Chapter 111
Chapter 111: An Attempt: Part 3
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
A crimson glow shone through the window onto Lin Sheng’s insteps . Holding his wooden shield in one hand and his great sword in the other, Lin Sheng stood with determination behind the burglary-proof door of his home . He wanted to go out . He could not stand the snail’s pace in the dream version of his home any longer . He needed more actual fights to absorb more souls . He was curious about the strangeness of his home in the dream realm and what the bizarre environment on the outside meant . He seriously wondered about it, so he made up his mind and opened the door to venture outside .
Lin Sheng leaned his sword against the wall, freeing his hand to grab the door handle and give it a gentle twist . As the door opened with a soft click, he quickly released his hand and gripped the great sword . Using his leg, he softly pushed the burglary-proof door open .
Outside was a pitch-dark stairway . Not the faintest sign of light was present except for the soft crimson glow that emanated out from his house . There was a figure on the stairway, outside the unit opposite Lin Sheng’s house .
It was a tall, slender man, who was dressed in white and standing with his back facing Lin Sheng . Lin Sheng could hear the man rummaging for his keys to open the door . But, the man had been standing there in the same posture, like a statue, since the moment Lin Sheng saw him, and that raised Lin Sheng’s suspicion .
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Whenever Lin Sheng opened the door of his house, it would make a faint protesting creak, and this time was no exception . The loud, brassy creak attracted the attention of the man, who visibly dropped his hand from his door handle, seemingly about to turn around .
Lin Sheng licked his lips, bracing his wooden shield in front of him while he firmly clenched the great sword in his hand . He was ready for anything . Then, he heard the man panting as if he was in extreme fear, sweating and gasping desperately .
Suddenly, there was a click followed by the sound of a door opening . The burglary-proof door opposite Lin Sheng’s house had opened . The man tardily entered the house and closed the door without looking over the other side at all . Lin Sheng frowned . He carried his shield and stepped outside, eager to explore his surroundings and see what was unusual out there .
All of a sudden, the door of the opposite unit swung open with a loud bang . Two figures, a man and a woman, with pale faces grinned wickedly at Lin Sheng from the doorway . It was Aunt Chen and one of her family members .
Lin Sheng was transfixed as he turned around and slammed the door shut . He braced himself against it, standing behind his shield .
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*Bang, bang!*
Shortly after, someone slammed against the door from the outside . The burglary-proof door became deformed under the violent force, which sent Lin Sheng tumbling several steps back . He almost fell to the floor .
“Sacred Blood!” He roared in fury, his body swelling as he forcefully thrust his great sword at the door . Almost at the same time, a ferocious impact from the outside broke the entrance apart, sending the entire iron door flying straight in Lin Sheng’s direction . His great sword, which was pointing forward right then, instantly penetrated the iron door, producing a horrible metal scraping sound in the process . Lin Sheng felt his sword hit something hard—a stone, or maybe a stump—and he felt a violent vibration run up his arm . He gripped the hilt of his sword as tightly as possible despite the pain . The sheer force of the impact sent him flying backward again, and he came to an abrupt halt as he crashed into the wall behind him . Blood instantly spurted out of his mouth .
However, it seemed that the people on the other side were in no better condition . They dropped the iron door and faded into a pair of white shadows before they disappeared along the stairway into the opposite apartment unit . Then, the door of the unit was slowly shut and locked .
“The heck?!” Lin Sheng defiantly got to his feet with the support of his sword . “Are they as hurt as I am?” He managed a smile and barely moved a few steps before needing to stabilize himself again . With the sacred power in his body, Lin Sheng began to heal his injuries . One of the pros of gaining the sacred power was that he could use it to treat his injuries anytime, anywhere .
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Once he regained his health, Lin Sheng was all the more fearless . Carrying his sword and shield, he stepped toward the completely dark stairway again . He could choose to either go up or down . “Down it is . ” Lin Sheng quickly moved down the stairs with his Sacred Blood still in effect . But as he walked down the stairs, he sensed something strangely amiss; the staircase was longer than he remembered . By right, it should have only been thirteen steps, but he had taken twenty, yet it was still not the end . Furthermore…
Lin Sheng looked to his sides carefully, and under the faint crimson glow from his house, he quickly found another strange phenomenon; there were no handrails on either side . The never-ending staircase extended downward, and there was only infinite darkness on both sides . Peering into the dark, Lin Sheng felt like he was standing in a vast space of utter darkness, and the staircase was the only solid ground on which he stood .
“This goddamn place!” Lin Sheng quickly backed up until he was in front of his house again . He cautiously glanced at his neighbor’s house, then up the stairway . Without hesitation, he went upstairs with his sword and shield in hand .
One floor after another, he climbed . The doors of the houses—two on each floor—were tightly shut . However, that was not a problem . The things that baffled him were the security doors; they appeared more ancient as he got higher up, and the doors on the upper floors had engravings on the surface, engravings of ancient patterns . It was too dark for him to see clearly, though .
He climbed four levels up before he stopped and looked back down . The faint crimson glow from his house was still visible, and it gave him some sense of security even though he had just been attacked a while ago . Perhaps it was the light itself that gave him the feeling . “People are usually drawn to light, it’s human nature . ” Lin Sheng chuckled in a self-deprecating manner . He fired up the sacred power in his body to light up the edge of his wooden shield . It consumed little of his energy to provide illumination .
With the white light, Lin Sheng could see his surroundings more clearly . Moss almost covered the entire surface of the walls along the stairway, and the paint in most parts of the walls had also peeled off, exposing the light-colored concrete walls beneath . The stairway’s lighting was not of the incandescent type, instead, there were retro oil lamps in black glass housings . The two doors on both sides of each floor were equally unusual; they were utterly rusty as if they had not been in operation for years .
Lin Sheng thought for a moment, and he cast his eyes on the door on his left, which was strangely rustier than the one on the other side . He braced his wooden shield for a Shield Bash and was prepared to break into the house . Just then, the door before him slowly became ajar .