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"The last ancient tomb that was this clean was probably the one underground."

"This is it!"

Blaze yelled, looking up at the ceiling. He closed his eyes and gazed into the deep darkness with his blinded vision.

There were corpses everywhere, some of them looked like slaves, some looked like warriors, they were lying on the ceiling in strange mummified shapes. Some of the corpses were very special, they were wrapped in bandages.

“It’s also an inverted mausoleum.”

"Also?" Dali Feizhuan was curious about the word "also", but he still looked at the ceiling like Blaze, but saw nothing.

It felt like something was blocking their vision, and only Blaze, who was [blind], could see through the darkness and see what was inside.

"Try jumping up." Dali Feizhuan bent down, leaped up, and rushed directly into the darkness on the ceiling, but was bounced down the moment he got close.

Blaze tried too, he could see through it but he couldn't get through the darkness.

"It feels like... we can't set foot there. Combined with the situation of the nameless royal tomb... only the dead can stand on that land..."

Blaze sighed with a headache. He was troubled by the fact that he couldn't stand on the reversed land of the dead, but this mausoleum narrowed the problem and put it in front of him.

I'm afraid that the explorers before them were fighting monsters on the surface of this mausoleum, and the real dangers and treasures are on the top surface. What they are exploring now can only be regarded as the original ceiling of this mausoleum.

"No wonder it's so flat. No one would have placed a treasure chest on the ceiling."

Dali Feizhuan crossed his arms across his chest, also distressed. If he knew the real treasure was above his head, he would be less interested in exploring the map now. No one likes leftovers falling from above their heads.

"It would be fine if the map above our heads was a hidden map, but this blatant obstruction is clearly a checkpoint... maybe there will be hints around to tell us how to enter the area above."

"As expected of a stranger, you are very experienced." Blaze was very grateful to be exploring this unknown with a stranger. If he were alone, he would only have a headache or try to break through the darkness above his head.

"Anyway, let's start from the surrounding walls. Based on my understanding of this kind of ancient tomb, there will usually be some pictures and texts of ancient stories on the ceiling and the surrounding walls. But because it is upside down here, we need to observe it extra carefully." Dali Feizhuan shook his head and gestured with his hands.

"You know, if you look at some things backwards, they might just be a bunch of random lines that you can't understand at all."

"Oh..." Blaze nodded thoughtfully, and tried to tilt his body to explore the surroundings in this awkward posture.

The entire mausoleum is so huge that it is almost like a giant maze. If you walk a few steps inside, you will lose your way and have no idea where you are.

However, every foreigner carries a special tool used to explore the maze.

Ariadne's Spindle

[Consume MP to accumulate a transparent line, restore MP to shorten the line. Legend has it that this line is used to guide and solve the maze. Its birth symbolizes a certain curse and disaster.]

Chapter 595: Soul-Returning Paper Figure

The powerful Brick Flyer was holding a huge weapon in his hand, which made Blaze very concerned, and he glanced over from time to time.

The giant hammer with a long handle had a pink heart on the top and ferocious wolf fangs all around.

Ariadne's Hammer of Love

[A huge spindle like a sledgehammer, symbolizing heavy love and curse, can consume MP to release magic threads that can bind and cut enemies]

As Dali Feizhuan walked, he pulled out a magical thread from the spindle hammer in his hand, leaving an extremely visible thread on the ground.

As long as you hold this spindle, you can continuously release MP, generating magic lines that wrap around the spindle. The magic lines on the spindle can be used to solve the maze, and of course, can also be used in battle.

There is nothing wrong with the weapon itself, it's just that its shape is very strange. The cute pink weapon does not match the shape of the powerful flying brick very well.

However, Blaze did not just take a peek at Dali Feizhuan's weapon, and did not neglect his main business.

"Hmm~ It seems like there's something." Blaze found some strange places on the surrounding walls, but it was a bit awkward to look at them with his head tilted, so he simply stood upside down.

"here……"

What Blazer saw were rather simple but ancient-feeling pictograms describing how people believed they could go to a better world after death, so they did more good deeds and accumulated wealth during their lifetime.

"Most stories about the afterlife will have a development like this." Dali Feizhuan held the spindle, keeping an eye on his surroundings while listening to Blaze's translation.

"But the afterlife associated with this mausoleum is quite creepy. They will take out the heart of the deceased and a feather of justice and put them on both sides of the scale. If the heart is lighter than the feather, then that person is a good person."

"If it's heavier than a feather, then it will be fed to crocodiles."

"Does that mean bad guys will just disappear into nothingness... No wonder they do things like this."

Blaze sighed in surprise as he watched the scene. He was so excited that he wanted to stand upside down to watch it. Unfortunately, as they went deeper, monsters appeared more and more frequently, so he had to be on guard at all times.

