"Give it up. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" After hearing Aluca's request, Frog Glenn directly said, "No one can kill the 'secretary', and no one has even found him." ”

"But you know where he is. Arouca responded, "It's just that you didn't go to him." ”

Frog Glenn neither denied nor was he sure, but twisted his beard and said, "Why should I go to him? He is one of the oldest criminals on the continent, but unlike ordinary criminals, he has never killed anyone. When the Riot King was about to build the Sun Prison, the 'Secretary' was recruited by the Kingdom to become the architect of the Sun Prison, and he was the only one who could design an impregnable prison full of madness and disorder.

After the Sun Prison was built, the 'secretary' stayed here and locked himself in his office...... I do the math that he hasn't been out of the house for about 500 years. Everyone knows where his office is, and no one will stop you from going to him...... Because the people who tried to do it are gone. ”

Oh, the god of otaku...... Arouca picked up the meaning of Glenn the Frog's words and said, "These people are gone...... But not dead, are you?"

"No one knows if they live or die, maybe they have changed from prisoners in the prison of the sun to prisoners of the 'secretary', who cares? The 'secretary' is more feared than the riotous king who owns this prison. Just like some warriors who are not afraid of lightning and thunder, they are not afraid of rushing magma, even these natural disasters can swallow them in the blink of an eye...... But all intelligent creatures are afraid of darkness...... Fear comes from the unknown. ”

"What if I have to go?" After listening to Glenn the Frog's narration, Aluka not only did not back down, but became more interested. Not all difficulties will make him choose to face them, but as long as the matter is interesting, he doesn't care how many difficulties there are. It was undoubtedly fun to be the first person in the Sun Prison to find the "secretary".

Glenn the Frog was silent for a moment, and after a few seconds said, "I said, no one will stop you. Since you want to see him so much, I can do you a small favor without any cost to you. ”

Aluca nodded in acknowledgement.

Glenn the Frog beckoned to the two-headed ogre beside him, and the foolish left the north gate and threw a compass to Aluka when he returned.

Glenn the Frog said, "Take it, you'll need it...... You should know it's a compass, right?"

"Nonsense. Aluca wondered why Glenn the Frog was asking the question, "Is there anyone who doesn't know it's a compass?"

Glenn the Frog smiled and didn't answer, but said, "Go through the north gate, and then west, and you will see a knight of thorns and a door that leads to the 'secretary's office'." ”

Having the compass in his pocket, and knowing the name of the jailer, Aluca continued, "What is outside the north gate of the cafeteria? ”

Glenn the Frog replied, "You'll know when you go, I promise there's no danger, but you won't like that place, and the prisoners here would rather mess around in the cafeteria...... By the way, I'm going to remind you. The Warden should have told you before you entered the prison that every nine hours a group of prisoners will be selected to fight in the gladiatorial arena, and if there are new people in the prison, then all the new ones will be selected, and only the strong who survive will be eligible to survive in the Sun Prison...... If you waste too much time with the 'secretary', the jailers will not take the initiative to look for you, and even if you come out alive, you will be attacked by the jailers. ”

As he spoke, he took out a pocket watch, looked at it and said, "You still have one hour, remember, remember, remember, engrave it in your mind...... One hour. ”

Even if I knew I was pressed for time, I didn't have a pocket watch to see the time...... Aluka leaves Glenn the Frog's turf and tries to count the time with his pulse and sensations, but he soon discovers...... I am really a lazy and impatient person, I can't do this kind of fine work, so it's better to resign myself to fate.

Before leaving the north gate, Aluca tried to find Catherine and the others in the cafeteria. However, even though the Whigs were mostly active in the Northwest Side, there were still too many people to be found, so they had to give up.

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Passing through the north entrance of the cafeteria, Aluca came to a room about the size of the cafeteria. The ceiling of this room has no skylights, and it is illuminated by tall oil lamps installed in the room, which is unusually dim. There are thousands of floor tiles on top of the floor, which is a combination of straw mats and thin quilts, and it is definitely uncomfortable to sleep on. Moreover, each floor shop does not have a name plate, which means that the prisoners will sleep on the randomly selected bed, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not get into trouble by robbing someone else's shop.

The legendary prisoner was a little more domineering, rolling up the other people's bunks and building barricades around their own. But there was no sign of anyone sleeping on the floor, but there were a lot of things on the floor, which seemed to be used as a storage room.

"No wonder no one likes it here...... Not to mention whether it is comfortable to fall asleep, in such a dimly lit place, there is a great possibility of being attacked by someone while asleep, and there are few witnesses, and there is no reason to be plotted by a hostile party. Aluca mused, "If it were me, I would also choose to rest in the bright cafeteria, and there will be people from the same party nearby, so it is much safer." ”

The legendary prisoner's bunk must have a lot of good things hidden on the floor, and you might be able to find a few items of rare quality. But with his younger brother Pony Boy watching, it was not time to cause trouble, so Aluka gave up the idea of stealing and headed west.

"An hour...... Does it need to be said in such a solemn manner?, and why does it ask me if I know the compass?" said Aluca, pondering the anomaly in Frog Glenn's words as he walked, but couldn't come up with a clue.

