"One, two..."
The moment Ringer stepped out of the door of the punishment chamber, Tracy opened her lips and started counting.
At Ringo's request, Tasi left the punishment chamber with him, and Tarantino returned to the different space.
In the blink of an eye, Tracy was the only one left in the dark punishment room. She was leaning on the cold bone chair, holding her chin with her left hand, swinging the chain with her right hand, and the crescent hook at the end of the chain circled around her hand.
"Five, six..." She counted slowly.
Outside the punishment room, there was no sound.
"Seven, eight..." The corners of Tracy's mouth raised, and her eyes became brighter and brighter.
"...Ten! Hey, I'm here to catch you."
But she was still sitting lazily on the bone chair, and just flicked her wrist to throw out the chain.
Crescent Hook rushed out of the punishment room door with the chain on his back, turned a corner, and turned to the side where Ringer left.
"Run away, let's see how long you can hide."
The chain burning with green fire stretched rapidly, and after seven or eight seconds, it suddenly stopped.
"Hey, I got it."
Tracy pulled back suddenly, the chain was quickly retracted, and after a few seconds, a green shadow was dragged back to the punishment chamber.
Chains were wrapped around the soul, the crescent hook embedded at its heart.
But it wasn't Ringer's soul, but a demon who was still serving his sentence in the prison on the seventh floor, whose name she had forgotten.
The prisoners in the prison had to endure her torture for at least an hour before she could remember their names. Those who can't hold on for more than a day will be forgotten by her as time goes by.
The demon who was hooked into the punishment room seemed to suddenly wake up from a dream, kneeling on the ground, trembling all over.
"Ms. Tracy, please..."
Before she finished her sentence, Tracy's chain "tail" floated, and the green-gold skull at the end opened its mouth, and a powerful suction force immediately sucked in the innocent soul.
The green-gold skull shook for a while, and an infiltrative laughter seemed to emanate from the dark eyes.
"Oh, I actually used my prisoner to block the hook," Tracy was not angry, but felt more and more interesting, "But it won't be useful anymore."
With a flick of his slender wrist, the crescent hook cut through the air again and flew out at high speed.
Ten seconds later, the chain stopped again and again, and there was a slight vibration.
Placing her white fingers on the chain, Tracy felt the vibration and laughed.
"Want to block my hook?"
His fingertips tapped twice on the chain, and the green flames surrounding the chain suddenly surged.
Soon, the chain was quickly retracted again.
Another green shadow was drawn into the punishment room.
Tracy looked at Taxi's soul, which looked unyielding, and praised: "I have to admit that you are a qualified knight who is willing to sacrifice your life and soul for your allegiance."
Tasi glared at her.
"If my sword is still with me, I will cut off your chains."
"You can try it if you have a chance."
Tracy said casually, the chain tail behind her lifted up again, and the green-gold skull at the end opened its mouth and sucked in Taxi's soul.
"It's you next, Tongue Demon. No one can block the hook for you this time." Tracy raised the corner of her mouth and hooked again.
The crescent hook drags the chain and shoots out of the door.
"bingo."
Tracy smiled, but then frowned.
The other end of the chain was too heavy, neither the soul nor Ringer's body.
She frowned slightly, pulled back, and the chain began to retract.
This time, it was Kaiji who hooked him back.
The chains were wrapped around the black iron cage, and the crescent hook was stuck on the cage pillar, so her soul was not pulled out.
"Sorry, Lady Tracy, I wanted to help you stop him, but his familiar..." Kaiji's seven hands and eight legs were swinging together, trying to explain.
"Needless to say, it's the Mind Flayer. It's normal for you to be unable to guard against it."
Tracy waved her hand, and the chains wrapped around the iron cage were retracted.
"Where's Chewbone? Has it been affected by the mind flayer too?" Chewbone has a ferocious temperament, so he shouldn't be affected that easily.
"No, but Chewbone didn't dare go near him."
"Why is this?" Tracy was stunned for a moment.
"Chewing Bones said that there were scent marks left by other spiders on his body, and that scent made him feel fear deep in his blood, so he did not dare to approach him."
"Oh? Really." Tracy felt more and more interesting and threw the chain again.
