The Divine Hunter Chapter 18: Staring into the abyss leads to exaltation

The demon hunter master and apprentice quickly moved from the east side of the cave to the west side, climbed two slopes along a few dry vines, and exploded several nests of miasma in the middle.

Enter smoothly into a spacious room with neat marble floors.

Different from the rough and ruin-like cave, this room is more exquisitely decorated and gorgeous.

The two of them stopped on the steps behind the door and stared at a stone tablet inscribed with ancient words.

Dark Gold's pupils slowly turned, and Roy easily recognized the meaning with the blood inheritance of a quarter of the elves,

"Staring into the abyss only to be elevated?"

The low voice fell, and in response, there seemed to be a cold breath whistling in the empty hall.

Roy raised his eyebrows.

The bald man fell silent.

"What does this sentence mean?"

The feeling this ancient saying gave him——

It’s like a desperate person, struggling crazily before death, but going astray; struggling to move forward, and finally achieving some kind of success?

"Fanatical, extreme...Extreme means danger, which is not a good thing." The bald man looked not far away. In the center of the room, the Oaks brothers and Serrit were standing beside a circle of circular pillars.

"Let's go, don't waste time, let's go there first."

……

"You three, don't tell me if you have found the key. You have been staring at this thing."

The two of them came closer and realized that the central column was frighteningly high, at least ten meters high, connecting from the ground to the ceiling, and the hard surface was embroidered with circles of rice-like patterns.

Like a giant cage.

It's just that the gap between the cage bars is too big.

Free entry and exit.

Between every two pillars stands an expressionless, simple and dignified humanoid stone sculpture.

They are like silent giants standing in the shadows, their pale, indifferent stone eyes staring into the unknown.

"We killed a demon spirit...and found a record..." Oakes showed a page of aged kraft paper to the two of them, which seemed to be a page of research notes——

“We conducted a series of studies on the genes of water ghosts according to the orders of our teacher Irenius V. Steingaard.

After being fed tetrodotoxin, all research subjects fell into coma. After twenty-four hours, all signs of life were lost, and the experiment could not continue.

Signed: Matteo Sikula"

……

"That's right!" Roy took out the previous receipt and compared it, and said excitedly, "This teacher and the purchaser of the golem are the same person. Renius V. Steingaard , the owner of this secret laboratory!"

"The key to opening that door must be with him!"

"Calm down, kid..." Seret immediately poured a bucket of cold water on him, "We have searched all over this place, except for this research note and a demon spirit sent to death. Not even a mouse can be seen, let alone Don't mention the key!"

"Maybe that mage has abandoned the entire laboratory and hid somewhere."

"In the end, we have to get some explosives to blow up the laboratory!"

"No! Since you met the demon spirit...it means there should be the remains of a deceased person nearby..." Leisuo said with certainty.

"Sorry, there are no remains..." Cat Vulture suddenly walked to a statue and took a closer look. There was a small movable lever on the pillar. "But I found some kind of mechanism."

The cat vulture gently pulled the lever down.

"娇—娇—"

The ground shook and dust was everywhere.

The tall stone sculpture that originally faced everyone responded immediately and rotated ninety degrees in a clockwise direction.

"Adjust their orientation correctly and you should be able to get the answer... bones and keys!"

"Sneaky warlocks like to do these troublesome things. What are you waiting for?" The hooded demon hunter walked straight to the westernmost lever, "Let Uncle Oaks solve this puzzle! ”

"Idiot! Math idiot!" Seret smiled disdainfully, "Do you know how many possible combinations there are, you can't try them all even if you try them for three days and three nights!"

When Roy heard this, he glanced around and saw that there were seven statues in a circle, each with four orientations.

"This means that the possibility is, four to the seventh power..."

Roy's heart skipped a beat, "More than sixteen thousand possibilities!"

Everyone’s expressions changed drastically.

"So what? After surviving the Trial of Green Grass, the most important thing we need is time!" Oaks rubbed his nose, quickly regained his fighting spirit, randomly selected a statue, and began to pull the mechanism, "Even with the stupidest Methods, spend more time trying one by one, it is better than standing still and only complaining!"

"Wait a minute, you idiot! Don't you make some marks? I can guarantee that in less than a hundred times, everything will get messed up and we'll have to do it all over again!" Seret began to cooperate with his brothers tacitly, and Furius walked over to help.

A fire burning in my chest,

He must unlock the mechanism, open the laboratory, and meet the cat-sect witcher that Roy had expected.

……

And Roy stood there, his eyes turning, lost in thought.

He only remembered that there was a laboratory under Temple Island, but the solution to the mechanism had long been vague.

"Little devil, come and help me!"

