Hunter × Hunter: The Seven Deadly Sins

"This is the fifth floor."

Yin Lumi stood at the entrance to the fifth floor, looking at the deep and quiet dark cave entrance. They followed the traces of two people with unknown abilities from the fourth floor to the fifth floor.

"Buzz buzz..."

Twelve drones took off to investigate the depths of the cave.

After leaving the high temperature and humidity environment of the fourth floor, the drone can be used again.

After the drone went in for reconnaissance, the holographic map unfolded and was improved as the drone went deeper.

Yin Lumi entered the fifth floor, leading Lai Li and Albert team members to move forward slowly in the quiet darkness.

"Peng...Peng..."

Each exoskeleton stepped on the ground, making heavy footsteps that echoed in the darkness.

While walking, Yin Lumi was cautious.

Although the surroundings were silent, he always felt like something was peering at them in the darkness.

Under the influence of Yin Lumi, the group went deep into the cave with great vigilance and did not make any unnecessary noise.

The drone reconnaissance video was in the upper left corner of Yin Lumi's field of vision. While paying attention to the drone's reconnaissance, he gradually spread the circle.

"Zizzi..."

Suddenly, the drone reconnaissance video in the upper left corner of the field of vision emitted a faint sound of electricity, and the video turned into darkness.

Yin Lumi paused, and with a thought in his heart, he called up the reconnaissance videos of the other eleven drones, but they were all pitch black.

Twelve drones were attacked at the same time and stopped operating.

"The infrared detectors don't work. Could it be another creature like the one on the third floor?"

Lai Li's voice was a little heavy, and there was no warning at all. Even the drone's AI didn't find anything unusual before it was attacked.

Moreover, twelve drones were attacked at the same time.

"Sir, do you still want to send out drones?"

one of the Albert team members asked.

"No, let's move forward on the current map first." Yin Lumi ordered: "When we reach the edge of the map, we will send out drones to investigate."

Twelve drones were attacked at the same time. In this case, drones cannot be sent out at will. He didn't know how deep and deep the fifth floor was, but they didn't have many drones left and they had to use them with caution.

"continue."

Yin Lumi ordered the team to continue moving forward, and he activated the circle to spread around.

But even if he spread his circle to the maximum, he didn't find any creatures or abnormalities.

"rustle……"

Suddenly, there was a slight "rustling" sound from the front, as if something was stirring the sand.

Yin Lumi stopped and frowned, because he did not sense the presence of any creature in front of him.

Yin Lumi and his party stood there and waited for a while, but there was no movement in front of them.

"Peng..."

Three minutes later, because there was still no movement in front of him, Yin Lumi took a tentative step forward.

"..."

There was silence, nothing happened.

Yin Lumi made a forward gesture, and the group of people opened their legs again and moved forward cautiously.

Soon, they saw a natural corridor. On the right side of the corridor was an unfathomable abyss, and on the left were the walls of huge caves.

The hole in the wall was in the shape of an oval with very smooth edges. Yin Lumi speculated that it should be caused by long-term friction when something enters and exits these caves.

"There are definitely creatures in these caves."

Yin Lumi thought to himself. He walked to the first cave and looked up. The height of this wall hole was 5.54 meters and the width was 3.44 meters, which was enough for a large beast to pass by.

Looking inside the hole in the wall, it was also pitch black, but Yin Lumi could see clearly that there was nothing inside.

Exit the cave and move on.

"Shasha...shasha..."

Suddenly, when Yin Lumi and his group were passing one of the caves, the subtle "rustling" sound sounded again, causing Yin Lumi to stop in his tracks.

"Hush, rest, rest..."

A large amount of black threads shot out from under his feet, turning into twelve black wolves and rushing into the wall hole in front.

Yin Lumi activated the shared vision and saw the situation inside the wall hole through the vision of the mind beasts. The wall hole was very shallow. Walking four or five meters inside, you will make a 60° turn. When you came out, you had already arrived at the entrance of another wall hole.

"Weird."

Yin Lumi put away the Nian Beast. Although he was suspicious, since he found nothing, he had no choice but to move on.

"Peng...Peng..."

With heavy footsteps, Yin Lumi led a group of people through the cave.

Yin Lumi walked at the front of the team, with Lai Li and Team Albert following behind him.

However, when Yin Lumi passed through one of the caves, a sudden change occurred.

"Uh-huh!"

There was a sound of breaking through the air, and a giant pale snake appeared out of thin air in the hole in the wall. Its huge head rushed out of the cave and crashed into Yin Lumi and his party.

"blow!"

Immediately, Yin Lumi jumped up ten meters, avoiding the impact of the giant snake, and hit the wall directly above his head.

As for Team Albert, Lai Li and others below, they were not as quick as Yin Lumi and were hit by a giant pale snake that appeared out of thin air from the cave.

"careful!"

Lai Li exclaimed and immediately deployed her energy shield. Twelve Albert team members also turned on their energy shields.

"Uh-huh!"

But a strange scene happened. When the giant pale snake hit them, it passed directly through them, like a projection, without entity.

"Huhuhu..."

A gust of wind howled in the darkness, and after passing through their bodies, the giant pale snake fell into the dark abyss outside the corridor and disappeared without a trace.

"Peng!"

Yin Lumi, who was hanging on the wall above his head, released his fingers inserted into the wall and landed smoothly on the corridor floor.

"How's it going?" Yin Lumi walked towards Lai Li and asked, "The giant snake just now seemed to have no body. How did you feel?"

"Feel?"

"I just feel like I'm..."

Lai Li crossed her arms across her chest and opened her mouth to respond to Yin Lumi's inquiry, but in the middle of her words, she suddenly lost her voice.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Yin Lumi looked at Lai Li. Lai Li was gesticulating something at this time. It seemed that she was still talking, but Yin Lumi couldn't hear anything.

"Lai Li? Is the exoskeleton malfunctioning or..."

Looking at Lai Li who was still talking, Yin Lumi walked up to Lai Li and asked with a frown.

"Forget it, let others tell you how they feel."

Yin Lumi turned his gaze to the Albert team members behind Lai Li, but as soon as he turned his gaze, he noticed something unusual.

Of the twelve Albert players, only ten Albert players remained.

Moreover, the bodies of these remaining Albert players are slowly becoming transparent.

"Come on Li!"

Yin Lumi's eyes returned to Lai Li and reached out to grab Lai Li's shoulder.

When Lai Li saw Yin Lumi's movements, she tilted her head to the left, as if she was wondering what Yin Lumi was going to do.

But she didn't dodge, and stood there waiting for Yin Lumi to put his palm on her shoulder.

"Uh-huh!"

But Yin Lumi's grasp was in vain, and his arm went directly through Lai Li's body, as if Lai Li was just a projection and did not exist.

"Eh~!"

Yin Lumi vaguely heard Lai Li making a startled sound.

Lai Li, whose body was already translucent, looked down at the right hand that had penetrated her body, and then her hands panicked around her body to make sure she still existed.

Fortunately, she could still touch herself, so she breathed a sigh of relief and looked up.

"Lai Li..."

Yin Lumi looked at Lai Li, who was becoming more and more transparent, and her heart was extremely solemn. When Lai Li made sure that she was still there and raised her head, she had completely disappeared from Yin Lumi's sight.

－－－－－－Digression－－－－－

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