Chapter 59: The Caged Beast
Jack only had a frightened look on his face at this time: What the hell!? Who is he talking to!?
Varin waved into the air, looked at the empty tiles behind him with a smile, and said kindly, "Well, good." So he straightened up again, and regardless of the astonishment of others, he turned and walked on.
The crowd was still standing still, looking at Wallin's back and at the air man who had just spoken to him.
"Why, don't you want to see what's in front of you?" Valin was still haughty and cold, as if there was no king, no prince, no soldier with a sword in his hand.
Coren then beckoned the crowd in a daze to continue walking, but his heart was still puzzled, full of the terrifying scene just now. Of course, this is how everyone feels.
After the right corner, Jack's ears were filled with a muffled roar, and he pushed open a thick iron door that was half-hidden, and his eyes suddenly opened up.
Jack had never seen such a huge underground space, and if there was anything to compare to, it would be the ground!
It was a slightly bright underground dungeon, and Jack had squatted in it, and when he was in the Sacred Ape Country, he and Tex had eaten a monkey meal for a month, and that impression had already left him very impressed. It's just that the spaciousness of the deep underground dungeon in front of you is no less than the canyon outside.
The first thing that caught my eye was two three-meter-tall humans, no, ****, no, orcs. Jack didn't know how to describe the two "big men" in front of him. They had blue, rotting skin, crawling with maggots, and their limbs were thick and powerful, with green tendons exposed. Especially when they spoke to Valin, the stench was so stinking that everyone present couldn't help but cover their noses, their big yellow teeth were uneven, and a few hairs stood up on the top of their heads, which really looked like human bodies covered with pus.
"Lord Valin. As soon as Valin opened the door, the two orcs in front of him shouted in unison.
Jack wonders why these two disgusting and strange orcs speak Meroe?
"Didn't you hear the monsters screaming?" Valin replied in the slightest unceremonious tone.
"Yes!" the orc then lifted his footsteps, dragged the iron chains on his feet, and walked towards the countless huge iron cages arranged high behind him with clanging steps, picked up the big mallet in his hand, which also looked like it weighed a thousand pounds, and slammed it at the iron cage.
And what is locked in the iron cage is actually ......
In front of me, in addition to the two or three hundred meters high wall, there are occasionally a few metal oil lamps painted with the body of a beast on the wall, illuminating the dungeon in a dim and terrifying light, and countless huge iron cages arranged in sequence, from the door to the deepest part of the dungeon, until the eye can not reach.
The cages were placed in shallow pits dug and filled with water and dung and muddy water. And as soon as the orcs left the door, another foul stench came to their faces, choking everyone who had just stretched out their heads, and it made people retch.
"This ...... This ......" Coren was speechless by what he saw.
"Tile ...... Lin, this ...... Is that the herd we're looking for?" asked Turks, hesitantly.
Like Jack, everyone shuddered and took small steps to look ahead. However, except for Valin, whose face was still as calm as water, everyone's eyes were about to fall out.
The orc guards knocked on the cages one by one, causing a huge "buzzing" sound throughout the enclosed space, which shook everyone's eardrums.
"What are you doing? Come here!" Warin urged.
Turks then took the lead, followed by Jack, followed by Colon and Luther, and the soldiers behind.
In the iron cage, fierce beasts with fierce faces and drooling saliva, after Jack and the others approached, pounced on the sturdy iron cage either with their heads or bodies. If it weren't for Valin's statement that the cage was made of special metal, I'm afraid everyone would have been so frightened that they couldn't help but retreat.
But even so, these iron cages that were slapped and struck by the beasts were still deformed and bent under the heavy blows, making everyone feel afraid.
"Sure enough, they were." Coren recognized these beasts that he had driven over back then, and was looking at them one by one at this time, if it weren't for these iron cages, I believe they would immediately rush over and swallow these "foods" with their mouths open.