"How can you make people become good people in order to go to a wonderful afterlife with a powerful flying brick?"

"Ah? Of course it's to let people know that the consequences of not being a good person are really serious." Dali Feizhuan rolled his eyes. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but Blaze's way of speaking gradually became roundabout and he didn't give a direct answer.

"Of course, if they were allowed to experience how scary this process is in advance, they would behave themselves if they were scared."

"Yes, this mural is about letting the living take a peek at the afterlife. Let them see how beautiful and peaceful the world is for good people, and also let them see what kind of torture the evil people will suffer."

Blaze stood up with a whoosh, and made way for Dali Feizhuan to watch while he was standing upside down.

The mural is very simple, so in order to avoid any ambiguity in the subsequent text and picture content, the creator specially drew a large number of people with completely different clothing and styles to let the viewers know the characteristics of these people.

Under this premise, the following content becomes meaningful.

People created a person exactly like themselves, placed them in the flames, and fell asleep around the flames. Then those who were placed in the fire pit went to the afterlife in the flames and experienced the process of death firsthand.

They went through trials, some entered a beautiful afterlife, some watched their hearts being fed to crocodiles, some found peace, some fell into the terror of being reduced to ashes, but in the end they all woke up beside a fire pit.

"It looks like they made their own substitutes and let the substitutes enter the world of death through flames. Well... those substitutes might be made of some kind of flammable material, and entered the afterlife by burning up in flames." Dali Feizhuan said his guess while looking at the mural, and then the corners of his mouth twitched.

"…Why does this setting look so much like a paper doll?"

He was not afraid of ancient tombs or demons and monsters, but he was deeply afraid of eerie things like paper figures.

"Making paper figures in the pyramid is too shady!"

Dali Feizhuan stood up suddenly, rubbed his arms vigorously, and muttered "Demons and ghosts, please go away."

"Wait! What did you say?" Blazer was stunned. He heard a very unexpected word. "You said this is a pyramid?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

Dali Feizhuan, who was originally very ferocious, became timid after saying the word "paper man", so he didn't notice that Blaze fell silent at all.

Blaze looked at the chicken, who nodded.

"That's what the old lion said."

"The triangular mausoleum and the ladder leading to the sun can only be hidden if it is turned upside down. The upside-down ladder..." Blaze's eyes lit up, and everything in front of him seemed to become clear.

"The upside-down ladder to the sun is the ladder to the sun underground!"

This is a very bold conjecture, but it is worth verifying. Anyway, it doesn't take much time to reach the deepest part of the mausoleum, and we have to search this place anyway, so we can do a lot of things on this way.

"It's not a wasted trip! Let's go, stranger!"

"I have to slow down..." Dali Feizhuan froze in place. Ever since the word "paper man" appeared, he felt a chill on his back.

The Flying Brick couldn't move, but fortunately Blaze's strength attribute was high enough that he could drag the Flying Brick forward.

……

[G] In the meeting room, most people covered their mouths with their fingers crossed. The atmosphere was extremely depressing. The only person standing was Kitchenware.

Her face was gloomy, and she repeatedly looked at the video of herself opening the door in Tiye.

"I'm coughing coughing--" As soon as the bespectacled otaku opened his mouth, laughter came out of his mouth, and then the kitchen utensils stuck their faces over like a female ghost in a horror movie.

"Are you smiling?"

“No, no—I’m definitely not amazed by your self-vaunted super defensive grave-guarding beast. It’s like a lonely widow whose heart was breached by a yellow-haired little brother. Puaaaa—”

The bespectacled otaku wailed because the gothic high heels of the kitchen utensils under the table were stepping on his feet.

"You can just put the key in there honestly, why do you have to make a fake key? It's fine to make a fake key, but what's the big deal about a bigger key!"

"A bigger key would be fine--" The kitchen utensil slammed his head on the table, while at the same time pushing hard with his feet, causing the bespectacled otaku to wail along with him.

"Damn it! It's okay to have a big key, but why let the gravebeast open the door by itself! What kind of top-level minotaur is this? I can't stand it!"

Kitchenware had imagined countless situations where the tomb-guarding beasts were forcibly breached, but he never expected it to be in this way. It was just a lock and a key!

In fact, the Face of Tiyet is really just a tomb-guarding beast in the shape of a mural. Apart from being able to make women's voices, it has nothing to do with women.

Chapter 596: Paper Figure Shock

Dali Feizhuan is never afraid of things in horror movies, because there are things that can be restrained. But some things are not things that attack in horror movies, but [customs].

He will never forget the [pot of fire], the [burning paper money] and the [paper man burning in the flames]. The pale paper man twisted and disappeared, and at that moment it was as if the road between the underworld and the world of the living was opened.

"This, I really can't do this--" Dali Feizhuan almost groaned as he looked at the monster in front of him.

