Chapter 133 The Unlucky Old Bat

Frankly speaking, Vivian was more than happy to "help" Lily in this situation. This was a rare opportunity to blatantly kick the other party while they were down. Since the idiot werewolf had taken the initiative to ask, the vampire girl certainly didn't hold back. Knowing that her strength was inferior to the werewolf's, she even took a running start of more than thirty meters – that kick went out like a roaring wind, truly a leg severing the air, the sound like tearing silk. Hao Ren, watching from the side, felt a chill down his spine.

After Lily finally got up, of course, the two of them started tearing at each other.

"That pit is so deep, and it's like a vertical shaft, how can you jump a parabola!" Lily's focus was clearly a bit off.

"When you jump to the edge of the hole, can't you borrow strength from the side to push off? Even if you can't react in time, you can slightly adjust the angle when you take off, right! Acting like an idiot all day long, I feel ashamed to live under the same roof with you!" Vivian's focus wasn't much better.

"Can you two be quiet for a moment?!" In the end, Hao Ren waved his authority as a landlord (actually, he didn't have much authority, he just pointed at the two superwomen and tried to reason), and a loud shout finally brought the two girls' attention back to the matter at hand. "This matter isn't resolved yet – what about the pile of tin cans below? What about the malfunctioning seals and runes in the underground palace? More importantly: what about this stone?"

Hao Ren pointed to the Demon Stone that Lily had casually thrown aside. This one-meter-long black crystal was still flashing red light, slowly and steadily, just like when it had first "awakened." Relying on his thick nerves and strong backing, Hao Ren cautiously stepped forward and tapped the thing a few times. He found that it wasn't as cold as ordinary rocks. It had a temperature, and it was constantly vibrating slightly. When he put his ear close, he could even hear a series of sounds like hoarse whispers coming from the crystal. This Demon Stone was like a restless tuning fork, giving the feeling that it was constantly releasing some information – but no one knew how to stop it.

Hao Ren initially felt that he should make a decisive decision and escape immediately. This was in line with his consistent "safety first" philosophy, but when he voiced this idea, Vivian told him that demons were creatures extremely adept at spreading their power through mediums. The moment the Demon Stone began to pulse, everyone who had been illuminated by the red light had already been "marked" by it. The Demon Stone's owner had the ability to track down everyone who had been near the stone, so running away was useless – it might even arouse the demon's interest in hunting.

"When you are targeted by a demon, there are only two choices," Vivian solemnly reminded Hao Ren (and Lily, who was also half-baked), "Either hope that the demon is not interested in you, or face him head-on. There is no third way. Those guys will spread their power everywhere, and very few people can slip away under a demon's nose."

Regardless of what demons looked like in novels and television, the "genuine demons" that Vivian knew were indeed like this.

So Hao Ren could only bite the bullet and stay next to the stone, watching Vivian, the old… professional who had dealt with demons before, to see if she had any way to interrupt the connection between the stone and the demon.

"If the other party is a low-level demon, my blood can cover the stone's aura, and after the stone's aura is blocked, the undead guards in the underground palace should also quiet down, at least they will become easier to deal with," Vivian had already circled the Demon Stone several times, and now she was looking hesitant. "But if it is a high-level demon, doing so will not only fail to block the signal, but will also let the stone's owner know that there is 'fun' here – those battle maniacs like to fight with people the most, but there are very few creatures that can beat them. High-level bloodlines happen to be their target for provocation: evenly matched, able to fight for a long time."

Lily circled around awkwardly beside her: "You're just saying indirectly that you're also very powerful."

"Now is not the time to joke," Vivian glared at Lily, "What do you know, little girl who hasn't even grown all her fur? Getting entangled with demons is definitely not a good thing. They are one-track-minded and will hunt their targets to the death. I hate fighting – I don't know why, but I just hate fighting and killing. No one wants to have contact with those lunatics."

Hao Ren then glanced at Lily: "Why are you walking like that?"

Lily pitifully transformed her tail, and a third of the fur on it had fallen off, and the whole shape was a bit crooked: "It was hit by the stone just now – looks like it will hurt for a few days."

