The rising sun shatters the darkness!

Chapter 193 The Earl Returns (Happy Children's Day, please give me your monthly vote!)
"Is the entrance here?"

Xu Shu touched his chin and looked around. This was an ordinary corridor. Not far away there were dusty flower pots and half-dead but still alive potted plants. The emery floor that had been repaired had cracks showing up again, but it still remained largely intact.

Apart from the window not far away and the wooden door of the corridor behind, there is no other possible entrance to the passage.

And whether it is a window or a door, it is obviously not an entrance.

Xu Shu had been to this location twice. There was no place where one could be teleported as soon as one entered.

"You still dare to hold back."

Xu Shu frowned and looked outside, at Nie Qiba who was tied up inside the border line with spider webs like a tortoise shell. With some displeasure, he materialized Eight Spider Lance behind him, as if he was going to push her out of the border line and pull her back if they had a disagreement, thus triggering the Star Tower's attack mode - of course, he was pretending.

Seeing this scene, Nieqiba was indeed shocked. The last bit of cunning in her eyes, which she thought was very obscure but was actually very obvious to others, quickly disappeared completely. She screamed in panic: "You need to recite! You need to recite the name of my Lord to open the door to the kingdom of God!"

I see… Xu Shu rolled his eyes, and pretended to put away the Eight Spider Lances. Then he sneered, “If you do it again, you will bear the consequences yourself.”

"Yes, yes, I won't dare to do it again. Never again."

Neqiba nodded quickly, carefully observing Xu Shu's expression, not daring to have any more thoughts. He gritted his teeth and said, "I tell you, the name of my Lord is - the Most High, Eternal Lord. I beg you to hear my call..."

She spoke slowly and clearly, meaning for Xu Shu to recite after her.

However, just as she started, she saw the human opposite her was already reading clearly and faster than her:

"You are the supreme being who holds the authority over space, the great and infinite Ouroboros, the innate and dual-faceted Ksitigarbha..."

As soon as Xu Shu finished speaking, as if he had entered the correct combination into a lock, the wall in front of him suddenly began to shake, revealing a dark hole.

Without saying a word, he walked straight in with a calm expression and determined eyes, and disappeared on the spot.

Only Nieqiba, who was not far away, was left with his eyes wide open, watching all this in disbelief, muttering to himself: "He actually, actually, knows the name of my lord..."

She was shocked for a moment, and when she saw that the "Gate of the Kingdom of God" on the wall had completely disappeared and returned to its original state without any abnormality, she couldn't help but feel restless again.

Looking at the spider silk on her body, she felt both fearful and tentative.

Finally, after about half an hour, Neqiba's already limited intelligence disappeared, and he stretched out his fifty-centimeter-long tongue and began to lick the spider silk.

She continued to secrete mucus and smeared it all over the spider silk, hoping to dissolve it and escape.

However, she found that the spider silk was extremely tough and did not seem to be able to be dissolved simply by the secreted liquid.

But when she pulled it, she found that there was a chance to move it.

This made Nie Qiba overjoyed. As long as she spent enough time, she could escape!
At that moment, Nie Qiba was ready to do the same, using the water-grinding technique to remove the spider silk on his body, but at this moment, he suddenly heard a rustling sound behind him.

She hurriedly stopped and looked back in confusion, and suddenly found a humanoid creature standing less than two meters away from her.

He had an elegant posture, his facial features were as sharp as a knife or an axe, and there were strange patterns in his eyeballs.

"?"

Spider species?

Nie Qiba could tell at a glance that the guy in front of him was not a human.

Because the other party had a circle of hideous and terrifying black compound eyes on his forehead, at this moment his eight eyes were all staring at him, staring at the sticky and tough spider silk on his body.

This made Nie Qiba feel as if she was being stared at by a poisonous snake, but because of the inconspicuous border line between them, she could not feel the other party's breath, so she was not afraid.

Judging from the fact that the other party was obviously some kind of spider-type monster, and thinking of the spider form that Xu Shu had just displayed, Nie Qiba identified it at a glance.

This is clearly the helper that human called!

"No wonder you were so confident in entering my Lord's Kingdom, not afraid that I would break free. It turns out that you called on the assassins to keep an eye on me!"

'I'm afraid that if I make the slightest move, this spider alien in front of me will rush in fearlessly and forcibly attract the attention of that terrifying existence!'

"Humph, I won't be fooled!"

"You are a lowly race, and as the followers of God, you have become allies with humans. You are damned traitors!"

'Once my Lord is out of trouble and fully recovered, I will never let you go!'

Thinking of this, Nie Qiba naturally did not dare to struggle anymore, and just said coldly: "Go away, do you think you can offend my master?"

"Your Lord? Haha, cunning human, did you make a deal with this dark creature... No, she is so hostile to me, it is obvious that the human took advantage of the aura of my queen and took the opportunity to subdue her." The visitor narrowed his eyes, took a deep breath in an extremely elegant posture, and whispered to himself.

