nycdaug Chapter 53 The Perfumer's Dungeon
Chapter 53 The Perfumer's Dungeon
The young master praised your gambling skills, saying they've improved even more! He's completely convinced!
Thank you, I didn't know my gambling skills had improved.
The young master wants to hear your request. He asks if you would like to borrow his spy again.
The spy explained to the young master, "Your skills are now vastly different from before; you are no weaker than him."
Having gone through several dungeons, Li Qing now possesses the indestructible Blood Fiend Sword Qi.
just now.
Li Qingchen did indeed have something he wanted the young master to do.
For example, asking about the Lord of Moon Bay City.
For example, do they know how to raise a ghost pet?
Or perhaps it's about how to deal with those butchers and dyers.
However, he thought about it.
Butchers and dye shops are NPCs that may or may not exist. Although they like killing and bleeding, they are not necessarily the main targets of this map.
There's no rush regarding the ghost pet.
Therefore, the focus remains on the city lord's disappearance.
[You've indicated that you'll owe him this favor for now. The young master has left his address; you can go to his house to find him if you've decided.]
You return to the perfumer's alley, and in a secluded corner, you encounter a emaciated young girl.
She was huddled in the corner, looking utterly miserable. Kind swordsman, would you be willing to help her?
You choose to use ghost money to treat her to a good meal.
The girl was very grateful to you. After she had eaten and drunk her fill, she told you about her ordeal.
That day, she went to the perfumer to buy perfume, but the perfumer took a liking to her skin, so he imprisoned her and repeatedly extracted fat from her.
She managed to escape while the perfumer was attending to customers, and stole a map from the perfumer's house.
To repay you, the girl gave you the map and a brocade pouch.
[Hint: You have obtained the map to the secret passage!]
[If you examine the map closely, you'll discover that the perfumer's secret passage is actually a dungeon.]
You're planning to sneak into the dungeon to take a look; maybe you'll find something.
You've arrived at the perfumer's alleyway. While waiting in line, you observe the layout.
You've discovered that the only way to infiltrate the dungeon is through the front entrance.
You come into the shadows, ready to don the fox fur.
[Swordsman, you are being watched by an unknown True Lord. Your fox fur has lost its effectiveness!]
It feels so numb, you can play like this?
Now there's another problem to solve.
How to infiltrate.
Li Qingchen thought of the girl's brocade pouch.
You opened the brocade pouch, and an ordinary-looking toad hopped out.
"A toad?"
Li Qingchen's intuition told him that this toad was no ordinary creature.
[You use a concealment technique, taking a ghost money note from your pocket and dropping it on the ground.]
The toad stuck out its tongue and swallowed the ghost money.
[You use a concealment technique to take a hammer out of your pocket and drop it on the ground.]
The toad stuck out its tongue and swallowed the hammer.
[You use a concealment technique to take a water vat from your pocket and place it on the ground.]
The toad stuck out its tongue and swallowed the water jar.
"!"
Li Qingchen was overjoyed. Wasn't this a mobile warehouse?
What kind of toad is this? Call it Lai Bao!
Li Qingchen had a daring plan.
[You use a concealment technique to take a dungeon map from your pocket and place it on the ground.]
The toad stuck out its tongue and swallowed the map.
You were lying on the ground when a toad stuck out its tongue and swallowed you whole!
Inside its belly, you direct it, guiding it to infiltrate the dungeon according to the map.
While the perfumer was busy with a customer, the toad sneaked into the secret room and vomited you out.
You've successfully avoided the perfumer and arrived at the dungeon!
"It's a success!"
This can actually work!
Li Qingchen was even a little impressed with himself.
It's pitch black here, and dangerous traps are everywhere, but luckily you've memorized the map.
You proceed cautiously, crawling forward.
You avoided trap after trap, and after some time, you finally reached the deepest part of the dungeon.
You discover a variety of torture instruments here; these are the perfumer's favorite surgical tools.
You discovered the corpses of many young women. Their natural scent captivated the perfumer, who, in his quest to create the finest perfume, resorted to any means necessary to imprison them here.
You continue deeper into the dungeon.
The flagstones beneath my feet, stained with dark brown dirt, echoed softly with each step, rippling through the deathly silent passageway.
Finally, you've reached the deepest part of the dungeon.
[In a stone chamber shrouded in black mist, a strange, ghostly creature was locked in an iron cage at the center.]
Its tall body was covered in rusted and blackened armor, from which wisps of a withered, ghostly aura seeped.
The broadsword hanging at his waist was mottled, yet it still exuded a chilling aura.
It clearly resembled a tall and imposing general, but its soul flickered like a candle in the wind, its ghostly aura emanating intermittently.
【Swordsman, what are you planning to do?】
The panel provides options.
1. Recite the sacred chants of the Great Sage to deliver the spirits from suffering.
Doing so can eliminate evil spirits and enhance the Buddha-nature of the Great Sage's chanting.
2. Try to capture the ghost and tame it as your ghost pet.
3. Go in and observe first, then make a decision.
Upon seeing the second option, Li Qingchen's eyes widened in surprise.
Ever since he overheard the term "ghost pet" in the previous storyline, he has been secretly keeping an eye out for related clues.
I never expected to encounter this plot in the deepest part of the dungeon!
"But how do we subdue them?"
Li Qingchen was completely clueless, her brows furrowed, but the excitement in her eyes was impossible to hide.
Since we're already here, we can't leave empty-handed.
Li Qingchen is in control of the character.
Using the lock-picking skills he had found in the mass grave, he opened the cell door and entered.
You feel a suffocating sensation, as if an invisible hand is squeezing your chest.
The ghostly aura emanating from this creature is far more intense than any evil spirit you've ever encountered before!
The Ghost General keenly sensed the faint Buddhist aura emanating from you. Your previously unsteady body trembled violently. Your rusted armor creaked and groaned.
[Hint: The madness hidden deep within the Ghost General's soul has been ignited!]
[Swordsman, you've been dragged into the Ghost General's ghost realm!]
Li Qingchen felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, and his heart clenched sharply.
A familiar, eerie feeling instantly swept over my entire body!
Just like when I was poisoned by the evil spirit King Zhenjun last time!
Wisps of black ghostly energy, like venomous snakes spitting their tongues, pressed directly against his body!
"What?!"
Li Qingchen hurriedly made hand seals, flew on his sword, and did his best to shake off the black ghostly energy that appeared out of nowhere.
With a flick of the finger, the sword's sound resonated with the sacred chants of the Great Sage, its power to exorcise demons and vanquish evil spirits causing the black aura to recede three miles away.
however.
The ghostly aura is anchored to his body, and he can't get rid of it no matter what!
"How could this happen?"
This time, he had no Buddha's protection and couldn't get rid of the negative status!
next second.
The ghostly aura caught up and completely engulfed him.
When Li Qingchen opened his eyes again, he found that the scenery around him had completely changed.
He stood in the middle of a dilapidated city.