Life Dungeon Game

Its 'completeness' naturally has its reasons.

He Ao picked up a flashlight and shone it around the area. Directly opposite, he found a tightly closed gate.

With the first and second floors

Unlike other floors, the gates on this floor were successfully 'closed'.

Now He Ao somewhat understood why those vines had come over to hold up the gate on the second basement level that was about to close.

If the gate on the second basement level is also closed, then the 'thing' that was trapped in the elevator shaft on the second basement level may be trapped inside for a long time.

However, the gate in front of He Ao at this moment, although successfully closed, is not 'complete'.

On the right side of the gate, there was a crack about two people wide.

The sturdy alloy that forms the gate was pierced by some external force, like a piece of paper that has been punctured, curling and breaking outwards, creating a gap that is only two people wide.

"What is this gap?"

Fia walked towards the crack with a flashlight, shining it into it. Then, she paused abruptly, pointing the beam downwards. "Hey, look at this."

"It's the Sheep Demon."

He Ao walked over and, following the beam of her flashlight, saw a small sheep demon lying behind the gate.

Its eyes were wide open, and its skull was shattered, revealing a mixture of flesh and machinery.

Behind this gate, not far away, there was another gate, which had also been breached.

He Ao glanced at the spot where the gate had been forced open, lifted his foot, and stepped over the gate. "Let's go take a look."

This stairwell has only one exit. Whether or not there are four more underground levels, we'll have to go out and check to find out.

The two crossed the gate, and behind the next gate, they found the corpse of another 'sheep demon'.

There were more than twenty gates in the corridor, not just one or two. Almost every two gates the two of them passed, they would find the corpse of a goat demon, or even several.

"Did they break through all these 'doors'?"

As she reached the end, Fia looked at the corpses at her feet and asked in a low voice.

"should be."

He Ao nodded, raised his flashlight and shone it forward. At this moment, only the last gate remained in front of them.

The gate had its largest opening, and most of it was damaged, making it almost completely open. However, at the same time, a colossal creature, even larger than the gate, was blocking the entrance, its back to them.

Fia also looked up at the enormous creature, then cautiously glanced at He Ao.

"It's alright, keep going."

He walked ahead, emerging from the gap between the enormous structure and the gate.

Fia followed closely behind him.

The two walked a few more steps forward until they had completely left the behemoth behind before turning around.

A gigantic goat demon, seven or eight meters tall and with a massive body, sitting on the ground, appeared in their field of vision.

This sheep demon blocked the entrance to the gate, almost completely blocking it, with only gaps on both sides allowing people to pass through.

"This sheep demon..."

Fia looked at the enormous creature and spoke in a trembling voice.

"died."

He Ao said calmly.

In the eyes of divine sense, the energy circuits within this sheep demon had already collapsed, leaving only a massive body.

At this moment, He Ao also began to speculate about what had happened here.

At the moment the underground palace encountered some kind of crisis, the staff most likely opened the gate in a very short time, severing the connection between the three underground levels and the two levels above.

After that, these sheep demons lived near the gate, ramming it day after day. It took them hundreds of years to finally break through the gate, escape, and enter the upper two levels.

He Ao turned around and scanned his surroundings. The area was very open, a three-way intersection, and no sheep demons came out to attack.

The sheep demons he killed on the first basement level might have been the last sheep demons.

After they broke through the gate, they all escaped to the top, leaving behind this enormous corpse, which may be their ancestor, to block the way and intimidate other monsters.

Perhaps this is why no powerful monsters have appeared on the underground level since the appearance of the Sheep Demon.

Those powerful monsters on the third floor may not yet have realized that this passage has been opened, or that the sheep demons that were 'banging against the wall' have all disappeared.

He Ao withdrew his gaze and looked at the three-way intersection ahead.

At this intersection, there is a main road that goes straight ahead, and two side roads, one to the left and one to the right.

Fia had recovered from the shock of the giant goat demon. She looked at the three-way intersection and asked in a low voice,

Which path should we take?

"The leftmost one."

He Ao answered quickly.

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Chapter 737 Remains of the Deceased (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Fia looked at the three roads in front of her.

The middle road is the main road, and looking into the distance, you can vaguely see the doors of some rooms.

The road on the right is the second widest, and you can vaguely see some small doors that seem to lead to some secluded rooms.

