Landing 500 Years Early, I Became a God by Digging for Treasures 148

Chapter 145: The Duel Between the Ghost and the Demon

Lu Yuan sighed softly, unable to think of a truly safe plan.

“Might as well rest a bit longer and wear down their patience… I need to take care of these scars, lest I bleed out later.”

The oppressive atmosphere persisted.

The entire anomaly lab fell silent once more.

Old Cat, observing Lu Yuan escaping between the Ghost and the Demon, couldn’t help but marvel. This guy was truly something, always managing to survive desperate situations.

Its core, a small sphere, rolled back into its dilapidated body, diligently creating a “creak creak” noise—anything to momentarily distract the Demon… well, it was better than nothing.

At that moment, another change occurred!

The sealed Ghost became active again.

Slowly turning its head, it looked towards the mirror.

Bubbles appeared within the resin.

Approximately every fifteen seconds, it would attempt to break the seal, its pupils gleaming with a chilling light.

This lasted about five seconds.

Then followed a ten-second period of calm.

Of course, this cycle wasn’t entirely fixed; sometimes it would suddenly attack the next second, but the average cycle was around fifteen seconds.

This ghostly thing repeated this cycle endlessly, a perpetual motion machine of pure will.

Hidden in the Astral Space, Lu Yuan watched the Ghost attack the mirror, feeling a strange sense of satisfaction at seeing the villains fight each other.

“A Demon with intelligence is far more dangerous to me than a sealed Ghost.”

“Can that Ghost even kill the Demon?”

Gradually, the mirror reflected the Ghost’s head.

The rotting skull’s eyelids twitched like someone having an epileptic seizure.

The Demon, using its “body manipulation” ability, forcibly closed the Ghost’s eyes slightly.

Abilities certainly had varying strengths, but often it was a case of everyone fighting their own battles.

Even if this Ghost was incredibly powerful, it couldn’t affect Lu Yuan in the Astral Space, as the Ghost lacked spatial abilities.

A terrifying thought suddenly occurred to Lu Yuan: “Can the Demon possess the Ghost?”

The Ghost was incredibly powerful, but possession was an absolute ability of the Demon.

An absolute ability meant reaching the pinnacle of a certain field.

“If it succeeds, what would a Ghost with intelligence be?”

However, it seemed unlikely.

The mirror was under the Ghost’s relentless attack.

Even a sealed perpetual motion machine of pure will, in a prolonged war of attrition, was more than the Demon could handle.

Lu Yuan vaguely understood the intentions of the Great Rai Empire.

Demons were one of the four great calamities—extremely dangerous and capable of manipulating hearts.

Using a purely willful life form that ignored reason to suppress them was the most suitable approach.

“But why is the Ghost attacking the Demon?”

“Could it be due to complementary abilities?”

One controlled blood, the other controlled the body.

These two abilities were indeed complementary.

However, stealing an ability was difficult and required “sealing.”

Did the Ghost possess the ability to steal abilities?

Lu Yuan wasn’t sure.

Another possibility was that the Demon possessed intelligence, meaning a higher “divine attribute.”

Ghosts were inherently inclined to hunt species with high divine attributes—as apex predators, they were simply unreasonable; even if you were a Demon, they would eat you.

Lu Yuan watched the two entities endlessly fight, feeling hesitant.

“Should I escape while the mirror is under attack?”

“But if I cancel the Astral Space, the Ghost might attack me again.”

The situation was tricky.

If he didn’t appear, the two would continue their endless fight.

If he appeared, he’d be attacked by both.

Even though escaping the room only took a fraction of a second, Lu Yuan worried his speed wouldn’t match these incomprehensible beings.

“Forget it, my mental state is poor, and teleportation… isn’t reliable,” Lu Yuan bit his lip hard.

The Ghost’s attack had injured his brain and soul, and he was still seeing stars.

“I’d better rely on physics to escape.”

Lu Yuan clearly remembered being tripped by a rope while under the Demon’s control, losing his balance and falling.

The entire fall was governed by pure physical laws.

The mirror couldn’t prevent him from falling due to loss of balance.

“Therefore, physical force is definitely effective.”

“As for the Ghost, I just need to avoid its attack cycle to avoid harm.”

Thinking this, Lu Yuan retrieved a large sphere from his storage space.

Well, it was actually the damaged communication device; all the internal components had been removed, but the metal shell still weighed over 300 kilograms.

Lu Yuan used a rope to tie himself to the communication device.

He wanted to use the metal sphere’s inertia to forcibly propel himself outwards.

“I shall pull up mountains and shake the world! Go!” Lu Yuan glowed red, straining his muscles as he lifted the metal sphere, preparing for his desperate escape.

