In the firelight, Tails was vigilantly guarded by Clay and Josh as he stepped up the stone stairs in the storage room.

An indescribable stench came from the air, causing Tails to frown repeatedly.

Incredibly, a few hours earlier, he had been escorted by the Sword of Calamity into the Prison of Bones, and hours later, he was still under the watchful eye of the Sword of Calamity, forced to follow them out.

It's simply an alternative with a beginning and an end, echoing from beginning to end.

The badly wounded Sachael was supported by Cannon and Brie, and staggered to the left front of Tails, and the tight guards around them were even more exaggerated than Tails—Ricky, wearing a hood, walked beside them himself, not leaving an inch.

Not far behind the prince, Tarding and the fast rope returned to their state of bonding, and they suffered the vigilant gazes of the people around them with a depressed expression.

Barney Jr. and Belletti, who had wounded Ricky, were presumably considered "dangerous men", and the two were isolated from the rest of the group, with their hands tied behind their backs, and they were kept under separate surveillance.

Thinking of this, the weak and tired Tails had to sigh.

After Sakel fell to the ground weakly, they had to choose to see the facts clearly and tie their hands - not only because of Ricky's peculiarity and treachery, but also because after many fierce battles and even the sensory torture of the alchemy ball, all members of the royal family guard were already at the end of their strength and were unable to fight hard.

The secret stone staircase in the storage room led them to a new platform, and through the torches held by the swords of calamity on the outskirts, Tails could faintly see a dozen figures waiting for them in front of the passage.

The moment he saw it clearly, Tails' pupils froze!

Is that......

"Looks like you're the winner tonight, dear Crassus. ”

A white man sitting on the ground, with a blue nose and swollen face, and a big tie of flowers, glanced at Tails and Saker, and looked at Ricky with a smiling expression:

"Wow. ”

It's a chisel.

Tails looked in amazement at the leader of the Shadow Shield who was subdued to the ground.

He didn't run away.

Instead, it fell into the hands of the Sword of Calamity.

The chisel turned to Tails, smiling weakly, maintaining the last of his leader's posture: "Look, Your Highness, if you choose to go with us at that time...... At least ......"

The Assassin leader shrugged his shoulders as he shook his head at the murderous Swords of Calamity around him.

A look of regret for "why don't you listen to persuasion".

Tails looked at him with a frown.

Ricky ignored the chisel's words, and instead looked at Semir behind him.

Semir nodded, stepped forward, held back the disgust on his face, and asked:

"The people you left on the ground, when did they start moving and distract the camp?"

Tails was slightly stunned.

The captured chisel was also stunned.

Distraction?

His eyes rolled.

"Action?"

The drill seemed to think of something, and a certain color appeared on his embarrassed face:

"I told you: look at the way I look now, do you think they'll still act?"

Semir's face turned cold, and he paced forward:

"I'm not Ricky, Hammer, I'm not as polite as he is......"

The chisel smiled:

"Very good...... Well, you don't mind, I'd like to speak directly to Crassus if you still want our help in escaping Camp Fang. ”

His gaze went beyond Semir to Ricky.

Ricky didn't speak, his face covered under the hood all the time.

However, in the next second, Semir frowned fiercely, and hit the hammer with a heavy kick on the head!

The hammer fell to the ground with a grunt, blood pouring from under his nose.

"Listen, Assassin!"

The chisel was covered in cold sweat, gritting his teeth and enduring the pain, trying to struggle to get up, but Semir's boots kept pressing against his chest, obviously not wanting him to get better.

"In our hands, you can still negotiate conditions like this," Semir said coldly:

"But if you fall into the hands of the Kingdom of Stars with us......"

"Don't forget, the letter that proved you killed Bright Star is still with us. ”

As soon as the name was spoken, Saker, Cannon, Brie, and Tardin, all the prisoners of the Guard who heard it shook in unison.

They looked up at the drill in unison.

The struggling chisel froze.

Tails raised an eyebrow, remembering the letter in his arms.

Semir snorted coldly:

"So, do you want to come with us, or do you want to be a guest in the kingdom's secret department?"

"Whether it's King Kessel or the Black Prophet, they're sure you're welcome. ”

Silent.

The Swords of Calamity all stared coldly at their conversation.

The chisel gritted his teeth and gasped for a moment on the ground.

