OBS Chapter 618 - 616: Mountain Village
Chapter 618 - 616: Mountain Village
After tossing in more than a dozen corpses in a row, the blood-red vines seemed to have had their fill. They slowly dragged themselves along, retreating from the Divine Temple’s main gate back to the base of the wall.
"It should be fine now, right, Mr. Diego?"
Lieutenant Marcus, seeing this, immediately turned his head to look at Diego.
"I don’t know either!"
Diego shook his head.
When he saw this scene before, he hadn’t had anyone try to push open the gate.
And later, when Lieutenant Hussein and the others forced their way into the Divine Temple, he hadn’t been there.
So given the situation now, he really didn’t know whether there was still danger or not.
"Find someone to run a test. See if that gate can be pushed open!"
Lieutenant Marcus rubbed his chin, then said in a low voice.
"Find who?"
Hearing this, Diego couldn’t help being slightly stunned.
Even though those flesh-eating vines had withdrawn, nobody knew if there was still any danger near the Divine Temple’s main gate.
If there really was danger, going up to push the door would be a one-way ticket to death!
"We’ve got a few perfect test subjects right here, don’t we?"
Lieutenant Marcus suddenly smiled, his gaze drifting over to Kalu and the others.
"This... this isn’t really appropriate, is it?"
Diego had just been about to refuse, but the moment his eyes met Lieutenant Marcus’s, he instantly changed his tune.
That half-smile on the other man’s face, and the cold glint in his eyes, already said everything that needed to be said.
If he spoke out against it now, given the guy’s personality, there was a good chance he’d end up staring down the barrel of a gun, being forced to go open the door himself.
He really despised people who treated human life like it was nothing, but right now he was completely helpless.
"Heh."
Lieutenant Marcus let out a cold chuckle, then turned his gaze on Kalu and the others.
"You five, go up there and push that gate open!"
He barked the order coldly.
"U-us?"
Kalu pointed at himself, wondering if he’d misheard.
"Move it! I don’t have the patience to play games with you!"
Lieutenant Marcus’s expression grew even colder, his voice laced with impatience.
The surrounding Eagle Country soldiers were also eyeing them like a pack of wolves.
"Gulp."
This scene made Kalu and the others swallow hard, despite themselves.
Laid out before them now were exactly three paths.
The first path was to refuse the order.
But the likely outcome of refusal was to get turned into a beehive.
The second path was to say nothing and just turn and run.
The end result, though, would probably be the same as the first path.
As for the last path, that was to follow the order and go push open the Divine Temple’s main gate.
But that path was also full of danger!
They were no longer the clueless idiots they’d been when they first arrived on the island.
The level of danger in the Blood-colored Divine Temple was far beyond anything they had imagined.
Just the flesh-eating vines in front of the gate alone had almost cost them their lives.
Now, although the blood-red vines had retreated to the base of the wall, who the hell knew if there was some other danger lurking around the Divine Temple’s gate.
After thinking it over, Kalu said in a low voice, "Let me do it."
The other four, hearing this, looked at him in surprise.
They had all wanted to say those same words, but in the end, none of them did.
Under everyone’s gaze, Kalu, his heart in his throat, walked towards the Divine Temple’s main gate one step at a time.
As he neared the shriveled corpses, he glanced down, and was almost so frightened he screamed.
The expressions on some of the corpses’ faces were disturbingly "vivid."
With just one look, it felt like you could taste the agony they’d gone through before they died.
"God bless me, God bless me..."
Kalu muttered the phrase several times in a row. Forcing himself to stop looking down, he staggered his way over the pile of bodies.
Once he crossed the corpses, what he naturally faced was that blood-red gate.
Kalu took a deep breath and slowly reached his hand toward the gate.
The closer he got, the harder his heart pounded.
In the end, he simply shut his eyes, clenched his teeth, and shoved forward with all his strength.
"Creak..."
The pain Kalu had imagined never came.
Instead, a teeth-grating creak of the door swinging open rang by his ears.
He hurriedly opened his eyes, joy spreading across his face.
The Divine Temple’s gate had been pushed open by his hands.
And he was still alive!
"Enter the Divine Temple!"
Seeing Kalu successfully open the gate, Lieutenant Marcus waved his hand in a big gesture and immediately led Diego and the others through it.
But after they passed through the gate, the sight that unfolded before their eyes made everyone involuntarily furrow their brows.
What appeared in front of them wasn’t the various temple structures they’d imagined.
It was a winding, rugged mountain path.
The time here wasn’t night either, but the moment when the sun was sinking in the west.
The last streak of afterglow spilled over the earth, dyeing everything orange-red.
And on both sides of the mountain path, wisps of cooking smoke rose from one dilapidated wooden shack after another.
This bizarre scene left everyone present completely dumbfounded.
Where the hell was this?
Hadn’t they just entered the Blood-colored Divine Temple?
How had it suddenly turned into a mountain village?
Lieutenant Marcus and Diego exchanged a glance, the shock in each other’s eyes plain as day.
This Blood-colored Divine Temple was indeed extraordinarily mysterious!
Maybe they really could obtain something here that possessed an Extraordinary Ability!
With that thought, the shock in Lieutenant Marcus’s eyes swiftly turned into delight.
"Let’s find someone first and ask what this place is."
Lieutenant Marcus said softly.
"Yeah."
Diego nodded lightly, indicating his agreement.
In a place this mysterious and strange, they absolutely couldn’t act blindly.
Because no one knew where danger might be lurking.
One misstep, and all of their lives might end here.
After reaching a consensus with Diego, Lieutenant Marcus immediately led everyone to a wooden hut at the foot of the mountain.
In fact, there were two small wooden huts at the foot of the mountain.
One was completely quiet, while the other had smoke rising from it.
Lieutenant Marcus guessed there had to be someone, or something, inside the one with the smoke.
So he led the group straight there.
"Don’t go over there, that house is haunted!"
But just then, someone suddenly called out to them.
Hearing the voice, Lieutenant Marcus and the others quickly looked in its direction.
They saw that the door of the other, smokeless hut had been pushed open.
A middle-aged man with yellow skin, about forty or so, was standing there, waving at them.
Clearly, he was the one who had just shouted.
More importantly, he was speaking Eagle Country language!
Lieutenant Marcus licked his thick lips, a look of wary surprise flashing in his eyes.
At this moment, the middle-aged man glanced around furtively, then suddenly strode over, running toward them.
"Stop! Stop! Stop!"
Seeing this, Marcus quickly drew his pistol and shouted at the man.
The other Eagle Country soldiers also raised their guns, aiming at the newcomer in unison.
"D-don’t shoot!"
Seeing this, the middle-aged man hurriedly stopped and raised both hands.
"Who are you?"
Marcus asked with a frown.
The middle-aged man smiled and replied, "My name is Zhang Songkang..."