Shafa worked at Perfume Beauty for nine years, where he has been a guard since the time of Lehman Sr. www.biquge.info To be honest, serving as a guard here is an extremely heart-beating thing, and the Chamber of Commerce arranges a three-year rotation, however, Shafa rejected the Chamber of Commerce's proposal.

He has been here for nine years, from the time this dungeon was first built to the present, he has been staying in this secluded underground world, rarely seeing the light of day, not because of any psychological quirks, nor because he has any special feelings for this place, but ......

His daughter, who has the talent to become a mage, was taken away by a mage from the royal capital to study spells at the mage's academy, and from then on she could become a human master. For a qualified child like her daughter, the mage's teaching was free, but learning spells still cost a lot of materials, which he couldn't afford as an ordinary guard.

So, he came here and worked for nine years.

Nine years is not a long time, but it is not a long time. Nine years of service is not particularly uncommon compared to other jobs, but in this dark world, nine years is already the longest of all the guards, and it is a long cut compared to the six years of second place.

But I'm going to leave soon.

He breathed a sigh of relief, his daughter graduated with excellent grades in the royal capital and became an official mage, and his hard work over the years was not in vain. He planned to submit his resignation to the president in two days, leave here, and enjoy the sunshine he had not seen for a long time.

It's just that this guy still can't let go......

Shafa's gaze shifted to his companions, and as the oldest guard, his crew members were always newcomers. The black prison on the second basement floor is not as safe as imagined, and some monsters are confined because of disrepair, and some are not very reliable, and there are a few places where if you get too close to the cage, it is easy to bite off your arms and even your head with a sudden open mouth.

Over the past nine years, there have been more than a dozen of these incidents, and there are more and more trends, which is one of the reasons why many guards lament that these cages will not be able to hold these monsters sooner or later. It is estimated that when the three-year rotation expires in a few months, the older guards here will choose to leave, and only the newcomers who don't understand it at all will be left to face these monsters who are becoming more and more free.

"Let's go, let's go down." Walking to the entrance to the second floor, Shafa glanced at his trembling companions, "Don't be afraid, as long as you follow me on that safe route, they won't be able to hurt you." ”

"I, I...... I know. His companion said hesitantly, his whole body trembling, "But, I feel that we will never be able to get up again after it goes down, senior!" Believe me, I, I feel very good and I have never gone wrong! ”

"Really?" Frankly speaking, he doesn't believe in intuition or anything, but it's not good to refuse like this, so he said, "I'm willing to believe you, but you must know that we chose to be guards here because our families are in urgent need of a lot of money, if we fail to do our duty this time, we are likely to lose this position, I'm okay, I still have some savings over the years, but you ......"

"I see!" The newly joined guard looked up, "For Miss Althea!" I ......"

"Alright, alright." Shafa couldn't help laughing, "We all know it, don't read it out loud!" ”

The two didn't stop long, and walked straight to the dark hole, they didn't know what fate awaited them under the thick and indissolable darkness.

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It took Verna to push her opponent back, and the battle lasted so long that she was the last to end the battle except for a few who were surrounded by the enemy.

After the battle, she really didn't have the physical strength and patience to participate in the work of killing ordinary enemies, so she found a large rock in the forest and sat on it quietly waiting for the final end of this one-sided battle from the beginning.

"Wei ...... Wei ...... Sister Weina's head! ”

A slightly familiar voice drew her attention from the battlefield, and she turned her head to look at the comer, and couldn't help frowning: Who is this guy in front of her who has a blue nose and swollen face, and has been beaten by a group of more than a dozen people? Why did he know me?

The mercenary girl from the aristocracy hesitated to turn her head and pretend not to know?

"Huhu...... Sister Weina, I've finally found you! ”

The other party seemed to be overexcited, and opened his arms to give a bear hug, for this kind of guy of unknown origin, the flat-chested girl kicked it directly with an expressionless face.

"Big sister! Don't you know me? I'm 'Long-legged' Edward! ”

"Long-legged" Edward? Where do you seem to have heard this name?

The girl held her cheek raiser and turned her head sideways, meditating. Finally, she remembered that there was a mercenary in the mercenary group who was nicknamed "Long Legs" for his fast running. But...... She glanced at the mercenaries not far away and asked, "How did you end up like this?" ”

“……”

"It seems that you have something unspeakable," Wei Na looked at the other party's bitter melon-like expression, knowing that she asked about the other party's sadness, and nodded understandingly, "Forget it, needless to say, I understand." ”

"Yes, Sister Weina." The mercenary looked moved to cry, "This time I came to deliver a message, Master Faith found that Romus's movements were very strange, and he went to the villa area on the southern outskirts of the city. ”

"Southern suburbs, villa area?"