Eventually, the leader of the Shadow Shield sneered, sighed, and resigned himself to his fate:

"Half an hour later, the abnormality of the Prison of Bones will be discovered. ”

"According to the plan we said we had - and now you broke it - my men will first burn down the munitions warehouse, and then assassinate some of the nobles of the Western Wilderness who is extremely unpopular, and create unprecedented chaos throughout the camp. ”

Tails lowered his head and sighed.

The chisel tilted his head, revealing a cold color:

"Ensure that the group of nobles from the Western Wilderness who came from afar and were not accustomed to the water and soil were in a hurry, and they would be able to figure out the clue after two hours. ”

Semir frowned:

"Can you do it?"

The chisel snorted coldly with a look of "what do you know":

"Williams, the toughest of all, wasn't in the camp again...... So, yes. ”

"We can do it. ”

Semir looked at Ricky.

The latter nodded under the hood.

Semir lifted his leg and let the panting hammer sit up again:

"Very well, let's do that at that time. ”

However, as soon as the chisel breathed a sigh of relief, he smiled again:

"But yes. ”

"There will be a little bit of a problem with our follow-up plan. ”

Halfway through the turn, Semir turned his head again, looking uncertain:

"What trick do you want to play?"

The chisel hurriedly shook his head, and he looked obedient when he understood the temper of the person in front of him, and said helplessly:

"You know, once my people meet us outside, they find that I have been captured...... Don't get me wrong, they won't fight you, but you need to know that Shadow Shield has a 'good' tradition of surviving. ”

Dead Tail to Survive......

Semir's eyes narrowed slightly.

I saw the chisel turn his head sideways, wipe the nosebleed on the collar that flowed to his chin, and sighed helplessly:

"My men...... They would simply cut off the escape route and leave without hesitation, leaving us to fend for ourselves in the chaotic camp. ”

The Swords of Calamity were silent for a moment.

Semir looked up:

"Severed tails, even if you're their leader?"

The chisel showed an embarrassed smile:

"Because I am their chief. ”

And then......

The drill said in his heart: There will be a new Shadow Leader in the Longxiao City Branch.

Tails looked at the nosebleed, scarred hammer, and suddenly had a new understanding of the Shadow Shield.

The chisel shrugged his shoulders again, with a look of helplessness that he didn't know whether to pretend or really be, and gestured to the rope that tied him.

"How about it, prince, but our cooperation doesn't seem to be over yet......?"

At this moment, a terrible voice sounded in the air, as if a sand snake was spitting out a letter, and as if a violent wind swept through a hole, making Tails feel uncomfortable:

"Don't worry. ”

As the people around him subconsciously stepped back and covered their ears, Ricky walked through the crowd, and he came to the drill with his hood, and continued to torture Tails's ears with his inhuman voice:

"We have our own way. ”

But I don't know if it was because he was used to it, or because Ricky was deliberately controlling it, Tails could feel that when he heard Ricky's inhuman voice again, his discomfort and trembling desire were not as strong as before.

The chisel was also affected by this voice and trembled for a few seconds.

He was puzzled for a moment, and then subconsciously asked, "Crassus, your voice...... Why are you so weird?"

Ricky winked at the man behind the drill.

The next moment, a slender figure behind the hammer stepped forward and stunned him with a sword hilt.

Tails saw the man who had stunned the hammer.

He was stunned again.

"We're done and ready to evacuate," Clay walked up beside Ricky and handed over to the people waiting there:

"Well done, girl, the information you brought back is worth a thousand gold, and it will pay off. ”

It's Marina.

Under Tails' astonished gaze, the Scourge swordswoman who had tied him and the fast rope to my tavern, Marina Norfolk, who had double-swords, nodded, and glanced at the prince with a cold gaze.

Wait, what did Clay say just now......

What the......

Brought back information?

A second later, Tails suddenly understood:

Previously, Sakel was chasing down the intelligence of Tails, which Marina brought to the Sword of Calamity after she woke up.

After that, Sonny chased after him and Fast Rope.

After he had to turn to the prisoners of the Guard, Semir took Sonny's place and appeared in front of them.

Thinking of this, Tails turned pale and glanced uneasily at Ricky, who was covered under the hood on his side.

When the prince is rescued by yodel, he thinks he is free from the mercenaries, and the only threat left is the Shadow Shield.

But in reality, whether it's Marina, Sonny, or Semir, Tails has always been under the watchful eye of the sword of calamity that hides in the shadows, and has never been an exception.

Until the Tails side and the other enemies in the dungeon consume each other, and both sides are defeated.

The more he learned, the heavier Tails' mood grew.

