Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 477 Dante's surprise attack!
In an unfamiliar environment, Ji Liye woke up slowly.

She propped herself up in a daze, and then she found herself lying on a large luxury bed, covered with a comfortable high-quality blanket, and there was no one around.

Jillie was shocked and quickly sat up. She subconsciously felt her body twice before confirming that her clothes were clean and there was nothing wrong with her body, so she thought nothing had happened.

She breathed a sigh of relief and looked around. The furnishings of the large room she was in were also very unique. For Jillie, who was used to the retro style of Fortuna, it was as if she had traveled to the future.

"Where is this place?"

Jillie tried hard to recall, but she only remembered that after she saw those eyes emitting blue light in the forest, someone covered her mouth and she fainted.

"Have I been taken outside of Fortuna?" Looking at the surrounding environment, Jillie was a little at a loss.

Her parents were both devout believers of the sect, and she and Credo were naturally influenced by their parents. So over the years, she basically never left the area around Fortuna, and now that she encountered such an accident, she was indeed a little overwhelmed.

"It was Li You and V who brought me here...? Why did they do that?"

Jillie felt her brain was very confused and she couldn't make any sense of anything. She could only stand up from the bed.

But then she noticed an envelope that was obviously Fortuna style on a small table next to the bed, and it was clearly written on the cover that it was left for her.

Jillie hesitated for a moment, then opened the letter and began to read.

"How can this be!?"

After reading only the beginning, Jillie's eyes widened in surprise. When she finished reading, she was completely stunned.

But then, the huge TV screen in the room suddenly turned on by itself. Jillie turned around and saw Nero's face on the screen!

“Nero——!?”

……

Fortuna Castle, fighting arena.

Nero stood in front of the black stone tablet, still studying the mysterious object: "...Who put this thing here?"

"I've been to the castle several times before, including to Firm Hill, and I've also accompanied Gillie to visit, but no matter where I've been, I've never seen this thing before."

Li You first adjusted his smart monocular eyepiece before answering: "It's impossible that the man just built it with stones."

"Do you even need to tell me that..." Nero said speechlessly.

After the two defeated the demon Baal and closed the small hell gate, the heavy snow finally became less severe and the vision became clearer.

But the thick snow naturally could not disappear immediately, so when you look around, all you can see is a vast expanse of white.

It was already the second half of the night, and even the full moon in the sky was gradually disappearing, making the night even darker.

Li You originally planned to take Nero back to the castle hall, because according to the game map, the entrance to the hidden laboratory underground in the castle was in the hall.

As for the important prop needed in the game, the winged amulet, Li You had already asked Nero who had carefully explored the western area, so he knew that the training tower on the west side of this world did not have such complicated mechanisms as in the game. The two did not need to make a special trip and could just return directly.

This was what Li You planned, but Nero looked at the black stone tablet in front of him and always found it difficult to understand.

The same is true for Firm Hill and Fortuna Castle. Although the black stone tablets in these two places are not as tall and majestic as the holy tablets in the city, it is obviously impossible to build them casually. It will inevitably require a large number of troops and take a long time.

The Firm Hills were not so bad. The mine was now abandoned and no one cared about it for years. It might have been built secretly by criminals. But the stone tablet in front of us was standing in the courtyard of Fortuna Castle. This was the absolute control area of ​​the cult. Even if there were tourists, it would be impossible for them to reach here.

If that’s the case, then who on earth could have built such a stone tablet here?

Nero asked this question, and Li You replied: "I don't know if you read detective novels, but I have read a sentence that goes, 'When you eliminate all the wrong options, the one that remains, no matter how unbelievable it is, must be the truth.'"

Nero was silent for a moment after hearing this: "...I understand what you mean. This stone tablet...can only have been built by the Order."

Li You smiled with satisfaction: "Of course."

"...Then the question arises again, why did the cult build this kind of stone tablet that can summon demons?" Nero asked again.

"Well..." Li You paused.

He did not plan to tell Nero all the truth for the time being, because no matter to Nero or Gillie, it was really suspicious for an outsider like him to suddenly tell them the conspiracy of the Order without any evidence.

Even if he really said it, maybe only Nero would believe it, so there would be no point.

