The weapon refiner is not doing her job properly

Chapter 109 The Ghost Cathedral (Part 5)
They weren't without suspicion about the staircase's anomaly, but every extra second spent in the contaminated zone meant a significantly increased risk of death.

The dreadlocked hunter was still not convinced. He suddenly raised his gun and fired several shots at the floating staircase.

"Are you crazy?" His companion pressed down on the muzzle of his gun.

"My gun has been double-silenced, it's fine..."

Don't waste your time and energy on boring things.

Lian Xinyi, who had hidden herself on the ground, gritted her teeth as blood gushed from her thigh.

To avoid being discovered, he didn't cover his wound; instead, he covered the platform that had been punctured.

More than her own safety, Lian Xinyi was afraid that the dripping blood would reveal everyone's whereabouts.

The dreadlocks hunter looked around several times to make sure the stairs were normal before being pulled away by his companions and disappearing into the end of the passage.

Yunfei peeked out and saw that the hunters had all left, confirming that the danger was over.

Yun Fei decisively said to Su Ninglong, "If I throw you over there, can you help Lian Xinyi bandage up? The bullet might have been specially treated; if it's not removed, it will hinder healing."

"Woo woo..." A howl came from afar.

Everyone's heart clenched involuntarily.

Yun Fei said urgently, "The smell of blood may have attracted the attention of the parasites. We need to hurry."

After saying that, he was about to throw Su Ninglong to Lian Xinyi's side, but Su Ninglong pressed his hand down and took out a spool of thin thread from her backpack. It was the same thread that the sightseeing train used to make slings. It was very flexible and suitable for use as a temporary rescue rope.

"I still have some in my backpack."

Yun Fei was surprised that Su Ninglong was so well-prepared. "Thank you, but this height is no problem for us. I'll take the rope for now."

Lian Xinyi's condition is critical.

"Don't panic, I'm very accurate. I'll slow everything down."

"No need, I can do it myself." Su Ninglong silently counted three, two, one, and used the three-meter platform to start her run and jump. With a push of her legs, she created an air vortex under her feet and shot out like a cannonball.

She landed lightly on Lian Xinyi's platform and steadied herself.

Yun Fei stared at the platform, which sank a few centimeters before stopping, and felt a little more at ease.

Su Ninglong whispered to Lian Xinyi, "Lie down. I've learned first aid. Relax."

Lian Xinyi nodded and released her trembling hand.

The bullet entered the muscle at an angle, and the nano-clothing was in the way, so Su Ninglong had to cut it open.

With a gentle swipe of the matte metallic dagger, the nano-clothing was cut open.

"Sister Su, your knife is so strong."

Lian Xinyi, who used to scream in pain, has become much more mentally resilient. However, she misjudged the situation and even praised people while injured.

Su Ninglong remained silent, first cleaning and examining the wound. It was probably a bullet with burning properties; the area around the wound was charred, but the bleeding hadn't stopped, causing continuous damage.

There may be a coagulation disruptor present, which would have a strong restraining effect on Lian Xinyi, who possesses healing abilities.

"Bear with it, your self-healing body can handle it." Su Ninglong held the dagger and sprayed disinfectant mist onto it to reduce bacterial infection.

"I...believe you." I definitely won't die, but it will hurt.

Lian Xinyi forced a pale smile, took off her gloves, rolled them into a ball, stuffed them into her mouth, and bit down hard. "Come on."

The bullet hadn't penetrated deeply; Su Ninglong swiftly slashed it out with her knife, pulling out a piece of charred flesh along with it.

Lian Xinyi's forehead veins bulged, and his fingertips gripped his palm tightly.

The icy distilled water, mixed with blood, flowed down the young man's leg muscles, a truly horrifying sight.

"Shall I give you an injection of nano-coagulant?"

"No need, that stuff doesn't work on me." The clotting agent would slow down his healing process.

The wound was already healing during the cleaning process.

After the pain subsides, only a red scar remains from the wound, which will likely fall off soon.

Lian Xinyi gasped for breath, straightened up with her trembling knees, fumbled for the repair agent, sprayed it on the torn nanosuit, and soon the nano combat suit was put back together.

After completing this series of operations, he lay back on the ground, and many shadows of things swayed in front of him.

"No need for clotting agents, just drink some blood-replenishing beverages." Su Ninglong slipped a small bottle of blood-replenishing medicine into his hand.

Lian Xinyi bit open the cap of the blood-tonifying medicine bottle, drank it all in one gulp, and felt that his body's insulin might not be able to handle the cloyingly sweet taste.

However, its blood-replenishing effect is quite strong, and the pale earlobes instantly regain a ruby-like hue.

Yun Fei used the suspended platform to jump three times, getting closer to the two of them.

"Can you stand up?"

"Can we wait a little longer?"

"I'm afraid not."

As soon as the words were spoken, a long, drawn-out roar tore through the silence.

