There's a skull dungeon attached to my basement

"Feels like another Mysterious House of Evil Gods!" With a strange sense of melancholy, Xiao Yang sighed.

Subsequently, in searching the torture chamber, Xiao Yang found more things.

Entering this area didn't trigger a progression reward; it existed as a hidden area within the third level of the Skeleton Dungeon, rather than a true hidden zone.

Inside the torture chamber, Xiao Yang found a large wooden box. Beside the box, he picked up a yellowed piece of paper, which seemed to be a missing page from the blood-stained notebook.

【Only those who pay are believers; the glory of the gods is not cheap!】 This was the sentence recorded on the yellowed paper.

Pushing open the huge wooden box, a dazzling yellow color nearly filled all the space inside. A box full of gold coins appeared before Xiao Yang, mostly gold coins, a large box full of them.

A significant portion of these gold coins were even items from the God's Game, making this box of gold quite valuable to Xiao Yang.

However, Xiao Yang wasn't particularly surprised or happy with this harvest.

"Sin Coins for praying for recovery? That really doesn't fit!" Xiao Yang said.

Putting away the box of gold coins and pushing open the door of the interrogation room, he was met with a dimly lit, narrow corridor.

As soon as Xiao Yang stepped out of the interrogation room, he heard a familiar wailing sound. Unexpectedly, he was covered in scarlet flesh, and two words popped up in his status bar:

【Fanatical Prayer, Language Repetition】

During the clearing of the right temple of the Temple of An息, Xiao Yang had used up all the Holy Light badges.

Standing for a long time at the entrance of the torture chamber, in the greatly weakened but still warm light, the Fanatical Prayer hanging over Xiao Yang's head slowly dissipated, and the chaotic words disappeared from his ears.

A familiar sound appeared.

"Ooh! Ah!"

At that moment, a strange, faint sigh echoed in the dim corridor.

Advancing along the corridor, Xiao Yang encountered many attacks, all from familiar faces.

Flesh Aberrations, Fanatics, Flesh Resurrectors.

The fanatical screams of "Ooh, ah!", the giggling laughter, and the Flesh Resurrectors who silently swung their staffs to spread flesh regeneration without making a sound.

Amidst the chaotic dance of demons, Xiao Yang remained silent, expressionlessly wielding the rusted giant axe in his hand.

The exploration and advancement of this hidden area were steadily progressing.

However, Xiao Yang realized that everything before him was becoming increasingly familiar.

Turning a corner, still carrying the lingering scent of blood, a small space appeared. At that moment, Xiao Yang finally confirmed his guess.

Everything matched up. Stepping into this small space, if he wasn't mistaken, he had recently spent some time in this space where he could barely stand straight, feeling dazed.

This is the Black Stone Prison Sewers!

Now, he was certain of it.

Now, Xiao Yang had found the location of the hidden area in the Skeleton Dungeon!

His guess was correct. The Skeleton Dungeon and the Black Stone Prison were closely connected to some extent, and the place he was now standing was the best proof of this.

The current Black Stone Prison Sewers had undergone significant changes compared to the sewers Xiao Yang had seen in the hidden area.

The biggest change was the disappearance of the water. The foul-smelling sewage no longer flowed through the sewers. The flowing sewage had dried up, the moss clinging to the walls had died and disappeared, the sewers were no longer damp, and the rats were gone.

Without the foul smell, the walls revealed their original appearance, grayish-white.

Everything had changed greatly, which was why Xiao Yang didn't immediately recognize this sewer that had left such a deep impression on him.

In the distance, a burst of hurried footsteps sounded. This time, those familiar faces no longer appeared before Xiao Yang.

【Hand Disease Infected Level: Common Rank: 26 Characteristics: Aberrant, Screamer, Chitinous Body, Shattered Body Latest⊥Small⊥Say⊥In⊥Six⊥9⊥Book⊥Bar⊥First⊥Published! Introduction: A poor fellow who has been corrupted.】

Although not a familiar face, the appearance of this Hand Disease Infected was still appetite-suppressing.

Every inch of skin on its body was covered in yellowed, forked fingernails, densely packed like a natural suit of armor, giving people goosebumps.

Amidst chaotic screams, the Hand Disease Infected pounced towards Xiao Yang.

The closer it got, the clearer the terrifying appearance of the Hand Disease Infected became in front of Xiao Yang.

In response, Xiao Yang felt neither sorrow nor joy, simply raising the rusted giant axe in his hand.

Soon after, with a sound like a bursting balloon, the Hand Disease Infected exploded violently.

Upon this explosion, the fingernails on its body scattered like shrapnel from a fragmentation grenade, hitting Xiao Yang's Dragon Hunter armor and creating a series of clanging sounds.

Such an attack was nothing much, at least not for Xiao Yang. Fingernails and flesh flew everywhere in the explosion.

A drop of blood seeped in through the gap in Xiao Yang's helmet, landing on his face. At that moment, a blurry word was about to appear above Xiao Yang's head: "Long Hand Disease," but before it could fully manifest, it suddenly collapsed.

The God's Game's view was the same as Xiao Yang's: this Long Hand Disease was essentially a form of corruption.

And these Hand Disease Infected were a group of pitiful, corrupted beings. The most dangerous and deadly thing about them was not their combat power or anything else, but the corruption they carried.

But this had little effect on Xiao Yang. He wasn't afraid of the so-called Long Hand Disease at all, although the reason for his lack of fear wasn't because he had sufficient corruption resistance, but for another, unspeakable reason.

The guy who spread this corrupting disease had already left an even stronger anchor on him.

Because Xiao Yang had long been targeted by that Evil God, he didn't need to worry about being corrupted by the Evil God again.

He was already a corruption carrier.

It was hard to say whether this was good news, but this situation did allow Xiao Yang to be more calm when facing these corrupted entities.

"But this doesn't exactly make one happy!"