His face was full of nobility, he was none other than the alien earl of the Black Widow clan, Lance!
As he walked along the way, he could sense the breath of the "Queen" appearing and disappearing briefly from time to time.

In this situation, he could easily guess that it must be that cunning human jumping in and out of the human border, trying to lure him into a trap.

He knew that the human was too cunning and had suffered a great loss once before, so he followed him from a distance all the way, hiding in the wilderness. He was unwilling to leave, but he did not dare to go forward rashly, for fear of being "killed by the Star Tower's Lightning Head Touch" again.

However, this time, Lance could fully feel the Queen's breath lingering in the wasteland for a long time.

Obviously, the other party must have let down his guard!

So he attacked quickly and rushed over.

As a result, he found that the breath had disappeared again, and he did not see Xu Shu himself, whom he was looking for.

However, within the red border line of humanity, a few inches away, a strange alien was tied to the ground for unknown reasons.

So, he approached cautiously, stood outside quietly, watched for a while, and was startled.

He found that with his own vision, he was unable to identify what race this alien belonged to.

It looks somewhat similar to a beauty snake, but there are many differences, which makes Spider very puzzled.

However, from the erotic bondage on the other person's body, Lance concluded at a glance that this must be the human who was using the power of the Queen to develop a super-friendly, interracial relationship with this alien.

Is this the legendary master-servant bondage play?
Damn humans, they are such a frivolous person!

Lance cursed inwardly.

If he were an ordinary person, he would not speculate like this.

But if it was that person, he would know that it was absolutely true.

After all, he is a guy who appears to be righteous, brave and bright on the outside, but is actually cunning and sinister at heart!

When Lance thinks back on it now, he really wants to slap himself in the face.

Such a talented person who openly enjoyed sex with another woman of the same race in front of so many people, such a perverted guy, and I actually believed him and missed the great opportunity to save the queen.

How abominable! I must make up for the mistakes I made!
"..." Lance looked at Neqiba condescendingly.

"..."Nieqiba also looked at Lance with hostility in his eyes.

Two alien monsters of different races were looking at each other at a very close distance across the border of the star tower.

Sometimes, the so-called natural barrier is just such a line.

Nieqiba was inside the border, and Lance was outside the border. The two were only 2 meters apart, and although they could hear and see each other, neither could fully sense the other's presence - except for the transmission of natural light and sound, anything else belonging to monsters and involving "corrosion sources" would be completely intercepted by the seemingly ordinary border.

This, of course, includes the "breath of monsters".

At this time, the two parties who had just met had almost no communication, but they had already regarded each other as the helper called by Xu Shu.

"But I still need to confirm it."

At this moment, Lance, who came running here "following the smell", was a superior after all, and was somewhat suspicious of this strange situation.

He stared at the lowly alien species in front of him who was "subjugated by humans and willing to accept humans as his master". After a brief thought, he snorted coldly and took the initiative to speak: "Your master? He is just a guy who hides his head and shows his tail, who is two-faced in front of people and behind people, and dares to hide in the dark underground and pretend to be powerful."

Of course, these words describe Xu Shu in Lance's eyes.

However, when Nieqiba heard it, the meaning changed.

What do you mean by two faces in front of people and behind their backs, hiding in the dark underground? Isn't this just pointing at a monk and scolding a bald donkey?

Upon hearing this, Nie Qiba flew into a rage. She was afraid that her overreaction would cause the other party to cross the red line and trigger the punishment-like attack, directly killing her great master. Therefore, she could only curse loudly: "Damn bug, how dare you insult my master like this? I curse you to die a miserable death and become extinct forever..."

Listening to the snake-like alien in front of him cursing in poor human language, Lance was not angry, but instead felt certain.

"Irritable and irritable, defending the dignity of the master to the death? No, this is more like the behavior of that human boy. He wants to provoke me and enter the border. Hehe... It seems that my guess is right..."

Lance understood what was going on and had no interest in arguing with the other party. He couldn't go in and kill her, and it would be too embarrassing to just argue with her - of course, this was also one of the reasons why he simply thought that Nie Qiba was Xu Shu's helper.

Because the tactic of "standing on the border and irritating yourself" is so familiar.

Wait, doesn't she also have that special ability that can plot against me and force me to be angry?

Lance recalled the scene where he was tricked, and suddenly looked around vigilantly. Seeing that there was no sign of Xu Shu, he quickly retreated, hid fifty meters away, hid in a bush, and disappeared.

Seeing that he took the initiative to go far away, Nie Qiba thought that he might go to an inconspicuous place to continue to monitor her, but since he didn't want to make trouble for herself, and her mouth was dry from scolding, she gradually shut up.

The tense atmosphere immediately returned to calm.

A little further away, some lower-level monsters crawled out of the cave and began to happily kill each other for food. After the killing, some of them began to reproduce, and the howling sounds continued one after another.