"Ninglong, come here." Yun Fei reached out his hand.

Su Ninglong quickly reached out, but Yun Fei lifted her up and hugged her tightly.

Lian Xinyi glanced back and her body trembled involuntarily.

The path we came from was crowded with parasites, which looked like all sorts of disgusting and deformed creatures.

Her survival instinct was instantly activated, and even Xin Yi forgot the pain in her body, jumped up and ran.

Ollie let Funi hug him and jumped down from the air. Song Hu and Ying Gu jumped onto one of the floating steps together. Taking advantage of the fact that the floating steps could not support too much weight, the two descended quickly.

The six of them used various methods to get downstairs, while the parasite stared intently at them from the edge of the stairs, also trying to find a way to jump onto the stairs.

The parasite's instincts have simply been altered by the aggregation throat; it does not mean it has low intelligence.

The seven fresh prey are excellent hosts for the Gathering Throat, luring them to be captured and brought back by it.

"Catch them," one of the parasites said, leading the way.

"You go first."

"Why should I go first?"

"If you won't go, I won't go."

Su Ninglong was being carried by Yun Fei. Her keen hearing picked up on their squabbles amidst the various roars. Good heavens, the parasites were betraying each other. Was it a traditional skill? Or was it driven by the selfish nature of humans?

They argued for less than half a minute before starting to fight, pushing and shoving each other. One of the parasites was pushed down and crashed into the floating stairs.

Finally, he fell to the ground, his limbs twitching. It seemed he wouldn't die anytime soon.

Yun Fei rushed to the front, stepped on the parasite's head, and the small space under his shoe slightly distorted, causing the parasite's head to explode instantly.

Crimson chunks of flesh burst and flew everywhere, but were stopped by an invisible force field just before they touched Yun Fei's gray clothes, slowing everything down.

Yun Fei slowly walked away, only saying to the people behind him, "Keep up."

Instant kill! So incredibly handsome! No wonder he's one of the most desired hunter teammates in the online anonymous poll.

Lian Xinyi's mouth formed an egg-like shape as he leaped onto a step about three meters above the ground. He jumped again, rolled once on the ground to dissipate the force, got up, and continued running.

But after that jump, his thigh started to ache, and he limped, still following closely behind Yun Fei.

Seeing its companion instantly killed, the parasite roared in fury, and thousands of monsters boiled against gravity, leaping and climbing downwards, creating a scene straight out of hell.

Yun Fei and the others dared not look back and ran with all their might.

However, they were not as fast as the parasite. Just as they were about to catch up, Song Hu cast a spell behind him: "Immobilize".

The parasites closest to them were frozen in place, even the space itself seemed to freeze.

Having blocked the initial attack, they dared not delay for even a moment, following Yun Fei into a huge room with fiber optic pillars erected above them, where countless fleshy growths hung from the ceiling and pillars.

Yun Fei hesitated for a second when he stepped in. The reason was simple: the detector showed that the pollution level here was 200, indicating a heavily polluted area.

The parasite relentlessly pursues them, but there's only one path forward.

Yun Fei had no choice but to step inside, and the others followed him.

After they all entered the room, the parasites lingered outside the door, no longer pursuing them. Their eyes were green, and they seemed satisfied as they entered the graveyard of the Gathering Throat.

They slowly recede, while the sarcoma continues to grow, blocking the entrance.

As Penny was being led around by Ollie, her glasses were all askew. Ollie walked up to Su Ninglong and started whimpering sweetly.

Su Ninglong grasped Xia Xiangmu, feeling an intense, ominous aura emanating from it. For the first time, she experienced the power of a game with a difficulty level similar to "Nightmare." Every breath she took here made her feel suffocated.

When the ominous aura became this intense, Su Ninglong knew why it had been defined as ominous from the beginning. It was the complete opposite of the purity of spiritual power, and was full of filth.

To sacrifice one's life and soul to strengthen oneself is filth.

It is a cultivation method that orthodox cultivators despise the most.

A faint light seeped in through the glass window, illuminating a mass of fleshy growths, revealing the chubby, white man, Hungry Bound.

Its enormous hand was raised in mid-air, seemingly trying to break free from the stringy tumors covering its body. Its expression was frozen in terror, its eyes filled with hunger for food, and it became a meal for other mysterious spirits.

How ironic.

Turning around, there was also a shadow crawler, wrapped in layers of fleshy tumors, its abdomen still playing out a woven tragedy, yet it seemed to be struggling in its death throes.

"Where is this?" Lian Xinyi's face turned pale again. Even her steel-like body couldn't withstand the force of her running after being seriously injured.

Funi looked around carefully, avoiding stepping on the red veins of the Gathering Throat. "The Gathering Throat's digestive field is also called the Hunter's Graveyard."

"How to leave?"

