Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 43: Sealing Key
Xia Shou remembered the last half sentence that Liu Guangyao hadn't finished saying - "That man had been to the top floor, but in fact there was no top floor at all."

What does this mean?

Been to the top floor.

There is no attic at all.

Is not this contradictory?

However, the most difficult problem at the moment is his lack of hearing and vision. Although he can now use Alice to obtain Su Weiyu's vision, that is the environment that Su Weiyu sees after all, not what he sees, so it is still very difficult for him to move.

In addition, only one of them can hear, which will definitely make the subsequent battle more difficult.

It would be great if I could devour the doctor, so that I might be able to gain corresponding skills to fight against the current side effects.

But unfortunately, the doctor turned into ashes the moment he was killed, and only the key was left.

……key?
Can keys be swallowed?!

"Wei Yu, give me the hearing key."

After a while, a key was pressed into his hand.

Xia Shou held the key in his hand, thinking that there were two possibilities.

The first.

Their blindness and deafness were simply the curse they received after killing the doctor, and had nothing to do with the key, which was only a temporary antidote.

The second possibility.

The curse they received did not actually come from the doctor, but from the key. The abnormality after the doctor's death condensed into this object. The existence of the key itself will cause non-staff in the sanatorium to lose a sense, and only the holder can be temporarily immune to the curse.

"Let's try it out." Xia Shou turned his shadow into a black swamp again and carefully touched the shadow with the handle of the key.

The moment the key touched the black shadow, words appeared in front of Xia Shou's eyes.

[Degree of Devouring: 0.95%]!
Keys can also be swallowed!

When Su Weiyu was in the hospital on the other side, she had seen Xia Shou use shadows to devour abnormal patients, but she didn't know what the specific function of the shadows was.

"What's the point of doing this?" Su Weiyu asked puzzledly.

Xia Shou threw the hearing key back to Su Weiyu: "By eating some abnormal bodies, you can gain related skills or something. I don't really understand the details, but this key may allow Shadow to eat it."

"If the key is gone, doesn't that mean the only chance to be exempt from negative effects is gone too?"

"Not necessarily. There are two possibilities. The first possibility is that the quota is indeed gone. The second possibility is that the curse on us was given by the key. While it casts the curse on us, it also gives us an exemption quota. If we swallow it, the curse may disappear directly."

"But the key must be used to open the door. If you eat it directly, how can you open the door on the first floor?"

"So I plan to go to the first floor to study the structure of the door again. Let's go to the first floor."

When the two returned to the first floor, Wang Long was leaning against the wall in a daze, feeling hopeless.

He has now become blind and deaf, and did not even notice the arrival of Xia Shou and Su Weiyu.

Xia Shou did not bother Wang Long. He walked to the door with a huge disc-shaped lock and inserted the visual key into the keyhole.

"Crack!"

The key turns.

There was a slight sound of precision mechanical friction coming from the keyhole, some mechanisms popped open, and the sound of gears turning came from inside.

Xia Shou could clearly feel that a part of the mechanism inside had been opened. After pulling out the key again, the part of the disc door lock that had been opened did not return to its original state, which meant that there was no need to insert five keys at the same time. As long as the key was used once, the corresponding lock position would be unlocked.

"It seems that I can use the key to open part of the seal first, so that I can really try to devour it." Xia Shou said to himself.

Although there were huge risks in directly swallowing the key, Xia Shou felt that it was not a bad idea to take the risk when he thought about the fact that they would have to fight against three other doctors with their bodies without vision and hearing.

But to be on the safe side, he planned to swallow the hearing key first, so that even if something went wrong, at least the visual key would still be there. After all, it was much more dangerous than not being able to hear anything or see anything.

After Xia Shou unlocked both the ear and eye locks, he leaned over and placed the hearing key into the shadow under his feet, and the progress bar appeared in front of him again.

[Devouring rate: 23%...41%...]

[Devouring rate: 100%]

[Cannot be swallowed...]

Xia Shou's heart skipped a beat. How was it possible that he couldn't swallow it?

The next second, the text in front of him blurred and changed again, and new content appeared before his eyes.

[Begin sealing...]

Suddenly, two colorful flame chains popped out from the dark shadow, bound and entangled the key that was half-sunken in the shadow, and slowly pulled it into the depths of the shadow.

[Sealing completed! ]

[You have sealed an unusual object——[Idrisu's Auditory Key]]

【Introduction: Human organs are like doors, which we cannot open or close by ourselves.】

[Abnormal Level: Level 2]

[Effect: When the seal is lifted, all life forms that are not followers of Idrisu within the range of Idrisu's domain, or within a radius of 100 meters centered on the key, will lose their sense of hearing. Only the holder of the key can be exempted from this effect.]

[Note: The seal is like a lead block tied to your body, which will speed up your sinking in the "sea". The more seals you carry, the faster you will sink.]

It seems that the seal simply seals the effects of the abnormal item, and will not allow the holder to gain new abilities like swallowed objects.

"I can hear it! Could it be that Xia Shou won?!" Wang Long, who had been sitting on the ground, was the first to react.

Xia Shou responded coldly: "Not yet, but the good news is that I'm still alive."

Xia Shou adjusted his left eye to the deep-sea perspective and saw the changing scale. At this moment, the reading on the scale had exceeded 1200 meters, and the number of centimeters was changing rapidly.

He made a rough estimate and found that in another two hours, the scale would cross the 1300-meter red line again.

If another visual key is sealed now, the sinking speed will be further accelerated.

Moreover, he will have to seal many keys next, so the actual time he can take action will be even shorter.

Although the cost of accelerated sinking is somewhat terrifying, it is undeniable that the sealing function of the shadow does greatly increase their chances of survival.

Xia Shou tilted his head slightly and looked at the stairs he had just come down from: "Wei Yu, let's go."

The two returned to the second floor. At the entrance to the third floor, Xia Shou completed the seal with the eye key. The effect of the eye key was similar to that of the ear key.

After Xia Shou and Su Weiyu regained their normal vision, Xia Shou's sinking speed also increased again.

Xia Shou stretched out his hand and slowly pushed open the tightly closed door in front of him, revealing a long and narrow corridor.

The corridors were littered with dead bodies.

(End of this chapter)