The passage was not long, and soon Lu Ning walked into an area with many tables and chairs, which was a canteen. About ten prisoners are eating here, and their plates all have the same food, black lumps, white soup, red roots and purple cakes. Lu Ning couldn't tell what the material was. She walked to the dining area. The person standing there was wearing a chef's uniform and his face was wrinkled. As the chef here, he was not a prisoner, and he was not affected by the power of the prison.
Seeing Lu Ning coming over, the chef quickly picked up a dinner plate, scooped out the four kinds of food from four large basins, and then put them on the dining table. Lu Ning did not take it, but asked tentatively: "Can you understand what I am saying?"
"Don't try to get close!" The chef pointed to the plate, "Take the food and leave! Don't make me say it a second time!"
"The little red girl is lost. She thought she flew here and ordered me to come and look for her."
"Didn't see it!"
This cook can indeed understand what the prisoners are saying. Lu Ning nodded, picked up the plate and found an empty table to sit down at. The food looked a little weird, but it smelled quite delicious.
The black pieces were actually meat, mixed with a lot of sauce, which gave it the color. But after Lu Ning tasted it, he could tell that it was raw meat. The fishy smell had been covered up by the sauce. It tasted quite good, but it was a pity. She didn't dare to eat. The white soup has a spicy taste, but the overall feeling seems to be fish soup. It has a strong umami flavor and you can't get anything out with a spoon. The red rhizomes are actually blood products similar to pig blood and duck blood. The taste has also been adjusted, but the original ingredients can still be tasted. The purple cake has a rough texture and can be chewed into pieces the size of rice grains. The grain flavor is rich and there is some saltiness in it.
Lu Ning just tasted everything, then cut the meat, broke the cakes, and soaked them in the soup. Then she clamped the red blood product into the flesh, slightly opened it with her fingers to draw out some blood, and dripped it on it.
Soon, a red butterfly flew out from near the wall. It was very small, only as big as a bottle cap. It even circled around a few times when it flew over. Lu Ning was sitting there. After waiting for two minutes without moving, the butterfly slowly landed on the piece of meat.
Immediately afterwards, the lump of raw meat began to visibly dry up and shrink, and the red rhizome inside also quickly became smaller, as if it had been sucked in by a butterfly. At this speed, Lu Ning doubted that ordinary people would not be able to take the butterfly back alive if they really did what Saga said.
She picked up the dinner plate, but the butterfly that was eating did not move at all. Lu Ning carefully began to walk out of the cafeteria. The other prisoners ran away when they saw the butterfly on the dinner plate, obviously they were afraid of this. Lu Ning walked into the passage. The raw meat ball was almost in a semi-dry state, and the parts that had been sucked turned into powder. Lu Ning quickened his pace and soon returned to the intersection, and Saga did indeed Still standing there.
"You're back? So soon...ah! Xiaohong!" Saga suddenly smiled when she saw the butterfly on the dinner plate, and waved, and the red butterfly flew to her shoulder.
Lu Ning put the dinner plate on the ground and looked at Saga silently. Saga teased the butterfly a few times, and then said to Lu Ning: "You are quite efficient. Since you helped me, I will also do you a favor. Is there anything less important?"
She didn't expect anything more from Saga Lu Ning. She pointed at herself and then at the passage with the green light.
"Where are you going?"
She nodded.
"Okay, I'll go over and take a look too." Saga smiled and walked towards the green light channel. Lu Ning followed her and walked inside. Not long after, she saw an area like a gardening room. It seemed that the four passages were connected to similar functional areas.
"Ah, that uncle didn't come today." Saga glanced at the gardening room with a little disappointment on his face, "He draws very well."
The absence of the "Human Portrait" was good news for Lu Ning. She walked into the gardening room. There was a main entrance and two side entrances. After entering from the main entrance, the side entrances on both sides could be accessed. Lu Ning took a glance and discovered that In the aisle behind the door on the left, a man in dark blue guard uniform was walking.
jailer?
