Chapter 385, The Hell of the Ox Pit]
After leaving Boiling Oil Hell, Xiao Lou carefully calculated that they had already completed half of the Eighteen Levels of Hell. At present, each "hellish chamber" had a certain level of difficulty, but it was not impossible to handle.
Whether Hell Path is the correct exit can only be determined by traversing the entire path as quickly as possible.
A strong feeling of hunger struck again, and Xiao Lou turned to his teammates and asked, "Are you hungry?"
Lu Jiuchuan frowned and said, "According to the time flow of the Hell Path, hasn't another day passed for us?"
They had just eaten something recently, though it was just chocolate, biscuits, and instant noodles, so there was no reason for them to be hungry so soon. Xiao Lou deduced that " Hell Path time was compressed"; they had been here for an hour, but it had actually been a whole day.
However, card skills do not follow the time flow of Hell Path. Many card skills only refresh their cooldown once every 24 hours. For a card, the time spent entering the tomb is only 3 hours.
The supply pack can only be opened once every 24 hours, and it's still cooling down.
They don't even have cookies to eat now.
The hunger in her stomach grew stronger and stronger. Xiao Lou took out the two packs of milk she hadn't finished earlier and handed one to Yu Hanjiang.
Lu Jiuchuan and Lao Mo only drank mineral water, not milk.
A single carton of milk wouldn't even be enough to fill a tooth gap, but given the limited resources available, everyone had to make do. The easiest situation was for Tang Ci and Liu Qiao; because their bodies had shrunk, a small sip of milk was enough to satisfy their hunger.
Tang Ci said, "Xiao Liu and I didn't use our supply packs just now, so why don't we take out our stock and share it?"
Lu Jiuchuan offered a different opinion: "You two should save your cards for now. What if the remaining secret rooms take a long time? We might get hungry halfway through and then have nothing to eat."
Xiao Lou added, "Let's make do with milk for now and hurry up and finish Hell Path."
Eating all the food at once is too risky. Keeping Tang Ci and Liu Qiao's food cards in their possession provides at least some protection.
The group walked quickly forward while drinking milk, and within a few minutes, another hellish chamber appeared before them.
The Hell of the Ox Pit.
This is a hell for the sake of livestock. It is said that anyone who abused livestock in life and built their own happiness on the suffering of animals will be sent to the "Cattle Pit Hell" after death, where their roles will be reversed and they will be abused by the animals.
The giant pit, the size of a football field, was filled with rabid cows. If an ordinary person fell into this cow pit hell, they would be gored by sharp horns and trampled by countless hooves, their internal organs would be shattered, and they would suffer a fate worse than death.
Xiao Lou thought for a moment and asked Lao Mo, "Are there enough wooden planks left?"
The terrain of Boiling Oil Hell is also a large pit. If you have enough planks, you can build a bridge in the air to cross it, just like you would in Boiling Oil Hell. After all, the mad bulls only crash around in the pit and don't fly into the air to hit you.
Old Mo said with a wry smile, "We've almost used up our supplies at Boiling Oil Hell. This cattle pit is too big; we can't build a plank bridge across it."
Xiao Lou carefully observed the mad cows in the pit. These cows were twice the size of real cows. If they stepped on you or gored you, your internal organs would probably be crushed.
Moreover, the mad bulls' charging paths are chaotic and unpredictable, making it impossible to avoid them by following their routes.
There are two ways to get past the bull pit: one is to fly over it from the air, and the other is to use control skills.
If it's flying in the air, he has to draw a Compass, and Old Mo doesn't have enough wooden boards, which takes too much time.
As for control...
Most of the team's control cards are in Ye Qi's hands. If Ye Qi were there, he could easily use large-scale music control such as piano stillness and guitar slumber, and these crazy bulls would immediately behave. Unfortunately, Ye Qi was assigned to the same group as Senior Gui.
Xiao Lou could only pin his hopes on Lu Jiuchuan: "Brother Jiu, isn't your Ice Sword supposed to freeze living things? Can it freeze these cows?"
Lu Jiuchuan said, "Of course, but the range freeze time of my sword is only 3 seconds."
Yu Hanjiang said calmly, "Three seconds is enough. You can use the Lightness Skill for this level."
The two brothers exchanged a glance and immediately began to act.
Lu Jiuchuan took the lead, sweeping his sharp Ice Sword horizontally, instantly freezing the mad bulls across the entire football field into ice sculptures. He shouted, "Run!" and then stepped over the ice sculptures, rushing quickly to the other side of the bull pit.
Yu Hanjiang casually put his arm around Xiao Lou's waist and used the ice sculpture as a foothold to fly through the air.
In three seconds, they narrowly escaped by flying over the frozen cattle. Looking back, the mad cows had already awakened and were mooing in their direction. If they had been even a fraction slower and fallen into the ditch, they would have been trampled into mincemeat.
Still shaken, the group continued running forward. After only a few steps, another secret room appeared before them—
Stone Press Hell.
Xiao Lou whispered a warning: "This is the Stone Press Hell. There might be falling rocks inside, so everyone be careful."
They had just entered the secret room when the door behind them suddenly slammed shut—
Before they could see a steep slope about 2 meters wide, a huge spherical rock suddenly rolled down the slope towards them from the top.
