These are all signs of insufficient oxygen.
What appeared before Jiang Ran was a huge basement. Unlike the temple above, this place had clearly been neglected for a long time, with cracks and cobwebs covering the walls.
Jiang Ran turned his gaze to the center of the basement.
It was a huge stone statue, carved with a graceful woman, but the statue had no face.
What's even stranger is that this statue isn't placed here normally; instead, it's upside down in a very bizarre posture, forcibly stuck into the ground!
Two rusty iron chains were tied to the statue's feet, hanging from the basement ceiling.
Jiang Ran paused, feeling slightly dizzy, and two lines of bloody tears streamed from his eyes. He quickly closed his eyes and stopped looking at the upside-down statue in front of him!
Why is the modification using [Remnant Dream] not working?
Either the influence Jiang Ran is currently experiencing isn't strictly speaking "pollution," or something far more powerful has forcibly broken through the effects of [Remnant Dream]!
Jiang Ran naturally preferred the former, and at the same time, she was thinking about why this situation had occurred.
What did he offend...? That's right! The upside-down statue, the rusty chains, such a bizarre posture—the statue's purpose is definitely not to express its piety to the goddess of night!
It is blasphemy!
[Rule Six: Always maintain a devout faith in the Goddess of the Night and refrain from any blasphemous acts.]
So just one glance at this blasphemous statue was enough to be judged as blasphemy by the rules? Then this Goddess of the Night is truly unreasonable.
"Do you think I'd get the protection of the Goddess of Night if I just smashed this blasphemous statue?"
The mountain god didn't reply for a few seconds before answering with some uncertainty: "Perhaps you can give it a try, but I don't think it's a good decision."
The reason why blasphemy against a statue is considered blasphemy is because the statue is placed in such a bizarre way. However, it is undeniable that the statue itself still points to the goddess of night, so attacking the statue may also be considered blasphemy!
"It seems we're still missing some crucial items."
Jiang Ran left the basement and then stepped onto the stairs for the return journey before opening her eyes again.
"I was just thinking about not going back, but now I've really embarrassed myself."
The strangeness of this dungeon is definitely no less than any other S-rank dungeon Jiang Ran has ever seen! This makes Jiang Ran want to punch Aransta. Is it really necessary to increase the difficulty of this dungeon even in his dreams?
However, upon closer reflection, this might not be solely due to Aransta's dream; it could more be the effect of the Dream Sea!
Dreams are generally very vague. Alansta's original vague dream may have been that "as the most awesome ghost story writer, he cleared the most awesome ghost story world" to satisfy his desire to show off in his dream.
Under the influence of the Dream Sea, his dream became clearer, thus bringing this "most difficult" dungeon to life in another way.
Jiang Ran left the temple. There must be some great secret hidden at the bottom of the temple. He had only entered the left passage and had not explored the right passage.
He decided to explore the temple thoroughly only after finding some key item; he didn't want to turn back halfway.
From now on, this dungeon must be treated as a truly high-difficulty dungeon. Back when he was conquering an SSS-level dungeon, Jiang Ran had many people standing around him, but now he is all alone, with at most a mountain god.
Let's put our thoughts back on the instance itself.
Other cannon fodder have already been corrupted by looking directly at the moon, and the believer in the temple wearing the moon amulet was clearly not protected, which shows that the moon is indeed not trustworthy.
The next step is to verify whether complete immersion in darkness can truly bring the protection of the goddess of darkness. The best way to do this is to find another cannon fodder.
During this process, Jiang Ran also began to observe the tombstones on both sides of the road. In addition to the name, date of birth and time of death engraved on the tombstones, almost all of them also had a unique epitaph.
Why sleep so much in life, when you'll have plenty of time to sleep after death?
He was a great scientist during his lifetime.
Dude, give me a hand!
Something strange seems to have infiltrated it...
Indeed, the world is never short of eye-catching bags.
Just as Jiang Ran was passing by this tombstone, a blackened hand suddenly emerged from under the soil!
Rule 4: Always pay attention to the epitaphs on tombstones. Be wary of any epitaphs that look strange. If you see a blank tombstone, don't hesitate, leave immediately.
The mountain god slammed his scepter down, emanating an aura of near-divine power, and then silently withdrew his hand.
After that, the surrounding tombstones became noticeably more obedient.
Jiang Ran didn't encounter any blank tombstones. Of course, the cemetery was so large that it was perfectly normal not to find any.
Soon, he encountered another ghost storyteller. This guy was squatting by the roadside, doing who knows what. Jiang Ran thought that he could prepare a tombstone for himself, as the fifth rule suggested, which should come in handy.
Jiang Ran walked forward and saw that the guy was drawing circles on the ground while muttering some philosophical questions.
"Tell me, is the Earth round or flat?"
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
He raised his head and looked at Jiang Ran.
Jiang Ran noticed that his two eyeballs had turned pure white, and that his exposed skin had grown a light downy hair. However, because it was nighttime and the two had been far apart, Jiang Ran had not noticed it before!
This guy's been contaminated too!
[Rule Two: If someone returns after being out of your sight for a period of time, you'd better be wary of them]
He stood up, hunched over, his hands hanging limply at his sides, and a bloody liquid began to flow from his mouth!
"Praise the moon!"
Like a fanatic, he suddenly lay down on the ground and began to crawl in the shadows, wriggling on the ground like a maggot.
Jiang then took a step back. Had fanaticism really gotten this bad? But then he realized something else: the symptoms of the person in front of him were clearly different from those of the person who had looked at the moon before. So it was highly likely that the person had been contaminated by something else!
What could be going on? One thing is certain: it's definitely related to the moon!
Jiang Ran felt a slight itch on her arm. When she lifted it up, she found something wriggling under her skin!
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