[Resurrection Paper Figure·Gravekeeper Slave LV100]

[The man made of papyrus, although crudely made, has awakened his eyes and become a body that can accommodate the soul]

Her face was pale, her cheeks were rosy, and her eyes were glowing red, as if she had emerged from a horror movie.

This is the wandering monster in the first level of the mausoleum, the amazing level 100. This is not the difficulty that a map open to all players should have. Who would put such a dangerous wandering monster in the first level of the mausoleum maze?

"Hmm! It's easy to deal with."

Blaze waved his hand casually, and the LV100 soul-returning paper figure was torn into two halves, with a huge soul flame burning in it. But before he could reach out to crush it, the soul flame rushed directly into the darkness above his head.

"Well... because it's a paper doll, even though it has a damage level of 100, it's very fragile. The soul inside it... the paper doll can allow the living to enter the world of the dead, and vice versa, it can also allow the dead to move in the world of the living..."

Blaze looked into the darkness above his head and fell into deep thought.

There is something strange about this place. In this era, after a living being dies, the soul without regrets will be extinguished and dissipated like a candle flame that has burned out. But in the ancient era of the gods, death is just a change of identity and existence, and it will not completely dissipate.

These paper figures in front of us might have been made by the dead tomb-guardians wandering in the mausoleum. They were immortal tomb-guardians who could appear again no matter how many times they were defeated.

"Then, can we also use the paper man to go to the world of death above our heads?" Blaze's heartbeat unconsciously quickened. If he could succeed, then the problem that the Golden Kingdom was in a reversed world could also be solved at the same time.

This stroll really paid off.

"Come on, Dali Feibrick, let's go a little deeper inside. Maybe we can find the key props for making paper figures!"

"Is this true? I can hardly move anymore." Dali Feizhuan followed Blaze reluctantly, and at the same time he took out a large bag of coarse salt from the warehouse.

I don't know if it's useful, but it's better than nothing.

The interior of the mausoleum is extremely complex, and it is not easy to find the way to the next level. As you go deeper into the mausoleum, various traps will appear along with the monsters guarding the tomb.

The first is the classic spear trap, which shoots out from below and skewers the intruders. But those who break in here are not rookies, and they are very experienced in facing such sudden traps. They dodge the spear attack in a few moves and leave a message "There is a trap ahead" on the spot.

Such luminous messages are like luminous moss, bringing a ray of light to the dark mausoleum.

In addition to the spear trap that can be avoided, there is also the rolling stone trap. In this narrow passage, a rolling boulder falls almost against the walls on both sides, crushing all the tomb robbers into minced meat.

But the one who broke in here was not an ordinary tomb robber, but a stranger who was ranked as the strongest candidate. Facing the rolling boulder, only those who turned their backs and fled in panic would die, but the stranger was different, and he launched a fierce thrust directly at the boulder.

The boulder was shattered, and the stranger was unharmed.

"There is no classic snake trap. Bad review."

Wardsifer, who was in the front, patted the gravel on his body. He had been hostile to the traps in the tomb for a long time. His biggest dream in exploring the tomb was to directly defeat the rolling boulders.

"This game places great emphasis on rationality, so traps like venomous snake traps that don't take into account the living habits and needs of snakes won't exist."

Guild Master Zero responded indifferently. He still hadn't forgiven the erotic brat for betraying him for the lock and key NTR drama, but as they were exploring, they walked and split into a group.

But as a super omnivorous professional player, Wardsifer is quite familiar with all types of games, so you basically don't have to worry about being at a disadvantage if you follow him.

In a place like an ancient tomb, superb military force is secondary; knowledge and experience are the top priorities.

"Based on my experience of watching countless movies, these two or one person who were separated from the main group because of their greed for the treasures in the ancient tomb will usually be sacrificed to the gods soon to highlight the horror of the ancient tomb trap. For example..."

Wardesifer stepped forward, and the bricks sank instantly. Then, the bricks very close to Wardesifer's face instantly sprayed out a stream of liquid.

Wardsifer simply shook his head to avoid the liquid, and the liquid directly produced corrosive smoke on the ground.

"It appears. Classic corrosive liquid."

"Even if you are a professional player, you shouldn't be so wasteful."

"It's not that I'm reckless, but it doesn't matter if I get scolded." Wardsifer shrugged and raised the long object in his hand while seeing the helpless expression of Guild Master Zero.

[Physics Holy Sword Threaded Crowbar]

[Weapons made with the unborn spirit as the core can only produce pure blunt damage, so they have no advantages other than being hard. ]

The crowbar was inserted straight into the wall of the mausoleum. After a few pryings, the bricks fell off, revealing the trap mechanism inside.

A must-do for exploring the mausoleum and digging out the traps inside.