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Chapter 1317. Echoes from the Abyss (7)

Lin Xi's gaze was fixed on the area below the bridge.

After the underground river was frozen, the surface of the water was as calm as a mirror, but a huge black shadow could be vaguely seen crashing wildly beneath the ice, and the surface of the ice was covered with spider web-like cracks.

"The ice won't hold for long! Everyone, speed things up!"

——Fuck!
— Xiao Qin's Freeze Card + Zhao Chen's Telekinesis, this combination is amazing!
—123's throwing knives are as formidable as ever.

—Nobody noticed that this dungeon uses way too many items.

—Yes, Xiaoqin has used three props already!
—Holy crap, the ice layer is about to give way.

— Xiaoqin can be frozen again, I guess that card was reused too.

With a loud "crack," a huge gash suddenly appeared in the center of the ice layer, and a tentacle several times thicker than before burst through the ice, smashing towards Lin Xi with ice shards.

The suckers on this tentacle are the size of a palm, and its spikes have a deep green, highly toxic sheen, clearly indicating that it is the leader-level tentacle of the water monster!
Lin Xi instantly threw three throwing knives, which accurately hit the joints of the tentacles, leaving only three shallow white marks.

Ouyang Yu swung his dagger at the tentacle, the silver dagger gathering a strong purifying silver light, like a burning torch, and pierced the core suction cup at the tip of the tentacle.

"Fuck-"

A piercing corrosive sound rang out, the tentacles convulsed violently, and black blood mixed with melting ice water gushed out.

Ouyang Yu twisted his wrist, violently turning the dagger. The suction cup exploded instantly, splashing dark green venom all over him, and his clothes were immediately corroded with countless holes.

"Get across the bridge! I'll hold it off!"

Lin Bei immediately used the Freeze Card again, and the cold air spread up the tentacle, freezing the giant tentacle in mid-air.

"Everyone, let's go!"

"Grab me and teleport!" Guo Yuelang said immediately.

“You guys go, I’ll wait for Ouyang,” Huang Jingjing said.

The group instantly teleported to the front.

It is a very narrow passage.

At this moment, the giant, frozen tentacles began to loosen, and the sound of ice cracking was incessant. The entire stone bridge shook violently under the monster's onslaught, and it was in danger of collapsing at any moment.

Huang Jingjing grabbed Ouyang Yu's clothes, and the two of them instantly teleported over.

Behind them, the entire ice layer completely shattered, and countless tentacles and monster heads burst out of the water, rushing madly toward the stone bridge.

"Boom!"

The middle section of the stone bridge collapsed completely, and the rubble fell into the underground river, creating a huge splash.

The passage was so narrow that only one person could pass sideways. The walls were wet and covered with slippery moss, and water droplets kept falling from above, making a "drip-drip" sound as they hit the ground.

The group walked along the narrow passage. The further they went, the brighter the light became, and they could even feel a faint warm breeze.

Lin Xi shone his flashlight on the wall of the passage and discovered that beneath the moss were faintly engraved twisted symbols, just like before. However, these symbols were bright red, as if they were drawn with blood, exuding an eerie aura.

"Everyone be careful, the symbols on the wall are strange," Lin Xi warned.

She reached out and touched the symbol, feeling a sticky sensation on her fingertips, and a sweet, fishy smell wafted towards her.

"The symbol was drawn with blood, and... it was fresh."

Ouyang Yu leaned closer to take a closer look.

"These symbols seem to have energy fluctuations, like part of some kind of summoning circle."

"A summoning circle?" Feng Xi gripped her short sword tightly. "Could it be that a summoned monster is hidden in the passage?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a rustling sound suddenly came from the front of the passage, as if countless tiny things were crawling rapidly.

Immediately afterwards, a strong, pungent stench filled the air, even more acrid than the blood of a water monster. The viewers in the live stream instantly tensed up.

--I'm coming!
There really was something in the passage!

—Is it a poisonous insect? The previous poisonous insects were scary enough!
—The passage is too narrow; it seems like I can't move around freely!
Zhao Chen used telekinesis to move a piece of rubble that had fallen in front of him, revealing something hidden in the shadows.

They were countless black beetles, each the size of a fingernail. They were completely black, with metallic sheen on their shells, and their mouthparts were as sharp as scissors. They were crawling towards the group in dense swarms.

Wherever it went, the moss was instantly devoured, leaving tiny scratches on the walls.

Lin Xi immediately threw two throwing knives, which landed in the beetle swarm and instantly cleaved more than a dozen beetles in two.

But these beetles seemed to feel no pain and continued to swarm in. The split beetle corpses oozed black fluid and emitted an even stronger stench, which attracted even more beetles.

"Normal attacks are useless, there are just too many of them!"

Zhao Chen tried to move the beetles away again, but they clung tightly to the walls and the ground and couldn't be moved at all.

Lin Bei once used the Freeze Card, waving it at the beetle swarm. The cold air spread instantly, freezing the beetles within a three-meter radius in front of him into ice blocks.

But from the depths of the passage, a continuous stream of beetles surged forth, and the ice layer was quickly shattered by the oncoming beetles. The black swarm of insects approached like a tidal wave.

"Yi-yi, use fire," Xin said in a low voice. "Be precise, don't hurt us."

"Okay," Wang Yiyi agreed, taking out her Flame Card.

Wang Yi pinched the Flame Card, and orange-red heat waves instantly emanated from the edge of the card.

She took a deep breath, her gaze fixed on the gap between the beetle swarm and the crowd, her voice tense.

"Everyone, take another half step back and give me half a meter of space to control the fire."

“Let’s go to Dream Garden and let Yi Yi have a great time,” Lin Xi said.

“You guys go ahead, I’ll stay and wait for Yi Yi. I also have a Dream Garden,” Huang Jingjing said.

The passage was already narrow, and upon hearing this, everyone immediately moved closer to Lin Xi.

The scene before my eyes has transformed into a magnificent peach blossom forest.

—I call it Peach Blossom Spring, and I'm not wrong about it.

—It really is always peach blossoms.

—I wonder if Teacher Huang's Dream Garden is the same as 123's.

—I want to go to Teacher Huang's live stream.

—I'm going to watch the burning of the Beetle too.

—Holy crap, after burning the beetles, ants have appeared!
—The person who designed this dungeon must like bugs!

—Wang Yiyi is still burning it.

—My trypophobia is about to flare up.

Lin Xi stared intently at the live stream, watching the battle unfold. After a while, she finally saw everyone spamming the chat with "We can go out now."

“Let’s go,” Lin Xi said immediately.

They immediately appeared at the light they had just seen.

I thought this was the exit, but it wasn't at all.

Instead, it was a huge stone gate, covered with dense, blood-red symbols, just like the ones under the moss.

“Both the bronze bell and the crystal pillar require the symbols to be triggered in musical order, and the symbols on the stone gate should be the same,” Lin Xi said.

"Touch the eight nodes of the symbol in the order of 'Do, Mi, Sol, La, Do, Fa, Mi, Si,'" Wang Yiyi said.