"Boom boom boom..."
It was unknown what mechanism was triggered when Group 1 arrived downstairs at Temple No. 2, but the entire staircase leading downstairs was illuminated red by the fire. Xia Qi placed his palm on the floor tile engraved with a sun pattern and found that the entire ground began to tremble.
Xia Qi swallowed back what he was about to say and pulled Xiao Ou towards the stairwell. When passing by the Holy Monster, Xia Qi unexpectedly discovered that the Holy Monster's expression had changed again.
She smiled sinisterly and looked at him mockingly.
Xia Qi turned his head and thought, forget it, there's no need to bother with a bronze monster.
"Shall we go down and take a look?" Xiao Ou looked down at the staircase emitting golden light, raised his legs eager to try, and pretended to walk downstairs.
“Wait!”
Xia Qi grabbed Xiao Ou and pulled him out of the range of the golden light, and said cautiously: "There is something strange about this golden light."
"Ah?" Xiao Ou was stunned for a moment.
Xia Qi looked carefully at the golden light at the stairs and found that the floating golden light was like a stream of water, flowing directly down along the stairs. He lowered his head and looked down, and saw a door at the end of the passage with "Ⅺ" written in Roman letters on the door.
This means that Temple 11 is below.
Temple 11
Judging from Temple No. 11 on the second floor, there are at least 10 temples on the first floor.
Xia Qi couldn't help but frown, thinking that the people in Group 1 were too impulsive. They had not yet explored the first floor of the temple thoroughly, but they went straight down to the second floor. Who knows what crucial clues they would miss.
"boom!"
The flames flashed again at the entrance of the passage, illuminating the stone door of Temple No. 11 at the bottom of the passage. Only then did Xia Qi discover that it was a group of people who pushed open the door.
Originally, there was a thin barrier behind the door, but the group encountered some strange monster, and the fire attack it released could not even be blocked by the barrier.
"Oh my god, what the hell is in there?!" Xiao Ou's legs and feet trembled and he took two steps back in fear.
Xia Qi couldn't help but be secretly frightened, because the golden light flowing from the stairs was too suspicious, he couldn't rush downstairs to see what the group of people encountered.
In order to verify the effect of the golden light, Xia Qi first took out a rope from the system backpack and then picked up a stone from the ground.
"Bang."
He threw a stone towards the stairs. With a few "bangs", the stone fell towards the stairs in the direction of the golden light and finally landed at the door of Temple No. 11.
Nothing happened.
"It's nothing. It seems you've thought too much." Xiao Ou said indifferently. Then, he picked up a stone and threw it at the ceiling of the passage.
Originally, the stone he threw should have landed near the entrance of the passage, but the stone bounced on the ceiling and twisted in one direction, heading straight for the entrance of Temple No. 11.
"Can this stone identify directions?" Xiao Ou couldn't help but look surprised.
Xia Qi thought for a moment, picked up another stone, tied the stone to the rope, then gathered the stones tied to the rope and threw them towards the entrance.
With a few "bangs, bangs", the stone pulled the rope and fell towards the entrance of the passage.
Originally, the rope in Xia Qi's hand was not that long, but for some reason, it seemed as if someone was pulling the rope on the other side, pulling the rope in his hand down hard.
"Bang."
The stone tied with a rope fell accurately at the entrance of Temple No. 11.
Xia Qi's face darkened. He pulled the rope in his hand and found that it didn't move at all.
Xiao Ou also noticed something was wrong, so he pulled the rope hard a few times. However, because he used too much strength, he accidentally broke the rope.
"This, this golden light on the passage..." Xiao Ou was so frightened that he waved his hands and said in doubt, "Fortunately, we didn't go down!"
Looking at the golden light flowing down the stairs, Xia Qi nodded silently.
"Help!" At this time, a cry came from the bottom of the stairs.
With a loud bang, the door of Temple No. 11 was suddenly pushed open by a group of people. A crossbowman ran out of the door, pulling the seriously injured female hunter. Judging from the direction of the two, they wanted to go back to the first floor from the stairs.
Xia Qi was startled and shouted at the two people below: "Don't come up!"
"Fuck, we are about to die, why don't they let us come up?" The crossbowman said to Xia Qi above in confusion.
