Can someone in MyGo stay in an adventure group forever?

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“You’re a professional from the Bureau of Investigation, while I’m just a harmless amateur…” Koshimura continued to elbow him.

Yawata Kairin sighed and helplessly covered her forehead.

In the end, she grabbed one in each hand, like carrying chicks, by the back of her collar, and dragged them along.

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At first he was extremely narrow, but only then did he understand people. After walking dozens of steps, I suddenly became enlightened.

Below the stairs was a huge space with bare, unfinished concrete walls and many small doors for people to pass through.

A complex network of ventilation ducts loomed overhead, emitting a low hum, and the air was thick with a damp, musty smell.

Toyokawa Shoko looked up at the ceiling, which was more than ten meters high, and then turned to look at the people behind her: "Why are you all hiding so far away here?"

"It's nothing, it's nothing." Yuecun Ze pushed away Wenshui Heyan who was clinging to him and laughed awkwardly. "We're just taking a walk after we've eaten."

Toyokawa Shoko: “?”

"It's alright, don't worry about them." Hachiman Kairin quickly stepped forward to her side, and also looked up at the ceiling hidden in the darkness. "How could a fresh food cold storage facility need such a large underground space? Not to mention that it was specially concealed with a hidden door."

"This means it's definitely not just some ordinary warehouse." Wen Shuihe's voice came from behind, echoing loudly.

When Koshimura looked, he realized that Koshimura had somehow retreated back to the stairs he had come from, and was almost back on the ground.

No, why do you seem more scared than I am?

"But which way should we go?" Hachiman Kairin glanced around at the six identical metal doors. "Koshimura-kun, can you sense it?"

“Although I really want to know now…” Koshimura Sawa reached out and touched his stomach, “it seems to have stopped moving since we came in.”

"Wait a minute—" Wen Shuihe's voice rang out again, "Look at the ground."

Several people simultaneously turned their gaze to the rough cement ground.

Although at first glance it is just an ordinary, uneven, dusty ground, upon closer inspection you can see that some huge, interconnected patterns are faintly outlined in shallow grooves on the ground.

Because the pattern is so large, and the lighting is rather dim, it's not easy to see it unless you're standing on the stairs looking down.

“Two heads and one end, the sacred number is 3…” Wen Shuiheyan walked down the stairs, tracing the grooves on the floor with his hand. “Byd, I knew it, it’s the Eternal Moon—”

"The Eternal Moon?" Several people present, besides him, asked at the same time.

Wen Shuiheyan stood up and clapped his hands: "Now we have bad news and even worse news. Which would you like to hear first?"

"Bad news?" Koshimura Sawa had a strange, ominous feeling.

"The bad news is, it seems we've made a huge mess of things." Wen Shuiheyan was on the verge of tears.

"And what's the worse news?" Hachiman Kairin asked without changing her expression.

Wen Shuihe pointed to the pattern on the ground that had begun to turn red: "This looks like a guardian engraving."

"..." Toyokawa Shoko was at a loss for words.

"Does anyone here know how to counter magic?" He gave a smile that looked more like a grimace.

“woc——Suspected O3 Wife Scar-Four Wonders.⑷Dance Liuyue.Billion”

boom--! ! ! !

A terrifying explosion erupted from the entire carved ground, sending up towering flames and surging air currents that instantly engulfed everyone present.

In the final moments before the shockwave arrived—

Chapter Fifty-Two: The Cage

"Cough! Cough cough—" Violent coughing tore at Koshimura Sawa's throat, making him feel like his throat was about to crack with every breath.

A burning pain shot through my back, and my stomach churned violently, as if my internal organs were about to fall apart.

All around was pitch black, and the only sound in my ears was a monotonous yet clear one, like the sound of some liquid dripping.

"Where... am I?" Koshimura Sawa struggled to sit up and called out in a hoarse voice, "Warm water? Hachiman-kun?"

no respond.

He was just about to try to stand up when he suddenly felt a cold sensation on his calf.

Looking down, I saw a black tail.

......

He reached out and pinched the tip of the tail, giving it a gentle tug. The tail immediately let out a soft cry of pain.

"What are you doing—" Toyokawa Shoko sat up with a frown, her golden eyes beneath the mask filled with a hint of embarrassment and annoyance as she looked in the direction of Koshimura Sawa. "...Why are you looking at me like that?"

"It's alright." Koshimura Sawa released his hand.

This doesn't look fake at all; the tail feels exactly the same.

He stood up despite the excruciating pain that felt like his whole body was falling apart, and patted Toyokawa Shoko's tail.

And the tail, very understandingly, released him and retracted.

"Huh?" Toyokawa Shoko exclaimed in confusion.

“It looks like we’ve been blown up somewhere.” His gaze swept across the surrounding walls, but he didn’t see anything that resembled a door or passageway.

“Up there.” Toyokawa Shoko stood up and pointed to the ceiling above her head.

Koshimura looked up and saw a huge, jagged hole in the ceiling, with broken concrete and twisted steel bars exposed. The edges of the hole still had traces of uncooled dark red and charred black, which seemed to be the place where they had just stood.

