Chapter 225: Hope in a Desperate Situation (5K)
The city of the Harpy cliffs.
In the dark dungeon, the environment here is damp and gloomy.
In the dim environment, the scarlet illuminated gems hanging from the stone walls make this prison look extremely glamorous and eerie.
Inside the huge cage, countless human women are being held here.
Most of these human women are very tattered, but in this environment, the bodies of these female humans are relatively clean, and the conditions in the prison are much cleaner and neater than those in the male prison.
Here, female humans were divided into groups of several dozen to a hundred and kept separately.
Quimper City, the main city where the Harpies imprisoned humans and other races, is also the largest cliff city of the Harpies in Aqua Blue.
There are millions of harpies here, and there are also many humans and 'aliens' imprisoned here, and humans are just one of them.
In the dungeon of 100 people.
At this time, Xu Huiyi, a girl who was only thirteen years old, was lying on the grass on her side, and her eyes looked a little distracted.
Xu Huiyi can't remember exactly how long she has spent in prison, but she knows that she will be harmed in some way soon.
Xu Huiyi has spent time in prison since she can remember, but at least she still had a mother at that time.
Her mother endured all the unbearable humiliation and pain for her, and she was able to grow up to the age she is now in this Harpy dungeon.
However, it was clear that these days were short-lived, as her mother had died in childbirth just six months earlier while giving birth to a baby for the Harpys as a slave with no human rights.
In this dungeon, human beings have no human rights, men are beaten and scolded at will, and even starved to death, while women become the reproductive tools of the harpy.
In Xu Huiyi's memory, her mother spent time in constant pregnancy and childbirth, and when she was the seventh child, Xu Huiyi's mother finally died due to extreme physical weakness.
In her mind, Xu Huiyi often recalls her mother's smile.
Her mother was so strong, and at the same time, she felt at ease.
In the dungeon, even if she was pregnant and weak, Xu Huiyi's mother still insisted on teaching her young people to learn words and languages every day, and her mother often told her about the Great Xia Federation period.
Listening to her mother's narration, the young Xu Huiyi was full of extreme yearning for the Great Xia Federation in her mother's mouth.
But the dungeon in front of her is just an untouchable fantasy that makes her yearn for it.
Xu Huiyi doesn't know how many times she dreamed in her dreams that she was in the country that her mother said, in the dream, she had a father, and her mother was waiting for her to come home every day.
In my dream, it was a kingdom like heaven, and I was completely like a carefree little princess.
However, every time she woke up from her dream, reality gave her the same dimly lit dungeon vision.
Xu Huiyi has seen the outside world in the countless years she has spent in this dungeon, but she only has more than ten opportunities to see this kind of meeting every year.
And this purpose of letting female humans see the light of day is actually just to give these women hope to live.
Only by letting people see the outside world, as long as they are made to fantasize about the opportunity to escape from here one day, then they will not have the possibility of large groups of autistic suicides.
This is the Harpy's habitual thinking towards the dungeon girl.
There is still a lot of propaganda about the treatment of female humans in the dungeon, and there are several kinds of propaganda.
1. Women who give birth to ten children for the Harpy will be pardoned as slaves and assigned to some Harpy noble mansions as servants.
2. Human females who grow up in Harpy prisons will be assigned to Harpy soldiers who have military exploits as their wives and concubines (provided that they are babies raised in prison and have delicate facial features.) )
"Three 、.......。"
The aesthetics of the harpy are almost the same as those of humans, but the aesthetics of the harpy also have the element that the wings are not beautiful.
As for human and alien women, in fact, even if they become wives and concubines in the Harpy clan, their status is absolutely low.
It is also worth mentioning that there is actually a big difference between the Harpyx in the world of Elgabri and the Harpyx in the Western Magic System of the Water Blue Star.
At least the Harpys in the world of Elgabri are not a pure chaotic and evil race, and the intelligence and civilization of the Harpies are not inferior to the humans in the world of Elgabry.
Therefore, under the framework of the same world, the form of tribal power structure of the Harpy is actually different from that of the human kingdom.
Xu Huiyi was scared, and at the same time hated the Harpy very much.
However, she was very powerless for all this.
Even if she had now become a naturally awakened transcendent in the mouth of the eagle, it was only the lowest transcendent.
This transcendent status did not bring Xu Huiyi any benefits, on the contrary, because she was an transcendent and because of her beautiful face, she became a hot auction object among this group of slaves of the same age.
According to the Harpies who guard the area, she will be sent to the city auction house in the center of Quimper to be auctioned off at the next Harpiex festival.
Xu Huiyi will be afraid, fearful and hateful about her upcoming auction, but at the same time, she also has a glimmer of hope.
In this cruel environment, Xu Huiyi knows that cowardice can't change anything, so she has taken her upcoming auction as an established fact that cannot be changed.
And since the auction cannot be changed, Xu Huiyi has another hope.
