Chapter 686 Unexpected Situations

Although Nangong had a pile of genuine goods, he was still just a mortal. This was evident from his fighting style: he couldn't fly or move mountains, and he even had to dodge small stones falling on his head. Seeing this, Hao Ren's confidence soared. He went up and knocked down the good-for-nothing half-baked demon hunter with a brick.

He used his data terminal.

"This thing finally works for once!" Hao Ren looked at Nangong, who had fallen straight to the ground. He looked at the hexagonal metal block, which was about the shape of an ashtray, with satisfaction. He thought that after countless unpleasant user experiences, he had finally discovered the one thing this thing was good for. But the data terminal clearly didn't think so—it then spent five minutes scolding Hao Ren in his mind. Hao Ren thought he should find out where the mute function was in advance.

"Problem solved, let's move out!" Hao Ren flicked his head smartly. Vivian and Lily immediately transformed and began to bombard the undead armors that were gradually breaking free of the rune control. They instantly cleared a large area of undead that had been approaching them. But just as everything was finally going according to plan, something eye-twitching happened: another rope suddenly dropped from the large hole in the top of the hall!

That skinny Indian monk hadn't left either, and he was descending from the sky at this critical moment just like Nangong!

Hao Ren looked at the two superwomen who were rampaging, and then looked at Nangong, who was already lying on the ground. He gritted his teeth and stamped his foot, feeling that he should show a man's decisiveness at this time. So, while the skinny monk was still adjusting to the dim environment of the underground palace, he rushed up in a few steps. The data terminal's scream resounded in his mind at this moment: "You, stop immediately! This usage is questionable…"

"Bang!"

The Indian monk, who also seemed to have "some skill" like Nangong, was also just a mortal. He took a brick to the back of his head and passed out on the spot—the unlucky guy had just slid down the rope and hadn't even had time to touch the ground before he was lying there.

Hao Ren helped the unconscious skinny old man to the side, feeling quite guilty. He apologized to the old man, who was wearing a strange robe and smelling of spices, with a bitter face, "I'm sorry, the situation is special right now—it would be dangerous if you were awake."

"You're still being pretentious at this time?" Vivian spread her large wings and looked at Hao Ren with a strange expression.

"He's old, and I hit him in the back of the head with a brick, so I have to apologize."

Vivian suddenly blurted out, "...I haven't seen you being so respectful to me usually."

Hao Ren: "..."

Without the interference of outsiders, and in a relatively open space with moonlight shining down from above, Vivian and Lily were finally able to unleash their full power. Under the sweep of a violent meat grinder and a perpetual motion polar storm, hundreds of tin cans were soon lying on the ground. However, more than half of these tin cans were not completely "dead." These steel warriors possessed a vitality far beyond human imagination. Even if they were smashed into a pile of parts, they could quickly recover as long as they were not completely pulverized. So soon the hall was filled with the "clattering" sound of metal armor fragments rolling around. Countless severed limbs were rolling on the ground and reassembling into suits of armor. Both the sound and the scene made people's hair stand on end. But Hao Ren's nerves were already able to accept this kind of scene. He just felt that fighting like this was not a good idea: these armors were too vital. It wasn't that they couldn't be killed, but being revived immediately after being killed was a headache. Vivian's polar storm also needed a buffer period, and constantly releasing cold air had already lowered the overall temperature of the hall to a dangerous level. Hao Ren was very worried that he would freeze to death before these armors were completely frozen—or that Nangong and the Indian monk would freeze to death first.

He still had to move the battlefield to a wider place—or just run away.

"Let's find a way to get up there quickly," Hao Ren looked up at the large hole above. "We'll figure out a way after we get up there. I don't know how many armors are here. Fighting them underground is a waste of energy."

"Okay!" Lily didn't know where she had found another unlucky undead armor to slaughter. Hearing Hao Ren's words, she was the first to run back. The werewolf girl had long been fed up with this gloomy and cramped space. After waving the "warhammer" in her hand to sweep away a group of enemies, she prepared to break through upwards. But Hao Ren first gathered the two unlucky guys lying on the ground together: "We have to take them up too."

"Two people… plus you, that's not easy to carry," Vivian frowned. Then she suddenly saw the two ropes hanging down from the top of the hole. She flew up and cut the ropes from above, bringing them back to Hao Ren. "Tie these two together. I'll pull them up first. You and Big Dog wait behind—Big Dog, can you get up there yourself?"

Lily looked up at the large hole that reached the ground and nodded confidently: "I can jump right up!"

Hao Ren was amazed by the werewolf girl's jumping ability. Then he quickly tied Nangong and the skinny old man together. Vivian flapped her wings and flew up with the two people.

In a short while, Vivian flew back into the hole: "It's done. I left them where those paranormal enthusiasts were camping before. You hit them hard enough that they won't wake up for a while."

"Then let's prepare to go up," Hao Ren nodded. But he suddenly remembered something and pointed to the black crystal that was half-buried in the rubble not far away. "What about this thing… how do we deal with it?"

The demon stone that had caused all the trouble was still lying quietly in the center of the hall. After falling from a high altitude and being hit by rocks for a long time, it didn't even have a crack. Hao Ren was sure that the demon stone had "awakened," because it had clearly been impacted when it fell from the roof. Its tip had been flashing with an unsettling red light since the moment it landed, and the undead guards in the underground palace had lost control because of the demon stone's leaked power. But other than that, the demon stone had not caused any major disturbances, nor had it summoned a demon as Vivian had said. So while everyone was fighting, everyone subconsciously ignored the thing.

But now they couldn't ignore it anymore: the demon stone was constantly flashing, which meant that it would definitely not stay here peacefully. And it had a huge impact on the undead in the underground palace. No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't let it continue to stay here.

At least it had to be moved to the ground, away from the surrounding undead—anyway, the seal of the underground palace was broken, so there was no point in continuing to put it in the demon chamber.

Vivian frowned when she saw the demon stone, but she also knew that she couldn't ignore it. So she turned to Lily: "Big Dog, you carry this up. I'll take the landlord up."

Lily was startled: "Why me… hey, that's cheating!"

Before the werewolf girl could finish speaking, Vivian had grabbed Hao Ren's arm and flew out of the hole.

"Huff… it feels good to breathe fresh air," Hao Ren immediately breathed a sigh of relief as soon as he returned to the ground. Then he sat down on the ground with a thud. Although it was said that his "salary had been paid," he was still in the initial stage of physical enhancement. He would get tired, sore, and cramped. At this time, he didn't even have the strength to stand up. "I'll catch my breath first. Tonight has been a real pit…"

"Why hasn't Big Dog come up yet?" After a few seconds, Vivian looked at the quiet hole dozens of meters away and wondered, "Could there be a problem?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Lily shout "Hey-yah!" from the hole. Then a silver-white figure jumped straight up from the hole like a cannonball. Lily was holding the red-glowing demon stone in her arms, jumping several meters above the ground and shouting triumphantly in mid-air, "I told you, I can jump right up!"

Hao Ren and Vivian silently watched Lily jump out of the hole, and then fall straight back along the same path...

Next, Lily started jumping up and down: "Can someone help me…"

"Kick me from the side…"

"Otherwise I won't land outside!"

It took three tries to finish speaking.

Vivian stepped forward and kicked her into the air: "You idiot! Is it going to kill you to jump in a parabola?!"

(First place on Sanjiang, keep up the good work, there are only two days left!)