Chapter 82: Entering the Cave to Explore the Secret Taboo

The piercing alarm sounded in the valley, like the sharp howl of the god of death. Dai Shiya and Wei Qing leaned against the rock wall, dodging the hidden weapons that kept shooting out. The hidden weapons whizzed past them like locusts, nailed on the rocks, and made a crisp sound of ding-dong. Dai Shiya's eyes were sharp, and she calmly observed the trajectory and pattern of the hidden weapons, looking for the opportunity to enter the cave.

"Three, two, one!" Dai Shiya shouted in a low voice, seizing the gap when the hidden weapon was launched, and pulled Wei Qing into the cave entrance.

As soon as they entered the cave, the flashlight beam was swallowed by the darkness, and it was pitch dark. The humid air was mixed with musty smells and a pungent chemical smell, which made people sick. Dai Shiya held her breath and relied on the weak light outside the cave to vaguely see the narrow passage inside the cave. There were strange runes carved on the rock walls on both sides, emitting a faint green light.

"Watch your step," Dai Shiya warned. She could feel the uneven ground beneath her feet, as if there was some kind of mechanism hidden.

They moved cautiously, taking every step very carefully. Wei Qing turned on a small searchlight and carefully illuminated the road ahead. Just when they were about ten meters deep in the cave, something strange happened.

"Buzz——"

A low humming sound was heard, followed by a blinding flash of white light. Dai Shiya and Wei Qing instinctively closed their eyes, feeling the air around them suddenly become tense. When they opened their eyes again, they found that the surrounding environment had changed dramatically.

Countless hair-thin silver lights appeared out of thin air, interweaving into a dense electric net that trapped them. The lights flashed with dark blue arcs and made crackling sounds, which was terrifying.

"This is... an electromagnetic restriction!" Wei Qing exclaimed. She reached out to touch the light, but was held back by Dai Shiya.

"Don't touch it! These lights are electrically charged. If you touch them, the consequences will be disastrous." Dai Shiya's tone was serious. She carefully observed the surrounding power grid, trying to find a breakthrough.

Wei Qing also realized the danger. She withdrew her hand, took out a device similar to a detector from her backpack, and began to scan the surrounding electromagnetic fields, trying to find the weakness of the ban.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the cave was eerily quiet, with only their gentle breathing and the crackling of the electric net. Dai Shiya vigilantly observed the movements around her, as if something was stirring deep in the cave.

Suddenly, a low roar came from deep inside the stronghold, breaking the silence in the cave... Dai Shiya turned her head sharply, looking in the direction of the sound, and whispered, "Something is coming..."

Wei Qing frowned, her fingers quickly operating the detector, the screen showing complex waveforms and data. She muttered something, analyzing the frequency and energy fluctuations of the electromagnetic field, trying to find a way to break the ban.

"The energy source of these rays seems to be related to the surrounding temperature..." Wei Qing stared at the data on the detector, and suddenly her eyes lit up as if she had discovered something. She took out a thermometer-sized metal rod from her backpack, and a faint red light flashed at the top of the metal rod.

Dai Shiya didn't say anything, but nodded slightly, signaling Wei Qing to continue. Her eyes were always vigilantly scanning the surroundings, and her ears were catching any slight sounds in the cave. The roar was getting closer and closer, and the ground began to tremble slightly, as if some huge monster was approaching them. A strong sense of oppression enveloped their hearts, making it hard to breathe.

"These rays seem to be very sensitive to changes in temperature," Wei Qing explained as she manipulated the metal rod. "If I can quickly change the temperature around them, I might be able to disrupt their energy supply and find a way out."

As soon as the words fell, Wei Qing pointed the metal rod at the power grid and pressed the button. The red light on the top of the metal rod instantly became dazzling, a visible heat wave spread out, and the surrounding air temperature suddenly rose. The light on the power grid flickered violently several times, making crackling sounds, and it seemed that it would go out at any time.

Dai Shiya held her breath and watched all this nervously. She knew that success or failure depended on this one move.