When a spherical stone goes downhill, it rolls faster and faster!
The boulder almost completely filled the entire area.
There was only one passage, and they had no way to avoid it.
With their escape route blocked and the massive boulder closing in, if they didn't find a way to get through quickly, the boulder would roll over and crush them all into mincemeat.
Everyone quickly retreated.
Seeing that the boulder was only 5 meters away from them, Xiao Lou had a sudden inspiration and summoned Li Qingzhao.
Lu Jiuchuan saw a beautiful woman from ancient times appear beside him, and then a soft voice sounded in his ear. She held a book and began to recite poetry: "Searching and searching, so cold and lonely, so sad and miserable..."
Lu Jiuchuan: "???"
They suddenly appear at a crucial moment to recite poetry? Their team's style is getting weirder and weirder.
As Li Qingzhao uttered the first word, the stone's downward speed suddenly slowed down, as if it were a slow-motion replay in a movie.
It was only then that everyone realized that the spherical stone did not actually completely fill the entire space.
After all, the uphill section is a cuboid, with a passage 2 meters wide and 2 meters high. Spherical stones can only fill the horizontal and vertical spaces, leaving a gap in the four corners.
This is similar to putting a ball into a cube of similar size, leaving gaps at the four corners.
Just now, because the stones rolled down so fast, it looked like they filled the entire space and were about to roll over and crush them, which made everyone feel tense.
Now that the rolling boulder has been slowed down by Li Qingzhao's " Skill ", everyone has naturally discovered the secret behind it.
Lu Jiuchuan understood: "Squeeze through the corner?"
Xiao Lou nodded: "Yes, Li Qingzhao's slow-motion control time is limited, everyone crawl over from the corner!"
The boulder, forced into slow motion, rolled down like a snail, covering less than 10 centimeters per second—a speed practically indistinguishable from being completely still. A gap in the corner was just large enough for one person to crawl through, and the group immediately split into two groups, quickly squeezing through the gap from the left and right.
Li Qingzhao quickly finished reciting the poem "Skill," and the boulder broke free of control. When everyone turned around, they saw it rolling rapidly down the slope and crashing into the wall with a loud "boom!"
If Xiao Lou hadn't used a card to control the situation in slow motion at the crucial moment, everyone would have been smashed into mincemeat by the boulder.
Xiao Lou breathed a slight sigh of relief and said, "Continue."
The next secret chamber is the Hell of Skinning.
The entire room was covered with peeled human skin, countless lifelike faces hanging in the air, giving everyone goosebumps. Those faces seemed to follow them consciously, even drifting right up to them to terrify them at close range.
Suddenly, I saw a strange face so close to me, and the other person didn't even have a body...
The scene, resembling something out of a horror movie, made Lu Jiuchuan exclaim, "Damn! So many ghost faces!"
Xiao Lou guessed, "These are all human skins peeled off people. Everyone be careful not to touch them."
The eerie expressions on the faces filled the entire secret room with resentment.
Some faces were wide with terror; some were covered in blood; some had eyes filled with malice…
Xiao Lou felt a chill run down his spine from the various expressions on the faces. He closed his eyes to calm himself down and looked at Tang Ci, saying, "Mr. Tang, shall we try their attack methods?"
Tang Ci sent a drone to investigate.
As soon as the drone flew into the secret chamber, a human face, as if it really liked it, quickly smeared itself all over its body.
Everyone: "..."
Lu Jiuchuan, suppressing his nausea, asked, "Will these people smear their faces on our faces? Does that mean that if someone puts skin on our faces, our faces will be peeled off too?"
The Hell of Skinning is a form of punishment where a person's entire skin is forcibly peeled off.
If they are not careful when entering this secret chamber, they will also suffer the pain of being skinned alive.
The room was filled with floating human faces, making it difficult to find a way to avoid them. To make matters worse, many of their card skills, which they had used to clear the other hellish chambers, were now on cooldown.
Xiao Lou thought about everyone's existing cards...
By the way, Old Mo's spatial rotation!
He noticed that after Tang Ci sent out the drones, the faces moved their eyes when they got close to them. This meant that the faces in the Skinning Hell relied on their eyes to determine the target's location. They had already used Invisibility Cloak, and the skill was on cooldown. Another card that could confuse vision was Old Mo's Space Rotation card.
Upon hearing Xiao Lou's words, Mo Xuemin immediately took out [Rotating Space].
The faces of the people inside the room suddenly flipped 180 degrees after being affected by the card.
In this way, they are essentially "upside down".
When a person is upside down, it is difficult to quickly locate a target within their field of vision. Although the sight of countless upside-down faces is still unsettling, it provides them with a brief moment to escape.
Xiao Lou hurriedly said, "Everyone, hurry up and be careful to avoid their attacks!"
The faces of the people in the secret room were upside down, and only their legs could be seen.
By the time they saw Xiao Lou and the others' faces, they had already rushed through half of the secret room. The faces tried to chase them, but due to the chaotic vision, it was difficult to lock onto their targets immediately. The six of them sped up and ran all the way out, escaping the strange face-filled secret room in less than 5 minutes.
Xiao Lou was still shaken.
After navigating this ancient tomb's secret chamber, he will never be afraid to look again.
It's a horror movie.
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