In order to save his life, the lord of the castle was forced to agree to enter the sixteenth floor with me.

He first lifted the previous restrictions, and then opened the originally closed round door. When we entered the round door again, the suspended stone slabs were already arranged in a staircase that extended downward.

The lord of the city walked in the front, and I and thirty-five followed him.

My tentacles wrapped around his body, and the slightest movement would cut me into dozens of pieces.

But in fact, he had not completely given up resistance, and at some point when he walked down the stairs, he suddenly asked me: "...... Have you thought about doing this? ”

"What do you want to say?" I asked.

He didn't turn around, and a staccato sound came out of his mouth, "Go...... Go to the sixteenth floor......"

"Nonsense." I responded indifferently.

“…… Although, I don't know who you are. But it seems that you have never met the people of the inner city, and you have no idea how terrible they are. Now the world, being eaten and used as food, is nothing compared to the punishment of the people of the inner city. ”

"Actually, I'm quite curious when you say that. What exactly have you experienced? ”

"I ......," he was about to speak.

But the moment I was about to speak, the golden heart in my body suddenly beat abnormally. It's not a fatal reminder, but at least it's a nuisance.

And at this moment, the city lord himself seemed to realize what was wrong, and he stopped talking, his steps stiffened for a moment, and responded: "This ...... I can't really say that. ”

As he gave up the idea of telling information about the people of the inner city, the beating of the golden heart gradually regained its calm.

"Strange ......," I stopped.

"How?" Thirty-five also stood beside me.

"What kind of prohibition is there on that guy's body. You can't kill it, and you can't talk about it. But if he is killed, or if something happens, what happens? ”

"It's better not to be tempted." After the situation that I would not become an enemy was confirmed, Thirty-Five quickly regained his senses, and at this moment he also knew that even if he didn't know the specific reason, the life of the city lord must be kept.

"I still really want to know ......"

"Then you should look for the snake, maybe he'll tell you."

"I guess, I don't have that chance."

"Huh?" Thirty-five doubts.

Without explaining to him, I continued to walk down the levitation staircase. Soon, we reached the entrance to the suspended stone level, followed by the mirror, and the maze of stone pillars. It all went smoothly and nothing unusual happened.

It's just that the closer I get to my destination, the more I can feel the fear from the castle lord.

He seemed to tremble with every step he took.

That sense of fear is by no means pretended. It was as if there was a seed representing fear, planted in his heart early, and now it had taken root and sprouted, and the roots and vines were wrapped around his bones, flesh and soul.

This fear seemed to be something he couldn't get rid of for the rest of his life.

……

We took the suspended stone slabs to the sixteenth floor, and then stopped.

This time I stepped down from the slate first, anxious to be thirty-five.

But then, there was a "poof" sound behind him.

Looking back, at first, I thought that the city lord would have a "good temperament" after changing the scene, but at this moment, he actually knelt in front of me and Thirty-Five, "I...... I beg you to spare me...... I'm really useless, I'm just ...... It's just a puppet. I just can't die, nothing else, nothing else I can do. You're here, and I can't control any of the mechanisms anymore. He also knows it, he knows it......"

His gaze turned to thirty-five.

Then he continued to plead, "Don't let me in...... I beg you, don't let me in again. ”

I tugged at his collar, "You've been in?" ”

"No ......"

"You're so scared if you don't go in? What exactly are you afraid of? Don't say anything about the people of the inner city. Just talking about what's in the tunnel entrance! "I don't want to cause unknown trouble, but there is obviously a big problem with the way this city lord looks at the moment.

"I, I've seen monsters here. I've been hurt by them...... Then, was, saved. Rescued by the people of the inner city. That's all I can say...... Say any more, and I'll die...... If I die, so will you! ”

"What do you mean by monster? And why did you see it? ”

"That's a long story, then...... I wasn't a castle lord at that time. I entered here to ask for a few delicious pieces of flesh and blood. Then, just ...... I saw the kind of thing that could get into people's bodies. If you are drilled into your body by it, you will die repeatedly, life is better than death, and you will never be able to get out of trouble...... If there is no inner confession, I will suffer that pain for the rest of the endless time, eternal, endless...... I...... I ......"

His eyes were bloodshot, but what he said was so vague and almost deranged that I couldn't imagine and understand what he was saying.