Li You hopes that Nero and Gillie can understand the true conspiracy of the cult through their own thinking rather than having him relay it.

As for their brother Credo, Li You has his own way to convince him. It can be said that Li You has already gradually laid out his plan.

In short, Li You did not tell Nero the truth immediately. Anyway, if he didn't tell it, the next person he was going to meet would tell Nero.

So he said instead: "We don't know what the story behind this is yet, but I just found a hidden passage in another part of the castle, and I think we can go take a look."

After listening to this, Nero glanced at Li You and thought for a while. Of course, he did not forget that his mission was to hunt down the assassin, but the black stone tablet in front of him was really suspicious. Nero thought about it and felt that it was not impossible to go and see the secret passage that Li You mentioned.

If there is a secret area in the castle, it is very likely related to this stone tablet. If the cult is really planning something...

"Okay, let's go and take a look." Thinking of this, Nero nodded decisively, "If there really is someone in the cult behind this, I must catch him and hand him over to Credo!"

Li You smiled: "For Ji Liye's safety, right?"

Nero turned his back and did not answer the question, but the answer was self-evident.

"Okay, let's go. The secret passage I found is in the hall..."

"ha--!!"

At this moment, a loud shout came from mid-air!
Li You and Nero looked up and saw a familiar figure falling from the sky, holding a huge sword and pressing down at them!

"...!!"

Li You stepped back to dodge, and Nero rolled sideways to avoid the attack. The sword hit the ground and tore a large piece of the ice.

The attacker immediately stood up, with his sword on his shoulder, and smiled at Li You and Nero: "Hey? We meet again."

Li You frowned slightly, and Nero recognized him immediately: "It's you! How dare you come back!"

The person who came was naturally Dante. He smiled at Nero and said, "Why didn't I dare to come back? I ignored you before only because I had a mission to accomplish. But..."

Dante raised the Rebellion Great Sword and shook it, saying, "I'm suddenly free, or interested, so I came out to see you again. How about it? Do we want to fight again?"

Nero said without hesitation: "I wish for it!"

Li You stood behind Nero and looked at Dante with some confusion, while Dante gave him a meaningful look in return, along with a hint of murderous intent.

Li You was immediately startled. From Dante's eyes, he realized that this guy might be coming for him.

As for the reason, it must have something to do with Tracy.

"Tsk... So Dante's personality is troublesome." Li You grinned.

Dante's mission in the City of Destiny was almost like a vacation. If he went all out, he could definitely wipe out the Sword Cult within a day, so he was not panicking at all.

Although Li You had not read the official novel, he could guess that Dante must have wandered around the castle for a long time, otherwise it would be impossible for him to arrive at the next area, the Mitis Forest, at the same time as Nero in the game.

What mission? This guy was in a hurry before because he was afraid of being late and being scolded by Tracy.

Therefore, it is not surprising that once he finds something that interests him, he turns to dealing with those things first.

And this time, he was probably coming for me.

"Kid, I heard that you seem to have got a magic weapon." Dante looked at Nero with a smile, "How about it, show it to me? I'm an expert in this area."

"Tsk... let's see how long you can keep your smooth talk!" Although Nero was unhappy, he would not act out of spite. Belial appeared in his hand immediately, with flames burning on the sword.

Dante's eyes lit up a little: "Oh? It looks okay... It should be a magic weapon transformed by a lord-level demon. You can defeat a demon like that. It seems that I underestimated your strength!"

Nero did not answer, but his eyes subconsciously turned to Li You beside him. Dante also focused his attention on Li You.

After a moment of eye contact, Dante raised his sword and said with a smile: "In that case, then... come on."

"Bang bang bang bang-!!"

Although he was holding the Rebellious Greatsword in his hand, Dante's first action was to put down the greatsword and shoot with both guns!

The pair of ebony and ivory pistols designed by him and made by a legendary gunsmith can spray bullets like a machine gun. Ordinary humans are absolutely incapable of using these two pistols, but in Dante's hands, they can unleash a storm of bullets. If magic is attached, even demons will be shot into sieves.

At this moment, bullets were pouring down like rain on Li You and Nero!

Li You dodged sideways without hesitation. With his current reaction speed, avoiding bullets was no problem. Even if the bullets were raining down, he just needed to be more careful.

