Chapter 49: Shadow 7
"Anyone? I'm Lilia, and if anyone is alive, I'll answer ......."
In the darkness, Lilia carried her sword as a crutch, carrying her companion on her back.
"Is there anyone? I'm Anatis......" Anantis, who was on her back, shouted as she helped.
The voices of the two girls echoed back and forth in the corridor, slowly falling into the endless darkness, like stones sinking into the water, bubbling bubbles and then disappearing again, this scene made people feel sad, and at the same time, it was slowly eroding their confidence.
Anatis twitched her nose, trying not to cry herself, but her voice still couldn't hide the sadness.
"Lilia, will we get out alive?" she asked, just to gain confidence from her companions.
"Absolutely. Lilia said firmly, her eyes still bright and unwavering, even though the clothes on her chest were soaked with sweat from the sweat she had left.
"Well, Lilia, you'll be able to get out. Anatis whispered, "If I, I mean if I don't get out, Lilia you must help me go and tell my parents, I really love them, I really ......"
Lilia Huo Ran stopped and turned her head slightly, "We will always be together, we will go out together, there will be no other results!"
"Hmmm......"
Forced by Lilia's momentary burst of momentum, Anatis was suddenly calmed down, and only let out a low whimper. After a while, she saw that Lilia still didn't continue walking, thinking that Lilia was angry, so she carefully apologized: "I'm sorry, Lilia, I was wrong......
"Wait......" Lilia stopped her words, "you listen, it looks like someone is answering our cries." ”
Anatis immediately shut up, listening as intently as Lilia did.
The air currents fluttered slightly, and when they remained quiet, the currents brought a vague sound from afar.
"Yes...... In the ......"
"Shouting...... People ......"
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"It's someone shouting!" said Anna Tyston with a look of surprise and her spirits lifted.
"Well, hold me tight, I'll go faster!"
Lilia grabbed Anantis's hip and propped her right arm up to make her adjust, then shouted and walked quickly in the direction from which the voice came.
"I'm here, where are you?"
Time passed little by little, and as the distance narrowed, the shouts between the two sides became clearer and clearer, and the speed of convergence became faster and faster, and finally they met together.
There were four people, three men and one woman, all of whom were students participating in the camp, among them Lilia and Anatis knew one Pomorro, and the other three had only met once on the platform of the main tower, and they couldn't even name them, but at this moment, it was a great blessing to be able to meet other people in this deep and terrifying underground world.
In an instant, joy filled the hearts of the two girls, and the other looked the same, and everyone gathered to recount the surprise of the encounter and what happened to each other.
The only female student of the four was named Bellendean and was from St. Mary's Church College. The college has always been famous for medicine, and the female students who graduated are either doctors or nurses, and rarely have other professions, and Belin Dean's emergency medicine skills live up to the reputation of this college, which is very good, she helped Anantis to retreat her injuries and correct some of Lilia's mistakes, so that Anantis can now barely walk with support, and no longer needs to be carried on her back like before.
The other two boys, named Hammer and Stoffer, were both students from different colleges, and their luck in surviving the disaster was a testament to their luck.
"Anyone else?" asked Lilia casually after learning more about the situation.
Unexpectedly, this very normal question made the faces of the four people except her and Anatis a little strange, and the atmosphere became dull.
"What's wrong? What did I ask wrong?" Lilia wondered.
"Nothing. Hammer spoke, but Lilia's instinct felt as if he was hiding something, "I don't think there will be anyone else, we've been in this area for almost two hours." ”
"That's right. Lilia didn't ask about their strange behavior, thought for a moment, and said inquisitively, "So is there a way for everyone to get out?"
Hammer, Stoffer, and Belin Dean shook their heads blankly, as everyone returned to reality from the joy of reunion and had to face the most realistic problems in front of them.
Silence pervaded.
Suddenly, a voice rang out.
"I knew there was a road, and as I passed by it I felt that there seemed to be wind there, and that it might lead outside. ”
Everyone looked at the person who spoke, and it was Borromo, who had not spoken all along.
"Is it back there?"
Belin Dean said with her teeth chattering, her face full of fear.
Hammer and Stoffer's faces also turned ugly.
"That's right. Boromo raised his head and glanced at the crowd, his gaze cloudy, "Until now, there is only one place where we have hope of getting out." ”
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Da Da Da ......