Wei Na's brows furrowed slightly, the villa area in the southern suburbs is indeed the sphere of influence of the "Perfume Beauty", could it be that the place where Monia was imprisoned is really there, so why are we fighting here?

Do you leave the battlefield and go to the southern suburbs, or continue to fight here?

Weina couldn't make up her mind for a while.

Sure enough, this kind of troublesome and tangled problem should be left to Aini to deal with.

She got up and asked Edward to go back to the hotel first, and then searched for Eronica in the battlefield, and after a while, she found the mercenary girl, and pulled her to an open corner after piercing the heart of her enemy with a thin sword: "Listen to me, Aini, little Monia is most likely not in the eastern suburbs of the city. ”

"What's going on?"

"Didn't Old Firth go after Romus? In the wake of the news that Romus had traveled to the villa area on the southern outskirts of the city, the dilapidated villa area was also the sphere of influence of the Perfume Beauty, as far as we could tell. "I don't think there are so many coincidences. ”

"I also think the southern suburbs are more likely," Eronica replied after a moment's thought, "the southern suburbs are more like a trap, and if the 'Thunder' really only sends fighters here, it is likely that the situation on both sides is completely reversed now." ”

"That is, it's just a bait?"

"It's bait, yes, but that's not what makes it possible to know that Monia isn't here." Eronica hesitated, "Let me think about it...... If I were the decision-maker of the 'Perfume Beauty', if my troops were no match for the enemy at all, would I choose to evacuate the goods? ”

"It is true that the battle in the eastern suburbs will be completely ended with only a few dozen mushas, but yet we have not seen the personnel of the 'Perfume Beauty' in the eastern suburbs move. In other words," Vina and Eronica looked at each other, "nine times out of ten, Monia and the elf aren't here!" ”

"Say a word to the 'Thunder' ward and we'll leave." "We've wasted a lot of time right now because we've misestimated the location, and the Perfume Beauty should have foreseen the defeat of the battle in the eastern suburbs after learning of Thunder's big move, and it's likely that they're already moving Monia." ”

"It's a nuisance." Wei Na walked to the carriage where the head of the "Thunder" was and complained, "This time there is always a feeling that we were tricked by the "Thunder" to work for the day. ”

Wei Na didn't expect that this unintentional sentence was quite close to the truth.

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Shafa and his companions creaked through the dark wooden hallway to the second floor of the dungeon, where the real prisoners were located. There were still some light sources at the intersection on the first floor of the stairway, but here, apart from the terrifying red eyes that occasionally appeared in the cage, which were awakened to appear, there was complete darkness as far as the eye could see.

If they could, the guards would rather choose the darkness that consumes everything than face those creepy scarlet eyes. It was the eyes of death, incomparably indifferent, incomparably cruel, and anyone could send a chill through the heart at one glance - that was the look of food.

"Sure enough, they were excited today." Shafa said, "I don't know who provoked them, it's really a blockage for us latecomers, no matter how many times I see them, every time I see their playful cold gaze, I feel all the hairs on my body stand up." ”

"Me too, Senpai." The new guard carefully lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of being heard by the prisoners in the cage.

"Don't be afraid, we're going to feed them." Shafa said expressionlessly, "When that time comes, it's really time to test your heartbeat." ”

"Huh? Senior, what do you say. His companion was obviously frightened by the words just now, and his whole body trembled, "I just ...... Didn't hear much. ”

"It's feeding!"

"Hey...... Food!? ”

"Of course." Shafa's voice was full of helplessness, "How long can they live without us feeding?" Don't forget what's in your pocket, don't tell me you thought those bloody chunks of raw meat were this afternoon's dinner. ”

"Senior, it's popular to eat medium-rare steak over there......"

“……”

"Don't tell me bad jokes, it's not funny at all." After a brief pause, Shafa said, and then he frowned abruptly, "Did you just hear anything?" ”

His companion replied affirmatively, "No, senior." ”

"Oh, maybe I'm overthinking." Shafa said, not continuing the topic just now, "You are a newcomer, so the first feeding will be guided by me, please be careful, even if they are chained and imprisoned in a cage, if they are not careful, they will be killed." ”

"But, senior, without light, I can't see clearly."

"The light stimulates them and makes them go berserk." Shafa said, "After taking out a piece of raw meat from the bag, walk to the iron cage, where there is a special feeding pipe, you can definitely find it if you look carefully, and there is still a safe distance from the iron cage." ”

"Found it."