The road on the left is the narrowest and most secluded of the three, with only smooth walls, seemingly leading to some indescribable, deep place.

She turned to look at He Ao, "What's wrong with the road on the left? It looks the most dangerous?"

"Ok?"

He Ao glanced at her and asked softly, "What is our fundamental goal now?"

"Find the secrets of this 'underground palace,' and discover the reason why it's so close to the main world?"

Fia pondered before answering.

"So where is this secret and the reason most likely hidden?"

He Ao continued to ask.

"The deepest part of the underground palace?"

Fiya looked at He Ao and said, "Judging from the current situation, the deeper you go in the underground palace, the stronger the supernatural power becomes. The powerful force that can pull between the two worlds is probably hidden in the deepest part of the underground palace, at the lowest level."

"Actually, there's another explanation that suggests the secret of the underground palace might be hidden in the lowest level,"

He Ao continued, leading Fiya towards the left path, "Based on our current deductions, the underground palace was originally a large facility for some special purpose, and its designers considered its inherent dangers from the outset, incorporating barrier gates on each level."

"Based on this, if we take the first level as the safe zone, the farther away from the first level, the more gates we will pass through, and the greater the probability of being blocked. Therefore, if there are any 'dangerous' items in the original 'underground palace', they should be placed on the lowest level, the one furthest from the first level."

He paused, then continued, "At this point, we've found a secondary objective derived from our fundamental objective: 'searching for the lowest or deepest level of the underground palace,' because that might hold the key to solving our fundamental problem."

"However, the stairwell on the third basement level is different from the stairwell on the second basement level. There is no corridor leading to the next floor; there is only one corridor leading to the third basement level."

"There are two possibilities in this situation. One is that the third floor is the last floor, so one corridor is enough. The other is that the underground palace has four underground floors, but the passage to the fourth underground floor is in another place."

“So,” Fia seemed to understand something, looking at the deep, dark path before her, “this path might lead to the fourth level of the underground palace? Why?”

"If we assume that a fourth layer exists, then why isn't the passageway on the fourth layer adjacent to the passageway on the third layer?"

As He Ao walked along the road, gazing at the scenery in the deep darkness, he casually asked a question.

"For safety?"

Fia thought for a moment, then continued,

“If there is also a barrier at the entrance of the fourth-level passage, plus the barrier at the entrance of the third-level passage, then you will have to go through two barriers to get from the fourth level to the second level. This is more ‘safe’ than the design of the second level where the second and third level passages are adjacent and there is only one barrier between them.”

"And this 'safety' comes at a cost."

It has provided some convenience.

He shone his flashlight on the bloodstains on the walls on both sides of the 'alley' they were in.

"Therefore, the passageway to the fourth floor will not be too far from the passageway to the third floor, so that staff going to work on the fourth floor will not have to walk too far."

"This path is closest to the exit of the corridor we just left, and there are no other rooms on either side of it, so the staff on the third and fourth floors won't have to squeeze onto the same path and affect the flow of traffic."

"From the perspective of traffic flow design, this is the path that should lead to the fourth level passage among the three paths."

In fact, He Ao had another conjecture.

If the underground palace really has four underground levels, the 'barrier' of the passage on the fourth level is probably not as simple as a corridor full of gates as the first three levels.

Otherwise, the designer could simply design an extra-long gate passage and then open an opening in the middle leading to the third floor, without going to the extra lengths and making the staff on the fourth floor take a detour.

"Great!"

Fia gave Heo a thumbs up.

After clarifying the current situation, she turned her gaze to the dark road ahead. The two of them moved quickly and had already walked a certain distance into the road.

Ahead lay only a silent, pitch-black expanse, and within that endless darkness lay a terrifying, ferocious beast, its jaws agape, waiting to devour them.

She shone her flashlight ahead and lowered her voice, "How much longer do we have to walk before we...?"

She had just opened her mouth when she saw He Ao gently make a shushing gesture.

Then He Ao pointed to his ear, indicating that she should listen carefully.

The two of them simultaneously slowed their pace.

Crunch— Crunch—

After everything quieted down, a faint, tearing sound could be heard from the depths of the darkness ahead.

As the two listened to the sound quietly for a moment, it suddenly fell silent, turning into a stillness.