bioinnovel Chapter 55 The Abyss Demon Cave Awakens on the Night of the Full Moon!
Chapter 55 The Abyss Demon Cave Awakens on the Night of the Full Moon!
Tonight, Hangzhou is unlike any other night.
The lights were still on, the holographic GG sign was still playing on a loop, and the hovercars were still silently driving by on the street.
But the moonlight has changed!
It wasn't the silvery, gentle moonlight, but a light with a very faint crimson hue.
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A sentry post at the entrance to a Class C danger zone in the western suburbs of Hangzhou.
This place is not far from the examination site where the college entrance examination is practiced during the day, and it is usually occupied by a reinforced platoon of the Third Army Corps of the Hangzhou City Defense Force.
These past few days, we've been short-handed because the monsters in the Woniu Mountain and Qingqiu areas, a hundred miles away, have been acting strangely. The legion has dispatched two squadrons to clear them out, leaving only regular defensive forces behind.
Two sentries were chatting by the side of the guard post.
The night was cool, and one of the sentries had his hands tucked into his sleeves, his weapon resting diagonally on his shoulder.
"I heard the fighting at the front is fierce. The Iron-Spine Rhinoceros herd in Woniu Mountain has rioted, and the Crimson-Eyed Foxes of Qingqiu have also come out. I've been a soldier for five years and I've never seen such a dense tide of monsters."
"That's right. We're down to half our manpower. Hopefully, nothing bad will happen tonight."
"What could possibly happen? Hangzhou has been around for hundreds of years; the seal on the Demon Cave is as solid as it comes..."
Before the sentry could finish speaking, a very thin red light silently shot out from the darkness and pierced his throat.
The sentry's eyes were still open, and the corners of his mouth were even still curved in a smile, but his body had gone limp.
He didn't even have time to make a sound.
The other sentry's pupils contracted sharply, and his hand had just touched the gun handle when the second red light arrived.
A dull whistling sound, a red light piercing through flesh and blood, and he fell down.
The two people fell into pools of blood, with no more than two seconds between them.
It's not just them.
At the same time, all the sentries at the western suburbs entrances and exits were killed.
Some were patrolling, some were watching the surveillance cameras in the duty room, and some were smoking against the wall.
Each person fell silently; the red light was terrifyingly accurate, each strike piercing the throat.
Immediately afterwards, a dozen or so figures wearing dark red cloaks emerged from the darkness.
Their footsteps were silent, the hem of their cloaks fluttering slightly in the night breeze, and their hoods pulled low, obscuring most of their faces.
The leader raised his hand and lifted his hood, revealing the face of a middle-aged man in his forties.
She has a very ordinary appearance and wouldn't attract any attention in a crowd.
Only deep within the pupil of his left eye, a dark red inverted eye pattern was slowly rotating.
Fourth rank, fifth level, Vice Cardinal of the Blood Eye Cult.
He looked at the corpses scattered on the ground, his expression indifferent.
"How many years has it been?"
He said in a low, hoarse voice, "From those prefecture-level cities, to Shanghai, to Beijing, to Shenzhen."
Everyone is hunting us down, everyone is besieging us. They think the Blood Eye Cult is already a disorganized mess.
He looked up, and the crimson moonlight fell on his pale, almost bloodless face.
"After tonight, the world will remember this name again."
Behind him, a fellow believer, also dressed in a red robe, glanced down at the timer on his wrist.
"Your Excellency, there is less than half an hour until midnight. The 30,000-strong demon army outside the city is already waiting at various assembly points."
The Scaled Pythons of Heize, the Crimson-Eyed Fox Clan of Qingqiu, and the Iron-Spine Rhinoceros Herd of Woniu Mountain are all in place. They await only your signal…
"No rush."
The cardinal waved his hand, turned around, and looked over the city walls of Hangzhou, over the lights of countless homes in the city, and onto the direction in the very center of the city.
The Superpowered Individuals Association Building. The core of Hangzhou's sealing array. The hub that has suppressed the Abyss Demon Cave for hundreds of years.
