After discovering the clues, Du Yuqi immediately approached the tomb, and then he pushed the stone coffin blocking the door open. But at this moment, a black shadow suddenly jumped down from the side, aimed at him and chopped him in the face with a sword! !
It can be said that Du Yuqi had not sensed this person's presence before, and was shocked when he was suddenly attacked. He could only hold his sword horizontally to block the attack in a hurry. However, the attack of this black shadow was as crazy as a storm. After taking the initiative to attack, there was no room for Du Yuqi to breathe. He could only defend himself desperately.
Suddenly, the black shadow attacked continuously, basic swordsmanship, blood cross, uppercut, these skills were all done in one go, and connected extremely tightly. Such close combat made Du Yuqi extremely uncomfortable. He was not careful and even the giant sword he blocked was knocked away. When he shouted in his heart, he saw a huge hand shining with bloody light grabbing his face, and it quickly grew from small to large and occupied the entire field of vision. It was the Berserker's signature skill, the Soul-Eating Hand!
However, when the Soul-Eating Hand was a few centimeters away from Du Yuqi's face, it suddenly stopped and froze. The transition from extreme movement to extreme stillness was extremely uncomfortable. The strong wind blew Du Yuqi's hair violently backwards, and Du Yuqi could even clearly see the fingerprints on the fingers of the Soul-Eating Hand, and even the blood texture floating between the fingers.
After a few seconds, a faint voice came:
"Pastor Du?"
Only then did Du Yuqi let out a long sigh and said unhappily:
"FIRE, is that you? Is there any need to make such a fuss? There is a huge difference between a living person like me and an undead creature!"
It turned out that the person who attacked was Lin's good friend FIRE. This guy looked fine, jumping around without any injuries. After hearing Du Yuqi's complaints, FIRE suddenly said seriously:
"It is precisely because I discovered that you are alive that I am more cautious, because sometimes the living are more terrifying than the dead."
After hearing FIRE's meaningful words, Du Yuqi was stunned. He wanted to refute, but suddenly he recalled the scene in which the Paladin and Asura fought side by side. He felt speechless!
At this moment, a string of things like rosary beads hanging on FIRE's chest suddenly flashed a faint light. He took decisive action and pulled Du Yuqi into the tomb. Then he blocked the entrance again with great effort, and signaled Du Yuqi to hold his breath and stay where he was.
Sure enough, not long after, he heard the sound of "ding-dong ding-dong" coming from outside, which seemed to be the sound of someone dragging a heavy chain, coming from far away, and then going away slowly. As it approached, a pungent smell of sulfur rushed in, and even the air became slightly hot. When Du Yuqi heard the terrible sound, he knew that the enemy outside was very huge, and should be a guy with unparalleled strength. He just wondered why he had not encountered a similar huge monster before.
When Du Yuqi was lost in thought, FIRE had already pulled him and whispered:
"Why are you standing there? Come and help me."
After he finished speaking, he brought Du Yuqi to the interior of the tomb. It could be seen that the person who built this tomb must have been from a well-off family. The tomb was divided into two parts, the front and the back. The outer part - where he and Du Yuqi had stayed before - was reserved for family worship. In the middle was a bust, depicting the tomb owner's expression of looking into the distance when he was alive. It looked quite lifelike. In front of the statue was an engraved epitaph, which was left for people to offer flowers.
Behind the bust is a wall that divides the tomb into front and back parts. The real sarcophagus of the tomb owner is placed in the back, which is generally not entered as it is in a relatively secret and dry environment.
After FIRE brought Du Yuqi to the back entrance of the tomb, Du Yuqi was also surprised. The sarcophagus originally placed here had been moved to block the door, and on the platform where the sarcophagus was placed were two people lying flat, one was Lin, and the other was the Paladin Korrik who led the team.
Du Yuqi walked over and checked, and was immediately shocked:
"How could this be so seriously injured?"
It turned out that Lin's injuries were not serious. Although he was unconscious due to a severe blow to the head and his wounds were bleeding, his vital signs were stable. In other words, even if he was left lying here without treatment, his injuries would slowly recover due to his body's self-healing ability.
But the Paladin Korrik was already dying. Du Yuqi was unable to describe his symptoms for a moment. It was just like an ordinary person who was run over by a steamroller but not dead. There were at least a dozen fractures all over his body. Not only that, even the plate armor he was wearing was mostly damaged and deformed, which showed how fierce the previous battle was.
FIRE snorted coldly:
"Why are you talking so much? If you know the seriousness of the disease, why don't you treat it quickly?"
Du Yuqi heard from Lin that this guy had suffered a great change and had an extreme temperament. He didn't even care about his own life. He always spoke in such a strange way. He didn't get angry, but just sighed helplessly:
"Lin is fine, but Korrik's current condition is really bad. To be honest, I am helpless. The best way is to give them alchemical healing potions."
FIRE sighed and said:
"After the explosion, we were all injured. Half of the potions were used up to treat our injuries. Then we finally gathered a group of people and rushed out. A lot of alchemical healing potions were used up again. Then we had a life-and-death battle with the enemy who took the key. Although we succeeded in getting the key back, Kerrick also paid a huge price."
"At this very moment, those bastards who were arranged to cover our retreat actually deserted!! We were being chased all the way and were on the run. Lin gave me his last bottle of alchemy potion because I am the type who can burst out with even greater combat power even when injured. Therefore, it was already very difficult for us to escape here alive. How could we have any extra potions?"
