We're Already In Close Combat And You Still Say You're A Mage?

The hunter who returned to report left, and Xu Bai and others also left the bloody barrier.

Go to the passage leading to the underground city at the other end of the bloody barrier.

As for the unknown creature in the blood pool, with Xu Bai's current perception, he could not feel its specific shape. He could only vaguely feel that it was a huge sleeping consciousness that was absorbing the blood in the blood pool.

Although there is no replenishment, there is still nearly half of the blood in the blood pool.

Since Xu Bai quickly eliminated Marquis Cecil before, it did not cause much commotion.

Nor did it wake up the unknown creature sleeping in the blood pool.

Based on the current situation, Xu Bai estimated that it wouldn't wake up for a while.

Even so, its vague and terrifying aura still made "Big Hunter" Osler tremble with fear and break out in a cold sweat.

...

Soon, several people went deep into the passage leading underground.

After walking into the passage, several people discovered that there was a purple fluorescent moss growing in the passage, providing a faint light for the originally dark passage.

Therefore, in order to avoid exposing their position, everyone turned off the lighting equipment in their hands.

After walking a short distance, with the help of the weak fluorescence emitted by the moss, everyone saw many mutilated human corpses scattered in the passage.

These corpses should be the traces left by those civilians who were escorted up by the vampire guards for blood sacrifices. The bloody resistance along the way was met with bloody suppression by the vampire guards.

This also explains why Xu Bai saw at the blood sacrifice scene that groups of civilians were about to face death, but no one dared to resist.

There is no other reason. Those who dared to resist have long been used to scare the monkeys and were brutally killed.

The rest are weaklings.

Only after Xu Bai defeated the Marquise and the remaining vampires escaped, did they dare to untie each other and escape.

As for the hunters who were sacrificed by blood next to the blood pool, they were different from the civilians. They were killed directly during the execution of their missions, and were not escorted up from the underground city by the vampires.

...

The group of people continued to walk forward for some distance, and a fork in the road appeared in front of them.

There are three intersections on this fork in the road.

"I'll take the one on the far left, and you can choose the rest."

Xu Bai said to the others.

Soon, the teams were assigned.

In addition to Xu Bai, Osler and several hunters from the Hunter Guild were in a team, and the walkers were in another team.

Of course, several people also agreed that if the fork in the road was blocked, they would return along the road and wait for others here.

If others have not returned after half an hour, return to the ground first and seek help.

After allocating the team, Xu Bai walked straight into the leftmost fork in the road with Breaking Evil in hand.

"Tick tock, tick tock~"

This fork in the road is still covered with moss that emits purple fluorescence. The faint sound of running water can be heard in the distance, and the moisture in the air seems to be a bit heavier.

Continuing to walk forward for a while, Xu Bai found that some strange shapes began to appear on the surrounding stone walls.

Most of these strange shapes are covered in glowing moss.

Xu Bai cleared away the glowing moss covering the strange shapes, and the strange shapes on the stone wall revealed their true appearance.

That's a mural.

With the help of the faint fluorescence emitted by other luminous moss around the mural, Xu Bai looked at the mural carefully.

I saw that this mural was divided into three areas. Xu Bai looked at it for a moment and found that there was no obvious connection between the three murals.

I don’t know why the artist put them together.

And the contents of these three murals made him confused.

The theme of the first mural is a huge mountain. At the foot of the mountain is a large pattern of kneeling human figures, which should represent humans or vampires.

The perspective continues upward, halfway up the mountain, and you can see some patterns representing clouds painted around.

There are still no problems here.

Then, the perspective came to the mountain peak.

On the top of the mountain, the painter painted tentacle-like patterns, twisted and intertwined, filling the entire mountain.

Then, the angle of view was raised again, and a sun pattern occupying nearly half of the first area appeared in Xu Bai's eyes.

Perhaps fearing that the expression would not be clear, the painter also drew many radial lines on the sun pattern.

This sun is the weirdest place.

In Xu Bai's opinion, in the first mural, whether it was the crowd of people worshiping at the foot of the mountain, the clouds halfway up the mountain, or the twisted tentacles that covered the entire mountain, none of these appeared in Silent Night Star. I feel strange.

Only the huge sun that occupies most of the first area is the most incredible thing about this painting.

If Xu Bai remembered correctly, the side of Silent Night Star facing the sun had already turned into a sea of ​​magma due to tidal locking.

It's impossible for life to survive there, let alone go to the Land of Twilight and leave murals behind.

It can even be said that humans and vampires on Silent Night Star can only see the setting sun at dusk in their lives, and they cannot see the scorching sun hanging high above their heads like noon.

This is the weirdest part of the first mural.

Let’s look at the second mural.

The second mural shows an isolated island hanging in the ocean.

The artist painted wavy lines around the island to represent the ocean.

The landform on the island is divided into 4 areas from left to right.

The first area on the left is a beach without any vegetation. There are some ripples painted on the beach, which should represent the waves washing up on the beach.

Moving the perspective to the right, the beach gradually disappears and is replaced by a forest full of trees.

It can be seen from the mural that the trees in the forest are full of abundant fruits.

Continuing to the right of this forest, there is a primitive settlement built with straw huts.

Human figures are painted on the settlement.

However, unlike the humanoid patterns in the first mural, the humanoid patterns in the second mural hold weapons in their hands and are killing each other.

The perspective continued to move to the right, leaving the settlement where the war was breaking out, and came to a wilderness.

There are 16 human-shaped patterns on the wilderness, all in a twisted posture with legs recurved and arms folded back, forming a circle. I don’t know what they are doing.

The angle of view is raised, and there are many small dots dotted above the island, which should represent the stars.

That’s all there is to the second mural.

Compared with the first mural, the second mural has more unreasonable elements.

On the Silent Night Star, the only place that can have liquid water is where Xu Bai is currently located, in the twilight land that surrounds the entire planet in a ring.

As for the stars on the mural, I am afraid that only the Vampires would have seen them on the glacier behind Silent Night Star that has not melted for thousands of years.

But that is a glacier, not an ocean, and there are no islands.

This is the weird part about the second mural.

Let’s look at the third mural.

In the picture, a huge palace outlined with simple lines comes into view.

The palace is wrapped in a huge spherical pattern.

There is a small opening above the spherical pattern, and a human-shaped pattern pokes out from it.

The perspective returns to the palace.

The front of the palace is filled with humanoid figures, one of which is obviously a few circles larger than the other humanoid figures next to it.

It should be that the painter made him taller than other humanoids to show the noble status of this humanoid.

In the mural, these humanoid figures all raise their heads in unison, holding weapons in their hands, looking up at the humanoid figure above that pokes its head out of the opening of the circular pattern surrounding the palace.

In Xu Bai's opinion, the third mural was the only normal mural, but when placed together with the other two murals, Xu Bai was a little confused.

Xu Bai opened the personal terminal on his arm, used the personal terminal to record the pattern of the mural, held the spear, and continued to delve deeper into this branch of the road.