Soul Trigger

Chapter 79 Exploration
During this period of time, the rats have gone to many places in the Lingbo Prison cluster and encountered various levels of evil. Of course, the most common ones are the Earthbinders.

But this is the first time we have seen pollutants from the other world.

That thing was not a fragment of personality, but a small piece of stone, exuding a faint scent of the other world.

Because the degree of contamination was not serious, Ji Li simply reached out and took it.

After examining it for a while, he reached out and built a small box next to it and threw it in.

This thing has the aura of the other world. After the [Heart of Dead Blood] is completely consumed, it should be able to filter out a lot of red matter.

After a week, the [Red Matter Filter] has provided him with 2 units of red matter.

It now seems that there has indeed been a leak of the inner world in this Lingbo Prison cluster, and there is a certain danger.

But at the same time, for Ji Li who now has a red filter, it’s good that the world is leaking here.

The more he leaks, the better, as long as he doesn't turn the entire academy into a den of ghosts. In the end, all that will be leaked will be his [Red Essence].

"lead the way."

As several mice entered the wormhole, Ji Li held his breath and stretched his hand towards the wormhole——

After all, it was an experimental product. Although he successfully opened the wormhole, it was his first time to travel through a wormhole in this world.

As his entire arm and body sank into the wormhole, Ji Li felt a force pulling at his body and soul, and his arm stretched forward left layered afterimages.

The strange vision disappeared in just a few breaths, and the next moment, a huge and cold cave came into view.

The grotto looked like some kind of cave, empty and huge.

Some buried traces of buildings can be seen between the uneven walls, as if they were poured into the walls by cement.

This reminded Ji Li of some solar system media in his previous life, which reported that there were some colonial ruins covered with sand on Mars and insisted that they were some kind of ancient alien ruins.

The traces of buildings in front of me give me that feeling, and there seem to be some patterns carved on the buildings.

It was clearly clear, but at first glance it seemed blurry and indistinguishable, as if there was an invisible mosaic blocking it.

This is the Lingbi Prison that was discovered not long ago, and it is also the largest Lingbi Prison that the mice have opened up so far.

The seven black ice rats were divided into three groups, one of which was stationed in the deepest area as an advance scout, advancing at full speed and giving warnings at all times.

The three of them followed the scouts from a distance, forming a vanguard team with the scouts, ready to respond to the front at any time.

Two of them followed Ji Li, and the last one was hanging at the back, fearing that his butt would be stabbed.

Soon, the scouts at the front sent a warning through the long-distance spiritual connection with Ji Li -

A mild warning, probably something has been discovered.

After moving at full speed, Ji Li discovered the mark left by the scout.

After letting the vanguard team slow down slightly and continue moving forward, Ji Li stopped with the three mice behind him.

Compared to the spacious large cave when we first came in, the environment here is much narrower.

But the traces of buildings are becoming increasingly dense, and stone slabs can be vaguely seen on the ground.

Ji Li came to the marked place, where there was a strange statue embedded in the wall.

The figure holds its head high, and it is difficult to tell whether it is a man or a woman. It has four hands and is nearly two meters tall.

It had its hands clasped together in some strange prayer posture, and its lower body was completely embedded in the wall, with no view of what was left.

There was a huge circular hole in the center of the skull, as if a huge awl had pierced through the head from the front.

There are many densely packed holes on the inner wall of the cave, and a slight reflection comes from one of the deepest holes.

Ji Li reached his hand directly into the hole, as if he was taking out the brain from a human head, and took the reflection out from the hole inside the human head.

It was a small, translucent grey-white gem with a hint of red inside, and there was no trace of the otherworldly aura.

As soon as Ji Li took off the gem, warnings kept coming from the vanguard team in front.

As he continued to follow the trail, he found more four-handed stone statues, scattered among the walls.

As he touched along the way, Ji Li had more "gems" in his hands. Later on, he was too lazy to touch them because the number of stone statues became more and more.

After walking a considerable distance, he finally found a four-handed stone statue with a red light flashing in the hollow hole of its head.

