At that time, however, it was more than just two pairs of eyes staring at all this.

One person remained behind the fugitives until they reached the outer edge of the reservoir. When he reached the door, he stood motionless and did not come near.

His eyes are good. People who don't have good eyes can't be generals.

In this way, he saw with his own eyes that the young man was freely submerged in the water, as if he was actively embracing adventure and danger.

In the dim fluorescence, fight the water and waves of the great river.

Then he sank into the water vigorously and disappeared into the depths.

Only the rope was left to shake slowly on the shore.

The tranquil reservoir welcomes visitors for the first time in a century, rolling up amazing waves.

The splash of water splashed on the people on the shore, and His Highness on the shore only hugged his body with both hands, trying his best to avoid the adventurer's notebook in his clothes from splashing on the water.

As for her thoughts, I don't know where they have gone.

The toeless man and His Highness have never seen the scenery of the world, and they are trapped in a narrow place all the year round. But his thoughts are much simpler than those of His Highness. When he saw Gu Chuan jumping into the water, he immersed his head in the water himself. Toeless people have a natural ability to hold their breath, and they hold their breath for longer than Gu Chuan by the river all year round. He can keep his big eyes open underwater, constantly looking for Gu Chuan's movements.

This innate wateriness may have been stronger than all the records on Earth that he knew.

Moreover, the Toeless Man also has a knack for finding objects in the dark, allowing him to roughly grasp the direction of objects under the lightless water.

However, according to Gu Chuan's visual inspection of athletic ability, he is not a toeless person, and the average physique of ordinary Sunset City people is stronger than his previous life. Like him, who has been playing in the water since he was a child, it is not a problem to dive for about 20 meters without equipment, and it is not difficult to hold his breath for three or four minutes.

Soon, the toeless man saw that Gu Chuan had swam fifteen or sixteen meters from the shore and touched the bottom of the reservoir. He was also eager to try, and his feet were about to enter the water. At this moment, Gu Chuan's head suddenly popped out of the water, startling the toeless man.

It was the young man who came out of the water to breathe, and then smiled and beckoned to the shadowy people on the shore.

"The water is not deep, about ten meters. But it's too dark to see clearly, and I'm going to go inside and wait for my good news! Friends! ”

Although His Highness did not understand why he was beckoning, he unconsciously raised his hand and waved it at the person who was illuminated by the fluorescent.

She saw his smile, and he saw her confusion.

Young people are not confined to things, but are more obsessed with the goal in front of them. Gu Chuan loosened the strap around his waist and swam deeper into the reservoir.

Straps are a terrible idea because they are too short and the fabric looks heavy when it gets into the water.

He quickly disappeared to the other side of the darkness.

Seeing this, the toeless man couldn't hold it anymore, pulled up the strap and jumped into the water together.

In this way, only His Highness was left on the shore.

She stood still, motionless.

It was lonely all around, quiet and deep, as if no one was there.

But she was silent for only a moment, then she turned her head to the darkness behind her, where she could not see anything clearly, and said:

"If you're there, come out. Why do you follow us and say nothing? Treasury. Isn't it strange that you have something to say, but you don't want to say it? ”

The sound reverberated through the darkness.

After only a short silence, His Highness saw a tall figure gradually emerge from the darkness.

The man was tall and stout, and he walked step by step, with water trails under his feet. His body was also covered in water, and he looked like a chicken in the soup, even more embarrassed than a real prison escapee. His face tightened, and his brow furrowed, full of the wrinkles that come from prosperity to decline.

He walked all the way to a place where each other could confirm each other's silhouettes.

This person was none other than the chief officer of the Treasury Division, who jumped into the water immediately after the three of them.

His Highness had a quick mind, and as early as the first time he made a bonfire, he had already noticed that the chief of the Treasury Division was quietly following them. But His Royal Highness didn't reveal it, but only paid attention to it secretly, until this time, she directly said it, and Yucun really appeared in front of her.

