Life Dungeon Game

"It seems that to get to the third basement level, you have to go to the right."

Fia, who was standing to the side, glanced at the corridors on both sides, and finally her gaze settled on the corridor on the right. She spoke slowly.

"Um,"

He Ao nodded, stepped over the vines on the ground, and walked straight to the corridor on the right. "Watch your step."

Something came up that took a while, plus I had a stroke of luck, so it's a bit late.

Chapter 735 I Ask, You Answer (Mega Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

"These vines seem to be decreasing over here."

Fia shone her flashlight along the inside of the passage.

There are still many vines covering the walls and floor inside the corridor, but there are much fewer than in the elevator lobby.

“These vines all seem to have grown from a single main vine.”

Fia raised her flashlight and, following the clearly defined tendrils of the vine, gradually found an extra-thick vine clinging to the top of the corridor.

You can vaguely see branches extending from this main vine and then spreading to other parts of the corridor.

He Ao also looked at the vine, then turned on his flashlight and shone it behind him. In the dark corridor, the veins of the main vine could be vaguely seen.

It doesn't extend from the elevator lobby, but rather from the corridor on the other side, the one leading to the main space on the second floor, without any detours.

“This main vine is probably the oldest vine in the vicinity.”

He looked at the vine and said thoughtfully.

He walked down from the first floor. The vines on the ground grew randomly, basically growing towards places where there were no vines. Only this main vine showed a clear purpose.

Fia also looked at the vine, seemingly lost in thought.

The two continued forward, and by this time they had walked most of the way down the corridor. A half-open gate appeared ahead, illuminated by their flashlights.

"Wait a moment."

Just then, He Ao suddenly spoke and stopped walking.

"what happened?"

Fia was taken aback and stopped in her tracks.

In that instant, He Ao suddenly raised the bone sword in his hand and thrust it towards Fiya's back.

boom-

With a crisp sound, the sword blade blocked the venomous fangs that emerged from the void.

Fia immediately turned around and shone her flashlight behind her. A giant, emerald-green python was vaguely outlined in the pitch-black darkness.

Seeing that its attack had failed, the giant python did not linger in the fight. It simply opened its mouth and retreated, its entire figure disappearing into the darkness.

"Disappeared?"

Fiya was taken aback.

"Some kind of invisibility ability."

He Ao tucked the flashlight over his shoulder, held the sword in both hands, and silently gazed at the darkness.

This giant python itself wasn't very strong, barely exceeding the C-level limit, but its ability to blend into the darkness and 'become invisible' reminded He Ao of the Night Stalker.

Can you influence its actions?

With his back to Fia, He Ao asked in a low voice.

“No,” Fia shook her head. “I can’t see it, and it might be purely biological, without any machinery inside.”

In other words, does it mean that a non-pure biological organism with mechanical components needs to be seen before it can have an impact?

In combat, this ability doesn't seem to be that useful.

"Watch out for the vines on the ground."

He Ao gave Fiya a look, and the two began to slowly back away.

The giant python was enormous. Since it could move among these vines, it must have formed some kind of 'symbiotic' relationship with them, being able to contact the vines without being attacked by them.

In other words, the vines are not safe; the snake may be hiding among some vine leaves.

Below the film.

This sentence serves both as a reminder to Fia to be careful not to step on the vines and as a warning to her about the threat that the vines may pose.

Fia quickly understood He Ao's reminder and nodded gently.

The two slowly retreated, and everything seemed to return to silence.

After its attack failed, the giant python slithered back into the shadows, seemingly looking for another opportunity.

And so, the two of them took two more steps back. Throughout the whole process, He Ao's attention was entirely focused on Fiya.

The giant python could clearly distinguish the strength of the two, so it prioritized attacking Fia, who appeared weaker and easier to break through.

At this point, the two were only a dozen steps away from the gate.

There don't seem to be any vines behind the gate.

Fia turned her head and shone her flashlight on the gate, then whispered.

If this giant python truly is a creature that lives in symbiosis with the vines, then leaving the area where the vines grow means leaving its habitat.

Once you pass through the gate, you should be safe.

"Turn around and go over there first."

He lowered his voice and gestured for Fiya to turn around and pass through the gate first.

Fiya glanced at He Ao and nodded gently, "Okay."

He Ao turned slightly to the side, his entire attention seemingly focused on Fiya.

