Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 771 Below Los Angeles
Los Angeles.

A place known as the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties was naturally the first to be affected after the arrival of the Lost City.

The streets were filled with a musty smell, and the low, gray buildings on both sides looked no different from before the city of the Lost City descended.

Even a sweep of the entire city of Los Angeles revealed no unusual changes.

"How strange! Could it be that the Lost City has fallen to the ground here?"

At the top of Longmen Mountain, Xiao Ran and the others stood looking at Luo City in front of them, but they couldn't see anything unusual about it.

Wu Man couldn't help but wonder if Los Angeles hadn't been contaminated by the Lost City.

But the answer is clearly no.

Xiao Ran's eyes flashed with a fluorescent light, and his immense spiritual power spread out like a large net over the vast city of Luo at the foot of the mountain.

However, not long after approaching Luo City, Xiao Ran felt a very strong sense of repulsion.

Xiao Ran quickly gathered her mental energy, converging it into a straight line that pierced directly towards the direction of the sense of repulsion.

It was a dilapidated temple, and inside the temple was a statue of Vajra Bodhisattva.

As Xiao Ran's spiritual power pierced through, the Vajra Bodhisattva suddenly raised its head, its face blue and fangs bared, its eyes flashing with cold light. It raised the vajra in its hand and smashed it towards Xiao Ran.

"Warning: You have been locked by the curse [Evil Appearance] of Black-Eyed Kshatriya Vajra, and all your attributes have been temporarily reduced by 20%."

"Warning: You are under the curse of Black-Eyed Vajra King [within the Three Realms]!"

At the same time as the two notification sounds came, Xiao Ran noticed that the surrounding space was rapidly distorting at a speed that was difficult to detect with the naked eye.

The Vajra Pestle that Black King Kong had just thrown out appeared in front of Xiao Ran the next second.

The vajra was covered in alluring runes, with a hideous human face chanting incantations. It seemed to lock onto Xiao Ran in an instant, then burst out with a beam of light and shot towards her.

"boom!!"

With a tremendous roar, the entire hill trembled, and a thick layer of dust billowed up from the summit.

Inside the dilapidated temple at the foot of the mountain, Black Vajra revealed a contemptuous sneer on his face, just as he was about to retract his vajra.

Unexpectedly, a foot gently stepped on the vajra, and Black Vajra's expression changed drastically. No matter how hard he tried, his vajra could not be moved.

"Hu~~"

A gust of wind dispersed the dust swirling on the mountaintop, revealing Wu Man, who was hunched over with one foot on a vajra. He looked her up and down and praised, "Not bad, it's a D-grade cursed artifact. When did even such a minor evil spirit become able to use such a top-quality item?"

"Um!!"

Black King Kong's eyes widened. Seeing that he could not recall his Vajra Pestle, he immediately drew a large sword from his waist.

This sword was enormous, just the right size for Black King Kong to hold, but in reality, it was the size of a door panel.

The black blade exuded a strong smell of blood, and what was striking was that the spine of the sword was made from segments of the vertebrae.

When Black King Kong held it in his hand, these spines were even twisting, as if the sword itself were alive.

"Oh dear, another cursed item. It's in pretty good condition. Be careful not to ruin it. If you take this back, you can sell it for at least two thousand ghost coins."

Wu Man shouted down the mountain.

Just then, Hei Jin suddenly realized something and quickly looked down, only to see that Xiao Ran had arrived at the temple gate at some point.

Their steps led them toward the dilapidated temple, one step at a time, toward Black King Kong.

As Xiao Ran walked, he looked around and noticed a lot of bloodstains on the ground and some scattered bones in the corner.

Those aren't animal bones, they're human bones. If you look closely, you can see there are also some torn clothes nearby.

Both men and women are present.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran's expression turned cold. He looked up at Black King Kong and said, "It seems that before you fell into the Lost City, you were just something that had just developed sentience. After the Lost City landed, you didn't hold back at all. You advanced step by step by eating people. It's clear that you were very careful. This courtyard is very clean. You hid your bones and clothes in the temple. And you hid in such a remote corner. People who don't know better could easily fall into your trap."

"court death!!!"

When Xiao Ran exposed his little scheme, Black King Kong became furious. He exhaled a wisp of white mist from his nostrils, his twisted muscles bulging under his bluish-black skin. He raised his greatsword and slashed at Xiao Ran.

"call!!"

Before the sword's edge even fell, the heavy wind pressure had already stirred up dust from the ground, and the air seemed to solidify, crashing towards Xiao Ran with a suffocating sense of oppression.

However, faced with a sword strike powerful enough to split mountains and rocks, Xiao Ran merely raised his eyelids slightly.

A sharp, piercing glint flashed in his deep eyes.

He didn't even put on any fancy moves.

Without warning, an indescribable, terrifying killing intent suddenly descended!
This killing intent was pure, cold, and domineering, freezing the air within a hundred meters in an instant, like a thousand-year-old iceberg. Even the dust drifting in front of the dilapidated temple and the rotten, bloody smell permeating the air seemed to be frozen in time.

