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Before coming here, Xiuge had no idea that the rats appeared in this way.

After the initial "eruption", these countless deformed rats began to scramble out of the stone statue's mouth. In the process, Xiuge saw that the mouth of the humanoid stone statue seemed to open wider. The rats that kept crawling out seemed not satisfied with such a small exit at all. Under their "squeezing", the stone statue of Ludwig Ernst opened its mouth to the limit, almost to the point where the jaw was about to be completely detached. Facial point.

At this moment, Xiuge had no time to think about what was going on, because the behavior patterns of these new rats were fundamentally different from those he had encountered before. They did not combine as Xiuge expected. The human form attacked him and Wei Lin, but maintained the most primitive and most ferocious predatory posture, crushing towards the two of them like a tide.

The "Rain and Snow Needle" summoned by Wei Lin has danced into a huge blue ribbon around her. Wherever the blue light is covered, cold white frost begins to appear, and those who try to The speed of the black mice that crossed these hoarfrost boundaries was severely slowed down.

However, coldness and stiffness cannot hinder the progress of these rats. They don't mind using their own kind as stepping stones. The tendrils that make up their hind legs are constantly swinging, allowing them to step forward quickly on their own kind.

"Gotta get out!"

Shuge looked at the large group of rats that were completely integrated into the dark room, frowned and made a judgment. The Touch of Charron with sharp joints emerged from his side and the palm of his left hand. The extremely fierce posture swept through the rat group, easily creating a large gap in the black rat tide.

Wei Lin reacted quickly, and the second "Rain and Snow Needle" was summoned by her, so the shining and sharp long ice crystal needle was nailed directly into the open space under her control, and the large white area was Frost bloomed in the room, pushing away, freezing, and shattering countless mice trying to fill in the room.

The two of them rushed out of Room 203 along this temporary passage. When they were about to leave the room, Shuge quickly waved his hand, and a touch of Charron immediately hooked the heavy metal door and pulled it away. Bring it on hard.

"Bang!"

With a dull loud noise, the swarms of rats that emerged from the stone statues were isolated by thick metal doors. They seemed unwilling to let their prey leave, so they still persisted in using their teeth and sharpeners to kill their prey. The claws gnawed and rubbed against the metal door.

After more than ten seconds, probably because he realized that his actions were meaningless, the group of rats behind the door finally slowly dispersed, and the disturbing friction sound finally stopped.

The magic ribbon that had cleaned up countless mice for Wei Lin was wrapped around her hand again, but compared to the beginning, the "Rain and Snow Needle" magic had obviously become a lot dimmer. Now it looks like It really looks like an ordinary ribbon.

"call……"

Wei Lin breathed a long sigh of relief, but the pale color on her face did not fade away: "Mr. Shuge, it seems that there is a big deviation in your description of these magical creatures... But from this point of view, The preparations you made are correct, large-scale fire magic is indeed the best way to deal with these rats."

"The changes just now are indeed very different from my previous estimates, but... they are consistent with another situation."

"What?"

"Miss Weilin, do you remember the girl who lives in room 519 that I mentioned to you before?"

Wei Lin raised her eyebrows: "Of course, you said you rescued her from the bathtub, right?"

There was nothing wrong with this sentence in itself, but Xiuge felt that Weilin's focus on this matter was a little subtle.

But at this moment, it was obviously not suitable to talk about those things, so Shuge said bluntly: "From beginning to end, no real 'murder' occurred in the entire Manor Hotel, and all damage to hotel members was controlled. To the extent that it can be barely accepted, although the scene caused by those humanoid figures made of rats is indeed very terrifying, the real damage caused is not even as good as the three 'Flashing Fire' pages that you threw out, Miss Weilin. "

"continue."

"But the lady in room 519 was bitten by a rat and was seriously injured. This is the first time those magical creatures have shown their true nature as rats!"

Seeing that Wei Lin did not show any strange expressions, but was listening to her statement carefully, Xiuge continued: "I stick to my original judgment. There is a consciousness behind these mice that can control them, and the consciousness of The behavioral habits and ways of thinking are similar to humans, but the problem is that these consciousnesses are not stable in controlling the rats, or not all rats are under control!"

"I can understand what you mean."

Wei Lin nodded: "Mr. Shuge, if you didn't lie about your previous encounters, then your statements and deductions should be generally correct, otherwise I wouldn't have rashly followed you here..."

She glanced at Room 203 next to her and said: "Thoughtful deductions and bold guesses are of course necessary, but don't forget that we are facing magical creations and rituals, so we need to add this aspect of thinking. "

"If your guess about the ancestors of the Ernst family is true, then the trouble we face here is likely to be greater than expected!"

Wei Lin raised her chin towards Room 203: "Suppose there is a human statue in every closed room here, and each statue has some kind of evil spirit that we cannot understand that is used to summon rats. If you use magic and rituals, the number of potential rats in these underground floors will be far beyond our imagination, not to mention that you have encountered some enemies outside of the rats here before."

As if in response to Wei Lin's words, the moment her voice fell, the running rat on the other side of the corridor suddenly sent a warning signal - someone was heading toward the two of them from the other side of the corridor. The location is close.

In the sight of the running rat, two waiters, a man and a woman, were walking along the corridor. They all wore dark masks on their faces. Although they were walking very fast, there was almost no sound of footsteps, as if they were two people walking in the corridor. A ghost drifting through the corridor.

After receiving the instruction to repair his condition, Snitch quickly ran up the wall. He nimbly jumped onto the stand of an old magic lamp and peered into the entire corridor from top to bottom.

