Although Gu Xi had no idea what was happening behind him, he quickly ducked. A boom sounded from behind, and a massive stone swung down like a pendulum, smashing heavily into the Black Robe Cultists.
The boulder must have weighed several tons. No one knew how it had been swung up, but the Black Robe Cultists charging at the front were sent flying on impact, while more than a dozen were crushed to death on the spot.
Then another voice came from behind Gu Xi.
"Over here, this way!"
Gu Xi looked up and saw an emaciated young man poking his head out from nearby, waving frantically at him.
Gu Xi was rather curious. Just as he hesitated, he heard the Black Robe Cultists moving the massive stone behind him.
Without further thought, Gu Xi immediately ran toward the young man.
After only two steps, Gu Xi discovered that the young man was hiding in a passage behind a wall.
If he had not personally come out and waved, Gu Xi would never have noticed the passage existed.
Gu Xi quickly moved over. The young man grabbed his hand and dragged him into the passage.
As he was pulled along, Gu Xi noticed that the young man's arm was nothing but skin and bones. There were even several bite marks on it.
The young man did not react much. He led the way while pressing mechanisms embedded in the wall.
Though he did not look back, Gu Xi could hear the wall shifting behind him.
Unsure what was going on, Gu Xi could only stay alert and communicate secretly with Luna. If the young man tried anything, she would hit him hard.
They ran forward for more than thirty meters, turned several corners, and arrived in a small room of seven or eight square meters.
The moment he entered, Gu Xi found four or five other men and women inside. They were all rather thin and sat limply when Gu Xi and the young man entered.
Yet Gu Xi could see fury and killing intent in their eyes.
Looking more carefully at the way they were sitting, Gu Xi could not help but let out a surprised sound.
"You're..."
"That's right. We were in the cells next to yours. My name is Jack, Little Flea Jack. When you escaped, you tossed the key to us along the way."
Seeing that Gu Xi had noticed the situation, the young man who had brought him here explained.
"So it was you. It's good that you escaped, but why didn't you leave?"
Seeing that they were fellow sufferers who had also been inexplicably captured, Gu Xi relaxed halfway, though he still looked at them in surprise.
From what he had seen on the way here, there was no way a small room like this had been dug out by them.
If they truly possessed such skill with mechanisms, they would not have needed to wait for Gu Xi to act. They would have escaped hundreds of years ago.
"Oh, those who wanted to leave have already escaped. The few of us stayed because we know a secret. Sir, you're a professional, aren't you?"
Jack looked at Gu Xi mysteriously.
"Yes, a Necromancer."
As Gu Xi said this, Luna poked her face out from behind him.
Her hollow gaze startled everyone present.
Fortunately, Jack reacted quickly. He hurriedly said, "Sir, sir, please don't. We don't mean you any harm. I'm the one who kept these people here. We know a secret about this place.
That is also why those people captured us."
Gu Xi's gaze sharpened at those words. He had been imprisoned here for so long and had nearly failed to complete his Becoming a Necromancer. He had remembered that grievance all along.
After successfully becoming one, he had not left immediately because he wanted to find a chance for revenge.
Now that he had heard such news, Gu Xi grew excited.
"What reason?"
"Those people discovered the Mirror Dungeon. We are sacrifices meant to open the Mirror Gate."
As Jack spoke, he looked smugly at Gu Xi, wanting to see shock in his eyes.
But Gu Xi truly knew nothing about the Mirror Dungeon or anything like it.
He had come to this world solely to become a Necromancer.
Based on his previous experience, all he needed to do was select a suitable undead from a graveyard and make it his Contract Undead to complete his advancement.
Then he could leave this world directly.
Why would he seriously read up on all the background information of this world?
Everything Jack said was like winking at a blind man. Gu Xi had no idea how important the information in Jack's words was.
Seeing no reaction from Gu Xi, Jack assumed Gu Xi did not think much of the information, so he had no choice but to explain further.
"Sir, it's like this. When I was first locked up, there was an architect imprisoned in the cell beside mine.
Even after being locked here, he refused to give up and wanted to escape.
He even planned to dig a tunnel. I helped him a little back then, but he made far too much noise and was quickly beaten seriously injured by those people.
If I hadn't given him water now and then, he might have died even sooner.
Later, he told me that while digging the tunnel, he found some unusual bricks. Based on his judgment, this place should be the legendary Mirror Dungeon."
When he mentioned the Mirror Dungeon, Jack deliberately stressed the words.
But Gu Xi really did not understand any of this. He directly asked, "What is so special about the Mirror Dungeon?"
Jack heard that and realized some things truly could not be explained.
Gu Xi genuinely did not know.
So Jack and the others began explaining the Mirror Dungeon to Gu Xi.
It turned out that the Mirror Dungeon was a legend of Victoria City.
About three hundred years ago, when Victoria City still belonged to the Stuart Dynasty, James I sacrificed the entire city of Victoria City to an unknown existence in order to obtain the throne.
However, after ascending the throne, he became unwilling to give Victoria City away, so he came up with a solution.
Using Victoria Tower, the core of Victoria City, as the starting point, he created an identical copy of Victoria City at a one-to-one scale.
He then offered this Fake City to the unknown existence and used a mirror method to exile both that existence and the Fake City into a Different Dimension.
After that, the Fake City became the backdrop for Victoria City's ghost story legends.
Among all the true and false legends, the only certain thing was that the sole way to enter the exiled Fake City was through a building directly opposite Victoria Tower.
That was the Mirror Dungeon that no one had ever discovered.
Those Black Robe Cultists were believers of that Unknown Bigshot. Their sole purpose in capturing Gu Xi and the others was to open the passage from the Mirror Dungeon to the Fake City and release the Bigshot they worshipped.
The book has been uploaded with ten thousand words. Please follow and recommend it!
Before you continue