These iron cages, of comparable size, were obviously intended for these beasts, but what was it that had taken so much effort to build this huge underground cage? Could it be that it had something to do with the two orc guards in front of them?
"Wallin. Turks screamed, wanting to ask him some questions about the dungeon.
"Call me Lord Wallin, or Mr. Wallin. The old man still looked back proudly.
Ever since he entered this dungeon, this Wallin has always behaved very arrogantly, even a little arrogant, and has not taken the lord and prince of a country in front of him in his eyes at all. Turks had wanted to say something for a long time.
"I ......"
Before Tex could speak, Jack grabbed Tex and stopped him.
"Since this is his place, it's better for us to be cautious. Jack whispered to Turks.
Who knows, these words were actually heard by Valin, who was walking in front, and immediately, a contemptuous smile came from his mouth: "Hehe, Prince Turks, this young man is right. I advise you to have some respect for me, an old man, lest you die before you find the answer you want. ”
Valin is defiant, yet confident. Turks had to suppress the anger in his heart, and said calmly, "Thank you for the reminder, Valin...... Mr. ”
There is no way, people are under the eaves, how can they not bow their heads, although Tex gritted his teeth and wanted to beat the old man, but he didn't want to ruin the big thing because of this little anger.
"Hahaha, isn't that right!Say, what do you have to ask?" After saying this, Valin turned his head and stopped in front of a sea beast cage with fangs in his mouth, the sea beast kept beating the iron cage, but Valin was like the beast beside him did not exist: "I know you have a lot of questions, before you go to the next place, you should ask first, lest there will be more questions later, and I can't answer them." ”
Everyone stopped and leaned into the middle, for fear of being reached by the cage.
Coren walked up to the man and said respectfully, "Lord Valin. Why are these sea beasts here, and who can have the ability to keep them in? As far as I know, they are only under Lina's control. ”
Unbeknownst to him, Valin's face suddenly changed, and a layer of surprise appeared on his face: "Lina!? is that the legendary leader of the orcs?"
"Yes, these sea beasts were sent by Lina back then, and I defeated them and drove them into the canyon. ”
"Lina......" Valin fell silent.
No one knew what he was thinking, so Coren asked again, "Lord Valin?"
"Oh. I know. These sea beasts are very ferocious, and of course it takes more ferocious people to subdue them. I'll take you to him later. Wallin said.
Could it be that such a huge project was really the work of someone else? Who could have such terrifying ability to keep these more than 10,000 beasts imprisoned here?
"And, Cologne, there's something I want to apologize to you. Valin suddenly changed his tone and said with a little helplessness.
Coren was wondering, and before he could speak, Wallin added, "These sea beasts have been kept here for almost twenty years, and we must have nothing to eat for them. I saw that you wanted to drive them here, so I kept them for you. But running out of food is a big problem, so ...... Now you've got about 500 left. ”
"Five hundred? What do you mean?" "......What do you mean?" Coren hurriedly turned his head and looked around at the cages.
Sure enough, there was almost only one sea beast left in the hundreds of iron cages that were originally more than 20 meters long, and everyone took a closer look to know that under these sea beasts, they were all full of broken white bones!
"Did they eat each other!?" said Turks, surprised.
Coren sat on the ground with his ass slumped, unable to believe what he was seeing.
"Father!" Turks hurriedly ran to Coren's side, hugging Coren from behind to prevent him from falling.
Coren muttered to himself, "Oh my God! These are the beasts that our Missis soldiers paid for with their lives! Now they are ......" The sadness in Coren's eyes was obvious, and Wallin pouted his lips to express helplessness as if he was nothing.
"What the hell do you mean!?You keep saying to help us, and now you're telling us that these beasts are killing each other!Do you know that these beasts are our only hope!?" The anger in Tex's chest suddenly erupted, and he wanted to kill the arrogant creature in front of him with his sword right now.
