After a while...
This is it.
Bang!
A dull thud echoed in the dark corridor.
With a thunderous thud from [The Destroyer]' s steel-like fist, a hole the size of a watermelon was Fist Cannon.
A beam of light shone into the dark room, startling the group who hadn't seen light for a long time.
"A locked room?"
The group peered through a hole the size of a watermelon in the wall.
On a stone platform in the cramped room, a man wearing X Mask, with milky-white rubber gloves on both hands, is dissecting another man wearing X Mask.
Various internal organs were displayed in glass containers of different sizes.
The wand's flame illuminated the room, and the man holding the scalpel slowly raised his face, staring in astonishment at the crowd outside the wall. It wasn't hard to see the lingering excitement and fervor in his eyes.
On the other side.
The person wearing the X Mask being dissected on the experimental table seemed to be still alive; everyone could even clearly see his terrified, pleading gaze.
"X!"
Naturally, everyone assumed that Reilo was the victim.
The room fell into darkness again.
Squeak.
The sound of the wooden door opening, and as the firelight rekindled, Reilo, holding his wand, frowned and said, "There's a door this way, why didn't you...?"
boom!
Reilo's pupils suddenly contracted halfway through his sentence.
He only had time to activate the <1024 Nights> Guardian Shield when his body was struck by an astonishing force with a loud "bang," causing him to slide backward several meters before finally coming to a stop.
With the Flaming Dragon Roar Magic Wand held in front of him, Reilo pressed his head firmly against the bald man.
On the diamond-like <1024 Nights> Guardian Shield, several cracks spread out from the fist of the Destroyer Kui.
It looks like it can't take a second punch.
"Stop!"
"Stop!"
However, it was Ice Roar Bai Qi, and Runfeng from the Guyue Family who shouted in succession.
The Destroyer Kui raised his bald eyebrows and chuckled.
"Huh? Haha, so you really are X? I thought that guy was X."
Quinn pointed to the dissected body on the stone steps in the room, which had returned to darkness.
Reilo, whose breathing was fluctuating, suddenly realized something.
"Oh no!"
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Reilo hurriedly got up and ran towards the wooden door. When everyone looked back at the stone steps in the room, they found only a few ropes left.
The room was empty.
Huh?
Everyone was stunned. They entered the room through the wooden door, looking up, down, left, and right, but found nothing.
"Ran away? That's impossible!"
Everyone frowned.
While looking annoyed, Reilo seemed to realize something and picked up the glass container that had previously held the specimen organs.
The internal organs inside the glass vessel had transformed into a cloud of black mist, gathering in one corner of the vessel as if trying to break free of its confinement and go somewhere else.
Reilo tried to turn around.
Like a compass, the black smoke moved to another corner of the glassware, and then, under Reilo's gaze, the black smoke trapped in the glassware began to consistently change direction.
"Could it be...?"
Beneath the X Mask, Reilo took a deep breath and looked at everyone.
"I'm sorry, I need to continue my research on that thing here. This specimen is truly peculiar; it's probably very difficult to find outside, so I can't go to the fourth floor with you all."
Upon hearing this, everyone's expressions turned somewhat strange.
The Mochiu standing nearby even looked at this human wearing a strange mask as if he were a monster.
That thing is extremely dangerous!
Captain Mochiu couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
Reilo replied, "But it is, after all, a creature that can be dissected."
Not long after.
The exploration team bid farewell to Reilo and headed upwards, where silence returned.
Reilo held the glass container, looking at the direction in which the black mist was gathering inside. After a moment of contemplation, a terrifying smile appeared on his face.
"Little friend, didn't you ask me to play with you? Now you want to play hide-and-seek? Well, you'd better hide well, because I'm coming to find you, hehehehehe..."
The entrance from the second basement level to the first floor.
Hearing the eerie, excited laughter emanating from the second basement level, everyone shuddered.
Compared to that eerie thing, this X seems more like a terrifying monster.
"This guy..."
Ice Roar Bai Qi silently turned around, glanced at the dark second basement level, and then looked at the Destroyer Kui beside him.
"It's not time to seize the treasure on the fifth floor yet, your actions are far too obvious."
Kui glanced at Bai Qi, seemingly indifferent.
"The weak should stay where they belong, hehe. But now it seems that this X is not as simple as he appears, and is qualified enough to go to the fifth floor."
On the other side.
Having overcome their psychological fear and learned about the habits of this strange creature, in the eyes of evolutionary Profound Meaning Scholar, it was just like any other specimen, merely Whitey on the Dissection Table waiting to be explored, discovered, and understood in the mysteries of evolution.
Holding the Crystal Lamp, Reilo searched for the object in the second basement level, following the directional indicators of the specimen containers.
In the darkness, it can become invisible, transforming into some kind of God Body, formless energy.
But under the light, it appears as a physical object.
"Hehehehe, little friend, your big brother is here! Where have you been hiding?"
The shadow of the Crystal Lamp slowly lengthened.
Reilo walked slowly forward, much like a child trembling in a corner of a room in a horror movie, sensing the approaching monstrous figure outside.
This is the end of the second floor.
Reilo saw a huge energy hub device, Reilo was worth studying, but the bizarre creature that was half-dissected was more important.
Click.