And this hope is that the person who gets through the auction may be able to try to escape from here, although the probability of this is still very small, but Xu Huiyi feels that she can endure the humiliation and bear the burden or wait for the opportunity slowly.
At least no matter how bad the environment is, is it possible that the environment after being auctioned will be worse than the dungeon environment?
As a slave, everything else doesn't matter, only your own life matters.
Only the living have the hope of freedom, and only the living have the possibility to change everything. ’
This is the last lesson that Hui Huiyi's mother gave to Xu Huiyi before she died.
In Xu Huiyi's mother's heart, perhaps she very much hopes that her daughter can escape from this hellish place one day, right?
Xu Huiyi, who is only thirteen years old, is far stronger than ordinary girls, and at the same time, she knows how to cherish her life more than ordinary people.
At this point, the entire dungeon was silent.
Because of the late night, there was no extra sound except for the breathing of girls of the same age and the occasional harpy patrolling the dungeon in the hallways.
There are probably a few thousand people in this dungeon, and almost more than ninety percent of these human women are exotic human women.
It is estimated that there will be no more than one hand of a human girl like Xu Huiyi.
After all, when the Harpy appeared in this world, there were very few Aqua Blue Star humans, and they were scattered, so there were not many Aqua Blue Star humans who were caught within the scope of the Harpy clan.
And after ten years of transition, there will not be much left of the current Aqua Blue Star human race.
Sleeping on the grass, Xu Huiyi watched the dungeon walk to the scarlet illuminated gem, her eyes seemed a little distant, and at the same time she slowly looked a little tired and ready to fall asleep at any time.
However, between this half-dream and half-sleep, a whispered chat appeared in Xu Huiyi's ears dimly.
Slightly half-opened, smelling the sound, Xu Huiyi quickly discovered the source of the sound.
The source of the sound was the sound of two harpies chatting with their backs to a dungeon in the distance.
"Borg, how many female humans will be lucky enough to be in this dungeon that the two of us are guarding?"
"How many?"
"It's really hard to guess, I think it mainly depends on whether the so-called forest country will gain an inch." The Harpy named Borg visibly looked helpless.
"The goddess personally issued an oracle to the priest, what do you think the priest and the queen will do?"
"I guess that even if the so-called Forest Country wants to take all the humans here with us, I don't think Her Majesty the Queen and the priests will be able to stop it."
Listening to his companion's words, the other harpy was obviously stunned, but soon he sighed in a helpless tone as if he had figured out something:
"This is also something that can't be helped, after all, this forest country has the protection of a god, and this god is still the indigenous god of this world."
"Based on the premise that many gods in our world can't come down yet, I think not only our Harpy clan has nothing to do with this forest country, but I guess the other human beings and alien empires are also trying their best to concede all their interests to this forest country, right?"
"It's a step backwards that we have to make in the big picture, and although it seems a bit of a nest, there is nothing we can do about it."
"You can't put our Hippogens in danger because of a few human slaves, right? The collapse of our world has caused us to lose too many people, and now we really can't do it casually. ”
The older Harpy looked very excited.
"Yes, it is impossible for the current young generation to think of this, and I estimate that this concession of our Harpy clan must have caused many young people outside to appear dissatisfied and indignant."
"Dissatisfied? Indignation? The elder Harpy smiled slightly: "Young man, it's not that I can't understand it, if the young people don't have an excited mentality, then our Harpy clan is probably not far from decline." ”
"After this concession and humiliation, I think these young people will be more active, and maybe this incident can also play a role in motivating these young people."
"Hehe~ This is also ......."
The two harpies laughed when they said this, but their laughter was extremely harsh to Xu Huiyi's ears.
If cursing and cursing can scold people to death, maybe Xu Huiyi would have relied on cursing and cursing all the eagles to death, right?
Xu Huiyi's hatred for the Harpy is deep in her heart, if Xu Huiyi has the strength, it is estimated that the first thing she wants to do is to slaughter the entire Harpy clan.
But at this stage, trying to slaughter the entire Harpy clan is tantamount to a dream.
In the past ten years, Xu Huiyi has seen too many women who died in the dungeon, some died of illness, and some were dragged back to death after being toyed with.
This kind of seeing and hearing can be described as a sharp impact on Xu Huiyi's young heart.
Although all this made Xu Huiyi more afraid of the Harpy, on the other hand, it also made Xu Huiyi hate the Harpy even more.
With an extremely hateful look in her eyes, Xu Huiyi slowly calmed down, and at the same time began to sort out the information in the words she had just heard.
The language spoken by the Harpies is the continental lingua franca of the world of Elgabry, and Xu Huiyi has already learned this lingua franca in the past ten years of dungeon life and contact with many exotic human slaves.
Although Xu Huiyi can't write this exotic language, she can speak and listen to the language.
"The land of the forest, the indigenous gods, take away all the humans..."
