Chapter 59 Sunshine Primary School (VIII)
But the school doctor here disgusted her just like the boss in the previous world, especially the pair of eyes looking at Ning Hanqi. She hated them so much that she wanted to dig them out.
Xia Yingnuan originally wanted Ning Hanqi to wait at the door for a while while she took her card in to buy some common medicines, but the school doctor was like a vulture that smelled rotten meat. Before they even reached the infirmary, he was already there to greet them at the door.
The school doctor's eyes never left Ning Hanqi, and his joy was almost overflowing.
Just a few minutes before Xia Yingnuan arrived, Ning Hanqi encountered an unexpected emergency.
When they were above this underground palace, the game signal was interfered with. At that time, Ning Hanqi thought it was because this place was too close to the edge of the copy.
But when she came into the underground palace, she realized that the game was disturbed not because of the space, but because of the mysterious underground palace below.
Here, even the effects of props directly linked to the rules have been weakened. Ning Hanqi's disguise is no longer perfect. The gatekeeper monster who had entered the underground palace one step ahead sensed something strange in the space where Ning Hanqi was when he turned back.
Without thinking, it attacked that place.
Its sharp claws left several deep marks where Ning Hanqi was, which were the claw marks that Xia Yingnuan saw later. The monster could not see Ning Hanqi, but could only sense that there seemed to be something there that should not belong there.
When her position was exposed, Ning Hanqi hid quickly, but she was only a human after all, and her reaction speed could not catch up with that of ghosts.
She narrowly avoided using her dagger to block the sharp claws that almost pierced her left chest, but the monster's claws inevitably cut her arm, leaving a deep wound that could be seen to the bone, and the blood dripping out could no longer be controlled.
In that case, she simply used the smell of her own blood to interfere with the monster's judgment of her true location.
In addition to the monster that just came in from outside, this underground palace is also guarded by other monsters that were refined into puppets by the local dungeon boss. Their duty is to patrol and guard the dungeon boss's treasures. The monster just now smashed everything in the underground palace and ran around covered in human blood, instantly making the underground palace that had been silent for a hundred years boil like boiling water.
Ning Hanqi hid in a corner. She had only received simple treatment for the wound on her arm. After being chased by the monster, the wound began to bleed again as expected.
The temperature around was no longer freezing cold, and was even unusually hot, as if putting people in a steamer.
This is the negative 5th floor. The 5th floor of the 18 levels of hell is the Steamer Hell. It seems that the construction of this underground palace does correspond to the underworld.
The effect of the fairy tale house only lasts for half an hour. Although the fairy tale house cannot completely cover up the traces of his existence, it can at least prevent the smell of his blood from seeping out. When the protection of the fairy tale house disappears, the smell of blood on his body will be the best "bait".
Because of excessive blood loss, Ning Hanqi's vision went dark, but she didn't dare and couldn't stay here for long, because she was not sure whether Xia Yingnuan could arrive before the effect of the fairy tale house ended, so she had to continue walking down the underground palace, trying to find a safe place to delay time or find the divine remains within half an hour.
But... the latter is unlikely.
It’s not that Ning Hanqi is too pessimistic, but she accidentally found out the number of floors in this underground palace - eighteen, which corresponds to the number of hell.
The guidance given by the coral branch was still below. If the place she just came down was the first floor of the underground palace, then she guessed that the location of the divine remains should be on the 18th floor.
Given her physical condition, she also had to avoid the guards in various parts of the underground palace and the monster that followed her down. The possibility of her reaching the 18th floor within half an hour was very slim.
Ning Hanqi re-bandaged his wound and luxuriously poured blue medicine on the cloth to simply stop the bleeding.
"roar……"
Just after doing all this, Ning Hanqi heard the low roar of a monster coming from the passage not far to his right.
Out of caution, she was about to go out but immediately hid back in the corner. Ning Hanqi did not choose to escape to the passage on the left, because in the process of avoiding the guards, she found that these monsters would cooperate when hunting like wild beasts living in groups.
"Roar..." The sound from the right passage was getting closer and closer, and the ground was gradually shaking. It should be a monster of larger size.
Ning Hanqi hid calmly in the corner. Not long after, the monster came over. Under the illumination of the dim green flame, the monster's appearance was clearly imprinted in her eyes.
It was a headless ghost general wearing armor, its height almost reaching the ceiling of the underground palace. It held a bronze sword in its hand, and the tip of the sword made a harsh sound when it dragged on the ground.
In front of Ning Hanqi there was a bronze statue of a Jiaozi. It was a real statue, not a monster. She hid behind the statue and held her breath unconsciously.
There is a concave area on the wall of the underground palace every ten meters or so, which is specially used to place such bronze statues of Jiaozi. Ning Hanqi is not far away from the headless ghost general, only a few meters away.
Therefore, she clearly saw a black shadow of unknown identity floating silently from the passage on the left and passing by the ghost general.
If she had just gone out, she would definitely be noticed by this dark shadow when she moved!
Just as she guessed, the deeper they went into the underground palace, the smarter the guards became.
Ning Hanqi waited for the footsteps of the headless ghost to get farther and farther away. When she judged that the other party had almost left, she immediately flipped out from behind the bronze statue and observed whether the black shadow walking towards the right passage had really left. After confirming that the other party had disappeared, Ning Hanqi immediately ran to the left.
The structure of each floor of the underground palace is similar, but Ning Hanqi feels that the size of each floor varies, as if the area of the floor becomes smaller as you go down. However, the position of the stairs is regular. For example, the stairs on the first floor are on the right, and the stairs on the second floor are on the left. The stairs between adjacent floors are relative.
This was a tough situation for Ning Hanqi, who was still frail and had not yet recovered from a serious illness, but the good news was that these monsters would not go to other floors. For example, even if the headless ghost general discovered her, as long as she entered the lower floor, this guy could only stay at the stairs on this floor, helpless and furious.
Look, that powerful ghost has been pacified by humans with just a few words. The situation between them seems to be exactly the opposite of what I guessed?
It's really novel.
"Okay, I'll assume what you said is true. You can leave now. Our deal is done. Even if you break the rules later, I won't help you."
"No need." Xia Yingnuan stood behind Ning Hanqi, her scarlet eyes forcing the school doctor to look away. "Don't worry about it. You should think about how to improve your strength and escape the dungeon. Don't wait until the next time I hear from you, and you and this dungeon are gone."
The school doctor almost laughed out of anger. What a tacit understanding they had. They learned the tricks to harm themselves so quickly.
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