Chapter 5: The Secret Path
"Putting a prisoner in this prison is a stupid decision!"
The obese Viscount Joseph walked in front with a straight face, and lectured his younger son with a sideways speech. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ Info didn't care about the warden who was nodding his head beside him.
"There's not even a patrol officer here at night, just the two sleepy guys above, I guess the prisoners are escaping, and they won't find out."
Stretching out his fat left hand with a five-jewel ring, he pointed to the two guys sleeping against the wooden railing on the watchtower in front of him, and the viscount snorted lightly, his face angry.
The warden's face beside him was a little unbearable, and he secretly said If it weren't for you, the guy in charge of the city's property, who always deducted the soldiers' salaries, how could they become like this.
But he didn't dare to say anything to anger this guy who was secretly called a fat pig by the people in the city, but instead he poured all his anger on the two sentries who were sleeping on it, and ordered the guards behind him: "Get those two bastards down for me, I want to see who dares to neglect his duties in front of Lord Viscount!" β
After speaking, the warden smiled humbly at Joseph, and said, "Lord Viscount, do you want to teach them a lesson yourself?" β
Joseph just snorted lightly, responded appropriately, and then ignored him, looked at his youngest son again, and said slowly: "How many times have I told you, don't think that if there are no flaws, there are really no flaws, there will always be something unexpected in the world, and your eyes may deceive you at any time." β
"But father, this time I'm pretty sure our prisoner won't escape, because he's already been meβ" Kress was only halfway there, and then didn't go any further, for he believed that his father already knew what he wanted to say.
"You mean the weird stuff you got your hands on?" Joseph's fat nose shrugged and said disdainfully with his hands behind his back: "You are really stupid, my son." β
"Father..."Kress was unconvinced, but was stopped by Joseph waving his hand: "Don't tell me anything to see with your own eyes, in the hands of your so-called archmage, it is indeed very effective, but now in your hands, have you really seen their poisonous effect?" β
"I haven't seen it, but I believe the archmage is an old man..."
"Enough!" Joseph suddenly raised his voice, so that his already rough voice became extremely unpleasant and sharp: "You don't even believe in your father and me, what kind of mage breaker do you believe?" You have to remember, Kress, there are no mages in this world at all, and there is a good chance that what you see is just a liar who does not fall into the trap! β
Joseph's eyes were small, and he could only say a slit against the fat on his face, but the grim look that emanated from them made Kress speechless on the spot.
"In the future, you are not allowed to contact any archmage, and going to church for mass is the right way." After saying this at the last point, Joseph stopped;
It's not that he doesn't want to go on, it's that the prison gate has arrived.
The two guards behind him stepped forward and pushed open the door, and then rows of guards rushed in and entered the inside first to protect themselves.
It wasn't until the last of the guards entered that Joseph stepped into it with his stubby legs, but before he could take a few steps, he suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong, father?" Kress asked.
Joseph didn't answer, but shook his fat nose, and it didn't take long for him to turn his head to one of the guards next to him with a serious face and whisper, "Something happened here. Carol, you go check it out. β
"Yes, sir."
The guard named Carol responded and probed around, and after a while, he quickly returned: "My lord, there are two jailers there who have fainted on the ground, there are signs of fighting, it seems that someone has been here before. β
"Well..."
Joseph followed the finger of his chief of guard and saw that it was the passage to the underground prison. He couldn't help but look at Kress beside him: "Where are our prisoners kept?" β
Kress felt a hint of something unusual, and said in a slight panic: "The underground prison, that's the direction." β
Hearing this, Joseph immediately ordered: "Carol, take a few people to see if our prisoners are still inside." β
"Yes!"
Carol nodded, and after asking the specific location of the detention, he immediately entered the underground prison with several of his subordinates, and it didn't take long for him to return, and said in a deep voice: "My lord, it's no longer there, there are only two sleeping prisoners inside!" β
After speaking, he raised his hand and gestured to the item he was carrying, which was a tattered pajama made of linen: "In addition, we found five unconscious jailers inside, as well as this dress. β
I'm afraid that no one can be more impressed with this dress than Kress except for Alan, he recognized it at a glance, his face turned blue, and he looked at Joseph: "Father, this dress..."
"Needless to say." Joseph shook his head, turned around and left: "There's no point in staying here anymore, let's go back and prepare early." β
"But father, that person may still be here, why don't we send someone to search carefully?" Kress hurriedly stepped forward and said.
"What to search, people have already escaped."
Joseph sighed, then reached out and pointed to the left side of his head: "Look at that." β
Kress looked up and couldn't help but turn dark. It was the third floor of the prison, and in the area where Joseph was fingering, a wide open window was constantly blowing in the wind, and a rope reaching into the night was faintly visible, and the iron guardrail, which should have been used as a blockade, was no longer visible...
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"Ding~ Congratulations to the host for completing the initial task [Jailbreak], rewarding 500 experience and an initial gift package, do you want to receive it now?"
