Tiehuan also received Lucheng's order to join the team.
After that, Noy acted as a guide and led the team into the depths of the church.
This corridor gave people a creepy feeling. The ground was paved with uneven stones, and the two sides of the corridor were inlaid with stones emitting orange-yellow light.
The visibility was still sufficient, so Lu Cheng did not turn on the flashlight to illuminate the surrounding situation.
A smell of decay poured into Lu Cheng's sense of smell from all directions of the corridor.
It was the smell of blood, and an indescribable stench of decay.
"Noi, wait."
Lu Cheng reached out and grabbed the shoulder of the little girl in front of him. There was a vague figure less than a hundred meters in front of Nuoyi.
Feng Kite immediately turned on the flashlight and shone the strong light on the figure.
The surrounding darkness was dispelled and a body was lying on the wall of the corridor.
"They are also victims here. The blood crystal beast broke into the church and killed everyone."
Nuoyi wrote this passage in his notebook and showed it to Lu Cheng.
"The kind of monster that's covered in scarlet liquid?"
Following the light of Feng Kite's flashlight, Lu Cheng saw several bodies lying deep in the corridor, as well as some remains that had turned into skeletons.
The ground was littered with traces of swords and burns, reminding people that a great battle had taken place in the corridor of Lucheng.
The team carefully advanced to the side of the first body, and Illustrated immediately walked up to the body and examined its condition.
"The body has begun to rot. The body must have died at least half a month ago." The pictorial made a cursory inspection of the body's symptoms. "The neck has been torn, and the spine is completely broken."
"Like being bitten by a giant wolf and thrown around for several rounds?"
Lu Cheng remembered the giant scarlet wolf he met not long ago.
"I would rather believe it was a creature like a bear," said the illustrated magazine.
"Why can't it be a gorilla?" Feng Kite added, but no one responded to him this time.
"Okay... Nuoyi, are they all people you know?" Lu Cheng asked Nuoyi.
The attire on those corpses was the same as Noyi's, and they should all be the clergy of the God of Souls.
Judging from the situation at the scene, they had a skirmish with those blood crystal beasts.
'My friend and the one who taught me.'
Noi wrote this line in his notebook.
"I can only express my condolences for what happened, but Noyi, is it really okay for you to see this?"
Lu Cheng didn't know how to express it at this time. The dead bodies in the corridor looked very miserable. This was not a scene that a little girl under fourteen years old should see.
'It's okay, I've already cried.'
Noi wrote another line in her notebook, and then she cautiously led the team deeper into the corridor.
Lu Cheng looked at her back with mixed feelings. He really couldn't imagine how this little girl could persist in such an... environment.
No, she didn't hold on. If Lu Cheng hadn't arrived, she might have died of suicide long ago.
Lu Cheng drove these messy thoughts out of his mind. At the end of the corridor was a door that was so big that it shouldn't be here.
The door took up the entire space in the corridor, and its structure appeared to be made of wood... and underneath the door were piled up more human corpses and the skeletons of twisted creatures.
"They seem to be protecting something behind the door." Tiehuan, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said.
Lu Cheng watched Nuoyi walk to the huge wooden door.
Her thin arms were unable to push the wooden door open, but the 'inscription' on the skin of her left hand glowed dimly.
The same light appeared on the wooden door, and a large amount of complex words appeared on the wooden door and then slowly faded away.
"This is…"
The iron ring was witnessing for the first time a force in this world that could not be explained by science.
"Magic and superpowers, we'll study them later. I feel like we're about to open a new copy." Lu Cheng said.
The door slowly opened without anyone pushing it, and behind the door was a room that was too small for its size.
The floor of the room was made of a special kind of soil, and in the center was a fluorescent crystal.
'A fragment of a leyline crystal.'
Nuoyi turned to the first few pages of the notebook and pointed to the line of words he had written before to Lu Cheng again.
Lu Cheng followed her in and slowly came to the crystal.
This crystal is only as tall as a human calf, and has diamond-shaped spikes, as if some precious mineral would appear if you knock on it a few times with a manuscript.
The surface of the crystal overflowed with light like fireflies.
The moment Lu Cheng approached, all the light poured into the holy crystal on the back of Lu Cheng's hand.
And Noyi walked directly to the earth vein crystal and held both sides of the earth vein crystal with his small hands, as if he was going to pull it out of the ground like pulling a carrot.
But her weak strength was simply unable to do this, and she ended up falling to the ground.
"Let me give it a try."
Lu Cheng walked forward and touched the glowing earth vein crystal with his hand. The moment he touched it... the light from the earth vein crystal directly poured into the back of Lu Cheng's hand.
This swarm lasted less than three seconds, and the light quickly dissipated.
The energy from the earth vein crystal planted in the soil was directly transferred to the holy crystal on the back of Lu Cheng's hand.
Lu Cheng also successfully "pulled" the earth vein crystal out of the soil.
"Captain, are you okay?" Feng Kite asked.
"It's okay, Noyi, do you know of any other places with this kind of leyline crystals?"
The feeling of Lu Cheng now... a more accurate description is that his MP has recovered a little, only from 1% to 3%.
But the portal constructed is large enough for about fifteen people to travel back and forth.
Unfortunately, this amount of energy is far from enough. Expanding the territory in this world is not a problem that can be solved by one or two people multiplied by ten.
Moreover, there seems to be a threat like blood crystal beast in this world. Lu Cheng doesn't want to suffer from the fear of insufficient firepower when a fight breaks out.
"I know the way to the capital of Skarre."
Noi told Lu Cheng the next clue in his notebook.
"Captain, what did she write in the notebook?" asked Feng Kite.
"We need to go to the main cities in this country to obtain more of these crystals. These crystals can be used to replenish the energy of the portal." Lu Cheng replied.
"To explore this kind of crystal, we need professionals. Captain, I suggest we contact the research institute." Tiehuan also seems to be a professional in this field.
"Then my suggestion is... to have lunch or dinner first, and make regular contact at the same time."
While speaking, Lu Cheng glanced at Nuoyi who was holding a notebook.
From the beginning, Lucheng could hear a "cooing" sound. It was not the cry of any birds, nor was it a strange sound made by a ghost.
But this girl Nuoyi might have not eaten for three days and was really hungry.
"Orders: temporarily stationed in the outer buildings of the church. I need to organize the intelligence I have obtained so far."
Lu Cheng glanced at the tactical watch on his wrist and saw that the time was almost four o'clock in the afternoon.
There is a certain time difference between this world and the Earth, and whether a day is twenty-four hours is also a question, but this does not prevent Lu Cheng from having dinner first.
ps: It’s a new day again…I’d like to ask for some recommendations and support as usual.