"Did we fall to the next level...?" He reached to his ear, trying to contact others, but found that his earpiece seemed to have been blown away somewhere in the explosion.

"Tsk..."

We had just started to get a clue when we were forced to separate and lose communication. It's really unpleasant news.

Not to mention the "Eternal Moon" that Kazuhiko Nukumizu mentioned at the end...

A cold, dark cloud hung over my heart.

He shook his head, forcing himself to calm down, and turned his gaze into the depths of darkness.

A huge cube-shaped outline stands abruptly on the empty ground, completely covered by an opaque green plastic sheet.

"Xiangzi, come and take a look at this." He beckoned to Toyokawa Xiangzi.

"Hmm." Toyokawa Shoko nodded subconsciously, then hurriedly shook her head, her tone tinged with panic, "No, how did you figure that out—"

Koshimura looked at her with a speechless expression.

Toyokawa Shoko's face under the mask instantly turned bright red, and she turned her head to the side in embarrassment.

"So, what are you doing here?" he asked as he walked toward the giant cube.

"This is...this is my family's property. I came to see what's wrong." Toyokawa Shoko turned on her phone's flashlight and jogged up to catch up.

"But isn't this place now under that Sato Logistics thing?" Koshimura looked up along the bottom of the plastic sheet.

Is this thing really that big...? It must be seven or eight meters tall, right?

“That’s because—” Toyokawa Shoko’s voice stopped abruptly, as if something had suddenly choked her.

She bit her lip, remaining silent, only the beam of light from her phone trembling slightly.

Don't want to say it?

"Never mind... I don't know the specifics either, so I can't blame you for anything." Yuecun Ze sighed, grabbed a corner of the plastic sheet, and pulled it down hard. "But things aren't as simple as we initially thought. You need to be careful."

The plastic sheet slid down one side from the top, making a dull rustling sound, revealing what it had been tightly covering.

A cage.

cage?

Looking into the empty cage, Yuecunze saw that the bottom was covered with a layer of rotten and blackened straw, with large patches of dark brown bloodstains remaining on it.

The lock that should have been hanging on the cage door has now disappeared.

"Hiss—" Koshimura couldn't help but gasp, having made a negligible contribution to global warming.

What is such a big cage used to keep people in?

Just then, Toyokawa Shoko suddenly patted him on the shoulder from behind.

He turned his head and looked in the direction of the light from her phone.

Inside the vast, plaza-like hall, there were dozens of identical metal cages covered with plastic sheeting. Like silent tombstones, they were arranged neatly and eerily, stretching into the depths of darkness, with no end in sight.

"Damn it..." Yuecun Ze felt a chill run from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and couldn't help but curse.

Weren't we here to check on missing persons? What are we doing here?

“Found it,” Toyokawa Shoko suddenly said.

Just as Yuecun Ze was about to ask a question, he saw her pick up her phone and start snapping photos in a frenzy, the flash almost never stopping.

"I knew it, I knew it was them!" The girl's voice echoed in the empty underground space.

"Wait, what exactly happened—"

Out of the corner of his eye, Koshimura Sawa suddenly caught a glimpse of black liquid slowly seeping from the edge of the cage not far away.

Black...liquid?

Almost simultaneously, the dormant black Gu in his stomach suddenly began to stir again, recklessly crashing towards the direction behind him, as if—

Something is rapidly approaching this place.

"Watch out!" He shoved Toyokawa Shoko, who was still taking pictures, away forcefully, and then used the [Strange Step] to dodge to the side.

Then——

Boom! ! !

Disaster struck from the sky.

Even though it had lost its target, the immense inertia kept it in a diving posture, crashing down like a falling meteorite, moving forward all the way.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The enormous metal cages along the way were easily overturned like paper toys, emitting a piercing metallic twisting sound.

After crashing through more than a dozen cages, the enormous figure finally came to a stop against a thick, load-bearing concrete wall.

Holy crap, where did this dragon car come from?

With lingering fear, Koshimura steadied himself and finally saw the monster in the distance clearly.

Its massive body was supported by four limbs that lay on the ground like a beast, and black liquid was constantly dripping from its pitch-black body.

At this moment, the enormous body was constantly twisting and surging.

Like a lump of unshaped clay, it has a translucent, gelatinous texture. You can even see the twisted and overgrown bones inside through the surface of the body.

Further up, attached to the head, is a pale, exposed skull.

It doesn't resemble a human; rather, it looks like the skull of some kind of large bird.

Deep within the hollow eye sockets, two points of bright yellow light burn silently and eternally.

The eyes of the Night Eater in Memory ② Imprint III 呜〒*奇镹留卅【s〡an弍@? slowly overlapped.

Chapter Fifty-Three: Death Beneath the Peony Blossom

After staring at it for only a short while, Koshimura Sawa felt a strong wave of nausea and began to feel dizzy.

What the hell is this?

Without much time to think, he pulled out a force field effect pedal from his bag and "clicked" it into the groove of the guitar sword.

Forget everything else, let's unleash a magic burst first.

[Caused by playing too much sorcery]

The dark green beam tore through the darkness and struck the monster's massive body with pinpoint accuracy.

With little success.