Chapter 96: Danger, Close Your Eyes

As soon as the door of the pointed tower was opened, the stench of decay rushed forth.

Clearly, it had been abandoned for quite some time.

Gunie entered the tower and closed the door behind him.

The cold, pitch-black interior of the tower was clearly revealed before Gunie's eyes.

It was a circular tower about five or six meters in diameter and twelve or thirteen meters high.

A little water had seeped in, freezing the spiral stone staircase that clung to the stone wall and extended downward, with many icicles formed.

Gunie looked around carefully, then cautiously descended the spiral stone staircase.

Soon, Gunie reached the bottom of the circular tower.

This position...

Gunie looked up.

It should be about seven or eight meters underground now!

Then, Gunie looked to one side of the circular tower.

What met his eyes was an ordinary stone wall built of piled stones.

If one didn't look closely, no abnormality could be detected.

But under the system's vision, behind a certain area of this stone wall, there was empty space.

This stone wall concealed a secret door.

Pressing one hand against the side of the secret door, Gunie began to exert force.

An ordinary spellcaster, relying solely on physical strength, would probably find it difficult to open this stone door.

But for Gunie, it was no big problem.

With an outburst of strength.

Hum...

A dull grinding sound between stone slabs rang out softly, and the stone door was pushed open bit by bit.

After pushing it open about thirty centimeters, Gunie stopped.

Slipping sideways through the gap into the secret cave behind the stone door, Gunie advanced, narrowing his eyes and scanning the surroundings.

In this secret cave, both sides were still stone walls, and the floor was paved with stone slabs.

Clearly, someone had deliberately built this, and it must have been built some years ago.

As for who built it, no one knew.

But Gunie knew why that person had built a secret cave here.

Because.

At the end of this secret cave was a Transcendent Gate.

Now, Gunie stood before this Transcendent Gate.

The Transcendent Gate before him was a stone arch frame, about three meters high and one and a half meters wide.

The entire Transcendent Gate was pitch black, and both the frame and the door itself were covered with runes the size of a finger.

Stepping forward, Gunie pressed close to the door frame and carefully examined the material and rune patterns of the Transcendent Gate.

After a full five or six minutes.

Gunie slowly withdrew his gaze.

The material is very ancient, and the rune patterns confirm this.

This Transcendent Gate... Gunie frowned. It has a history of at least five thousand years.

It should be the work of those ascetics from the era of the Theocratic Church.

Has this nameless flesh existed for five thousand years?

Judging from this sealing gate, it seems they couldn't handle it, or even remove it, and to prevent it from spreading and causing greater harm, they had no choice but to seal it in place.

Then...

Is there any connection between this nameless flesh and the main cave of Incident 9970?

Gunie remembered very clearly.

When Senior Nigel told him, he said that anyone who entered the main cave of Incident 9970 would have their eyes strongly rejected by their body, leading to blindness, or even their eyeballs directly shattering.

And this nameless flesh.

The system clearly warned: close your eyes, do not look.

Danger, close your eyes?

Gunie suppressed many conjectures in his mind.

As for the specifics, he would find out by entering and investigating.

Pressing one hand against the Transcendent Gate.

Gunie began to chant in a low voice according to the runic incantation given by the system.

As soon as the full twelve syllables were chanted.

Gunie quickly closed his eyes.

Because the system's prompt was that everything behind this stone door must not be gazed upon.

As for the consequences of gazing, one would have to see to know.

Crack, crack...

The Transcendent Gate slowly opened.

A thick, bloody, greasy smell mixed with volcanic lava rushed forth.

Gunie tried his best to open his senses to perceive.

At this moment, an indescribably terrifying feeling of death lingered in the heart of Gunie, whose eyes were closed.

It was as if an abyss lay before him, and one step forward would send him falling.

Or as if a giant beast had already opened its bloody fangs, waiting only for Gunie to take a step forward to swallow him into its mouth and chew him to pieces.

The fear of death made Gunie's body tremble slightly. This was the instinctive fear of danger from the genes of life, and Gunie couldn't control himself to steady even if he wanted to.

And this fear at the level of life made it extremely difficult for Gunie to take that step.

Without even looking, just sensing with my soul, I already feel the threat of death?

Is this the terror of the nameless?

Gunie trembled with excitement inwardly.

Opening the system in his mind, Gunie looked at the system's guidance.

At this moment, the system clearly marked the position and route for Gunie.

He just needed to close his eyes and walk forward according to the system's instructions.

The system's guidance was simple, but the actual operation was extremely difficult.

Standing still, Gunie pondered for half a minute, then decided to open his eyes and take a look.

At this moment, Gunie's body, under this terrifying high-pressure state, could barely move, and the deeper he went, the greater the pressure would surely become.

Entering in this high-pressure state, if any anomaly occurred, he would still die.

It would be better to first die once, using the reincarnation function to transform the nameless power eroding him into his own talents and resistances.

Then entering would be much easier.

Breathe...

Standing steady, Gunie took a deep breath, already prepared.

Then.

Gunie suddenly opened his eyes wide.

The moment he opened his eyes, in just a fleeting glance, before his eyes could focus and see the situation clearly.

Bang! Bang!

Gunie's eyes suddenly felt a sharp pain, and both eyeballs burst directly.

Blood gushed from the burst eye sockets.

In that fleeting glance, Gunie saw a grotesque, twisted wall of writhing flesh that seemed to bear endless calamity and plague.

Then, as his eyes went blind and he fell into darkness, Gunie sensed something abnormal.

His blood began to go out of control.

As a blood mage, Gunie's blood density was already six times that of an ordinary person, and under the effect of the life spring, his supernatural activity was very strong.

But now, his supernatural blood was out of control.

Then, Gunie felt intense pain all over his body.

The pain came and went quickly, ending in a second or two.

Then, Gunie felt something was wrong.

He touched his arm, and his hand came away sticky.

Blood began to flow uncontrollably from his skin.

And what was even more horrifying was that Gunie felt no pain at all.

At the same time.

Splat, splat...

It seemed that things kept falling off his body.

Gunie touched his cheek.

With one touch, large chunks of flesh came off.

Then, with a 'whoosh' sound.

Gunie's flesh fell off his skeleton in large swaths, scattering on the ground.

Even, Gunie faintly felt that his flesh began to writhe on its own, and the direction was precisely the wall of flesh he had glimpsed inside the Transcendent Gate.

My flesh is writhing.

This was Gunie's last conscious thought, and then he collapsed headfirst.