When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp
Chapter 648

I do not kill nameless men

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"": "Since leaving Cabinet Mountain and Floating Tortoise Mountain, Luo Bin had not suffered such a severe penetrating wound in a long time.

Although they had not truly entered the Underground Palace, this was still the Fangshi's home ground.

Large tomb complexes never lacked mechanisms and traps. Yet from the moment he entered until now, aside from the hidden doors concealing those half-human, half-ghost Fangshi, he had not encountered a single dangerous mechanism.

The fine dart his opponent had blown at him moments earlier had merely been a distraction.

The Fangshi occupying this place had altered the traps' triggers to avoid harming themselves. They could activate them at will!

The arrow piercing both Miao Gu and Luo Bin was the clearest proof!

Miao Gu panted heavily, his body twisting as though he were in terrible pain.

Luo Bin was still moving, carried by the Gu worms as they scuttled across the cavern ceiling.

The Fangshi below moved as well. Repeated whistles sliced through the air as arrows shot down from the upper cavern walls.

But the Gu worms crawled without any discernible pattern, and the Fangshi below-Dai Ji's junior brother-could not perfectly predict Luo Bin's movements.

Many arrows struck the other Fangshi, who resembled walking corpses. The force drove them backward or knocked them down, but left no wounds.

Thick black blood kept dripping down. Strangely, although blood like that ought to have stunk, Luo Bin smelled an unusual fragrance instead.

At some point, Miao Gu had stopped moving altogether.

Quite a lot of blood had splattered onto the ground below, all of it black.

Not a single drop of the normal blood flowing from Luo Bin's wound had fallen. Had the Gu worms eaten it?

"What a fine Gu-man. Let me test whether you have

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