However, at this critical moment, the roar suddenly became deafening, as if it was exploding right next to their ears. Dai Shiya and Wei Qing could both feel a strong airflow coming towards them.

It's too late!

Without bothering to break the ban, Dai Shiya pulled Wei Qing up and ran in the opposite direction of the roar. The power grid behind them twisted and deformed violently under the impact of the airflow, and finally exploded, turning into starlight and dissipating in the air.

Without time to celebrate their escape, Dai Shiya and Wei Qing stumbled and ran in the darkness with the help of the weak light of the flashlight. They didn't know how long they had been running, nor where they were, but they knew they had to stay away from the monster that made a terrifying roar.

Finally, they found a heavy stone door at a corner. Without thinking too much, Dai Shiya pushed the stone door open, pulled Wei Qing in, and quickly closed the stone door.

Behind the stone door was a spacious room with a few dim oil lamps lit in the room. It was vaguely visible that the room was filled with various books and documents. Dai Shiya looked around and suddenly had a strong premonition in her heart...

"I think we might have found it..." Dai Shiya's voice echoed in the empty room, but she did not say the second half of the sentence. Instead, she walked quickly to the bookshelf, her eyes quickly scanning the words on the spines of the books.

In the dim room, Dai Shiya and Wei Qing stood back to back, looking around vigilantly. The stone door of the room had disappeared, replaced by a cold, hard metal wall.

"It looks like we've fallen into a trap," Wei Qing smiled bitterly, but there was a hint of excitement in her tone, "This place is full of weirdness, maybe we can really find out why you traveled through the book."

Dai Shiya didn't say anything. Her eyes fell on a stone platform in the middle of the room. On the platform was a thick parchment book with yellowed pages, exuding an ancient and mysterious atmosphere.

"What is that?" Wei Qing followed Dai Shiqing's gaze and looked, "Could it be some martial arts secret manual?"

Dai Shiya shook her head. Her intuition told her that the book was definitely not something ordinary. She walked towards the stone platform carefully, taking every step with extreme caution.

Suddenly, a shrill alarm sounded in the room, the oil lamp on the wall went out, and the whole room fell into darkness.

"Be careful!" Wei Qing exclaimed.

Almost at the same time, countless mechanical arms stretched out from the walls, the ground and even the ceiling, rushing towards Dai Shiya and Wei Qing like a steel torrent.

"Damn it!" Dai Shiya cursed and pulled Wei Qing to roll on the ground, barely avoiding the attack of the mechanical arm.

The mechanical arm's attack speed was extremely fast and its power was amazing. Dai Shiya and Wei Qing were forced to retreat step by step.

"These mechanical arms seem to be targeting you," Wei Qing dodged while observing the attack pattern of the mechanical arms, "They seem to want to stop you from getting close to the parchment book."

Dai Shiya also discovered this, and she became even more certain that the parchment book must contain important secrets.

"Cover me!" Dai Shiya shouted, and while Wei Qing attracted most of the attention of the mechanical arms, she rushed towards the stone platform in one step.

The mechanical arms seemed to have sensed Dai Shiya's intention, and they all changed direction and pounced towards her.

Dai Shiya was unable to dodge and was hit on the shoulder by a mechanical arm. The severe pain made her groan.

But she did not give up. She gritted her teeth, endured the severe pain, and continued to rush towards the stone platform.

Closer and closer!

Just as Dai Shiya was about to touch the parchment book, a mechanical arm stretched out like lightning and grabbed her wrist.

"Let me go!" Dai Shiya struggled desperately, but the mechanical arm was incredibly powerful and she couldn't break free at all.

At this moment, Dai Shiya's eyes accidentally swept across the bottom of the robotic arm and found a document clamped on the robotic arm bracket.

The title on the document clearly read: "Experimental Records on the "Script World"."

"The world of scripts..." Dai Shiya muttered to herself, with a storm in her heart, "Could it be... this is the truth behind my transmigration into a book?"

She desperately tried to reach out and grab the document, but the mechanical arm dragged her further away.

"No!..."