Unexpected Turn

"Follow me." The uncle rushed into the clock tower at lightning speed, and then several clean and crisp fighting sounds came from inside. By the time Liu Feng caught up, there were already five or six people lying haphazardly inside.

According to the uncle, the arrow he released earlier was called Light Energy Arrow. The arrow was made of special materials, and after high-speed flight and friction, as well as the shock after impact, the arrow was fully activated and released a large amount of dazzling light.

The uncle skillfully looted the corpse, then opened the wooden planks of the basement. This scene always made Liu Feng want to complain, as if he were playing an RPG game where the protagonist had a built-in healing cheat and was facing Big Black force.

The uncle seemed to possess innate stealth abilities. After Liu Feng followed him into the underground passage, he witnessed that terrifying "stealth" ability. As long as he bent over and walked quietly, he could go unnoticed even if he was following behind the patrolmen, and then he would cover their mouths and slit their throats in a series of kills.

"This definitely isn't stealth, is it?" Liu Feng suppressed his urge to complain and quickly followed. They passed through a long corridor with a dark abyss on one side and torches that seemed to burn forever on a stone pillar on the other.

The uncle was incredibly skilled, easily dismantling even the most dangerous traps and mechanisms. His extensive experience made Liu Feng feel like he was watching a scene from a movie. In any case, the two of them quickly passed through the passage and arrived at the ceremony location.

This place resembles an underground cavern, with a section of underground Dark River through it. A large number of people dressed in black cloth are moving around inside. In the middle are the sacrificial offerings tied to pillars, numbering more than twenty. On the other side are the town mayor and his entourage, all carrying guns and wearing what appear to be sunglasses, clearly to guard against the uncle's Light Energy Arrow.

On the other side of the cave was a bottomless cliff, and the only passage leading to the cave was guarded by seven or eight guns. The two men observed everything from a distance in the darkness. Liu Feng licked his lips and asked, "Should we fight our way in?"

"You wait here, I'll climb over the cliff." The man turned and retreated to the other side of the corridor, pulled out a dagger, nodded to Liu Feng, and then jumped off the cliff. A hissing sound was heard, as if the dagger had pierced the wall.

"Holy crap, sir, are you Nathan Drake? You have unlimited stamina to climb rock walls?" Liu Feng couldn't help but complain, but the man clearly didn't have the energy to respond.

Liu Feng could only cautiously walk towards the passage, hiding in the darkness to observe the situation inside the cave. The town mayor and his entourage were clearly not interested in the ceremony, sitting at a distance and whispering amongst themselves.

The sacrificial offerings were all tied to stone pillars, their mouths covered with cloth strips to prevent them from making noise. Liu Feng discovered the "girl" Wang Xizhi inside, while on the other side, the people in black cloth were setting up the ceremony site.

They used a liquid made from gold and silver powder to paint new array patterns and runes on the ground. Then they used wooden stakes with black writing on them to fix them in place. In the center of the array pattern was a dark pit. The pit was not large, but it exuded an extremely eerie aura.

One of the men in black cloth took out a beautiful silver dagger, inlaid with several gems. He stretched out his left hand, approached the pit, and slashed his wrist with the dagger, the blood flowing directly into the pit.

Then another man in black cloth came over, took the blood-stained silver dagger, and bled without hesitation. After everyone had bled, one of the men in black cloth waved for the mayor and his group to come over and handed them the silver dagger.

The mayor pursed his lips, but still took the dagger and cut his wrist without changing his expression. By the time the mayor and his group had finished bleeding, there was already a lot of blood in the pit. Then a man in black cloth stepped forward and added all sorts of strange things into it.

The black-clothed figure added white powder, black chunks of meat, bright red flowers, and the teeth of some kind of animal, while chanting incantations. The blood in the pit gradually seemed to be heated, bubbling up and emitting a peculiar fragrance.

Smelling this scent, Liu Feng finally understood where those black rune amulets came from. The blood seemed to be cooked, slowly turning into a black liquid. The man in black cloth took out a bone of unknown material and dug a channel between the pit and the river on the other side, allowing the icy river water to flow into the pit.

The river water mixed with the black liquid, as if a chemical reaction had occurred. Instead of increasing the amount of liquid in the pit, it released a large amount of Black Mist, which slowly condensed into a human shape in mid-air.

The black-clothed figures withdrew from the ritual array, and then, along with most of the black-clothed figures, knelt before the black mist humanoid figure. The mayor and a small number of black-clothed figures stood up, raised their guns, and focused their attention on the two entrances. Not far away, from the underground river, a large amount of black mist suddenly emerged, forming Black Fog Beast.

These Black Fog Beast lowered their heads, their bodies writhing with black mist, as if offering everything to the dark figure. Then they stood up, bypassed the black-clothed figures kneeling at the feet of the dark figure, sniffed the mayor and his entourage, and walked away, heading straight for the people tied to the stone pillars.

Suddenly, a hand rose up from the other side of the cliff. The handsome middle-aged man flipped up and, taking advantage of everyone's attention being either on the black figure or on the passages on either side, quickly drew his bow and arrow, and fired an arrow that struck the top of the cave.

After the long arrow emitted a burst of holy light, it exploded, causing the cave to shake. Many rocks fell from the cave, and some people were hit by the falling rocks before they could even react.

The middle-aged man continued walking and attacking, smoothly taking a small wooden bottle from his waist and throwing it into the pit. A moment later, a large amount of white light was released from it, and the black mist figures on it disappeared in the white light. Even the Black Fog Beast standing in the distance wailed miserably in the white light and turned into black mist and dissipated.

In this way, both the cult and the mayor's group suffered heavy losses. Many of the black-clothed figures coughed up blood and collapsed to the ground due to the backlash of the ritual. Many of the mayor's group were killed by stones and then shot by the uncle. The original small number of people was reduced to only two or three.

Liu Feng was thrilled. His eyes narrowed as he saw Lena, that bitch, cowering behind a pile of rocks. Touching the wound on her shoulder, ink spilled from Liu Feng's hand, forming the words: "A sharp and sturdy machete."

Liu Feng grabbed his machete and ran out of the passage, ready to kill that despicable NPC bitch with one blow to avenge the gunshot wound. Then he saw a person break free from his restraints and jump out from among the sacrifices. The long sword in his hand was covered with black runes. With a simple and direct strike, he beheaded the handsome uncle.

The woman named Lena, upon hearing the noise, rolled over, stood up, and kicked Liu Feng in the stomach, sending him flying. The long knife in her hand also slipped from her grasp and fell to the ground.

I had some writer's block, so the update was a bit late. Sorry.