When Alan turned over and landed, a mechanical voice sounded in his head, which made him smile slightly, and then his mind moved, and he chose no.
It's not completely out of danger yet, but it's not the time to reap the fruits of victory.
Ropes fall overhead, behind him are the hard walls of Rogris, and at his feet is a narrow clearing that constitutes the only living space he has now.
In front of him is the famous moat of Rogris, under the night sky, the muddy and gray river water flows slowly, and some black figures are revealed on the water surface from time to time, at first glance, it looks like a crocodile in the previous life only showed a little bit in the river water.
The beasts in the moat were intimidating, but Alan breathed a sigh of relief and began to chuckle.
Who would have thought that the five little jailers in the night prison would actually have a passage to the outside world?
Alan was surprised when he first saw the five guys, because the jailers couldn't stay in prison at night unless they were here during the day.
There were no patrols at night in the prison, and it was impossible for the sentinels and wardens outside to let people in for no reason, except in certain circumstances.
Is it necessary to divide the spoils into the whole prison? In a sense, it's okay, but it's not on the table.
So those people are very strange.
It's just that he was so busy leaving there that he didn't think about it carefully. That wasn't until those ropes were found on the table where the helmets were placed.
At that time, he had guessed that the jailers had another way to enter and leave the prison freely, but he was not sure about this in his heart, so he just kept an eye on it.
It wasn't until he found that he had nowhere to go that he woke up the jailer with a fluke mentality and forced him to ask him. And this forced questioning made him feel like he was going to live for the rest of his life.
There is a custom of body searching, and the money obtained by the prison guards cannot be taken out openly, so they can only go inside to share the spoils.
How to get money in prison is a puzzling question, but Alan doesn't pay attention to it, but rather wonders how the passage under his feet came from.
It's just that there isn't much time left for him to waste, and the noise of the prison behind him can be faintly heard in his ears, so that Alan immediately gathered all his thoughts and looked down at his feet.
The clearing beneath your feet was not simple, and if you removed the stone lid from it, you could see an underground passage into the city, according to the jailers.
Alan crouched down, and with one hand laboriously removed the heavy stone cover, and sure enough, a pitch-black passage appeared in front of him.
One last glance around, beyond the moat was a gravel path with willow-like trees on either side. Beyond the trail is a green meadow with frosty grass and a beautiful view at night, which is unique to the east of Logris.
And on the front and back of this beautiful place, it is the direction that leads to the town of Sith, which is his own territory...
Shaking his head, he walked gently down the simple wooden staircase in the passage beneath his feet. By the way, the heavy stone lid was put back in place.
It was pitch black underneath the passageway, and as expected, it was very wet, and Alan couldn't see anything below except the footsteps of his own walking, and the chirping of rats from somewhere.
The rat's voice appeared alarmed, probably startled by the echo of footsteps. Alan walked here, and his heart seemed very peaceful.
Despite the gloomy environment, the feeling of regaining his freedom made him unaffected by his surroundings at all.
It wasn't a place to stay for long, so he walked very quickly, and it didn't take long for him to feel like he was at the end of the passage.
Some firelight shone through the gap in the exit above, which made Allen feel alarmed, and after listening carefully for a while, he didn't notice any movement, so he made up his mind and climbed up the stairs he had groped.
The shelter on it was different from the moat, it was wooden, and Alan easily pushed it away, sticking out his head to look around, and found that it seemed to be a warehouse.
There was an oil lamp next to the wooden exit, and the fire that Alan saw inside was emitting from this lamp.
After climbing up, he picked up the oil lamp and looked around, and saw that it looked like a warehouse. The warehouse is not very beautiful, and the secret passage behind him is not very safe, and those people are likely to chase after him, so he naturally won't stay here for long.
He walked out, but he was only halfway through when he suddenly stopped; He saw a figure!
Could there be anyone here?
With a chuckle in his heart, Alan hurriedly raised his eyes and relaxed. It was a man, but it was a man who was unconscious.
Collapsed in front of the warehouse door, I don't know if it was life or death, an old man in gray clothes!
Looking at the clothes worn by the old man, which seemed to be the kind of clothes unique to the grave keeper, Alan thought thoughtfully: Could it be that this is a cemetery?
He walked up to the old man, looked at it carefully, then thought about it, walked to a window next to the door, and looked outside. It turns out that this is really a cemetery area.
"It's strange that the exit is here." Alan muttered, and was about to withdraw his gaze, but suddenly found something, and hurriedly looked at it, and this look couldn't help but make him shocked.
It was another man, in the dark, with his back to here, constantly gesturing or something, a big living person!
It was indeed a strange thing to have a large living person in the cemetery in the middle of the night, but it wasn't that that shook Allen, but...
This man, he's seen it!
Although he only saw a back, the unique costume still made Alan recognize him at a glance!
He'd seen this man, the night he was captured!