Sure enough, the roommates who were driven crazy by hunger approached Layla, who was covered in vegetables, and Layla resolutely hugged the vegetables in her arms and said without fear: "Don't come here, I will never let you eat these vegetables!"

Then her next sentence brought the children back to their senses, who had almost lost their humanity.

"Don't forget that I'm a great gardener, and with a little light and water, these potatoes and bean seedlings are enough for me to quietly grow enough crops for everyone to sustain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

The roommate said incredulously, "What are you kidding, how long does it take to grow a potato, and we have a few days left to live?"

Although it is a rebuttal, Layla feels that it is a good thing that she can still think like a human.

"I know the mantra of growing crops quickly, and it's not difficult for me to grow a potato in a few days. As long as you collect enough water for me, such as the water droplets on the crystals, and have the right nutrients, these crops will definitely mature quickly. ”

Layla struck up and said, "That way, no one will have to gouge out their own eyes or anyone else's! We will stay at the bottom and survive strongly, without giving up the light, until the day comes when this underground prison is liberated." Give me three days, will you just have three days? No, you're going to gouge out my eyes then!"

Originally, from the time the girl who betrayed her friend successfully obtained food, many people wanted to reproduce her practice, and the girls, who were all victims for a while, should have supported each other to survive, suddenly discovered that everyone around them could be enemies, and they could also be exchanged for food rations for their own survival, and everyone was in danger for a while. However, under the appeasement of Layla, everyone decided to wait for Layla's planting results for the time being.

But it sounds like magic to make potatoes grow in three days, and it's really unreal. The girls' hard-won humanity is shaken again, and there are already cells that have begun to fight, and the victors, clothed in dark glory and blood, get food and leave the lowest prison, and they feel that they have been deceived by Layla.

On the third day, they almost made a move on Layla, who smiled and did not notice the deep hostility of the maidens, and just as the amethyst ore they had stripped almost pierced Layla's eye, there was a muffled thud and a young girl slammed into their prison, instantly losing her life.

She was the first girl to mutilate her companions, and sure enough, as Layla said, she was nothing more than a prey when she faced the upper echelons who were more savvy about evil.

The test of the second level is to "dig the abyss".

The girl has always thought that digging the abyss means expending a huge amount of physical strength every day, trying to dig through the blue and magnificent barrier on the altar and release the darkness lurking underneath.

The girl got the pickaxe, and when she had the digging tools, she unconsciously thought of escaping from prison.

Her roommates on the second floor praised her courage and said, "We thought the same thing, and we almost dug through a passageway." If you can find a way to hide the steel tools and bring them back to the cell, with a little more effort, the way out of the prison will be completely complete. ”

"Then why don't you try to steal one?"

"Of course we've been doing this before. The roommate said earnestly, "Otherwise, who dug up 99 percent of the length?" but the overseer noticed our behavior and guarded us tightly. You're new, and you may have a chance. ”

The roommate tried to cheer her on: "As long as you find a way to dig a few more meters, we can all escape back to the surface." ”

The girl racked her brains, managed to escape the overseer, and brought back a small steel drill, and with excitement she opened the hidden hole, climbed in the direction of her roommate, and at the end of the way, chiseled the steel drill into the rock formation.

So she dug open the hole where she had fallen.

The roommate who deceived her looked coldly at her bloodied corpse and said, "Are the people who can pass through the first layer still so naïve? Fool, there is no way to escape from here, there is only one rule of survival here, that is, everyone fights until only one is left." ”

She was promoted to the third level of prison.

She was reborn and looked more like a real demon than she had been on the second level, which refreshed her. Even between gestures, he would exude a pitch-black aura on his body, and said to the regent: "The meaning of digging the abyss is not to dig up the enchantment, but to dig a path to the abyss. You didn't ask us to dig a path to the abyss for ourselves, so I dug one for my roommate, and I guess I successfully completed your test. ”

The regent nodded with satisfaction: "Very good." I like your idea, go up to the top. ”

The girl's fall reminds Layla's friends of the alarm.

Layla couldn't bear to close her eyes, shook her head sadly, and said, "So even if you go up, what can you do? The higher the place is, the deeper the hell, even if you fall into despair and turn your back on the light and become a demon, it will be difficult to survive." ”

Then she smiled hopefully, and pulled out her hands from behind her, two small potatoes.

