Chapter 370 Enemy

Chapter 370 Enemy

A few minutes later, in the secret passage of the city lord's room.

Due to the narrowness of the secret passage, Han Zu's sturdy body could only move sideways here, and even so, this way of moving was extremely inconvenient. Although he could still move, after the contractor's equipment scanned that there were some traps in the secret passage, Han Zu gave up this normal way of moving and adopted the form of soul-grabbing miasma, carrying Gloria forward together.

"Although I know that you can use this form like this, I am still curious about its principle. If the weather is bad, others may mistakenly think that I am flying."

"probably."

"I suddenly had an idea. If you use the ability to fly in this form, will you be able to fly at a considerable speed?"

"Don't be ridiculous. This state also consumes a lot of energy. If it weren't for the contractor's equipment, the two of us wouldn't be able to communicate now."

"So you haven't tried it?"

"No. I don't think 1+1 is less than 1."

"Your description is really..."

As the two of them moved forward, they soon reached the middle of the secret passage. Through several shafts with simple wooden ladders, they soon arrived at the base of the castle and came to the vicinity of the underground cells. Through Han Zu's perspective ability and Gloria's radiation pulse, the two discovered that most of the prisoners in the underground cells were not humans, but some humanoids, other races, such as elves and orcs.

"Okay, now we can be sure that this place is not our world, so what are those things that were detected in the training room before?"

"It's possible that we have traveled to the past of another world... We have arrived somewhere else."

Just as the two continued to move forward while talking and were about to reach the exit of the secret passage, the environment around them suddenly changed. The narrow secret passage suddenly became wide, and the position of the two also changed from a secret passage to an open space.

Without the hindrance of the terrain, Han Zu returned to his normal form. Using the contractor's equipment and their own abilities, they began to detect the surrounding environment. They found that they were now back in the ruins.

"This should be another area of ​​the ruins. The architectural style is the same."

“The contractor’s equipment detected the same giant creature on the outside and we went back into the belly of that giant fish.”

"I am becoming more and more curious about this relic. Is this place made up of different spaces stitched together?"

"Almost, but nothing is certain until we get to the core. Let's keep going."

The two continued to walk towards the depths of the ruins. After passing through a space with nothing in it and turning a corner of a passage, a dazzling light flashed in the distance. After the light dissipated, Han Zu observed that a mysterious rune array seemed to appear where the light originally appeared. The runes flashed with strange light, as if they contained endless power.

"What is this? It looks like some kind of seal?" The two walked to the side of the rune array and examined it carefully.

Han Zu stretched out his hand to touch it, but was bounced back by an invisible force. It was like pressing on a ball of soft cotton candy, but he could not touch the location of the magic circle rune.

"Unknown energy defense mechanism detected."

At this moment, the ground began to shake slightly, and the two discovered an abnormal change in the energy in the air. Based on the concentration of the energy, it seemed that something was gradually approaching the rune array.

"An abnormal energy reaction has been detected."

According to the scans of the contractor's equipment and Gloria's radiation pulses, a large number of life forms appeared out of thin air in a large ruins corridor about three or four hundred meters away from where the two were. However, to be precise, it should be called an energy reaction with a carrier. In layman's terms, a large number of monsters appeared that had no subjective consciousness and were suspected of acting on instinct.

Those monsters without ideology seemed to have noticed the movement here and were slowly approaching this side.

"Wait a moment, don't rush to act. Maybe those monsters are not right, or maybe they are related to this rune formation. Let's find a place to observe their actions first."

Gloria stopped Han Zu, who was ready to rush into the enemy group and kill everyone, and pulled him to find a suitable place to hide. These suddenly appearing monsters were the first ones they encountered within the ruins. They should be the "indigenous people" of the ruins. Understanding their actions might be helpful to the two of them.

"Confirmed energy reaction type, passive life form unable to transfer dissipated energy. Assessing threat level..."

"What does this bunch of nonsense mean? What do you mean by a passive life form that cannot transfer dissipated energy?"

Gloria was overwhelmed by the translation provided by the contractor's equipment. Because Gloria was originally from a Spanish-speaking country, the text translated by the contractor's equipment was also in Spanish. So the translated text looked very lengthy.

"It's the undead, or you can call it zombies. I think it's easy to understand, right?"