His Highness thought that the chief of the Treasury Division was still coming for her.

"What orders did His Majesty give me?"

Yucun opened his mouth and said:

"I don't know. But according to what I know about His Highness, His Majesty is chasing His Highness to the ends of the earth. Wherever you flee or what becomes, Your Majesty will take you back. ”

"I didn't think about running away." The girl said calmly and solemnly, "I don't think they will be locked up in prison, but let them go, and after they are released, I will return to the Central Prohibition Palace." ”

"You're making your own decisions!" Yu Cun shouted, "Your Majesty will not forgive you easily. ”

"It's my idea, I can take all the consequences."

"You can bear it, but others will suffer because of you!"

"That's Mom's fault, too!"

A drop of water splashed from the stalactite and fell to the ground, and the firefly flew back at the sudden loud noise. The water surface fluttered a few times, and the two people who swam away poked out of the water again. They are exploring along the very edge of the reservoir.

The voices of Gu Chuan and the toeless man echoed in this enclosed space, and the lower part of the palace stared at the public existence without changing color. Yu Cun stood there, like a terrible stone statue, and said coldly:

"Are you blaming Your Majesty? Your Highness ......"

"My Crown and I are two beings...... I'm not just a talking machine. ”

"Yes, you're not just a messenger...... You are the future master of Sunset City and the heir to the crown. But right now, you're not...... I am a lowly martial artist, I just hope that Your Highness, you will change your mind as soon as possible. ”

At that time, the girl suddenly showed a terrible smile:

"I'm thinking about one thing right now, Treasury, I don't know if you know, if you can explain my doubts, maybe I'll give up the idea of sending those two fugitives out."

Yucun was indifferent to this, and said calmly:

"You can ask, and I will do my best to solve your doubts, this is the duty of a humble person."

The girl smiled faintly, and said:

"Chief of the Treasury Division, do you know that I have to undergo a physical examination every solar term? Mrs. Ogiri is in charge of this job, and every cycle, she has to perform surgery and check my body. ”

"The humble knows."

Okiri, of course you know this name, a down-and-out citizen who relied on the attainments of strange things transplantation to regain his position, and obtained the permission of His Majesty to enter and leave the Central Prohibition Palace at will.

The physical examination is in the name of Lady Ogiri's entry into the Forbidden Palace. The attendant said that it was because of His Highness's poor health.

The girl smiled and continued:

"This physical examination is attached to a major surgery. After each surgery, such physical examinations should be done regularly and every cycle. And this kind of surgery has a special name, which is called the Heavenly Punishment by His Majesty, which is a kind of surgery that can make people gain great power and become beyond people. ”

Yu Cun's complexion changed:

"Your Highness, ......"

"What is the punishment of making up for heaven? That's Mrs. Okiri's specialty, the transplantation of strange things...... He will go down to the world to find the applicable strange things, even if they are in conflict with the human body...... It should also be integrated with the human body. Like the tube of your 'Shangtong Tianfeng', it can be made into a vent in your hand, or like a crystal ball of the Criminal Affairs Division, which can be used as an adult's eye or a person's braincase...... This practice causes a reaction called "rejection" in the human body. Therefore, I need to have a physical examination every cycle to find out if it has left my body in time, so as to check the adaptability of this strange object to transplantation in my body. ”

She smiled and said:

"I take to heart what the attendants, Lady Oitri, and Her Majesty have said, and I think it's necessary...... It is necessary for me to live in the world...... Otherwise I will live a miserable and uncomfortable life. This is what one has to live according to one's parents...... It is not necessary to do so. ”

The water drops rapidly, and it is the permanent sound of the quiet reservoir.

Dark shadows, one like a stone statue, one like a ghost. Their shadows, only a faint outline in the fluorescent, are distorted and distorted at every moment.

