There's a skull dungeon attached to my basement

Having experienced the first instance of courting death, the second naturally followed not long after. In the sewers, Xiao Yang wielded his shovel.

With a single strike, accompanied by a subtle tremor, an undefined change occurred.

Soon after, Xiao Yang identified the change.

In the sewers, before the dried-up pool where the red-eyed rats congregated.

Xiao Yang witnessed the spectacle that the Shovel of Freedom had wrought this time.

The red-eyed rats were already situated in the peripheral corners of this sewer area. According to the description in the letter left by Robert, the Black Stone Prison's sewers seemed to be directly connected to the Black Stone City's sewer system.

The red-eyed rats had infiltrated the Black Stone Prison's sewer system from Black Stone City's sewer system.

The original divider between the two systems was a thick iron gate.

The iron gate was located not far from the dried-up pool where the red-eyed rats gathered. During his previous exploration, Xiao Yang had even attempted to explore what lay behind the iron gate, but he had failed. At that time, the environment behind the iron gate simply did not exist for Xiao Yang.

Xiao Yang's arm could not even pass through the wide gaps between the iron bars.

But now, the Shovel of Freedom had shattered this non-existence.

A monster, no, a part of a monster, a massive, slimy tentacle with bizarre purple patterns on its outer skin, had smashed the rusty, decaying gate.

This tentacle filled the space of the iron gate, wildly flailing its form in the area.

After Xiao Yang left the area for a while, it was once again occupied by the red-eyed rats. It seemed that these red-eyed rats had attracted the arrival of the tentacle. In its chaotic flailing, the tentacle groped around and suddenly captured a giant red-eyed rat.

The tip of the massive purple tentacle viciously pierced into the red-eyed rat's body.

Amidst the red-eyed rat's sharp, terrified squeals, it only took about ten seconds for the giant red-eyed rat to be completely devoured by the tentacle, turning into an empty husk.

Such a bizarre scene was truly unsettling, but fortunately, Xiao Yang had witnessed such strange sights in this dungeon more than once or twice.

Casting a probing spell yielded nothing. A series of question marks appeared before Xiao Yang.

Xiao Yang didn't know where this giant tentacle monster came from, whether it was from the Black Stone City sewers, whose outline he had vaguely pieced together from fragmented words, or whether it was something whose part of its body had inadvertently manifested in this dungeon due to some misalignment.

If it was the former, it meant that after the incident in the Black Stone Prison, or even before it, regardless of the timeline.

The result was that Black Stone City had not escaped the contamination either.

If it was from an accident, that would be fine, merely proving the strangeness of the Shovel of Freedom.

But if this tentacle monster came from the Black Stone City sewers, then some questions and guesses had completely surfaced.

However, there was no time for Xiao Yang to think about these messy things. Now, Xiao Yang faced a more pressing problem: he seemed to have been targeted by this giant tentacle.

At that moment, the giant tentacle, now with an eye, made eye contact with Xiao Yang!

Facing this even more grotesque tentacle, there was no room for hesitation. What needed to be done now was simple: "Run!"

Xiao Yang began to sprint away without any hesitation, just like when he dug up the corpse mushroom from underground in the loot room. And coincidentally, both times he ran like this were because Xiao Yang had unearthed strange things with the Shovel of Freedom.

While running, Xiao Yang heard a sound behind him, like countless teeth grinding against each other. Was it an illusion?

This tentacle clearly didn't have a mouth.

"No! It's not an illusion!"

Turning his head while running, Xiao Yang saw a mouth open on the tentacle's eye.

Yes, a mouth had opened on the eyeball that had been squeezed out of the tentacle!

At the end of the tentacle, on the eyeball that had been squeezed out of the flesh, a mouth gaped open, its countless teeth stacked upon each other, terrifying and bizarre.

The strange sound Xiao Yang had heard came from the mouth that had opened on the eye.

The massive, grotesque tentacle was getting closer and closer to Xiao Yang. Xiao Yang realized that he couldn't outrun this tentacle.

Faced with this situation, simply running was definitely useless!

While running, Xiao Yang took off the Dragon Slayer shield he was carrying, abruptly stopped, and executed a beautiful backhand shield elbow strike. The Dragon Slayer shield slammed hard into the eye-mouth at the tip of the tentacle. The shove skill activated, and this strike caused the tentacle to feel pain and successfully interrupted the giant tentacle's movement.

"Come on! Monster! Taste this!"

Before he finished speaking, a fire grenade was thrown out by Xiao Yang, plastered all over the grotesque tentacle's eye-mouth and body.

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Flames rose up, and the giant tentacle writhed in pain, its pursuit halted.

Soon after, amidst the writhing form, the flames created by the fire grenade were extinguished by the tentacle, but when it was all over, Xiao Yang was nowhere to be seen.

Sprinting, passing through one corner after another, in a very short time Xiao Yang had traversed most of the sewer. Behind him, the giant tentacle, having recovered from the burning of the flames, was still in hot pursuit.

Whether it was because it had been elbowed and smoked, the eye that had emerged from the tip of this giant tentacle was terrifyingly red.

Xiao Yang finally stopped in front of an upward-leading rusty staircase. He nimbly climbed up the rusty staircase in leaps and bounds, his figure gradually fading and disappearing into the sewers. Soon after, the thick tentacle chased after him, but Xiao Yang had completely lost his trail and disappeared.

In the silent, empty sewers, only the bizarre, massive tentacle was left, wildly flailing its body.

… … … … .

Xiao Yang admitted that he had underestimated the Shovel of Freedom. This thing really could bring different surprises every time!

"You really are lively!"

Xiao Yang exclaimed.

For the time being, he couldn't go to the sewers, but another matter suddenly appeared in Xiao Yang's mind, a guess that urgently needed to be verified.

Although the Shovel of Freedom's effects were strangely excessive, it was also like the name of its advancement task, "Dig Everything." Every time the shovel landed, it could obtain some unknown information, and this information was very important.

Xiao Yang realized that he had always overlooked a very important thing, the answer to the question of why he was here.

Coming back to his senses in a daze, Xiao Yang had already returned to the second level of the Skeleton Dungeon. Pushing open the red coffin, Xiao Yang left the narrow cave while pondering, until he discovered the drastically changed scenery before him.

Bricks, stones, underground cracks that had been mostly filled in, bloodthirsty bats fluttering in the sky in terror, what appeared before him was a chaotic ruin.