"That's because after your device translated, the text was in Dragon Country language. As long as you know Dragon Country characters, the meaning can be easily translated. After my translation was completed, it was in Spanish. This sentence is very lengthy."

"You and I have been speaking Longguo dialect, haven't you? I heard you speak it quite fluently, why don't you just change the language of the translation?"

"Ah? This can be changed? I really don't know."

"Yes, just operate this, this option is..."

It took a few seconds to switch the translation language of the contractor's equipment, and this time Gloria's equipment looked much more comfortable.

"I really didn't expect that you, a Spanish-speaking person, would find Dragon Country's characters more comfortable than your native language."

"When I was still a member of the family, most of the areas where I went on missions were in Longguo or other Asian countries that spoke Longguo. In order to better perform the missions, since I became the commander of the family, I have spoken Longguo much more often than my native language, and the same is true for writing. You know how international students who have been abroad for a long time become less proficient in their native language? I am in a similar situation. However, I can still understand and speak my native language, but it is much more unfamiliar."

"How about I start talking to you in Spanish now?"

"You also speak Spanish?"

"No, but I can learn it now."

"Forget it. Your speaking speed would drive people crazy if you spoke Spanish. I'm actually curious about how you learned Russian and German. Logically speaking, these two languages ​​are much more difficult than Spanish, especially German."

"personal hobby."

"alright."

The undead spirits around the two men, who had no self-consciousness, did not move swiftly, but extremely slowly. The two men chatted for about twenty minutes before the undead spirits came out of the long corridor of the ruins in the distance and slowly wandered towards the direction of the rune array. Their speed was so slow that Han Zu felt a little sleepy when he saw their way of moving, which was no less than stepping on the right foot with the left foot and setting obstacles for themselves.

When the undead finally approached the rune array, the rune array suddenly emitted a suction force that was not strong but had a very obvious direction. Wisps of gray air floated out of the undead and were slowly sucked into the rune array. Han Zu and Gloria looked at each other and began to discuss the function of this rune array.

"It seems that these undead are used to replenish energy for the rune array?" Han Zu whispered.

At this moment, after the rune array absorbed the energy of the undead, it shone brightly. The large number of undead that were originally wandering in the area where the rune array was located also lost their energy and fell to the ground.

The two continued to observe for a while, and after confirming that the rune array and the undead were no longer moving, they walked out from their hiding corner and headed towards the location of the rune array.

"I will try again."

Han Zu said as he reached out to the rune array again. This time his hand was not hindered by anything and directly touched the runes whose light was dimming. But nothing happened.

"Perhaps you could try injecting some energy into the rune array?"

"Makes sense."

Gloria was on the side, keeping an eye on the undead bodies lying on the ground, while Han Zu sent some energy to the rune array. After the energy entered the rune, the entire rune array began to gradually light up again, and a weak electric current spread along Han Zu's arm. It felt numb, much like a physical therapy device.

At this time, the ground shook slightly, and the fallen undead bodies slowly stood up. Blue flames burned in their empty eye sockets, emitting a chilling aura.

"It seems that touching the runes has triggered a new situation. But why are they still motionless?"

Han Zu walked around these resurrected undead and found that although these undead stood up and had fire in their eyes, they did not show any signs of attacking.

"Maybe they were just reactivated, but they're still missing some kind of instructions?" Gloria guessed. "And the fact that you used the flames from the eyes of the dead to light a cigarette does seem like you're mentally ill..."

Han Zu decided to inject a little more energy into the rune array to see if there would be any changes. As the energy was injected, the runes on the rune array began to rotate rapidly, and the bodies of the undead began to tremble slightly. Suddenly, all the undead turned slowly but uniformly and slowly moved towards one direction of the ruins.

"Should we follow and see, or continue to study this rune array?"

"What does the device scan say?"

"A node used to relay energy, in layman's terms, is a switch on a system."

"That's obvious, let's follow and see."

Although the speed of these undead was so slow that the two of them could still be faster than them even if they crawled on the ground with one hand, in order to avoid the undead suddenly disappearing, the two of them still walked and stopped, mixing in the center of the entire team.

As the undead team slowly moved forward, Han Zu and Gloria felt that the atmosphere around them was increasingly oppressive and mysterious. As they walked, a huge stone door suddenly appeared in front of them, which was engraved with various strange symbols and patterns.

