Chapter 239: Maze Exploration

Alan moved a few stones and through the open gap saw Sunny buried in the rubble.

He was covered in dust and looked very embarrassed.

"Yuli, my leg is stuck by a boulder..." Sunny said with a worried look, "I'm afraid it's broken. It hurts so much, and I can't move..."

"Sister Sunny, don't worry, I'll move the rocks and rescue you!"

"Stop it! With your skinny arms and legs, and your pitiful lack of strength, there's no way you can move a rock weighing thousands of pounds!"

Sunny didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Don't be so stubborn, go find Owen and Jack to help!"

"But, Sister Sunny..." Allen looked troubled, "The way back is blocked by gravel, we can't get out..."

"Ah? I can't be that unlucky..."

Sunny stretched her neck out from the rubble with difficulty and looked behind Alan.

Bang!

Alan was considerate enough to light a torch to provide light for her.

With the help of the firelight, Sunny saw the blocked tunnel, and her heart sank to the bottom.

"It's over, it's over, what should I do?!"

The two of them stared at each other, both with worried looks on their faces.

At this moment, a woman's voice suddenly came from the darkness.

"Ladies, do you need my help?"

Alan pretended to be frightened, stared with wide eyes, and looked towards the dark corner where the sound came from.

A cave quietly opened up in the rubble-covered ground.

The bull-headed princess Minodoro slowly emerged from the ground.

…

In the underground maze, next to the collapsed rubble.

The torches on the wall flickered dim light and shadows.

Sunny sat against the wall and cast a spell on herself to heal her leg injury.

Yuli, the sorceress that Alan parasitized, sat next to Sunny, with her hands on her chin, as if listening.

Sitting on a big rock opposite Alan was the Minotaur Princess, telling about the unjust accusation she had suffered.

“…This is my life story and my experience.”

"I swear in my father's name that not a single word I say is false!"

Tanya looked solemn.

Alan and Sunny looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Yuli, this sounds incredible, what do you think?" Sunny asked in a low voice.

Alan pondered for a few seconds and turned to look at Tanya.

"Ms. Bullhead, first of all, I must thank you for your generosity and for saving Sister Sunny from distress!"

"But that doesn't mean we will just listen to one side of the story."

"Now, repeat the oath you just made."

"Sister Sunny, open the 'Realm of Honesty'!"

Alan instructed the priestess.

"No, that..." Sunny felt a little sorry and asked the sorceress in a low voice, "The Minotaur just dragged me out of the ruins. What if it turns out that she is lying?"

"Let's do what needs to be done," Alan said seriously, "Favors are favors, and truth is truth. The latter is more important than the former."

"You are right! But... isn't that too inhumane..."

When Sunny saw that her companions were more ruthless than herself, she felt guilty and a little sorry for the Minotaur.

However, she is a priestess of Holy Light after all. The pursuit of truth and justice is her creed, and she must ultimately act according to the rules.

Tanya was not panicked at all. She bathed in the holy light and recounted the truth.

"Sister Sunny, is there any response from the 'Realm of Honesty'?"

Alan asked knowingly.

The priestess shook her head and said truthfully: "I can't see any signs that the Minotaur is lying."

After a moment's hesitation, she added another possibility.

"But that doesn't mean she's telling the truth."

"The realm of honesty is not absolutely reliable."

"What if the Minotaur's mental power is much stronger than mine? Even if she lies, my 'Realm of Honesty' won't be able to detect it!"

"Sister Sunny, do you think the Minotaur looks like a person with strong mental power?" Alan asked.

“Uh…” Sunny glanced at Tanya and smiled bitterly, “From her appearance, she doesn’t look smart at all! Logically speaking, her mental strength won’t be stronger than that of an orc, but we can’t rule out this possibility!”

Having said that, she felt that she was making excuses and felt embarrassed.

Alan did not discuss with her whether low-probability events were worth taking seriously, but changed his reasoning angle.

"Sister Sunny, the Bull-Headed Lady said that she did not kill the boys and girls sent to the underground palace, but treated them as servants."

"The servants stayed by her side until not long after, when they were killed by the evil spirits summoned by Princess Ariadne. They were all transformed into bound spirits and hunted down the Minotaur Lady in the underground palace."

"On the other hand, Her Highness Ariadne claims that all the boys and girls sent to the underground palace were killed and eaten by the Minotaur."

“That’s where the contradiction comes in.”

"One of you, Ms. Minotaur or Her Highness Ariadne, must have lied about this!"

"Following this clue, it won't be difficult to find the truth."

Sunny nodded and said in a deep voice: "The concentration of negative energy in this underground palace is abnormally high. There must be undead spirits lurking there. Whether they are evil spirits or not is still unknown."

"Sister Sunny, let's assume that what the Bull-Headed Lady said is true. Those male and female servants killed by the evil spirits must have left behind corpses, right?"