"He escaped to the third floor. When I found him, he was trying to summon something." Upon seeing this, Kaiji reported Ringer's whereabouts.
Tracy nodded and tapped the chain at hand.
Twenty seconds later, the crescent hook hit the target again, this time with a light head.
Soon, the chain was retracted, and a piece of clothing hung on the hook, which was Ringer's white shirt.
"clothing?"
Tracy looked at the white shirt on the hook. With a flick of her wrist, the chain swung. The clean white shirt fell apart under the chain and turned into pieces scattered on the ground.
The crescent hook shot out again.
Half a minute later, he came back wearing a pair of black pants.
Tracy looked at the pants on the hook, and with a swing of the chain, ripped them from the crotch.
"Hmph, your clothes and pants are all gone. Let me see if you have anything else to take off. Leave it to me."
Uh-huh.
Crescent Hook strikes again.
However, this time, there was no response for a long time.
One minute, two minutes, until five minutes, the chain sent by Tracy seemed to have lost its way, circling back and forth in the same place.
"Huh? Where did he hide?"
The smile on Tracy's face disappeared, she closed her eyes, and a ray of soul spread along the chain, reaching the hook at the end.
She "saw" a corridor, which was a branch corridor on the west side of the lowest floor, with prisons on both sides. There was a corner at the end, and in the corner was a blocked wall.
This is where Ringo left his last breath.
Her chains wandered in this blocked corridor, passing through every cell, but there was no trace of Ringer.
Tracy's frown deepened.
The underground prison she controlled was a huge whole, engraved with a large number of magic circles and runes that stabilized the space. The internal space of the prison was completely blocked, and neither space scrolls nor teleportation techniques were useful here.
But where was that guy hiding?
It was like he disappeared out of thin air.
She opened her eyes, and the chain in her hand began to contract rapidly again, but this time instead of retracting the hook, she was pulled out of the punishment chamber by the chain.
She flew out of the door with her chair and quickly followed the path of the chain. She wanted to go to the place where Ringer disappeared to see for herself.
…
Ringer was in an icy darkness.
There was no light, but he could see. This is a closed stone room with a small space and no visible exit.
The only possible exit was the round stone slab at his feet, which was engraved with runes.
He was teleported here by the magic circle that suddenly appeared under his feet. He probably could only get out by teleportation.
After leaving the punishment room, he originally wanted to find a hidden corner, use the key to summon the spirit, and return to the Emerald. As long as he returns to the Emerald, there's no way Tracy can catch him.
But it took about a minute to summon the door spirit, and Tracy's chains quickly caught up, not giving him this time.
When the chains first hit, he summoned Tarantino, then opened the nearest cage and released the prisoner inside, who became the scapegoat under Tarantino's mind-blast.
After the chains hooked the prisoner's soul, he retreated.
As he continued to summon the door spirit, before he could succeed, the chains came back and he had to escape again.
On the way, he opened another cage and planned to repeat the same trick, but found that it didn't work. This time, the chains would automatically bypass the prisoner, as if they had locked his breath.
When the prisoner saw the green flaming chains, he immediately shrank back into the open cell in fear.
After several chases, he finally strayed into a blind corner with no way to escape. At this time, he was left with only a pair of underpants.
When he was considering whether to use his last pants to create an opportunity to escape, a magic circle suddenly appeared under his feet. After a burst of purple-black light flashed before his eyes, he appeared in this stone room.
Cold, dark, and deathly silent.
He saw the black square altar in the center of the stone chamber. It was not tall, but it was engraved with mysterious runes, and the bottom of the altar was surrounded by patterns of magic circles.
On the altar, there was a snow-white ice coffin, releasing a biting chill.
Lin Ge stared at the ice coffin for a while, but found no movement, so he took out the emerald key and planned to summon the door spirit here.
No matter what was in that ice coffin, he had no intention of exploring it. As long as you give him a minute, he can summon the spirit and leave here.
As for Tassie, there is no need to worry, she has accepted the identity of the Undead Knight, and there will be no danger even if she falls into Tracy's hands.
And Lanya and Kani should be safe together.
After returning to Emerald, all you have to do is teleport to Elvi's castle through the door spirit and bring her back.
