In front of everyone's eyes, there were five dark cells, no different from the other empty cells, except for a new fence that set off the darkness behind them.

The smell is strong.

No sound.

There was no movement.

No...... Person?

Everyone looked at each other, their eyes full of doubt.

Ricky patted the distracted Samir on the shoulder, and the latter slowly came back to his senses as if in a dream.

Right now.

"Ahh

A long, heavy sigh emanated from the darkness of one of the cells, tinged with a hint of laziness.

"Brie, are you snoring again?"

The lazy voice chewed a few times, as if it had just woken up: "Fucking louder than thunder......"

Hearing this, Semir's whole body was shocked.

In the darkness came the sound of a human body turning over.

Everyone looked at each other and held their breath.

It's people.

Living.

Sémir's raised footsteps stopped, as if he hesitated for a long time between advancing and stopping.

He stared blankly at the darkness ahead, the torch in his hand swaying slightly.

Seeing Semir's strange appearance, Ricky and Clay glanced at each other.

The drill frowned, and Russell was bewildered.

Soon, there was a muffled sound from the other cell, as if someone had slammed the wall.

Everyone couldn't help but turn their eyes to the darkness of another cell.

I only heard a desolate male voice say: "Hahahaha, it looks like you can hear thunder here......"

Hearing this somewhat careless voice, Semir was shocked again, and his whole body began to tremble.

The prisoners in the darkness and stench were silent for a while.

The first lazy voice sounded again: "Anyway, what is the sound of thunder, which of you remembers?"

The desolate voice snorted, dragging out a long, nasal voice, as if moaning.

"Of course, listen up, Naki, the sound of thunder is like this," the desolate voice began to swallow and exhale, imitating it vividly: "Bang, bang, bang! bang! pop! poof......"

Beyond the two cells, several different laughs could be heard in the darkness of the other three cells.

Tails could feel that there were probably five or six people there.

Some of these laughter are bleak, some are dull, and some are heavy, but without exception, they all make people feel depressed.

"you, Tardin," laughed in a lazy voice, and the prisoner named Naki sarcastically said:

"It's obviously the sound of you and Brie sneaking up on the wall at night......"

The desolate voice seemed to be amused by itself, and laughed wildly: "the wall, hahaha, the wall, hahahahaha

Tardin's laughter was long and weird, but Tails felt an inexplicable mania in it.

and desolation.

At that moment, a third voice rang out from the third cell.

"Ah......hh You're proud, aren't you, Naki, Tardin?"

Tails frowned: it was like the beast's grunt of discontentment.

Naki and Tardin's laughter slowly faded.

Compared with the laziness of the first voice and the desolation of the second, the third voice is sharp and mean, rather gloomy.

It is reminiscent of a predator lurking in the shadows, grinding his teeth and claws.

"But I know that you can't hide it from me, and I know ......" The speaker gritted his teeth, as if he had seen something unbearable.

Silent.

"Ah," Tardin, who had just laughed wildly, snorted softly, as if rather disdainful:

"Oh, here we go again, Nai, our logistics officer. ”

The next second, the eerie voice suddenly burst into a high pitch: "Yes, I know, Naki, Tardin, you two talkers, talking boring conversations every day, are actually codes, right?"

"What are you plotting and planning?"

Boom!

The sound of fists pounding against walls could be heard in the darkness.

I only heard this man named "Nai" pound the wall while hysterically saying:

"You must be planning in secret, you want to kill me...... Yes, it must be so, you, you, yes, you are in your cell and you want to annoy me with endless trash talk, and then you can have the supplies to yourself, and you can live until that day...... It must be so!

Knock, knock, knock!

Nai's thumping on the wall was getting louder and louder, and there was some momentum at all costs.

"I tell you, you are delusional! No one can deprive me of my rights, no one can either! I will kill you, I will kill you before you do it."

Nai's frantic roar echoed through the hall, filled with grief and hatred.

Outside his cell, Clay scratched his ears in embarrassment.

The group looked at each other nervously, but Ricky raised his hand to stop their movements, watching Semir's back.