"That's right! Monsters eat people, even the skin and bones. Evil spirits have no interest in flesh and blood, they just desecrate the soul."

Unconsciously, Sunny's thoughts were guided by Allen.

"Sorceress, I'll take you to find the bodies of the servants!" Tanya stood up and asked excitedly, "As long as the bodies are intact, it can prove my innocence, right?"

"No, that's not enough!"

Alan shook his head calmly.

"The intact bodies only prove that you didn't eat them, but it doesn't prove that you didn't kill them."

"In order to find out the truth, we need to get the victim's confession."

"Sorceress! Are you kidding me, or are you deliberately teasing me?"

Tanya pretended to be annoyed.

"My servants were killed by evil spirits. The dead can't speak, so how can they provide confessions?!"

"Haha! Ms. Bullhead, this is just your lack of knowledge."

Alan smiled slightly and hugged the arm of the priestess beside him.

"My sister Sunny is good at the third-level 'psychic' and can make the dead speak and tell the truth about their murder."

"Sister Sunny, that's what you're planning too, right?"

Sunny was confused.

With her intelligence, she really didn't think so much.

However, since Yuli holds herself in such high regard, she is happy to act pretentiously in front of outsiders and appear to be far-sighted.

"Ah...yes, yes! That's what I thought!"

"Yuli, you really are my confidant! You can always guess what I'm thinking!"

Tanya was watching this scene from the side, and thought that the sorceress was actually Alan's puppet, which meant that Sunny and Alan were having an affair in front of her.

...I was immediately furious!

"You two, stop it!"

After the impulsive roar , Tanya realized that she had lost her composure.

"Bull-headed girl, what does it have to do with you? Why do you look so jealous? That's so weird!"

There was a hint of doubt in Sunny's eyes.

Tanya rushed to remedy the situation!

"I was framed by my evil sister, wronged, and hunted by evil spirits and adventurers who didn't know the truth..."

"I'm already in such a miserable state, and you two are still showing off your affection in front of me. Haha, do you still have any sympathy?!"

Seeing her sad and angry face, Sunny felt bad.

"Don't be sad, Minotaur. If you are really innocent, we will definitely help you eliminate the evil spirit and clarify the truth."

"The problem now is that we have to get out of this damn place."

Sunny looked at the tunnel blocked by fallen rocks and frowned.

"It's not that difficult, just watch me!"

Tanya walked to the blocked tunnel and cast a third-level "Stone Shaping" on the pile of rocks.

The stones were illuminated by the magical light, rustling, and transformed from irregular shapes into neat square bricks.

In a blink of an eye, the blocked tunnel was cleared.

On both sides of the tunnel, there are thousands of stone bricks placed against the walls, all of which are transformed from crushed stone and garbage.

"The road is clear, let's go."

Tanya led the way, guiding the priestess and sorceress to the depths of the underground palace.

Near her bedroom was a stone chamber where her servants lived.

Many servants were killed in their sleep by evil spirits that penetrated the walls.

The soul was desecrated and transformed into a bound spirit.

The body still lay on the bed, not yet decayed.

Alan held a torch and followed Tanya.

Not far away, the torches suddenly became dim.

There was clearly no wind in the underground palace, but the torches seemed to be about to go out.

At the same time, a faint chilly aura permeated the air.

It made her hair stand on end for no apparent reason and she got goose bumps all over her body!

“Stop !”

Sunny reached out to stop Alan, her face serious.

Tanya also stopped and looked back at the priestess with confusion in her eyes.

Sunny raised his left hand.

A holy emblem hung from a chain wrapped around her wrist.

At this moment, the holy emblem was vibrating and buzzing!

"There is evil energy!" Sunny said in a deep voice.

The so-called Yin Qi is the negative energy radiated by the dead.

It can cause plants to wither, livestock to be frightened, and fires to be extinguished!

"It seems that there are really evil spirits in this underground palace, and there are quite a few of them!"

Sunny held the holy emblem and cast the "detect undead" spell on herself.

In the silence, there was suddenly the sound of messy footsteps.

Alan raised the torch and headed towards the direction where the footsteps came from.

In the dim tunnel ahead, a figure was vaguely flashing.

As the three people watched vigilantly, two figures came running towards them.

The one running in the front is Jack!

Behind Jack, Owen followed closely.

Both of them were panic-stricken, looking like they had seen a ghost.

Jack looked up and saw the priestess and the sorceress in the light of the torch, and his face immediately showed joy.

"Big sister! Yuli! I finally found you!"

"What's going on, you two are so flustered?" Sunny asked.

"There's a ghost in the underground palace, big sister!"

"There are a lot of ghosts behind us, chasing me and Owen!"

Before Jack could finish his words, a large group of bound spirits floated in from the tunnel behind him.

