012: Slavery

"Boom, boom, boom. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info" In the deep and hollow secret passage, the three of them walked forward in silence, and the only thing they could hear was the footsteps of their boots on the ground.

Orlando and the two of them weave through this labyrinthine tunnel, encountering a new fork almost every quarter of an hour, and Eve has lost count of how far she has come, and she is very sure that she has forgotten how to go back.

Finally, just as Eve was already dazed, there was a light in the distance, which meant that they had finally reached the exit.

"Well, you might see some, uh, strange sights next, but, no matter what, be sure to keep quiet, trust me. As he was about to reach the exit, Orlando hesitated, opened his mouth and admonished again, and did not continue until he confirmed that the two agreed.

When I came to the light, it was a half-hidden door, and I could faintly see the shadow of a person, and I didn't know what I was doing.

Orlando walked to the door and knocked lightly, and the man stopped what he was doing, came to the door, and asked as if he was a little angry, "By the way?"

Orlando nodded, and handed him another bag of things that he didn't know what to do, and the man took it with a snort, opened the door, and left them alone, and went back to his own business.

Orlando nodded to Eve and the others, and led them into the door, which was a small space with all sorts of strange tools and jars, which looked like the room of some alchemist or bachelor.

Orlando walked up the spiral staircase, and Eve and Arthur also remembered Orlando's advice and did not make a single superfluous sound. Step by step, they walked upwards, and just as they were about to reach the second floor, Eve casually glanced at the man, but couldn't help but take a deep breath - the man was carefully mixing some wonderful potion that she didn't know, and behind him, there was indeed a young girl, tied to a chair, her eyes were red, and she was looking at the medicine jar in the man's hand in horror.

"Strange, how could it be wrong?" the man put down the jar in distress, then took out another jar of potion, grabbed a mouse from the cage next to it, and forcibly put the jar into its stomach, and then threw it on the table. The mouse convulsed instantly, as if in great pain, and after a while, he stopped twitching and died.

"Well, it works for animals, but it doesn't work so well for people. Seeing the result, he took a note, then picked up the jar and walked over to the girl. "Maybe it's the wrong dose, come, open your mouth, you have to drink more, you can't spit it out like before!" the man walked up to the girl, grabbed her mouth roughly, and tried to pour the potion in. The girl struggled desperately to break free from the man's grasp, but it was all in vain, she did not have enough strength to resist, and her struggle was rewarded with a hard slap, and the man said unhappily: "You watch, be careful not to knock over my test specimen!" The man cursed and took a strange metal object, like a stand, and he shoved it into the girl's mouth, forcing her mouth open so that she could not close it. He picked up the jar and was about to take a sip. "Huh!", an arrow was inserted into the girl's chair, the man was stunned, and before he could come back to his senses, he felt a huge force behind him, and then his face made an intimate contact with the ground.

"What are you doing?!" Before he could figure out what was happening, he heard a female voice full of anger come into his ears, and then he was lifted from the ground by the man and pressed to the table beside him, and his medicine jars crackled and fell to the ground. "Who gave you the power to do such a cruel experiment here?" he felt a cool touch on his face, and he glanced at it, it was a sharp blade that glowed with cold light.

"Who are you, who are you?, how do you disobey the rules?" he was a little confused, and the people who were allowed to pass through here were not all followers of my lord, and how could they bother him about such a trivial matter?

"Rules, you have broken the laws of the kingdom!" said Eve, who was furious indeed, and had it not been for the righteous teachings in her heart, she would have plunged the sharp blade into the man's chest.

"Well, it's still like this. Orlando walked down with his head covered and closed the door on the stairs so that no one could hear the movement and come down to check. "I'm not going to be able to do that now. ”

Arthur on the side had already loosened the tie for the girl, he quietly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, the arrow just now, he aimed at the man's thigh, and almost shot the girl.

"Hey, that's mine!put her down!" the man yelled at Arthur as he let the girl go, but it made Eve's hand a little harder. "I've broken the law, you're the ones who broke the law!" said the man indignantly. "I bought it at great expense! it was my private property, and even the king himself had no right to take possession of my private property for no reason!" roared the man, whose anger was understandable as he was interrupted and pointed at his sword impudently.

