Life Dungeon Game

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With a soft thud in the void, He'ao's short sword collided with the monster's tentacles.

This monster has a very strong exoskeleton, no weaker than Reed's.

Like Reid, he also couldn't see the monster's energy gathering point with his divine sense.

However, this monster is clearly not as intelligent as Reed.

Twisted madness permeated almost the entire body of this monster, and even from a slightly closer distance, He Ao could feel that madness trying to erode his will.

He Ao quickly made several feints to attract the monster's body, then used Nightwalking to teleport to the monster's side and sent a wisp of divine sense into the monster's body.

On the left chest.

Before the monster could react, He'ao's sword flashed and pierced the monster's left chest.

The skeletal tentacles, which had been flailing wildly, fell silent in an instant, and then suddenly exploded into countless fragments.

Hard bones fell around He Ao like raindrops.

In the void, the illusory shadow shattered into countless tiny fragments, which then drifted away little by little.

The painful screams in He Ao's ears gradually faded.

He glanced in the direction where the souls had vanished, then raised his sword and continued charging in the direction the mist was flowing without looking back.

Within seconds, He Ao saw a vortex of flowing mist appear before him.

He went closer and saw that the metal wall at the end was covered with a dense network of fine pipes, which were absorbing the diffused mist.

These pipes are at most ten centimeters in diameter and are not suitable for people to pass through.

The road seems to end here.

However, it is impossible for this machine to not have a downward channel inside.

Moreover, heading in this direction will lead you right to the monster guarding the machine. These kinds of monsters are usually placed next to important passages, so this direction should be correct.

He Ao activated his super memory and searched around the pipe. Then, on the ground next to the pipe, he found a circular cover that was almost integrated with the ground.

The door was almost seamless, and through the mist, it was nearly indistinguishable from the ground.

If it weren't for He Ao's super memory, this place would almost be overlooked.

He placed his hand on the door.

The door has no handles or keyholes on its surface.

He Ao mobilized his divine sense, but failed to enter the gate.

The surrounding fog surged once again.

Soon, divine sense transmitted feedback about the internal structure of the door.

In the middle of this floor layer is a layer of hard alloy at least five centimeters thick. The material is the same as, or even better than, He Ao's short sword. In other words, He Ao could hardly break through this floor layer with just his short sword.

The interior of this circular door is almost entirely made of this alloy, with five sturdy alloy lock cylinders firmly inserted into the floor.

Open this door

There is only one way: break through the alloy surface of the door from six directions at the same time, insert six different switches inside the door, and then forcibly lift the door up.

This is not a 'keyhole' designed for humans; it is a keyhole specifically made for monsters that can extend exoskeleton claws.

But this is no problem for He Ao.

He directly enveloped the short sword with his divine sense and forcefully severed the latch along the gap between the door and the floor.

Then he took out his bayonet, covered it with his divine sense, stabbed it into one side of the door, and with a sudden force, flipped the door open.

In the past, he would never have been so extravagant.

But just as he was prying open the door, another divine consciousness arose in his mind.

He pulled out the bayonet stuck in the door.

The heavy, round door slammed onto the ground with a thud. In the dim light inside the machine, the shadow of the door merged with He Ao's shadow.

He looked down at himself.

A circular doorway came into his view.

There was no long ladder beneath this doorway, but rather an even denser, more chaotic mist.

Just as He Ao was staring at the doorway, six enormous claws silently parted the clouds and appeared behind him.

These sharp claws made no sound as they silently approached Heo's back.

Then they lunged forward, striking Heo's hands, legs, neck, and back of the heart respectively.

Just as these claws were about to touch He Ao, they suddenly missed their target and crashed into the steel wall behind the doorway.

"shadow?"

A silver-haired man wearing white gloves emerged from the mist.

He glanced at the shadow of the circular door, then mobilized his tentacles to instantly strangle the area around the shadow.

He Ao, gripping a short sword, emerged from the night.

