Even if Lady Oki sits, she is a few heads taller than the maid. When she looked down on her, it was like a mountain collapsing. This made the maid feel depressed, and it was also the reason why she was reluctant to meet with Lady Ogiri.

Although Lady Ogiri, a citizen living in the outer city, was designated by the crown in the register of the council as having the same rights as the lieutenant of the 24th Division. Facing Mrs. Ogiri, the maid can say a little more.

"The person who invented the ice cube has already been sentenced to death by His Majesty."

Mrs. Okiri's eyebrows raised, and she guessed as soon as she thought about it:

"Was he thrown into that dungeon in the apse?"

"Yes."

"Doesn't he have an accomplice?"

"Chuanshui Bank is now under the attention of the 24th Division, doctor, you also know that the duties of the attendant team and the 24th Division are different, so it is not easy to interfere."

"Then you really can't help it......"

"That's our problem...... Since the inventor was already in the dungeon, it was naturally impossible to be taken out. If it is taken out, it is also to prepare for the death sentence. ”

Mrs. Oki looked in the direction of the secret door and said:

"If Your Highness wants to be willful, he also has this power, right? His Majesty should not stop His Highness's thoughts. After all, His Highness is the only heir designated by His Majesty...... Isn't it? ”

Lady Oki knew that Her Highness was eavesdropping, but the maid didn't.

She was startled, and hurriedly stopped Mrs. Oki and said:

"This ...... Dame ...... I would never dare to do this, and I would never dare to mention it, let alone mention it, neither I nor His Highness would dare to mention it...... It all depends on His Highness's own intentions. ”

"If you say that, I'm afraid it's impossible. His Highness will never go against His Majesty's wishes. ”

Lady Oki shook her head.

The two people present knew that His Highness would not do anything, only convey the words of His Majesty, silent like a puppet. She never made any decisions, so she wasn't responsible for anything in Sunset City, but in other words, she didn't contribute anything to Sunset City.

No one dares to say these words.

Mrs. Ogiri stood up and said quietly:

"Since you're here, let me see Your Highness's physical condition, okay? The last time I made up for the heavenly punishment is now, it has been half a cycle. ”

The maid got up and said:

"Ask the doctor to take care of himself."

This is the unique right that His Majesty gave to Lady Ogiri when he instructed the Council to canonize Lady Ogiri.

This "Highness" had been listening behind the secret door, and when she knew that someone outside was coming in, she hurriedly picked up the book that had fallen on the ground and wiped away her inexplicable tears.

Who knew that something fell out of the book. When His Highness looked at it, it turned out to be a dead moth, and the wings of the moth were a wonderful moon yellow, and there were beautiful spots and colored patterns. She picked up the moth and observed it for a long time, and in confusion she put the moth back into the book, but she could not find the page where the moth was originally held.

And the maid and Mrs. Ogiri have already entered.

The reception room was not a place to do inspections, they were going deeper into the Forbidden Palace.

The maid walked in front, His Highness walked in the middle, Lady Oki followed behind His Highness, and the three of them walked in the secret passage of the Central Prohibition Palace. Mrs. Oki asked her, "Your Highness, your ...... How is my mother doing? ”

She said: "Everything is fine under the crown. ”

Mrs. Ogiri nodded absentmindedly:

"It has been like this since the city was founded."

"Yes."

She answered in silence.

"After all, Your Majesty is not like us, she is not like me, she is not a transient creature like you."

As she spoke, Lady Ogiri smiled with a smile that made Her Highness feel terrible. The man stood straight, almost to the top of the secret passage. Mrs. Ogiri wore a pair of crystal slippers that day. When the almost transparent tip of the shoe jumped out from under the coffin suit, it made a sound like a pool of lake water hidden deep in the mountains. His Royal Highness was inexplicably flustered, but he didn't want to speak, so he only walked through the secret passage and came to the third floor of the Central Prohibition Palace. On the third floor, you can see the red sun outside the window.

And the Central Forbidden Palace is bathed in this eternal sunset, especially dark, mysterious. The guards standing guard were also extremely idle, and the biggest entertainment was to look into the distance in a daze. At that time, the mountains that embraced Sunset City were unbounded red, as if they were on fire, because they were reflected in the dusk or because they were covered with red leaves.

As for Gu Chuan that day, he was in a gloomy and damp prison that did not see the light of day, and he had just dug out the burning stick that sank in it at some point from the exposed mud.

This burning stick may have been left behind by someone who was locked up in it decades ago, or even hundreds of years ago, and it may not be a burning stick, just a simple iron rod made of metal.

This iron rod has given birth to two twilight wars in the ground, and now under the resistance of the terrible power of the "Highness" who came to the dungeon, many rifts have been born. Gu Chuan picked it up again under her gaze, and he didn't want to use a burning stick to continue to hit the person in front of him, but just to use it as a self-defense tool.

"Lady Oki is your doctor, have you seen Mrs. Ogi?"

Then, he asked.

