Chapter 37: The Seven Floors of the Dungeon
It was dark all around, and the environment was cold and damp.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of rotting, moldy, and foul odors.
Arm-thick steel bars crisscrossed the area, dividing the area into boxy cages, each of which contained a handful of unkempt, blind-eyed, and unadorned prisoners in all white prison uniforms.
From time to time, several huge rats, with scarlet eyes, ran over the middle corridor and made "squeak" calls.
No one spoke, and no one made any noise.
This is the Elven Court, a dungeon underneath the Imperial Palace.
"Hey." Finally someone spoke in the dark, it was a middle-aged elf man with a distinct scar on his face, covered in bruises and purple patches, who seemed to have just been abused by the jailers.
He sighed and looked pitifully at the cage next door, which was a small single room, and in the cage, a young human was lying on the floor on his back at the moment, unconscious, his limbs were chained by the thickness of his arm, and his body was severely deformed.
"Tsk, Scar, didn't you just talk to the jailer, but you were caught and beaten up, I thought you were miserable enough, but I didn't expect to be even worse today." Someone is talking in the dark.
"yes." Someone else emerged from the darkness, shook his head and sighed: "This human being is really pitiful, I don't know what big people Lu Dao provoked on it, he was actually beaten like this, I am afraid that the bones of the whole body are about to be broken, there is only one breath left, and he has to be chained, it is really miserable......
At this moment, there was a sudden noise in the darkness in the distance, and the prisoners disappeared into the darkness one after another, and no longer spoke.
"Let go of me! Let me go! I'm innocent! "An elven boy, about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a pair of thief eyebrows and rat eyes, and his eyes were covered with strips of cloth, and he was being brought in by two jailers.
"If you want to argue, wait for the elven court to summon you, it's useless to shout the sky here!" A jailer said coldly, opening a cell door and throwing the elven boy inside.
"I'm really innocent! You have to trust me! The elf boy was still arguing, but in response to him, the cell door closed mercilessly.
He pulled down the strip of cloth that covered his eyes, and was immediately startled by the dark and damp environment around him, turned his head, and saw a human young man lying on the ground half-dead, his limbs were chained, locked up with him, he couldn't help but tremble with fright, and asked in fear: "What is this......?" What is the first floor of the dungeon? ”
"The seventh floor." After half a ring, a kind person finally said this in the dark.
"The seventh floor of the dungeon!" The elf boy was stunned, and he actually cried, crying and shouting, "I'm really innocent!" Let me go! Let me go! ”
"Save it!" Someone, in the dark, smiled weirdly: "We are all innocent, prisoners who can be locked up in the seventh layer, which one is not a rare good person in the world?" If you have the strength to shout, it's better to lie down and fall asleep, as long as you don't get escorted to the execution ground, it's the luckiest thing, don't think about it! ”
Before the words fell, there was a burst of laughter in the surrounding darkness, and the elf boy cried even more fiercely.
"Tut, Lao Liu, you are also worthy of the word good person? I remember right, back then, you killed thirteen people outside, and the gang of dogs in the Elven Royal Court chased you for more than half a year before they caught you and sent you here, right? If you weren't guilty, they'd put you here? This is the bottom of the dungeon! Someone quipped.
"You're no better!" Lao Liu counterattacked: "Successively blaspheming seven elf girls, and then throwing corpses into the wilderness, who else has done this kind of thing except you?" ”
"Everyone!" The elven boy finally stopped crying, and still said with a little disbelief: "Here, this is really the seventh floor of the legendary dungeon, and it is claimed that if you go in, you will never want to get out of the bottom of the dungeon?" ”
"It's true!" Lao Liu said solemnly.
"Don't listen to him, he's scaring you, this is the seventh layer, this is obviously the first layer! A few days will release you! Someone started talking nonsense again, triggering the next round of jokes.
However, in the end, the elf boy still realized that this was indeed the seventh floor of the dungeon, and he would never expect to come out if he entered, so he could only accept the reality, shrink in the corner, hold his head in his hands, sobbed on both shoulders, and forced himself not to cry.
"Isn't it just the seventh floor of a dungeon, a bunch of uninformed guys, who are still talking there for a long time." An old elf with a white beard and a long beard, sitting in a cage not far away, clutching a dead mouse in his hand to eat, suddenly said.
The old elf, who seemed to have a great prestige here, fell silent as soon as he spoke.
However, one person still came out to retort: "Then you say, is there anything more desperate than the bottom of this dungeon?" ”
"Yes, of course there is, and you're stepping on it." The old elf laughed, bit off the dead mouse's head, and rattled his stomach.
