The Death List Novel - Chapter 103

Chapter 103 Skeletal Maze
As he stepped into the vortex of time and space, Qin Lun felt as if his body had squeezed into a dark green paste. The skin around his body felt a slight pressure, but the resistance was not great. He could easily slide far away with a light force.

Not long after, Qin Lun’s eyes lit up and he broke free from the vortex of time and space.

As soon as he saw the scene in front of him, Qin Lun raised his eyebrows. In front of him was a red-and-white passageway that was almost three meters tall and wide.

The corridor ceiling was made up of Mo Ming’s flesh and blood, and some of the protruding sarcomas were dripping with dirty blood. The corridor floor was filled with scattered human skeletons. These skeletons were contaminated by the fresh blood dripping from the ceiling. They were like the damp sewers of hell, causing one to feel nauseated.

The walls of this passageway were no ordinary building materials. They were all made of human bones. Within the dense bone walls, there were many skulls. Most of these skulls were rotten and yellow, but a few of them still had fresh pale white skulls.

Very few of the skulls have skin, flesh and hair that haven’t been removed yet. From the looks of it, it seems to be some blonde foreigners. Contact Lyu Kuang about the plot of the ghost warrior, maybe there are some innocent Paris citizens inside.

Qin Lun turned around and saw a skeletal arch behind him. The pillars of the arch were the thigh bones of two unknown creatures. Above the leg bones, there was a human rib lantern. The bone lamp emitted a bright orange light. The lamp oil inside was a white paste-like object with a fishy smell.

In the middle of the skeletal arch was a dark green vortex of space and time, but it was much smaller than the vortex of space and time in Notre Dame, less than a quarter of the latter.

After strengthening his Laws Body, Qin Lun’s perception had greatly improved. He could vaguely sense that behind this corridor was not a physical body, but another space.

This place seemed to be a huge maze separated by the skeletal walls. Furthermore, judging from the massive number of skeletons that formed the maze, it was definitely not a temporary base built by the Illusory Demons of Paris. It should be a place that had been built long ago.

‘”Buzz ~ ~” Just as Qin Lun was looking around, a strange voice came from the corridor.

Qin Lun fixed his gaze on the ceiling of the corridor and saw two giant blood-colored sarcomas crack open, as if they had opened a big mouth. Clumps of “black hornets” surged out from the cracks and pounced towards him like dark clouds.

It was a defensive trap in the corridor. Qin Lun’s expression changed slightly. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning. In the blink of an eye, he simulated several plans to deal with it and was overthrown by him one by one. In the end, the doctor sighed and took out three seed-like items from his bosom and threw them in front of him.

As soon as the three seeds landed on the ground, they grew furiously in the wind, and in the blink of an eye, they grew into three tall vine treants. Perhaps it was because the ground of the corridor was covered with flesh and blood. The vine treants who absorbed the flesh and blood had blood red lines on their bodies, and the trees were covered in red and green vines.

The three Vine Treants stood side by side in front of Qin Lun, blocking the entire corridor. They brandished their vines and pounced on the incoming “black hornets”.

Very quickly, the vine treant’s feet were filled with the corpses of Hornets. Only a handful of Hornets would give up attacking the vine treant and deliberately attack Qin Lun through the vines.

Qin Lun swung his saber and killed a fish that had escaped the net. He bent down and picked up the “black hornet” to examine it. In fact, this small creature that resembled a wasp was not a real insect, but an extremely tiny magical creature.

The “Hornet” Illusory Demon was dressed in an insect-like armor. It had four pairs of segmental limbs on its side, two pairs of transparent wings on its back, and a compound eye on its head. Its main attack weapon was the dark poisonous needles on its tail.

Not surprisingly, after the Hornets turned into ashes, there were no Illusory Demon Pearls left behind. It seemed that their Illusory Demon Pearls should only exist in the bodies of the two giant sarcomas, the “honeycomb”.

The Vine Treants were able to survive for an hour on their own, but with the nourishment of human flesh and blood, their stay seemed to be prolonged. Qin Lun did not wait for the Vine Treant to extinguish all the Hornets. This maze of bones was complicated and confusing, and it was the territory of the enemy. It was only reasonable to seize the time to solve this problem.

Qin Lun thought for a moment, then took out a small bottle of low-concentration holy water from his storage space and poured it into his mouth. With holy water in his mouth, he strode to the middle of the Vine Tree Man and spat out his cheeks at the horses.

Chi! As soon as the holy water touched the Hornet Illusory Demon, wisps of green smoke rose up. The Hornet Illusory Demon was poured with sulfuric acid and fell down from the sky one after another.

After spraying two or three times like this, Qin Lun had completely used up this bottle of low-concentration holy water. However, the Hornet Illusory Demon in the corridor was also empty, and the few remaining Hornet Illusory Demons could no longer threaten him.

After emptying the little things, Qin Lun did not stay where he was. He immediately crossed the three Vine Treants and quickly ran to the front of the tunnel. He took out the FN-500 and bombarded the two sarcomatous “honeycombs”.

Two minutes later, Qin Lun cleared out two blood-colored Illusory Demon Pearls from the Beehive. These two Illusory Demon Pearls were of extremely high quality, each with 15 Soul Remnants. It could be seen that they had killed quite a few humans in the past.