Fortunately she didn't go into jail with him, otherwise she would have been caught and things would have been difficult.
The shadow of the wooden door gradually condensed in the darkness. During this period, Ringer kept paying attention to the ice coffin on the altar.
"I saved you, and you just left?"
A sudden sound in the darkness startled him.
The sound came from the altar.
It was a woman's voice, and it was quite sweet and pleasant.
"Who are you?" The door spirit was about to condense soon, and Linge decided to use words to delay it for a while.
"Hey, don't run away. That door leads to the emerald, right? I didn't expect you to be able to summon it here."
The other party's words once again filled Lin Ge with doubts.
She actually knows about emeralds? Could it be a customer in the store?
"Who are you?" he asked again.
"Guess." The mysterious man in the ice coffin said playfully.
At this time, the door in front of Ringer had completely transformed into a physical entity, and he inserted the key into the keyhole.
"...If you don't tell me, I will leave."
"Hey, wait, don't be so anxious. I'm just joking with you. There's no sense of humor at all."
With a click, Linge unlocked the lock, pushed open the door, stood by the door, and could step in with one step.
"I'm coming out right now, don't leave."
Ringer looked at the ice coffin on the altar.
boom!
A head pushed open the coffin board and rushed out of the ice coffin.
Long jet black hair, skin as white as ice and snow, and an extremely beautiful face.
An extremely beautiful head.
The dazzling beauty suddenly lit up the dark stone room.
Seeing this beautiful head, a name instantly emerged in Ringer's mind.
Under the Headless Horseman's castle, there is a secret room hidden in an underground prison, and there is a motive to help him. Under various conditions, the identity of the head in front of him is about to be revealed.
"Elvie?" he exclaimed.
Elvi smiled and said: "Not bad, you guessed it before I said it."
"It's really you. Is this your true face?"
"Yes, this is the real head I hid. How about it? Isn't it beautiful?"
Elvi seemed confident in her appearance and showed a proud expression. She does have a beauty that is worth being proud of. If ordinary people saw this extremely beautiful head, they would be instantly fascinated.
Lin Ge was surprised: "So you hid your head in a place like this. Does your warden know?"
"Don't worry, she doesn't know that I hid my head in the prison, and she will never find it here." Elvi smiled, "You are the first person to enter here."
Ringer was quite surprised when he heard Elvi's words, which meant that he might be the only person who knew where Elvi's head was.
"Aren't you afraid that I will reveal the location of your head?" Linge couldn't help but think of her war horse, Artiles.
When the beautiful centaur lady came to the store last week, she expressed that she wanted to find Elvie's head. Judging from her demeanor and tone at that time, it was probably not a friendly purpose.
"You wouldn't do that, right?" Elvi's black crystal eyes stared at Ringer, conveying trust in her eyes.
Being stared at by such a pair of eyes, Lin Ge couldn't help but nodded.
Seeing Ringer nod, a bright smile broke out on Elvi's face.
"I knew you wouldn't," she said, "and I'm getting out of here."
"Did you find a new hiding place?"
"Yes, that's a safer place than here."
Ringer didn't ask where it was, but he found that Elvi's eyes suddenly became hot and she stared at him firmly.
"What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"
"Only you can take me to that place."
Lin Ge was stunned.
"Is the place you are talking about...?"
"Yes, I want to ask you to take my head to another world." Elvi's face was filled with an expectant smile, "That way, my enemies here will never be able to find me again. head of."
Lin Ge suddenly realized something.
"Is this the real purpose of why you entrusted me to help?"
"You can say that," Elvy admitted, "but I do admire the knight named Tassie. It would be a pity if she was tortured to the point of collapse by Tracy."
"But to be honest, I didn't expect you to be able to deal with that paladin. I didn't expect you to have a mind flayer as a familiar. The conflict between you and Tracy didn't happen in my expectation. To this I want to apologize to you."
Ringer's expression softened, and he saw Elvie's cheeks were red and her eyes were wandering.
"But it must be exciting to be chased by her chains, right?"
The amazing feeling of seeing Elvie's true appearance for the first time shattered like a bubble, and the beautiful impression that Elvie left in his heart was immediately revised.
Gee, I was almost deceived by her appearance. This is her true face.
