Life Dungeon Game

The two exchanged a glance, slowed their pace, and cautiously walked forward.

After walking a few dozen meters further, a pool of bright red blood with a gray sheen appeared in front of them.

In the very center of this bloodstain lay a mangled humanoid monster, its chest ripped open and its contents hollowed out, its limbs bearing the marks of being torn apart by some sharp object.

Its head was somewhat human-like, covered in ferocious hair, and its eyes were wide open, still revealing a last trace of ferocity.

"He has only been dead for a short time."

Fia glanced down at the corpse, lowered her voice, and spoke quickly.

"Ah."

He Ao nodded slightly. He glanced around but did not see any obvious bloodstains or footprints.

The two continued forward, one in front of the other.

After walking a dozen or so steps forward, an open gate appeared on the left wall directly in front of the two of them.

They both paused at the same time.

He looked at Fia, pointed to himself, and then pointed to the gate.

Fia nodded quickly.

This was a division of labor: He Ao watched inside, and Fiya watched outside.

Soon, the two arrived at the gate, and He Ao shone his flashlight inside the gate.

This is not a passage, but a passage with only thirty...

The large space, about 100 square meters, was densely packed with simple, blood-stained metal chairs. At the innermost part of the space was a huge, empty cabinet with multiple doors that were open.

In the corner of the room, behind an open small door, there was another small room containing a toilet covered in blood.

While He Ao was looking at the scene in the room, Fiya was facing away from him, shining a flashlight around the scenery.

She first shone the light around below, but saw nothing. Then, after thinking for a moment, she raised the flashlight.

In that instant, a huge, pale human face descended from the ceiling above her and appeared before her eyes.

"what!"

She instinctively screamed.

A pair of sharp claws, covered in spikes and resembling the hands of a gorilla, suddenly extended and stabbed towards her neck.

Although she was startled, she did not panic. Instead, she took a step back and threw the flashlight forward, briefly blocking the two claws, while reaching for her waist.

In that instant, a sword light suddenly shot out from behind her, piercing the monster that had fallen from the ceiling and pinning it to the wall.

Only now did Fia see the monster's appearance clearly.

It was a humanoid monster hanging upside down, with wide, flat feet like fish webs, hands resembling sharp claws, a long, thin head, and a pale face, like the color of a person who had been dead for a long time. Its entire body was covered with jet-black fur.

It was nailed to the wall, and blood with a gray sheen dripped from the wound.

At this moment, He Ao also stepped out from behind Fiya. He glanced at the monster, quickly stepped forward, and drew his bone sword.

Then he turned around and walked towards Fia. "This should be the guy whose voice we just heard."

The flashlight, which had just been thrown by Fia and hit the monster before falling to the ground, illuminated the scenery behind He Ao:

The humanoid monster slid down the wall, and just before it hit the ground, it suddenly opened its eyes, braced itself with its hands, and extended several tentacles from its feet, which suddenly wrapped around He Ao's neck.

"careful!"

Fia quickly reached out and called out.

At that very moment, He Ao, who had been smiling at Fiya as if he were completely unprepared, suddenly squatted down, swept his leg, twirled the bone sword in his hand, changed from holding the sword in a normal hand to holding it in a reverse hand, and then raised it diagonally upwards.

The tentacles passed through his head, and before the monster could react, it was knocked down by He Ao's sweeping kick, its body falling to the left.

But before its body could fall completely, a white sword light slanted upwards and came straight at it, severing its body in half.

Immediately afterward, He Ao used the momentum from his sweeping leg to spin and leap, sword on his back, retreating several meters to avoid the splattering blood.

"You just now..."

Fia stared at He Ao in disbelief. "Was it done on purpose?"

"Um,"

He Ao nodded, glanced at the monster that had been split in two on the ground, and walked towards the gate. "This guy is well hidden. I'll try to trick it."

If we disregard abilities and focus solely on strength, this monster is actually much stronger than the snake in the second-floor corridor.

