Chapter 18: Escape "Hurry up - follow me - go - ...

Almost subconsciously, she swung the axe in her hand and smashed it at his head.

The opponent did not dodge, allowing the axe blade to go straight to his face, with a hint of contempt and pleasure in his eyes.

clang--

Even though the collision between the two sides did not make any sound due to the impact of the axe, the feeling of the collision with the iron still traveled along the axe handle to Cecia, causing her arm to go numb.

The attack clearly hit his face, but that seemingly defenseless skin was unusually hard.

The axe blade didn't even leave a mark, it just made the man retreat half a step.

Seeing the right moment, she picked up the frightened Chen Ye with one hand.

He took the opportunity to slip out from the narrow space behind the door, and retreated sideways to the back of the collection room, putting some distance between himself and the opposite side.

"My dear guest, the collection room is not open yet."

A sharp voice came out of his throat, and the opponent's full appearance appeared in his field of vision.

The man in the black tuxedo seemed to be welded to his body. He was the butler of this mansion.

"I…we just accidentally got lost."

Chen Ye explained tremblingly: "This place is too big, we originally wanted to go to the restaurant..."

"Yeah?"

The butler took out a handbell from somewhere, stared at Cecilia with his dark eyes, and the smile on his face became more and more exaggerated.

"But that guest seemed to have something that shouldn't be there - you, did you break the rules?"

As the last syllable fell, his hand shook slightly and a rapid bell rang throughout the collection room.

"Help me...it hurts so much..."

"I don't want to die! Let me out!"

“…”

Under the effect of the bell, the collections in the display cabinet gradually turned into human forms, and the tuber in Cecilia's hand also turned back into the appearance of a girl.

She was holding Chen Ye in her arms while hugging the girl. Her hands were full and she couldn't even swing the axe.

"As expected... you stole something very precious."

Looking at the girl who suddenly appeared, the butler extended his hand to her: "Come here, you are an important auction item. It would be bad if you were accidentally injured when cleaning up the thieves."

"No...I don't want to go back to hell!"

The girl shrank back, looking extremely afraid of the butler's presence.

But Cecia put the girl down and whispered a few words in her ear.

The other person's expression changed rapidly, and finally, as if he had made up his mind, he walked towards the butler step by step.

"Come here quickly, this is the right choice."

The butler's eyes were almost narrowed into slits, and the voice was so gentle that it made people feel sick.

While the other party's attention was on the girl, she carried Chen Ye on her back, told him to hold on tight, then grasped the axe handle with both hands and quickly chopped at the display cabinet next to her.

Without the cover of the axe handle, the transparent outer walls exploded one by one, and sharp fragments were scattered all over the ground.

The wailing collection suddenly regained its freedom.

They ignored the jagged gaps that might scratch their skin and just excitedly and impatiently escaped from the broken display cabinet, trying their best to fight for a glimmer of hope.

"You! How dare you!"

This outrageous behavior made the butler completely furious. The smile on his face completely disappeared, his bloodshot eyes bulged out to the sides, and he let out inhuman growls from the depths of his throat.

There was no time to pay attention to the other party's madness. Cecia kept swinging the axe in her hand and released almost half of the collection.

The butler wanted to stop it, but was blocked by the surging collection.

Faced with precious collections, the housekeeper dared not harm them, nor could he let them run around, so he could only find a way to catch them.

However, the butler underestimated their determination to escape from hell.

The captured collections are always struggling hard. Once you finally catch one, another collection in your hand will break free when you are not paying attention, making it difficult for you to cope with it.

In this mansion, the butler always maintained the posture of a superior and had never been so embarrassed.

"Die...all of you, die!"

Seeing the collection running away, the butler's eyes turned red and he shook the handbell frantically. The crisp sound gradually became sharper, piercing people's eardrums.

At this horrifying ringing sound, the humanoid collections were forced to stop running. They curled up on the ground, struggling in pain, and eventually turned back into the form of objects.

On the side, Cecilia took advantage of the chaos to pick up the girl who had turned back into a stem and put her back into her arms.

The noisy ringing continued. At this time, all the display cabinets in the collection room were smashed by Cecia. After they turned back into objects, they could no longer disturb the butler.

While the other person was losing his mind, she quickly went behind him and prepared to escape from the collection room.

“Hiss…”

As the ringing became more frantic, a rustling sound continued in her ears.

At the same time, fog slowly rose from nowhere, and even the air became colder.

An uneasy premonition gradually took over my mind.

Just as Cecia stepped out of the collection room, several illusory evil spirits suddenly appeared in the corridor and surrounded her.

A silver arc of light flashed through the air, and the axe blade went straight through the evil spirit's body, but did not cause any harm to it. Instead, some purple frostbite appeared on the back of her hand.

"Hold me tightly and don't touch them."

She instructed Chen Ye on her back.