The group was held up by the Sword of Calamity and moved on.

Until they ascended one more stone staircase, they came to a circular platform that seemed to hold hundreds of people.

In the center of the platform stood a huge round stone pillar, surrounded by a dozen different stone platforms or stone tables arranged in a fan-shaped shape, as well as huge dilapidated round wells, many of which had been shattered and deserted, and were scattered all over the place into countless stones or scrap metal.

Tails cautiously stepped over an obstacle that he didn't know whether it was steel or slate, looked at the stacked stone platforms on the platform, and asked in amazement:

"This is ......"

Ricky doesn't look back:

"Foundry Hall. ”

Or...... The rest of it. ”

This time, Ricky's voice began to normalize, and although it was still unpleasant, it no longer gave the illusion of scratching the steel plate.

I saw Ricky sigh and say:

"A long, long time ago, the prototype of the world's first standard anti-demon armament was secretly born here. ”

Tails was shocked.

He looked at these stone platforms, which had obviously been abandoned for a long time, and his eyes became different.

"It's a pity......"

Ricky's footsteps stopped.

Tails realized that they had come to an erected stone slab.

Ricky pulled out the key to returning to his old master from Tails, and gently brushed open an eye sign that "leads to omniscience" in front of the slate.

"Everybody, rest on the spot - and, hold on. ”

Ricky said lightly.

At his command, Sakel was pressed to his knees by a stone platform by Semir, Cannon and Brie protested while being carried away by the sword, and Quickrope and Tardine walked to their distance under Clay's watch—the guards were scattered far apart, unable to care for each other.

But......

Rest?

Hold on?

Thinking about Ricky's words, Tails didn't react for a moment.

But in the next second, as the key in Ricky's hand began to turn, a rough and ugly vibration sound came from under his feet again!

Thundered......

Tails held on to a stone table beside him, stood firm, and subconsciously looked around.

He thought to himself, maybe another exit was about to open.

But when he looked up, he realized that he was wrong.

Thundered......

In the faint light of the fire, Tails was surprised to see that the wall at the edge of the platform was actually slowly sliding!

Soon, Tails felt a weight on his body, and there was a faint pressure on the soles of his feet.

This is......

Many people, including the Sword of Calamity, jumped in shock!

"What the hell—"

Tails didn't finish a sentence before he realized the current situation.

He looked at Ricky, and then at the wide, descending curved wall around him, in shock:

"We're in ...... On the rise?"

Ricky smiled.

"You are perceptive, Your Highness. ”

He nodded, stretched out his arms in the midst of the panicked crowd, and watched with satisfaction as the entire platform slowly ascended:

"Right now, we're riding the tools of the mages to transport materials and climb up and down the tower, to the ground, where it used to be, the top floor. ”

Thundered......

"Up and down the tower?"

Tails squinted at the deep darkness beyond the firelight.

"But isn't this an underground ......?"

He didn't finish his words,

"That's right, most people think that the Prison of Bones is inherently an underground dungeon. ”

Ricky sat on the stone platform next to him, facing Tails, and his tone was not without emotion:

"But only a few people know that here, the confinement research room under the Alchemy Tower, was once a giant tower rising from the ground. ”

Giant towers.

Tails was stunned for a moment.

"What?"

The prince subconsciously raised his head and looked at the ceiling: "But the ...... we came in"

But Ricky only held up a finger and stopped him:

"You know, thousands of years ago, when empires were not established and human beings had not yet risen, the Great Desert was not called the Great Desert. ”

Ricky sighed softly and knocked on the stone platform on which he was sitting:

"At that time, dozens of sandbanks, large and small, had not yet been connected, and lakes and oases had not been covered in layers of yellow sand – this magical tower stood in the middle. ”

"Unfortunately, so many years have passed, and countless winds and sand have buried most of its body, so much so that many people now think that Camp Bladetooth is a solid and reliable sand dune, and they are not surprised that so many forts can be built on the soft sand. ”

There was a slight sigh in Ricky's tone.

"Rest well. We'll be on the ground in no time. ”

In a slow, regular, and somewhat intimidating rumble, Tails was silent for a moment.

"You know so much about this place?"

Tails said silently:

"So, you've seen what this tower used to look like?"

At that moment, Ricky raised his head very quickly, and his bright yellow eyes of horror peeked out from under the hood.

Let Tails subconsciously lean against the stone platform behind him.

