Human race, but was chased by girls from all races

Everyone walked towards the octagonal building. This building looked strange enough from a distance, and it was even stranger when seen up close. It looked more like a tomb than a building. The entire building was dark black, without even a window. If it weren't for the fact that there was a big door, Lin Tianlang would have thought that this thing was probably solid.

"What a strange building..." Shirley said softly.

"Yes...are there people living in there?" Ania said in a low voice.

"I don't know." Lin Tianlang shook his head. The group stopped at the gate of the octagonal building.

"Wait here for a moment, I'll go in and take a look." Lin Tianlang said. When he walked to the gate of the building, Lin Tianlang could clearly feel that the breath of the world core fragment was getting closer, which meant that the world core fragment was hidden in this building.

"Okay, be careful." Xu Weiwei reminded.

"Do not worry."

Lin Tianlang nodded to the girls and walked into the octagonal building. After entering the building, Lin Tianlang's first reaction was that the interior of the building was quite empty. He used his perception to detect the entire structure of the building like a radar, and found that it was empty like a box, with nothing inside. The breath of the world core fragment he needed came from the middle of the "box".

"Everyone come in! It's safe inside!" Lin Tianlang shouted to the girls outside the door. Through the previous detection, Lin Tianlang did not sense any dangerous atmosphere. Just like when he landed on the island, unlike the dangerous Giant Island, the entire Octagon Island was unusually quiet.

To be honest, Lin Tianlang actually hoped that Bajiao Island could be more lively, so that he could keep his nerves tense and be ready for any possible danger. It was easy to let down one's guard when it was so quiet like now.

"Wow..." The girls walked into the octagonal building one after another, and then heard Long Xinyu exclaim.

"It's really dark in here... There's an echo?" The red-haired girl Long Xinyu still felt a little strange. She didn't try too hard to suppress her voice, and her voice was reflected back by the wall of the octagonal building, forming an echo.

"There's nothing in here." Shirley said.

"Yes. But everyone should be careful. Although I didn't notice any danger, we still have to stay vigilant and be careful of anything suddenly jumping out." Lin Tianlang reminded.

"Yeah." Aniya echoed with "Yeah".

"The world core fragments... seem to be just ahead." Xu Weiwei said. As soon as she finished speaking, the silver-haired girl lit up a light spell. A ball of light illuminated the surroundings, but the inner walls of the octagonal building were also dark black, so the deep darkness still enveloped everyone, making everyone feel very small.

"Yes, let's go and take a look." Lin Tianlang replied, then continued walking forward.

In the middle of the octagonal building, Lin Tianlang found an altar. In the middle of the altar was a stone pillar, just like the one everyone had found in the secret room of the Giant Island cave. Lin Tianlang walked forward and found a socket in the middle of the stone pillar, which was slightly different from the stone pillar in the secret room of the Giant Island cave last time. There was a button on the stone pillar in the secret room of the cave. After pressing it, the mechanism could be activated and the fragments of the world core would be sent to the front.

To be honest, Lin Tianlang could clearly feel that the world core fragment was right in front of him, only one step away. The fragment was obviously hidden in the platform mechanism behind the stone pillar. As long as the stone pillar was activated like last time, the mechanism would automatically send the fragment up.

But the key is, how to do it? There are no levers or buttons around, nothing that can control the mechanism, only the socket on the stone pillar. And this socket is not a gem socket, but a very ordinary key socket. In other words, if you want to activate the stone pillar mechanism, you must get the key.

"Here, we need a key to activate this mechanism." Lin Tianlang said to the girls.

"Key? Let me see." Xu Weiwei said as she walked over and started studying the mechanism with Lin Tianlang.

"This building...what's the meaning of its construction? It feels so weird." Qiuyue looked around and said softly.

The night vision ability of the vampires is much more useful than using light sources to illuminate the area in many cases. Without any magic spells, Qiuyue can see every corner of the octagonal building.

"Senior, have you found anything?" Shirley asked.