The soldiers drew their swords and glared at each other angrily, waiting for Cologne's order, and then rushed to Valin, slashing the filthy old man with a thousand swords.
"Don't worry, don't worry. Listen to me. Valin didn't panic at all: "If I don't want to help you, then the herd of beasts you see now may really be white bones, and there will be no head left." Do you think this canyon is a beautiful home for sea beasts? If it weren't for the great righteousness of the original leader of Peno, Ling Ran, who spent a lot of manpower to build this underground prison, I think you would only come here now for nothing, and return the orc troops, I think it would be about the same as the white bone troops. ”
Valin's words were sharp, but they were reasonable. This canyon is completely a place where birds don't, and since ancient times it has been regarded as a moat that separates the east and the west, and there is no complete food chain or biological system at all, and any carnivore here may not really have the possibility of survival if it is not for cannibalism.
Turks was angry, but he could only look at Valin with hatred, and there was no reason to kill him.
"Alright, Turks, stop fighting. Coren recovered from his grief and whispered to Tex.
The soldiers tucked their swords back into their sheaths at their waists.
Coren got up, sighed, and said, "Valin, thank you for the help you said of the chief of Peno, I understand it on behalf of all the people of the Missus. So, can you take us to meet him?"
Valin, who was still a little angry just now, suddenly changed his appearance again, he put his hands behind his back again, held his head high, and said, "Okay, then I will take you to meet this great man." ”
With that, he turned his head and continued walking.
Everyone immediately followed, and even if there were tens of millions of tons of anger in their hearts, they had to be suppressed immediately.
The dungeon is thousands of meters deep, and more than 700 iron cages are placed horizontally and vertically in an orderly manner, covering the entire dungeon. On both sides of the road in the middle of the iron cage, two long ditches were dug to keep giving water to the sea beasts in the cage. Countless chains and brackets hung above their heads, all of which had been used to swap sea beasts for each other, so that they could bite and devour each other.
On both sides of the road, deep in the rocky cages, the sea beasts were still pounding, trying to break through the cages and eat the fresh creatures outside. They're hungry after all.
"When you meet the chief of Peno, be sure to be polite, and don't treat me like him, or you will die a terrible death. ”
When Turks heard Valin say this, he was very unhappy: "Do you think everyone will be as rude and shameless as you?" If the person named Peno, who is also like you, don't blame the sword in my hand for not agreeing.
I thought so, but Turks still said something out of his mouth: "Don't worry, we will." Wallin, who was walking in front of him, was smiling secretly.
"Lord Valin, I thought this dungeon was yours, but there is another owner?" asked Koren.
This Valin liked the honorific title of others for him the most, and although it was not equal, he was still very happy, so he replied in a loud voice: "Of course it is not mine, I am just a messenger, and in layman's terms, for a thousand years, I have only been a valley guard." Every day, when I looked around, or when I was fine, I took my Ppsie to the outside world to find out what was going on, and then tell Chief Penoline everything I knew. It's really not interesting to think about living in this thousand years. ”
"A thousand years!?" asked Jack, puzzled, thinking he had misheard, but Varin repeated it, "yes, a thousand years." I know all about what you fight and kill on this continent. ”
How is this possible?!
"Wow. After the front door passes, you'll see the leader of Peno, are you ready?" Valin suddenly changed the subject.
The crowd was still immersed in what he had just said, and in Jack's eyes, his words were full of holes: first, how can a man live for a thousand years? Secondly, this canyon had been inspected by Missis soldiers from the perimeter twenty years ago, and it was impossible for anyone to go with him, so how did he get out? Finally, and most doubtfully. This Wallin is obviously playing tricks, fabricating a Pipsie that doesn't exist at all, and pretending to communicate with him, isn't this pretending to be crazy and stupid?
With the hard pull of the two orcs, the big iron door in front of everyone was pulled open from both sides. Suddenly, a blinding light illuminated everyone's eyes.