Although it is not as exaggerated as the underground city seen before, the basement area under the castle is also large and scary, not only is it horizontally expanded several times on the foundation of the castle itself, but it is also a multi-storey composite building, like Varian and Emerald, where they live is actually only the first floor of the basement.

"Keep up, this used to be a dungeon for holding prisoners, but now it has become a place where we keep blood slaves, the tunnel I told you before is actually an escape passage secretly dug by the prisoners in the past, there are actually many tunnels like this, but that guy is quite unlucky, digging all the way to the basement of the warden's villa, and the end is also conceivable. ”

Holding torches flickering on and off, Virginia and Nagi weave through a labyrinthine of dark basements, and as they go deeper, the environment becomes worse and worse. The turbid air made it difficult to breathe, and the cold and humid environment made Nagi can't help but wrap her clothes tightly, except for the clear breathing of the two of them, all that can be caught by the ears is the faint sound of dripping water coming from nowhere.

"Shouldn't this tunnel be destroyed when it's discovered?"

Even for a knight with a fighting spirit, digging such a long tunnel without the help of any tools is not an easy task, and it can take ten years or more. But Nagi didn't understand the thoughts of those warriors, but a short walk in the dungeon on the lower level would move her to a deep emptiness, and even found an excuse for Virginia to light a torch to cheer herself up, if you live in such a place that doesn't see the light of day all year round, it won't be long before you go crazy in despair.

"That would be too much trouble, so I just added two iron doors at both ends of the tunnel, oh, and in front of me is the cell where the blood slaves are kept. ”

Looking up, Nagi saw a rusty iron door at the end of the dark passage that seemed to have no head, and unlike the quiet death situation here, when Virginia gently pushed open the unlocked iron door with her foot, and poked the torch in her hand to light the way ahead, the noise poured into Nagi's ears like a tide.

"That's why I just advised you not to light any torches, what a beautiful thing the darkness is, you just don't know how to enjoy it. ”

Turning around, Virginia shrugged her shoulders and said helplessly, as if she knew it would be like this.

"Long-winded ......"

Walking slowly into the iron gate, there was a narrow and long corridor in front of me, but on both sides of this potholed passage, there were rusty iron fences. Behind these iron fences were a pair of godless and desperate eyes with sunken eye sockets, all of them in rags, men and women, but all of them were haggard and inhuman, and when they saw the torches in Virginia's hands, they instinctively rushed to the fence, banging their hands on the ground, and making strange cries in their hoarse voices, for some of them it was the first time in their lives that they had seen the light.

"Are these blood slaves......

Nagi's previous good impression of vampires was destroyed in an instant after witnessing the one in front of her, and she finally understood why Ellie was so disgusted with her vampire identity in the first place, and even walked out of the academy without a single qiē. These guys in front of them can no longer be called human, maybe they still retain a trace of humanity, but even if they are released back into human society, it is impossible to integrate into their own kindred again. The thinking and logic that belongs to human beings can no longer be established by them.

"Well, it's disgusting, isn't it? Let's go, I'll put out this torch first, or they'll be arguing endlessly." ”

Looking at the blood slaves who desperately stretched their hands out of the iron fence to grab the fire in their hands, Virginia smiled disdainfully, and under the gaze of those blood slaves, she lowered the torch in her hand little by little, and stretched out her hand to extinguish it with magic power.

"Lead the way. ”

snatched the torch that was about to be extinguished from Virginia's hand, Nagi looked at Virginia who was looking at him in surprise with an expressionless face, and said coldly.

"Cut, inexplicable. ”

As long as the torch is extinguished, the excited blood slaves can be quieted, why do you insist on holding it?Virginia couldn't quite understand what Nagi was smoking, but since she liked to play like this, there was nothing she could do to stop her, and with an unhappy snort, Virginia covered her ears with her hands and walked forward step by step.

