The flickering light brightened the bones of the man who might have had wings. The girl known as "Your Highness" inexplicably looked into the gods, showing a thoughtful dreamlike look:

"One could be ...... Winged man ......"

The words she muttered seemed to have another deep meaning, and Gu Chuan, who was standing beside her, asked her:

"Your Highness, can you tell me where this man came from? Or is this dungeon really used for something? ”

Then she froze in place, as if she had never thought about the question, let alone the answer. As beautiful as she was, she resembled a clay statue of a god that flickered in the light of a lantern.

The bugs continued to crawl on the bones, watching the two people who happened to pass by fade away along the dungeon's aisles.

In this dark dungeon, people's lights can only illuminate their feet.

Originally, Gu Chuan only had doubts about the dungeon, but now his doubts about this "Highness" are getting deeper and deeper. He grabbed the burning stick and asked:

"Where are we going to get out of? Your Highness...... The path we are walking does not seem to be the way out. ”

"We can't go the way we came, the guards at the exit will stop us. When the time comes, we're going to be out of luck! Her Highness shook her head and began to relay the words that Lady Ogiri had taught her, "This dungeon has been renovated three times, and it has gradually opened up the north and south, so it has the function of a secret escape passage, and can lead directly from the Central Prohibition Palace to the outside. ”

"Your Highness...... Have you been here before? Or have you heard anything about here? You don't seem to know exactly what is going on here. ”

"I haven't been here. This is the first time I've gone down to this dungeon. I won't do anything I don't order. I haven't heard of it either...... I only learned some information from Mrs. Ogiri's mouth...... So your question, I really don't know...... Sorry ......"

As she spoke, she stopped abruptly, just in the light, bent down and bowed her head in apology.

This made Gu Chuan flattered, you must know that he had only given this highness two sticks before...... Although none of them came in handy. He hurriedly said that this is not a big deal, it's okay, and I don't know a lot of things!

But His Highness's expression was still gloomy. She was deeply trapped in a suspicious mood that Gu Chuan didn't know, and couldn't extricate herself:

"What exactly is this dungeon for? …… Mom, what did you build this place for? ”

Gu Chuan suddenly turned his head sideways:

"Your Highness, what is your relationship with Your Crown......

"I'm Mom's Daughter......"

She turned her head sideways and whispered.

This confirmed Gu Chuan's suspicion that this was the child of an unannounced Sunset City ruler in the deep palace, that is, the direct blood relationship of His Majesty.

"And what's your name?"

His Highness shook his head and said:

"I don't have a name, they all call me Your Highness."

Gu Chuan was taken aback, looked at her sideways with clear black eyes, and asked again:

"What's the name of the crown?"

His Highness bowed his head and said:

"Mom doesn't have a name either. Mom said that we are the unique existence of Sunset City, and we are also the unique crown and highness of Sunset City. Only things that can be copied need special names. Something eternal that cannot be copied does not need a special name. ”

These signs made Gu Chuan's doubts and suspicions deeper.

A lot of questions were held in his heart, but he couldn't spit them out, and he knew that the "Highness" in front of him never knew more. He sighed and continued to look left and right. After the corpse of the man with four humerus, Gu Chuan observed the existence in each prison more carefully.

And indeed, he found more and more places that were different from ordinary people.

Almost all of the corpses had imperceptible anomalies. For example, the skull of one hundred and twenty-one one, Gu Chuan saw that there were two free hyoid bones.

The so-called hyoid bone, which is the bone in the tongue, two hyoid bones, means that there may be two tongues. What's special is that the tongue doesn't articulate with any other bones, so it's a bit hard to identify.

Gu Chuan was suspicious of this, and only kept it in his heart.

The skull of Number 124 is horrifying, and its mandible, the part of the man's jaw, is not connected, but is broken.

This fracture is not acquired, but more like a congenital W-shape. The maxilla, which corresponds to the mandible, is M-shaped. The teeth, which are connected to the upper and lower jaws, are also divided into two sides.

"Could it be that the prisoner in this cage has two mouths?"

His Royal Highness saw Gu Chuan walking slowly, and he also slowed down on his own. In the process of Gu Chuan's analysis, she listened in a daze, it was difficult for her to connect a bunch of bones with people, even if it was an obvious abnormality, she would ignore it. But Gu Chuan's conclusion, she can understand. She thought in a daze that this man with two mouths must have eaten quickly and conveniently.

Because you can talk with one mouth and eat with one mouth!

There were no guards in the dungeon, and there were no guards, as if no one had noticed the change of clothes and the act of entering the dungeon, so they walked with ease.