As I got closer to the stone statue, a strange mumbling came from my ears, becoming clearer and clearer.

When Ji Li put his hand into the cavity of the head, the mumbling became even louder, like a crowd of people clamoring in his ears.

The voice gradually stopped only after a red gem was picked out of the vase.

Before Ji Li could figure out the origin of these mumblings, he felt a slight burning sensation in his arm.

Curse reaction?!
But there was only a burning sensation, and no information or prompts came from the Ascension Protocol.

"The more something is related to the other world, the more it will trigger strange phenomena in the five senses..."

The so-called five senses are seeing strange things, hearing indistinguishable things, smelling unusual things, and touching the invisible.

He observed the gem and found that it was very similar to the crystal given by Monsa.

The difference is that the Monza crystal looks like a fragment of a gemstone craft.

The ruby ​​in his hand looked more like the raw ore just fished out of the mine, with a lot of impurities.

Moreover, the things that Monsa gave him did not cause any strange visions.

After putting away the gem and going deeper, Ji Li realized that the cave looked more and more like a relic.

There were fewer and fewer traces of the original ecology, and more and more walls and floors with patterns, until the scouts at the front issued a red warning -

A shriek echoed in the ruins, and Ji Li frowned:
The skin and flesh melted in an instant and turned into a faceless skeleton, leading the group of rats to speed up and run forward.

On the road ahead, the traces of the caves have completely disappeared, and it has completely become a ruins. There are also more stone fragments on the ground that exude the breath of the other world.

Now is certainly not the time to pick up things.

As he passed through a narrow corridor, a ruins environment that looked like an atrium appeared before his eyes. There were more abnormal stones on the ground, scattered in the traces of a ditch.

The remaining three mice in the vanguard were struggling with a stone statue.

It was a four-handed stone statue that came to life.

It looked slightly different from the brain he had taken out before, in that it had the shape of armor carved on it.

The densely packed holes in the brain cavity were all emitting red light, like a glowing honeycomb, flashing densely and like a human eye blinking.

Surrounded by three mice, it waved its four arms stiffly, seeming to be in a tough fight.

The rats under him also rushed forward, leaping and screaming. The stone statue was quickly seized by the rats and was torn into pieces in all directions.

Puff! ! As the stone statue disintegrated, smelly pus and blood burst out, and pieces of blood and flesh instantly scattered all over the ground.

There's life inside this thing. Or, it might be.

This structure was beyond Ji Li's expectations.

He walked up and rummaged around, and found the other person's head. Sure enough, he took out a piece of red crystal, which was about the same size as the one he had just taken off, about the size of a rat's droppings.

"There must be more ahead..." He looked toward the road ahead.

For some reason, the traces of ditches on the ground in the atrium not far away always seemed familiar.

As the comparison data of the Ascension Protocol passed by in front of his eyes, Ji Li suddenly understood -

That big hand called "Henson"!

Ji Li was dragged into the "Ice Prison" by the "pet" of the spirit eater in the "Ice Prison".

He later killed the Soul Eater and severely injured Henson, but the latter's whereabouts are unknown.

Ji Li had always wondered whether this thing was running around in this Lingboyu cluster. Now that he thought about it, it was most likely hiding here.

According to the comparison data, the traces on the ground at this moment are very similar in size to the traces of Henson's movement, and are heading directly towards the depths of this place.

Some time ago, when I was remotely controlling the black ice rat to explore the cave, I discovered that the ruins and scale of this Lingbo Prison were extraordinary, so I took great effort to open an experimental wormhole here.

Now it seems that he may have come to the right place.

The secret of this Lingbo Prison cluster is likely hidden here.

Gradually, more and more stone statues appeared on the road ahead.

Gradually the black ice rats could no longer hold on and began to merge into rat-shaped demons to engage in battle.

The shapes of the stone statues became increasingly different.

From bare hands to holding weapons, from full of cracks to brand new, from ordinary armor patterns to fully armed in the true sense.