Black King Kong felt as if his heart was being gripped tightly by an invisible giant hand, and the space and time before him seemed to have been turned into a black and white world by this murderous aura.

Only the white sun above Xiao Ran's head was dazzling and eye-catching.

At that moment, space seemed to freeze. Black King Kong could even clearly see the dust floating in the air. Everything, even his sword-wielding movements, became slow.

That is at this moment.

Xiao Ran raised her right arm slightly, as if casually brushing off a speck of dust.

The [Dragon Abyss] greatsword appeared silently in his hand. Crimson runes surged along the hilt into the blade, and the dark golden dragon shadow on the spine suddenly opened its vertical pupils! Privilege 1: Dragon Blade
With the blessing of the dragon, all evil spirits are broken.

It has an absolute suppressive effect on curses and cursed objects of grade B or lower.

"Boom!!!"

The blade made a whistling sound.

Black King Kong's body trembled uncontrollably as a powerful sense of oppression slammed into him in an instant.

Only now did Hei Jin realize something, and with difficulty, he raised his head to look at Xiao Ran, his eyes revealing a pleading look.

Xiao Ran could clearly sense Black King Kong's emotions.

From a humble consciousness, it slowly progressed step by step into an evil spirit. So cautious and timid that it still dares not easily step out of the temple.

It just didn't expect that its destruction would come so suddenly, so soon after it had only advanced to the level of an evil spirit.

Xiao Ran's figure gradually grew to be as huge as a mountain in front of Black King Kong. Under the dragon's might, it couldn't even move a single finger.

All that could be seen was Xiao Ran's indifferent gaze and the large sword coiled with a giant dragon.

"Privilege [Execution] judgment successful!"

it's over."

Xiao Ran's words were calm and undisturbed, without the slightest emotional fluctuation.

With a flick of his wrist, the Longyuan Blade traced an extremely simple yet chilling arc in the air.

There was no earth-shattering roar, no blinding energy collision.

Only a sliver of light, faster than the limits of visual perception, lightly brushed across Black King Kong's massive neck.

"Crack!"

A faint sound, like rotten wood breaking, rang out.

Black King Kong's head suddenly tilted to the side, and a very thin line of blood appeared on his neck.

The next second, the massive head slid neatly along the bloodline and slammed onto the dusty, bone-strewn ground with a dull thud.

"Kang Dang"

The enormous greatsword also slipped from his grasp and fell to the ground, trembling slightly as it sank into the mud. The twisted joints along its spine had completely lost their vitality.

On the hill, Wu Man tilted her head, the vajra beneath her feet had long since fallen silent.

His gaze was fixed on the dragon-headed broadsword in Xiao Ran's hand. He couldn't help but click his tongue and mutter under his breath, "Using a cannon to kill a mosquito!"

Although he was complaining, his eyes never left the big knife.

"Who spilled their aged vinegar? It smells so sour."

Okra, holding the white fluff in her arms, walked to Wu Man's side and teased her with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Wu Man's eyes darted around, and she reached out and grabbed herself, managing to pull out her own emotions.

He held it in his hand, smelled it, and nodded in satisfaction: "Not bad, even more sour than Shanxi aged vinegar." Then he grinned at Okra and said: "Tonight we're having stir-fried shredded potatoes with vinegar, stir-fried pork ribs with vinegar, and sour soup dumplings with pickled fish."

"what……"

The okra grinned and quickly shook its head to indicate that it didn't want to eat it.

Not only okra, but even Lu Cheng and Liu Mu standing to the side looked away, after all, no one wanted to taste the dish made from that dark, murky thing in Wu Man's hand, no matter how delicious it was.

This greatly disappointed Wu Man, but she could only carefully suppress her bitter feelings.

The group walked down the mountain and arrived at the dilapidated temple.

Xiao Ran was using the privilege of the [Suppressing Calamity Order] to forcibly read Black King Kong's memories, trying to find any special information from this evil spirit's memories.

Most of Black King Kong's memories are of how he lured people into the temple step by step and then killed them.

There wasn't much valuable information.

However, it wasn't entirely without value; Black King Kong once entered Los Angeles at night.

Xiao Ran read this memory very carefully.

After carefully reviewing this memory, Xiao Ran put away Black King Kong's corpse and the greatsword that was as big as a door.

"It seems we were wrong."

Xiao Ran put down the memory book, concentrated her mental energy, and then explored downwards from Luo City.

As Xiao Ran's consciousness penetrated the soil beneath the subway station and continued to explore downwards, she soon sensed the vast space below.

That was another vast, labyrinthine city, a bizarre and wondrous place like a small world lying silently beneath Los Angeles. Seemingly separate, it was actually integrated with Los Angeles.

Moreover, there are not just one such labyrinthine city, but as many as twelve.

Each level of the labyrinth is completely different.

After a moment, Xiao Ran gathered her mental energy back: "Let's go. Stay at my house tonight, and we'll talk about how to proceed tomorrow morning."

(End of this chapter)