At this moment, he was supporting the female hunter whose face was covered in blood. If the two of them were sprayed by the monster in Temple No. 11 again, they would be turned into ashes.
"There's something strange about this staircase!" Xia Qi spoke out to stop them.
He was now unsure whether they could come up, and whether something strange would happen when people came up from below.
"What did you say?" The female hunter originally wanted to go upstairs to heal her wounds, but she was stopped by Xia Qi before she even reached the stairs. She opened her slightly red eyes and angrily asked, "What do you mean? Are you afraid that we will bring danger up there?"
"You're crazy!" Xiao Ou found that he had developed a habit of arguing with crazy people. He jumped out with his hands on his hips and cursed at the female hunter, "Come on if you want. If you die, don't blame us for not warning you."
"You sissy, what do you mean?!" The female hunter took out her bow and arrow with trembling hands, apparently wanting to shoot a few arrows at Xiao Ou above.
Having just gone through two major battles, the female hunter had been targeted by two NPCs. Her SP value had dropped very low, and she was clearly showing signs of going crazy. As soon as Xiao Ou provoked her, she began to lose control of her emotions.
"Her SP value is too low, quickly replenish her with holy potion!" Xia Qi stopped Xiao Ou and said to the crossbowman below.
The crossbowman pressed the female hunter's bow and arrow and said, "Don't be impulsive, they are all our own people."
"Bah!" The female hunter pushed the crossbowman's shoulder away, raised her bow and arrow angrily, and strode up the stairs, "I'm going to shoot him to death today..."
The female hunter walked towards the stairs without hesitation. The moment her feet touched the golden light, a dark golden light flashed in her temple.
“Ahhh!”
Suddenly, her face changed, she raised her hands to cover her head, missed a step, and fell down the stairs.
sp-10
Occupation: Hunter
sp:8/100
I don’t know what was going on in the hunter’s mind. Judging from the numbers on her panel, she was directly deducted 10 sp points.
"Fuck, this staircase can be used for mental attacks!" Xiao Ou said in shock, pointing at the female hunter who fell down the stairs.
Xia Qi nodded and said, "She loses 10 points for every step she takes. If she takes 10 steps, she will lose 100 points. Even if she is a complete and mentally normal person, her SP value will become 0 if she takes a step like this... Be careful!"
The crossbowman strode forward, preparing to help up the female hunter who was lying on the ground with her limbs spread out. Unexpectedly, as he stretched out his hand, the female hunter suddenly raised her head and bit the crossbowman's right wrist with a "Ah Woo"!
"Let go!" Unexpectedly, the female hunter suddenly went crazy. The crossbowman was horrified and pushed her head against the wall.
"Drink, drink, drink..."
As the SP value had dropped below 10, the female hunter could no longer control herself and began to go crazy. She quickly got up from the ground and shot at the crossbowman with her bow.
"Run! Look for other rooms to see if there is a way up!" Xia Qi yelled at the crossbowman again, took out a bottle of holy potion from the system backpack and threw it at the crossbowman, "Don't let her SP value drop to 0, go on!"
The crossbowman rolled forward and caught the holy potion thrown by Xia Qi.
"Holy Son, thank you!" The crossbowman looked at Xia Qi gratefully. He didn't even bother to drink medicine to heal his wound. He covered his wrist and rushed into Temple No. 11.
The crossbowman had to run while dodging the crazy female hunter, and the two had already started chasing each other at the bottom of the passage.
Xia Qi shook his head, took a step back and said, "Group 1 is in trouble."
They had just verified that this staircase could only go down but not up. Fortunately, the crossbowman and the female hunter came out first, otherwise they would have brought the monster out of Room 11, and everyone in Group 1 would have died in this narrow passage.
However, even if a group of people did not bring the monster out, it would be difficult for them to survive, unless they managed to escape to another temple, and that temple could not have very powerful monsters.
Xiao Ou said with sympathy: "Let's... go first. If Group 1 is really defeated on the second floor, there will be nothing we can do."
Xia Qi sighed and said sullenly, "What I'm worried about is that when we get down to the second floor, we'll run into five evil gods."
The reason why he was willing to help Group 1 was because he was afraid that their SP values would all drop to 0, and they would eventually be possessed by the evil spirit.
Xiao Ou: “…” 5 evil gods, that sounds so scary.
