The second person who appeared had a tone full of schadenfreude.
Anne felt a little disgusted, but her expression didn't change.
She lifted the gauze covering the barrel, revealing the food inside.
"Ah, why is it potato stew and roast meat again!" March wailed.
The other men, who looked very strong, heard the movement here and swarmed over.
"Isn't it okay if you have meat to eat? Don't share it with me!" Another bearded man said and was about to grab the lunch box in March's hand.
March quickly dodged, "This is a piece of love that Miss Anne brought to me. Don't even think about taking a look at it."
"whispering sound!"
The bearded man gave him a very contemptuous look.
Anne was indifferent to their fight in front of her. "Eat quickly, I'll be going up in half an hour."
After speaking, she took out a separate food box inside.
This is prepared for the Lord Magician who is sitting here. His treatment is naturally different from that of these civilians.
Here, there is no such thing as day and night, and there is not much concept of time.
She even felt that if she changed the frequency of delivering meals from four times a day to once a day, people down there might think that only one day had passed after four days.
Of course, she was just thinking about it, but it was actually completely unfeasible.
Sitting down at the nearby tables and chairs, those people gulped down the food hungrily.
While eating, they chatted happily.
The children's cries still did not disappear, but they seemed to be completely accustomed to this environment and turned a deaf ear to the sad and even permeating sound.
"The wind outside seems to be a little tight these days. There has been no fresh blood for a long time."
"Master, he has his own arrangements. Why do you care so much?"
"I sent away a group of well-trained people a few days ago. Now there are only a few of them. I'm really not used to it!"
They laughed together.
Anne took a deep breath, cleared their conversation from her mind, bypassed the deliberately curved passage, and came to a branch road deeper.
From here, one side leads to the real cell and the other side leads to the magician's lounge.
Annie tilted her gaze to the left. The direction from which the cry came was so deep that she could barely see a single gleam of light.
She stood silently for a while and walked towards the passage with magic lamps on the other side.
But she didn't realize that under her feet, a shadow was spreading in the direction facing away from her.
…
With the help of this maid to lead the way, Wayne successfully entered the underground space.
It is no exaggeration to say that the construction specifications here seem to be comparable to the underground library in the palace.
Strictly speaking, the guard standards are not high. There is only one magician, and the rest are ordinary people.
But for those who are actually imprisoned here, this place is probably a veritable hell, with no hope of escape.
With a heavy heart, he walked towards the direction where the hoarse crying came from on the left side of the fork in the road.
He had seen a saying in his previous life.
Ever since the days when humans drank blood, human children will instinctively cry loudly when they feel threatened, so that adults can find them as soon as possible and eliminate the surrounding dangers. For adults, they will instinctively panic when they hear the cry of a child, and they just want to find the source of the sound as soon as possible, so children's cries are often used to enhance the atmosphere in some fantasy works.
That is obviously an instinct that evolved when humans were still animals.
Countless years have passed, and the efficiency of using tools and energy has improved, but these people have degenerated.
He should have suspected it earlier.
The last time he, Geli and Tasia were involved in a kidnapping incident, he thought it was over after rescuing the children in the warehouse. However, in addition to those children who were able to survive at that time, there were many other children in other dark corners who were not so lucky.
If taken away, where would they be taken?
After one gang fell, a second gang appeared immediately doing almost the same thing. No matter how you think about it, it can only be because of the protective umbrella.
Those gangsters are hateful, but they are just tools.
If the real culprit is not eliminated, such things will happen again and again.
Even though every household in the capital now threatens their children with words like "There are monsters outside and they will catch you and eat you", there are still countless children who get lost every year.
Wayne didn't make any noise, but only confirmed a few specific locations where children were still imprisoned.
Then he circled back.
I happened to see the maid coming out of the room of the only magician.
Watching her leave, Wayne stepped forward and opened the door again.
"Well, didn't I tell you to get out? Why don't you get out!" A very irritable voice sounded in the room.
The space here is not cramped and the lighting is bright.
As far as the living conditions are concerned, they are countless times better than those outside. At first glance, I thought I was in the home of a wealthy noble.
Wayne skillfully locked the door with his backhand and set up a barrier to isolate the inside and outside.
As if he realized something, the man sitting on the sofa chair with his eyes closed suddenly looked up.
Then I saw a strange man wearing a monster mask.
"...Who are you?" He looked wary.
He couldn't sense any magic fluctuations from the person in front of him.
This is simply impossible. Not to mention that he can't break through the informants everywhere in the manor. Even an ordinary person who doesn't know magic will never be able to use the transparent barrier in front of him.
"Guess?" Wayne sneered.
He didn't see anyone else, so he walked over and sat down on the long sofa chair opposite him.
It's as if you are a guest invited by the other party.
The magician was silent for a while.
"...Are all the people outside dead?"
Wayne didn't quite understand why he said that for a while, but he quickly realized that this person probably thought he had killed the outside before appearing in front of him.
"Why don't you go out and take a look later, and you'll know?" Wayne said calmly.
The magician looked at the space that had been completely sealed by the barrier.
"Oh, are you willing to let me out alive?"
As soon as he got involved in such a shady thing, he knew that he could no longer live in the sunshine like a normal person.
There is only one way to reach darkness.
Otherwise, once you want to escape from it, whether it is the original owner who has already known the secret to you, or the ordinary people who have been harmed by you, they will be eager to kill you quickly.
"——Then, it depends on your performance."
Under the mask, a pair of emotionless eyes stared at him.