Hao Ren looked up at the sky: Being hit by dozens of tons of granite ceiling, and only losing a little fur and breaking a little skin, what's there to be dissatisfied with?

"Whatever, let's try it and see," Vivian seemed to have finally made up her mind. She looked up at the sky, "The moon is about to set, I have to take advantage of the fact that I can still borrow its power to deal with this stone. If it takes too long, even the most sluggish demon should react – big dog, you guard next to me. I feel that there are many undead spirits approaching the surface. They may be coming for the stone, help me block them."

Lily responded with a confident smile: "Okay! Just block them, right?"

Vivian nodded, and didn't speak anymore. She just stood quietly a few meters away from the Demon Stone, her hands slightly open, and wisps of blood-red mist began to spread from her body.

And almost at the same time, Lily heard the familiar clattering sound approaching.

Those undead guards were still underground, but they were about to reach the surface.

This underground palace originally had a very strict sealing system, and key places such as the demon chamber and the knight's tomb were actually hidden. The hotel owner Angus had never discovered these amazing secrets buried deep underground in his earlier years. He only walked around a few shallow tunnels, and didn't actually damage or touch the layout of the underground palace – however, hundreds of years had passed, and time itself was enough to destroy the seals of this underground palace. Everything in the past few days had just reached the critical point.

A large number of Leta runes had become ineffective, the confinement of the demon chamber had weakened, and the large number of paranormal enthusiasts gathered around the castle, their blind groping and messing around had also become the last straw that broke the underground palace's back: the Demon Stone had just moved slightly, activating the underground palace's defense mechanism, awakening those sleeping guards, and triggering everything today.

As for the scene where the Demon Stone fell to the ground and its red light flared up, that was just the development from slight activity to full awakening. In fact, that thing had already started to feel uneasy before Hao Ren and others entered the underground palace, otherwise how could Angus have been blocked by the suddenly appearing rune wall?

Originally, there were mechanisms in the underground palace to deal with this situation: when the demon chamber was touched and the undead guards couldn't control the situation, all the entrances and exits of the entire underground palace would be blocked by huge enchanted rocks, both suppressing the demons and preventing those empty armors that were essentially wraiths from running out and harming others. But unfortunately, these settings had been disintegrated by time, and now all the passages leading to the surface from the entire underground palace were wide open, and those undead knights were coming to the ground in formations.

Clatter, clatter...

The familiar sound of armor colliding suddenly became clear. Under the moonlight, the first suit of armor suddenly appeared on a collapsed stone pillar not far away!

Lily was already prepared. The brute force girl held two super-huge granite blocks, each half a meter wide and more than one meter long, with an excited look on her face. Seeing the first armor pop up, she directly greeted it with a stone: "Although I don't know why the bricks here are so big... but my Pegasus Meteor Brick is compatible with all rectangular ammunition!"

The multi-ton granite boulder burst out a sound of tearing through the air, and then slammed into the first armor that appeared with a bang. Immediately, there was only flat ground left in that place – no matter how strong the armor's resurrection ability was, it was definitely impossible to stand up this time.

No longer worrying about the environment of the underground palace, and with an inexhaustible supply of "ammunition" at hand, Brick Superman Lily felt that she was already invincible. She firmly believed that she would use the super-huge bricks that were everywhere in this castle to flatten every tin can that appeared in front of her – thinking of this, Lily felt a little excited, so while the moon hadn't completely set, she quickly opened her throat and howled at the moon: This was her signature move, she had to howl when she felt that she was already invincible.

And just as Lily's howl startled Hao Ren, something even more startling happened:

The ritual that Vivian was performing not far away suddenly went out of control. The Demon Stone suddenly burst out with an unprecedented red light, and a heart-wrenching voice rumbled from above the three's heads:

"##￥%￥#￥@￥%#@?"

Oh, demonic language, didn't understand.

Hao Ren knew at that moment that Vivian's bad luck, which she had never been able to get rid of in her entire life, had once again performed a miraculous feat...