"I died... I actually died, hahaha..."
Seventh Master Tian laughed and laughed, then burst into tears.
There were no tear glands in his hollow eye sockets, what flowed out was blood.
No matter who it is, knowing they’ve long been dead and turned into a tool, their mood would not be good.
But Seventh Master Tian’s expression soon turned vicious: "But, I was a Tomb Guardian when I lived, and I’m still a Tomb Guardian in death!"
The body pinned to the wall by a black Light Sword immediately began to melt, turning into a viscous gray-black mist, merging into the surrounding environment.
Then a young man who bore some resemblance to Seventh Master Tian emerged from the Slumber Mist, this should be Seventh Master Tian in his younger days.
Seventh Master Tian touched his face, squeezed his biceps, and said to Wen Wen with intoxication: "I really have to thank you, if I hadn’t realized I’m already dead, I could never have returned to such a perfect form, nor realized how strong I truly am."
"Now I’m no longer a blind old man, but at the peak..."
"No, I’m better than even my peak, all the Slumber Mist in Muyuan Community is my strength..."
"You simply can’t understand how powerful I am now."
Seventh Master Tian teleported to Wen Wen’s side, looking into Wen Wen’s small eyes with disdain: "Just for example, if I want to kill you, it would only take a..."
In Wen Wen’s eyes, a black long knife suddenly appeared, directly piercing into Seventh Master Tian’s skull, and when the long knife was retracted, Seventh Master Tian’s head was split into two halves.
Then the White Mist Giant picked up Seventh Master Tian’s body, threw it to the ground, and stomped it vigorously, turning it back into a state of Slumber Mist, unable to condense into a form again.
Wen Wen spat in Seventh Master Tian’s direction with small, dead fish eyes.
"Crazy, all flashy and showy."
Of course, Seventh Master Tian didn’t really die, it’s estimated that only when all the Slumber Mist has dispersed will he truly die.
But it seemed that his body-condensing speed wasn’t fast, and with the White Mist Giant around, he couldn’t cause any trouble.
So Wen Wen, following Seventh Master Tian’s prior guidance, found that room, lifted the floor, and saw a vermillion hidden door.
As they say, a Demon Hunter doesn’t leave empty-handed, so Wen Wen released over thirty tiger-like Puppets before entering the hidden door. These Puppets were just tools and wouldn’t be affected by the Slumber Mist.
Wen Wen’s command was to clean this place up a bit.
What does clean mean?
Take everything except the ’needle and thread’...
The best batch would go to the Sanctuary as public facilities, like adding a few chairs outside the shop counters in the Sanctuary.
The rest would be piled together, letting the Containment Officers select what they wanted, as many of their rooms were empty and not suitable to live in. With this furniture, they would at least have a place to stay in the Sanctuary.
After the Containment Officers were done choosing, the prison guards would pick, and whatever scraps were left would be given to the well-behaved Monsters to improve their living conditions.
Though the cells also had beds and toilets, they only met the minimum requirements, and even the worst items from a hotel were better than what the Sanctuary provided.
Just the parts from a large hotel would be easily absorbed by the Sanctuary.
Beneath the hidden door were stairs leading to a cellar; Wen Wen first sensed no traps before heading down.
Though with his current strength, ordinary traps wouldn’t be effective, caution is always wise. Even if he truly became a Catastrophe in the future, Wen Wen would still exercise caution.
Wen Wen didn’t want to become someone else due to a change in strength.
After descending more than thirty steps, his view opened up; it was a cellar roughly the size of the hotel, with a height of about four meters, and there was a passage leading further down.
However, Wen Wen had no intention of going down, because he could already see Tao Qingqing at a glance, and not just Tao Qingqing but many other people as well.
Everyone was bound by rough ropes, hung from the ceiling, densely packed in the cellar, resembling rows of cured meat!
Even Wen Wen, upon seeing this scene, felt a little creeped out.
To relieve the oppressive feeling, he walked up to Tao Qingqing, poked her a few times with his finger, and found it quite amusing to watch her sway.
Unfortunately, she preferred wearing jeans over skirts.
In the front half of this layer, many people were actually still alive, and as a vampire, Tao Qingqing wouldn’t be easily hanged to death.
Though they appeared to be hanged, some strange power kept them alive.
However, this power wasn’t omnipotent, and aside from those few who were alive, many had already turned into dried-up human jerky.
As for the stairs leading further down, a putrid smell emanated from them, indicating that the situation down there was likely worse than above.
Wen Wen cut the rope around Tao Qingqing’s neck, discovering that her body, like those of the cemetery district residents outside, was not dead, but her soul had gone to another place.
To bring her back, one only needed to activate the connection between the Sanctuary and her, calling her soul back.
But to save the others wasn’t so simple; on a quick glance, there were at least sixty or seventy people still alive, so Wen Wen couldn’t just ignore it.
Whether as a Containment Officer or a Demon Hunter, saving people was Wen Wen’s responsibility.
Of course, if efforts to save them were unsuccessful, Wen Wen wouldn’t dwell on it.
After collecting Tao Qingqing, Wen Wen moved towards the second underground level; as expected, there wasn’t a single living person here, all that hung were charred black bodies.
But these weren’t desiccated corpses in the usual sense; their nails were long and sharp, canine teeth were mutated and protruding, and their bodies seemed stronger than normal.
Wen Wen had no doubt that if some stimuli were applied to these bodies, they might ’come alive,’ turning into Monsters that posed a significant threat to ordinary people.
If all these hundreds of black bodies rushed out from the cellar, they could easily kill at least a thousand people before being controlled.
So Wen Wen took five of the bodies to the Sanctuary as samples, then pulled out an ancient-looking book.
This was Lofvis’s Rune Book.
The Rune Book automatically opened to a page, a red Rune Array lit up, releasing crimson flames that consumed all the bodies on that level.
After the flames dissipated, all the bodies turned to ash, but the cellar itself remained undamaged.
Upon the Rune Book’s activation, the will of a powerful presence from the Inner World connected with the Rune Book.
In a pale forest, the Star Realm God Lofvis felt the connection with the Rune Book and was immediately overjoyed.
He had been waiting for the other side to use the Rune Book for a long time!