It's just a gray walkway that leads to the depths of unseen darkness. The lights, which have only been replaced in the most recent era, shine in the depths of the light, illuminating all the shadows that exist in them at the same time as exaggerated and changing rapidly. The shadows of the two can cover half of the earth wall at the largest, and disappear under their feet at the smallest.

"Mrs. Ogiri...... What does Lady Ogiri do in the center? ”

There was nothing in the cages on either side of the long road. Gu Chuan wanted to say something to ease his uneasiness.

In front of her own shadow, she said quietly:

"Lady Ogiri was one of the few doctors hired by Her Majesty, and she was later in charge of my health."

Gu Chuan's footsteps paused, revealing a look of pity:

"Aren't you in good health?"

His Highness nodded coldly and shook his head again. Gu Chuan was frightened by this coldness, thinking that His Royal Highness didn't like others to say that she was not in good health, so he blamed himself and said:

"Then I was really sorry before...... I think you're the jailer who wants me to be put to death...... Luckily, you were able to keep the burning stick out of the way with one hand...... You're amazing! ”

"It's not my power, it's the power of strange things."

She said more plainly.

Sunset City has a rule that you don't ask anyone about strange things.

Gu Chuan didn't dare to ask more.

Coincidentally, white bones appeared in front of him again. The deeper you go, the older you go, the fewer people who are alive and the more people who are dead.

This is more than two hundred. What exists inside has nothing to do with the human form at all.

Gu Chuan didn't know if there was an external force that destroyed the original shape of the corpse.

But suppose the corpse was a skeletal model of the creature......

"First of all, it doesn't have a spine." Gu Chuan narrowed his eyes.

"What is a spine?"

His Highness was puzzled, so he asked.

"The spine is your back, from the neck to the ......," Gu Chuan paused, "a line-like protruding bone to the buttocks." ”

Under the illumination of the lantern, Gu Chuan saw that the corpse was composed of a large number of four-axis bone needles connected to each other, and the dense needles formed a plurality of cylindrical shapes, which depended on each other, forming an exoskeleton like a crab's carapace, and like two shields together.

It's not so much the remains of a human being as a fossil of some kind of alien.

If it is believed to be an exoskeleton, then the xenomorph may have been beetle-like during its lifetime.

But on the surface, there are still a large number of small insects eating away at its remaining tissue. These tissues may be its skin or ...... Meat. If it's skin, it's not an exoskeleton, it's an endoskeleton, and no one knows what it looks like.

"I can't imagine ...... at all"

Gu Chuan felt his stomach tumble. Is this really a dungeon? Or is it a zoo? If these were indeed the countless other creatures that had been captured and no longer existed in this land, then why did the owner of this place imprison them here and starve to death?

They kept walking.

The dungeon is a complex plane, and the cells on either side of the central walkway they walk through are frequently hopping. His Royal Highness pointed out to Gu Chuan the location of the cell's digital mark, which was directly above the cell, in a corner that was difficult to see.

"This should be the target later."

Next, after about eighty or so jumps, in a cell marked as 312, he saw something for the first time in a long time.

It was an uncorrupted skin laid on the ground. This skin has dense little thorns on it, and it is spread on the ground, like a five-pointed star, which is exactly the number of hands and feet and a head.

But there was no bone in it, and if there were, it could only be a bone spur that had been pierced into the skin.

Assuming that this is indeed a person, then this person may be completely melted inside, leaving only a piece of skin...... Bones do last a long time, but how long can the skin, in principle, be preserved?

What kind of person can have a skin full of thorns?

Gu Chuan didn't dare to think about it, and he wouldn't touch it without permission.

It doesn't matter if it's human or not, and if it's an anomaly like a toeless person...... Now it's just a corpse, only after this endless time, it was accidentally seen by two people who were about to escape from prison.

They continued to walk cautiously forward.

"This dungeon must have been renovated by the Round Tower family, right?"

His Royal Highness glanced at Gu Chuan in surprise, and his long black hair fell from both sides of his head, like two waterfalls. She blinked and said:

"I don't know."

Gu Chuan was even more determined. His Royal Highness didn't know that it was because His Highness must not have asked about this matter, but Gu Chuan remembered that according to the history of the encyclopedia, the Yuanta family was suspicious after renovating the Central Prohibition Palace.

I'm afraid the Round Tower family renovated this dungeon in the first place.

The road got deeper and older, and by the time we had walked through number 333, the brick road had come to an end, followed by a dirt road, and there was sand on the soil. The base of the rock is also gradually exposed on both sides. There were cells in the rock walls, and the bars were made of the same cast iron as they were outside. Obvious signs of carving can be seen in these cells, indicating that Sunset City must have gathered a group of ingenious craftsmen to carve out countless huts in this rock wall.