The place where the beehive was located was already the end of this tunnel. This was a corridor intersection. There was a skeletal corridor on the left and right, no different from the corridor behind Qin Lun. He was convinced that it was indeed a skeletal labyrinth.

Qin Lun rubbed his temples and fell into deep thought. “Maze, trap, space-time node …”

According to the intelligence gathered, the clues in Qin Lun’s mind slowly became clear. There must be some sort of secret of the Illusory Demon in this Bone Labyrinth, and its defenses must be tight. However, the defense of the labyrinth did not rely on combat-type Illusory Demons. Instead, it was more like a trap for Hornet-type Illusory Demons.

Although Qin Lun had easily dealt with the Hornet Illusory Demon just now, this kind of defensive trap was actually very difficult to deal with. If it weren’t for the thick skin and flesh of the Vine Tree Cultivator, whose body was huge enough to block the entire tunnel, he would still have more than half a bottle of holy water in his hands … If it were for the other apostles, they would have to peel off their skin even if they didn’t die in the face of this Hornet Illusory Demon.

Qin Lun had used a bottle of low-concentration holy water worth 3,500 broken crystals and three vine tree seeds to exchange for two 15-point Soul Forsaken Illusory Demon Pearls. In a sense, he was losing money.

“The spatial and temporal nodes of this corridor are different in size from those of Notre Dame. Is there any difference here?”

Qin Lun suddenly turned his head to look at the vortex of time and space when he entered, and his eyes lit up …

[Apostle 70053, you have gathered an inferior core of time and space. You can request to return through the Apostle Soul Seal. When returning, you must be in a non-combat state. Our monitoring will be safe.]

[Prompt: The Core of Space and Time mission has been completed with minimum requirements. Currently, the total progress of the mission is 7/100, 70053 Apostle Contribution Rate is 1/7. Destroying a space-time node of the Bone Labyrinth, obtaining 0.012% World Exploration Rate. The connection between the Magical Illusion Base and modern Paris has not been severed.]

“As expected!” Qin Lun lowered his head and muttered to himself.

It took him less than two minutes to collect the core of time and space using the time energy collector, while the time and space node in Notre Dame Academy took ten minutes.

The energy teleported between the two spacetime points should be constant. The only explanation for this phenomenon was that there were many small spacetime nodes connecting Notre Dame to the maze.

These two minutes of waiting allowed Qin Lun to confirm another guess. Apart from the passive Illusory Demon Trap, there were no other Illusory Demons that were responsible for patrolling in the Bone Labyrinth. Otherwise, they would have already arrived. The Bone Labyrinth was most likely just a cover for the outer perimeter of the Illusory Demon Base.

Actually, Qin Lun was able to obtain this core of time and space. He had both intelligence and luck. Although the Bone Labyrinth was the periphery of the Illusory Demon Base, it was not easy to enter.

The Illusory Demons regarded West Causeway Island and Notre Dame as the core of Paris’ strategy. If it wasn’t for the fact that most of the Illusory Demons in Paris were attacking Concord Square, City Hall, and other Paris heartland; If it weren’t for the fact that the Aquatic Illusory Demon hadn’t defended the If Xiaodao hadn’t helped him divert the illusions of Notre Dame …

Qin Lun alone couldn’t even enter Notre Dame’s gate!

Qin Lun looked at the time and space energy collector in his hand. He couldn’t see the true appearance of the Core of Space and Time. As soon as this item was collected, it seemed to be directly in the dimensional space of the collector, and the apostle himself was unable to retrieve it from the collector.

The progress of the Spatio-Temporal Core mission was 7/100. This meant that all the apostles in the Illusory Demon World had already collected seven Spatio-Temporal Cores. Qin Lun didn’t care about what would happen after he reached the 100 Space-time Cores.

In his opinion, this was akin to a fantasy. Although this was only the first day of the mission, the difficulty of the mission would only increase. As the Illusory Demons occupied Paris, some of their flaws would slowly be filled.

Putting away the Core of Space and Time, Qin Lun’s lips curled into a smile. Since it was confirmed that there weren’t many Illusory Devils in the Bone Labyrinth, he wasn’t in a hurry to return. In any case, the Vine Tree Man had existed for an hour, so he could search around for other spatial and temporal nodes.

Even if he encountered other Illusory Demons, he could still return here and work with the thick-skinned Vine Treant to grind the Illusory Demons to death.

Qin Lun put away the space-time energy collector and observed it for a moment. Then, he stepped on the skull on the wall of the corridor bone and climbed up the wall. He used the Evil Dagger to cut off a piece of Illusory Demon flesh from the ceiling of the corridor.

After climbing down, Qin Lun wiped the flesh and blood off his body. He didn’t know if the Illusory Demons could distinguish humans based on their auras, but it was always good to be prepared.

After getting ready, Qin Lun rushed towards the left corridor at the fork. After running for a distance, he suddenly crouched down and scratched the corners of the corridor, looking vigilantly in front of him.

Not far ahead, two strange-looking Illusory Demons fell to the ground on the verge of death, as if they were injured and hadn’t died yet.

Qin Lun’s eyes flashed with a strange light as he looked at the scene.