Chapter 17 17. On-hook upgrade?
With his thick Death Apostle's arms in front of him, Su Hong walked sideways through the wooden storage rack, and with the help of the flashlight's light, through the broken wooden door, he finally got a clear view of the disaster monster.
Sticky spider silk fell all over the floor, and under the light, the spider silk reflected a pale luster.
On the edge of the corridor in front of the cellar door, a decaying skeleton with glowing eyes was bound and wrapped in spider silk. It could not move and could only stare at them.
The rotten soldiers wore tattered armor and clothes that could not hide their rotten and withered flesh, and their pale bones were exposed from inside.
"What kind of monster is this..." Wang Chengzhi was shocked and felt a little sick, as if a dried corpse that had been buried for many years came back to life and crawled out.
Xu Yanrui breathed a sigh of relief, "It seems like it can't move."
Su Hong was thoughtful and tore off a piece of extremely tough spider silk.
Obviously, there have been spider monsters more terrifying than the rotten soldiers here.
He glanced back at the three of them. Wang Chengzhi and Lu Haifeng, whose ability to eliminate disasters was unknown and strange, fell on Xu Yanrui.
"Yanrui, come here and use your ghoul hands to twist off its neck."
He wanted to test his inner conjecture, whether the controllers of these disaster items could become more powerful by killing disaster monsters like him.
Xu Yanrui paused, but did not refuse. The fleshy sprouts on her shoulders grew spirally and stretched, and a skinny ghoul arm condensed. Wang Chengzhi was startled, "Yan...Sister Yanrui, you also have a monster arm?" "
He had clearly seen the same monster arm on Su Hong, but in comparison, Xu Yanrui's monster arm was as thin as wood and looked weak.
"So the three of us were specifically chosen."
"Yanrui has monster arms, so what do I have?" Wang Chengzhi had an expectant expression on his face.
Su Hong glanced at him and said nothing. Wang Chengzhi's disaster ability is indeed terrifying, but the mysterious black shadow can only be awakened after the body is completely dead, that is, after the death of himself.
There is no distinction between friend and foe.
If you really encounter a monster that you can't beat, just release the mysterious black shadow to increase the disaster potential.
"I'm on it."
Xu Yanrui stepped forward nervously. The corpse's hand was on the rotten soldier's neck. She couldn't bear to turn her head away and her arms were so strong.
The rotten flesh and blood instantly dented and turned into powder and debris, falling downwards.
The rotten soldier made a hoarse sound from his throat, twisted his neck, and the light in his eyes gradually dimmed.
Xu Yanrui stood there with doubts in her eyes. For a moment, she seemed to feel a breath seeping into her body through the ghoul's arm. She couldn't tell whether it was good or bad, but she felt a little stronger.
After telling Su Hong his feelings in detail, Su Hong confirmed one thing - the controller of the disaster item can indeed absorb the disaster aura from the disaster monster and grow, but this efficiency seems to be a bit low.
A disaster level 2 monster only gave her a slight improvement.
"Follow me."
Su Hong walked up the dry stone stairs. Skeletons and broken wood were scattered everywhere along the way. It could be seen that a fierce war had occurred here.
He kicked away the dry bones and picked up a rotten iron sword from the side. As soon as he picked it up, dense cracks spread across the blade, and the blade fell into pieces and fell to the ground.
"Brother Su Hong, what do you think this is?"
Shining the flashlight into the darkness ahead, a spacious corridor appeared in front of them. The worn-out flag of the Knights was hung on the wall. It had long faded after years of wind and frost. In the corner, the spider silk covered the dim light and could be vaguely seen. To a few clusters of yellow mushrooms.
These mushrooms attract their attention like night lights.
Su Hong walked forward, squatted down, picked a yellow mushroom and put it in the palm of his hand.
"Yellow mushroom (normal + material): non-toxic. Raw food can restore physical strength. It can be cooked with other ingredients to make wonderful dishes, or prepared into alchemy potions." "Good stuff." Su Hong uprooted the yellow mushroom and put it away. In the pocket at the waist.
"Chengzhi, take Yanrui and Zhifeng to explore the rooms on both sides of the corridor. I'll go deep into the end of the corridor and take a look. If there's anything wrong, call me loudly."
"Okay." Wang Chengzhi readily agreed.
Su Hong separated from the three people, moved towards the depths of darkness, and gradually disappeared from everyone's sight.
Going a few hundred meters deeper into the corridor, the entire dungeon was much more spacious than he had imagined. There were no less than a hundred rooms, and there were a lot more yellow mushrooms growing in the cracks of the stone bricks.
A rotten soldier was lying on the ground disguised as a corpse. As Su Hong passed by, it opened its rotten mouth, dragged its iron sword, and staggered towards him to attack.
Without turning his head, the Death Apostle's hand expanded, and with a violent slap, the rotten soldiers smashed against the wall and scattered into a pile of parts.
"You defeated the rotten soldiers and gained experience."
"You have gained 'Disaster Potential'*2."
"The Decaying Soldier has been added to the illustrated book and can be viewed at any time."
Su Hong continued to walk forward and clicked on the illustrated book. A rotten soldier stood crookedly in the dark corridor, with a dim light in his eyes, as if he was about to slash at him with an iron sword at any time.
"The guard soldiers stationed in the prison city are from the ordinary regiment of the Protz family. After the disaster came to this land, the soldiers fell into decay and became an immortal disaster."
"Rotten Soldier Message 1: Warden Protz's eldest son has been contaminated by disaster. Many people say that a prisoner escaped from the prison. Is this true?"
"Dead Soldier Message 2: Someone defected again today. Is there really any point in us staying here?"
"Decadent Soldier Message 3: Ferona...I may not be able to go back..."
Su Hong had seen the name of the Protz family more than once.
The cursed corpse was from the Protz family, and seemed to be the eldest son of the family who was tainted by the disaster as mentioned by the rotten soldiers.
According to intelligence, the Protz family controls the entire prison city, and the family lord is the highest-level warden.
Is it possible that the source of the disaster and pollution erupted from the Protz family?
After sorting out the information collected so far, Su Hong continued to move forward.
At the end of the corridor, there was a spiral staircase in front of him. After going up, the scene suddenly opened up, and he seemed to have entered a conference room.
The flags around the hall were dim and faded, the torches were extinguished and covered with spider silk. There were forty-five seats on the rotten long table, most of which had collapsed to the ground with the corrosion of time.
The flashlight light shone over, and several corpses lying on the ground were gathered by mysterious forces. They used broken iron swords to support their bodies and stood up.
Su Hong's attention was not on these monsters. He could feel a faint breeze blowing, and the exit was right in front.
He took a few steps forward and brought the rotten soldiers within the attack range of his dead hands. He swept his arms and the soldiers flew out, hitting the stone pillars and scattered into a pile of bones.
However, Su Hong's figure suddenly paused. He seemed to have seen something strange and froze in place.
A message popped up on the simulation game panel.
"With the contribution of the unknown disaster, the love of the gifted admirer has been automatically upgraded."
Automatic upgrade?
Is there such an operation?
(End of chapter)