"Is this... safe?"
Kevin panted for a long time and finally caught his breath. Then he looked at the quiet rock hall with disbelief. The passage the three had run into before had been completely blocked by the explosion caused by the lightning strike. The undead knights who had been chasing them all the way were all blocked on the opposite side. Although the knights' armor was incredibly powerful, it was not as powerful as Lily's bare hands to split mountains and rocks. In addition, they were made of metal with limited strength, so they probably couldn't dig through the rubble, at least not in a short time.
It seemed that I could take a breath and sort out the current situation.
"Probably... not yet," Wei Lili closed her eyes slightly to feel the energy flow of the entire underground palace, "The breath of the dead is everywhere, but I don't know what happened, there is no movement for the time being. The ones chasing us just now are just a small part of them..."
"Fuck, a small part?!" Kevin was shocked, "What did the lord here intend to do back then?"
Lily was lying next to the pile of completely shattered armor fragments, rummaging around, looking for something of interest in it with the exuberant curiosity of a canine, and then suddenly found something strange on a piece of breastplate fragment that was smashed and deformed: "Hey, Bat, come and see what this is? Is it also a Leta Rune?"
Big dog and bat, it seems that these two will never call each other's name properly in this life.
Wei Lili went over and kicked Lili's leg in protest, then bent down to pick up the pieces of breastplate. Sure enough, she found the curved lines on the silver-white metal plate, but the breastplate was severely damaged and the runes on it were incomplete: "Look for other pieces with runes. These things... should be able to be deciphered."
"I'll help too." Kevin called out from the side, and then he and Lili started to search through the armor debris on the ground. Most of these fragments were frozen to pieces by Wei Lili's extreme cold shock of dozens of degrees below zero, so basically there were few intact pieces of metal. But after searching for a while, Kevin still found a situation: it seemed that every undead knight had runes on his body.
And all the runes were engraved in the same place, with no difference in size and form, as if all the knight armors were "mass-produced goods."
"I found it!" Lily was the first to find the complete armor plate. The wolf girl handed a metal plate about a foot square to Wei Lili, who immediately translated the runes on it: "... the warden, the watcher, the sleepless warrior of the demon chamber... under the contract to guard the power of the demon and expel invaders... You cannot enter the demon chamber... It is a rune that takes effect at the same time as the contract and the infusion."
Kevin was confused: "What does it mean?"
"It seems that we got something wrong," Wei Lili's face became subtle, "At first we thought that the sealing system in the underground palace was to suppress the undead below, and that these knight ghosts were the objects to be suppressed. In fact, the situation is completely the opposite: these knights are also part of the underground palace's defense system. They are the guards here, and there are others who are really suppressed."
Kevin looked down at the piece of metal fragment in his hand. In fact, he had already guessed this: these armors buried in the underground palace were obviously carefully arranged, with a full range of arms and excellent equipment. They don't look like the objects to be suppressed. It makes sense to say that they are the guards of the underground palace. Since these undead are not the objects to be suppressed, then what this underground palace is really suppressing...
"Demons?" Kevin heard Wei Lili mention this word when she interpreted the runes just now, "This... This is not fun! Don't tell me that this place is to suppress demons. Are there really such creatures on earth?"
"Even vampires like me and Lily... um, werewolves have them, why can't there be demons?" Wei Lili threw the armor fragments on the ground and corroded them with blood mist. Her voice sounded a little serious. "It's just that there are many mistakes and omissions in your human myths and legends. Many powerful violent and crazy aliens are classified as "demons", so I'm not sure whether the "demons" mentioned in these runes are real demons or something else. If they are fakes, it's okay. If they are real... It's a big trouble."
After a pause, Wei Lili added: "Based on the professional level of the runes on the stone wall before, the person who arranged the underground palace is most likely a demon hunter. Demon hunters are experts. They won't make mistakes in classification... There is a real thing suppressed here."
Kevin's face twitched: "You'd better not add that last sentence!" Wei Lili didn't care about Kevin's complaints. She just carefully looked for the remaining runes on the armor fragments, hoping to judge the situation of the evil things they suppressed through these guards. Lily was a little worried: "We beat the guards used to suppress the demons in the underground palace? Doesn't that mean to release the demons? Have we... done something bad?" It's a great blessing to have such a kind-hearted werewolf girl. Kevin patted Lily on the shoulder: "It's okay, the data terminal just said that the seal of the underground palace has long passed the shelf life, and the remaining tin cans can't suppress the situation. At most, we are helping the evil..." "It may not be the demon's body. The rune says it's the demon stone," Wei Lili picked up another piece of armor fragment. "The leg armor has another part of the rune, which mentions that there is a place called 'Demon Chamber' in the underground palace. The chamber contains the demon stone instead of the demon's body. If it was just a stone, the situation would not be so bad."
Kevin felt like he was listening to a book from heaven: "What is the demon stone?"
"Demons are good at spatial power. The demon stone is their locator for transmission. It is also the remote medium they use to corrupt the human world, just like the incarnation of the demon power. The material of the demon stone is very special. Even demon hunters find it difficult to destroy them, so the usual way to deal with it is to suppress it. Suppress it for a few hundred years and it will basically be safe."
"Oh, the power of the demon stone will be exhausted after a few hundred years, right?" Kevin said as a matter of course.
"No, it's just that I can't get in touch with you for hundreds of years, so the devil usually replaces it with a new one. Your phone has been lost for two months and I can't get through, so why don't you replace it with a new one?"
Kevin: "..." This explanation makes sense, but why does he feel like there's something stuck in his throat that he can't get up or down!
"That means the demon stone in the underground palace is still there, and it can still be used," Lili swallowed her saliva. She was a little silly, but she was not stupid. "We can only hope that the demon behind it has changed its number. If the movement in the underground palace stimulates the demon stone..." Wei Lili thought for a while: "It is very likely that they will come to check the situation. Even if you have lost your mobile phone number for two years, you should have some impression of it when a text message suddenly comes. Demons have always had a good memory." Kevin pressed his temple hard: "The most important point: Can you two beat a demon?" "I don't know," Wei Lili looked a little embarrassed. "Theoretically, we are all equal 'aliens', and there are also types of demons with weak combat power, but you know that I have always been a pacifist and rarely fight with others. The largest-scale battle I participated in was when I was almost penniless and helped the Trojans fight the Greeks for five years, and then helped the Greeks fight the Trojans for five years..." Kevin: "..." In this situation, he no longer had the energy to complain about Wei Lili's magnificent black history.
At this time, Lili finally had a bright idea, and she suddenly realized something: "By the way, Bat, you just said that the rune says: Guards cannot enter the demon chamber, what does this mean?"
"Although the undead guards are easy to use, the techniques they use come from demons, so they can only be used to guard the perimeter of the underground palace and cannot be too close to the chamber where the demon stone is stored."
"Then do you feel that this hall... has no guards?"
After Lili finished speaking, there was silence in the hall.
The three of them felt a gust of cold air coming from all directions. Kevin carefully looked around the stone room and asked with a bitter face: "Weilili, what does the devil stone look like?"
The vampire girl recalled: "Basically, they are irregular, elongated black crystals, ranging from half a meter to one meter long, and look like smoked glass, with a little red at the tip..."
Kevin was about to cry: "...Is it the one hanging on the roof?"