xia De other stories about this mountain village, but she alone refused to say what was under the gold mine, that is, the source of the black mist.

It wasn't that she didn't know, but that she couldn't tell Xia De.

And the black-dressed girl also admitted that she wanted to enter this village, not just because of her academic report. It was also because she needed a sacrifice in the depths of the mine to call back the relative she had been waiting for for a long time.

The area of the underground mine pit was much larger than the ground, and it was even dug like a maze. 【Time Perception】 had already discovered the abnormality of the time flow, so that the body-felt time and the normal time of the material world showed a clear difference.

At five o'clock in the afternoon of Xikar Mountain time, the group finally arrived at the deepest part of this gold mine. The end of the mine tunnel was an irregular cave leading to the underground, and the thick black mist was emerging from below.

The three of 【Truth Society】 were already exhausted at this time. The undead near this cave were all souls of children who had been sacrificed. Because of excessively infecting the power of these black mists, Xia De didn't dare to guarantee that he could have the upper hand even against one of the evil spirits.

"It's here."

"Professor" lowered his voice at the end of the dim mine tunnel. He was panting, and the collar of his originally neat black formal suit jacket had long been torn open:

"Truth be above, finally back. Let it go out of control, then use the gap to return to the city. This trip was truly not easy; next time, don't give us such things again."

Saying this, he threw the skull chandelier in his hand toward the bottomless cave in front, and the abyss itself seemed to be responding to his actions, with thicker black mist surging out, followed by a slight tremor of the ground.

But very unfortunately, the skull chandelier that could disperse the black mist did not fall into the abyss. Red butterflies flew past, and their wings sprinkled dots of red light downward. Those red butterflies wrapped around the pale skull chandelier and brought it away from the sky above the abyss cave.

After passing over the heads of the group of 【Truth Society】, the red butterflies came to Xia De and the black-dressed girl.

"Who are you?"

Until now, the three were surprised to notice that there were actually two people following behind them.

Xia De glanced at the girl beside him, and seeing that she didn't mean to speak, he explained:

"It's like this, we came to this village to do some folklore investigations, didn't expect to meet you by chance."

More and more red butterflies were dancing around the two, illuminating the gold mine tunnel into a piece of red. Xia De, who was protected by the red butterflies, only felt that this scene was very gorgeous, and what the 【Truth Society】 Ringed Shushi perceived was indeed the danger of life.

"Whisper of red butterflies, this is..."

Professor Johnson, the high-ring Ringed Shushi, widened his eyes slightly, and his footsteps retreated:

"Run!"

Sudden thick fog wrapped around them, but that white fog failed to successfully let them enter the gap.

"Space stabilization halo!"

The mid-ring Ringed Shushi had already used this move to run once, and this time Xia De learned his lesson:

"The woman you knocked unconscious is one of the four 'nails' that returned from death in the gap?"

He asked, seeing that the three just looked at this place nervously and didn't answer, so he turned to the black-dressed girl beside him and said:

"I might not be able to beat them."

"Sir, you should have some confidence in yourself."

The cloth wrapped around 【Night Watcher】 was taken off, and the silver sword body was glowing with the yellow rune 【Clear Heart, Slay Demons】. Dozens of red butterflies flew from behind and stuck to the sword body, giving this long sword that fought against evil a trace of scarlet.

Xia De felt the power.

Holding the sword with both hands, he stepped forward and swung the sword to slash forward. The red sword mark slashed out with force, and while flying out, it left deep marks on the top and bottom of the mine tunnel.

"Dodge quickly!"

Professor Johnson pushed his two companions fiercely, while he himself greeted it. Unless he jumped into the bottomless abyss behind him, there was no place to hide in the narrow tunnel. He squatted slightly, and the miracle spirit runes 【Iron Wall】 【Shield】 behind him, and the blasphemy spirit rune 【Solid】 and enlightenment spirit rune 【Castle】 flashed with spiritual light at the same time.

