Large drops of sweat dripped from Su Nuo's forehead.
He felt as if the entire temple was targeting him, and something malicious was approaching. He didn't dare to imagine what had happened to Qin Shuhe, who had disappeared from here.
"Have you found your lover?"
Lu Qiyou patted Su Nuo on the shoulder. Su Nuo seemed to snap back to reality, and the temple returned to its warm hues.
"It seems you haven't found her... well, sigh." Lu Qiyou's expression shifted, as if he had something to say but couldn't articulate it.
Su Nuo suddenly grabbed Lu Qiyou's shoulder and shook him violently. "You know where Shuhe is, don't you? Tell me if you do!"
Lu Qiyou pushed Su Nuo's hand away and said, "I don't know if I should tell you, but disappearances like this have happened more than once. Maybe the next one will happen to me..."
"There's a granary beneath the Gan Zhe Temple. Those monks never let us into the granary, but I happened to glimpse a staircase leading down inside once. And Master Dashan occasionally goes to the granary in the middle of the night..."
Su Nuo immediately wanted to rush over and investigate, but he stopped after taking two steps, looking warily at Lu Qiyou.
What was this person's motive for suddenly telling him about a secret room beneath the granary?
Come to think of it, Su Nuo had found Lu Qiyou suspicious since yesterday. Would a normal person be this enthusiastic?
Lu Qiyou raised his hands in an innocent gesture. "Don't mistake kindness for donkey liver and lungs. I'm not the only one who knows about this. I'm just afraid of this happening to me."
Su Nuo touched the back of his waist. His gun was still there. Even if Lu Qiyou had any ulterior motives, he couldn't cause much trouble.
"Take me to see it."
Led by Lu Qiyou, Su Nuo arrived at the underground granary. The granary door was locked with an iron chain. Lu Qiyou took out his long black horn and easily pried the lock open.
After entering the granary, they found the downward staircase. Su Nuo reached the end and discovered, to his shock, that it was a dungeon. And bound in the dungeon with iron chains was his girlfriend, Qin Shuhe!
Su Nuo immediately rushed forward, wanting to free Qin Shuhe, but the chains were incredibly strong. Without a key, he couldn't unlock them.
Moreover... it seemed he didn't need to.
Because he had tugged at the chains a little too forcefully, Qin Shuhe's head rolled off her neck...
...
"Pfft, I knew I hated these desolate places."
Wen Wen walked across the vast grassland, constantly grumbling.
Blue sky, white clouds, and grassland. It was breathtaking the first time he saw it, but seeing such scenery continuously became monotonous and boring.
Along the way, Wen Wen encountered two more monsters. One was a flying head, which Wen Wen kicked around for a few minutes before it self-destructed.
The other was a monster with over a dozen black horns. This monster was slightly stronger, but Wen Wen still dealt with it easily.
However, Wen Wen knew that he hadn't truly killed them. They would resurrect somewhere else in the Dim Realm. To resolve the dire situation in Qingji Plateau, they had to eliminate this vast Dim Realm.
But fortunately, the abilities of these monsters were not like Chu Wei's near-rule-based immortality.
If they were all as perverted as Chu Wei, the Hunter Association might as well surrender.
Thinking of Chu Wei...
Wen Wen looked strangely at a small village ahead. He had just sensed a familiar aura...
A figure in a black trench coat flew backward, crashing into the ground near Wen Wen, creating a large crater. Then, he sprang out alive and well, continuing to run towards the village.
That was Chu Wei!
Intense explosions and desperate pleas echoed from the village.
"Don't come near me!"
"Go away, just go!"
"I don't want to fight you anymore..."
Wen Wen curiously flew over and saw Chu Wei shamelessly pestering a giant woman nearly ten meters tall.
This woman wielded a massive battle axe and had a livid expression, clearly also an undead.
However, she was quite beautiful, wearing a white dress, with a well-proportioned figure and regular features. He wondered what race she belonged to before death.
First, let's exclude giants. No matter which subspecies of giants, none of them are good-looking. Being able to wrap some animal hides around their waists would already be considered decent.
This giantess was very powerful. A single swing of her axe would create fissures tens of meters long in the ground. A stomp could send Chu Wei flying hundreds of meters. Her strength was comparable to an Upper-tier being.
But this was meaningless to Chu Wei. Chu Wei continuously spewed foul language at the giantess, emitting a foul odor. Moreover, this odor didn't dissipate into the surroundings but condensed into a line, flying directly into the giantess's nostrils...
Wen Wen knew the power of the Bad Breath Capsule. When all the bad breath was concentrated at a single point, the effect was simply brutal.
Furthermore, every time the giantess touched Chu Wei, a piece of explosive was left on him. While the power of the explosive wasn't strong, the cumulative effect of repeated applications made the giantess increasingly annoyed.
Eventually, the giantess simply sat down, ignoring Chu Wei. Since neither of them could kill the other, it was better to just sit there.
Wen Wen took the opportunity to adjust his stance and spat.
"Damn it, does the inner world have safety shorts? Why would a corpse wear safety shorts!"
...
Su Nuo sat on the ground, his expression blank.
There were traces of thread on the fallen head, indicating that Qin Shuhe's head had already been severed before and was simply stitched back together with thread.
Lu Qiyou seemed greatly shaken and immediately ran upstairs.
A moment later, the other people temporarily staying in the temple also rushed over. Upon seeing the tragic scene, they were all too terrified to speak.
Su Nuo stood up, his eyes bloodshot, staring at everyone present, trying to find the killer among them. But he couldn't detect anything unusual on anyone.
Lu Qiyou swallowed and said, "Everyone, listen to me. This is a forbidden area of the temple, and we are not allowed to come here normally. Therefore, the killer cannot be among us. However, the monks within the temple would secretly come here. This must have been their doing."
"Two people have already disappeared inexplicably here. Who can guarantee that the next person to disappear, to be brought here and killed, won't be one of us?"
"Then what do you suggest we do? If we leave here, we might not live for more than a few days."
"It's very simple. We kill all the monks here, and then we occupy this temple ourselves. It's very sturdy and not afraid of monster attacks, and we have enough food..."