"This research note... Leisuo, I remember that water ghosts are obviously immune to poison," but the young demon hunter asked a strange question. He did not intend to rigidly turn the mechanism. There must be some kind of knack, "Why? Why will you become comatose and die after being injected with tetrodotoxin?"

"I'm not a warlock, and I haven't done such detailed experiments, but as far as I know, the poison in puffer fish is different from other poisons. It is a neurotoxin, the most toxic in nature, and its mechanism of action is Completely different from other toxins."

"Tetrodotoxin does not directly corrode or damage flesh and blood. After being absorbed, it acts on the nervous system of living creatures, paralyzing the nerves, causing them to lose all mobility and thus die..."

"Even if you are a water ghost, you still have nerves in your body."

"That's it."

The bald man patiently studied the science, and cooperated with his three companions to pull the lever.

Roy flipped through the receipt and the research note repeatedly, and searched the entire room twice.

Nothing found.

"Roy, as a junior, you actually sit back and watch your seniors work hard. If you continue to be lazy," Oaks threatened, "If you crack the mechanism and find something valuable, it is privately owned. Don't think about confiscating it again. !"

Roy shook his head and smiled, ignoring the ridicule and muttering to himself, "With such a complicated mechanism, is it possible that the researcher just memorized the answers in his head?"

"There should be some kind of prompt, right?"

I have read both documents.

The place has also been searched.

"Did I overlook something?"

What is not being used?

He closed his eyes and filtered through all the experiences after entering the cave again.

Two minutes later, he suddenly opened his eyes, his dark gold pupils shining with a strange look.

"Could it be that sentence——"

On that stone tablet, there is a strange ancient saying!

“Staring into the abyss will lead to exaltation.”

Staring - these seven stone sculptures, with their expressionless faces, don't they seem to be staring at something?

Then I should turn the statues so that they face the so-called abyss to unlock the trap.

But where does the abyss refer to?

Roy looked around. Outside of the statue, there were no significant features on the four bumpy walls of the room, which was in line with the meaning of the abyss.

Then——

He passed the four busy witchers.

Enter a circular open space in the center surrounded by statues.

Squat down and tap your fingers on the marble floor.

"Bang, bang..."

The bottom is empty.

"Guys, stop it!" Roy stood up suddenly, "I think I know the answer to the trap!"

……

Two minutes later.

With the cooperation of the five demon hunters, all the statues were adjusted to face the central area.

"Click——"

After a crisp sound.

The round marble slabs slowly opened to both sides, revealing a deep pool of water.

The light was dim, something was faintly moving under the dark water, and ripples appeared on the surface of the water.

"The so-called abyss turns out to be this pool!"

"We are old and our thinking is rigid, but we still have the bright minds of young people." Oaks patted Roy's shoulder appreciatively, outlined his fingers, and quickly applied a Quen Seal.

Get ready, raise your chin towards the pool, and wave your hand,

"What are you waiting for, guys, go down and **** your mother together!"

"Plop..."

"Plop..."

The water overflowed, and three snake sects entered the water one after another.

Flius and Seret stayed outside to prevent accidents.

"GuluGulu..."

The water surface rolled and huge bubbles emerged.

Less than ten seconds.

Wutou Shui exposed his pale belly and died.

Because his comrades from the Snake Sect were considerate, Roy gained another hundred experience points.

Witcher lv7 (1340/4500)

Then, a skeleton wrapped in tattered cloth was dragged ashore.

"Human Skeletons"

Even after being dead for a long time, some magical energy still lingers on the bones.

There is a high probability that he was a spell caster during his lifetime.

"Is this withered skeleton at the bottom of the pool the owner of the laboratory, Irenius V. Steingaard, or his student and assistant Matteo Sikura?" Roy looked full of confusion.

"What does it matter? Anyway, I got the key... I should go see the trapped cat brother!" Oakes squeezed the rusty iron key taken from the skeleton, his face full of excitement.

"But how did this guy die?"

"The bones are full of teeth gnawing marks," Seret picked up a tibia and thought, "For some reason, it fell into the pool and was swallowed by the water ghost."

Whether the corpse is the teacher ~IndoMTL.com~ or the student, water ghosts have been used to conduct a variety of cruel experiments on living subjects, such as tetrodotoxin experiments.

Have you ever thought that you would become a test subject?

Staring into the abyss will lead to exaltation?

I just don’t know whether the soul after death is lifted to **** or heaven? !

"This is not a good sign,"

Ochs walks with his head held high, as if reciting poetry,

"The engineer was crushed by the golem that he repaired himself, and the researcher was devoured by the research object. So, will the witcher die under the claws of the monster?"

Everyone felt terrified.

"Shut your crow mouth!" Seret grabbed the key.

"Go, open the door!"

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