"Now that I have come to the dungeon, I have learned about the living box, a box for the conjugation of a person who has been bound with strange things from the beginning of the fetus, and then I have learned about the incense room, which is the use of sandalwood incense to sink the deformed children who have been conceived into a state of long-lasting fetal rest, I learned from the mouth of a prisoner...... It turns out that Mom, no...... It's the way His Majesty has been doing it forever to have the power of strange things, and it started from an earlier period than the Third Dusk War...... She did a lot of oddities...... The prisoner also said that there were successful works under the crown. So now I have a doubt, the Treasury. You should be the one who has lived through many twilight wars, do you know? ”

"Tell me, Your Highness, Your Majesty is listening."

The way of public opinion.

His Highness showed a few white teeth, and he was smiling. There are not many beautiful things in the world, and for people, a beautiful person's smile is enough to be comfortable and pleasing to the eye.

It's just that when Yu Cun saw His Highness's smile, he understood that the girl was already angry.

"Lady Okiri's predecessor is also my doctor, and she also needs to do the punishment of making up for heaven, and she also needs to do a physical examination just like me...... Until one day during the Sixth Twilight War, she disappeared, and Lady Ogiri stepped into the throne and did everything for me as the original doctor. The doctor didn't have a name, and I didn't have a name, and I had only seen her, but never seen my mother's face, so ...... Now, the Treasury, who has been praised by His Majesty for his ability, do you understand what I want to ask? ”

"I'm sorry, Your Highness...... The humble does not understand. I also hope that His Royal Highness will return to the palace as soon as possible, otherwise His Royal Highness will be angry. ”

The strong man bowed his head and said.

The girl just continued to laugh, her gray eyes as if she had seen the deepest part of the darkness.

"Then I don't think you're very capable, and you can't guess anything. What I want to ask is very simple! ”

She said.

What I want to ask is-

- Am I the Man of Strange Things?

It's not that he's in bad health, but that he actively combines with strange things.

If yes...... Why did His Majesty do this?

There was a hazy shadow inside and outside the reservoir.

The sound of water arose, and someone poked his head out again. The rock wall is full of seepage quicksand, and it is raining outside, and it is getting heavier and heavier. During this most unpopular season, there was often a sudden gust of wind that made all the leaves rattle, and things on the second floor fell from the fence to the first floor. Or suddenly there is a burst of thunder, a brief flash of light, and a second later, it becomes bottomless black.

According to the Xinshui family, the estuary area has been flooded, and the overflowing water has flooded the wharf and washed into the streets of the estuary area, so that people have to wear rain boots against the water.

In this battle, the old people of Sunset City are also very rare.

"It's an ominous sign!"

Separated from the underground reservoir by several layers of rock and dust, is the underground palace, which is still untouched by wind and rain.

Ta Cheng's existence has not yet been reported by the guards, and as for the prisoners, they only know how to act according to orders, and they do not even have the basic ability to think.

At that time, the inspector of the inspection department was standing in front of the living box made of crystal, carrying a lamp.

The living box is translucent, and the light repeatedly refracts and reflects on the crystal surface, revealing the figures of the two.

"Let's get back to the point, old man."

Ta Cheng, who was cold, was vaguely woken up by him, and he felt that his head was like paste, and he couldn't think or remember anything. He felt like he could disappear at any moment.

"What I want to ask is...... The person you're trying to save must be a strange man, right? ”

He lowered his eyebrows and said with a smile:

"And Your Highness...... You have also met Your Highness, may I ask, is Your Highness also a strange person? ”

The word strange man seems to have stimulated Ta Cheng. He awoke abruptly from his dazed dream, and shouted angrily:

"You are the ones who have changed people with your own hands and made them weird, and now you want to cut them out of the ranks of people and say that they are strange creatures?!"

"That's it?"

He got the answer he wanted.

This is great news, and perhaps the pattern of Sunset City's inner city can be leveraged because of this.

Thinking of this, Shen Shang's heart was on fire, and he smiled even more happily.