These incorporeal ghosts are only vague human-shaped shadows.

Silently, floating in the air.

Only under the illumination of the fire could one vaguely see two pale points of soul fire flickering where the eyes should be on the ghost's face.

"Holy light shines everywhere, dispel the evil spirits!"

The priestess held up the holy emblem, prayed solemnly, and guided the divine power.

boom!

The holy emblem in Sunny's hand suddenly burst out with divine light!

The bound spirits flying over from the opposite side, illuminated by the holy light, covered their faces and twisted their bodies, letting out silent screams.

In a flash, they were collectively dispersed.

The bound spirits that followed stayed in the darkness, wandering in place, not daring to approach the area of holy light radiation.

"You two , come here quickly!"

Alan called Jack and Owen to come over for shelter.

Jack ran over without hesitation.

Owen ran forward two steps and suddenly found a hideous-looking bull-headed giant standing behind the sorceress. He was immediately frightened and his pace slowed down.

"Ms. Yuli! Behind you... a minotaur..."

Owen gripped the battle axe tightly with both hands and spoke incoherently.

"Ms. Minotaur just saved me and Sister Sunny, and she won't hurt you." Alan explained simply.

Owen was still hesitating when Sunny came towards him.

"Jack, are you okay?"

"Sister, I'm fine, but Owen--"

Before Jack could finish his words, Sunny's hand that was about to pat his shoulder suddenly turned and slapped him hard on the base of his neck!

puff!

Sunny was wearing iron gloves and swung his knife with great force, chopping the skinny thief's neck and knocking him down on the spot.

His eyes rolled back and he fainted.

"Big sister! What are you doing?!" Owen exclaimed.

Sunny said nothing, with a gloomy face, tightly grasping the holy emblem, and chanting divine prayers to herself.

Alan calmed himself down, thought for a moment, and understood.

"Owen, don't worry, didn't you notice that something's wrong with Jack?"

"Miss Yuli, I don't understand what you mean..."

Owen, the bald strong man, looked confused.

"When you and Jack ran over here just now, you both saw the Minotaur standing behind me, but your two reactions were completely different."

Alan gave a hint.

"You were startled and stopped instinctively. This reaction was very real."

"Jack turned a blind eye to the existence of the Minotaur, as if he thought it was normal for her to be here."

"Jack has never seen the Minotaur before. He only thinks she is a monster who harms children. His reaction is too calm and unreasonable."

"Sister Sunny, I think she noticed something suspicious about Jack and concluded that there was something wrong with him, so she suddenly took action to subdue him."

"Yuli is right! There is indeed something wrong with this kid Jack!"

Priestess took over the conversation.

"If I'm not mistaken, he must be possessed by an evil spirit!"

"Ah? The bound spirit has this ability?" Tanya was surprised.

"Ordinary bound spirits won't work, but powerful evil spirits will!"

Sunny looked grim.

Owen was stunned for a moment, touching his bald head and muttering to himself.

"Ms. Yuli, you are a meticulous person. It's not surprising that you can find these suspicious points about Jack!"

"But the big sister...is usually even more careless than me!"

"I was with Jack, but I didn't realize she was possessed by an evil spirit. How did Big Sister find out? Unbelievable!"

"Stupid bald guy! Who are you calling careless?"

The priestess glared at him in anger at first, then suddenly laughed out loud, seeming a little embarrassed.

"Okay! To be honest, I didn't find any of those suspicious details that Yuli mentioned!"

"The reason why I noticed something was wrong with Jack right away was because... hehe, I activated the Undead Detection skill in advance!"

"As soon as this little thief came over, I smelled a strong scent of death from him!"

"Based on my rich experience in exorcising ghosts, there is only one truth - this unlucky boy is possessed by an evil spirit!"

"This just shows that Sister Sunny is ahead of the enemy and has foresight! She is worthy of being a Holy Light Priest and the Nemesis of the Undead!"

Alan applauded.

"Ms. Yuli, no matter how deep your relationship with the big sister is, you don't have to brag about it so awkwardly... I feel so embarrassed for you!"

Owen complained angrily.

"Stop talking nonsense! Baldy, bring the kettle over here, I need it!"

Sunny urged Owen unhappily.

"I have to act quickly to exorcise the evil spirit possessing Jack!"

Taking the kettle handed over by Owen, the priestess pressed the holy emblem on the kettle and chanted the spell.

In the blink of an eye, half a pot of clear water was transformed into "holy water" blessed by holy light!

Sunny motioned to Owen and pinched Jack's mouth open.

Half a pot of holy water was poured into the unconscious Jack's mouth.

Shortly afterwards, in full view of everyone, Jack's body suddenly began to tremble.

A dark shadow could be vaguely seen peeling away from him.

The yin energy emanating from the black shadow is extremely strong!

Except for Sunny, the three people present couldn't help shivering.