Luo Binhan woke up from his sleep.
He felt the air around him was cold, his abdomen was throbbing, and his hands and feet were numb due to poor blood flow.
This was too uncomfortable, so he groggily decided to sleep a little longer while Momolo dragged him out of bed.
"Hey, hey..."
Someone was calling furtively. The voice sounded nothing like Momolo. The disturbing screams continued, finally making Luo Binhan wake up completely.
He opened his eyes and looked up. Malinophorus was sitting opposite him, tied tightly by a few old rusty iron chains. Marin didn't look injured, but he looked depressed.
"Robin, are you okay?" another voice asked.
He turned his face sideways and saw Mi Gula tied to a chair against the wall, a little far away from them.
This situation quickly brought Luo Binhan back to reality. He remembered that they ran away with Milo and met the little girl in the depository. She ordered Milo to catch them... and then he was knocked unconscious.
He shook his head. It seemed that Miroku beat him so hard that the memory became blurry.
"Where are we?" he asked.
Marin shook his head sadly.
"Who knows?" he said, "Shas threw us all into boxes and shipped them here. I heard his people bargaining with Naga at first, so I guess we left the exchange. Then there was this guy When he was carrying my suitcase, he deliberately dropped it a few times and hit the back of my head, so I didn’t understand anything.”
Luo Binhan looked at Mi Gula, her expression was equally blank. He had no choice but to take stock of his surroundings.
They were in a very odd square room. The floor was covered with iron sheets, covered with rust spots and stains, and the black stains looked very much like blood stains. There was also a stale smell of rust in the air, which made his nose itchy.
If you just looked at the ground, Luo Binhan would think that this was some kind of slaughterhouse that specialized in processing livestock, but the top of the room showed a completely different style. Countless fine rubies of different shades are inlaid on the ceiling, creating a blooming red lotus. The light shines through the lotus skylight, reflecting a group of gorgeous flower shadows on the dirty and mottled ground.
Like the exquisite and slender rose window in a cathedral, the shadow of the red lotus imbues the simple environment with a weird yet holy religious feeling.
Luo Binhan was thinking about the meaning of the flower window, when Ma Lin asked indifferently: "Are you familiar with the kid next to Shasi?"
"You mean that little cult girl? I'm not familiar with her. I just happened to see her once."
"You chatted with her for a long time before you were knocked unconscious." Marin said cautiously, "You didn't look like strangers at that time."
Luo Binhan looked at him inexplicably. He didn't remember talking to the little girl... No, they did say a few words. He also remembered that the little girl called herself "the original dream", but there was nothing else. What could he have to do with an alien cultist?
However, it’s really strange when you think about it. He was obviously knocked unconscious by Milo as soon as he raised the gun, and he couldn't remember at all when the little girl signed up for her number.
That obviously didn't matter, so he put the incident behind him and continued looking for a way out. He soon noticed that there was a table in the darkness of the room, with stuffed pigeons, broken ray guns, lighters, etc. on it. Most of them were his things, and there was also a pen and a few pieces of paper, which he estimated belonged to Marin.
He paid special attention to the rapid fire pendant. It is placed on the edge of the table. As long as someone pushes it slightly, the jade will fall and 80% of it will be smashed by the iron floor. Marin just said that they had left the exchange, so they might be in Lotus Tree Star or Gate City. It would be worth a try anyway.
But the table was too far away from them. Across the red lotus shadow, they are basically at the farthest ends of the room. He tried to move the chair, but found that the legs of the chair were nailed to the ground and would not move at all.
Marin sighed after witnessing his actions.
"Let's forget it," he said to Luo Binhan, "an ordinary man was walking on the road and was killed by a meteorite falling from the sky. What fault do you think he had? This kind of thing happens from time to time, we just happened to meet it by chance. If I had known this, I shouldn't have stolen your ring."
Luo Binhan moved his fingers subconsciously. His hands were tied behind the chair with iron chains. His fingers could move slightly, but the ring was still on. Shas probably thought this was funny.
"Stop crying for me," he said angrily to Marin. "Don't you have a point to decide whether you were wronged or not? If you hadn't messed up the relationship between men and women, would I be tied up here today?"