Physical attacks have no effect on these evil spirits, but they move slowly and can be easily avoided if you are careful.

jingle--

The ringing sound, which had been silent for a moment, rang again. The evil spirit's movements suddenly accelerated, and its ferocious claws rushed towards her.

She dodged the oncoming evil spirit by leaning sideways, supported Chen Ye on her back, and quickly squatted down to avoid the attack from above...

Now the axe is useless, and she is besieged by five or six evil spirits at the same time, which means she is in danger all around.

The surrounding fog gradually dissipated, and the butler's figure appeared surrounded by evil spirits.

The other person's appearance can no longer be called a human being.

The black tuxedo that had always been kept neat now became tattered, with only a few ragged strips of cloth hanging on his body.

The exposed skin was covered with scarlet organs, each of which was beating slowly like an ugly tumor.

As if it was dissatisfied with the progress of the evil spirits, it shook the hand bell, and the evil spirits stopped attacking. They formed a circle and surrounded Cecilia in the middle.

A beast-like howl came from deep in the butler's throat, and it jumped up angrily and pounced on Cecilia, who had no way to retreat.

The situation was critical, and she subconsciously created a balloon. She only had time to see the color before she immediately gave it to the housekeeper.

"Your body is overly fatigued and you have developed myasthenia gravis (E)."

The sudden weakness in his limbs forced the butler to collapse to the ground, and the bell slipped from his hand and was caught steadily by Cecia who reacted quickly.

She hurried to the door, imitating the frequency of the butler's ringing of the bell, making the handbell emit a series of shrill sounds.

Driven by the ringing of the bell, the evil spirits no longer obeyed the housekeeper, but instead made way for her.

"...How dare you take it away! No matter what...you must die here!"

The butler who reacted went completely crazy and let out a horrible roar.

He raised his hand and popped the blue balloon, then stood up and continued chasing Cecilia.

"Sister, hurry up! Hurry up! It's about to catch up!"

Seeing the monster behind them getting closer and closer to the two of them, Chen Ye urged anxiously.

“…Or you can come down and run by yourself.”

Cecia said through gritted teeth, but still quickened her pace.

When she ran to the second-floor platform, she looked at the height and simply jumped down.

The open door was right in front of them, but the butler was still some distance away from them.

She knocked out two servants with the back of her axe and took out her handbell as she rushed forward.

Two quick sounds...two seconds apart...three slow shakes...

She shook the hand bell to the rhythm she remembered, trying to transform all the collection items back into human form.

A second before they passed through the door, the heart-shaped tuber turned back into the appearance of a girl, but as soon as they stepped out of the octagonal house, the girl returned to the appearance of a tuber.

[Congratulations to the player for successfully clearing the core scene of the dungeon - the Octagonal House, and obtaining the special item: the heart of the plant. ]

[It is detected that the player has completed the task in excess, and a special item is awarded: Bell of the Dead. 】

...She had worked so hard to get these two special items! How could they be considered rewards?

I cursed the dungeon designer crazily in my heart, but I didn't dare to stop for even a second.

The monster transformed from the butler was still chasing them relentlessly, even chasing them out of the octagonal house.

"Sister, turn right!"

Chen Ye, holding a map on his back, directed her to run towards the candy house. However, the octagonal house was in the northwest corner of the park, while the candy house was in the southeast corner, which were two completely different extremes.

At her current speed, she would be caught up by the monster behind her sooner or later.

"Mom, I want to eat this!"

"This is so fun, I want to sit on it, I want it!"

“…”

Faint sounds of laughter could be heard in my ears, and the originally dim paradise gradually became brighter. The night was fading away rapidly, and the paradise shrouded in eternal night seemed to have ushered in the day.

"Sister...Sister! There are more and more monsters behind us! Eyeless people...Puppets...and characters from fairy tales! They are all chasing us!"

Chen Ye's frightened voice sounded from behind him.

She sighed heavily and even wanted to stop immediately and fight the army of monsters behind her.

"In front! There's still the shadow we met on the roller coaster in front!"

“…I can see that!”

While running wildly with Chen Ye on her back, she used an axe to clear out the monsters blocking the way, one at a time, just like chopping watermelons.

But even the Demon King has limited physical strength.

The long and intense fighting and running consumed her energy very quickly. Even if there were no monsters behind her, it would be difficult for her to run to the candy house in one breath with her current energy.

Damn it, in the end I have no choice but to fight my way out.

It was hard to take care of Chen Ye in this chaotic situation. What if she got hurt...

Just as Cecia was considering the possibility of a desperate fight, she suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"Two—beautiful—ladies—"

"Look at me—I'm—down there—"

I lowered my head following the sound and saw a white little guy, only half a person's height, shaking his body desperately.

The other person was speaking in a strange tone, trying to get her attention.

"Hurry up - follow me -"