She hurriedly opened the door, but the moment she opened the door, she suddenly noticed changes in her surroundings.
There is a faint smell of decay floating in the air. The originally lush garden potted plants have long been bare, with not even a bit of deadwood left. The fragments of the flowerpots are scattered in the rotten soil, and the stones of the flower bed are already covered with cracks. Looking again, are there any patrolling guards in the corridor? There was only a pair of withered bones leaning against the wall, holding a manual in his arms, and most of the clothes on his body were rotten.
Lu Ning turned back and took a closer look. There was no one around where Saga was, and the green light in the passage was no longer bright at all. This is what she thought the prison should look like, this is what the prison really looks like. .
"ha……"
After exhaling a breath, Lu Ning walked towards the withered bones, reached out and pulled out the manual from the bones.
The brown leather cover has been treated to make it quite corrosion-resistant, and the inner pages are similar to parchment and have also been treated. However, when Lu Ning flipped through it, most of it was blank. The more she flipped through, the more she frowned, until the last page——
[Old Days Chapter 24, Prison Centralization. 】
Lu Ning had actually seen the handwritten font before. It was the same font on the notebook treasure he obtained after solving the school problem.
But...is this treasure? If so, she could think that what she saw before was an illusion created by the treasure. But on the other hand, this was too simple. She just came to the location of the treasure and everything was resolved? It's really not that difficult at all compared to the ones I encountered before.
Lu Ning searched carefully on the dead bones again and took out a piece of charcoal from under a bone. She used a pen to write the words "Princess Butterfly" on the white page. The traces spread out quickly, and then quickly formed a piece of text with a smaller font.
[..."Butterfly Princess" Saga did not take many special actions during this centralization crisis. It should be said that she has always been alone and has never changed. Of course, neutrality is not a good thing in such an incident. Whether it is "Skeleton Harp" or "Deep Sea Fish", these dangerous prisoners who hope to become big bosses are all worried that Saga will suddenly join other groups. 】
"It looks like a keyword search." Lu Ning frowned and looked at the text. Sure enough, these dangerous prisoners were imprisoned here who knows how many years ago. What happened back then was somehow related to It was recreated as if the prisoners in the prison were still alive. In fact... I'm afraid even the most dangerous ones have died long ago.
At this moment, there was a click from the front, followed by the sound of chains being removed. The iron door at the end of the passage was opened, and Heraclius was standing there.
"Mr. Legion Commander?"
"It's not too late for you to come out." Heracli stepped slightly out of the way, and Lu Ning saw Lian Bisheng and Rang standing there, as they were when they came in.
"Can you explain what's going on?" Lu Ning frowned.
"I don't want everyone to explain it again, ask your companions. Also, take the old chapter in your hand, it is necessary for us to go to the deep palace prison."
Lu Ning walked out of the door, and then the big iron door was slammed shut by Heraclius and the chain was re-locked. Lu Ning noticed that there were two soldiers with military shields next to them, and here was a square room with a teleportation array drawn on the ground.
"Luckily you're okay." Rang said to Lu Ning, "It's actually very dangerous here. If you're not lucky, you may die."
"what's going on?"
"From what I know so far, the prison has actually been turned into a shallow memory area." Jean said.
"Memory? It seems to be related to the king again?"
"What happened so far has nothing to do with the king." Lian Bisheng shook his head, "The palace, the place with the deepest connection, is no exception. It's just that this is not a relic where treasures are buried."
"What is that place?"
"Trash can." Jean continued to explain, "I communicated with Mr. Heraclius and learned some past events... I also roughly know a little bit about those three areas."
Lu Ning glanced at Heraclius and saw that he was just standing there holding a walkie-talkie and seemed to be waiting, so he walked to the side with the two of them and listened to the story.
"We all know that the treasure is made by the king using memory, but just like ordinary industrial production, this production method also produces many by-products-mainly including three types."
