"Come in you!"
The guards pushed Xiaolan into a narrow door.
Not being able to stand firmly, Xiaolan knelt directly on the ground. The ground was hard and her knees hurt. She arched her back desperately to avoid crushing the rabbit in her arms.
With a "bang", the light source behind him disappeared, and the small door was slammed shut.
This space is extremely short, and the dark roof presses down on itself like a dark cloud.
After making sure there was no sound outside, she unzipped her coat and took out the rabbit in her arms and the black leather in her pocket.
"Rabbit, what's going on now, black leather translator."
"it says--"
"So fast?"
"Shut up."
"OK."
"It said that the place we are in is the untouchable camp." Heipi jumped into Xiaolan's palm. "The untouchable camps are all untouchables who have no special powers. If it is not a serious crime, the untouchable camp will only judge but not punish. After the trial is completed, the prisoner will be exiled from the royal city to fend for himself. If a person with supernatural powers is caught, he will be taken into the Prison of the Dead, which is the real hell..."
Fortunately, he had restrained his psychic powers.
"They say I'm a wanted criminal, so what's going on?"
"Rabbit said it didn't know about it. After all, it had been away from the royal city for a while. It didn't know much about what happened in the past few years."
"Then how should we get out?"
"It said that you can leave directly after the trial is completed, or you can... slip away in advance."
"How to slip away?"
"it says……"
Black Pi suddenly fell silent.
The talking stopped abruptly.
"What's wrong?"
"Didn't you hear it?" Heipi's tone was faint, "There is a sound in the wall behind you."
Xiaolan closed her mouth, raised her ears and listened quietly.
"Ding-deng-deng..."
There was a faint knocking sound.
It's in the wall that I'm leaning against.
"Ding-deng-deng..."
The knocking sound came again, this time the position changed, it was further to the right than before.
"Ding-deng-deng..."
The sound moved a little further to the right.
The knocking sound moved little by little.
Xiaolan also moved following the sound.
"Ding-deng-deng..."
This time the sound didn't move.
Xiaolan squatted down and looked at the place where the knocking sound came from.
"Ding-deng-deng..."
Still in this position.
Is there anything here?
"are u there?……"
Suddenly, vague voices came from the wall.
Xiaolan held onto the wall in surprise.
The wall has become a spirit?
"……anyone there?……"
The sound was slightly louder, but still unclear.
"Who are you?" Xiaolan asked tentatively after confirming that the guards had left.
"...can't hear clearly...down...down..."
down?
Not enough?
"Dong dong dong..."
As if guiding Xiaolan, the knocking sound started again.
This location...
Xiaolan hesitated for a moment, then lay down on the ground and put her ear close to it.
"You can hear it from here. Are you new here?"
A muffled voice came.
"Are you the prisoner next door?" Xiaolan put her hands around her mouth and asked facing the wall.
"I'm not a prisoner, I just happened to be caught."
Xiaolan thought for a while, "Me too."
"For what reason were you arrested?"
"They said I stole the king's treasure."
"Me too," the voice paused, "They said I killed someone."
ha?
This is not the same.
Xiaolan leaned on the wall and said seriously, "How dare you say that you are the same as me."
"I didn't kill anyone!" the man yelled, then lowered his voice, "You didn't steal anything either!"
"It's about me...how should I put it," Xiaolan glanced at Rabbit, "Anyway, the lost thing is indeed in my hand, but if I say it was that thing that moved it first, would you believe it? "
There was silence for a while.
"I really didn't kill anyone." After a long time, he murmured.
"Okay, okay, I believe you."
I, the lawless gangster Liao Yilan, believe that you are a fool.
"How long have you been here?" Xiaolan asked.
"There is no sense of time here anymore, it just feels like a long, long time."
"Me too," Xiaolan looked at her watch and agreed, "I've been in for ten minutes, and it feels like an hour."
There was silence again.
But this time there was no more talking.
"Are you still there?" Xiaolan lay on the wall, "Are you there? Don't leave. I can tell you the time. What do you know? Are you a local? Do you know how to escape? Really? Oh no, if you knew, you would have escaped long ago..."
"I know how to escape." After a while, the voice whispered.
"How to do it?"
"But it takes two people to escape."
Xiaolan looked at the rabbit on the ground and Heipi standing above the rabbit.
"I... can barely be considered two people."
"What I mean is that you and I need to cooperate."
"We two? There is a wall between us. How can we cooperate?"
"At each time period, only one guard will come to look for a house," the man said calmly, "We will take advantage of this and find a way to escape..."
***
Center of the attic.
"Grandma Ainuel, since the royal city is like this, why don't you leave?"
Pineapple looked at Enuel sincerely.
"I'm too old," Ainuel shook his head, his messy blond hair tangled up in knots. "I can't leave anymore. Anyone who has seen the secrets of the Royal City will either die in the Royal City or die by their own hands."
"So, the Royal City is a place where people who have the desire to become gods live," Pineapple repeated, "Has anyone really become a god after so many years?"
"Our King God, he is the one closest to the living god..."
The half-heavenly king god is not a god at all.
When Pineapple thought of the True God, what came to mind was Wu Ren picking up their food bags and looking inside.
"Well, actually..." Pineapple said, "I don't think there is much difference between gods and humans."
Anuel sneered, "Little Pineapple, didn't you come here to become a god?"
"Become a god?" Pineapple smiled, "I don't even know what a god is."
Enuel looked up and down Pineapple's body.
"Little Pineapple, maybe you need Enuel to do some divination for you."
"Can you tell fortunes?"
Enuel led Pineapple and slowly walked down the attic.
A strong fragrance floats in Ainuel's house.
It doesn't look like flowers, fruits, or spices.
She stopped.
I can't see anything clearly, it's too dark here.
"Bah-"
Enuel struck a match.
Light the brass lamp.
A ball of light danced and reflected on Enuel's face.
Behind the sloppy look, there is Ainuel's calm expression and deep facial features.
She was standing alone at the small table, busy with something.
Just as Pineapple was about to go to help, Anuel walked toward her tremblingly, holding a teacup.
"Little Pineapple, let's drink tea first."
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