Doomsday Totem

Chapter 444
Iron Slag stepped forward and groped for a while. It was a young male who had been dead for a while. When he pulled it, his whole body emitted a stench.Enduring the disgusting smell, after throwing the corpse out, he sat down against the cave wall.

In the deep darkness, he gradually understood why the prison guard said such things to him.It's deep underground, damp and dark, not a ray of sunlight can penetrate.In such an environment, it is easy for prisoners to forget the flow of time and slowly become a decayed corpse.

"Will he die here?" He had doubts for the first time, maybe in a few days, You Ge will get him out.Thinking this way in his heart, his rationality told him that this time it was different, that superior existence had made up his mind to forget him.

"Ding dong..." In the dead silence, only the slight sound of water droplets came from afar, echoing in this empty underground world.

After a long time, there was a shout from somewhere.

"Bugs, it's time to eat."

"Plop!" "Plop!" "Plop!"

Then, there were more than ten sounds of objects falling into the water.Iron Slag immediately opened his eyes, and with a "swipe", he spread his membrane wings and flew towards the source of the sound.

"Buzzing..."

A few seconds later, he flapped his wings and flew near the landing point. With a "clang", they hit the shackles on each other, and with the help of the flash of fire, they could see the situation below clearly.I saw translucent plastic packaging bags floating on the dark green water.

He picked up two of them and flew back into the hole.Not long after, there were sparse splashing sounds all around, and it seemed that there were other prisoners here.

I opened the soft rubber seal of the bag and groped for a while. There were four things inside, a piece of black bread, a bottle of water of about [-]ml, a small half of a candle and a match.The iron slag scratched at the shoulder and rubbed the match with the last dry spot.

The flash of fire immediately turned the whole world red. He lit a candle and carefully placed it on the wet ground.The small flame finally brought some warmth.

"Wow... Wow... Wow... Wow... Wow... Wow... Wow..."

As the candles were lit, there was a burst of water splashing in all directions.A moment later, an old man with pale skin, withered figure, and clothes like rags appeared at the entrance of the cave.He was wet, and his curly hair, long and dirty and gray, stuck to his face in strands.

"Hey, friend, borrow a fire." The old man said with a dry smile.The teeth were yellow and black, and there were only a few left.

Iron Slag made a gesture of invitation, and the old man immediately crawled in and sat down by the candle.

"It's really comfortable." The old man stared at the faint flames and sighed.The intoxicated expression on his face seemed to have seen the most beautiful woman in the world.

After a while, another middle-aged man with pale complexion and a young man came to the entrance of the cave and asked if they could come in.After getting Iron Slag's consent, they sat down around the candles.

Through the faint light of the flames, you can see that the bodies of the middle-aged man and the young man have different degrees of festering, and some places are still bleeding yellow-white pus, which makes the scalp numb.After sitting down, the four of them didn't speak, just took out water and black bread, and ate carefully.

The black bread is dry and hard, and the taste is very rough. You must drink water to swallow it.

"Are these things every day?" Iron Slag asked after eating the bread.

The three nodded in unison.At this time, the small half of the candle was almost burnt to the end, the old man quickly took out his own candle, lit it and pressed it on the original white wax.Each half of the candle can burn for about 15 minutes.

"How long have you been here?" Tie Slag looked around and asked.

"I don't know..." The middle-aged man shook his head and said.The young man didn't seem to hear it, and his eyes seemed a little dull.

"It's been too long, I don't remember." The old man said with a dry smile.

"My name is Tie Slag, what do you call me?" Tie Slag asked again.

"Sand Salt Bruno." The old man replied.

"Call me Lao Wu, the name is meaningless here." The middle-aged man said with a sigh.

The young man still didn't speak, but just stared at the flames numbly, his eyes were empty, and he couldn't see any anger.

"Bruno? Are you a nobleman?" Tie Slag asked suspiciously.As far as he knew, Bruno was one of the five great nobles in the western continent, who owned the No. [-] silver city "Ironshoe City".

"It used to be," said Shayan.

After exchanging a few words, they stopped talking and just stared at the candle in a daze.A few minutes later, the candle was about to go out, and the middle-aged man took out half of the candle and continued it.

"Do you think I will die?" Suddenly, the young man whispered, as if talking to himself.

"Since you've come here, you can't escape death." Shayan said.

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die..." The young man said with a frightened face.

"Son, no matter who is going to die, it's just a matter of time." Shayan comforted.

"I still have dreams, I still have a woman, she is still waiting for me to go back, I can't die!" The young man said in a panic.As if infected by the former, the eyes of the middle-aged man dimmed.

Ask the world, who doesn't cherish life and love beauty?
"When we have redeemed enough sins, we will be able to go to heaven." Shayan smiled and gestured, "There are young and beautiful angels there, wearing dresses made of white gauze, with breasts the size of watermelons, and endless drinks. Great wine, endless food..."