……

In the narrow passage, densely packed stone statues waving various weapons rushed towards Ji Li.

Ji Li, in his undead state, rushed out, leaving a dent on the ground, and his body hit the stone statue in front like a cannonball.

A dark spiritual reaction exploded at the place where the bone claws touched, and together with the violent force, it formed an air cavity-like explosion.

The air twisted into a fan-shaped wave, and a group of stone statues suddenly fell to the ground and flew away.

The huge body was splattered into a large mass of flesh and blood by the force of the explosion, spraying wildly toward the rear, and mixing with the surface of the stone into a paste.

He swung his bone claws, spilling a cloud of fine stone chips and sticky blood.

The rats could no longer hold on and were left behind by him. Some of them kept an eye on the rear while others began to send the ownerless abnormal rubble back to the [Megastructure].

The enemies in front of him were wiped out, and Ji Li quickly left the narrow passage.

Passing through a messy ruins space, I entered a narrow but unusually tall door frame with a circle of red light embedded inside.

A vast and empty space came into view——

It was a magnificent relic that looked like the work of nature, with huge stairs crisscrossing up and down and thick stone pillars reaching up to the sky.

The huge stone bricks are carved with dense magic patterns. When you look at them, everything looks blurry, but you can faintly see the red spiritual essence flowing through them.

At the deepest part of the space is a wide area shaped like an altar. A giant red ring logo is embedded on the wall at the end, giving off a strong smell of the other world.

Below the circular symbol is a huge stone statue with its hands outstretched, also embedded in the wall. In front of his legs, there are four-handed stone statues lined up neatly.

Including the giant stone statues, they are all covered in heavy stone armor.

The armor was uneven, with magical patterns similar to those of relics, flowing with scarlet spiritual essence, and with knotty thorns on the surface.

Ji Li looked over, and everything in front of him turned into a blood-red world made up of rotten meat in an instant.

Those magic patterns turned into densely packed bulging blood vessels, with bright red blood flowing inside.

The four-handed stone statues turned into strange creatures made of rotten flesh, beating and breathing like insects, making gibberish.

The thorns on its body were smooth tentacles, twisting and wriggling unconsciously, carrying wet and sticky mucus.

The circular symbol embedded in the huge wall of the altar turned into a huge closed eye.

Everything flashed into his vision in an instant, and then as if time and space were disrupted, the ruins returned to their original appearance.

This familiar flickering phenomenon almost instantly reminded him of the scene after he fell from the inverted cross.

The inner world is covered!
He shook his head and prepared to leave immediately -

The risks are obvious, and if we continue exploring, something might go wrong.

Just as he was about to turn around, he heard a strange cry that resounded through the sky and the earth—

In an instant, a surging red light burst out from the door frame from which he came, forcing Ji Li to retreat.

With the sound of stones moving in unison, the four-handed stone statues wearing armor all came to life, and their empty faces flashing with dense red light all turned to Ji Li.

At the same time, a voice vibrated in the air——

"No one who does not hold the seal... may pass..."

Every word of that voice had a strange accent, sometimes majestic and grand, and sometimes like densely packed insect legs crawling.

At this moment, he also saw the owner of that voice——

It was the huge stone statue.

It pulled its body off the wall, and its dense flesh and blood tentacles stuck to it and shrank into its body, quickly being covered by the gray-black stone.

At the moment the voice fell, a vibrant red light burst out from the hollow holes in the skulls of the stone statues.

The scarlet light was like a laser, instantly hitting Ji Li's location, and a terrifying energy wave soared into the sky -

The stone statue looked at the rising dust with its equally empty face, then turned and walked towards the wall:

"The pitiful human soul..."

"You are not qualified—"

As soon as the words fell, a roar that reached the sky dispersed the dust, and a ray of black light swept into the altar and slammed heavily into the group of golems.

Accompanied by a deafening roar, the dark fan-shaped glacier exploded!
The giant golem turned its head immediately, and a strange voice was tinged with astonishment:
"you……?!"

(End of this chapter)