He's attack just now only knocked the monster away; it didn't kill it.

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Interestingly, while in a state of suspended animation, this guy doesn't breathe, his energy circuits become still, and most of them stop flowing energy, making him look like he's really dead.

If He Ao hadn't carefully observed the faint energy circuits still operating in its brain, he would have been completely fooled by this guy.

However, since the monster was in a state of suspended animation, He Ao couldn't see its energy gathering point, so he decided to use this as a pretext to lure the creature into attacking, find its energy gathering point, and kill it with a single blow.

"That move you just made was kind of cool."

Fiya watched as He Ao walked over with his sword on his back, then picked up a flashlight and said with a smile.

He Ao's sweeping kick and sword strike, followed by his spinning away, were incredibly light, like a flying feather, and didn't resemble a real fight at all.

"It's just the proper use of body movements,"

He Ao walked to the gate, glanced at her, and smiled, "We can have a friendly exchange sometime."

Fia's fighting instincts and skills are actually quite good; what she lacks is strength.

"That will probably have to wait until we are evenly matched."

Fia smiled, turned around, and looked with He Ao at the room inside the gate, at the chairs, and said with some doubt, "It looks like someone has been in here."

"Um,"

He Ao nodded and led Fiya into the room.

He turned on his flashlight and illuminated the corner of the room.

There were some scattered, rusted iron boxes on the ground, which looked like they were used to hold food. The walls were covered with bright red bloodstains.

Perhaps a massacre once took place here.

He Ao's gaze finally settled behind the gate, where there was a mechanical bolt and a monitor that had been turned off.

He walked over to the monitor, fumbled for a button under it, and pressed it.

The entire display lit up in a very short time, showing the night view outside the corridor.

"this is?"

At this moment, Fia also walked to his side and looked at the monitor.

"It's a bit like the 'settlement' where Kalin and the others stayed,"

As he spoke, He Ao reached out and pulled the latch.

boom--

With a loud tremor and the sound of machinery running, the opened gate quickly closed.

Then He Ao pushed the bolt back in, and the closed gate slowly opened again.

"Is this also a settlement?"

Fia turned her head to look at the scenery behind her.

There were no beds in the room, only rows of chairs and an open 'toilet' in the corner.

In terms of 'settlement' alone, the environment here is not comfortable.

"Perhaps it's a temporary refuge,"

He Ao glanced at the gate. "Perhaps the passage to the fourth underground level isn't far from us."

The 'refuge' set up here may have been specifically prepared for people who escaped from the fourth basement level but did not have time or were unable to go up to the second level.

"Many people must have hidden here before."

Fia glanced at the bloodstains on the seats.

"There are no signs of damage to the gate."

He Ao glanced at the gate and said softly, "They probably opened the gate and went out by themselves."

Perhaps the reason for opening the door is the same as that for the first floor.

He took

He lit the flashlight and said, "Let's go."

Fia nodded, and the two left the room.

After passing the corpses and bloodstains on the ground, the two continued walking for more than ten meters, turned a right-angle intersection, and an iron gate that had been torn in two and was lying on the ground appeared in front of them.

Mottled bloodstains and rust clung tightly to the gate, the crack showing clear signs of tearing, with finger-like grip marks at the top, as if it had been violently ripped open by some humanoid creature.

Behind the gate is a deep doorway, with the edges of which expose damaged mechanical structures and electronic circuits, matching part of the structure of the gate on the ground.

"There is a very strong and strange power inside."

Looking into the deep darkness, Fia suddenly spoke.

"Ah."

He Ao nodded slightly.

The two of them, one in front of the other, crossed the gate and slowly ventured deeper into the deep darkness.

Until they reached the dark doorway.

This place seemed to be a vast space, and the faint light from the flashlight could barely illuminate the dark area inside the doorway.

He thought for a moment, then slowly stepped into the doorway.

At that very moment, a blinding light suddenly shone forth.

The entire dark space was illuminated as if by a fiery red sun.