In that instant, a green phantom appeared behind him and lunged at his right shoulder.

Fia saw the phantom. She opened her mouth, about to warn He Ao, but before she could utter a sound, a white sword flashed through the darkness under the flashlight's beam.

The enormous snake head was severed by a single sword strike in an instant. The yellow vertical pupils on the snake's head widened, displaying an unbelievable, human-like expression, before flying into the darkness.

He Ao had already sheathed his sword, turned his back, and taken a half step back to avoid the splattering blood.

Fia blinked. Although she already had an understanding of He Ao's intelligence and strength, it seemed that He Ao could always redefine her understanding. She stared blankly at the giant green python's corpse on the ground. "You predicted its movements? How did you do that?"

"This snake lives in this corridor, so it's unlikely that it only stays in the small area near the gate. Furthermore, we weren't attacked in the first half of the corridor, so it's highly probable that this entire corridor is its territory, and it's been following us the whole time."

He glanced at the corpse on the ground and casually remarked, "It must have been lurking in the shadows, waiting for the moment we were most relaxed before launching its attack."

"From this perspective, this snake is somewhat intelligent. Since it is intelligent, it can set a trap, create an opening, and wait for the snake to take the bait."

So He Ao had been pretending to focus on Fia, which made the giant green python think that He Ao had let his guard down.

Then, taking advantage of Fia turning around, when Heo should theoretically be 'most concerned' about Fia, the snake found its target and launched an attack.

It thought it had anticipated He's movements, but in fact, it was all a trap set by He. Even the right shoulder, which it discovered was He's weakest point, was a flaw that He deliberately gave it.

It thought it was launching a sneak attack, but in reality, all its actions were orchestrated by He.

On the track that was designed by Austria.

However, this tactic is only effective against somewhat intelligent beasts. If the snake is the kind of mindless beast that only attacks on instinct, then it will take more effort to break through its stealth ability.

"Oh!"

Fiya nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.

At the same time, she glanced at the snake's head not far away, and the snake's body, which was at least ten meters long and hidden in the darkness, separated from the head.

Monsters of this caliber are hellish bosses for ordinary C-rank monsters, or even for powerful C-rank monsters in the top tier.

It can turn invisible, it's smart, it's strong, and it might even be poisonous.

But even this kind of BOSS, who appeared for less than a minute, was killed in just two moves.

She discovered that their team's performance was truly impressive.

We two are really strong.

He Ao paid no attention to Fiya, who was lost in thought. At that moment, his attention, like Fiya's, was focused on the snake's head and body corpse on the ground.

However, his focus was not on the snake's head and body, but on the 'vines' splattered with blood.

The blood that had been spreading on the vines gradually faded and lightened before the naked eye, merging into the vines' contracting, seemingly breathing, emerald-green body.

Immediately afterwards, He Ao watched as the vines trembled, and some of them slowly arched up, wrapping up the snake's body and head that were on them.

Shila-

It sounded like some kind of sharp thorn piercing flesh. The once plump and robust snake flesh rapidly shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and was then coiled together by wriggling vines.

In a very short time, the corpse of this C-level alien beast was drained dry, leaving only a thin skin covering long snake bones.

Soon, even the snake bones and skin were torn apart and entangled by the coiled vines. With a series of teeth-grinding creaks, the sturdy bones were ground into specks of white powder and blended into the emerald green vines.

After having a 'feast', the vines seemed to grow even greener and more vibrant.

As the last bones and skin were devoured, all the vines slowly unfurled again. Apart from the still-dry blood splattered on the ground, there was no trace of the giant python in the dark corridor, as if it had never been there.

Although He Ao had sensed the danger of these vines from the beginning, he was only now witnessing their true 'power'.

The skin and bones of a Class C alien beast are impenetrable even to submachine guns, and sharp bullets leave no trace.

But it was pierced and ground to pieces as easily as thin paper, leaving nothing behind.

He Ao turned around and glanced at Fiya.

The girl had just seen the movement of the vines, and she seemed to have stopped having any wild thoughts; her eyes behind her glasses looked somewhat dazed.

She seemed to finally understand why He Ao had emphasized to her so many times, "Watch your step" and "Watch out for the vines."

Just as He Ao was preparing to pack up and continue forward, a white light appeared in front of them.

"this is?"