Xu Chen touched his head and thought for a while, and said, "I think there are a lot of strange places in this cottage. ”

"Don't worry about it for now, come over and eat, and we'll talk about it when we're full. Wang Shen beckoned him to come over and eat together.

Both of them were hungry, and regardless of whether the food was delicious or not, they ate the food sent by the jailer in two clicks.

Xu Chen put down the bowl, and heard heavy footsteps outside, followed by the screeching sound of the iron key turning, as if the jailer was opening the cell door next door, Xu Chen was stunned, and hurriedly ran to the door to look out from the ventilation hole, and found a scarred young man being carried up the stairs by several vicious jailers.

As he passed by Xu Chen's cell, the young man seemed to look up at him weakly. Looking at each other, Xu Chen was taken aback, he found that the young man's eyes were full of frightened and frightened expressions, as if he realized that his time was running out.

Xu Chen couldn't help but ask, "Where are you going to take him?"

"Don't be nosy, or you'll be the next to die!" replied in an eerie voice.

Xu Chen was extremely angry, but he couldn't get out of the prison, otherwise with his impulsive personality, he would have dismantled these inhuman jailers a long time ago.

"What are you doing, are you impatient?" The loud voice floated down from above, Xu Chen looked up and saw Ye Tianxiong walking slowly down the stairs, followed by several bandits, one of whom was the jailer who delivered food to Xu Chen.

Seeing that their boss was coming, the jailer who threatened Xu Chen hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Tell the king, this kid is not honest. ”

"I see, you guys get down to business. Ye Tianxiong replied softly.

The shrill sound of "clang" sounded in the narrow aisle, it was the sound of the iron chain tied to the young man's ankle dragging on the ground, and Xu Chen could only stare at the jailers who carried the prisoners past him and was helpless.

"What, haven't you seen enough?" Ye Tianxiong came to the door of the prison with a cold face, and the jailer who delivered the meal hurriedly took out the key to open the heavy iron door and walked in first.

Seeing that Xu Chen was looking at him angrily, the jailer was angry, he stretched out his hand and pushed him, shouting: "Our king is here, don't kneel down quickly!"

Xu Chen, who was not the slightest defense, was pushed so violently by him, and suddenly his body staggered straight back, almost hitting Wang Shen who was standing behind him, if he hadn't stood firm in time, he would have almost fallen to the ground.

Xu Chen shouted angrily: "You bastard dare to yin me ......" Before he finished speaking, he pounced on the jailer who made the trick, Wang Shen saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly came over to stop Xu Chen, and apologized to the jailer in his mouth.

"Don't stop me, let me beat this bastard to death!"

"Lao Tzu, I see that you are looking for death!" The jailer was also angry, and raised the stick in his hand to hit Xu Chen, but was stopped by Ye Tianxiong, who entered the cell later.

"Pack your things and get out, there's nothing to do with you here. ”

The jailer endured the evil anger and lifted the food box and walked out, but the other bandits who followed Ye Tianxiong did not come in, but stood guard outside the door like guards.

There was silence in the cell for a while, and Ye Tianxiong opened his eyes to look at them for a long time before he said, "Two so bold, you dare to pretend to be the two generals under Lin Yunsheng, are you really not afraid of death?"

Wang Shenhuan smiled and said: "Cheng Meng praised, we are not very bold, but compared with you, it is still much bigger." ”

Ye Tianxiong smiled faintly and asked, "What do you want to say?"

"Little Lao'er is also a person who has been the boss, how can you be such a wretch. ”

"You!" Ye Tianxiong's face suddenly changed color, but he immediately returned to his normal color, and said coldly: "Do you want to provoke my relationship with Brother Hu Xian?"

"Fei Ye, Fei Ye!" Wang Shen pretended to be serious and said: "He and you are both kings, and people are much more powerful than you, you are afraid that he will also say the past." I just can't figure it out, the old guy surnamed Su is just a person who is about to die, I am not afraid of him, but you are afraid of death, there are really not many people in the world who respect their elders like you. ”

Xu Chen couldn't help laughing after hearing this, and suddenly knew that Wang Shen was laughing at Ye Tianxiong, so he added fuel to the fire and said: "Uncle Wang, don't rub your tongue with him, this guy looks like a tall cow, but he is actually a puppet." ”

Ye Tianxiong couldn't bear it anymore, grabbed Wang Shen's collar and wanted to beat him, Xu Chen was shocked, and was about to step forward to stop him, but Ye Tianxiong suddenly let go, panted and said: "I don't have a verbal dispute with you, sooner or later you will know what kind of person I am!"

After saying that, he walked out of the cell angrily, and several of his subordinates also walked away.

Xu Chen couldn't help but laugh and said to Wang Shen: "Uncle Wang, I misjudged you, I didn't expect you to be brave at all. ”

Before Wang Shen could reply, he heard a hoarse voice from next door reply: "The two of you are really good men, and you are not afraid of them at all." ”

Xu Chen couldn't help but feel moved, and hurriedly walked over and put his ear on the cold wall and asked him, "Who are you?"

The man groaned and replied, "My name is Zhao Sheng." ”

Wasn't that someone from the village near his uncle Wang Lin? Xu Chen remembered that he had lived in his uncle's house and had gone down to the river to fish with him, so he couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Why were you caught here by thieves?"