"Holy!" Eve was about to plunge her sword into his face, but Orlando walked quickly to him, took her hand, and said, "Let him go, Eve, he's right, we're the lawbreakers now." ”

"What do you mean?" Eve asked, not letting go at all, and she looked at Orlando with an angry face, and if he didn't give a reasonable explanation, Eve wouldn't give up.

Orlando looked at her calmly, and then said, "That's his slave, Eve, and the law doesn't protect slaves." "He's like he's talking about common sense, calmly terrifying. And this is a fact that is difficult for Eve to accept.

Of course, Eve knew very well that slavery was legal in Nord, which was recognized by the kingdom, but she didn't expect that slavery would be like this. Cruel, evil, incomprehensible.

She stared at Orlando, who looked at her calmly, and finally, Eve, who knew that she was in the wrong, reluctantly let go of the man, and then stood aside, trying to calm her emotions.

"How are you?" Arthur asked the girl softly, who looked at Arthur timidly, curled up in her chair, not daring to open her mouth to speak.

"Hey, stay away from my slave!" the man moved and saw Arthur talking to his slave, so he rushed over and tried to pull Arthur away, but Arthur pushed him to the ground with his backhand.

Arthur pulled out an arrow and was about to plunge it into the man, he didn't care so much now, he just wanted this guy to die.

But to his bewilderment, the maiden saw the man fall to the ground, covered her mouth and screamed, and then threw herself on the man, and she looked at Arthur in horror and pity, and she protected the man with her body.

This move stunned Arthur and shocked Eve. This is already a development beyond the scope of their common sense.

"Damn it, you impudent fellows, don't want to get out of here in its entirety!" the man shoved the girl away violently, rolled over and stood up, and was about to hit Arthur with a fist.

Arthur was a little stunned because of the scene just now, and the man had already rushed in front of him, so he reacted and took a heavy punch. "And you, you crazy woman, how dare you point a sword at me! Do you know who I am? I'm ......."

"Enough, it's time for this farce to end. Orlando grabbed the man's hand, threw him aside, and stopped him. "This is Lady Eveluna Falst of the Falst family, watch out for your words, insult the nobles, and you will be executed on the spot. Orlando said to the man, and then quietly blocked Eve with his body to prevent him from going on a rampage again.

As soon as the man heard that this chick was actually a nobleman, his attitude immediately changed, he was stunned by the sudden news, and then slowly knelt on the ground, trembling and said: "Oh, please forgive me for my rudeness, dear lady, I did not expect you to be the daughter of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I, I ask for your mercy." "Although he was a violent man, he did not have the audacity to openly insult the nobles, which was an unpardonable capital crime.

Eve didn't look at him, she just looked at the girl, struggled to get up from the ground, and then limped to the man's side, and hugged him tightly as if it were the only relative in his life. Eve didn't know what to say or what to do, and for the first time she felt so powerless, even though she had thousands of troops, she didn't know how to save this girl.

Orlando patted her lightly on the shoulder and whispered, "Let's go, my lady." The man touched the wound at the corner of his mouth, and he didn't know when it broke, and the girl quickly took out a dirty handkerchief and gently wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth for him. Eve couldn't stand the sight any longer, she turned around, like a deserter, and left the place as fast as she could.

She went up one level, one level after another, not stopping or paying attention to what was there. She was afraid, afraid to take a second look, and she couldn't help but do something out of the ordinary, she could hear a lot of screams faintly around her, but she didn't want to know if it belonged to the condemned prisoners or these slaves, she just wanted to get out of here quickly, out of this damn place.

"Who are you!Who allowed you to run here!" Eve didn't even look up, she drew her saber and slashed at the thigh of the person who stood in her way, then walked around him and continued on her way.

"There's an intruder! Catch him!" There were many cacophony voices behind her, but Eve didn't care so much anymore until she was cornered by the guards here, and there was no way to escape.

The guards were dressed in the same robes as hers, but with a different insignia on them, which looked more bloody and dark, and surrounded her by at least five or six people, each with shields and daggers in their hands, clearly trained soldiers.

"Lay down your arms, ma'am, there is no point in your resistance. One of them, who seemed to be the leader, said that he saw that the troublemaker was a woman, and he couldn't help but be a little contemptuous.

And when he got closer to Eve and saw her eyes, he regretted it—it was a pair of terrifying, murderous eyes.