Chapter 418: The Breeder
Two more shrill voices came from the hallway, "More here!" "It's finished here! Come on! ”
It was a man who spoke, and the tone was commanding, a bit like he was directing some beast to be fed.
"Just look at it. Anyway, we can't go up for the time being. Qianmo took two steps out curiously.
Ling Xiao whispered to Qianmo: "We are here to find the white crystal, even if there are any beasts raised in this basement, there is nothing, don't make any extraneous branches." ”
Although Ling Xiao made a lot of sense, I was actually a little curious about the voice.
At this time, there was a sudden sound of heavy footsteps on the stairs, and Ling Xiao dragged Qianmo back and covered her mouth, and we all held our breath.
Since we were under the stairs and couldn't see the outside, I only knew that there were three or four people walking down, and it wasn't fast. Wait for them to come down. I poked my head out slightly. I saw four big men carrying a huge box.
As soon as they went downstairs and changed hands, the box tilted a little, and something fell out of it and rolled straight down to my feet.
I looked down and picked it up, and it was a green fruit!
The three of us exchanged a look. Could it have something to do with the sound we just heard?
Soon after the big men passed, there was a 'clang' at the door, and the sucking sound was louder.
After a while, the four big men came back empty-handed, and one of them said as he walked, "Brothers, this is the last trip of the day, you can call it a day!" ”
After they left, we snuck out. There were too many guards upstairs for us to venture upstairs, and we were very interested in the possibility that there was a secret hidden in front of us, so we decided to follow the strange noises.
We followed the sound until we reached the corner of the hallway, where we saw a large black door, the sound of grinding. The sucking sound is getting louder and louder, and those big men must have carried the box here just now.
A few of us turned to the left side of the hallway, hiding in the shadows, and then I cāo squeezed a paper figure through the crack in the door.
From the paper man's point of view, it resembles a large dimly lit warehouse, with large chests of green fruits piled up on the floor, many of which are empty.
There were five people in the warehouse, four of whom looked like workers, and they stood in the four corners of the warehouse, constantly filling dirty buckets with green fruits and pouring them into the corners. I asked the paper figure to lean forward again. It turned out that there was a thick ventilation duct in the corner of the wall, and the green fruit was poured into it.
There was also a man standing in the middle of the warehouse, short in a shabby black robe dragging on the floor, commanding the other four.
I told Ling Xiao and Qianmo about the situation inside, "We have to go in and see what the hell they are doing, I don't think it's a good thing anyway." ”
Both of them agreed, so we discussed a simple plan, I went to control the person standing in the middle, and Ling Xiao took Qianmo to deal with the four workers.
So we crept over, and as soon as I pushed open the big black door, the dwarf immediately realized that something was wrong, "Someone's intruding!" ”
Before he could utter a second sentence, I tripped him to the ground and pressed his head to the ground so that he could not make a sound.
The other four workers, all of whom drew their daggers from behind them, looked at the posture, they were more capable than I thought. The three of them surrounded Ling Xiao, while the other ran to the door, apparently to call someone.
Qianmo guarded the door tightly, and the person who wanted to report the news stabbed the dagger in her hand at Qianmo, she dodged to the side, and the dagger pierced the door, and then collapsed to the ground, with a big hole in her stomach.
Although Ling Xiao's side was one against three, it was not difficult, and those people were quickly killed.
I pulled the dwarf on the ground, and as soon as he stood up, he was about to scream, and I took out the resurrection soul and slashed it twice on his thigh, and I could feel the ghostly energy running around his body.
"Guys, go around me!" He begs us in pain.
"Say! What the hell is down here? I asked, twisting his arm. Clip the fork stupid.
"It's a wild boar!"
"Hah! Are you kidding me? Who will raise pigs in a castle? And how does this wild boar eat only one kind of food? ”
"Because these wild boars eat this fruit and become strong." He shuddered to me, and added, "Then let them out while the king hunts." ”
"Fourth brother, don't talk nonsense with him, fools can hear that this is lying, from those poisonous fruits, they know that it can't be so simple, let him take us down to see it." After Ling Xiao finished speaking, the dwarf shook his head violently.
"No, no, no, you must not go in now, they are eating, and if they go down, they will die!" There was an unusual horror in his eyes, but I think he was just alarmist, afraid that we had discovered some secret, and how could it be that if it was just a few wild boars, how could they die?
"If you don't let us go down and see, I'll kill you right now!" I put my hand directly into his body and pinched his ghost.
This little man couldn't stand this kind of pain, and began to beg bitterly, "Okay, let me go, I can't let you go down!" ”
Hmph, I really have to use some ruthless tricks. The dwarf led us to the wall, where many boxes were piled up, and I warned him that if he dared to play tricks, he would be killed in a minute.
The little man shuddered and removed the boxes, only to see a manhole cover appear on the ground, which was tied with chains. He pointed to the iron lid and said, "I'm a breeder, I don't have the key to open the manhole cover." ”
I glanced at the lock, and slashed it with a resurrection knife, breaking the chain in two. He didn't seem to expect us to open the manhole cover so lightly, and his expression was even more frightened.
Ling Xiao removed the manhole cover, only to see a long narrow stone staircase leading to the ground, and at the same time, there was a louder grinding and sucking sound.
"You'll find out from here." The dwarf finished speaking and stepped back.
He's really taking us for fools, we go in with our front feet, he covers the manhole with his back hand, and then locks us underneath, it's a real wishful thinking.
"You go in first." Ling Xiao pushed him forward, and he stumbled into the tunnel.
The dwarf could not hide, so he could only tremble and walk downward, and we followed him closely, and with each stone staircase the stench became stronger, and this feeling was more unpleasant than walking in the mysterious forest at that time.
But there's no ghostly smell down there, except for the stench, which makes me less nervous.
By the time I got to the last step, I was about to believe that it was really a wild boar.
But when I looked at the entire underground hall, it was full of people, and it was so dark that I couldn't see how many there were, or thousands.
They huddled under the vents where the green fruits were placed, frantically picking up the green fruits from the ground, sucking and chewing.
These people were tall and looked like sturdy warriors, so how could they be locked up here and eat these things?
"That's what you call a wild boar? What the hell is going on with these people? I asked the man aloud.
He hurriedly made a pleading expression and put his finger to his lips, "Shhhhhh You're too loud! It's going to wake them up! ”
Wake? Isn't this just waking? But these people really didn't notice that a few of us were down. When I saw that the dwarf was not telling the truth, I wanted to ask the people who ate the fruit, and what was the matter with them being kept here like wild beasts.
As soon as I walked over, one of them suddenly raised his head, and I could see clearly, his gaze was glazed, and his dead gray face was covered with purple veins.
I take a closer look at the others, and damn it, it's all such a dead face! And these people and the two people in Qianmo's carriage are surprisingly identical! Are they all dead?
Before the three of us were speechless, the dwarf had climbed the stone steps and began to run up, screaming as he ran. He woke up all the dead people in the underground hall, stood up one by one, and then walked towards us angrily.