"Don't go to great lengths to test my roots, Your Highness. ”

Before he knew it, Ricky's voice had returned to normal, just like his face—almost normal except for the yellow eyes.

Ricky stared at Tails for a moment, making the latter more and more uneasy.

"Yes, I'm older than I look," Ricky said softly.

"But I'm not that old either. ”

"At least, not as 'historic' as you might think. ”

Tails swallowed subconsciously.

Looking at his appearance, Ricky burst out laughing.

"I know what you want to do, Your Highness, and I can see that there is a quality in you. ”

Ricky stared straight at Tails.

The boy suddenly realized that Ricky's yellow left eye was changing color.

Change back to the color of a normal human.

"Even now, even in the worst of disadvantage, the worst, the most desperate situation, you won't give up, right?"

Ricky chuckled and pointed a finger, "I don't know, did you get the Hellriver Sins because of this, or did the Hellriver Sins make you like this?"

Tails was slightly stunned.

The most disadvantaged, the worst, the most desperate......

Tails turned his head and looked around.

On the slowly rising platform, Sakel squinted not far away, staring wearily at this side, ignoring the words of Semir beside him.

Brie and Cannon were tied up backwards and sat on the ground in embarrassment.

Tarding leaned against a stone pillar and looked away angrily, as if he had been provoked by the crying and chattering "nephew" fast rope beside him.

Barney Jr. and Belletti were both in the distance, and Tails could only see vague figures, but given their "criminal record" of sneak attack, he guessed that the two brothers would not be treated very well.

And the Swords of Calamity stood full, all vigilantly watching the seemingly exhausted captives.

Tails sighed.

They are all in trouble, unable to return to heaven.

But......

"I'm used to struggling in the dark," Tails said silently, staring at the dust on the ground, leaning on the stone platform to relieve the fatigue of his whole body:

"Even if there's no light in front of you. ”

This silenced Ricky for a moment.

"Me too," Ricky curled the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly:

"We all are. ”

No.

You're not.

Tails sneered in his heart: You can still be born again.

"Don't worry, my dear," Ricky looked at him, unconsciously changing his salutation, and whispered:

"You'll be safe. ”

Tails let out a sigh and replied helplessly.

"Thank you. ”

But Tails then remembered Ricky's identity and felt more and more strange.

He just ......

Given to by a demon who lives on earth...... Wen Yan was comforted?

Ricky suddenly reached to his waist and pulled out a cloth bag.

"Good jerky, do you want to eat it?"

Tails was stunned again.

What?

"Don't be restrained, I know that the sins of the River of Prison are a huge burden on the body," Ricky unceremoniously pulled out a piece of jerky from it:

"It's strange if you're not hungry. ”

Ricky takes the food into his mouth, then tosses the sack to Tails:

"And I need to replenish a lot of consumption. ”

Tails scrambled to take the bag.

He looked at the other man stupidly, and then at the cloth bag in his hand.

Eventually, Tails sighed, pulled out a piece of jerky, and reluctantly learned Ricky to start eating.

As a result, there are not very common wonders on this side of the platform:

Tails sat on the edge of the stone platform, and across from him sat a cross-legged Ricky, one man and one demon sitting silently opposite each other, each trying to bite the jerky in his hand.

At this moment, Sakel's voice interjected abruptly.

"Why. ”

Tails and Ricky turned their heads in unison.

Sakel leaned weakly against the stone platform not far away:

"Demon, what exactly is your purpose?"

Ricky frowned slightly.

Looking at the weakened Saker, Tails subconsciously wanted to hand out the jerky, but was glared back by Ricky.

Sakel ignored the jerky, but said quietly:

"After the end of the war, it has been a long time since a demon dared to appear on the earth and in the human world. ”

After the Battle of the End......

Tails seized the moment.

"Not in a long time?"

Ricky stared at Sakel tightly, curling the corners of his mouth, "Are you sure?"

Sakel didn't answer immediately, he looked at Ricky for a moment.

Finally, as Ricky turned his head impatiently, Sakel spoke with a hint of hesitation:

"Okay. ”

"Once upon a time, there was a suspicious record in the Guardian Keeper's Legacy Records. ”

"It is said that the King of the Stars was in a state of his sanity, and his subsequent actions brought untold misfortune and chaos to the kingdom. ”

Tails was taken aback.

Sakel stared at Ricky with burning eyes, as if he was going to dig something out of his shell:

"Afterwards, the temple and the secret department were both suspicious of ......"

"The King......"

"Possessed by a demon. ”

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