Chapter 110 Bats
Royal Holy Crown University, King's Campus, deep in the ruins.
On the dark corridor, the sound of footsteps rang out rhythmically. Dorothy walked forward cautiously on the cracked stone floor. The corpse doll beside her held a lantern to provide her with limited lighting.
In the dim light, Dorothy examined the surrounding scenery. There was nothing in the empty corridor except rubble. The stone walls beside it were bumpy, as if someone had chiseled them with a chisel and peeled off the original wall paint. Every few steps in the corridor, you would come to a room without a door, but if you took a quick look, you would find that it was empty and there was nothing inside.
After coming down the stairs in the altar room, Dorothy went deep into the ruins. Then she found that the ruins began to become complicated. There were not only stairs, but also branching rooms and corridors. Dorothy could only make marks and choose the path based on her intuition.
The complexity of the ruins in the depths was beyond Dorothy's imagination, with stairs, crossroads, rooms everywhere... and the field of vision was also blocked. It could be said to be a maze environment. Dorothy had been searching in this maze for quite some time, but still found nothing. No matter whether it was the aisles or corridors, every place was empty, without a single thing.
"Damn... this ruins is not only a maze... but there is nothing but stones and ashes! It seems to be just like what Beverly said, this place has been plundered for several generations, and there is nothing left."
Wandering in the depths of the ruins, Dorothy thought that it was obvious that the Eight-Pointed Nest only benefited from the first and second floors of the ruins. Their main goal was the altar on the first floor, and they simply ignored the rest of the maze-like area because there was nothing in it anyway.
"I've made preparations before. The adults have prepared water, dry food and lamp oil in the magic box. We can spend some time down there. Otherwise, we will have to go back to the palace."
Dorothy continued to move forward while thinking in the dark. After a while, she came to the end of the corridor she was walking in. In front of her appeared another downward staircase.
"Another staircase down, starting from the torture chamber on the first floor, this is already the fifth one? How deep is this ruins?"
Looking at another staircase in front of her, Dorothy complained in her heart, and then she sensed the corpse puppet left on the first floor for surveillance, and found that there was no problem with the connection between herself and the corpse puppet.
"It's not too deep. I estimate that we have only gone down less than a hundred meters so far. We have explored almost all of this layer. We have not found anything yet, so let's continue going down."
Thinking this, Dorothy began to walk down the stairs.
Just as Dorothy had just descended to a new level and had not walked far, she was suddenly startled and her expression became serious.
"Is there someone coming up there? Did those guys escape?" Dorothy frowned and looked upward. The small corpse dolls she had arranged on the first floor could hear the gradually increasing footsteps coming from the entrance corridor.
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Ci Rong walked quickly in the corridor. After a while, he walked out of the corridor and came to the torture ground on the first floor of the ruins. Then, he was immediately stunned by the scene in front of him.
"What, what happened? Where are the people? Where did they go?"
Standing at the entrance of the torture room, Ci Rong spoke loudly in a surprised tone. In front of him was a torture room without a single person. Not only were the prisoners in the prison cages of the prisoners gone, but even the guards he had specially ordered to stay behind were gone. The scene was completely silent.
At first, Ci Rong started to worry when he heard two students at the secret school gathering point say that a group of ragged people suddenly ran out from the inner area. After seeing this scene, what he worried about finally came true.
"It seems that I was right. We were fooled."
Just at this moment, a cold voice came from behind Cirong. Claudio, with a pale face and no hair, stood slowly beside Cirong with his hands behind his back, staring at the scene in front of him.
"We've been fooled... Is this a trap set by the Black Dogs? Not only did they trick us into an ambush, they also took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack on our base?"
Looking at the scene in front of him, Cirong said in disbelief, while Claudiu on the side took a quick glance and slowly walked into the torture room. Seeing this, Cirong followed closely behind.
"There was a strong smell of blood, and there were bloodstains on the ground. There was a fight but it was not intense. Those who stayed behind were almost wiped out without any resistance..."
Claudio murmured as he observed the surrounding scenes, while Thorn on the other side also spoke with concern.
"Everyone is gone... Could it be that they were all captured by those black dogs?"
"It is still unclear whether this was done by the black dog..."
Claudius responded, and at this moment, his expression suddenly froze, and he looked up as if he sensed something.
Claudio focused his gaze and stared towards one direction of the ceiling, where he saw a gecko staring at them.
With a wave of his hand, a bat flew out from Claudio's sleeve and flew towards the gecko on the roof at a high speed. The gecko wanted to escape, but it didn't escape for a few steps before being caught by the bat's claws. The bat then flew over and put the caught gecko into Claudio's hands.
"This gecko is..." Seeing the struggling animal in Claudio's hands, Thorny remembered the gecko that once tried to peek at him through the spider silk corridor.
"This is a meat puppet made and fed by the power of the 'Cup'."
Claudio said indifferently, then he threw the gecko in his hand aside and smashed it into blood foam. Then, he walked quickly to the end of the torture room, took the stairs there to the first floor, and Thorn also hurriedly followed.
On the first floor where the altar stood, Claudio looked around and then saw a patch of bricks in front of a wall covered with black cloth. Seeing these bricks that were not there before, Thorn Velvet spoke immediately.
"That wall of words was torn down. Those guys did it!"
Without responding to Ci's words, Claudius turned his head, looked at the entrance that continued downwards, and spoke coldly.
"They went down, and they should still be down there now."
After he finished speaking, Claudius' figure was shrouded in a shadow, which then dispersed and turned into black bats flying in the air.
Amid the chirping sounds, dozens of bats swarmed towards the staircase leading to the bottom of the ruins. When they swarmed into the maze on the ground and deep inside, the bats began to search separately, leaving no road or room untouched.
In an instant, Claudius searched the ruins at an extremely high speed, searching for the enemies hidden therein.
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"Huh...Huh...Shit...Why, why is there this kind of guy suddenly here again?!"
In the dark corridor at the bottom of the ruins, Dorothy ran forward panting. Beside her was a corpse holding a lamp, helping the runner to light the way for her.
Dorothy was extremely nervous at this time, because she never expected that such an unexpected thing would suddenly appear.
"Where on earth did this pervert come from? Not only did he discover the small corpse puppet I was using to monitor him, but he also created a bunch of bats, and now they're all coming down to find me..."
While running, Dorothy thought anxiously in her heart that the reason she knew that the other party had conjured a bunch of bats to find her was because in order to prevent people from getting lost, she also placed several human-shaped corpse dolls at several key locations in the upper layers of the ruins. Relying on the vision of these corpse dolls, she saw the swarms of bats swooping over, and then the corpse dolls she placed were surrounded by these bats, sucked blood, torn apart, and completely disabled.
Dorothy now knew very well that there was a large group of bats searching for her in the ruins above her, layer by layer. With such a dense search, she would be found no matter where she hid.
Dorothy had no way to hide from this group of bats and could only run deeper into the ruins, which was the only way to escape.
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