Nero was a little bit overwhelmed by such an exaggerated burst of fire. But he also had his own way. He thrust the Belial in his right hand into the ground, and a large piece of high-heat flames rose from the sword, blocking it in front of him.

Dante's initial burst of shots was just a test, without any magic power attached. Therefore, the sudden burst of high temperature from Belial successfully dissolved all the bullets that were flying at him, and Nero was unharmed.

The burst ends quickly, even with Ivory and Ebony. The magazine capacity is also limited unless Dante uses magic to generate bullets.

But it seemed that he had no intention of doing so at the moment, so he stopped after the magazine was empty.

"...Oh? Not bad, that sword." Dante looked at Nero and Belial standing in front of him, and smiled, "Pure high temperature ability, quite useful. For your style, this thing is indeed a very suitable weapon."

Nero was extremely unhappy with Dante's leisurely attitude, so he curled the corners of his mouth and said provocatively: "I'm glad you like it, I'm going to stab this sword into your heart in a moment!"

While he was speaking, he did not stop injecting magic power into Belial. So at this moment, under his feet, where Belial pierced the ground, the ice was constantly melting, constantly turning into liquid and even water vapor.

Hearing Nero's provocation, Dante also laughed loudly, making Nero and Li You alert. When he finally stopped laughing, he looked at Nero again and said, "You are very brave, kid. However, you didn't seem to pay attention to the surrounding environment when you used that sword?"

"……Um?"

Nero realized the problem, but it was too late. Under the erosion of high heat, the ice layer under his feet was riddled with holes, and suddenly broke and collapsed, revealing a deep pit below!

Nero was unable to dodge and fell into the huge pit, disappearing without a trace.

“Nero!!”

Because all his attention was on Dante, even Li You didn't notice the pit under Nero's feet in advance. When he came to his senses, Nero had already fallen down.

Li You immediately rushed over there, trying to pull Nero up. But at this moment, a red light flashed, and Dante was already in front of him.

The silver-haired man carried a big sword, stroked the short beard on his chin, and said to Li You: "You can't leave, I came here to find you."

Li You frowned slightly. He looked at the broken hole not far away, thought for a moment, and recalled the plot of the original game.

When Dante came here, he fought with the devil and made so much noise that the ice broke and he fell down, and thus entered the next level. So it was predictable where Nero fell.

In fact, if you fall from here, the place you arrive at is exactly the same as Li You’s original destination - below is Agnas’ secret research base.

So if we look at it optimistically, Nero falling here is exactly what Li You wants. As long as he continues to move forward along the path below, he can naturally trigger the "encounter event" with the Yama Sword and thus initially activate his demon form.

But the problem is that even in the original game, Nero encountered a great crisis in this level. In Li You's plan, of course, he had to let Nero go through this to prompt him to awaken, but he also planned to secretly monitor him throughout the process to prevent any unexpected situations.

After all, Nero was not as good as Dante. Even if it was a Spartan family tradition, his physique could not be compared with the half-human, half-demon brothers Dante and Virgil. If something really happened, it would be too late to regret.

So Li You's face darkened a little, and he said, "Dante, I'm afraid I don't have time to spend with you now. I have to go see Nero."

Dante smiled and said, "Why are you so anxious? Didn't you tell me that the little devil has Spartan blood, and there is a broken Yama sword underground."

"If what you said is true, then even if that little devil encounters something, he will definitely be able to turn the danger into safety."

Li You looked at Dante and realized from his eyes that this man's appearance was premeditated.

Perhaps for Dante, this is also a good opportunity to test whether Nero is really his blood relative?
Li You estimated that Dante had already guessed Nero's identity to a high degree, so he took the opportunity to push it forward and verify it.

Li You was thinking in his mind, while Dante in front of him was still saying: "... Putting aside other things, even if that little devil is not Dad's bloodline, if he wants to become a powerful demon hunter, he can't avoid experiencing life and death. You shouldn't have protected him too much."

Of course, Li You would understand these principles. He didn't intend to cultivate Nero into a flower in a greenhouse. But one thing is for another, letting Nero go through the test does not conflict with watching him in secret. After all, Nero's growth is related to whether he can leave this world, so Li You will not be careless.

