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Chapter 1170 - 528: Flash Spirit Manor and Mad Jack_2

Chapter 1170: Chapter 528: Flash Spirit Manor and Mad Jack_2

"You’ve chosen to ignore the warning and continue to approach."

"Bang!" You had just reached the doorway when the two illuminating lamps in front of the building suddenly burst, the searing glass shards lacerating your face with blood.

You plucked out the glass pieces, and under the Blood Clan’s recovery abilities, your wounds healed rapidly, soon restoring to their original state.

Without even entering the door, so many gimmicks had already been played out—this place indeed seemed haunted.

Shaking his head, Mu You continued his exploration.

"The door squeaked open, piercingly shrill in the quiet night."

As you stepped into the grand entrance, a chaotic scene met your eyes—pictures from the walls scattered on the floor, old furniture covered in thick dust, spider webs sprawled across the corners, and lights in the hall flickering dimly and brightening erratically, inducing an instinctual unease...

"Boom!" You were cautiously moving forward when, just after taking two steps on the soft wooden floor, lightning suddenly cleaved through the sky.

Illuminated by the lightning, you saw a shadow of a man holding an axe on the windbreak curtain at the far left end.

The lightning was fleeting; the area sank into darkness in the blink of an eye. Would you check it out?

Driven by bravado, you quickly rushed towards the left, flinging aside the curtain at the end...

However, behind the curtain was just a narrow washroom, completely empty, without a person in sight.

You had no choice but to turn around and leave.

"Ding-ling-ling..." Just as you returned to the hall, a rotary phone on a wall of the corridor, not far from you, suddenly started ringing shrilly, almost stopping your heart. The sinister ring at midnight exuded boundless eeriness—would you answer it?

"Answer it."

Mu You chose expressionlessly. If it were him there in person, perhaps he might have been startled, but sadly, through a text game, without actual auditory and visual impact, the sense of shock was greatly diminished.

You picked up the phone and brought the receiver to your ear.

There was silence inside, lasting several seconds, just when you thought there was no one on the other line, a man’s maniacal laughter suddenly burst forth.

"...Hahaha, you’re doomed... I’m going to chop you up with an axe... Kill you... Hack you to pieces and boil your bones for soup... Kill, kill, kill, die, die, die... Hahaha..."

The laughter escalated, soon turning into a piercing scream that hurt your eardrums—you hurriedly hung up the phone, and the world finally quietened down.

Mu You frowned as he watched.

Katerina only let him come in but didn’t tell him what to do, saying something about the ’Mother of True Lord’ would give him prompts. Mu You initially thought this phone was the prompt from the Mother of True Lord, but it turned out to be a lunatic on the other end...

So where exactly was the prompt?

Suddenly, you heard a flurry of footsteps nearby; you instinctively turned your head, just in time to see a woman in white from a distant corridor hastily running to a corner, disappearing from sight. Would you follow?

"Follow!"

At last a woman showed up, albeit in white...might as well follow and see what happens.

You activated "Godspeed," and everything around slowed down; you quickly walked towards the corner, but turning your head to look, the corner was a dead-end, only three doors tightly shut, not a soul in sight.

You went forward and checked each of the three doors...

All three doors were locked tight, and you wanted to forcefully open them, but you quickly realized that even with your strength, you couldn’t twist the locks open; it was as if these three doors were merely for decoration.

Finding no clues, you exhaled in disappointment and turned to leave.

But just as you turned around, you saw a man appearing on the way back, only a few meters away, blocking your path.

The man held a woodcutting axe, his body covered in blood, head slightly bowed, his mouth cracked into a sinister smile, staring at you with eyes that sent chills down your spine!

Your hands instinctively reached for the gun, proficiently opening fire. A sequence of bullets exploded on the man’s body but fell to the ground as if striking steel, failing to leave any wounds on him.

"?"

Mu You watched, puzzled. Was this Flash Spirit?

If this person were just an illusion created by Flash Spirit, shouldn’t the bullets have passed right through? How could they be rebounded?

Thinking this, Mu You subconsciously clicked on the profile of the axe-wielding man.

