Returning from the abyss

Chapter 649
The passage was not long, and soon Lu Ning walked into an area with many tables and chairs, which was a canteen.About ten or so prisoners are eating here, and their plates are all the same food, black lumps, white soup, red roots and purple cakes.Lu Ning couldn't tell what the material was. She walked to the dining area, and the person standing there was wearing a chef's uniform with wrinkles on his face. As the chef here, he was not a prisoner, nor was he affected by the power of the prison.

Seeing Lu Ning approaching, the chef swiftly picked up a dinner plate, scooped out the four kinds of food from four large basins, and put them on the dining table casually.Lu Ning didn't take it, but asked tentatively, "Can you understand me?"

"Don't try to get close!" The chef pointed to the plate, "Take the food and leave! Don't make me say it a second time!"

"Saga's Xiaohong got lost. She thought she flew over here and ordered me to come and look for her."

"I didn't see it!"

The cook could indeed understand the prisoner.Lu Ning nodded, picked up the plate and sat down at an empty table. The food looked a little weird, but it smelled delicious.

The black piece is actually meat, mixed with a lot of sauce, so it has that color, but Lu Ning can feel that it is raw meat after a little taste, the fishy smell has been covered by the sauce, the taste is very good, it's a pity She dare not eat.The white soup has a spicy taste, but the overall feeling seems to be fish soup, with a strong umami taste, and nothing can be picked up with a spoon.The red rhizomes are actually blood products similar to pig blood and duck blood. The taste has also been adjusted, but the original ingredients can still be tasted.The purple cake has a rough taste and can be chewed into pieces the size of rice grains. It has a strong grain flavor and some saltiness in it.

Lu Ning just tasted everything, then cut the meat, broke the cake, and soaked it in the soup.Then she clamped the red blood product into the meat, and slightly opened her fingers to draw out some blood, which dripped on it.

Soon, a red butterfly fluttered out from the place near the wall. It was small, only the size of a bottle cap, and even circled around a few times when it flew over. Lu Ning sat in the original After waiting for 2 minutes without moving, the butterfly slowly landed on the piece of meat.

Immediately afterwards, the mass of raw meat began to dry out and shrink obviously, and the red rhizome in it also rapidly became smaller, as if being sucked into it by a butterfly.Lu Ning suspected that ordinary people would not survive to bring the butterfly back if they did what Saga said.

She picked up the plate, but the butterfly that was eating didn't move at all. Lu Ning cautiously started to walk out of the cafeteria. The other prisoners saw the butterflies on the plate and avoided it, obviously they were all afraid of this.Lu Ning walked into the passage, the raw meat ball was almost half-dry, and all the sucked parts turned into powder, Lu Ning quickened her pace, and soon returned to the crossroads, and Saga did indeed Still standing there.

"You're back? So fast...Ah! Little Red!" Saga smiled when he saw the butterfly on the dinner plate, waved his hand, and the red butterfly flew to her shoulder.

Lu Ning put the dinner plate on the ground and looked at Saga silently.Saga teased the butterfly a few times, and then said to Lu Ning, "You're pretty efficient. Since you've helped me, I'll help you too. Is there anything not important?"

She didn't expect anything from Saga Lu Ning, she pointed to herself, and then to the passage with the green light.

"Where are you going?"

She nodded.

"Okay, I'll go and have a look too." Saga smiled and walked towards the green light passage.Lu Ning followed her to the inside, and within a short distance, she saw an area similar to a gardening room. It seemed that the four passages were connected to similar functional areas.

"Ah, that old man didn't come today." Saga glanced at the gardening room, his face was a little disappointed, "He draws beautifully."

The absence of "Human Portrait" is good news for Lu Ning. She walked into the gardening room. There is a main entrance and two side doors. After entering the main entrance, the side doors on both sides can be passed through. Lu Ning glanced and found that A man in a dark blue guard uniform is pacing in the hallway behind the door on the left.

jailer?

