The guard forcefully pushed Xiaolan into a narrow door.
Xiaolan couldn't stand firmly, so she 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 pitch-black roof is pressing down on me 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, Heipi 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 abilities. If it is not a serious crime, the untouchable camp only tries but does 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, I have restrained my psychic powers.
"They say I'm a wanted criminal, so what's going on?"
"Rabbit said it didn't know about it either. After all, it had been away from the royal city for some time. It doesn'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 escape?"
"It says..."
Heipi suddenly fell silent.
The talking stopped suddenly.
"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 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?
"...Is there anyone?..."
The sound was a little louder, but still not clear.
"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 no different.
Xiaolan leaned on the wall and said seriously, "How do you have the nerve to 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." He murmured for a long time.
"Okay, okay, I believe you."
I, the lawless gangster Liao Yilan, believe 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 he didn't speak again.
"Are you still there?" Xiaolan was lying on the wall, "Are you there? 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?
? Oh no, if you knew, you would have escaped long ago..."
"I know how to escape." After a while, the voice whispered.
"How?"
"But it takes two people to escape."
Xiaolan looked at the rabbit on the ground and Hei Pi 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, "Let's take advantage of this and find a way to escape..."
***
The 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 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 his 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."
Ainuel 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 holder.
A ball of light danced and reflected on Enuel's face.
Behind the sloppy look 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 came towards her tremblingly, holding a tea cup.