Du Yuqi shrugged and said:
"Alright, alright. The Holy Light guided you to meet me. After I rushed out, I was blown to another direction, and I didn't experience any fierce battles, so I still have a little bit of healing medicine left."
After hearing what Du Yuqi said, FIRE felt relieved. Du Yuqi then treated the wound of Lin, who was less seriously injured, and then treated the Paladin Korrik. While doing this, Du Yuqi was very careful to put the blood-stained bandages, gauze and other things into the dimensional ring or buried them directly, for fear that the undead creatures would smell the bloody scent.
During the operation, Du Yuqi also received a series of information from FIRE, that is, the sealed door placed in the third underground tomb has successfully passed the first stage and entered the second stage.
During this stage, the Sealed Gate was growing and could release some aura to open a transmission channel and summon monsters in a certain area. For example, the witch Liz that Du Yuqi met before was all caused by the Sealed Gate.
However, the most terrifying enemy underground at this time is the newly emerged stitched giant Atlas. The process of creating this guy is simple and crude, just like stuffing sausages. The giant's skin and core should be created first, and then all kinds of violent zombies are stuffed into the inside of the skin. Once these monsters come into contact with the core of the giant, they are dissolved and assimilated, and finally a huge deformed monster is formed, with stitches all over the surface of the body and infinite strange power.
As for the key mentioned earlier, it is the key to finding the sealed door.
Once the sealed door is activated, it has a certain intelligence. After being activated, it begins to move slowly and has hidden itself in an extremely secret place. The prophet Victor who followed the team once sensed its breath, so he made this key to find it and open the passage.
But now Victor is dead, and even if he is still alive, it is impossible to create another key because the sealed door has grown to the second stage, so this key must not be lost!
By the time Du Yuqi had finished dealing with the Paladin Korrik, Lin had already woken up. When he saw Du Yuqi, he was filled with emotion and sighed continuously.
At this time, everyone was in the same boat, so Du Yuqi did not keep anything to himself and took out two night vision goggles and distributed them to the two people. After getting the night vision goggles, the two people suddenly felt like they had more power. Only then did they suddenly realize why Du Yuqi could pass through this dark tomb safely.
After resting for a while, Paladin Korrik woke up again. In order to revive him and restore him to his current state, Du Yuqi used up at least half of the medicine on hand. He was so distressed that he kept sucking his teeth. As soon as Korrik woke up, he urged everyone to set off for the sealed door as soon as possible, because if it was allowed to grow to the third stage, it would be difficult to destroy it, and it would bring a catastrophe to the ground!
In desperation, Du Yuqi took out some food from the dimensional ring for everyone to eat, and after replenishing their physical strength, they set out again. It is worth mentioning that the string of Buddhist beads that FIRE took out before, which can warn of undead creatures, is Lin's treasure, and this time with the help of night vision goggles, Lin's exploration of the road ahead has become much easier.
At the same time, as time went by, Paladin Korrik also recovered a lot of magic, thus showing a strong auxiliary ability. He blessed everyone with a series of auxiliary magic, which increased the combat effectiveness by at least 30%. No wonder the Paladin has always been the backbone of the team on the continent of Arad.
Guided by the key, the group walked about one or two kilometers when suddenly the forest in front sounded the alarm. The four of them immediately found a shelter and hid. About a minute after they hid, they saw the ground in front of them trembling slightly. Many wronged souls and ferocious zombies were fleeing in panic. Then, chasing after them was the stitched giant Atlas who had been roaming around before.
Du Yuqi had never seen this monster before, and only now did he realize that it only had a somewhat human-like outline. In reality, it looked like a cucumber with two legs and a crooked neck. It was gray-black in color, and what stuck out from its left shoulder was not an arm, but a weird goblin head with bared teeth, and there was an obvious hole in its belly.
There are many iron chains hanging on its body, and there are dense suture marks on its skin. It walks recklessly and staggers like a baby, as if it will lose its balance in the next second, but it just doesn't fall.
Those zombies and wronged souls that were originally extremely ferocious had no power to resist in front of Atlas. Once they were caught by its big hands like cattail leaves, they would either be stuffed directly into its mouth and swallowed, or be stuffed directly into the empty spaces in its bodies to enrich its own bodies.
Du Yuqi even saw an "acquaintance", who was none other than the Asura who had betrayed his teammate the Paladin but failed to escape. After being turned into a zombie puppet, he was still unable to escape the clutches of Atlas. He was stuffed into the wound in his abdomen and melted, leaving only the hand holding the sword hanging outside his belly, swaying and looking doubly creepy.
"Oh my god, is this one of the SHE mentioned in the forum?" Du Yuqi saw the real Atlas at this time, and suddenly remembered something, that is, he seemed to have seen the information of this monster on Earth. It was formed into the final BOSS together with the other two stitched giants, so it was also nicknamed SHE...
Du Yuqi and his men were not surprised but happy when such a situation occurred. Although such cannibalism would make Atlas stronger and stronger, and even fatally out of control in the end, the key point was that their goal this time was not to defeat him! On the contrary, Atlas's clearing of the field gave them great help. The number of those wronged souls and zombies that seemed to be everywhere decreased sharply, greatly reducing their chances of being discovered.
After Atlas finished clearing the area, a short window of time was formed here. The group quickly passed through and continued to move forward according to the instructions of the key. They passed through several tomb passages and finally broke through the walls of four tombs in succession, and finally came to a hidden secret passage.