The undead stopped in front of the stone door, as if waiting for something. Han Zu walked forward and tried to push the stone door, but it didn't move at all.

"You can't push it open? Try a little harder?"

"I don't think this door can be pushed open by brute force." Han Zu stretched out his finger and pointed to several key positions of the stone door with the still burning cigarette pinched between two fingers. There were rune arrays on them that were similar to runes but of different sizes.

Gloria took out the contractor's equipment for a scan and found that the stone door required a specific energy fluctuation to open.

As they were thinking hard, Han Zu suddenly thought of the numbing current that the rune array had just transmitted. He tried to find the trace of special energy remaining in his body, and unexpectedly he really found it. Although the energy felt very weak, for some reason, this energy did not transform itself through its ability to passively absorb energy, and it remained in his arm.

Han Zu stretched out his finger, gathered this special energy at his fingertips, and then pressed it on a rune array in the center of the stone gate. As this energy entered the rune array, the stone gate made some noises and slowly opened. A light that kept flickering and seemed to be extinguishing the edge shot out from inside.

After entering the stone gate, they saw a huge crystal column, but it was in a dilapidated state, with traces of broken pieces everywhere. It seemed that it was only a light knock away from breaking completely. The light that was constantly flickering and about to go out came from the center of this crystal column.

"Unknown transmission system detected, analysis in progress..."

"Analysis completed, system damage level: 85%, unable to perform transmission."

"Searching for possible repair methods..."

"Detecting system build materials..."

"Error: The logged in material was not recognized, deep scan in progress."

"Process interrupted, insufficient material integrity. Unable to perform in-depth analysis."

According to the contractor's preliminary system inspection, this broken crystal column seems to be some kind of special transmission device. There are not many traces of artificial polishing on the surface of the crystal. According to the discussion between the two, this should be a rough stone that has only been simply processed.

"I see a lot of crystal fragments on the ground nearby. Maybe we can try to pick them up and see if we can put them back together?"

"Then let's give it a try. We don't have anything else to do right now anyway."

"But what about these undead?"

"Let's keep them for now. They won't move anyway. Maybe we can use them later."

Han Zu and Gloria began to pick up the crystal fragments on the ground and carefully pieced them together on the crystal column. However, the progress was not smooth, the fragments were of different shapes, and it was difficult to find a completely matching part.

Just when they were a little frustrated, the still undead suddenly moved and rushed towards the crystal column. Han Zu alertly made a defensive posture, but found that the undead did not attack, but exhaled wisps of gray breath again, which automatically floated around the crystal column and was absorbed by the crystal column. And these gray breaths attached to the crystal column actually began to heal some small cracks.

“So they have this kind of use?”

"Let's get all the undead outside in first, maybe we can speed up the repair process."

"The current damage level of the system is 80%, the integrity is insufficient and it cannot be started."

"It does seem to be working. I'll go move the one on the left."

Han Zu and Gloria quickly ushered the undead outside in. As more gray aura was absorbed by the crystal column, the cracks continued to heal, and the degree of damage shown on the contractor's equipment continued to decrease.

"Current system damage level: 60%. Some functions are beginning to recover, but still insufficient to initiate transmission."

At this moment, Han Zu discovered that there was a special groove at the bottom of the crystal column, which was shaped like a rune in the rune array. He looked at the undead with an idea. As expected, rune-like marks appeared on the armor fragments and bones on the chests of several undead.

Han Zu carefully removed the bone and armor fragments with the mark and placed them in the groove. In an instant, the light of the crystal column stopped swaying and became much more stable.

"Damage level: 40%, about to reach the activation threshold."

"Hostile unknown life reaction detected, assessing threat level, level: medium."

But just when hope was growing, a huge monster hiding in the dark suddenly jumped out, aiming directly at Han Zu. Gloria was quick-witted and released a radiation pulse to temporarily repel the monster.

"Where did this Jaguar thing come from? The device clearly didn't scan anything just now?!" Han Zu was shocked and angry.

"No matter what, solve it first, otherwise all the previous efforts will be in vain. It seems that this thing's target is not you, but the crystal pillar you are blocking."

"You bastard, you're screwed!"

After asking Gloria to stay and protect the crystal column and the undead that were providing the gray air, Han Zu suddenly attacked and rushed towards the monster like a cannonball.