And Semir just listened quietly, not moving

Amid the back and forth of curses, the lazy Naki laughed and whistled in a rhythmic manner.

Nai's curse froze slightly.

Immediately afterward, a melodious song sounded in the darkness:

"The boy rides a horse, the girl carries the basket, meets by chance on the roadside, and falls in love at first sight~"

"At that time, the night stars were bright, the breeze was whispering, and the young man whispered: Treat me rich all over the world, and you should be affectionate~"

Unconsciously, the cursing quieted.

Naki has a good sense of rhythm, and this little song is faintly heard in the dimly lit cell, mixed with Nai's swearing, and the sound is crisp and clear.

"The king is old, the woman carries a staff, he will see you again in the year, the years are merciless~"

"At that time, the withered leaves were falling, and the sunset was approaching at that time, and the old woman sighed: You are rich all over the world, how can you be affectionate?"

Slowly, as Naki's singing faded, Nai's cursing faded away.

All that remained was the sound of snorting and gasping.

Nai snorted angrily, followed by the sound of a heavy object staggering.

The darkness in the five cells returned to silence again.

But Semir remained motionless, silently staring at the darkness before him.

Only the fire in his hand trembled slightly.

Soon, another timid voice trembled in the air:

"Naki, not ......"

This person is either born with a thin voice, or he is really a little timid, only to hear him use a staccato voice, trembling: "No, not ......"

Naki sighed in the darkness and said lazily in a childish tone, "What's wrong, Cannon?"

"That's not, it's not ......"

"What's not?"

Canon trembled, "It's not thunder, it's not Brie's snoring, I know, it's not ......"

He sounded terrified:

"That's ...... That's the sound of the Iron Curtain opening......"

Everyone, including Tails, was in unison: the people in the cell had noticed.

Cannon's voice continued, but gradually changed:

"They, they are coming, they are coming, they are coming and dragging us out and beheading, for our sins, for our dereliction, for our unrepentance, for our selfishness...... They're coming, they're coming...... I know ......."

The sound of squirming came, and the owner, who sounded like a voice, fell to the ground, curled up, and whined in panic:

"They're coming, ahhh

"Ah, Cannon is talking nonsense again," said Tardin, in a desolate voice, "just like last time, remember, Naki?" he said that a girl appeared in front of him...... You're in the same room as Cannon, help him out, knock him out......"

Right now.

"Naki, Cannon, Tardin. ”

A calm voice sounded slowly, and it seemed to carry an inexplicable power in the darkness:

"You three, be quiet. ”

The pace of the speaker was slow, but as soon as he spoke, all three of them were quiet:

"I do seem to see something. ”

Hearing this steady voice, Semir in the hall lowered his head slightly, as if in confusion.

Clay was about to reach out to remind him, but Ricky grabbed his shoulder, who shook his head at him.

Ricky, who had been keeping an eye on the cell, looked grim: a footstep sounded slowly from behind the fourth cell.

Nervous eyes turned to the cell.

A dark, unrecognizable, thin figure appeared behind a metal fence.

Tails vaguely saw that the figure was draped in long unkempt hair, which obscured its appearance, and the clothes on its body were black and gray, and the embarrassed description and dirty appearance could be vaguely seen.

"Light. ”

"I saw the light. ”

The calm voice said calmly.

Tardin, who had been sneering, snorted disdainfully:

"It's just a hallucination, just like Nai always thinks that someone is trying to harm him, Cannon always sees female ghosts, to tell you the truth, sometimes I dream of Eddie's Majesty......"

"Quiet. The calm voice spoke again.

This is the tone of the command, and there can be no doubt.

Tails noticed that the other cells were silent, as if waiting for his judgment.

The thin figure slowly approached the fence.

Outside the cell, Semir took a deep breath and raised his torch to shine on the man.

In the next second, in the bright firelight, the thin figure suddenly raised its arms to block it, and stumbled back a few steps: "Ah, it's too dazzling!"

"This light...... Light...... What the hell is going on!"

Semir hesitated slightly, and the torches retreated a little.