However, they have no other choice at the moment, and the lives of Group 1 can only be controlled by themselves.
After a short rest, Xia Qi and Xiao Ou continued to explore Temple No. 2.
"By the way, what was the serious matter you wanted to tell me before?" Xiao Ou asked as they walked.
"Rather than calling it a serious matter, it's more like an emergency plan." Xia Qi suddenly stopped and waved to Xiao Ou, "Come here, I'll tell you."
After Xia Qi whispered his emergency plan to Xiao Ou, Xiao Ou widened his eyes and took two steps back: "Is this a big deal?"
"What else? Do you have any other ideas?" Xia Qi glanced at him indifferently.
"No, no." Xiao Ou shook his head and sighed helplessly.
In the room next to Temple No. 2, there is a door with the Roman numeral "3" written on it, which appears to be the entrance to Temple No. 3.
"Push the door open?" Xiao Ou held the door with his hand and swallowed nervously.
"Push it open and take a look." Xia Qi said.
He now realized that this was a multi-layered maze and he needed to grasp more clues before he could deduce how to crack it.
The two of them began to push the door nervously. After pushing the door open, they found that there were no monsters in Temple No. 3, but there was a silver box.
"Hahaha, there's another box! Our luck is so good!" Xiao Ou happily pounced on the silver box and used the sneak attack skills of a female thief to fish out 6 bottles of supplies.
After the two of them each received three bottles of supplies, Xiao Ou patted Xia Qi on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Brother Xia, I can win easily by following you. I can even drink the potion as a beverage."
Xia Qi said "hmm" indifferently, then looked towards the staircase of Temple No. 3.
As expected, staircase No. 3 also leads downwards to Temple No. 12.
"Going down?" Xiao Ou asked excitedly, looking at the staircase.
"Don't go down yet, let's take a look." Xia Qi replied calmly and stood up again.
After exploring Temple No. 3, Xia Qi took Xiao Ou through Temple No. 2 and returned to Temple No. 1.
"Which group just entered Temple No. 4?" Xia Qi suddenly asked after walking around in the spacious Temple No. 1 for a while, because he found that the door on the south side was Temple No. 4.
"Groups 2, 3, 4, and 5 have all entered Temple No. 4." Xiao Ou replied.
Xia Qi walked towards Temple No. 4. Just as he was about to push open the door, he suddenly discovered a dent on the ground near Door No. 4.
He walked towards the sunken area, probed with his toes, and found that it was hollow.
Xia Qi squatted down and touched the dented iron lid with his hand. He lifted the edge with force and said to Xiao Ou, "Xiao Ou, come and help me."
The two of them worked together to lift the iron cover and found that there was another staircase underneath!
Unlike the stairs leading down to Temple No. 2, the golden light in the passage at the entrance of this staircase actually flows upwards!
"Is the number below Temple No. 10?" Because the passage was too deep, Xia Qi looked for a long time but couldn't see the number on the door.
Xiao Ou squinted his eyes and looked for a long time. Because his head was sharper and his eyes were longer and narrower, he actually saw the number on the gate below earlier than Xia Qi.
"Yes, it's number 10!"
"Group 1 may be saved!" Xia Qi was immediately delighted. Group 1 had just entered Temple No. 11. If they could find a way to return to Temple No. 10, then they would be able to go up the stairs and have a chance to return to the safety of Temple No. 1.
Xia Qi quickly pulled Xiao Ou and rushed back to Room 2, shouting at the stairs going down, but he didn't know if Group 1 heard him or not.
After shouting for most of the day, the two were exhausted and returned to Temple No. 1, preparing to enter Temple No. 4.
Since Temple No. 4 had already been entered by the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th groups of people, the temple was in a mess, obviously having experienced a fierce battle.
The two had just taken a few steps forward when suddenly, a beam of light appeared in front of them, and a red bird's beak appeared in front of them, scaring Xiao Ou so much that he almost stumbled.
The plague doctor's gentle voice sounded in the darkness, and he said to Xia Qi: "Oh, it's you who are here."
Xia Qi greeted the plague doctor and found that everyone in Group 5 was resting in Temple No. 4.
"We have figured out the way to reach the third floor. Would you like to join us?" the plague doctor said very friendly.