"Yes. Every solar term, Mrs. Oki has to check my body for me. "Her Highness," said in the dim light, "she told me that if you don't believe me, take out her name, and say that in this case you will believe her." ”

"Indeed, in this case, I would have believed her. I owe her a great affection......" Gu Chuan muttered halfway through, quickly shook his head, and said, "No...... I don't believe you either. I'm just curious why you're here to save me? ”

After hearing this, this "Your Highness" was at a loss.

It was hot for a while, and then she asked cautiously:

"Do people do things for reasons?"

"That's pretty much it."

"That'...... Then I don't know......"

She shook her body for a moment, pondered it carefully, and then whispered as usual.

The toeless man crouched in his cell, watching the young man and daughter look at each other, he had not seen many people, mostly the jailers, and those who had hurried into the dungeon and left, only that they had said what they thought was the most common concepts that he did not understand.

What does doctor mean? What does it mean to check your body?

The toeless man covered his mouth and yawned sleepily. He was a little sleepy.

This yawn woke Gu Chuan awake. Gu Chuan didn't know the situation of His Highness, but he also knew that in this case, he didn't have any room for doubt.

Then His Highness asked:

"Would you rather go, or not?"

"Of course I go, but I still want to take someone with me." Gu Chuan said as he looked at the toeless man. The toeless man crouched on the ground, clutched his chest, and looked up in confusion.

Gu Chuan pointed to the toeless man and said:

"I want to ask him if he's willing to go, and if he does, I'd like to take him away, okay?"

"Yes."

Gu Chuan turned around, walked to the edge of the bar, and asked the toeless man:

"Do you want to go?"

"...... go?" The toeless man didn't understand this concept, he remembered what Gu Chuan had talked to him a few days ago, and asked, "Is that what it means to leave here?" ”

The lights flickered, and both the girl and Gu Chuan heard many strange sounds sounding in the depths, as if something was beating on the bar. This is rare. The prisoners, who could not speak, seemed very agitated.

"Yes."

Gu Chuan said unhurriedly:

"Did I tell you?"

Going out, and leaving, will not necessarily usher in death.

"Or maybe it...... Freedom means that you can go anywhere with your own feet and hold anything with your own hands...... Like the clothes you would expect from me, even though they're dirty now...... Ha ha. ”

The young man laughed.

"Another example, others. You wanted to touch me before, didn't you? ”

The toeless man held out his hand blankly.

Gu Chuan held his hand.

The toeless man bowed his head and trembled, a feeling he couldn't comprehend. He'd been in this prison for a long, long time, and he never thought he would get out, and if he did, what would happen to him...... He saw himself in Gu Chuan's clear eyes illuminated by the light, a man covered in mud and grass who was lying on the ground in the prison bar.

Somehow, he waved his hand blankly, as if to salute himself in his eyes.

He said anxiously and stumblingly:

"I—I want to get out. But...... But ......"

"But what? Friend! Gu Chuan was anxious and annoyed, and asked him stompingly.

"But, Big Daddy and Big Mom are still here! I don't want to leave them......"

"Your Big Daddy and Big Mom...... Haven't they spoken to you in a long time? Where are they? Maybe ......" Gu Chuan glanced at the girl, and the guy looked indifferent, so he responded boldly, "Maybe you can escape." ”

"They're inside."

The toeless man pointed deeper into the cell. His Royal Highness didn't have a key, and Gu Chuan didn't know how she was going to open the door, so she only picked up the burning stick and smashed the prison bar alive.

Then the two went in together and lit up the depths with lanterns.

When His Highness saw the chain of the shackles, he kicked them, and actually kicked the shackles alive with the chains. Gu Chuan swallowed his saliva, he now knew how His Highness wanted to open the door

The toeless man staggered, as if he didn't realize it, and just continued to go inside, and the light chased the toeless man into the corner where the walkway lamp could not illuminate.

When the light first came up, it was the silhouette of two human bodies leaning against the corner of the wall.

Soon, however, the carrion on their legs, and the bare bones from the gaping holes in their chests were clearly visible in the light. Their eyes were closed, and their lead-gray mouths were still open, as if they wanted to say something, but they didn't have time to say it. But their countenances were serene and not vicious, as if they had died without realizing it, with contentment.

They were under the lamp, glowing slightly.

Gu Chuan saw that their hands also had no nails.

The lights also illuminated unknown wild insects, which were perching on the bones that had not completely rotted for years or decades.

When the toedless man saw the worm, he was so anxious that he hurriedly went up and waved it, shouting in his mouth:

"Go away, go away! Don't bother them! ”

Bugs flew wildly and pounced on the light.

At that time, Gu Chuan said in a low voice:

"They're dead......"

The toedless man, who was driving away the insects, turned his head and said in confusion:

"Big Daddy and Big Mom didn't go out...... Where did you die? ”

Hearing this, Gu Chuan knew that the toeless man was still associating "death" with "going out", and he couldn't bear to tell the toeless man the truth, he took a deep breath before saying:

"I told you that death doesn't go out, does it? It might be freedom to go out, isn't it? ”

"Yes, yes."

