The Death List Novel - Chapter 105

Chapter 105 A Strange Room
There was a thin layer of ashes in front of the dark red bronze door. It looked like the ashes of an illusory demon after its death, but it was different.

After the death of the Illusory Demon, it turned into ashes. In fact, the Illusory Demon had suffered too much damage. It could no longer control the balance between the Illusory Demon’s energy and human genes, causing the Illusory Demon’s energy in its body to spontaneously ignite. In the end, it only left behind the Illusory Demon Pearl formed from soul energy.

This kind of spontaneous combustion was not complete, and there would often be some hard bones and fleshly tissue left in the ashes. The ashes in front of the bronze door were as fine as powder, sprinkled evenly in front of the door. Upon closer inspection, they were like rust powder scraping off metal.

Qin Lun put away the spacetime energy collector. Now, his spacetime core mission progress had reached 3/10. Then, he looked up at the bronze door on the right, looked at the bloody pit on the left, and turned around to walk towards the bronze door.

Qin Lun did not know what the ashes in front of the bronze door were. Perhaps it was the Illusory Demon Guard, or perhaps it was the Illusory Demon Trap on the bronze door. However, he believed that Matthew and the others must have already entered. Even if there was danger inside, they should be eliminated by now.

Even so, Qin Lun was still very careful. He first ate a rye pie to replenish the HP he had lost from his neck injury. He took out the only self-healing crystal in his hand and summoned the Black Bear BEN. Only then did the summoned creature slowly push open the bronze door.

Qin Lun’s caution saved his life. As soon as Black Bear BEN entered the bronze gate, he let out a miserable cry. Qin Lun, who was standing behind BEN, saw a cold light flash in front of him. The black bear’s upper body was covered in blood and froze in place. However, the black bear’s body was huge. It was stuck between the two bronze doors, preventing them from closing on their own.

Qin Lun’s eyes lit up. Through the gap between the two bronze doors, he could clearly see what was killing the black bear. At the top of the doorframe was a half-moon axe that looked like a shovel. It cut through the black bear’s left rib and its right rib, cutting the upper half of BEN into two pieces.

The corner of Qin Lun’s mouth twitched slightly. The black bear was much taller than him. From the height of the axe, if he entered the bronze gate in front of him, then the axe was aimed at his head.

The trap was silent, and the direction of the attack was side-by-side. It was difficult for anyone who entered through the main entrance to notice it immediately. If his head was cut in half, even the Law Body would not be able to survive.

Through the crack in the bronze door, Qin Lun observed for a long time and confirmed that there were no other traps by the door. Only then did he squeeze through the black bear’s crotch.

After entering the bronze gate, Qin Lun raised his eyebrows slightly. In front of the bronze gate, there was actually a human corpse in addition to the black bear BEN’s stiff corpse.

“It’s that middle-aged fatty with golden spectacles!” Qin Lun recognized him from the clothes on the corpse. This was the second acquaintance he had seen since he entered the maze.

Unlike the black bear BEN, who was stuck in the axe trap, this fat man, who held a high position in the real world, had his head completely split into two by the axe. His entire face was sliced off from the side by the sharp axe. Blood and brain fluid flowed down his body.

Qin Lun only glanced at the fatty before turning his gaze away and observing his surroundings. Logically speaking, with the strength of a rookie, he shouldn’t be the first to enter the bronze gate. However, since he had entrusted his life to a veteran, he naturally had to be prepared to be a chess piece. If he died, he could only blame himself for being blind.

Behind the bronze door was a “strange room” about a hundred square meters wide. The reason why it was said to be a strange room was because there was everything inside, and it was difficult to distinguish its main purpose.

For example, there were wooden boxes of different sizes piled up in the corners of the room, which looked a little like a storage room. But right in front of the room was a long workbench filled with glassware and metal instruments.

However, it was not right to call it a research lab, because there was a large wooden bed on the right side of the room. It could not be said to be luxurious, but it was also beautifully decorated. It was just that the bedding and sheets were very dirty, as if they had not been washed for a long time.

Most strikingly, there was a small pavilion with a staircase in the middle of the room. The small pavilion was round and closed on three sides, with only one opening. It looked like a devil’s head with its mouth wide open. There were also a few sharp teeth on the “lips”, and there were even two metal spikes representing the horns of the demons on the roof of the pavilion.

The demon’s mouth was very small, and its area was less than a square meter. Only one person could stand inside. Inside the demon’s mouth was a control panel with a row of buttons and a small lever.

At this moment, the room was a little messy, as if someone had already flipped through it. The wooden chest, the big bed, and the workbench were all in a mess. Qin Lun knew that this was definitely the work of the three veterans of Matthew, but he didn’t know what they had obtained.