"Good, throw the raw meat slices in!"

"Throw it in? They can't get enough to eat at all. ”

"They're prisoners, so if they don't have enough to eat, they won't be able to make a fuss, which is what we've learned over the years."

"Understood." The new guard nodded, looking teachable, and was about to feed, when suddenly he heard a "boom", which seemed to be some kind of breaking sound, he subconsciously raised his head, and couldn't see anything, "Front...... Generation? Did you hear that? ”

"I hear you." Shafa's voice was a little heavy, and in the darkness it was completely unclear what was going on, just subconscious fear dominating his body and mind.

Be calm, Shafa.

He muttered to himself, but there was another loud bang, and this time he finally realized what had happened! It was the sound of the iron colliding with the ground, and judging by the distance of the sound, it was right next to him! In other words, it is quite possible that the monster broke the cage!

How can it be!

A voice roared in his heart, but Shafa ignored it, and as he ran towards the corridor, he shouted to the guards in his group: "Run, a monster has run out, run, quickly take out the Light Stone, collide with it, and make it glow!" In the darkness we were powerless to fight back! ”

"What...... Is it? The new guard had a sad face on his face, and his whole body trembled, "Senior! I'm cowardly, don't lie to me! ”

"Do I look like someone who will lie to you!"

"Like ......"

Shafa was almost angry, how could this new guard not only be a wonderful person who wanted to redeem the dancing girl in the tavern, but also a living treasure who couldn't tell the occasion! It would be a mistake to expect him! The old guard ran helplessly, rubbing the Bright Stone.

Bright stone is a wonderful stone abundant in the south of Mastan, which glows through friction and collision, giving people a feeling of warmth and light. After dozens of friction collisions, finally, Shafa lit up the bright stone. Holding the stone, he turned around, and with the help of the faint light emitted by the stone, he could see clearly what had just happened!

Sure enough, the door of the cage his companion had fed had shattered to the ground with a violent impact, and the monster in the cage, a giant wolf with a large body, was lying behind him, staring at him with cold eyes.

"......" He wanted to speak, but he couldn't make a sound because of fear, just opened his mouth wide like this, and couldn't spit out a syllable for a long time.

"Senpai, what's wrong?" The guard under the big mouth of the giant wolf, looking at the place where the light came from, walked forward without knowing anything, "Is it really dangerous, I'm coming here." ”

"You ......" Shafa kept backing away, stretching out a finger and pointing behind him, overcoming his fear with difficulty, and said, "Behind you!" ”

"Senior...... What did you say? Puzzled, the guard turned his head, and saw a bloody mouth, and before he could let out a single scream, his whole head was caught in the wolf's kiss, and he could no longer make even the slightest sound.

The giant wolf strolled as he walked along, and the guard's head was spit out casually, rolling and rolling on the ground......

Shafa looked at the head that couldn't stop rolling on the ground, the face on it seemed to be replaced by himself, and he couldn't help but shudder, he tried to think of a way to get out.

He's going to eat me, eat me......

That's right, food!

In a hurry, he put all the raw meat in the package on the ground, then watched the giant wolf approach step by step, walked up to him, lowered his head, sniffed the food on the ground with his nose, and did not attack him.

With a long sigh of relief, Shafa turned around and ran, ran and ran, towards the top of the corridor, which was probably the fastest run in his life. The distance between the first and second floors was a little far, but with all his strength running now, he could already see the flickering fire above, and he could see that faint glimmer of hope!

It's coming soon!

You'll be with everyone right away!

It's just a giant wolf!

A bright smile broke out on his face, and then abruptly stopped. The smiling head was casually spat out by the giant wolf, rolling and rolling on the floor of the second floor......

The giant wolf stepped on his body with one wolf paw, looking at the light outside the passage, and couldn't help howling, behind it, a pair of scarlet eyes kept opening, and a howl made every guard on the first floor of the district feel a chill from the heart.

What's going on? They turned their heads and looked in the direction from which the voice came, ignorant of the fate that was coming, except for the smiling head at the mouth of the passage, which never closed its eyes, as if to tell something.

Above, Monia's ears suddenly moved, she stopped, listened intently, and continued to run with a wry smile:

"They're out."

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Four thousand seven hundred words... A big chapter that hasn't been written in a long time.

I was hesitant to send it when I was the last deposit, but I thought that the manuscript could be saved slowly - there are often manuscripts and holidays are not common, and it is not more in line with the holiday atmosphere to celebrate the double festival, so I made up my mind.

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