She hurriedly opened the door, but the moment she opened the door, she suddenly noticed a change in her surroundings.

There was a faint smell of decay in the air. The originally lush gardening potted plants had already been bare on one side, and there was not even a bit of rotten wood left. Fragments of the flower pots were scattered in the rotten soil, and the stones of the flower beds were already full of cracks.Look in front of you again, where are the guards patrolling in the corridor?There was only a pair of dead bones leaning against the wall, holding a manual in his arms, and most of the clothes on his body were rotten.

Lu Ning looked back again, there was no one in the place where Saga was, and the green light in the passage would not be bright at all. This is what she thinks the prison should look like, and this is what the prison really looks like .

"what……"

After exhaling a breath of turbid air, Lu Ning walked towards the withered bones, reached out and pulled out the manual from the bones.

The brown leather cover has undergone some treatment to make it quite resistant to corrosion, and the inner paper is also a type of parchment paper, which has also been treated.However, when Lu Ning flipped through it, most of it was blank. The more she flipped her brows, the more she frowned until the last page——

[Old Chapter 24, Prison Centralization. 】

Lu Ning had actually seen handwritten fonts before, and it was the same font on the notebook treasure that he got after solving the school problem.

But... is this treasure?If so, she could think that what she saw before was an illusion created by the treasure.But on the other hand, this is too simple, she just came to the location where the treasure is, and everything is resolved?Compared with those encountered before, it is really not difficult at all.

Lu Ning searched carefully on the dead bone again, and took out a piece of charcoal pencil from under a bone.She wrote the words "Princess Butterfly" on the white paper with a pen, and the traces quickly dispersed, and then quickly formed a paragraph of words with smaller fonts.

【…"Princess Butterfly" Saga didn't take many special actions during this power centralization turmoil. It should be said that she has always been alone and has never changed.Of course, in such an incident, neutrality is not a good thing. Whether it is "Bone Harp" or "Deep Sea Fish", these dangerous prisoners who hope to become the big boss are all worried that Saga will suddenly join another group. 】

"Looks like a keyword search." Lu Ning looked at the text with a frown. As expected, these dangerous prisoners were imprisoned here so many years ago. It was reproduced, as if the prisoners in the prison were still alive.In fact... I'm afraid even the most dangerous ones are long dead.

At this moment, there was a click in front, followed by the sound of the chain being removed, and the iron gate at the end of the passage was opened, and Heraclius was standing there.

"Mr. Legion Commander?"

"It's not too late for you to come out." Chirac slightly stepped aside, and Lu Ning saw Lian Bisheng and Rang standing there, the same as when they came in.

"Can you explain what's going on?" Lu Ning frowned.

"I don't want everyone to explain it again, ask your companions. Also, take the old chapters in your hands, that is a necessity for us to go to the prison in the deep palace."

Lu Ning walked out of the door, and then the big iron door was slammed shut by Heraclius, and the chain was put on again.Lu Ning noticed that there were two soldiers with military shields next to them, and here was a square room with a teleportation array drawn on the ground.

"Fortunately, you're fine." Jean said to Lu Ning, "It's actually very dangerous inside, and if you're unlucky, you might die."

"what's going on?"

"From what I have learned so far, the prison has actually become a shallow memory area," Jean said.

"Memory? It seems to be related to the king again?"

"What happened so far has nothing to do with the king." Lian Bisheng shook his head, "The palace, the place with the deepest connection, is no exception, but this is not a relic of buried treasure."

"What's that place?"

"Trash can." Jean continued to explain, "I had a conversation with Mr. Heraclius, and I learned some things about the past... The things about the three areas are also a little clearer."

Lu Ning glanced at Heracli, saw that he was just standing there holding a walkie-talkie and seemed to be waiting, so she walked to the side with the two of them to listen to the narration.

"We all know that the treasure is made by the king using memory, but just like ordinary industrial production, this production method also produces many by-products-mainly including three."

