God Slayer: Make Up for the Past

Chu Feng jerked his hand away. The symbols on the parchment seemed to come alive, twisting and wriggling. A chill ran from his fingertips straight into his heart, and he instinctively sensed danger. Pan Yue immediately stepped forward and grabbed Chu Feng, "Be careful, this thing is evil!"

"What...what is this?" a rescued woman asked in horror, her voice trembling.

"I'm afraid it's some kind of evil spirit's curse." Senior Wei Night Watchman said in a deep voice. He stepped forward and examined the parchment carefully, his brow furrowed. "I've never seen the symbols on it before."

"No matter what it is, we can't stay here." Chu Feng made a quick decision, "We must find an exit as soon as possible."

Everyone cautiously exited the room, and the atmosphere in the theater grew increasingly oppressive. "We have to find another way out," Pan Yue analyzed, looking around. "The theater's front entrance is blocked, and the back door is also enchanted. We can only break through from somewhere else."

Senior Wei Night Watchman nodded. "I know a thing or two about the structure of this theater. Perhaps we can find a passage to the basement. There may be other exits there."

The group groped their way forward along the dim corridor, their nervous breathing echoing in the theater. The victim's condition was getting worse and worse. His face was pale and his breath was weak. He tightly grasped Chu Feng's arm, his eyes filled with fear and despair.

"Hold on!" Chu Feng encouraged him, "We will take you out!" However, Lu the Sacrifice just shook his head weakly, his lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but no sound came out.

Guilt washed over Chu Feng like a tide. If he had noticed the anomaly in the theater sooner, perhaps Lu's victims wouldn't have ended up like this. "Chu Feng, don't blame yourself. The most important thing now is to find the exit." Pan Yue patted his shoulder. "We have to get out of here as soon as possible, otherwise everyone will be in danger."

Researcher Xiong also comforted him: "Chu Feng, you have tried your best. No one could have predicted that something like this would happen."

Chu Feng took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. He knew that now was not the time to be sad and blame himself. He had to cheer up and lead everyone to escape from this hellish place.

Senior Wei the Night Watchman suddenly stopped and pointed to an inconspicuous corner in front of him. "There seems to be a secret door there."

Everyone gathered around immediately. Senior Wei the Night Watchman carefully pushed open the secret door, and a foul smell hit them in the face. Behind the secret door was a narrow passage leading to the unknown darkness.

"This is it," Senior Wei, the Night Watchman, said in a deep voice, "Everyone, be careful and follow me closely." He was the first to step into the passage, followed closely by Chu Feng and Pan Yue. The others followed suit and disappeared into the darkness...

"Wait," Researcher Xiong suddenly whispered, "I... I seem to sense something..."

The air in the dark passage was damp and heavy, the stench of decay nauseating. Chu Feng held a torch in one hand, a dagger tightly gripped in the other, observing his surroundings warily. "This passage... I seem to have some impression of it," he suddenly said, a hint of uncertainty in his tone.

"What impression?" Pan Yue asked, his voice echoing in the narrow passage.

"When I was researching the information about the evil spirit's lair before, I seemed to have seen a similar passage structure," Chu Feng tried to recall. "If I remember correctly, this passage should be able to bypass the evil spirit's main patrol route and lead to another area of ​​the lair."

Senior Wei's eyes lit up, "If that's the case, then we can avoid most of the dangers!"

Researcher Xiong also became excited. "Chu Feng, your memory is amazing! This is a huge help!"

The group followed the direction indicated by Chu Feng. The passage was winding and seemed to have no end. Suddenly, there was a rustling sound from the front, like some kind of creature crawling.

"Shh!" Chu Feng signaled everyone to stop, "There's movement!"

He cautiously poked his head out, and by the light of the fire, he saw a group of hideous evil spirits patrolling along another passage. "That was a close call," Chu Feng whispered, "Luckily we took this route, otherwise we would have run into them head-on."

Everyone held their breath, watching the evil spirit patrol slowly pass by, and only breathed a sigh of relief when their figures disappeared into the darkness. "Chu Feng, you are truly our lucky star!" Tong Yongshi said excitedly, "If it weren't for you, we would be doomed!"

However, before they could rejoice for long, the ground suddenly began to shake violently. "What's going on?!" Pan Yue exclaimed.