"...I guess it was thrown into three places."
"Well, the memories that are positive but too naive and simple are placed in the Broken Mirror Ruins; the mediocre memories without any emotion, just for the sake of memory, are placed in the Corridor of Eternal Calamity; and those that are too negative are easily placed in the treasure What makes the treasure difficult to grasp remains here.”
"So those two are actually safe?"
Jean made a curled expression: "Relatively safe... You have to know that in the positive memories, there are some monsters that he fought and won, and some powerful creatures that he fantasized about... It's just not as strong and real as here."
"I understand. So the mission of the military shield is to guard these most dangerous memories? Then why do we need to walk inside?"
Hearing this question, Jean took out another manual from his arms: "For this thing."
"It records what happened at that time?"
"It is part of it, but the more important function is that it is an objective record, which helps us maintain rationality in the deep palace prison...that is the real prison."
"The upper prison has long been abandoned?"
"The prison was abandoned, but not all the prisoners died. Those prisoners had some mutations after the prison was used by the king to store memories. When the military shield took over here, it sank all the prisoners into the deep palace prison, and The upper prison was effectively abandoned."
"You may have seen some people who are not dead inside." Chirac said in a low voice, "There were originally many serious prisoners in this prison, including Skeleton Harp, Deep Sea Fish, Paper Clothes, and Butterfly Princess. The prisoner who was sunk in the first place."
"How dangerous is the deep palace prison?"
Jean thought for a while: "To put it bluntly, that is where the king's deep memories are stored. If we don't go in with the old chapters, we may be induced to undergo some strange changes, and the treasure may not be able to protect us. But other than that In addition, those prisoners may have transformed into supernatural beings in the prison."
"But we don't know the details, right?" Lu Ning sighed.
"Because they can't escape, but the military shield will not go in. Only those who collect information according to the requirements of the nobles need to go to the deep palace prison. Mr. Heraclius sent us there firstly to obtain the old chapter, and secondly It's a test of qualifications. If you can't survive in the previous prison shown in the chapter, then entering the deep palace prison will just add another monster there."
At this moment, a voice came from Heraclius's walkie-talkie, and he immediately strode towards the teleportation array: "Someone has obtained the chapter again, come with me."
Jean and Lian Bi Sheng followed him immediately. Lu Ning moved her steps and touched a hard object on her waist. She suddenly remembered that she had snatched a crowbar from there before.
"Jean, can I take out the things I got there?"
"One," Jean said.
Lian Bisheng added: "No matter what's inside, you can only take out one thing. Jean got a counterfeit silver coin, and I took out a hand-polished flute. What did you get?"
"A crowbar."
"...an artifact."
Through the teleportation array, several people came to another similar small room. The person who came out was unexpectedly Rudolph. He held old chapters in his hand and looked excited: "Are those prisoners who were imprisoned here before? I have almost never heard of these people, and there is such a cruel guy? I thought they were under the king's rule. The royal capital is peaceful and stable!"
"No one dares to cause trouble in the royal capital. These people were arrested from outside." Heraclius was obviously unhappy when he heard these words. "Only those powerful prisoners who cannot be punished or imprisoned by local cities will be taken to the royal capital." All, and most of them, have been judged. What you have encountered is just a section recorded in the chapters of the past."
"So who wrote these old chapters? Legion commander?" Lu Ning asked.
"……have no idea."
"But it's because you brought people to deal with what happened here."
"Yes, we cleaned up the prison, sank the prisoners who had turned into monsters, and collected the bodies of the guards who unfortunately died here. And these things appeared after we took care of everything, and we don't know their origins. . I can only think that these are the king’s arrangements, and I never try to figure out the king’s intentions.” Heraclius said.
"I understand, the Holy Will is unpredictable." Rudolph said with a smile.
"We have to wait for a while. You can do whatever you want, as long as you don't leave the room." Heraclius ignored him.