"No." Qiuyue shook her head gently: "This building seems... just an empty box, with nothing inside. Look, these walls and ceilings are all built with the same material. Although I don't know what these materials are, they are quite simple. It feels like... there is a super huge person who built this super huge box."

"Who are you?"

At this moment, a voice suddenly rang out in the darkness without any warning. This voice startled everyone, especially Lin Tianlang. He had no prior perception of it, which made him break out in a cold sweat.

Suddenly, the next moment, the entire octagonal building began to shake violently. Everyone was shaken to the ground and had to bend down to barely keep their balance. Then, drastic changes occurred inside the octagonal building. White squares suddenly appeared on the dark walls and ceiling.

If you look more closely, you will find that these white blocks did not appear out of thin air, but the dark black bricks were turned upside down. There were more and more white blocks, and soon the number exceeded the black ones. Not only the walls, but also the black bricks on the ground began to turn over, turning the white side over.

"Everyone, quickly step on those bricks that have turned white! Don't get flipped over!" Lin Tianlang reminded hurriedly.

The girls hurriedly did as they were told, and they all stepped on the white bricks that had already flipped over. At the same time, as these white blocks appeared, the light coming in from the door began to reflect a lot inside. The reflected light suddenly illuminated the interior of the venue, and the interior of the octagonal building suddenly became bright.

Finally, the entire building was transformed from pitch black to pure white. Pure white walls, pure white ceiling, pure white floor. The only thing that did not change was the stone pillar mechanism in front of Lin Tianlang. Everything else in the building turned from black to white.

"What the hell..." Lin Tianlang covered his eyes. The light was so dazzling that it took him a while to adjust. At this time, Lin Tianlang finally saw the source of the sudden voice: a man in a black suit and a round-necked hat. The man had two long and slightly curled beards on his mouth, a tie on his chest, and looked like a gentleman.

"Who are you?" Lin Tianlang asked.

"No, I should ask, who are you?" The man said, "What is your purpose in coming to the Octagon?"

It turns out that the name of this octagonal building is Octagonal Hall, which is a very appropriate name.

“Lin Tianlang…” Xu Weiwei pulled at the corner of Lin Tianlang’s clothes: “This guy… is not a human.”

"I know, I noticed it too." Lin Tianlang nodded gently. This gentleman-looking man, although he looked like a man on the surface, was exposed when he spoke just now.

When the man spoke, his mouth shape was not that of a normal person. Instead, it moved up and down like a nutcracker toy soldier. In other words, this man was actually a puppet, not a normal person at all.

It was no wonder that Lin Tianlang's perception did not produce any prompts. Because there was not even a trace of magic fluctuation on the puppet. The radar simulated by the magic ripples might be able to detect its existence in advance, but Lin Tianlang did not continue to do so just now because it was very mentally exhausting. After all, Lin Tianlang could not really scan the surroundings like a mechanical electronic radar.

"We are here on the orders of the creator of the world to take away the fragments of the world's core buried on the Octagonal Island!" Lin Tianlang said.

"Are you here to retrieve the fragments on the orders of the founder?" the puppet man confirmed.

"That's right!" Lin Tianlang replied.

"I see. I already know why you are here." The puppet man replied. However, he did not nod or shake his head. He lacked some body language and his movements looked quite mechanical. However, he was also a puppet. Although he did not know what kind of energy was driving him, he was not a living thing.

"I am the steward of the Octagon Pavilion, and I am guarding here following the founder's orders. When the founder created the Octagon Pavilion, he locked the fragments of the world's core in the stone pillar mechanism in front of you." The puppet man said.

After listening, Lin Tianlang looked down at the stone pillar mechanism in front of him, and then asked: "I know this, so what should we do to open the mechanism?"

"You need a key." The puppet butler explained, "But this key is divided into three parts: the key handle, the key teeth, and the key blade. Only when you collect all three parts of the key can you get the complete key and activate the stone pillar mechanism."

"..."

After hearing what the puppet butler said, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

"So how do we get the key?"

"It's very simple. The founder set up three puzzles on the Octagon Island. As long as you can successfully solve these three puzzles, you can get the key." said the puppet butler.