Tacheng sat on the ground, curled up in a ball. He had lost weight to the extreme, his bones were shrinking, and when he curled up in tattered clothes, he didn't look like an adult, but only like a child.

"I still have a question, patriarch, did you live a hundred years ago, did you ever see the crown? What does the crown look like and what are its characteristics? ”

"What do you want to know about this?"

"Maybe if you tell me, I'll help you get out of the young fugitives you've been thinking about?"

Tacheng's body trembled, and he said:

"I've seen it. During the Third Twilight War, His Majesty personally arrived on the battlefield. He doesn't have any special characteristics, if anything, to say...... Probably because he always wrapped his hands and feet well, inside and outside, as if wrapped in a cover. Moreover, it was his crown, which was a curiosity, a sign of the crown. ”

"Is that all?"

"That's all...... We're too far from His Majesty...... What we think about, your majesty may have thought about it a long time ago. ”

With a disappointed expression, he prepared to leave.

The path he took was the way out of the dungeon.

After Ta Cheng discovered this in a daze, he snorted and shouted violently:

"You said you were going to help them, why are you leaving!"

This loud scream disturbed the inhuman fish in the living box.

The schools of fish swam away to their own devices, and Shen Shang turned back indifferently. This kind of indifference, Ta Cheng remembers...... When he said this idea when he wanted to take her away, he thought that the people of his family were looking at him with such indifference.

"You ......"

Ta Cheng's whole body ached, and he shrank even tighter, as if his bones were going to be squeezed together.

"Patriarch Cheng, it's just possible, it's possible...... Actually, I couldn't have helped the fugitives. ”

Ta Cheng listened stunned.

He Shang said coldly:

"Because His Majesty has given the order to die, and he must catch them, either alive or dead, and there is no taboo. They're done. After that, it wasn't the three of us who were going to hunt them down, but the legion that had actually won six Dusk Wars for Sunset City. They hide underneath, and naturally someone will dig through the earth, and they hide in the water, and naturally someone will part the sea. If they escape, they will be surrounded and suppressed by real large-scale strange things, do you still think they can be saved? Don't talk about them, even if you add me...... Even with the addition of a Sunset City family—"

"Save."

At that time, Ta Cheng, who was about to die, raised his head proudly and said to the self-righteous "chief officer":

"Save."

Shen Shang turned around, only to feel that Ta Cheng's brain was already old and confused, and only smiled:

"You old thing, what do you know? Do you know how the power of Sunset City in the past is comparable to that of Sunset City now, and do you know how big Sunset City is now? Can't you think of how many people live there? Do you know that my subordinates will have to do the official duties of thousands of people just to organize inspections everywhere? ”

"I don't know...... I do not know...... But what if you don't know? Do you know that Sunset City is so big that those of us in the past didn't know? The future will be beyond your reach. I'm telling you, I'm telling you now, they're going to be free. This is the only secret of the living beings who want to rule over everything, who think they know everything, who do not know. That is, they can only cut off people's hands and feet, and even deprive people's lives, but they can never take away people's desires, people's imagination and people's pursuits! ”

Ta Cheng just stood up tremblingly, holding the crystal shell of the living box, and he could still vaguely see the original posture of standing up to the sky.

He squinted his eyes and sneered:

"I know, I know you're going to think it's all so terrible, it's absolutely impossible to do, it's impossible to resist...... Yes, these things are far beyond your imagination, so you definitely can't imagine anyone getting out of here. But look at it! Haha, my poor junior...... The power and status you get from being a dog to the council is too flattering to suppress the ecstasy and pride in your heart, is it? ”

"Say it again!"

He still thinks day and night whether his position has been shaken, and now that his heart has been exposed, where is not to be angry. The young man's face turned red, and he stepped forward to seize Tacheng's head and tell the old man what it meant to have to give in.

But the old man stood on the ground, still with a pair of stubborn eyes, but he couldn't say anything.

Only two blue lips seemed to grin with bared teeth.

He's dead.

Before he died, he dreamed of someone he liked.