"I don't know. We've only ever heard of this place before. None of the hunters who came out of the Maw of Convergence have ever been to the Maw of Convergence's digestive field."

With a little thought, it becomes clear that no one survived.

Eagle Bone stepped forward: "I'll blow this place up."

"It can't be blown through." The fact that so many excellent hunters couldn't escape is enough to prove how powerful the digestive field is.

"Whether we can blow it through or not, we have to try." Eagle Bone unleashed his skill for the first time. "Kid, which direction should the divination board go?"

Su Ninglong was placed on the ground by Yun Fei. She looked very well-behaved and gentle. She held the divination board and said, "Using the direction I am standing in now as the reference, left and right are the front and back, and front and back are the back."

After being tossed into the air, the divination board clattered and stood upright, seemingly unaware of its destination.

Everyone was dumbfounded. Could this really be done? Funi's expression was quite interesting. It turned out that the fortune-telling board wasn't so delicate after all. This method was excellent.

When the divination board was on the ground, the veins of the Gathering Throat actively converged, as if wanting to possess the divination board. Su Ninglong immediately picked it up and put it back in the transparent plastic bag.

"Oli, can you go out?"

Ollie clung tightly to Su Ninglong and shook his head. There was no way for him to escape from this place either.

The space was completely imprisoned by the Throat of Convergence. In order to prevent its prey from escaping, it abandoned the passage back to the real world and completely sealed off the room. It would only open the passage again if a new prey entered.

As soon as the prey runs in, it will become yours.

Su Ninglong hugged Ollie's big head, "I'm sorry, I brought you here."

Ollie nuzzled against Suninglong, as if to say, "It's okay, it did it willingly."

This has really stumped them.

Do we have to wait for new prey to arrive before we can escape?
"Where did the people who fled this way go?"

“They are quite familiar with this place, so they may have had a way to avoid entering from the beginning.”

"It's all this fortune-telling board's fault." Su Ninglong vented all her dissatisfaction on the object itself. "It lured us into stepping into a trap."

The divination board: If it knew Dou E, it would surely say that Dou E was even more wronged than Dou E!

Eagle Bone decides to try to blow this place up; his special ability is related to explosions.

Dozens of transparent bubbles slowly condensed in the air, and after accumulating a certain number, he piled them all in one place.

"Get away!" Everyone stepped back. The bubbles floated, and when they touched the tumor, they exploded violently, a series of explosions.

The tumor was blown open, leaving a large hole.

But no one showed any joy; there were more tumors behind the tumors, seemingly multiplying indefinitely.

Scattered tumors eroded the ground, and red veins grew back.

Eagle Bone was unwilling to give up, so he threw bubble bombs back towards the entrance he came from, no matter which direction he threw them.

Even after blowing all the windows off, the endless wall of fleshy growths was still invisible outside.

Each time an explosion occurs, piercing murmurs can be heard, seemingly countless cries of agony, intermittent sobs, sudden bursts of maniacal laughter, and at other times, muffled groans like those of someone falling into a deep well.

These cries of anguish reach the depths of one's heart, as if the innocent victims are still struggling and pleading for help, easily stirring one's emotions.

Tears welled up in her eyes without her noticing. Lian Xinyi wiped her nose and opened her ear hooks again, but this time, the Heart-Cleansing Mantra could only cover part of the wailing.

Lian Xinyi said with red eyes, "Even if I were peeling an onion, I wouldn't cry like this. Don't tell Lei Qingya and Shen Zhaoming about this when you go back."

Song Hu admired Song Hu's mindset, saying, "You should think about what to do if you can't get out."

His mind was preoccupied with how to leave, but his Word of Power was not enough to affect the Throat of Convergence.

Su Ninglong looked up at Yun Fei and asked, "What would you do in this situation?"

"As long as you don't give up, there is hope." Yun Fei patted Su Ninglong's head. "It's really bad. You just made a show of being cool, and now you're in a sorry state."

"Hahaha." Su Ninglong patted his arm. "Don't worry, just go for it. I'm the ace, I'll be your backup."

Yun Fei smiled. No matter how powerful the little guy is, can he still destroy the Throat of Aggregation?
Su Ninglong snorted coldly. They actually didn't believe that she really had a backup plan: the Great Summoning Technique.

However, there's a high chance this backup plan won't be used.

She only thought of it when Xingyuan suggested bringing Ollie along, and she never actually tested it.

“A three-star Mystic Spirit is no match for me and Funi. I was able to become a four-star hunter because I could contend with a four-star Mystic Spirit for a while, but after we break through, we might need you to protect us for a while on our journey ahead.” Yun Fei was afraid of exhausting himself, so he gave them his inside information first.

Phoenix nodded: "Before we came, we did a lot of rehearsals to see what to do if we were to unfortunately encounter the digestive field of the Gathering Throat. The explosion of the Eagle Bone has given us some data to support our previous theories."