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Chapter 202 - 202 146 is the holy beetle run quickly (4800)_3

Chapter 202: 146 is the holy beetle, run quickly (4800)_3 Chapter 202: 146 is the holy beetle, run quickly (4800)_3 Half an hour later, hurried footsteps echoed through a silent corridor, followed by a trail of white fire each time a step was made.

“The style here is similar to the ruins that Twilight once visited…” Casio was in deep thought as he ran with all his might.

His figure disappeared at the end of the corridor in a flash, moments later, the dense sound of scrambling bugs echoed at the ash-colored corridor intersection.

These white beetles were truly tenacious.

Five minutes later, Casio rushed into a corridor like a whirlwind. His pupils contracted, but his footsteps never paused. Instead, he burst forth, sprinting madly.

And in an instant, he found himself at the end of the corridor.

The next second, twelve gray stone statues on either side of the corridor began to stir. The statues lifted their heads, each revealing a peculiar face expressing one of twelve different emotions.

Crying, laughing, anger, roaring …

Their movements, initially stiff, became fluid, and their huge bodies began stepping forward, pursuing Casio.

Unexpectedly, the next moment, the entrance to the corridor was filled with the sound of scrambling. The last statue turned its head to see a white torrent gushing in, completely engulfing all of the statues.

“Hiss hiss hiss…”

The extremely corrosive acidic liquid practically formed a rainstorm.

“Roar roar roar!”

Loud roars echoed from behind him.

Casio’s pace quickened.

Several hours later, Casio, who had been running barefoot, was almost at his wit’s end. This was all because he had crushed a single white beetle. Did they really need to chase him relentlessly for three to four hours?

He was now in a pitiful state, with signs of acid corrosion on his skin. Apart from a pair of shorts that were almost bursting at the seams, Casio had even thrown away his shoes, which he suspected had been smeared with pheromones. Still, the swarm of bugs showed no signs of stopping. He suspected that he too might have been tainted with the pheromones, but there wasn’t a water source in the ruins where he could clean himself.

Thus, Casio could do nothing but flee, relying on his amazing stamina boosted by three cycles of node cultivation to evade his pursuers. During his escape, he encountered many other dangers within the ruins. These included vampiric ivy hanging on the cave walls, magic flower mantises the size of humans, man-face flowers with strongly hallucinogenic pollen, mutated three-headed pythons, and so on…

All the aforementioned dangers seemed to have been eliminated by the white beetles, as if he had provoked the ultimate boss right from the beginning.

Squeak squeak squeak… squeak squeak squeak…

In a hall filled with plants, creatures that resembled monkeys were hanging from creepers. As Casio sprinted across the hall, they continually attacked him with their weapons, trying to obstruct his path desperately.

Fortunately, Casio’s hard qigong training proved effective, allowing him to power through.

The annoying monkeys squealed as if they wanted to chase him.

The next second, a white torrent swept through the entire hall.

After the torrent receded, numerous skeletal remains of monkeys fell from the creepers. They crashed onto the floor, breaking into pieces and continuously emitting smoke.

Ten minutes later.

Casio dashed to the end of a tunnel only to be dumbfounded – it was a dead end! Sounds of scrambling beetles could be heard from the entrance of the tunnel as countless white beetles flooded in.

“Damn it!”

He punched the wall in frustration.

“Huh?! This wall seems hollow?”

At the same time, within a spacious hall.

The expansive dome extended overhead, the top seemingly painted with an enigmatic mural using black and red paint. At the center of the hall was an extremely large pool, in the middle of which stood a submerged stone column.

The spaces between the hall and the pool were covered with densely packed symbols, scattered like a spider web. They were inscrutable symbols that resembled tadpoles.

And now, these symbols were lighting up one by one.

Ten mysterious figures clad in black robes were devoutly kneeling on the ground, muttering complex intonations. It seemed to be some sort of mysterious and bizarre prayer. As they pressed their fingers on the ground, they bled. Their blood seeped into the symbols on the ground, seemingly awakening something.

“ki tu gi a ba a ba…”

The chanting grew louder and louder, reaching a certain climax.

Suddenly, all the symbols on the ground turned red.

The calm pool water turned into a transparent golden color like amber. A plume of steam rose up, and the hall rumbled with a great noise.

Wait, a rumbling noise!? This had never happened during previous rituals. Many of the black-robed figures looked up, their eyes full of surprise as they stared at the pool. Could it be? Could it be!

One black-robed figure murmured excitedly, “Finally…”

Bang!

The dome shattered, and a large piece of the wall fell down.

Following this, a figure plunged into the pool with a splash.

“What’s going on?! Who is that person?!”

“He fell into the sacred pool!!!”

“Audacious!”

“This is bad, the ritual has already completed, we can’t stop it!”

All the black-robed figures stood up abruptly and shouted.

Splosh splosh splosh… splosh splosh splosh… splosh splosh splosh…

It seemed as if a white river was crawling down from the ceiling, joining in the hissing sounds as their limbs rubbed against the cave wall.

The next second, the chaotic noises unified into a single cry.

“Goddamnit, it’s the holy beetles, run!!!”