Just a little recalling the words of the two harpies, Xu Huiyi easily came up with one that made her a little excited, or she still couldn't believe that the words she heard could be true.
"Is this forest country the kingdom of our aqua planet humans?"
"No..., before my mother died, I never said that we Aqua Star humans still have a country called the country of the forest, not to mention that there are gods in this country of the forest."
At only thirteen years old, less than 1.4 meters tall, and with a black boring and messy single ponytail, Xu Huiyi's heart fluttered, while lying on the grass and constantly thinking about various possibilities.
"Is it possible that this forest country is a country that we established later?"
"Could that the god who sheltered the forest country be the one who became a god after my mother was captured?"
In short, at this moment, Xu Huiyi, who is slender and even relatively thin, is full of all kinds of questions in her mind.
And there are still a lot of these questions that Xu Huiyi is 100% sure of.
First of all, this forest country must be the human kingdom of the water blue star, and secondly, the god who protects the forest country must also be the god of the water blue star, because if this is not the case, the other party will ask for humans with great fanfare from the harpy?
And at the same time as asking for humans, this forest country also alarmed the gods of the other party's harpy clan, and even the other party's gods asked the harpy people to cooperate with the forest country, so what is hidden in this is obviously self-evident.
Listening to the meaning of the words of the two harpys, Xu Huiyi even felt that this forest country must still be asking for or luring the native humans back from other foreign forces.
After analyzing this information, Xu Huiyi's mind at this time obviously couldn't be calm.
"I'm about to be free?"
"I'm going to return to the realm of our Aqua Blue Star Humans?"
"You can't be dreaming again, are you?"
"If this is a dream, I hope the gods don't wake me up again."
At this moment, Xu Huiyi's pupils were soaked with tears, and there were complexities in her eyes, doubts, sadness, and surprises...
In short, at this moment, the fluctuating emotions in the heart of this thin little girl who was only thirteen years old can be described as extremely mixed.
Without a person who has suffered a lot, you can't imagine the feeling of someone who is about to get out of it.
Before finally seeing the arrival of the people in the country of the forest, and even before she got out of the predicament, Xu Huiyi's heart was always full of emotions of gain and loss.
She was afraid that the Forest Country had missed the dungeon she was in, and she was also afraid that the Forest Country had made a mistake in selecting the Aqua Blue Star humans and left her here.
In short, in this kind of apprehension, Xu Huiyi has never slept since she woke up.
And just when Xu Huiyi shrank into a ball and looked at the corridor outside the dungeon with hope, on Xu Huiyi's side, a foreign girl woke up in confusion and looked at Xu Huiyi, who had been opening her eyes to look at the corridor.
"Huh? Sister Huiyi, what are you looking at? ”
Phyllis, an exotic girl, asked in a quizzed whisper.
Looking at Phyllis, a red-haired girl who had been with her for five or six years with her for five or six years, Xu Huiyi smiled slightly and said softly without concealment:
"I'm waiting for a chance to get out of this situation, and maybe I don't have any hope of getting out of here except this one."
Hearing Xu Huiyi say this, the red-haired thin little girl Phyllis's expression suddenly changed, and after glancing at the corridor a little timidly, she immediately stretched out her hand and took Xu Huiyi's hand, and whispered nervously:
"Sister, don't do anything stupid, Phyllis I'm afraid."
Phyllis's tone was very timid and frightened.
She was holding Xu Huiyi's little hand, and at this time, Xu Huiyi's palm was still trembling slightly uncontrollably, obviously this little girl named Phyllis was very afraid of Xu Huiyi's bold move.
Feeling Phyllis's fear, Xu Huiyi stretched out her other hand and stroked it on her head.
"Phyllis don't be afraid, my sister won't do anything stupid, my sister is just quietly waiting for the others to save my sister, and if there is a chance, my sister will definitely beg them to leave here with Phyllis."
Xu Huiyi said softly, and at the same time, she kept running her hand through Phyllis's red messy hair.
The posture of a big sister is undoubtedly evident in Xu Huiyi, a young girl, at this time.
Xu Huiyi's posture and maturity are not what a thirteen-year-old girl should have at all, and this is forced by the environment.
Feeling Xu Huiyi's comfort, the little girl Phyllis finally controlled the fear in her heart slightly, and then she looked at Xu Huiyi and whispered in a somewhat hesitant voice:
"Will anyone really come to my sister's rescue? Sister you.... ”
"Yes, I'm sure it will."
Xu Huiyi interrupted Phyllis's words, and at the same time, her tone was obviously a little heavier when she spoke.
After all, she was also afraid of the outcome that no one came.
So in order to appease herself, to hypnotize herself, or to make herself believe that someone would come, she also told Phyllis directly about the conversation she had heard about the Harpy.
And when Xu Huiyi and Phyllis were talking about what they had heard before, ten soldiers from the Forest Country outside the prison were negotiating with the Harpy guarding them, and soon the door of the dungeon was opened.