He swung his short sword and collided with a sharp claw, then fell into the doorway.

"Cunning guy."

The silver-haired man also jumped down into the doorway.

The surging fog was quickly parted, and after descending for a few seconds, Heo finally landed on the ground.

His legs slammed against the steel floor with a deafening roar, then he quickly crouched down and rolled forward to dissipate the force.

He straightened up and looked ahead.

Unlike the two upper layers which are covered in fog, the fog in this layer only extends to a height of two meters or more.

At a depth of two meters or less, the concentration of fog is much lower.

I could faintly hear the sound of a fan, which meant that some kind of suction device was constantly absorbing the fog.

The temperature on this floor is lower than both above and outside; He Ao estimates it's close to zero degrees Celsius.

The surrounding area was densely covered with pipes about half a meter in diameter, with fine water droplets condensing on them.

The fog has decreased, but the concentration of 'gas' in the air has increased.

In the blink of an eye, most of the vortex of Qi within He Ao's body condensed again.

These pipes all appear to extend in the same direction.

He Ao glanced behind him.

There was no sound behind him, but he had no doubt that the monster had followed him in.

As he turned his head, two sharp claws fell from the sky.

The silver-haired man appeared behind He Ao.

His other four claws penetrated deep into the mist, seemingly fixed to the ceiling, allowing his body to suspend in mid-air.

He Ao, who was looking back, suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. He turned around abruptly and swung his sword to block the attack of the two sharp claws.

His body was sent flying by the claws, disappearing into the shadows of the pipe.

"Night travel is extremely taxing on the body of night travelers."

The silver-haired man smiled as he descended from the sky. Six sharp claws, protruding from the gaps in the pipes and embedded in the ground, supported his body, allowing him to float like a spider.

"Little mouse, how long can you stay hidden in the shadows?"

He seemed very patient, wanting to play a cat-and-mouse game with Heo.

Heo, hidden in the shadows, watched the silver-haired man.

The opponent is stronger than Reed and knows more about the Nightcrawler talent sequence.

After being exposed to the enhanced potion area and the recent battle, his body was indeed reaching its limit.

He knew very well that this person was not a 'doctor', and that an even tougher battle was yet to come.

After a moment's thought, He Ao continued forward along the shadow of the pipe.

Soon, he reached the end of the pipe.

A shallow pool came into his view. The pool was not large, only about four or five square meters, but it was filled with a 'qi' so dense that it was almost solidified.

Pipes with outlets piled up beside the pool, and a faint white liquid dripped from these pipes, flowing drop by drop into the pool from the edge of the pool.

This is all the 'qi' that this machine condenses and collects.

This intense and surging power caused even He Ao's consciousness to tremble.

Above this pool, a huge machine is vaguely suspended in the mist, with faint lights flickering within it.

This appears to be a high-energy battery used to cool the condensation in the bottom layer.

To reach the battery, one must cross the pool in front of them and its edge.

Just then, a loud noise came from behind. The silver-haired man seemed to sense something and quickly walked towards the pool.

He glanced at his feet; the shadow of the pipe ended there, and the pool in front of him was evenly lit, with no shadows.

He looked around and found the lights next to the pool. There were many of them, and they were not close together, so he couldn't quickly destroy some of them to create shadows.

At that moment, a sharp claw swiftly swept across his head. The silver-haired man fixed his six claws to the ceiling, suspending himself above the pool with the claws. He scanned his surroundings and said, "Little mouse, how long are you going to hide?"

His positioning was perfect, right beneath the massive energy cell, and he didn't cast any shadow on the pool.

He Ao stared at the silver-haired man in the air; now there was another barrier between him and the energy battery.

He has already been exposed, and if things drag on, it will likely attract even more enemies.

After a moment's thought, He Ao jumped directly into the pool.

As he expected, the pool wasn't deep, barely reaching his ankles; it would be more accurate to call it a shallow puddle. 'Qi' wasn't so easy to create.

But this also revealed his physical condition.

"caught you."