However, although I don't know what the monster the castle lord is talking about. I don't know what kind of pain he had. But I gradually understood another thing, about the value of this city lord to the people of the inner city.

I've been wondering why the lord is hiding in this storehouse where food is stored all the time.

Thirty-five said, because of the loss of life.

It can be seen that this guy is really afraid of death. But everyone is afraid of death.

But how threatened was he? Need to stay in the underground palace for decades at the expense of freedom?

I can't think of it. Follow-up

Because even the snake wanted to kill him, but couldn't kill him for the time being, the city lord himself knew. I can't imagine what kind of threat his position can have in this city.

Take 10,000 steps back, even if there is a threat, there are very few people who know his true identity at this moment.

Is his "life-sparing" a little excessive?

Unless, his behavior was not a simple "life-saving" in the first place. It's the value that the people of the inner city have given him, and it is what the people of the inner city have set for him to do!

In short, to be imprisoned here.

And the reason for captivity, the so-called value, is the function of an alarm.

As he himself said, if he dies, everyone here must die.

Why was he so confident in that? Because he himself knows what the meaning of his existence is. His "life-sparing" is, to some extent, fake! The fact that the underground palace organs protect him is also fake! The lord of the castle is the alarm, because his death represents a great change in the outer city, no matter what the change. And if the center of change is close to the dungeon, or if it is inside the dungeon, it will affect another thing!

Therefore, this alarm is the same as the purpose of the existence of the underground palace mechanism, which is to protect that kind of thing!

And it's on the sixteenth floor.

Including Yu Xia, she must have known about the existence of that thing for a long time, whether she knew it before or through the purebred snake man later. Now, as soon as she got out of trouble, she entered the place, and broke into it at great risk. The value of that thing to her is obvious.

The question is, what is it exactly?

The monster that the city lord said in his mouth now seems to be not made up by him.

It seems that the answer to everything will only become clear when we really go into it.

So, I responded, "You don't have a choice, this way, you have to go, whether your words are true or false." ”

The city lord was desperate, and his body was like a puddle of mud.

But immediately, from despair, he was born into a mood of destruction.

He stood up and stepped back, his hands that had been reconnected before turned into claws, and he grabbed his neck, "That'...... Then I'll die here. In short, it is better to live than to die to go in, and here you ...... I can't convince you here, so I'm ...... Then I can only choose to die together!! You...... You'll all regret it! ”

It's beautifully said.

Unfortunately, as soon as he finished speaking, his hands were cut off by me again, and the claws fell off, and he lost the right to choose death.

"I said, you don't have a choice."

"No...... No, why...... We don't have any hatred! You, why are you doing this to me?! No...... No way! ”

He struggled frantically, and I tied him up with my tentacles and dragged him into the tunnel in front of me.

And because he was so noisy, I simply closed his mouth so that I couldn't hear it at all.

"You say, what is the monster he is talking about? I've never seen this guy before, I'm afraid of it. It's not at all like the way I just threatened you and me with the idea that I couldn't be killed. ”

"I don't know, but it's good to go, if there really is any monster, sooner or later it will be seen."

With that, I quickened my pace.

The tunnel mouth is square and stretches forward at a considerable distance. And continue to walk, at a certain stage, the smooth artificial tunnel, suddenly disappear, the road in front of it looks like a natural formation, the rock walls up and down, left and right, become extremely uneven.

But this picture looks a little familiar.

Reminds me of the underground caves before.

And that place......

But as soon as this thought appeared, at the end of the cave, there was a sudden sound of rapid footsteps.

And at the same time as the sound of these footsteps appeared, the city lord who was tied up by me began to struggle frantically!

His strength was originally far less than mine.

But at this moment, due to extreme fear, the whole body quickly alienated! Swell! My tough tentacles cut through the exoskeleton and the flesh of my back, oozing a lot of blood......

I watched warily in the direction the voice was coming from.

Bang, bang...... Bang!

The footsteps are getting closer......

Then, abruptly, stop.

A dark thing, not too far from us, stopped.

The sound of footsteps was also made by this thing.

Thirty-five and I exchanged glances and stepped forward, but before my heel could fall, there was a terrible roar in my ears!

"Woohoo!!"

Then, a black shadow burst out!

Come to me and show your true face, it's white! Black Fang! But there are no eyes, ears and nose!

This is the same monster that you see in the world where the Yin Yang Insect Poison Slate was sealed!