The destination of the two waiters was very clear. They did not make any stop during the march, and just continued to approach the location where Xiuge and the two were.

"Someone is coming."

Shuge reminded in a low voice while lifting up the revolver rifle that he had put away before. He constructed four magic bullets as quickly as possible and quickly filled them into the bullet chamber.

"There is no place to hide. Let's try to catch someone alive."

Wei Lin's voice came, and before Shuge could respond, the two waiters wearing black masks had already turned around from another corridor. However, they were like magic statues without emotion and thinking ability. Even though they were facing the muzzle of the revolver rifle and Wei Lin holding the magic book in her hand, they still did not slow down and rushed towards the two of them.

In this case, Shuge took the lead and pulled the trigger.

The gunshot that should have shaken the entire underground floor was successfully blocked by the soundproof magic attached to the revolver rifle in advance. The magic bullet dragged a clear trace in the dim light, and it easily crossed the entire corridor. And accurately hit the male waiter's chest.

Blood splashed out with the explosion of the magic bullet. Xiuge saw a huge tragic gap in the chest of the male waiter, but his movements did not stop. With his body already severely injured, he Instead, his speed accelerated again, from brisk walking to trotting.

At this time, Wei Lin also started casting spells.

The waitress she was facing was the one they identified as being "captured alive" through simple communication, so she did not use overly violent magic. Facing the two silent enemies who were approaching, Weilin used her skills to The remaining "Rain and Snow Needle" jumped out, and this extremely dim magical light fell lightly to the ground under the control of Weilin's will and quietly exploded. Large swaths of cold white frost continued to spread along the ground, covering most of the The corridors are covered.

At this moment, the male waiter who was first shot by Shuge had already shown his "inhuman" side.

His body that had been severely damaged by magic bullets began to heal and reorganize at an extremely exaggerated speed. Under the light of the ancient magic lamp, the new skin that was originally hidden under the uniform actually grew a gray-black color similar to that of rats. His body began to hunched forward, and sharp claws appeared on the fingers of his hands.

Just like those patients infected by the "Wolf Plague" in the legend, this waiter's body is rapidly transforming in the direction of a beast.

"Sure enough...these waiters are no longer normal humans."

Shuge recalled the last time he used Snitch to detect the situation. He remembered that at the end, the waiter was lying on the door frame like a rat, snooping...

Seeing that the enemy had entered the range of Bai Shuang, Xiuge didn't know exactly what kind of magic Wei Lin would use, but he couldn't let go of the shooting opportunity anyway, so the experience of using firearms that did not belong to him and Skill was on display again.

Although he couldn't hear the sound of the revolving rifle in his hand, he could feel the vibration of those precise metal structures as they collided with each other.

Pull the lever, rotate the wheel, reset, aim, pull the trigger...

With the high reflexes provided by magic, Shuge started shooting continuously at an astonishing speed.

Perhaps knowing that Shuge's attack could cause fatal damage to him, the male waiter, whose figure had begun to transform into a rat, began to dodge with his own instincts and reactions, so the second magic bullet grazed him His cheek flew past, and the violent impact left a ferocious scratch on the dark, thin metal mask.

At this moment, Xiuge's spirit had entered a state of high concentration. He was like a shooting machine without emotion. When the second shot missed, he once again pulled the metal lever and turned the cylinder of the bullet. At the same time, he took aim again.

The third and fourth bullets were both original metal bullets.

One shot missed, and the other barely hit the target's shoulder.

White steam with heat pours out as the cylinder rotates, and the revolver resets for the fifth time, this time with magic bullets.

A magic book page was held between Wei Lin's fingers. She pressed the page against the wall beside her. As the magic book page trembled violently, the white frost that had previously covered the corridor turned into ashes in the blink of an eye. Large expanses of icy water.

She opened her mouth slightly, and an obscure and mysterious ancient syllable was whispered by her.

As if given life, the water flowing on the floor of the corridor began to tremble violently, and then one after another, cold ice spikes condensed by the water quickly formed, as if they were piercing out from under the surface of the water. The sharp blades and sharp knives penetrated the bodies and limbs of the two waiters from different angles.

The male waiter whose body was severely alienated didn't seem to care much about this level of damage. He twisted his body hard and swung his arms, trying to break the ice blades that pierced him. However, at this moment, a shadow jumped out from behind. , caught off guard, the three powerful and flexible long tails of the running rat had wrapped around the head of the male waiter like a noose, and pulled his head back forcefully, forcing him to expose his defenseless neck. .

"puff!"

This time, the magic bullet finally hit its target accurately.

Accompanied by a small-scale magic explosion, the male waiter's neck was blown off on the spot, so the headless body that had fully moved towards the rat struggled wildly twice, and then slumped forward, hanging. On top of the ice blades summoned by Wei Lin.

Next to the headless body, the waitress' condition was even worse.

Although Weilin did not want to kill her target on the spot, she did not show any mercy. After witnessing the inhuman physical characteristics of these waiters, she immediately injected more into her magic. With the magic power, a huge number of ice knives poured out. They were like the cruelest instruments of torture, pinning the waitress's mutated body to death in the center of the corridor.

The mage's hand appeared in front of the struggling waitress, and following Wei Lin's gesture, the mage's hand gently took off her dark mask.

Then Shuge saw a face that seemed familiar.

If he recognized it correctly, the waitress with a severely distorted face, green eyes, and some gray-black hair growing on her skin was the young girl with whom he had a chance encounter before.