[Mad Jack: Unknown vampire, generation: first generation...]

"First generation?!"

Mu You looked astonished. Weren’t the vampires in this city only supposed to go up to the third generation? How did a first generation vampire suddenly appear?

["Kill kill kill... I’ll chop you into pieces, hahaha..." After a brief eye contact, the opponent suddenly rushed towards you with a nefarious laugh, raising the Giant Axe and chopping down with the speed of lightning...]

[Instinctively, you stepped back and narrowly avoided the axe, but the tip still grazed you. The defense of the metal armor tore like paper, and a grotesque wound appeared under your left rib, reducing your life by more than half!]

Mu You’s eyes twitched with shock at the damage; a mere graze had halved his health, a direct hit would undoubtedly be fatal! This guy was definitely a bona fide first generation vampire!

["Die die die!" Mad Jack was already laughing maniacally and swinging his axe again. You quickly activated ’Godspeed’.]

[Activation failed! Due to the enemy’s generation being much lower than yours, your active Blood Rhythms have a high probability of failing in front of the opponent! Passive Blood Rhythm effects greatly reduced!]

"Hiss, backtrack!"

Mu You had no choice but to follow the indication.

Fortunately, it was only low probability of activation, not impossible. There was still a chance as long as there was an opportunity.

[Godspeed failed to activate...]

[Godspeed failed to activate...]

...

[Activation successful! You activated Godspeed, everything around you slowed down, and Mad Jack’s every move appeared in slow motion to you.]

Mu You breathed a sigh of relief; it had taken him over two hundred tries to succeed with this skill, showing how strong a primary generation vampire’s suppression was on him.

Even activating skills was this difficult, let alone retaliating. This creature was definitely not something he could handle right now.

Mu You immediately controlled his character to flee.

[Using the time dilation of Godspeed, you evaded past the opponent, squeezing through the crack in the wall and swiftly escaping from the spot.]

[You sprinted back to the center of the hall; as the effect of Godspeed ended, the flow of time returned to normal.]

[You faintly heard Jack’s angry roar from behind, his chopping sounds rapidly approaching you...]

[You hurriedly hid in the shadows of the stairs nearby, holding your breath and concentrating, daring not to make any sound...]

[Soon a maniacal laughter echoed, and looking through the gaps in the wooden stair planks, you saw a blood-stained figure dragging an axe and rushing past outside, heading for a distant spot without noticing you...]

Mu You breathed another sigh of relief.

This madman surely couldn’t be the ’True Lord’.

That meant, aside from the so-called ’Mother of True Lord’ in this manor, there was a real murderer lurking, hunting everything that intruded from the outside.

That also made sense; if the Admin’s goal was to keep outsiders from coming here and communicating with the ’True Lord’, now that the Admin was nowhere to be found, he surely had set up some defenses around this forbidden area.

And this murderer, evidently, was the defense he arranged: a first generation vampire, essentially the final boss level existence in the entire setting!

And right now, Mu You was essentially in a cat-and-mouse game here, needing to escape the ’cat’ and find the so-called True Lord.

[After confirming the opponent had gone far, you carefully stepped out from under the stairs, trying to tread as lightly as possible.]

[The hallway was eerily quiet; you had just breathed a sigh of relief and looked up, only to catch a glimpse of a woman in red on the second-floor balcony of the spiral staircase, secretly watching you. When you looked her way, she quickly averted her gaze and vanished quietly. Chase her?]

Mu You was delighted to see the woman in red appear at last!

"Chase her!"

[You guessed this woman might be the ’True Lord’ you were searching for and quickly climbed the spiral staircase.]

[Just as you reached the middle of the staircase, the wooden planks suddenly broke. Clearly, the staircase was too old and fragile to withstand being trodden upon. At that moment, surrounding planks also broke, and you fell straight down, plummeting from the first floor into the basement.]

[At the same time, the sound of the breaking planks instantly drew the attention of the distant murderer.]

[Once again, you heard Mad Jack’s maniacal laughter, the sound of his axe dragging on the ground rapidly approaching you...]