After blocking the entrance to the secret passage, the three of Dio breathed a sigh of relief, and after resting for a while, they walked along the secret passage.
This secret passage is not a straight line, but a spiral arc that extends downward. According to the markings on the map, the secret passage they are in is a branch secret passage connected to the main secret passage, and if they want to get out, they must first reach the main secret passage and travel some distance to reach another branch secret passage that leads to the outside world.
After confirming the route, the three of them began to trot all the way, hoping to reach their destination earlier, but the fastest one was Melissa, after all, she was just a healthy girl, compared to Dio and Dion, two people with professional martial arts physiques, her gap was too big.
In order to speed up, Dio simply put his arm around her waist and ran with her, so that he could barely keep up with Dion's speed.
The three of them ran down in circles, and the surroundings were always the same, giving people the illusion that they hadn't run far at all, and it felt like they had been spinning in circles all the time.
I don't know how long I ran, maybe ten or twenty minutes.
The road has finally come to an end.
A stone door appeared in front of the trio, and Dion tried it, pushing it open to the side, revealing the space behind it.
Behind the stone gate is a circular hall, a bit like a prayer hall in a church, the size of an ordinary resident, but the height is very special, estimated to be at least five or six stories high. It is worth noting that the walls of the hall are covered with countless dense reliefs of human faces, from top to bottom, from left to right, with various expressions such as joy, anger and sorrow, but there are no eyes, which looks very strange.
Entering the hall, it was as if he was stared at by the black holes on the relief of countless faces, and a chill suddenly floated in his heart.
Melissa couldn't help but lean closer to Dior, almost completely snuggled into his arms, as if she could draw warmth from him in this way.
"Through that stone gate, we entered the secret passage of the Lord. ”
Dion walked to the opposite side first, one of the few places on the wall where there were no reliefs of faces, with Dior and Melissa following behind.
Pushing open the stone door, Dion did not enter first, but threw the torch in his hand forward, drew a wonderful arc, and landed on the black stone floor, illuminating a large area around him.
It was a long, narrow passageway, somewhat resembling a prison cell, flanked on either side by rooms sealed with iron bars the thickness of bowls, and continued to the depths of darkness that could not be seen.
"It's time to be careful here. ”
Dion warned the two men behind him, and then the three of them passed through the stone gate one after the other.
As he walked, Dior's eyes kept patrolling the left and right sides.
The cells on both sides had been dug out of the stone walls, full of traces of artificial axes and chisels, and the walls were still locked to a pile of bones, and some were still locked to a pile of bones, continuing to perform their duties faithfully.
"Wait a minute, there's ghouls up ahead. ”
Dior whispered a reminder of Dion in front of him.
Dion suddenly stopped, half-crouched, and began to listen.
"Wait a minute, I'll take a look. After listening for a while, Dion seemed to have noticed something, gestured to the two behind him, and walked forward silently and quickly.
It didn't take long for Dion's voice to come from the other end: "It's okay, come here." ”
Dio reached out and touched the pendant on his chest through his clothes with some confusion, still feverish, but Dion would never joke with his own life, so Dio took Melissa forward, but raised his vigilance.
As the distance between herself and Dion closed, the characteristic wheezing of the ghouls became more and more pronounced, and Melissa began to tremble, her face pale, and it was only up to Dio to take her to walk.
It wasn't until he came to Dion's side that Dior realized what was going on.
A ghoul roared furiously at Dion, but it was in a cage and chained, and it couldn't help Dion outside the bar.
"I kind of know where those ghouls come from. Dion sighed and pointed ahead.
Dio looked in the direction he was pointing, and saw several cages in disarray, a huge stone half-embedded in the cage, and the iron bars twisted and expanded, revealing enough for several people to enter and exit.
"Someone deliberately created this kind of monster. ”
Dion's conclusion coincided with Dior's thoughts, and Melissa shivered when he heard it.
"Let's go, the ghouls who can escape here should have been led in other directions by my men at the time, this place is safe, but you still have to be careful. ”
Dion said with emotion for a while, and then the three of them continued on their way.
Every dozen or so cells, iron doors appear on the walls on both sides, symbolizing the forks in the road leading to the others.
Just as the three of them were about to reach the fork in the road they had requested, a human shout suddenly came from ahead......