"I'm stepping on it? You mean there's an eighth floor of the dungeon? ”
"Of course there is no eighth floor, the seventh floor is indeed the bottom of the dungeon, but under this palace dungeon, there is a more dangerous place." The old elf smiled mysteriously and said, "People who know the Tao of the Tao call it, the royal court underground palace." ”
"The royal palace?" The man wondered, "You mean, there's a dungeon under the dungeon?" How do I not know the way? ”
"Nonsense! This is a top secret, and ordinary people don't know about it! When I was still an elven elder in the Senate, I was also fortunate to see a record in a certain historical document. It's a pity that he was secretly framed and imprisoned later...... "The old elf showed a painful look, maybe the entire seven floors of the dungeon, and only he was qualified to say that he was innocent, because people who knew the history of the road back then understood that the old elf was an official and simple, with a clean breeze on his sleeves, and almost everything was about the country.
"Then what's in this dungeon?"
The old elf shook his head regretfully, and said: "I don't know what to do, it's a forbidden place, and no one has gone down for tens of thousands of years, do you think it's much more mysterious than this dungeon?" ”
Soon, as one of the jailers came over and shouted a few shouts, the prisoners fell silent again.
Lin Yang was lying on the ground, his ribs on his chest were broken, and his whole consciousness was still hazy, he just felt that the outside world was a little noisy, and his eyelids moved, as if a mountain was pressed on his eyes, and he couldn't open them.
The next day, Lin Yang's blood volume recovered a little, and the pain on his body was also a little less.
On the third day, Lin Yang's blood volume recovered by one-third, and many broken bones began to grow on his body.
On the fifth day, Lin Yang woke up completely, his blood volume recovered to seventy-seven eighty-eight, and he could move, and his injuries were much better.
After asking the surrounding prisoners for a while, Lin Yang basically figured out the current situation, the chains on his hands and feet, and those cells made of steel pipes with the thickness of his arms, could have been easily broken, however, what made Lin Yang completely helpless at the moment was that all the equipment and props on his body were confiscated by the Elven Royal Court!
If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, even if you are a good woman, it is difficult to cook without rice, which makes Lin Yang extremely angry!
"Fire?" Lin Yang was furious for a moment, and secretly exclaimed, "Huo'er? Did you wake up? Help me fight my way out of the dungeon, storm the Elven Palace, and claim what is mine! I don't mind turning the Elven Court upside down this time! Just like I did on the Lawson plane! ”
However, after waiting for a long time, the fire phoenix tattoo on his right arm did not have a trace of reaction.
After a thorough impulse, there is complete calmness.
"No, I was carried away by anger just now, so I will definitely die." Shaking his head, Lin Yang began to think carefully: "The situation I am in at the moment is very unfavorable, and it seems that there is no possibility of escaping at all, do you want to commit suicide and escape?" No, even if it's suicide, I still have to come here to find the body, am I going to be trapped here forever? ”
After thinking about it for a long time, he still didn't find a proper way, Lin Yang had a headache and simply stopped thinking about it.
"Human, how did you get in?" The elf boy who was locked up with him had been secretly observing Lin Yang in the corner for the past few days, and at this time, he suddenly asked.
"Because someone taught me something that was originally taboo......" Lin Yang turned his head and asked, "What about you?" ”
"I was supposed to be an elven thief." The elven boy lowered his head and said bitterly: "I agreed with my accomplices to steal something, and then we succeeded, and we were also hunted down, my accomplices left me and fled for their lives, and I was caught." Seriously, I'm innocent! Originally, when he asked me to steal something together, I had no idea that it was so important! You have to trust me! ”
"I believe in you." Lin Yang nodded and said with a smile: "If you really want to talk about it, in fact, we are peers." ”
"You're a thief too?" The elf boy asked in surprise.
"Hmm." Lin Yang said with a smile, and danced a few backstabbing movements, although it didn't look fancy, the real insiders knew at a glance that the Dao had been perfected: "And it should be more skilled than you." ”
"Wow!" The elven boy immediately looked full of admiration, and simply knelt down: "I hope you can teach me the tricks of thieves!" I would like to worship you as a teacher! ”
Lin Yang suddenly felt stunned. This scene is very similar to when he first entered the game and met Hawke. Lin Yang's first profession was a thief, and the thief's skills were taught to him by the guy named Hawke, as well as the twin daggers, and the seaside town, and the grove full of animals...... How long ago that was.
"Hmm." Lin Yang nodded in promise.
It's a pity that they never had a chance again.
That night, several jailers opened the door and entered, and unknowingly took the elven boy away, and did not know whether Lu Dao would go to the final trial of the elven court, or be escorted to the execution ground, or simply acquitted. This kind of thing happens from time to time at the bottom of the dungeon, and when you wake up, someone suddenly disappears, which is still a trivial matter, and there are not a few examples of never waking up after sleeping.
There is no time in the dungeon, time flies, and I don't know how long it has passed.
That night, the seventh floor of the dungeon was particularly quiet, as if everyone had fallen asleep, and as if all those who were still awake had become mute, in short, there was not a single sound, even a steel needle falling on the ground could be clearly heard.
A pale green slender figure, holding shoes in both hands, a pair of pink and petite barefoot, stepping on the ground, standing on tiptoe, like a frightened kitten, snuck in along the aisle.
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