But it was obvious that Dante would not let himself go to Nero easily.

So Li You calmed down and stopped thinking about breaking through Dante's blockade. Instead, he looked directly at him and said, "I understand what you said. Let's not waste any more time talking. What are your plans?"

Dante smiled and said, "Before, you insisted on stopping me, causing me to be late and get scolded. This time, it's my turn to stop you. I'm here to return the favor."

Li You: "?"

"...Are all the people in your Sparta family so vindictive?"

As for no?
Looking at the expression on Li You's face, Dante suddenly laughed again: "That's right, I just want to see your expression! You have been pretending to be so serious since the first time we met, but you should be an interesting person, right?"

As he spoke, he suddenly swung the rebellious sword, and a strong fighting spirit and even murderous aura suddenly emanated from his body.

"...So, now is the right time, let's have a fight. I am still a little interested in your true appearance... Oh, it's not something weird, huh?"

Li You was not surprised by Dante's words. Ever since Dante appeared, he had guessed Dante's intention and knew that he could not avoid it.

So Li You didn't hesitate and said, "If that's the case, then come on."

Dante grinned: "Good, that's great!"

Li Youze raised his hand, and a large number of weapons appeared in front of him. Almost all the weapons that were previously reserved and not fed to the spiral sword were listed.

He then quickly put all the weapons on his body. Behind his back, on his waist, on his arms, on his legs, including the spiral sword, he hung them all on his body, making a total of ten weapons.

Finally, Li Youcai stretched out his hand, and lightning and moon shadows appeared in his hand.

He drew out his knife, raised it slightly, placed it at his side, and looked at Dante: "Please."

Dante watched Li You's actions with great interest. When he saw weapons appearing in front of him, Dante's eyebrows moved, but he did not speak or interrupt.

At this time, seeing that he was finally ready, Dante teased: "Why do you hang so many weapons on your body? Are you trying to scare me?"

Li You also smiled: "No, it's to motivate myself. The name of the legendary demon hunter Dante is well-known, I will never underestimate him, so I will do my best to deal with him."

Seeing this, Dante restrained the slight smile on his face and became a little more serious.

"It's a bit embarrassing to be told this in front of me. If that's the case, I'll take it seriously."

The two stood opposite each other, looked at each other for a moment, and suddenly smiled in tacit understanding.

The next moment, the two figures disappeared at the same time!
"clang--!!"

The clear echo spread, Li You and Dante had collided with each other, the lightning moon shadow and the rebellious greatsword rubbed out large sparks!

"Drink——!!"

……

At the same time, underground in the fighting arena.

After Nero fell from the broken ice passage, he found that he had entered a spacious underground deep well-like space.

This area went straight down, and it was unknown how deep it was. Nero fell all the way down, and his speed was getting faster and faster. He had no choice but to use the devil's hand to grab the obstacles on the wall of the well that could be climbed.

Although many of the obstacles could not withstand the force and broke almost immediately, and he was unable to completely stop his falling trend, he was able to slow down his speed and finally landed safely.

"Boom-!!"

Nero landed heavily on the ground, and after he stood firmly on his feet, he stood up and shook his hands, complaining: "I actually fell down there accidentally, how embarrassing. Li You is still up there facing that guy alone, I have to go back and help him quickly. But..."

“…Where on earth is this place?”

He looked around and realized that he had fallen to the bottom of the shaft. The ground here was made of wire mesh, and there was a huge exhaust fan below the ground. If he looked up, the walls of the deep shaft were also covered with various industrial facilities.

Looking at the scene around him, Nero looked puzzled.

This area clearly has a very modern and industrial feel, and it is definitely not an original area of ​​the Fortuna Castle. It must have been newly built in recent years.

But he had been to the castle several times before, and had never seen or heard of such an area in the castle.

"...Could this place be related to the black stone tablet above?" Nero muttered to himself.

He put away the magic sword Belial, but still held the Scarlet Queen in his hand. After looking around, he found the door and walked out.

"I'll be back soon, Li You, just hold on!"

Nero walked along the passage outside, completely unaware that there was a hidden miniature camera on the collar of his coat, flashing an obscure light.

(End of this chapter)