The three veterans searched very carefully. Not only were all the wooden boxes opened, but even the staff and bedding on the bed were torn apart. There was almost nothing valuable left for Qin Lun. The reason he said it was almost because Qin Lun had found the only undamaged gene reagent on the workbench.

[Illusory Demon Gene Reagent III (Unidentifiable): This gene reagent belongs to an incomplete experiment. It does not possess complete genetic laws. Forcibly using it may cause irreversible unknown reactions. It cannot be stored in storage space and cannot be brought out of the Illusory Demon World.]

No wonder Matthew and the others smashed all the reagents into pieces without taking the only remaining one. They didn’t dare to use it for themselves, and they couldn’t bring it out of the Illusory Demon World.

However, Qin Lun rolled his eyes and put the reagent into his arms. Just because Matthew and the others didn’t dare to use it didn’t mean that he couldn’t use it. At the very least, he still had a summoned object that could be used as a test subject.

As Qin Lun’s strength increased, the Black Bear BEN was no longer of much use. This incomplete reagent could strengthen its combat strength the best. If it couldn’t, it would at most give up on this summoning item.

After searching the room, Qin Lun faintly felt that this place might not be a normal magic laboratory, or it might just be the living room of a magic scientist. Although there were some utensils and instruments on the workbench, there were definitely more than that in the regular laboratories. Moreover, no laboratory would have a big bed.

As for the small devil-headed pavilion, Qin Lun estimated that it might be a short-range teleportation staircase that could be used to send the owner out of the Bone Maze and into the interior of the Illusory Demon Base.

It could be seen from the small lights on the control panel inside the ladder that this ladder should still be able to be used. However, Qin Lun believed that Matthew and the others had never used this teleportation ladder before. Who knew where it would be teleported to? If that place was full of fantasy demons, then it would really be a meat bun beating a dog.

He had obtained a tube of potion but could not use it himself. He knew that the teleportation ladder could reach the Illusory Demon Base, but he did not dare to use it. Qin Lun was a little mad in his heart. To a paranoid person like him who had a strong thirst for knowledge, this was simply a life worse than death.

Qin Lun angrily circled around the room again, only to discover that there was really nothing left to look for, and then he was stunned on the spot. Looking at the dirty big bed, he felt a surge of exhaustion in his heart.

Ever since he obtained the Core of Space and Time mission, he had set the duration of the mission on the death list. At this moment, Paris should be already at night. Perhaps the Illusory Demon’s final attack on the Paris Armed Forces had also begun.

Qin Lun carefully recalled his experiences today and thought about what he would do next. He had already obtained three spacetime cores, so he could return immediately. However, since he had entered the Bone Labyrinth and was only a step away from the Illusory Demon Base, he felt extremely unwilling.

Qin Lun turned back to look at the teleportation staircase again, his eyes flashing with madness. He clenched his fists tightly and loosened them, and immediately clenched them again after he loosened them.

“If I give up now, why should I live? What’s the point of living?” Qin Lun raised his head and muttered to himself. His expression gradually calmed down. “It’s almost to its limit. Let’s find a place to rest first!”

Ever since the arrival of the Illusory Demon in Paris in the morning, Qin Lun had experienced several life and death battles, and his nerves had always been tense. Now that he had loosened his grip, his entire body felt weak and weak.

He carefully squeezed out the bronze door again, but ignored the Black Bear’s corpse and left it stuck in the doorsill. The black bear’s soul had already returned to the summoning space, leaving behind only the abandoned summoning body.

Qin Lun had already decided to quickly revive it, one of the purposes being to inject the gene reagent. However, summoning a creature to build a new body required not only soul energy, but also a certain amount of time. Of course, the process of building the summoned body could be accelerated if one paid a higher price.

Qin Lun sighed. This was the first time he felt the importance of adventure experience. This time, he had made at least two mistakes when he entered the Illusory Demon World.

One of them was an equipment item. Originally, he thought that he had prepared it perfectly. He hadn’t expected equipment items to be restricted by the laws of another world, but Sabak’s ring didn’t have any protective effect. If he had known this was the case, it would have been better to exchange Sabak’s ring for some blue-quality defensive items. It didn’t matter if the quality dropped, there would at least be one or two items that could be used.

The second mistake he made was not leaving behind any virtual currency, causing him to have to sell some recovery items to quickly resurrect the summoned creature. One had to know that in the exchange list of Shattered Universe, the price ratio of items sold to purchased was 1: 5. This kind of loss was simply a lesson in blood.

Qin Lun curled his lips helplessly and walked towards the original fork in the corridor, arriving in front of the stinking pit. The hole in this corner was about ten meters deep, and there was a metal ladder beside it that could directly climb down.

He stretched out his head and looked into the deep pit. The light below was dim, and he could vaguely see the bones of many creatures. It was estimated that this was the dump where the Illusory Demon had abandoned some of its remains.

“It really is a good place to rest!” Qin Lun grinned and gently climbed down.