"Moreover, it may have been a natural underground corridor, that is, a crevice in the rock formations underground...... It was transformed into a dungeon of the Forbidden Palace. ”

Gu Chuan muttered.

The bare walls of the cave glow with unpredictable colors in the light of lanterns...... This is a literal statement, not an exaggeration. As soon as the light shines up, the rock wall is suddenly brilliant, this piece is brilliant purple, that piece is gorgeous red, like a gem melted on the rock wall, for a while the road is blurred, infinitely colorful, like a fairyland in the sky, charming eyes. When the light fades away, everything returns to darkness, and the distant rock walls glow with more graceful colors with the light.

His Royal Highness was obviously curious, so Gu Chuan explained to her:

"These stones contain different impurities...... Different impurities will reflect different colors. ”

It's a strange thing.

This is because the composition of the rocks formed in the same zone should be similar. Gu Chuan had only heard of such a phenomenon in a cave.

They continued to walk forward, and there was a cell in front of them.

In this low place near the corridor of the cave, Gu Chuan needs to bow his head. And the high places can't reach even if you reach out. The highest place is further ahead.

As soon as they looked up, it was dark and they could not see the top, only hundreds of translucent filaments pouring down from the roof of the cave. Each filament is emitting a faint blue fluorescence, like a crystal bead curtain, making an underground starry sky, dreamy and bizarre.

Those faint blue fluorescences were not static, and when Gu Chuan and His Highness got closer, they found that these points of light along the filaments were all alive and moving. They are fireflies.

There are many fireflies stuck to those hanging down transparent filaments, as well as other unknown bugs that stick here. Moments after they arrived, many fireflies were eaten by a non-luminous larvae.

"What is this?"

"This could be ...... A natural ecology. ”

The two of them carefully avoided the filaments and continued on their way.

The natural scene and the prisoners in the dungeon made Gu Chuan dizzy, he looked to the left for a while, looked at the right for a while, and then looked at the front, and then saw if there was any movement and chasing soldiers behind.

At this moment, the sound of something pounced on the bar sounded in front of them, which immediately attracted the attention of both of them.

Her Royal Highness trembled in her heart and immediately ran forward. Seeing this, Gu Chuan chased after him and said:

"Slow down! Be careful! ”

But the girl's foot strength far surpassed Gu Chuan's, and she disappeared behind the bend after only a while. Gu Chuan chased the light, and when he chased through the corner, he found that the cells on both sides were no longer marked.

Her Royal Highness the maiden took the lamp and stopped in front of an unmarked room.

"What are you looking at?"

"I'm watching...... A big bird! It's looking at me......"

His Highness muttered.

Gu Chuan approached with questions, opened his eyes wide, followed the light and looked into the cell, and saw a pile of snow as white as silver.

When I looked closely, I realized that it was not snow, but a beautiful bird. White as silver is the feather that covers its whole body. It's just that Gu Chuan watched carefully, and immediately found that the bird's plump and dirty feathers were like polluted muddy snow, piled up in this narrow cell and not free, constantly buried by dust and quicksand.

This is the first living thing Gu Chuan has seen since the more than two hundred rooms, among the piles of white bones in each room, a living, existential, and seemingly emotional existence. The slender neck of this beautiful creature was like a swan on a lake, and its grey and clean eyes met the same clean eyes of Her Highness the maiden.

Both sides seemed to be in sight.

Gu Chuan found that a sharp metal pillar was inserted into all parts of the bird's body, like a slender nail, nailing this living thing that belonged to the sun and the clear sky.

"What's in this dungeon?"

Gu Chuan couldn't guess, he only felt that he was going deep into the most mysterious realm of Sunset City.

The sound just now was made by the giant bird hitting the cell. When the bird saw Her Highness the maiden, it seemed to want to open its mouth to sing, but as soon as it opened its mouth, the children saw the coagulation of its mouth and a terrible scar—

Its tongue was also cut off entirely.

So it couldn't make any sound, and all it tried was a weak whimper of air.

"Did Mom cut out your tongue too?"

The girl stretched out her hand blankly, trying to caress the silver-white bird. At the same time, the bird poked its head out and easily passed through the fence, its sharp beak like a cold, glittering knife.

Seeing this scene, Gu Chuan's eyes widened, and he hurriedly wanted to stop His Highness, and said loudly:

"Be careful!"

But the silver-white giant bird did not hurt her, but like a mother bird soothing a bird, she kindly rubbed the girl's cheek with the same silver-white feathers on the edge of her beak.

Feathers are not hard, but ...... It's soft.

And for some reason, at that time, the caged bird shed two lines of tears.