"No, no, Melaro is just a small problem. Do you think Shasi would go to war over a little girl selling potions? Of course he is not a big shot, but he is not short of power in the city. He doesn't care about women. There are tears!”
Marin's voice continued to rise due to excitement. He suddenly realized that he had made a mistake, so he closed his mouth tightly and his eyes drifted around.
Luo Binhan realized something, and he chased Ma Lin with stern eyes.
"...Okay." Marin said dryly, "We are finished anyway, and this secret will be buried in the ground no matter what. We have also gotten along well during this period, and I think you and that girl are a good match... Have you noticed the look in her eyes? She always stares at you and never looks at my face, which I must say is rare among girls..."
"Because you are trash!" Mi Gula said angrily.
"Did you hear that?" Luo Binhan said calmly, "Stop fooling around with her ideas. Just let it go!"
Marin shivered a little aggrievedly: "Okay, okay. There is no need to tie up when you die... I used to know a forest dwarf. He was a material merchant, rich, enthusiastic, and loved music. I got along well with him. , he also invited me on his ship to play exclusively for his guests. The beginning of the trip was quite pleasant, but unfortunately the last part of the journey was not smooth - I don’t know who opened the hatch and a few masked guys ran away. Come in. First they asked my poor old friend for money, and then they hanged him alive. Hanged! Do you know how cruel this is to dwarfs? They are small people who live in caves and are naturally afraid of heights. He was close to the earth, but those people told him that he would not be able to touch it until he died..."
His voice deepened, perhaps with some real sadness. He took a breath and continued: "I was hiding in the gold cabinet at that time. It was a complete coincidence. He always boasted about his boldness, so I wanted to take advantage of him to drink. I was joking with him, and who knew that I would hear the process of him being hanged... Later, the group of people moved me and the gold cabinet away. I was so scared that I almost passed out in the pile of gold, but in the end, they took advantage of the fact that they were drunk. I ran away. Just before I ran away, they got very drunk and said that it was 'Pretty Face' who ordered this! Do you understand now? There must be their spies on the ship, and they will find me sooner or later. Disappeared. I wasn’t turned into a corpse, and I wasn’t locked up in a warehouse, so where was I? It didn’t take Sars long to figure this out.”
Luo Binhan stared at him with his mouth wide open.
"You knew it was SARS that killed your friend, and you were hiding as a decorator in the temple?" He asked in shock, "Why didn't you call the police? Go tell the Lord of the Gate City!"
"This is the worst thing to do!" Marin roared, "Think about it, why would Sars have trouble with a dwarf? Is he short of money? No, no, he even hired humans to do this! This It's incitement! It's ignition! But what good does this do to him? He is just a half-lizard demon. What can he do on his own? He is working for a higher power! And if I get involved, I will only be torn to pieces by them! "
Luo Binhan was completely stunned. Marin gasped a few times, and then sighed sadly.
"Groups, politics, power struggles," he whimpered, "it's the same everywhere you go. The big shots... what's the difference between the two sides? Look at those ancient laws, they don't even shit! They don't shit Can these things be considered living things? Think about it, they pretend to sit with you to eat and drink, and then you have to go to the latrine to do your dirty work, while they continue to sit clean. Let me ask them Where did the eaten mass go? Just disappeared from the universe? No, no, you can never trust something that doesn't poop. They can be paintings, poems, and beautiful, but don't try to treat them as people Look, otherwise you will die miserably. And what about the rational side? Ah, they think they can explain everything, and they want to put everything into their own words, but in fact they know nothing! They don’t even know why their wives Sleep in another man’s bed!”
He raised his head, stared at the ceiling in despair and shouted: "This universe is meaningless! It's meaningless, my friend! There are only so many things we can grasp! Women, wine, food, music... Let's enjoy ourselves in time. !”
The iron door of the room opened with a bang, and dazzling white light shone in, revealing Somashasthya's crooked figure. He walked slowly into the room, applauding gracefully.
"Wonderful speech, Marlin." He praised softly.