Bathed in the sun at around seven in the morning, the wilderness was filled with a vibrant smell.

……

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At this time, Xu Shu, of course, had no idea that his old enemy Lance had appeared there, and he had a battle of wits and courage with Nie Qiba.

After he passed through the dark passage on the ground (19, 19), it was as if he had taken a portal. After the world spun around, he appeared in a warehouse-like place filled with corpses and blood.

There were piles of corpses, and many of them were familiar faces. There were corpses from the broken camp that Xu Shu had seen before, some extraordinary people from the Hunter Association, and many unknown strangers, who might be scavengers, wasteland refugees, and so on.

"At the bottom of the ancient temple..."

Xu Shu's eyes fixed, and he looked back thoughtfully, at the innermost layer of the bottom of the ancient temple which was used as a warehouse, and where he came out from.

This is a forked passage, one going up and the other going down, it is pitch black and bottomless.

"Sure enough, this hole below is the link between the ground and underground! And this hole above is the circulation point inside the underground illusion!"

"When Nie Qiba self-immolated, he would have sent me directly into that ruins space and expelled me from it instead of letting me enter the underground illusion. Only when I chant the honorable name of the Jizo of the Tail normally and teleport normally can I come to this underground illusion space."

"Haha, this is interesting, and the reason seems easy to understand... Well, it is likely that she, the gatekeeper, self-immolated, which would cause the alarm to sound, thus attracting the direct attention of Ouroboros Jizo. However, if she prays and recites the honorific name normally, she might get a result similar to the normal feedback of the program, and would not attract the attention of Ouroboros Jizo."

"It's like when the program is running normally, the owner will just concentrate on his own work and won't even take a second look; only when the program reports an error or a problem occurs will the owner rush to the scene immediately..."

"In my previous journey simulations, every time at the beginning, Dizang didn't make a move. It was only after I killed the gatekeeper Nieqiba that problems arose. The key must be here!"

Xu Shu's eyes lit up, and he immediately figured out the key.

At this moment, he stood there fully armed, holding all his combat gear in his hands, and observed for a few minutes.

Seeing that there was no movement around, Xu Shu was completely relieved.

Obviously, according to the "reincarnation plot" in the illusion at this time, Gu Pan and his companions had not yet fought and retreated all the way to this place.

Without my participation and without myself and Wuxin attracting attention, Dizang must be busy with his "prison break" plan at this moment and has no time to focus on myself.

After all, for Ksitigarbha, entering his underground fantasy world is equivalent to becoming his prisoner, and one cannot threaten him in any way.

Who would have the time to care whether the death row prisoners trapped in the prison have eaten enough today, or whether they are cursing in groups in the prison when they are rebelling?

And this dark stage is your opportunity!
"We can't delay any longer. If we wait until 9 o'clock, the Divine Buddist will sense the problem, haha."

At that moment, Xu Shu set off without hesitation.

He did not choose to dig through the wall, but went directly into the passage at the fork in the road.

This time, the location he chose was the hole above.

Wow!

As his body fell freely in the darkness, after a moment, Xu Shu landed on the ground and walked out.

There was light in front of my eyes, and suddenly I saw an ancient temple appearing not far away.

"Very good, everything is fine. The only problem is that I don't know where Gu Pan and the others are. I don't have time to wait for them to arrive at the finish line. It seems that it will be past four in the afternoon by then."

Xu Shu clenched his fists and walked forward, while pushing his hips forward without any hope, trying to open the upgraded network.

As expected, he found that the electric current that should have passed through his penis did not appear, and the upgrading network was not successfully stimulated.

"It seems that my guess is correct. This illusion is connected to the ruins. Being here is a bit similar to falling into the ruins. The difference is that here you will not be sent out by the repulsive force of the world. The similarity is that you cannot open the upgrade network inside."

Xu Shu didn't mind, as he had expected this.

Otherwise, the people trapped here would have already sent distress signals to their family elders through various means.

Seeing that he really couldn't contact anyone in advance, Xu Shu didn't hesitate and quickly walked into the "human" shaped roof of the ancient temple.

At the same time, he noticed that there were a large number of tire-like marks on the ground, exactly the same as the ruts on the ground.

"So there are these wheel tracks in the underground fantasy? I remember they weren't there the last time I came in. It seems someone wiped them off?"

Xu Shu was a little confused. He entered the ancient temple and saw a monk sitting on the ground. It was Wuxin.

She was sitting cross-legged on the ground as usual, with one hand placed across her knees, the other hand supporting her chin, her body slightly tilted, like a sleeping arhat.

A strange round halo appeared a little in front of her forehead, showing a scene: in a hall, a blurry figure was pushing another snake-like monster in and out, beating it with a stick.

This picture is very vivid and perfectly illustrates what is meant by a "wake-up call".

Xu Shu was stunned. It took him a while to realize what the scene was talking about. He immediately covered his face and said:
"Oh my god, this is me!"

(End of this chapter)