Chapter 344 Who is the guard and who is the prisoner

Chapter 344 Who is the guard and who is the prisoner

The closer to the bottom of the underground cell, the weird smell of blood in the air becomes stronger.

Along the way, Sean counted in detail, from the third underground floor to the second underground floor, a total of nineteen prisoners had died.

Most of them look like crazy beasts, which is probably the reason why they were imprisoned. Sean didn't know the other prisoners who still maintained their human appearance, but it could be seen from some details that they were all Crimson-level powerhouses during their lifetimes.

It is worth mentioning that eighteen of the nineteen prisoners are pure vetoes, and they have no traces of any prosthetic modifications.

The only person left had only one arm with traces of transformation.

This is a bit strange... After being promoted to Crimson, the number of vetoes indeed exceeds that of the weak, but the ratio is about two to one, unlike here where almost all vetoes are there.

There may be a connection, but Sean hasn't found the key yet.

Continuing to move forward, Sean could already see the entrance to the last underground level, and there was a unique cell at the entrance.

The cell looked like a giant peach, with its edges connected to various parts of the wall, and pipe-like devices that penetrated deep into the wall.

As you get closer, you can see that the huge 'peach' is divided into four parts, and something like a diaphragm forms the wall.

Heart... Sean subconsciously came up with such an idea.

The special cell in front of you looks a lot like an enlarged heart.

He walked closer, becoming more and more sure of his thoughts.

The four chambers are left atrium, left ventricle, right atrium and right ventricle. The left and right atria and the left and right ventricles are separated by septa, so they are not connected to each other. There are also valves between the atria and ventricles.

Although the shape is very abstract, it is indeed a heart. This can be determined by looking at the location of the connection between the valve pathways and the 'blood vessels'.

After getting closer, the smell of blood suddenly reached its peak. There was no handle or chain on the door of the heart cell, and I didn't know how to open it.

However, the sound of blood flowing in the dungeon has reached Sean's ears.

He looked at those pipes in surprise. As expected, the blood inside was flowing.

"Could it be that...all the lost blood was concentrated here?"

But what is the role of this heart here?

Sean couldn't help but cast his eyes on the entrance to the last underground floor.

Just a few steps closer, suddenly, there was a "dong" sound.

Sean turned back in surprise. He finally knew what the loud noise he heard on the fourth floor was.

It is the sound of heart beating...

Just now, the heart cell twitched violently, making a deafening heartbeat.

Somehow, Sean had an illusion.

This heart seems to be preventing itself from approaching the underground floor?

Could it be that this heart is the key to the underground level?

Looking at Xiao Ci, the latter silently closed his eyes and felt it, then shook his head: "I didn't notice anything was wrong. Moreover, this heart was suppressed by the defense force of Black Pigeon Prison. .Brother, the oppression you felt before probably came from it.”

Sean frowned slightly. Before his heart was compressed, it was clearly shocking him, but now he was faintly reminding himself not to open the door to the underground floor?

The actions before and after are conflicting...

Furthermore, the blood that beats in this heart comes from the prisoners here and the people who died in Black Pigeon before. This is what the tree people want to see. a little bit.

This means that the tree people want to restore this heart to beating?

How strange...

Finally, Sean set his sights on the door to the underground floor.

Just in case, he confirmed it again: "Can I open it as before?"

Xiao Ci nodded: "I'm still suppressing it."
< br>Repeat the previous operation, and in the process, the heart next to him beat heavily again, as if trying to stop Sean.

Sean ignored it, and the door to the last floor was opened without being hindered.

The smell of blood is still there.

The moment the door opened, Sean felt that he was being stared at by a terrifying beast.

It is different from the pressure I felt before. If I had to tell the difference, the pressure I felt before had an indescribable flavor of madness. The sense of oppression I feel now also has a crazy meaning, but there is also an inexplicable sense of purification in it.

This purification seems to be purifying madness, and it also seems to be purifying Sean together.

Xiao Ci, who was behind Sean, immediately shouted and reminded: "Brother, there are creatures inside, and I can't suppress them!"