The toeless man believed Gu Chuan's words very much.

"Therefore man's death is not going out...... Instead, it cooled down and couldn't speak...... And they will never speak again, and they will never change back to warmth, let alone ...... I won't walk on my own anymore. ”

The toeless man looked up in confusion.

"Haven't they spoken in a long time? Didn't they use their hands to drive away insects instead of recruiting them? ”

"Yes, yes......"

"Then they won't talk anymore, and they won't be able to get rid of the bugs."

Toeless people don't understand it yet.

"Why? Big Daddy and Big Mom haven't spoken for a long time, why is that? ”

"I ...... I can't explain it! ”

The toeless man froze in place, his head empty, not knowing what he was thinking.

"They don't have to take ...... You can't take it with you. Because they won't go on their own. Those who can't walk on their own will never be able to take it anywhere. You have to be able to walk on your own......"

Gu Chuan said.

The toeless man didn't reply, but was gently patting the two corpses, and he was still muttering, "Big Mom, Big Dad, wake up soon...... We're going to get out of here, we're going out, it's not death outside, it's still freedom. ”

Gu Chuan didn't want to look at it anymore, and he didn't dare to wait. The toeless man did not respond for a long time, and it was impossible for him to be forcibly dragged away, so he only said:

"The bars are open, do you still want to go? You can keep up if you want to go. ”

Then, they were gone. When Gu Chuan walked around the corner, he turned his head once.

He saw the toeless man slap off the head of one of his skeletons.

The carrion-covered skull gurgled into the arms of the toeless man.

At that time, the toeless man's whole body trembled, as if his original soul was shattered at this moment, his eyes gradually moistened, and tears fell in large pieces, which was probably the first time he cried in this world. The sorrow erupted a terrible whimper from the deepest part of his chest.

Gu Chuan turned his head and followed the girl silently, and asked for a while:

"Your Highness...... Why didn't the man have nails? That man and his parents are in prison with you? ”

The "Your Highness" only replied:

"I don't know, it was a long time ago, at least before the Third Twilight War."

The light of the flickering lantern entered the light of the next from the light of one walkway lamp, thus illuminating the beings in this prison that Gu Chuan had never seen.

He now knew why all these people were silent, and why the biggest movement was only the sound of objects rubbing against them—

Because the tongues of these prisoners were all cut off without exception, and some of them even had their teeth clean.

So they opened their mouths as if they were in a dark abyss.

In one of them, the hands were nailed to the ground. They lay on the ground, dying, Gu Chuan didn't know if they were dead or alive, only when they walked away, their cold eyes seemed to be staring.

In some of the prisons, only dead people remained, and the dry bones were on the cold stone slabs, and only the appearance of the original people could be vaguely seen.

Gu Chuan couldn't see clearly, but among the people who could see clearly, none of them had nails on their hands.

Some cells were empty, while others were unusually tidy.

But soon, he would learn that there was much more to this prison than just the Toedless Man.

The girl continued to look deeper along the road, and this strange person did not look at the cage at all, as if he only remembered what he had to do, and read the number of each cell.

Gu Chuan carried a burning stick and cautiously followed behind the girl, looking around as a warning. About as he reached Room 114, he saw another skeleton. The flesh on that skeleton had long since rotted away, and there was nothing left.

He thought it was ordinary, and walked straight ahead. But when he saw the white bones in room 116, the appearance of the two white bones suddenly overlapped in his mind. And if it coincides, there will be errors.

Originally, Gu Chuan thought that he had made a mistake, but the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, so he couldn't help but stop the girl, and turned back in the girl's puzzled gaze, carefully observing the bone shape of the skeleton.

"What's wrong?"

The girl also set her eyes on the corpse, and she didn't see anything.

"That's not right...... It's not a human ......."

Gu Chuan took two steps back in confusion.

"Not human......?"

"If you look closely at the scapula, you will see if there are two extra long hollow humerus extending here......"

Gu Chuan tried to trace the body line of His Royal Highness's girl, and pointed out the location of the humerus of the two arms.

The so-called humerus is the thickest bone in the upper limbs of animals, and there are only two in ordinary animals.

Due to the loss of connection, the two additional humerus bones fell to the ground, possibly out of position. One of them almost overlapped the ribs of the body. This may be the reason why "he" turned out to be lying on his side.

"From the shoulder blades, two humerus protruded...... What is the meaning? ”

She looked at Gu Chuan with a blank expression.

Gu Chuan pursed his lips and said calmly:

"This means that the man has four upper limbs."

"Four hands?"

The girl's eyes widened.

"No...... No, judging by the characteristics of the bones, this humerus is not necessarily the main bone of the hand......"

Gu Chuan carefully examined some of the small, but probably originally connected to the two hollow humerus, some small bones that had been displaced by ant transport, subsidence, or geological movement due to age. Squatting down again, observe the details of the skeleton of the subject:

"Or maybe it...... Or it could be ......"

If this thing is still alive...... First of all, it will be a humanoid.

He guessed.

Second, it may have had a pair of wings full of white feathers on its back.