91 Explosion

After Lou Xiaoning’s right eyeball was removed, her strange moaning stopped. Instead, a dullness came over her. The field of abnormal energy had disappeared, so the team could look at her now. Gu Jun continued the last step of closing the wounds in the eye socket; he was using catgut. Finally, he applied some antibiotics into the conjunctival sac and then stuffed it with cotton to make a pressure bandage over the single eye. Finally, the operation was officially over. Just as Gu Jun sighed in relief, the system pinged in his mind.

“You have participated in a successful two-star surgery, enucleation of an abnormal eye. Personal contribution: seventy-five percent, rank 1.

“Your mastery of Hands of Dexterity has increased by one thousand points. Your current level is level two (25,000/30,000 Mastery)

“Current quest accumulative contribution: 185 percent. Difficult quest completed!

“Quest reward waiting to be accepted: One Carlot Scalpel. Please click to receive your reward.”

Gu Jun had almost forgotten about the quest. Only then did he realize that he was still within the quest’s time limit. Even though he wanted to know what was so special about the scalpel, he could not retrieve it before the Demon Hunters. The mastery of Hands of Dexterity had increased probably due to the fact that was his first ocular enucleation, and he did it under the influence of some darker power. He then moved the foot that had crushed the eyeball. He first took a glance at it; the eyeball was now a mess on the ground. Crystalline liquid and blood splattered on the ground, but the maddening horror that it inspired had disappeared without a trace.

Xue Ba, Uncle Dan, and the rest saw this as well, but none of them said anything. After all, they had almost lost their minds earlier. Theoretically speaking, this kind of magical object that could trigger madness in others had extremely high research value, but considering their circumstances, what Gu Jun had done was the most correct choice.

In any case, they still needed to deal with the red door. This time, Xue Ba led Gu Jun and three marksmen down to the red door to inspect it again. Other than looking through the keyhole, Gu Jun studied everything. He touched everything within his grasp, even pulling down the two oil lamps, but nothing happened.

“Ah Jun, what do you think?” Xue Ba asked seriously. “Would you like to chance a glance through the hole?”

He was not joking. After all, Gu Jun had been proven to be different from them. They would go mad from looking through the keyhole, but Gu Jun might trigger some mechanism. Of course, this was not an order. He was merely asking for Gu Jun’s opinion, or more specifically, asking him for any inspiration.

“Definitely not!” Gu Jun replied without hesitation. He did not hide his thoughts anymore. “Guys, I am a movie buff, and in most horror movies, doing something like that is no different from asking for death. Most often, the correct solution is to turn around and walk away.”

Xue Ba and Gao Mingpeng were stunned. ‘What does this have to do with any movies?’

Zhou Yi glanced at Captain Xue. It seemed their team had gained another member who would launch into nonsensical non-sequitur.

“But since our exit has been blocked, the only way is forward. Blow it down.” Gu Jun studied the red door that was 1.5 meters wide and 2.5 meters tall. “We’ll use C4 to blow it down.”

The group was both intrigued and apprehensive. The suggestion provided was irrevocable.

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“What if that is exactly what the enemy wants us to do?” Xue Ba’s face was lined with creases from all the thinking. “To get us to release the thing from behind the door?”

“Three, two…”

At that moment, everyone was as serious they had ever been. Gu Jun stood in the middle of the group. His lips curled into a derisive smile. ‘Whispers, red door, let’s see how you fare against an explosion.’

“One!” Xue Ba pressed on the detonator.

Following a loud boom, the team felt the whole stone tunnel shake. The air appeared to have stilled. Ahead came the sound of something crumbling. It echoed for a long time. The explosion was huge.

“Charge!” Xue Ba picked up the rifle and personally led the assault team to storm into the room. Their eyes were blazing with fire no weaker than the one from the explosion.

When they rushed down the steps, they saw it was already a mess around the ten thousandth step. Some of the stone walls had collapsed, and the red door had disappeared, leaving behind some broken red wooden chips on the ruined ground.

‘They have spells, but we have explosives.’