Xiao Ci couldn't use Black Pigeon's basic defense power to suppress it, which meant that the thing inside was also a part of Black Pigeon.

As my thoughts flashed, the sound of giant objects moving slowly sounded in the underground layer.

In the darkness, a huge mouth first appeared in front of Sean's eyes. He could tell at a glance that the dead prisoners in front were bitten in two by this mouth!

Plague? !

"Grrr...grrr..." A sound like blood foam beating in the throat sounded, and the full view of the big mouth appeared in front of Sean's eyes.

That's... a tree?

To be precise, it is a tree man.

The tree man was huge, with a big mouth full of sharp teeth on its abdomen, and the tree trunk around the big mouth was covered with dark red blood stains.

You can't see the tree man's eyes, you can only see densely packed fruits that look like enlarged cells hanging on the tree man's branches.

"Purify... and transform..."

The tree man uttered two words tremblingly, and then he was about to pounce on Sean.

Shawn, who had been prepared for a long time, was about to take action, but suddenly, the tree man's forward movement stopped in place.

It slowly turned its body, and the cell-shaped fruits hanging on the branches trembled and fell to the ground, turning into small saplings. As soon as the small saplings fell to the ground, they turned into open-mouthed saplings. Monsters, but they did not attack, but rolled on the ground in pain.

"What's going on..." As the adventure progressed, Sean was certainly prepared to encounter danger, but the movement of the tree man in front of him did not give him much sense of threat.

The attack just now was indeed made, but it stopped in an instant... Why...

Sean protected Xiao Ci behind him, and the latter stuck his head out and looked at the strange tree man curiously.

"Did you suppress it?" Sean asked.

Xiao Ci shook his head: "It is not the suppressing part."

Then my guess is correct, this tree man is part of the Black Pigeon's defense force... which is also codenamed Plague. The guard of saliva. No, judging from the appearance of this guy, it should also be of the tree people clan. So the tree people clan's previous attack was just to release this guy, right? How could the tree man merge with the black dove?

"Brother, look under it." Xiao Ci reminded.

Sean looked over after hearing this, and his pupils suddenly shrank.

The roots of the tree man are used as feet to support the ground, but there are a lot of dense black lines wrapped around those roots.

Black lines like nematodes are wrapped around the tree man's root system. They are frantically trying to get into the tree man's body. You can see that there are snakes swimming all over the wooden body. trace.

Is this... the 'parasite' of the residents of the Imperial City?

When Sean first arrived in the Imperial Capital, he discovered that his deceitful heart would always encounter obstacles when testing it. That was because most people in the Imperial Capital had something in their bodies that could "resist" the erosion of the etheric body. strength.

After many experiments, Sean found this thing from the people of the Imperial City.

These black nematode-like things exist in large numbers in the bodies of the people of the Imperial City, and their function is very simple, which is to allow the people of the Imperial City to maintain absolute loyalty and absolute awe to His Majesty the Emperor.

In other words, this can be regarded as a method used by the emperor to control people's hearts.

Furthermore, this method is not reflected in the same way among the people of the Imperial City at all levels.

For ordinary people in the Imperial City, these black nematodes exist in almost everyone's body, and they fear His Majesty the Emperor from the bottom of their hearts.

As for some characters on the fringes of society, such as thieves, gangs, etc., these things are much less.

For public officials, the higher the rank, the less black nematodes exist - which almost means that the higher your social status in the empire, the less reverence you have for the emperor.

However, people with higher status have better access to the emperor, and they still maintain enough awe without the influence of black nematodes.

Of course, it may also be because the higher the status, the easier it is to find this thing.

Apart from maintaining awe of the Emperor, Sean found no other purpose for this black nematode.

The relevant information channels are all from Zhu Zhu's parents, so Sean has not paid too much attention to it during this period of time - after all, he does not have this thing in his body.

However, what Sean didn't expect was that the black nematodes that he had not cared about for a long time would appear on the body of this weird tree man, and from the looks of it, the black nematodes were trying their best to eat away at the tree man.

"Brother, there." Xiao Ci pointed again, and she seemed to be able to clearly see the direction of the black nematode.