Following the direction indicated by the specimen inside the glass container, Reilo opened the dusty wooden door with a "click".
A mushroom-shaped creature, trembling in the corner, its tentacles twitching, stared at Reilo in terror.
"No, don't come any closer..."
The little girl's scream.
"Don't come any closer? Hehehehe, weren't you just clamoring for me to play with you? Well, I'm here to play games with you now. You want to stop halfway through? That's very rude!"
Reilo kept turning the lights on and off, and grabbed the thing.
"Ah! Let me go!!!! Waaaaaah..."
It screamed in the darkness.
Reilo turned the lights back on.
"Are we playing role-playing this time? Becoming Gulan Fairies? That's great! Brother likes this kind of play. What else can you become?"
With a different appearance, Reilo became even more interested.
Although it was just an imitation, the Quran are now extinct. In the process of understanding the nature of this creature, we can also learn about the basic physiological structure of the Quran, killing two birds with one stone.
"Didn't you ask your brother if you were cute before? Hehe, you're absolutely adorable on the Dissection Table now. These soft tentacles, I almost don't want to give you anesthesia. You should be able to hold on, right?"
Then came the sounds of fierce struggle and screams.
Under the flickering lights, the nightmarish scene of the autopsy continued in the room.
Two hourglasses later.
Under the bright Crystal Lamp, Reilo slowly closed his < <Starry Sky Academic> > notebook.
This notebook is the Ice Fire Bird Notebook Lianyi once gave to Reilo. However, as Reilo Reilo accumulated knowledge, he Official named this notebook < <Starry Sky Academic> >. It is Reilo's personal handbook, a record of his knowledge as a scholar.
Reilo, holding a quill pen, regained his serious expression and lowered his head in thought.
"According to that Plant Ginseng Elf, the Gulan Fairies is a hybrid of animal and plant, roughly speaking, something like a man-eating plant? Judging from the basic physiological structure of the Gulan Fairies simulated by this guy, its plant attributes are greater than its animal attributes."
After a pause, Lei Luo X looked at the black gas cloud in the vessel through his eyes beneath his mask.
"Essentially, this thing should be a mutation of those black tentacles. Ordinary black tentacles can repair external combat weapons and restore the basic structure of the Magic Eye Pyramid. Their energy is provided by the Blood Eye Tree and the flesh and blood of dead organisms. This is likely something unique that the Gulan Fairies developed by combining the abilities of both sides in their long war with the Blood-Derived."
"This specimen's energy is provided by a three-layered energy hub, which, while granting it immense power, also severely restricts its range of movement."
"Light represents the Sun Power. During this period, it can absorb the energy of the pyramid's core hub and continue to grow stronger. As long as the light lasts for more than twenty seconds, killing dozens of level 0 and level 1 Mochiu is a piece of cake for it, thanks to the terrifying energy radiation within the pyramid. Darkness represents the power of the moon. It can transform into Mental Power, otherworldly form, maintaining basic consciousness for a long time with extremely low energy consumption, lasting for tens of thousands of years, until the explorers turn on the lights and awaken it."
"Yes, in its Mental Power state, it can also absorb the fear of living beings. It can also control and modify the buildings here that are affected by the energy hub's radiation for a very short time. It pulled me away earlier precisely because of this ability."
"Therefore, the five seconds after darkness and the five seconds before light are the stages in which this thing maintains its physical, potentially harmful form, but also possesses no power. Its maximum strength comes from the energy hub absorbed by its core."
Just like those black tentacles.
Seemingly immortal, even if it is cut into pieces by a scalpel and turned into black mist, it will be restored as long as it comes into contact with the moonlight of the Matrix Altar.
The control core of those ordinary black tentacles should be located at the source point of the Matrix Altar, somewhere on the fifth level of the pyramid, and transmitted through the Matrix Altar to any corner inside the pyramid. Therefore, their range of activity is the entire pyramid.
And this thing...
Let's tentatively name it ' Xiao Hei ', to pair it with the Plant Ginseng Elf ' Whitey ', both being products of the Gulan Civilization's attempt to study the power of the sun and moon.
Xiao Hei's energy core is located in the energy hub on the third layer.
The Gulan Civilization designed it as the guardian of the energy hub, thus limiting its movement to a very limited area, with its power capped by the energy hub's supply.
And according to the energy limit of this Magic Eye Pyramid.
The speed at which Xiao Hei absorbs power is such that it can cross the level 0 creature stage in 5 seconds, and in about a minute, it will probably reach the strength of an ancient creature. Only when the light source is extinguished will it return to the low-energy-consumption lunar power mode, as if it were in the slumber of Ancient Creature.
Although the energy scarcity within the Magic Eye Pyramid means that this thing's power limit is far from reaching the level of Ancient Creature, reaching the level of a Level 2 creature would be enough to drive the explorers to despair.
"What an interesting design! Even after ten thousand years, we can still feel the wisdom of those Gulan Fairies. It's such a pity that such a great civilization has been lost to history."
Reilo was quite disappointed.
"Now that we know its properties, as long as we can provide a sufficient energy source, moving this thing to my future private laboratory would make it a wonderful guardian!"
With that in mind, Reilo no longer hesitated and got up to walk towards the energy hub that the exploration team had previously closed.