"I mean, who is visiting my place, but Miss Virginia, huh, and is the blonde lady holding the torch your new family?"

After walking through the complex dungeon for about ten minutes, Nagi was finally taken by Virginia to a decent-looking room, and Virginia said that this was originally a rest room used by the jailers, and the people living in this lounge were not the five big and three thick vampire jailers that Nagi imagined, on the contrary, it was an old woman who opened the door and welcomed the two into the warm room.

"Nagi, this is Granny Enya, although she is a human, but she is trusted by Lord Dior like the Administrator, and the entire dungeon is managed by Granny Enya. ”

Due to the loss suffered by the boss before, despite facing a human old woman, Virginia still showed great respect to Nagi.

"Human, human? Why do you do this......

Nagi could hardly imagine that this short, wrinkled woman, with her white hair hanging high on her head for an unknown amount of time, was hunched down a head lower than herself, and she was no different from an ordinary old woman, she was actually the one who managed all the blood slaves here. What makes Nagi even more reluctant to believe is that the existence of the purgatory-like dungeon on earth is not a vampire, but a human being of the same race as those blood slaves who are worse than death.

"If you don't do it, someone will always do this kind of thing, and it's better to let me, an old woman who is dying, take care of these children than to let those lazy vampires do it," walked to the cabinet facing the door with his hands behind his back, and trembled on tiptoe to remove the tea can placed on the top of the cabinet, Granny Enya glanced at Nagi who questioned herself, and smiled tepidly, "Do you want tea?"

"No, we actually have some urgent needs to go to the inn under the castle, I heard that there is a tunnel here that leads directly to the basement of the ......"

Virginia shook her head vigorously and declined Granny Enya's hospitality, she didn't bother too much, and made her request straightforwardly.

"Oh, is it an inn? Speaking of which, there is indeed such a tunnel, but it is only a passage dug by the prisoners to escape, not to mention whether it will have collapsed after so many years of unused use, and I don't think you two will want to try it, even if it is the size of the passage. ”

Turning her fingers, Granny Enya thought for a while, and finally pointed to a mouse hole in the corner of the room and said, the passage used to escape naturally does not think about how reasonable it is to build, it is estimated that it is as narrow as this mouse hole and must be squeezed to get in.

"Stupid! we knew it was going to be like this!"

Nagi had already guessed that this tunnel was unreliable, but seeing that Virginia looked confident, and thought that she had some reliable information, she wasted so much effort to run into this dungeon, only to pounce on it.

"However, although that passage cannot be used, if you want to go to the hotel now, mother-in-law and I have a good way," looking at the two people who were a little disappointed, Granny Enya's words changed, "In the past, in order to facilitate his own inspection of the dungeon, the warden built a teleportation circle in the basement of his villa that leads to his mother-in-law's room, if you want to go, let your mother-in-law send you there." ”

Holding Nagi and Virginia with both hands, Granny Enya led the two into the back room of her room without saying anything, and by the light of the fire that shone obliquely from outside the door, Nagi vaguely saw that there was really a dusty teleportation circle on the ground full of debris.

"Mother-in-law, you're really a great help! Nagi, hurry up and stand up. ”

Happily hugging Granny Enya beside her, Virginia hurriedly pulled Nagi to stand on top of the teleportation circle, compared to passing through the dark and dirty tunnels, if you can use the teleportation circle to reach the hotel directly, it is really a lot easier.

"Ahh

Although she didn't know why, Nagi always felt that there was something wrong with the teleportation circle that happened to lead to the basement of the inn, but before Nagi could come up with a reason, she was caught off guard by Virginia and pulled in.

"I wish you all the best of luck. ”

With a gentle smile on her face, Granny Enya injected magic into the circle, and then beckoned her hand to see the two off, a bright light flashed in the circle, and the moment Nagi and Virginia disappeared from front of her, the kind and gentle face suddenly darkened like magic.

"What two silly kids, Ka ......"