"Our mission is to open the door. Once the door is open, what's inside will naturally overturn this city for us."
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at the same time.
The entrance to the Underground Abyss Demon Cave beneath Hangzhou.
This place should have been one of the most heavily guarded areas in Hangzhou.
The entrance to the Abyss Cave is located directly below the Superpower Association building, where the city's most elite troops and a Superpower Association garrison are stationed year-round.
The entrance was surrounded by sealing runes.
The patterns on the ground, the engravings on the walls, and the light arrays on the dome layered upon each other, forming a giant barrier that firmly locked the exit of the demon cave.
This sealing array has been in operation for hundreds of years.
It restricted the exit of the Abyss Demon Cave to the second tier. Only Shadow Abyss Wolves of the second tier and below could slip through the gaps in the sealing array to the surface, while all those of the second tier and above were suppressed underground.
For hundreds of years, the Shadow Abyss Wolf clan has tried countless times to break through the seal, but has never succeeded.
But now, the place is in ruins, and the light of some of the sealing runes has gone out.
Broken rune stones were scattered on the ground, the engravings on the walls were violently erased by some force, and the light array on the dome seemed to have been torn in half, with only a few remaining rays of light flickering weakly.
Corpses were everywhere.
The uniforms of the city garrison and the badges of the Superpowered Association were scattered on the ground, and some people's weapons were still not drawn.
A figure wearing a deep red cloak stood in the center of the ruins of the sealing array.
He was a bit older than the cardinal in the western suburbs, and his temples were gray.
Fifth rank, third level, a cardinal of the Blood Eye Cult.
On the ground in front of him was a huge blood-red magic circle.
The magic circle's patterns were extremely intricate, with each line subtly undulating.
In the center of the magic circle, directly opposite the entrance to the demon cave, stands a dark red bone staff, the crystal at the top of which is emitting wave after wave of red light.
He raised his head and looked into the depths of the demon's lair.
In the darkness, a pair of eerie green pupils slowly lit up, then a second pair, a third pair, a tenth pair, and a hundredth pair.
Countless tiny, eerie green lights illuminated the darkness.
A deep wolf howl came from the depths of the earth, and a Shadow Abyss Wolf emerged from the darkness.
It has the head of a wolf and the body of a human, and is over three meters tall. Its fur is dark silver and its pupils are dark green.
Fifth-tier Shadow Abyss Wolf.
The moment it stepped out of the cave, its powerful aura caused the red robe of the Blood Eye Cult's cardinal to flutter backward.
But instead of backing away, he opened his arms.
"The seal has been broken. From this moment on, there will be no more restrictions on exits below the fifth rank from the Abyss Demon Cave."
The fifth-tier Shadow Abyss Wolf lowered its head, its eerie green pupils staring at him for a long while.
"His Majesty asked me to convey to you that the Shadow Abyss Wolf Clan has remembered the Blood Eye Sect's sincerity. After tonight, Hangzhou City will belong to us. What you want, we don't want."
"very good."
The cardinal nodded, then turned to look at the other red-robed cultists at the edge of the magic circle.
"Pass down the order—at midnight, the moment when the crimson moon on the night of the full moon reaches its brightest."
Simultaneously, 30,000 demons outside the city were mobilized to besiege Hangzhou from the west, south, and north, thus tying down the main force of the city's defenses. The Shadow Wolves from the Abyss Demon Cave directly stormed in from underground within the city, launching a pincer attack.
He held up two fingers.
"Two hours. Before dawn, the sealing array over this layer of Hangzhou will be completely destroyed. At that time, all nine layers of the Abyss Demon Cave will be connected—the Ninth-Order Shadow Abyss Wolf King will personally raze Hangzhou to the ground."
The fifth-tier Shadow Abyss Wolf raised its head and let out a long howl.
In the dark depths of the demon's lair, countless wolf howls rang out simultaneously.
The entire Abyss Demon Cave has awakened!