After hearing this, Sean looked around and realized that the black nematodes were not invading the tree people as separate living entities, but were spreading from elsewhere.

And at the end of the black nematode... Sean looked up and saw a hand, a hand tightly bound by branches and cell fruits. The hand was almost like a mummy, and it was corroded. Very powerful.

Are those branches and fruits corroded?

Is this the prisoner imprisoned on the last floor? Or is that not the prisoner, but the guard's saliva that has been corroded in turn?

Sean subconsciously looked up.

Suddenly, a rapid ringing sounded in his heart.

The half-pointer that had been fused into the body appeared like a projection on Sean's retina for the first time.

The pointer...is reminding me...that I can't see it?

Is it some kind of unimaginable pollution that even I will be affected after watching it?

While Sean was thinking, suddenly, he and Xiao Ci raised their heads together.

The whole prison suddenly shook!

Was it me? But I didn't do anything...

Xiao Ci closed his eyes and felt it, and then immediately said: "Brother, the basic defense strength here is inexplicably losing, I don't know why... Wait, Someone with the authority of this place is opening the restrictions here!"

Shaun was stunned, and then yelled: "What a waste of time, you didn't even give your third brother the last chance, right? ?”

The black pigeon shook even more violently, and even felt a severe weightlessness, as if the entire prison was about to spread its wings and fly away as the name suggests.

"My adventures are always interrupted by gate species." Sean yelled cursingly. He took one last look at the tree man who was still stagnant in place, and then hugged Xiao Ci.

After the defensive power is completely lost, Xiao Ci's suppression will no longer work. By then, no matter who is the tree or the person bound behind, he will be unlucky standing here.

Running out of the underground floor, sure enough, the heart cell began to shake violently, and Sean could even see the blood in the wall beginning to flow violently.

The above started to pour blood here...

Sean frowned tightly and ran outside quickly.

"Sean, what happened? The other prisoners in the cell were screaming for some reason!" Zhu Zhu shouted immediately when he saw Sean running out.

Sean took a casual look and saw that a large number of black nematodes had appeared in the cells where the prisoners were held. The nematodes were eating away at the prisoners inside. They were killing themselves crazily, and blood was spilled along the corners of the cells. flowed into the pipe.

Sure enough, the blood is pouring back into the heart... The black nematode and the cell heart are one, are the tree people trying to liberate them?

Because the count and his wife were too weak and lost their minds too much, they were not too affected by the black nematodes at this time.

Shaun hooked his fingers, and the nematodes wrapped around the Count and Countess shook and turned into a cloud of mist.

"There is no need for me to open the door. The defense force here is being lost. Take your parents, Zhu Zhu, and let's go."

"Okay!"

Zhu Zhu pulled several people into the shiny buttons. Xiao En quickly moved forward. In front of him, Lan Ke'er was holding Bai You tightly.

Bai You was also infected by black nematodes. He wanted to hurt himself, but was stopped by Lan Ke'er.

"Bai You, Bai You, wake up!"

"Wake up." Sean walked over and slapped Bai You hard on the face.

Bai You, who was still looking crazy, was stunned on the spot. As soon as he lowered his head, he saw black nematodes crawling out of his body, trembling and turning into a black mist.

He looked up and saw his mother looking at the man with admiration.

"Sean..." Bai You was dumbfounded.

Shawn chuckled: "The savior is here. I don't want you to call me dad. Isn't it too much to call me Uncle Xiao?"

"Uncle Xiao...that's not right!" Bai You finally said When he came to his senses, he looked at the other party in disbelief, "The queen mother said that you saved me, it's all true..."

"Nonsense."

"But what is happening now?"

"Why are you standing there? This is nonsense. Your dearest brother doesn't want the third prince to escape safely."< br>
While speaking, several people suddenly rushed upward due to the huge force, and almost hit the ceiling here.

Shawn held Lan Ke'er with one hand and moved his other hand casually to stabilize Bai You's body.

And the force just now is still continuing.

"This is not right..."

Sean smashed the wall next to him with one punch, and then he saw that the soil and concrete were 'falling' rapidly.

The underground cell is rising!

(End of this chapter)