A tall tower shield like a door panel appeared in his hand. After smashing it toward the ground with force, the scarlet sword mark Xia De slashed out had also arrived in front of him.

Xia De didn't even see the whole process, and the miracle performed by the high-ring Ringed Shushi completely collapsed. In the scattered spiritual light, Professor Johnson's skin turned into brass metal color, and the core spirit rune 【Iron Man】 behind him was performing an unknown miracle. His flesh and blood collided with that sword mark, directly overturning him to the ground.

Crack~

A clear cracking sound came from the life ring. The core spirit rune 【Iron Man】 actually had cracks. When this high-ring Ringed Shushi climbed up again, his skin returned to its original color, but his mouth, nose, eyes, and ears were all bleeding.

"So strong?"

Xia De looked at the sword in his hand in surprise.

"Truly despicable, actually using the power of a relic!"

The panting Professor Johnson said, and Xia De immediately frowned:

"Did you not use the power of a relic? And, you are three people, we are two people..."

"You, are you really two 'people'?"

He cursed in Karsenrik language regardless of his image, and reached out to pull the two companions he had protected behind him:

"Even if I die, I won't let someone despicable like you live. Look at my sublimation..."

Xia De swung his sword forward again. Just as the scarlet sword mark slashed out, he wanted to rush up, but the black-dressed girl behind him grabbed him:

"Be careful!"

There was no sublimation language; Professor Johnson took out a pitch-black seal with a pointed top from his arms and pressed it quickly on his two companions. While the two widened their eyes in surprise, the relic had already taken effect:

"Human bomb!"

With a loud bang, the shock wave of the explosion almost sent Xia De flying to the ground. The explosion produced in such a narrow space caused countless dust and stones to fall from the top of his head, and also made Xia De almost think that he would be buried here.

This was not a simple explosion, but by using an unknown relic, the flesh and soul of the two Ringed Shushi were completely shattered, even more cruel than the corpse explosion spell. Even with the protection of red butterflies in front, Xia De still realized the powerful power of this "bomb."

Fortunately, this was inside the relic, and the terrain was not so easy to be changed. After the smoke and dust of the explosion dissipated, the figures of the three 【Truth Society】 all disappeared. Two of them were blown into fragments, not even leaving ashes, while the high-ring Ringed Shushi "Professor Johnson" escaped alone.

"Calling us despicable, isn't he even more despicable? Sage-level relic 【Demon Bomb Seal】, didn't expect it to be in the hands of the Truth Society."

The black-dressed girl explained in a low voice, then frowned and looked at the middle-aged village woman lying on the ground with a complete body. She was at the center of the explosion, but was completely unharmed.

"If he ran away, let him run; I don't believe he would be completely fine in the center of the explosion."

Xia De patted the dirt on his hair, and then also looked at the unharmed middle-aged village woman:

"The ancient one said, only death can confront death. The nails that returned from the gap must be sent back using the power of death."

He summoned the 【Chain of Sin】 and wrapped the unconscious woman like a mummy, then carried her on his back. As for 【God's Gift Box】, he could only carry it in his hand.

"Sir, the people who were in the way have finally disappeared."

Seeing that Xia De had finished doing these things, the black-dressed girl said with a smile, then pointed to the abyss in front:

"Let's continue the story just now.

The Red Butterfly Twins, who discovered the village's tradition of sacrifice, came all the way to the deepest part under the mountain village just like us. But even for them, it was impossible to completely solve the problem here, so they could only seal the village. No existence can leave here, even living people who broke in by mistake are the same. So, the woman you are carrying should also be someone who broke in by mistake and died, and was then resurrected by the gap."

"Then how should we leave?"

"Very simple, this is the source of all disasters, but it is also the only way to leave. Sir, do you have the courage to jump down with me?"

She stood beside the bottomless cave, turned around, and extended her right hand to Xia De under the encirclement of red butterflies. ===== CHAPTER 717 =====