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However, just as Lu Yuan was about to escape,

a variable

appeared again.

A pitch-black shadow slowly raised its head from an inconspicuous corner.

Very dark, very dim.

Like a dense, wriggling mass of lead.

From a distance of over ten meters, the Explorer’s Eye couldn’t see clearly what it was.

But there was definitely a black shadow, like a spider, crouching on the ground, extending its limbs, slowly moving.

It was obviously an anomaly, one that wasn’t sealed.

“Damn it, what now? Did my intrusion wake it up?”

Seeing the shadow, Lu Yuan’s forehead broke into a sweat; he was in a difficult position.

“Something that can survive the battle between the Demon and the Ghost can’t be weak.”

Lu Yuan felt his mind numb, a dense sense of terror enveloping him.

He didn’t have much time to choose.

Why did I, a level three being, end up in this kind of dungeon?!

The unknown anomaly was awakening, and the confrontation between the Ghost and the Demon continued.

He didn’t know what would happen after that thing awakened.

The next second, the Ghost’s gaze slowly stopped.

It was sealed again by the resin.

Lu Yuan made his choice… he had to escape!

Delay meant danger.

He had to escape while the Ghost was sealed and the black shadow hadn’t fully awakened!

“Aaah!!!” At the last moment, Lu Yuan put a tent on his head, hugging the metal sphere, his legs bursting with incredible power as he leaped towards the door, simultaneously throwing the metal sphere towards the exit.

Due to excessive force, Lu Yuan felt his ears ringing, his heart pounding like it would explode, and the tendons in his arms and legs were on the verge of tearing.

The Astral Space was canceled, and Lu Yuan and the metal sphere suddenly appeared in the large room, arcing through the air.

At this moment, the Ghost was still sealed and didn’t attack Lu Yuan.

Only the Demon attacked him.

The mirror almost instantly reflected Lu Yuan’s image.

Although he had a tent on his head, the mirror’s ability wasn’t that easily blocked.

In a mere instant, less than 0.001 seconds, Lu Yuan was controlled.

Lu Yuan had guessed correctly again.

“Body manipulation” had a lightspeed activation speed; if he had stayed still and used spatial teleportation, he would have been controlled again.

But now his body was twisting in mid-air, unable to borrow any force; even if controlled, he couldn’t stop.

The large sphere, however, still possessed considerable inertia, “thumping” to the ground and rolling towards the door.

The rope stretched taut.

Pulling Lu Yuan, who was in mid-air, back up.

It was a brilliant arc.

The “body manipulation” ability, however strong, couldn’t stop someone flying in the air from dashing towards the door.

The figure in the mirror twisted constantly, attempting to break free from the damn rope.

But at this moment, the Demon was clearly defeated.

Inertia was a law of physics.

“Body manipulation” couldn’t erase that inertia.

Lu Yuan’s body crashed heavily out of the room.

As the figure in the mirror disappeared, control over his body returned.

Lu Yuan’s pupils glowed red. He clenched his fist, letting out a joyful taunt: “Who else? Damn it! I escaped!”

“It was just a little difficult.”

He quickly bounced off the ground, threw the rope, deftly wrapping it around the doorknob, intending to close the damn door.

The next moment, the door frame made a “crack” sound.

Something was jammed in the doorway.

The door wouldn’t close!!

It was the awakened black shadow, catching up.

“Was I possessed by Huang Xudong just now? Why did I jinx myself?!”

Lu Yuan cursed inwardly, turning his head.

He saw a pair of gleaming green eyes staring at him, their pupils reflecting the oil lamps on the ground.

A Ghost?

A Ghost… breaking free?!

No, it was… it was…

A turtle.

A turtle?!

A black turtle, about two meters in diameter, was jammed in the doorway.

Its dark eyes stared coldly at Lu Yuan, as if trying to see through his thoughts.

“Ah!” Lu Yuan roared.

“Waaaa!” The turtle let out an even louder roar, struggling wildly in the doorway.

Its shell pressed against the door, its strength like a bulldozer, threatening to break the exquisite sealing door.

[Anomaly: Undying Giant Turtle, an anomaly that has lived since ancient times, existing in the form of a turtle.]

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(PS: I originally wanted to introduce a new character, Rat King, to clash with Orange Cat, but I still prefer turtles, and this role suits a turtle better. Ultimately, it’s a matter of probability.)

(Although there was a turtle in the previous book, as long as the character design is different, there’s no problem.)

(Some people say my work is too similar to the previous one, but by now, the worldview is quite different, right?)

(Finally, please vote for me! I’m about to fall out of the top 100 QAQ!)

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