"Oh no! The nest's defense mechanism has activated!" Researcher Xiong's face changed drastically. "Get out of the way!"

As soon as he finished speaking, countless sharp stone spikes suddenly pierced out from the ground and walls, like sharp fangs, attacking the crowd. "Scatter!" Senior Wei, the Night Watchman, shouted and dodged first.

Chu Feng grabbed Lu the victim and pushed him to a relatively safe corner, while he nimbly rolled to avoid an incoming stone spike. Pan Yue also reacted quickly, hiding behind a protruding rock. The passage was suddenly in chaos, with stone spikes constantly piercing from all directions. Everyone was forced to scatter and lose contact with each other.

"Ah!" A scream was heard. The young warrior was unable to dodge and was pierced in the arm by a stone spike, and blood gushed out.

"Warrior Tong!" Chu Feng's heart tightened and he wanted to go over to help, but he was blocked by the continuous stone spikes.

At that moment, several evil spirits, lurking in the shadows, took advantage of the chaos and launched an attack. Their figures were ghostly and swift, as they pounced upon the scattered crowd. One evil spirit roared and lunged at Chu Feng, its sharp claws flashing with a cold light. Chu Feng's eyes glared, and he faced the attack fearlessly... "Chu Feng, be careful!" Senior Wei Shouren's voice rang out from a distance.

Chu Feng's eyes flashed, and his dagger flashed a silver light as he charged at the oncoming evil spirit. Its claws, sharp as knives and carrying a sickening stench, fiercely clawed at Chu Feng's chest. Chu Feng dodged sideways, barely avoiding the blow, and stabbed the evil spirit in the abdomen with his backhand. However, the evil spirit's reflexes were incredibly agile. With a roar, it nimbly dodged Chu Feng's attack, and lashed out with its long tail, fiercely sweeping at Chu Feng's legs.

Chu Feng stumbled and nearly fell. At that moment, Senior Wei, the Night Watchman, arrived just in time. With a sharp blow from his sword, he severed the evil spirit's tail. The evil spirit let out a shrill scream and attacked Senior Wei frantically.

Senior Wei Shouren, a seasoned warrior, remained calm and composed in the face of the demonic spirit's onslaught. He wielded his sword with impenetrable force, neutralizing each attack. Chu Feng also regained his composure and joined the fray. The two of them worked in perfect harmony, attacking and defending, gradually suppressing the demonic spirit.

Elsewhere, Pan Yue and Researcher Xiong were also battling other evil spirits. Though Pan Yue was clever and calm, he was inexperienced. While dodging the spirit's attack, he accidentally scratched his arm. Blood flowed down his arm, staining his sleeve red.

"Pan Yue!" Chu Feng's heart tightened upon seeing this, his eyes filled with concern. While battling the evil spirit in front of him, he asked with concern, "How are you?"

"I'm fine," Pan Yue gritted his teeth and endured the pain, "It's just a minor injury, no big deal." He didn't want to distract Chu Feng. He knew that the situation was very critical and any negligence could lead to fatal consequences.

Although Chu Feng was worried, he also knew that now was not the time for sentimental feelings. He took a deep breath, suppressed his worries, and focused even more on battling the evil spirits. In the end, with their tacit cooperation, they eliminated all the evil spirits.

"Are you okay?" Chu Feng came to Pan Yue and carefully examined his wound.

"It's really okay," Pan Yue smiled and comforted, "Let's get out of here quickly. This place is too dangerous."

Senior Wei the Night Watchman also came over, took a look at Pan Yue's wound, and said, "Just give it a simple bandage first, and then we'll move on." He took out some bandages and medicine powder from his backpack and helped Pan Yue treat the wound.

After briefly treating the wound, everyone continued along the passage. At the end of the passage was a huge stone door, carved with strange patterns and emitting an unsettling atmosphere.

Senior Wei, the Night Watchman, walked up to the stone door and carefully examined the pattern on it, his brow furrowed. "This door..." he muttered to himself, as if he had discovered something.

Suddenly, the pattern on the stone door began to flicker, emitting a faint light. The light shone on the walls of the passage, and strange runes appeared on the walls, flickering like some ancient text... Senior Wei Shouren reached out and touched one of the runes, his face suddenly changing. "Not good!"