"... I guess it was thrown in three places."

"Well, the memories that contain positive but too naive and simple are placed in the Broken Mirror Ruins; the mediocre without any emotional color, just remembered for memory, are placed in the Eternal Tribulation Corridor; and those that are too negative, it is easy to put them in the treasure Those that make the treasure difficult to grasp stay here."

"So those two are actually safe?"

Jean made a grimacing expression: "It's relatively safe... You have to know that in your positive memory, you have fought against some monsters and won battles, and you have imagined some powerful creatures... It's just not as strong and real as here."

"Understood. Then the task of the military shield is to guard these most dangerous memories? Then why do we have to walk through it?"

Hearing this question, Jean took out another manual from his arms: "For this thing."

"It records what happened at that time?"

"It's part of it, but the more important function is that this is an objective record, which helps us maintain rationality in the deep palace prison...there is the real prison."

"The upper prison has long been abandoned?"

"The prison was abandoned, but not all the prisoners died. After the prison was used by the king to store memories, some mutations occurred. When the army shield took over here, all the prisoners were sunk into the deep palace prison, and The upper prison is effectively abandoned."

"You may have seen some people who haven't died in there." Chirac said in a slightly muffled voice, "There were a lot of serious criminals in this prison, such as the bone harp, deep-sea fish, paper clothes, and Princess Butterfly. The prisoner who was sunk back then."

"How dangerous is the deep palace prison?"

Jean thought for a while: "To put it bluntly, it is the storage place of the king's deep memory. If we don't go in with the old chapters, we may be induced to some strange changes, and the treasure may not be able to keep us. Other than that In addition, those prisoners are estimated to have been transformed into supernatural beings in the prison."

"But we don't know the details, right?" Lu Ning sighed.

"Because they can't run out, but the shield won't go in either. Only those who collect information according to the requirements of the nobles need to go to the deep palace prison. Mr. Heraclius sent us there first to obtain the old chapter, and second It is a test of qualifications. If the former prison shown in the chapter cannot survive, then going to the prison in the deep palace is just adding a monster there."

At this moment, a voice came from Heraclius' walkie-talkie, and he immediately strode towards the teleportation array: "Another person has obtained a chapter, come with me."

Jean Helian Bisheng immediately followed, Lu Ning moved her footsteps, her hand touched the hard object on her waist, and she suddenly remembered that she snatched a crowbar from there before.

"Jean, can you bring out the things you got there?"

"One," said Jean.

Lian Bisheng added: "No matter what is inside, you can only take out one thing. Jean got a counterfeit silver coin, and I took out a hand-polished flute. What did you get?"

"A crowbar."

"...an artifact."

Through the teleportation array, several people came to another similar small room.And the person who came out unexpectedly was Rudolph.Holding the old chapter in his hand, he looked excited: "Are those prisoners who were imprisoned here before? I have hardly heard of these people, and there are such cruel guys? I thought it was under the king's rule. The royal capital is safe and secure!"

"No one dares to cause trouble in the capital, these people are arrested from outside." Heraclius was obviously displeased when he heard these words, "The powerful prisoners who cannot be sanctioned or imprisoned in those local cities will be sent to the capital. All, and most of them have been judged. What you have encountered is only a passage recorded in the old chapters."

"Then who actually wrote these old chapters? Legion Commander?" Lu Ning asked.

"……do not know."

"But this place has become like this because you brought people to deal with it."

"Yes, we cleaned up the prison, sank the monsterized prisoners, and collected the bodies of the jailers who unfortunately died here. And these things appeared after we dealt with everything, and we don't know the origin .I can only think that these are the king's arrangements, and I never try to figure out the king's intention." Heraclius said.

"Understood, the divine will is unpredictable." Rudolph said with a smile.

"We have to wait for a while, you can do anything, as long as you don't leave the room." Heraclius ignored him.

(End of this chapter)