Seeing the old man's intoxicated expression, Tie Slag couldn't help rolling his eyes.

"Really?" asked the young man with bright eyes.

"Of course..." the old man said stupidly, as if he was about to salivate.

"I just want to go home and see my children." The middle-aged man said melancholy.

As he talked, the candle became smaller, and the young man took out a small half of the candle and continued to light it.

"In heaven, you can look down on the world. As long as you want, you can see the happy life of your children at any time." Shayan said.

"If that's the case, I'm satisfied..." the middle-aged man bowed his head and said.

As time went by, the candles gradually burned out, and the surroundings fell into boundless darkness again.Not long after, the four of them dispersed and went back to their respective holes.

After a long time, the sound of the water flow suddenly became louder.After a while, the water level below slowly rose and gradually entered the hole.The height here is equal to the sea level, and when the tide rises, there will be a lot of seawater pouring in.

After feeling the water level rising, the iron slag opened its joints, buckled on the stone wall, came out of the hole, and climbed to the highest point.At the same time, there was a sound of paddling water coming from all around, as if someone was swimming in the water.

"clang!"

With the help of instant sparks, he saw pale corpses floating below, their swollen and eroded faces were extremely terrifying.

In a few days...

Iron Slag roughly figured out the situation here. This is an irregular circular space with a diameter of about 100 meters and an arched top. The highest point is about six to seven meters, and the lowest point is about two to three meters.When the tide is low, the water level is half a meter high, and when the tide is high, it is four or five meters high.There are more than a dozen prisoners held here, but in the past few days, one has died, the young man who chatted with him that day.

Every time when food was distributed, Shayan Bruno would go to the hole in the iron slag, light candles together, and then have a conversation.

In the dark and humid environment, time passed slowly and quickly.Before I knew it, a few days had passed...

In the early morning of this day, in the mansion of the Lord of Atlantic City, You Ge woke up leisurely.After eating the breakfast brought by the old housekeeper Ivan, after washing and grooming, she just stepped into the command center when she received military information from several planes.

Several of these are urgent and require immediate attention.

"The troops of the Black Pupil Demon Race have migrated on a large scale, and there seems to be further military operations."

"Fire Sun Fortress was attacked by the tribe of Golden Bee Queen Helena Celasia Tourmaline, requesting support."

"The Sixth Squadron of the Second Battalion of the Ninth Army of the Dawn Expeditionary Army, Division No. 926 was attacked by an unknown force and the entire army was wiped out. It is still under investigation. The attack may be the Darkspear clan of the Purple Eyed Demon Clan, or it may be unknown. Deep space species."

After dealing with the urgent military situation one by one, she took out another note and wrote a few words: "Get him out." The inscription below is: "Yug Lombard."

A moment later, the messenger stepped on a "hummingbird" aircraft and flew towards the deep water prison.A few hours later, the aircraft flew over the deep water prison, circled in a circle, and flew away again.At this moment, the messenger soldier stood in front of the cabin door, tore the note into pieces and scattered it with the wind.

The reason why he dared to act so boldly was because he accepted the personal orders of the contemporary pope, St. Augustan Modleton.

A week ago, Quentin Mordleton went to the God-given Land of the Eternal City to meet the Pope.

"Honorable Pope, Her Royal Highness seems to be in some trouble." Quentin bowed and said.Although he and the Pope are of the same lineage, they have been separated by five generations, and the blood relationship is relatively thin, so he can't call each other grandpa like You Ge.

"Speak, my child," said the Pope kindly.

"The thing is like this..." Next, Quentin reported to the Pope what happened recently about the iron slag.The latter was furious when he learned of this, so there is now a scene where the messenger soldier tore up the note.

Two weeks later, Yu Ge, who was busy with political affairs, left the Atlantic Ocean and returned to the Golden Triangle to attend the anniversary celebration.And the iron slag matter was shelved like this.

The day before the Gods' Praise Festival, Mu Yu Linglan received the latest news about Iron Slag from the Shadow Department.

"What did you say? He's been locked up there all this time!" Mu Yulinglan stood up with a frosty face, and asked in a voice.

"Yes." Mu Yuqin nodded heartily.

"Could it be that the princess..." Mu Yu Linglan murmured and sat down slumped.

"Sister, what's the matter?" Seeing her disappointed expression, Mu Yuqin asked nervously.

"Let me think about it..." Mu Yu Linglan held her forehead, waved her hand, and said, "You go out first, my mind is messed up, I want to calm down for a while." You Ge's behavior is tantamount to condemning Tie Slag death penalty.However, it is almost impossible to save people from deep water prison.

(End of this chapter)