Returning From Level 900

292 Steam Sauna

The brown-robed old man led the way.

He reached the end of the corridor and pushed open an iron door. He extended his hand and gestured the way inside. He motioned for Wang Wen to enter with a strange smile on his face.

Wang Wen straightened his lapels and smiled politely at him, like a noble and elegant gentleman. Then he walked through the door.

The iron door behind him was closed after a few steps.

The old man did not follow him in.

Wang Wen stood still and looked around.

It was a sealed room.

The surrounding area was illuminated after the metal door at the entrance was closed.

The wall had turned transparent.

The brown-robed old man was standing outside the wall, looking at him with a mocking expression.

The old man’s slightly proud voice came through the transparent wall and the iron door. “Only emissaries and sacrificial beings can see God. Since you don’t look like an emissary, you can only be a sacrifice for God.”

The voice faded.

The temperature in the sealed room rose quickly, and it was red in the blink of an eye.

Wang Wen looked through the transparent wall and nodded. “I’m guessing the so-called sacrifice should not be alive, right?”

The brown-robed old man looked at Wang Wen, who had appeared beside him, as if he had seen a ghost, and said in shock, “How did you get out?”

“You just learned teleportation not long ago. Isn’t it amazing?” Wang Wen smiled. “If I didn’t want to conserve my energy, I wouldn’t even need you to lead me to your god. Of course, you can also send him to me.”

‘But that might drain me dry,’ Wang Wen thought.

“You—” The old man was so angry that his beard shook.

But he had character.

He quickly calmed down.

“Very good. It is indeed extraordinary. You’re qualified to see God,” he said calmly.

“You set me up,” Wang Wen said curiously. “Why do you think you can still live?”

“To live is to handle affairs for God in the world, and to die is to return to God’s side to enjoy happiness.” The old man smiled confidently and said, “Besides, didn’t you want to see God? If you kill me, no one will take you to God.”

“That’s reasonable.” Wang Wen nodded and pointed to the room that was slowly cooling down. “One last question. If I did not leave just now and let you take the lead, would you go in with me into the sauna room?”

“Sauna?” The brown-robed old man was confused for a moment before coming to a realization. “Of course not. You’ve passed the test and have the right to know the secret. If I enter the room first, the iron door will close, but the passage outside will be heated. Simple, right?”

Wang Wen nodded thoughtfully. “So it’s blocking from both sides. It’s indeed a test.”

He held the scepter and waved it gently.

The body of the brown-robed old man was instantly engulfed in flames.

“I’m sorry,” Wang Wen said apologetically. “I’m not skilled enough to learn another way of heating, so I have to use fire. Just bear with it for a while. It’ll be fine soon.”

The old man’s expression changed abruptly, and he continued turning water vapor to pour on his body, but it could not extinguish the fire. He screamed in pain after a while; even the gas he spat out had sparked.

“Why?” he asked Wang Wen, unable to understand. “Don’t you want to see God?”

“Yes, I do.”

Wang Wen raised a transparent barrier to block the old man’s dying counterattack. He quietly watched him turn into charcoal and said softly, “I don’t want to continue troubling you, old man. You’re already so old, so it’s better to return to your god and enjoy life.”

“Level progress increased by one point.”

“It’s so hard to see your god; let him come to me then.”

Wang Wen muttered to himself as he turned around and returned to the tunnel’s entrance.

Outside the metal wall...

Ren Ruoruo, who was enjoying watching everyone eat bread, suddenly floated into the air.

She noticed that the bottoms of her feet no longer had the solid feeling of being lifted by her captain as they had in the past.

A sense of foreboding flashed through her heart.

She did not care about anything else.

She took out the Great Sage and transformed, somersaulting a few hundred meters away.

After she stopped, she realized that her body was still floating back to its original position.

However, she could see the giant face in the sky from that angle.

She was shocked.

She quickly grabbed Zhu Xingguo and flipped further away.

She was willing to flip it to the end to see how big that world was then.

But it was too late.

A familiar hexagon trapped the two.

The pressure increased.

Even with Zhu Xingguo and Ren Ruoruo’s Level 6 physiques, they still found breathing hard, and their bones and joints cracked.

The face in the air fell and said with a loud voice, “You’re the one who’s stealing my power, you despicable and dirty thief.”

People on the ground fled in terror.

Fear crushed them when they saw their oppressor’s big boss appear.

They did not even take the leftover Gourmet Bread before they ran away.

Ren Ruoruo hugged Zhu Xingguo, and her body expanded quickly in an attempt to break through the hexahedron.

Who knew that her body, which was getting bigger and bigger, was pressing down on the hexahedron so much that she could not break free from the restraints?

She quickly stopped growing.

Her gaze flickered as she looked at the hexahedron. She discovered that there were two ways to break it.

One, she could break it with force.

Or she could interrupt the spellcaster.

Ren Ruoruo paused for a moment before looking up at the face in the air.

The face was a little illusory, and it was difficult to tell whether it was real.

Half a second later, the analysis result of the Broken Might-level scientific decipherment was empty.

It proved that the target’s body was not there.

She took the Elixir of Life from Zhu Xingguo and drank it, then put a few pieces of ginseng in her mouth.

She used her transcendent skill, Hostile Perception.

Her Level 5 Hostile Perception could last for 2 hours and had a 12-hour cooldown. It could detect hostility within a 1,000-meter radius!

Once the skill was used...

Ren Ruoruo had a distinct feeling. It was as if she had a thermal image scanner in front of her. Zhu Xingguo and the people fleeing below appeared to live lives devoid of temperature or color.

Different orange orbs of light were moving inside the metal wall in the distance.

At the top, there was also a bright ball of light that was almost red.

If she was not mistaken, the spell caster must have trapped them.

Ren Ruoruo looked at the distance and saw they were at least a few hundred meters away.

She felt helpless.

There was no way she could interrupt her opponent over such a long distance.

The two were trapped inside the hexahedron, and the increasing pressure was starting to damage their flesh, blood, bones, and even internal organs.

Even more troublesome was that the hexahedron seemed to isolate the air from the outside world, making it more and more difficult for the two to breathe.

“You should leave the tower. There’s no other way,” Zhu Xingguo said to Ren Ruoruo.

Ren Ruoruo plucked a few feathers and blew out a few little Great Sages. Together, they knocked on the hexahedron in an attempt to break it by force. She asked, “What about you?”

“I can still hold on for a little longer.” Zhu Xingguo took out an electric drill with a battery from the Fair Exchange and drilled it into the hexahedron, but there was no reaction.

He sold the electric drill and took out a beam gun, shooting at the hexahedron.

At that time, the hexahedron reacted.

The hexahedron became even brighter and smoother after being hit by the beam gun’s self-destructive saturated attack.

The human face in the air laughed loudly, and it was unclear how his voice got into the hexahedron. “You are such a moron. You are attacking me with my power. How can it be efficient?”

Something did not feel right to Ren Ruoruo.