Coming to the door that Glenn the Frog had said, Aruka saw a conscientious Knight of Thorns. They are the best creatures to work as jailers, not tired, not bored, not slacking off, and not payrolling...... He is the perfect employee in the eyes of all bosses. Let the Thorn Knight stand in front of this door for 10,000 years, and it is willing.

The Knight of Thorns glanced at Alucca and asked, "You want to enter this door?"

Aluka nodded and asked, "Is there any rule?"

"Anyone can enter, but only one person at a time. The Thorn Knight replied, "Now that there is no one inside, go in." ”

Only one person can enter at a time...... This is another doubt. If the "secretary" is really that powerful, why limit the number of people who can enter?

The mysteries in Aluca's mind swirled around, but they didn't hinder his movements, and he didn't hesitate to push the door in. Upon entering, there is a cramped hallway, and at the end of the hallway is a door identical to the one you entered.

"This look...... This structure ...... It's a sense of déjà vu...... Reminds me of a castle full of skeletons and demons......" Aruka muttered to herself, "Could it be that the 'Secretary' is a rabbit who can manipulate time?"

The rabbit he spoke of appeared in a corridor in Castlevania: Dawn of the Moon. As soon as the player walks into this corridor, the rabbit will reset the time of the entire corridor, returning the player to the starting point.

Of course...... There is nothing like this happening here, just a simple, meaningless, unused corridor. However, Aluka had noticed that in the planes that sent him between the ends, there were more or less things that he had seen on Earth, not identical, but extremely similar. Whether it was an astonishing historical coincidence, or a ghost by some guy named "Ainos" with an unknown ontology, he still couldn't be sure.

"So, here's the problem...... Why a corridor between the two doors?" said Aruka to himself, and until now, he hadn't figured anything out.

Pushing open the next door, Aluka found herself in a dark room where she couldn't see her fingers. There are no skylights, no oil lamps and candles, and the walls are flanked by the same material as the prison floor tiles, but there are no strange lines on them, and the darkness is impenetrable to the eye.

Aluka opened his Summer Sun Talisman to illuminate his surroundings, and this time the Ring of the Gods didn't stop him. However, his actions did not have much significance, the light range of the Summer Sun Charm was limited, and beyond this range, it was still dark.

He pulled out the dead and tried to see if he could cut through the wall, but failed. I tried again to see if I could cut through the ground, and this time I succeeded, but I couldn't dig a tunnel through the wall, right? I don't know how thick the wall is, and I don't have time to waste.

Glenn the Frog's reminder lingers in Aluca's ears for an hour......

For now, the only way to do this is to keep moving forward. Who knew that Aluka had only walked a few steps before he suddenly stopped, and he noticed something unusual. It's an inexplicable feeling, like when you wake up in the morning and feel like something in your room has been moved, but you can't remember where it was and can't tell if it's just an illusion.

"What's wrong?" Arouca simply stopped leaving, standing still and thinking, "There's definitely something wrong with this room......

When he thinks, he likes to squint his eyes and pace back and forth, and this time was no exception. After walking like this for a while, he understood what the problem was, "I see...... It's that this room is too quiet...... I could only hear my own voice...... Huh-huh...... Thinking about it this way, this is what Frog Glenn's words meant......"

After figuring it out, Arouca walked like a fly, and ran forward quickly after activating [Alone Hundred Miles]. It didn't take long for him to come across a fork in the road.

"Well...... Connect with the compass that Glenn the Frog gave me...... This must be a labyrinth. Arouca muttered to himself, "I can't see anything yet, let's try the left rule first." ”

The so-called left-hand method is to walk with your left hand against the wall when you encounter a maze, and continue to walk along the wall with your left hand when you encounter a dead end. This method is more time-consuming, but it is much more reliable than running around the maze. However, the left-hand approach is not a panacea, as will be shown later.

After discovering that it was a labyrinth, Aluca's speed slowed down a bit, but it was faster than ordinary people or even ordinary gods, and the 70% movement speed bonus was no joke. After walking a little way with his left hand on the wall, Arouca stopped again because he saw a horizontal wall that was not connected to the other walls.

"So it's a multi-connected labyrinth...... Then the left method is useless, it is likely to go back to the entrance, and ......" Arouca looked behind him, it was dark, "I can't see the road when I came, I'm a road idiot, I guess I can't recognize the entrance when I get to it, I think it's a waste of time to walk in when I think it's the exit...... It's okay, but it's very unpleasant. ”

The multi-connected maze is much more complicated than the single-connected maze, first of all, it sets up many small mazes that are not connected to each other in the maze, which will make people walk into it unconsciously. Secondly, its exit is not necessarily on the outer wall, but may be on the inside, or in some small labyrinth, and it is impossible to get out by the left hand.

So Aruka took a method known as the Pledge algorithm, taking out the compass and making sure that it was heading east at all times. If you encounter a wall, turn around twice to get yourself back in the same direction. When encountering a dead end, a mark is carved at the intersection with a dead end.

"As long as this labyrinth isn't too much...... You should be able to find an exit. Aruka confidently followed the compass and said to herself, "But since it's a labyrinth, why don't you have to have a monster?"

As the saying goes, if you don't die, you won't die, and the crow's mouth should be shut up. After walking for about ten minutes, Aluka heard a roar like a bull and a dragon in the darkness ahead.

"Huh...... It's really coming......" What appeared on Aluca's face was not regret, but a smile.