"But if you don't lose hope, you might be able to survive. Potatoes only need a glimmer of light to shine on the land on which they grow to take root and sprout, and I hope that each and every one of us can be like potatoes. ”

The first girl to make a statement was a short-haired girl named Reno who was as capable as a young man.

She clenched her fists and said excitedly: "That's right, we are at the bottom, we must be weeds growing all over the ground, and we must live tenaciously to the end!"

Layla's crops provided a minimum of survival for everyone, and the girls survived for quite a long time with the condensate from the amethyst mine, the raw potatoes or beans of a finger every day, and the strategy of being able to rest and try not to move.

"It's too early to give up, and since Layla can even create such a miracle as making the potatoes sprout and ripen in two or three days, can't she just do it as a small thing as increasing the yield?"

With Reno's support and encouragement, the girls were able to rely on the raw potatoes that were so many fingers a day to support them, and the three green seedlings were also the supreme treasures of the girls, who poured all their love and care into collecting condensate, scavenging every inch of moss and lichen that could be found on the rock wall and mincing and fermenting them to make fertilizer, finding a glimmer of hope in the deepest hell.

Reno and the other girls spontaneously formed the "Guardian Seedling Squad" in order to do everything possible to keep the secret and prevent the Moon Elves from guarding the place where the crops were planted. If they found out, the consequences would be unimaginable.

If the rules of the game set by the Lord Regent are violated, everyone may be executed.

Everyone must work together and wait for the end of the girls, either survive together or die together.

"Thank you, Reno. ”

In the dead of night, Layla and Reno talk in the dimly lit tunnels. This is also where she secretly grows crops.

Layla's fingertips condensed a little purple light reflected by the amethyst mine, and said tiredly: "If it weren't for you standing on my side again and again, maybe even I wouldn't be able to hold on." ”

"You're welcome, you're here to protect everyone, and I'm helping you out of the same desire. ”

Reno put away his smile and asked in confusion, "But, Layla, can't the yield really be increased?"

"Plants are a great life, and as long as there is light and water and air and soil, they can produce nutrients that can keep other life alive. But the soil here is extremely poor, and we simply don't have enough to use as fertilizer to make it fertile. These yields are already the limit, sorry. ”

"But, you can see it," Reno said. The muscles in everyone's body are gradually disappearing, not so much surviving on this little ration, but still slowly continuing to consume the energy that their bodies have stored. The current state of affairs only delays death into a mournful elegy that lasts for months. ”

"Of course I do. Layla sighed, "It's a topic I'd never dare to talk about, and to this day, I'm glad you're the only one who can see it." ”

Reno asked, "Can't we scale up the planting?"

"I've walked every inch of ground in an underground mine like this, and I've only found a little bit of a suitable place to grow crops. This is already Faruna's greatest gift, and it is already remarkable that her grace can be left in such a dark place. ”

Reno said dissatisfiedly: "Cut, damn it, it seems that the mountains and rivers are really exhausted." ”

Then she patted Layla on the shoulder and comforted, "But, Miss Layla, even so, I will always be your guardian, and I will not lose hope and fighting spirit, and I will not tell anyone about our conversation today." We will make it to the end, and I am convinced that Miss Layla is the highest hope that Faruna has given us. ”

Comforted by Reno, Layla's heart warmed, she forgot her infinite worries for the time being, closed her eyes, and slept peacefully on the side of the small green leaves of potatoes with the most innocent and sweet sleep.

But the next day came bad news.

Reno was knocked unconscious, covered in blood, and one of the seedlings she was guarding had been cut off by the roots and disappeared.

And missing along with another girl who patrolled with her to protect the crops from being discovered.

Reno's head was cut open with a large bleeding wound, and beside her was a blood-stained stone that served as a murder weapon.

Layla asked in a panic, "What the hell is going on!"

Rino covered his forehead to regain consciousness, and said with a strong pain: "The Moon Elf guard is approaching here, and Kahlan and I are fighting him, not wanting the potato to be discovered by him, but I was quickly knocked down, and Kahlan and the potato were also knocked out and taken away by him." ”

But Layla looked at the bloodstones on the ground and Reno's blinking eyes, and knew that the friend hadn't told the truth on the spot, and she didn't think the occasion was the right place to tell the truth.