"A few days ago, the bandits went to the village to collect grain, and I couldn't help but reason with them for a while, but they beat them up and caught them and locked them up here. ”

Xu Chen comforted him and said, "It's okay, if you endure it for a few more days, I will find a way to get you out." ”

"I can't get out, I've been locked up here for three months, and there are about a dozen people about my age in prison at first, and now I'm the only one left. Let's just say that the brother they took out just now will not come back nine times out of ten. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Every time the jailer picks someone up from the prison, only those who go out and don't come back must be killed by them. ”

"That's not necessarily, it's possible that they were let go by the bandits. ”

"Little brother, you are too kind. Zhao Sheng lowered his voice and said: "After these people were dragged out, I often heard their screams from above at night, and after a while, they were silent, obviously dead. ”

Xu Chen was stunned on the spot, he didn't expect these bandits to be so cruel, they were completely murderous without blinking.

Zhao Sheng said again: "You have to be careful, if you offend their king today, these guys will not let you go." ”

After continuing to talk, Xu Chen knew that Su Jingzhi, the old guy, had occupied this place more than ten years ago, and Ye Tianxiong had only joined the gang a few years ago. Su Jingzhi saw that he was capable and wrote a good hand, so he asked Hu Yukun to give up the position of the king to Ye Tianxiong, and the master and apprentice had been cowering in this ghost tower for a long time, and if nothing big happened in the village, they would not easily come out and show their heads.

Hearing this, Xu Chen said secretly: "No wonder Ye Tianxiong doesn't have a bit of majesty, it turns out that this is the lair that the old wizard has worked hard to manage." ”

Xu Chen originally wanted to talk to Zhao Sheng a few more words, but the jailer who heard the movement outside had already come over vigilantly, knocked on the iron door with an iron rod and said sharply: "If you want to live, shut your rotten mouths, otherwise don't be polite to Lao Tzu!"

Zhao Sheng was afraid of his obscenity, and the frightened person shrank back into the corner and stopped talking.

Xu Chen glanced at the jailer coldly, sat down with his back against the stone wall, the chill seeped into his skin through his thin clothes, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad.

The night was getting darker and darker, and I didn't know how long I had been asleep, Xu Chen, who was in a daze, was woken up by Wang Shentui, and he yawned and asked, "Uncle Wang, what's wrong?"

"Shhhhhhhhhhhh

Xu Chen was suddenly taken aback, and the person also came to his senses, so he quickly turned over and asked happily: "Where did this thing come from, could it be...... Did you steal it while the jailer was arguing with me?"

It turned out that Wang Shen was holding an iron key with a little rust in his hand, and Xu Chen guessed that it was the key that could open the prison door no matter how stupid he was.

Wang Shen shook his head and said, "You are wrong, this key belongs to Ye Tianxiong." ”

"It's the same with stealing from him. In the past, Xu Chen always looked down on Wang Shen's behavior of stealing chickens and dogs, but now he is very happy, if he didn't have this unique skill, he doesn't know when he will be able to leave this dark and damp dungeon.

Xu Chen ran to the door of the prison with his body low, looked out vigilantly from the breath opening, and found that there was silence in the corridor, it seemed that those jailers had slept like dead pigs, who would have expected that someone was preparing to escape from prison in the dead of night.

Xu Chen turned around and was about to take the key from Wang Shen's hand to open the door, but saw that his hand retracted suddenly, as if he didn't want to give the key to Xu Chen.

"What do you mean by this, are you reluctant to leave because you live here?" Xu Chen was a little annoyed, but he didn't know what Wang Shen's intentions were.

"This is a bit strange, I didn't steal the key, it seems that Ye Tianxiong deliberately gave it to me. ”

"When have you been making such jokes. ”

"I didn't lie to you, I was trying to steal it from him, but when I was about to do it, he took advantage of the conversation with me to stuff the key into his arms. ”

"No, why would he help us?"

Xu Chen was stunned, and then remembered the scene when Ye Tianxiong grabbed Wang Shen's collar, it turned out that he was not really angry, all this was pretended.

"I don't know. Wang Shen said in a deep voice: "He may not be the same person as Su Jingzhi, so he wants to help us." ”

"That's right. Xu Chen nodded and said: "At the beginning, when we pretended to recruit An, this guy was full of promises, if it wasn't discovered by Hu Yukun, we would have finished our business now." ”

After a pause, Xu Chen said again: "Don't worry about it so much, let's run out first and then make plans." ”

At this moment, a scream suddenly came from above his head!

The voice was so poignant, it seemed very abrupt in this quiet night, Xu Chen suddenly felt numb when he heard it, and both of them shut up and waited for the following.

After a long time, I didn't hear any new movement, and the jailers outside didn't come to check the movement in the cell, as if they had long been accustomed to this kind of desperate scream, only Zhao Sheng, who was next door, woke up, and he said in a trembling voice: "Alas, another one died." ”

Xu Chen shuddered when he heard this, and suddenly realized that the scream just now was the desperate sound from the mouth of the half-dead young man who had been dragged out by the jailers earlier, and he couldn't help but grit his teeth in anger, eager to go out and see what was going on immediately.