Damn it! Let's smash the darkness together!-Chapter 1263 - 149: Knowing When to Retreat and Returning for the Loot
After a tense and exhilarating moment of waiting, Lu Bingwei, who was exploring the surroundings, uncovered a floor tile in a corner.
"Found it."
She first gave a reminder, then pressed down under the tile.
Crack! Zizz~ Clack clack clack~
Instantly, the sounds of mechanisms moving and muscles tightening intertwined, giving the illusion that the church was coming to life.
Then, at the direction of the church hall, where everyone originally entered, the wallpaper covered with pearl fish scales twisted and convulsed.
It emitted a faint scream, overflowed with thick blood, and ultimately the muscles tore, releasing a flash of light.
Screech!
A linear crack with thin ends and a thick middle suddenly tore open, rapidly enlarged, forming an "i" shape.
Inside was a void of oily darkness, swirling like a vortex, causing gusts around, the screams amplified abruptly, making everyone feel anxious and urgent upon hearing.
It seemed to be urging the people inside!
"This..."
Xie Xiaochan and the others exchanged glances, looking at Lu Bingwei with utmost surprise.
Even if she had warned in advance about her experience in exploration and extensive preparation and research, everyone wasn’t fooled. How could anyone read documents so proficiently to this extent?
There was certainly a catch here!
However, this was not the moment to talk.
As soon as the vortex door opened, Lu Bingwei was the first to say, "What are you waiting for? The early opened passage will close in at most a minute; the next opening will have to wait until dawn! If you want to wait here, be my guest."
Without another word, she stepped into the vortex door and disappeared.
Seeing this, the others no longer hesitated, Xie Xiaochan, Ning Xin, Gu Yue Ming, and others stepped through the door one by one, leaving this church that had thwarted everyone.
Leaving Gu Pan and Xu Shu alone on site, as the entrance began to shrink as Lu Bingwei had indicated.
Gu Pan’s eyes swiveled, glanced at Xu Shu: "Hey, what are you waiting for? Isn’t it time to leave?"
"Teacher, you go first, I’ll stay behind." Xu Shu said promptly.
Gu Pan shook his head: "What nonsense are you talking? There’s no logic in a teacher running first and leaving the student behind, you hurry up and retreat!"
"Respect your teacher, you go first, teacher." Xu Shu stepped back, giving way.
"No, caring for disciples is fundamental to being human, you first!" Gu Pan insisted.
"Stop refusing, teacher, hurry!"
Gu Pan: "You first!"
Xu Shu: "You first!" 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
Gu Pan: "You..."
"Go to hell, I said move!"
Xu Shu kicked Gu Pan’s resilient posterior.
Boom!
Gu Pan never expected Xu Shu would choose to strike, caught completely off guard, her eyes widened, stumbled and fell inside.
Her eyes flashed with hesitation and fear, but it was too late for resistance, swallowed by the vortex, akin to falling into the water, she disappeared utterly within seconds.
Once she completely vanished, Xu Shu turned back nervously to look at the three statues, excitedly rubbing his hands.
He had been pondering where the opportunity was, and here it was! The opportunity had arrived!
Upon observation, the time from entering the door space passage to completely leaving took around 3-5 seconds.
The door stood thirty meters away from the altar with the three statues.
This timeframe, this distance...
"Enough!"
Xu Shu thought briefly, then decisively made up his mind.
First, he unloaded all the items on him, including Narrow Sleeve Guanyin, mermaid, Lace Storage Bag, and tossed them into the space door in one go, then posed like a crab, stretching out one leg into the vortex.
Crack!
Instantly, it felt like countless small fish adhered to his calf and quickly clawed up his torso, dragging him inward.
The suction of this space vortex was extremely strong!
Within five seconds at most, Xu Shu would be involuntarily sucked in, passing through the passage, and expelled out of the "secret realm".
However, by the second second, Xu Shu vanished from the spot.
He had long prepared a move called "Nine Layers One", activated on the spot, forcefully disengaging from the space passage’s suction to appear on the altar.
With this preparation, Xu Shu was not afraid of dying anymore.
He aimed directly at the headless "Spirit King" statue on the left side of the Death God and slapped it.
"Bang!"
With formidable force, the "Spirit King" statue shuddered violently, its hands and chest were like octopus arms turning to flesh, dissolving rapidly, spreading over the altar!
Meanwhile, the statue wasn’t smashed away, only the surface plaster exploded, revealing the amber-like golden body inside.
"!"
Xu Shu’s gaze intensified suddenly.
Indeed, it was correct!
Inside the chapel’s statues, the materials matched those behind the bronze door!
Moreover, at the base of the "Spirit King" statue, a small conception like an "isolated cell" emerged.
It was about half a meter, located between the statue’s thigh to calf, akin to a small altar at first glance, sealed with metal distinct from amber.
Seeing this, Xu Shu didn’t hesitate, directly aimed for the small iron door, punched it.
Crack!
As the third second began, the iron door was punctured by Xu Shu, revealing its contents.
Xu Shu peeked inside, his pupils immediately shrank.
It was a head.
"Arthur’s" head!
As if precisely severed, encased within Arthur’s own headless statue!
"Could it be that other similar keyed chapels hide varying parts of Arthur’s body?"
This thought flashed through as Xu Shu extended his hand, grasped his replica "Arthur’s" head, and yanked it out.
At this instant, the blood underfoot spread across the platform.
Soon, the "Neris" on the other side moved.
She twisted her neck, opened her eyes, and fixed them on Xu Shu, focusing on the hand holding Arthur’s head!
Simultaneously, the Death God statue moved.
Collapsed inward, immediately dissolving, morphing into a deep dark eyeball.
A black eye, beyond language, indescribable in its majesty and terror!
At the end of the third second, enormous emotions and knowledge flooded Xu Shu’s mind, exploded his body.
Splatter!
Xu Shu shattered into pieces, exploded entirely, dying on the spot.
He died.
Splat~
"Neris" turned her head back, closed her eyes.
Afterwards, the eyeball drew back on its own, the blood and debris on ground moved without wind, a new Death God statue appeared intact.
And the "Spirit King" statue of Arthur also began to wriggle, restoring.
As if all was being rectified back to nothing ever happened.
At the fourth second, a light flashed in the void.
Bare Xu Shu shimmered under the Death God’s gaze, seized "Arthur’s" head.
"..."
"Neris" seemed to move but Xu Shu flashed suddenly, vanished.