This time, Tails saw clearly: behind the bars of the cell, a figure appeared in the darkness.

It was a down-and-out man with long hair and a chest-length beard, standing in front of the fence, slowly lowering his arms.

Semir looked at the man in front of him in a daze, at his yellow-skinned and thin-eyed eyes, at his old and decadent face, which was fifty or sixty years old by his appearance alone.

There was a pang in Semir's heart: he remembered that the man in front of him had been so heroic and strong.

But now......

Tails saw something else.

The prince watched as the man brushed his long hair away, revealing a thin, wrinkled face, and a brand—from the right side of his face to his chin.

Tails froze.

The same one as Sémir, engraved with the ancient imperial letter "S......

Sinner's stigma.

Semir's lips moved, and he said in a trembling voice, "Little Barney?"

The prisoners in the prison were shocked!

"Chief Pioneer Officer," Semir said with difficulty, looking at the embarrassed prisoner in front of him:

"Little Quill Barney?

Across from him, little Barney stared at Semir across the door and outside the prison with red eyes.

Motionless, as if petrified.

The other voices in the cell fell silent, only the gasps slowly intensified.

In the darkness on the other side, the trembling voice of the man named Cannon spoke again: "Wait, this voice, like, like ......"

After a murmur of rising from the ground, a second figure appeared in another cell.

Semir turned slightly, illuminating the other man:

"Cannon?"

Tails saw the prisoner: he was hunched over the wall, moving little by little towards the fence, his hands tightly covering his face, revealing only a pair of eyes, as if he were afraid of being hurt by something.

Soon, Cannon slowly lowered his hands, revealing his filthy face.

"You, you're ...... No, no......" The prisoner stared blankly at the fire, his face full of horror and trembling more and more.

And on his face, on the right cheek, there is also an ancient imperial "S".

Tails suddenly understood something.

Semir looked at the person in front of him, and there was an unknown bitterness in his words.

Jonah Cannon, who was, was the bravest man, dared to stand up to the beast......

But.

"Something is wrong......"

In the same cell, a lazy voice rang out from behind Cannon: "I seem to be ...... I seem to be hallucinating too, I actually ...... I actually saw that the Iron Curtain was really opened, and also, I saw Semir?"

In the flickering light of the fire, a man with the same dirt appeared beside Cannon.

His hair was unkempt, his beard was sloppy, his eyes were dull, his face was old, and he had a foul stench, like a wild man with strong hair.

Semir took a deep breath and turned his gaze bitterly: "Naki." ”

"It was indeed me. ”

Naki's filthy cheeks froze.

The other three cells also stirred, and several figures emerged from the darkness that could not be illuminated by the fire.

Semir slowly turned to look at the other two in the third cell, slowly calling out their names.

"Guti Tardin. The prisoner tilted his head to stare at Semir, his eyes rounded, and the corners of his mouth slowly opened to reveal a terrifying smile.

"Saul Brie. The man was quite athletic and silent.

The remaining two remained in separate cells, and Semir was very different when he called their names.

"Second Logistics Officer, Sass Nye. "It's a tense 'wild man', staring at the torches outside the fence with suspicious eyes.

"And you, Chief Penal Officer, Luton Belletti. ”

Semir looked at the last man and exhaled slowly.

"Long time no see. ”

And the other party just stared at him coldly.

Tails looked at the prisoners, who were sloppy in appearance, had poor faces, were not young, and had suffered for a long time at first sight, and found that all of them, without exception, had the imprint of "S" on different parts of their faces.

So they are......

However, the people in the five cells reacted in a surprising way.

"What?"

At the end, Belletti lowered her head indifferently and muttered to herself: "Who is crazy this time? Maybe it's not enough supplies, or hell is it?"

"Nothing. ”

Little Barney interrupted him coldly, and looked through Semir as if he saw a cloud of air.

"He can't be real. ”

His filthy face showed disgust, and he turned his back: "Everyone go back to sleep, just wake up"

"It's just ...... It's just another hallucination. ”

Little Barney's figure was drowned in darkness.

The next chapter will be sent in the early morning.

(End of chapter)